Round 3 - 6º Gran Premio di San Marino [Feb 21st]

I believe you had this problem maybe because you didnt reduce the opponents detail from Full to High.



As for my race, i did the perfect Senna impersonation of the turbo era, by getting pole, not stopping for tires, and going backwards in the race due to the high fuel use of he Lotus.

I dont know if my strategy was the most correct, but with not much time to totally revamp the setup, i decided to run the hards and not stop.

The start was good, but i think i was a bit too cautious with the fuel mid race, so i might had lost too much ground to Anders and his caravan behind him.   At the end i had some fuel to make a late charge for third, but an uncooperative backmarker with his dirty air and totally umpredictable driving held me up at the end of the race.

So in the end i had to settle for 4th.

Congratulations Dave M for finally getting on top of the williams and to all the finishers.

Enjoyed calling and watching this race. Some interesting strategies going on and thought we were in for a great battle for the win until Grant fell back but congratulations to Dave on the win and the rest of the podium finishers.

Monaco should be a good race and hopefully throws up a few shock results as it has always done in the past in the real-life race. Good fun with Jason and Alberto as well calling the race as always.

Well that went over my expectation  . Was hoping for points, but  a podium is like icing on a cake .Il take it any day

Well done to Mr Miller  Grant   and to all that fineshed .

Superb job in the booth 

so pit stop duration can vary between ~10s to ~20s despite just changing tires?

Yes, was like that in the season so we decided to replicate that too.

Senna in one race had an 8 second stop, the next he had a 15 second. Pitstops wasn't as well drilled as today's F1 or even F1 from 10-15 years ago.

First off, I'm sorry to see that Ruben couldn't race this time as he was doing some blistering qually laps on the server a couple days before the event but I'm happy to have gotten a blooded tooth in these beasts and having practiced beforehand.

Warm-up:
Jumping in with 19 minutes to go before the race would start it was all about getting situated in the car, as was seen on the broadcast after the add-break when I spun coming out of the pits after a few tweaks to the car.
I had a good base going though, so the tweaks, once the tires had heated up a little bit, worked a treat. The old girl was still off the pace compared to the more modern machinery but she was treating me well, no major quirks to get used to, just drives and delivers power in a very soothing manor.

Race:
Was very nervous heading into the race, first time really since the race at Mexican Grand Prix last year that I was that nervous heading into a race.

Had a good start compared to those around me and jumped up past one of the Minardi's, my Osella teammate Luciano and Mike in one of the Zakspeeds.
After Tosa I spent the rest of the opening lap trying to bring my Medium tires up to the 89-90 degrees of temeprature that I felt was optimal for me, I've found that once any tire goes over 93 I lose all grip in them, despite optimal temps supposing to be 99-100 I haven't been able to make tires work at that temp.
Was sort of hanging onto the tail of the non-Moderni power-plants and the other Minardi of Bruno and felt like I was keeping him fairly honest.
I think about 5-6 laps into the race though, he got a bit too agressive on the loud-pedal and span off coming out of Rivazza I ended up in a bit of a no-mans land for a couple of laps before Mike managed to get past Tomáš Minardi and it only took Mike another two laps to get up to my rear wing so down the run from Bassa to Tosa through Tamburello he easily flew past and pulled about a second up the hill.

From then on it was a case of keeping a decent pace up, relatively of course, and looking after the car. Had looked after the engine from lap one, changing around 10 000 to 10 250 RPM saving the engine as much as possible, knowing that it was liable to turn into a barbeque if I pushed it too hard.

Apologies to Richard C and the Ferrari team, I had two borbles ahead of him, once on the first lapping when I locked up going into Aqua Minerali and had to scramble across the chicane just trying to hold onto the car to begin with and then being able to move out of the way.

Was so happy to see the finishing line. I really enjoyed driving the Osella and being able to drive with a completely different mindset to how it was ever possible to drive the '91 cars or any of the faster machines in this field.
Only mistake I can say that I did was filling up waaaaaaay too much fuel before the race, had a good 25 litres left in the tank by the finish, would have still been around 15 litres had I been forced to run the full distance...
Also was able to do the whole race without stopping for tires on the Medium compounds, shows how nice the car is (possibly slow) when, with my driving style, the tires could still hold up for the distance travelled hehe.

Congratulations to Dave for a stirring drive, Grant for a clever drive to 2nd and to Anders for the consistent drive to finish on the podium for a third time in a row.
Also congratulations to everyone for finishing, looks like most of you are finding the limit for how far you can push the engines, chassis and tires too before they go pop.

I'm hoping I may get another late call up for Monaco but we'll simply have to wait and see if my drive to finish 14th in the Osella has turned any team-owners heads my way if they need a replacement