Round 12 - XXIV Großer Preis von Österreich [Jul 25th]

Well, I spoke too soon about 'fixing' issues with downloading FTP.
Now firefox has completely removed the code (so even when you 'enable' it, like I'd already done not long ago) it still doesn't work.

Might be best for you to all download Filezilla client and download the tracks through that.

filezilla-project.org/

Well, maybe it was late (or I'm an idiot...either is possible, really) but I grabbed WinSCP and tried with it, but when I'd hit the link it was asking for credentials like I was wanting in on the backend.
Will sort it, eventually.

Thanks. I got it sorted. It was actually because I was apparently a sleepy idiot.
WinSCP worked fine, when I used the software properly. lol

cars disappeared on the start, then all bunched up going toward turn 1, just trying to stay off the gearbox of car infront, and tight to the line to cover the inside. but flying car and chaos, end up down the road with rear damage.  after the initial dust up into turn 1 there was a car off the grass on the left that came across and spun rejoining, i went to the grass on the right to avoid but that car did too.   was coming to terms with the adjusted handling came up to juha and sabre contending position, but was a spin and just couldn't avoid with the car not doing what i wanted.

grant, apologies are nice to hear, but what we really want is you to take it to heart and make the necessary adjustments. maybe dial it back a notch. thats the 2nd time this season...

Congratulations, Gabrielle! Amazing domination and win!

This track is fantastic. Unfortunately my engine blew after the first chicane. Strange moves at the start, drivers blocking and throwing cars over. Over me and over others. Hence the incidents. Wasn't expecting such agressiveness in the first lap.

But there's no space for protests for this. It's just a sad note on behaviours.

It was fun, jumping from 22 to 10, and my DNF. Then, jumped to YouTube to watch the race. As always, very professional and high level broadcast!

Let's see what cars are available after the vacations. Bye for now.

Don't hide (not my style!) behind the fact the A9 is a pile of shit I made the suspension as stiff as possible and put C tires underneath to have some grip in combination with a lot of downforce behind.
surprisingly again I was able to compete for p10 , very nice fight with a Lola. but the tires just ate themselves , ( should have taken B compound anyway.
when I saw Gab coming with  burnt tires on lap 11!! the car flew out from under me to let it pass. luckily nothing happens. race over and the A9 can be scrapped. back to Monza with the A8 ,!!!!!

Great win Gabrielle!!! Viva!!

Brian well done man!

cheers everyone!

Sorry to David Jaques with my spin ending up collecting you.   
I had to keep pushing as I was somehow up in 3rd place, I guess that I pushed a bit too much. Sorry.

I qualified 12th which is about where I expected to be.

The race start was good for me as I found a clean way though the chaos, only then on about lap four I got into Juha's slipstream heading down to the Bosch curve and managed to pass Juha but my speed must have been a lot higher as I entered the curve and lost the rear and spun out to the barrier for David Jaques to then collide with me  . A long pitstop for repairs and then just continue to the end of the race in 12th place with worn out tyres.


Congratulations to Gabriele again, Brian Janik and Richard Wilks. Sorry to DJ.

Thanks for the broadcast. 

Fun race besides a few scary moments. Started 20th despite qualifying in 19th. I tried to avoid all the carnage at the start and had to slam on the brakes to avoid Coxon rejoining, otherwise there would have been at least two more cars out at that point. I know you stopped in the chicane but you shouldn't have rejoined like that in front of 2/3 of the field.

After that I moved up to 9th and kept Remmen, Chacon, and Ray behind for a few laps until being punted off in a careless move by Chacon for the second time this season. Surprisingly there was no damage and was able to finish without pitting. The rear tires were gone by the end.

Quite happy for bringing it home on my second race, first for Arrows. Of course fuel management wasn't great and after spending a good deal of it at first half of the race, I had to lift&coast, reduce boost and hence was a sitting duck the rest of race. Almost a top 10 but nothing to complain, at all.

Also glad to read from François above that A9 was terrible and rolling back to A8 is good news for the remainder of season. Congratulations to Gabriele! Superb drive. And thank you for helping the other day on the server(though I was hopeless at keeping the car on track as it was too edgy for me).

Thank you Jason and Alberto, the pre race and post race were top of class as usual. I'm eager to watch full race during the week when I'll have free time!

And a great summer holiday season to all!