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Soon very near 4 drivers at first checkpoint for a balanced challenge, but a fifth one deserves to be mentioned afore others: Paleke, absolute ouset for him in a SDR race! :) Very balanced results for others: I lead ahead Krys TOFF (+ 0"70), SuperBrian (+1"30) and AbuRaf70 (+1"55). One points gained for me at 1st checkpoint, but... who will be able to get the next one? Maybe I pushed too much hard on right pedal like NORH race... ::) Anyway, next Sunday we all will have a best vision about how the race will evolve! Who will join? Who will lead at 2nd checkpoint? Let's see! ;)
hey, did you get my replay? I sent it this afternoon! I'll forward it again.
Quote from: zaqrack on February 04, 2007, 06:31:27 PM
hey, did you get my replay? I sent it this afternoon! I'll forward it again.
New update rules at SDR Zak : update after each "bonus checkpoint" => every sunday at 14H00 (Italian timezone). If you sent your replay after this time, you'll see it appear only next sunday.
If you sent it before, then tell Mark, maybe your mail is in his trashbox.
Anyway, nice first track.
damn 14h!
I thought its in the evening and sent some minutes after 14h
so I lost a point :(
Quote from: zaqrack on February 04, 2007, 08:37:35 PM
damn 14h!
I thought its in the evening and sent some minutes after 14h
so I lost a point :(
I've just checked my mailbox and I've seen your mail received at 14:24. I'm afraid... even if this misunderstandigs permitted me to gain a bonus point... ;) I'll open your mail next Sunday, but I think I'll probably will received another from you... At least I hope... otherwise it means your time is very much faster than others already sent... ::)
Quote from: Mark L. Rivers on February 05, 2007, 08:09:46 AM
I'll open your mail next Sunday, but I think I'll probably will received another from you... At least I hope... otherwise it means your time is very much faster than others already sent... ::)
I haven't received other mail from Zak but I had hoped to keep the lead... ::)
Instead, when I opened just one hour ago my mailbox, I saw with RPLINFO an awesome 1'04"70!! :o :o Big disappointed for me . :( I had thought to have got a second bonus point: in fact I had succeeded to lower my previous time (1'09"85) over 3% (1'07"65). This has been just enough to defeat the attack of AbuRaf70 (1'08"40 a good time after some improvements :)) but not enough to defeat the attack by Krys TOFF (1'06"75, a very good time! :)) and sure not enough to embank an harrying Zak! Really a pity for you, Zak, not to send your mail just some minutes before at 1st checkpoint... Great news: Chulk is back to the race! 8) 1'10"05 is his entry time, but we are sure his next time won't be so far from the vertex... OK, other 7 days of race and a new checkpoint, the last one: who will get the last bonus point? Let's see! :)
Couple of aces at vertex: thunderous ex-aequo by Zak McKracken and Chulk with the same time!! Fantastic races by the argentinian and the hungarian and chronometer stopped (unrealistically) at 1'02"95! :o :o :o Getting one bonus point for leading at 3rd checkpoint, Chulk reaches 16 points in provisional classification, the same score of Zak which, instead, doesn't get another bonus point (even if he's leading with Chulk) because he hasn't succeeded to lower his previous time over 3% (1'02"45 or less was his target). So what do it means? If Zak has not sent a time 3% lower of previous time (even if it's only 0"50 lower than time which he just has sent) did he reach his limit yet? ??? Or maybe he had not time to race more to lower enough his limit? ??? Next Sunday we'll know it! ;) About other times, good improvement for me (which goes down until an undreamed 1'04"30...), AbuRaf70 (1'07"75 under 1'08") and SuperBrian (1'09"00, over 2 seconds left). And now we are at last week! Who will win the first race of the year? Sure great challenge for Zak and Chulk, but can they stay sure that other drivers don't swoop suddenly in the last week? Two last season great starrings, Gutix and CTG, are still missed... And if would others drivers (BJ?) join? :)
59.xx is in progress. ;D
Quote from: CTG on February 19, 2007, 12:24:48 PM
59.xx is in progress. ;D
Damn! I'll have to race really hard to reach that time if I want to win. I know my replay isn't perfect but 2 secs seems a lot. I was betting on a 1:01.XX as a winning time.
A great race by CTG consent him to appose his sigil on R1, Mastery!
Fantastic time yours, CTG! :) You are resulted 1st in every intermediate skimming the minute barrier! But just behind him a big surprise: me! 8) Racing very hard in last days, but above all thanks to a different race choice than other drivers in last section (only SuperBrian like me), I succeed to close in 1'01"75, an unimaginable time for me just few days ago! So I have succeeded to precede Zak (3rd with a further improvement yesterday but not enough to beat me... ;)), Chulk (4th, no replays since last checkpoint ::)), Krys TOFF (5th, no improvements since 2nd checkpoint, really a pity, Krys! :(), SuperBrian (6th, good new replays in last week and great 3rd time in section 4 ;)), AbuRaf70 (7th with his usual irreducible spirit :) even if without improvements in last week) and Paleke (8th no improvements for him too ::)). You can see analisys of the race on RH Race page just after the map. R2 will start next 1th March at 00.00.01 and drivers will have to race a different car, Jaguar XJR9 (another smile from CTG... ;))! Who will succeed to interpret in the best way the new very fast challenge? A description of next track will be published soon!
YEY!!! 3 points for me!! 8) :P
A real schocking time (sent only 14 hours after the start...) by Zak McKracken! As in R1, Zak gets the first bonus point at stake with a race absolutely incredible: 1'11"60! :o :o After the provisional leader we find (8" slower...) pratically paired Krys and me: only 0"05 between us which have choosen a very similar strategy ;) to try to catch more bonus points. But we have been swept away from "Cyclon-Zak" which seems to play with discovered card. Seeing his time it appears very difficult he can succeed to get another bonus points at next checkpoints. But maybe this will be difficult for many drivers... ::) AbuRaf70 begins with an usual slow start before climbing the scoreboard. Probably he still didn't jump on icy tract; so maybe next time will be more near to the others... ;) Anyway, next checkpoint will tell us more about the real limit of the track and maybe of the drivers. Let's see! :)
Quote from: Mark L. RiversAfter the provisional leader we find (8" slower...) pratically paired Krys and me: only 0"05 between us which have choosen a very similar strategy ;) to try to catch more bonus points. But we have been swept away from "Cyclon-Zak" which seems to play with discovered card.
Yep, so long with the strategy, I have been fooled last race and this one too. Next race I'll race hard from the start.
Zak's 1:11 is not so hard.
Three drivers on the track in last week and 5 replays sent: not a great activity but the usual upgrade by AbuRaf70 (near to leave the provisional last place) and two very interesting times from SuperBrian and me! ;) Before the more and more fast danish :) makes a great outset (1'12"40) approaching consistently Zak's time and subsequently I have placed a jab going down under 1'10" 8) and getting the bonus point at stake for the 2nd Checkpoint! As it's happened yet, I discovered to be able to reach times lower than I believed, even if it was not easy this time... ::) In fact I have succeeded to lower my time after I had thought for a long time not to go down under 1'12". Only racing very hard in the first part of the track, I succeeded to makes a little exploit. But CTG declared that winning time will be 1'05"xx, so we would see many others strong times! :) Difficult, very difficult to see a great consistent improvement from me, maybe 1", no more. But he sure hopes to be wrong one more time! ;)
Maybe I was wrong... :)
Only two replays in last week, both by AbuRaf70, the only driver which is keeping hot his engine. The argentinian driver breaks 1'20" barrier as other pipsqueaks and he's by now on the wash of Krys TOFF. OK, it has just begun the last week of race: who will be able to improve his current result? Who will win? Seven days to know the answers... ;)
Whooops... I'll be totally busy this week. This time I really won't win. :)
Quote from: CTGThis time I really won't win. :)
You say that each time before sending a kicking ass replay. :D
Quote from: Krys TOFF on March 18, 2007, 07:52:07 PM
Quote from: CTGThis time I really won't win. :)
You say that each time before sending a kicking ass replay. :D
But this time I tell the truth. ;D
Quote from: CTG on March 18, 2007, 11:01:47 PM
Quote from: Krys TOFF on March 18, 2007, 07:52:07 PM
Quote from: CTGThis time I really won't win. :)
You say that each time before sending a kicking ass replay. :D
But this time I tell the truth. ;D
You always say that too!
Okay then I'll win. Is it better? :D
Quote from: CTG on March 19, 2007, 03:51:49 AM
Okay then I'll win. Is it better? :D
No, it's not. But at least it honest! ;D
Nah... I really don't know when to race. Maybe Friday evening. But it's also possible we will have some beers with Akoss on Friday at Miskolc.
Fantastic race for Chulk which wins clearly R2!! :) Really an awesome result (1'08"25 :o) which lead him to conquer his 2nd victory in SDR RH contest almost a year after the first! Racing like a supersonic jet in all section of the race Chulk has preceded me, the only which has succeeded to snatch the best time of a section (the last). No improvement for me although he tried without gain not even 0"05 ::) , but arriving 2nd again as R1, now I'm first in general classification! 8) Third, as R1, Zak McKracken: no further replays from him, but his time (as we have saw soon) was really strong, above all for a very fast last section of race (only 0"15 his gap from me). Fourth a dogged Krys TOFF! :D With 4 consecutive improvements in last days, he succeeded to overtake his teammate SuperBrian for only 0"20! Like a wink-message near to: "SB, you're very fast, but... for the moment you have to stay behind your ganger... ;)". Anyway, great performance again by SuperBrian, 5th! And he was even 3rd at last intermediate, but he has not perfectioned last curve, leaving in it a lot of time... Really a pity for him, Fluency could be his first podium! Sixth a tameless AbuRaf70: the argentinian driver has improved step by step, reaching a good 1'14"00, a result he didn't believe possible, as he told me! So, great result for him too! :) And in last week joined Paleke too (7th): just an assay race for him, near to an IRC lap. But he apposed his sign on this race anyway: thank to his 4 points, Damage Inc now lead the Team Classification with 1 point over MeganiuM Aces High! Waiting for Gutix, sure... ;) Great absent has been CTG: after the winning outset in R1, he has not taken part in R2. Sure I hope to see him again in the next race, on a track enterely dedicated to RH drivers and their Indy: the appointment is for the 1st April at 00:01! :)
Sorry, after few beers I couldn't feel the power to make a great lap on Friday... :)