I tried to race a F3 race yesterday, and I wanted to share my impressions.
First off it was a novice race at Monza. I entered with a default setup Eagle,
and got #2 starting position. The start was clean, and I actually managed to
race clean on the outside in Curva Grande. Then came the 1st Lesmo and I spun,
some other race spun too, and there were flying cars and lot of carnage. Then
I had to start over and try to catch up on #1. I was finally right behind him
when I tried a very optimistic late breaking into Parabolica, and screwed up
again.
After that race the server (thanks Mr Barlow) switched to Mosport. I don't know
that track as good as Monza, but I went for it. Turn 2 is still a bastard even
in F3, so I lost some time on the first half of the track. Anyway, I didn't
mess up this time and had a really good fight with #2, #1 disappeared into the
horizon so we were kind of concentration on the racing instead of winning.
After he made a mistake at the Moss hairpin i was able to out accelerate him
on the back straight. But then braked to early into turn 1 and was hit from
behind, and the #4 car passed us. And he didn't settle with that. He beat me
with 16 seconds in the two remaining laps.
My conclutions:
- Screwing up a turn is a universally bad thing no matter what class it is :)
- The racing was more fun as I could concentrate more on catching up and to
pass, instead of using all my skill on keeping the car on the track.
- Some people are blindingly fast even in F3. I thought the racing was close,
but that seemed to be only for us who had never raced F3 before (thanks Mr
Zwart for the close racing).
- It was still very fun, and I'm definately going to try it again tonight if a
F3 Monza race show up on GSB.
Oh, and Randy Cassidy did also show up beating the ***out of us at Mosport.
Great to see that a game designer race with us mortals :)
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Olav K. Malmin
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