Sorry for this big delay with post-race's analysis. Difficult week with so few time.
But here it comes finally. Beautiful Estrada 2 happened to be not as amazing as I expected it to be. The track requires fast cars while we had to drive extremely slow Mini. Really, ToMputer has weird sense of humour. Nevertheless
TuomoH felt quite good himself on his 40th race and showed that old dogs still have impressive skills and like wine only become better with time. He finished first
with comfortable lead while
Akouk had a lot of troubles trying not to let Croatian star
Alonso to overtake him.
AleksiNir probably would want one more lap as he did quite impressive finish lap and missed the podium with tiny 0.04 sec. But still he managed to set the fastest lap as well as
maclape did who finished 5th followed by Hangman. It's worth to mention that
Rich K. and
bgcatfan showed their best performance so far in ToM S8 - 7th and 8th.
Nolb after negotiations was returned to 21st place.
After this race AleksiNir's still leading, maclape not far behind. 3 racers are fighting for the 3rd place. Still 4 races to go and everything may change.
Race analysis
Best lap :
AleksiNir & maclape - 30.52
Pit-stops strategies :
2 - kuba, momo, Reh, Vilkku, Rich.K, bgcatfan, TuomoH, Hangman, Alonso, akouk.
3 - all others
BTW, it's so obvious what strategy was the best on this track.
Great Achieved Strategy (GAS) awards :
Kuba, momo, Reh, Vilkku, Rich.K, bgcatfan, TuomoH, Hangman, Alonso, akouk.
Not Wanted Pit-stop (NWP) :
Majortom, once again.
Other notes:
APEX, Oleksa, medal89, momo - Set grid options to 'Points' to start from pole!
medal89 - use UOGRC carpack from minipack! (raced with default mini, physic same)
medal89 - use 1.10c next time!
medal89 - use gr.ini from minipack! (not complete replay)
Nolb - don't rename tracks.
Now about pictures. PF card shows once again 3 finishes. Very close finish of Akouk, Alonso and AleksiNir, then - in the top - between Apex and Dany (yes, we had nice battles in the tail too), and the last - it's Cristiano who beated Reh with 0.18 sec. Close enough to be showed here.
People on the podium are TuomoH - who is celebrating his 10th victory in 2011, Akouk - though he wants to be on Tuomo's place but he is happy for his old rival, and Alonso - thinking what is better victory in GeneRally Rookie Championship or third place in ToM
The position picture was taken after 3:07 minutes of race - maclape is finishing his 6th lap. TuomoH stays far behind and waiting his chance.
And now I will remind you once again that
it's never too late to join and the more we are the better it'll be (c)