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Career mode practice. In fairness, I do use some assists [tc being the big one] that you probably dont, but historically that hasn’t made me quicker than anyone on here….

There’s some awesome set ups out there though, which really help. Check out these sites: http://f1carsetup.com/ or http://www.racedepartment.com/forum/forums/f1-2011-setups.100/?order=title&direction=asc

Yeah, practice makes perfect! I’d been at it for quite some time before I got anywhere near the late 1:30s….

So, I just did my career race. Started in 7th after a horribly wet qualifying…

Went prime / prime / option on a 50% race distance 28 lap race. We’ll be on 22 laps on Monday, so will be slightly different there I guess.

I managed to win the race, but not sure about my pace. First 10 lap stint, I had a fastest lap in the late 1:34s, but most laps were in mid 1:35 – 1:36 range, which seemed slow, but heavy fuel loads.

In my second prime stint, a further 11 laps, I managed to lower the fastest lap to the low 1:33s marker, and was lapping consistently in the mid 1:33 – late 1:34 range

Then on the Options, I got the fastest lap down to 1:31.9, and of my 7 laps, 2 were in the 1:31s, a further 2 in the 1:32s, and then I had 2 laps where I was held up by traffic and in the 1:34s and a lap in the 1:33s, where I made a couple of small errors.

Think my race pace is okay, but not sure it’s going to be front running pace come Monday night. The good news is that I got to the end with no penalties, and indeed barely any warnings for corner cutting, so a clean race should get me some solid points come Monday!

@thevortex u need to add me mate if you want to race tomorrow. My tag is MadDogMolloy.

@mrgrieves, @McWoblin, @carnivorouspope, @powderfinger, @lemon, @strunk27 @infernojim @ljkobrien @kvothe @ms20 @infernikus @agentmulder @coefficient @eltimuel @thevortex

Next up – the championship’s first trip to China!

For the newcomers – invites go out at 8.20pm GMT. I will click on proceed at 8.30pm GMT. The 10 minutes is there to check headsets, connections, sort out cameras etc. 

Let me know if you cannot make it!

Driver of the day in Australia has gone to Lemon. Bit disappointed with the number of votes (compared to last season) guys!

My predictions for China:
1. Snake 2. Lemon 3. Kevin

Hopefully see you all later! Let’s make it a full grid for the first time! :-)

An absolutely unacceptable race.

Qualified 8th.

Got a good start and took it easy into the first two corners, a collision ahead meant I came out 4th, Managing to keep up with the cars ahead, I noticed that one car wasn’t giving the other room down the back straight and was pushing them on to the grass, on the second lap both of them went off with Kevin quitting. I was now in second place (a dream position) Driving well I expertly defended from Snake, who had recovered from the off for a few laps despite the fact he was much faster then me, that was until he (unfairly in my opinion) squeezed me right on to the grass going into turn 6 making me lose control and took the position. After that and with a decent gap behind me I saved fuel and took it easy, El Timeel (whatever) came up behind me the lap I was going to pit and used me as a breaking point down in to turn 15 off the back straight, losing me more time. I pitted onto the primes knowing I would conserve the tyres and then go for it in the final stint. I put my fuel mixture up to high and set some personal bests in the high 32′s low 33′s and came out just ahead of El Timeul who trying to take me off again ended up spinning off himself. Lt Alfred was catching me up on his options gradually and despite being on the primes by the end of my stint my tyres were shot and while I tried to defend I ended up going wide (no doubt out of fear) and he respectfully took the position. I carried on eeking as much out of the tyres as I could when McWoblin closed upon me with several other drivers. Down the back straight I took my position pretty early leaving plenty of room on the outside but was ploughed into from behind losing me three more positions. Failing to keep up with them I pitted for the primes for my final stint with the intention of gunning it until the end. Came out among a couple fighting. I had the line into turn 2 but was spun by Carnivorous losing me more time and positions, and later on in the lap was spun trying to overtake somebody else. At this point I was livid, and unable to focus, I had dropped from 4th to 12th and any advantage from pitting early on to fresher tyres with fuel turned high was gone. I could have perhaps salvaged a point but I quit in disgust.

When I joined this group I did so on the assumption that the racing would be clean and fair, instead it felt worse then playing online with randoms particularly because of the time and effort I had invested in learning the track properly in preparation for a good race. I lost the chance to fight for third with Alfred who was on a contrary strategy, and lost the chance for a good points position. Not happy at all.

Great start.
Guys ahead were pushing each other off the track and I moved into P3.
Great race up to that point.
Got pushed off the track twice, received to penalties, inacceptable driving, turned the console off.