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    China!

    Qualifying – 14th
    A slightly better showing, aced practice to get max points. I easily made it out of Q1, and tried to get through on softs in Q2 as it was due to start raining any minute. I unfortunately got held up by Palmer emerging from the pits after my banker lap and without enough fuel for a second run, had to end the session since the grip was gone.

    Race – 1st
    It started out dry and I was able to scythe my way up to 7th immediately. Then I took 6th from Kvyat rather forcefully after he repeatedly ran me out of road, the whole battle taking 7 or 8 laps. I began creating a gap back to Daniil and the pack while losing the guys ahead. Until there was a safety car! Strangely the guys in front pitted and I was left in second behind Raikkonen. The rain that had been forecast fell all at once when the safety car was due to come in so I made a last second dive into the pits. I ended up being held for 10 seconds due to traffic.

    Plenty of drivers spun out due to staying on dries and there were more retirements. I somehow ended up second around lap 20, and was catching Massa by about 3 tenths a lap. I followed him at about 2 seconds away for a good 5-6 laps before the rain started coming down harder. I stayed out a lap longer since I was feeling really good. And it gained me a lot of time so Felipe must’ve been held up!

    After creating a nice lead in the front of the pack there was a safety car about 5 laps later as the rain began to slow down. I pitted for inters and fell to 6th.

    Several drivers pitted under sc to fit inters putting me in third, while Alonso and Raikkonen ahead of me stayed out, and pitted when the sc came in. I inherited the lead and began building a gap once more. Around lap 40 I could feel the grip lessening and Massa was gaining rapidly. I pitted for fresh supers on lap 44 and had to make the last 12 laps on dry tyres with Massa, Magnussen and Ricciardo all closing in. They caught me with 3 laps to go.

    Massa tried around the outside at the sharp hairpin after the drs zone, and I hung him completely out to dry, denoting him to fourth, and my teammate up to second! Kevin didn’t have enough in the tank to pass me and I knew that, so I stayed close enough that he would have the DRS and slipstream to fend off Ricciardo’s attacks for 2 laps, while doing what I could to stay out of attacking range. We ended up bringing home a crazy 1-2 for Haas in a ridiculous Chinese Grand Prix!

    Ricciardo now leads the WDC with me a point behind on 29, while we are also in second in the WCC, one point off of red bull. Another fab race that was satisfying to complete, can’t wait to do the next! A front wing downforce upgrade is also scheduled for Russia so we’ll see how that goes!

    #358605
    Harry Westwood
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    Anyone else still playing career mode? Lol
    I’m finding it enjoyable again, this is of course after trying pro career mode and failing miserably in the sauber! So I tried again on regular career with the Haas.

    Q – 20th
    A weak start, with an added challenge put in due to me ramping the difficulty way up to 110, I had my work cut out for me. It was a wet quali but dry race so I struggled on a dry setup. I waited until it dried up a bit and was the first on inters, setting a banker good enough for P10. However times were getting quicker all the time. I let everyone past and found some clear track on my cool down lap and tried again, being the last to cross the line. I instead binned it on the exit of turn two and somehow I ended up starting last!

    R – 8th
    This race was so wild! I was more confident in my consistency than my pace so elected for a 1 stop with the option to 2 stop. I was able to move up to 18th at turn one, then was right on the back of stroll, Vandoorne, and Ericsson. I snuck up the inside of a cautious stroll at turn 9, and was following the other two through 10. We went three wide into the high speed chicane and I took both places! Now up into 15th, I set about catching Palmer ahead.

    I realised that at 100% length rather than 50%, I’d have to up the pace a bit and tried my best to. I dispatched Palmer into turn 13 the next lap and easily took the place. Two laps later I made the exact same move on Sainz. Kvyat took another 4 laps to clear, doing so down into turn 3 on the inside. I caught Magnussen pretty quick and made my comfortable move into turn 13 again.

    By this point, I was catching Massa and Perez had retired, so I was feeling pretty good. I chose to stick with a one stop as things were going okay. Unfortunately I started racking up penalties for corner cutting, which would come back to haunt me.

    I struggled for pace on the soft tyres, pitting on lap 20 for them and upping the front wing. A VSC brought K-Mag out just in front of me, on US and he just left me for dead. After a pretty lonely stint, being repassed by Mag after his second stop, I had racked up 9 seconds of penalties. But I had a huge gap back to Palmer and was running 10th. Then Hamilton crashed out of a dominant lead, causing an SC!

    I chose to pit for fresh ultras on lap 48 and go for a sprint as I wouldn’t be able to do much on softs. At the restart there was a big clash of cars and I was promoted from 11th to 7th! I tried to gap Alonso but with the restart on lap 55 and only making it to lap 57 I had to settle for 8th place.

    All in all not a bad performance, with Raikkonen taking the win, followed home by Verstappen and Ricciardo. Looking forward to China!

    #358602
    Harry Westwood
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    @theawesomefish nice! I love the new look! I’ve gotta say I preferred the old colours but the change looks awesome!


    @bradley13
    love the livery as always, nice lines and of course that big fat “1” on the car

    #357355
    Harry Westwood
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    @theawesomefish haha! Reminds me of the charity event we ran way back in 2013!

    #357314
    Harry Westwood
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    My post has been removed/deleted. This forum is ridiculous

    #357064
    Harry Westwood
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    @bradley13, @diceman, @jamiefranklinf1, @juan-pablo-heidfeld-1 For this race we’re going to be doing a post race press conference instead of pre race, seeing as though it’s the finale! So you’ll get questions after sunday :)

    #356670
    Harry Westwood
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    @robocat, @bradley13, @diceman, @formula-1, @jamiefranklinf1, @mathers, @pezlo2013, @juan-pablo-heidfeld-1, @sirspuddington, @aiera-music, @blockwall2, @theawesomefish, @holmqvist, @alexf11995

    I’d like the Klaas Van Schnelheid – Tumo Kinnumen incident investigated please. Available first on video from 27:33, and a slow motion onboard replay at 28:30.

    Kinnumen and Ruiz were going side by side into turn one. I feel that Klaas not only came from too far back, but also dived at a gap that was never there, and getting narrower on approach to the corner. This caused a lot of lost time and could’ve caused a serious collision were the following cars a second or two closer. It was completely reckless and was never going to work out for Klaas.

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    @jamiefranklinf1, @mathers, @theawesomefish, @blockwall2, @redmist
    Questions have finally been sent out! Apologies for the delay, I have to operate a tad slower with a broken foot! But if I can have the answers back by roughly this Wednesday please :)

    #355841
    Harry Westwood
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    @jamiefranklinf1, @mathers, @theawesomefish, @blockwall2, @redmist
    Questions may be delayed until tomorrow, I’ve had an urgent personal matter come up, and haven’t been able to finish them yet today as I had planned for. However they will 100% be ready tomorrow around 12pm GMT at the latest!

    #355566
    Harry Westwood
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    Thanks @robocat! I’ll be getting those questions out around the weekend at the latest for you guys, and if I could have the answers by around the wednesday/thursday that’d be great!

    Gotta say one hell of a controversial race, but culminating in a complete shock 1-2 for DS Mathershaw.

    As for the driver market, I would be completely stunned if Ruiz wasn’t picked up by somebody. Even if Jamie chooses not to go in on him, there’s a spot at Ingram, and I reckon there’s a few teams that would gladly spend the extra to get Enrique into their car, he brings such a performance boost. In my opinion the best driver in Formula Virtual. That being said, Hutchinson wouldn’t be a bad bet for Ingram, he’s driven a good season.

    Very sad to see Douglas Bacon finally retire though, however not shocked. He was always a decent driver that would quietly get the job done, but with the market currently being so competetive, there isn’t room for that anymore. I’ll never forget the joy I felt at that first rainy pole position he got for us at Hockenheim a good 4 years ago now! How time flies. Ah well, I’m sure I’ll feel somewhat similar when the likes of Tumo retire.

    #355451
    Harry Westwood
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    I know I’m late to the party but just wanted to say congratulations on your first win @theawesomefish! Thoroughly deserved.

    Very sad to hear that you’re leaving us @diceman man, one of the original team bosses. Glad to hear things are looking up for you in life though! Better keep checking in though ;)

    #355413
    Harry Westwood
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    @aiera-music
    Don’t get me wrong on this, I really do love it when teams inject a bit of life into the series with backstory and the like. However, I really feel like cancer should not be one of the subjects we touch on. Please don’t take this as a personal attack as I’ve been loving following the AMR saga, like who’s gonna buy them out, what kind of rebranding are they going for, etc. I just feel like some subjects are better left alone.

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