TSA F1 Championship: Round 1 Results

Colinbarr66 33 Comments

So the first race of the TSA F1 Championship has been completed and the results are in.

 Championship A

A rather eventful qualifying session saw lots of aborted laps, many went off onto the grass and gravel, and plenty of spins taking front wings off and puncturing tyres. Sadly, we were missing Aerobes (who had mistaken the start time as 6pm instead of 5pm), and Spooferbarnabas was replaced by AG2297. Camdaz’s PS3 froze mid way through the session and Gazo69 mistakenly quit the race when he was stuck in a gravel trap. Through it all, Beelzie came through with a 1:27.1 to take pole ahead of Daywalker and Manorhowze.

We kicked off the race with a fairly clean and tidy first corner, followed by a mighty crash filled second corner with half the reduced field getting caught up in the fun. This set Manorhowze right onto Beelzie’s tail, and his pressure soon paid off as Beelzie went wide, then span and ended in the trap, leaving Manorhowze and Reck46 to proceed through the rest of the race in 1st and 2nd. Behind them, though, Teflon, AG2297 and Daywalker switched places plenty of times, with spins a plenty, punctures, being held in the pits and more keeping their order fluid right up until the home straight, leaving Daywalker ahead of Teflon by just 0.1 seconds!

The back three, though, faced problems. Matty, SpikeyMikey and AG2297 saw their racing lines disappear on them, making their race incredibly hard, whilst Heedbaw touched the grass on one corner and swerved into a barrier in a fairly spectacular end to his race.

The final standings were:

  1. Manorhowze – 25 (points)
  2. Reck46 – 18
  3. Beelzie14 – 15
  4. Daywalker – 12
  5. Teflon – 10
  6. Spooferbarnabas – 8
  7. Matty – 6
  8. SpikeyMikey23 – 4
  9. Heedbaw – 2 (DNF)
  10. Gazo69 – 1 (DNS)
  11. Cam the man  – 0 (DNS)
  12. Aerobes – 0 (DNS)

Championship B

With a full 12 driver lobby, qualifying started. Sadly Djkaty was missing but Spooferbarnabas was on hand to cover for her. Qualifying went reasonably calmly, with a few spins and punctures. At one point there was contact between a couple of the drivers but a quick apology was made and it didn’t affect the results. JamboGT had a strange bug where only he appeared on the track and all our cars became invisible to him, while some of his laps were failing to register. Luckily for him one of the laps did manage to get through giving him pole position with a 1.27.3. Unfortunately freezebug2’s PS3 froze causing him to be ejected from qualifying and not long after, Ro6afc11 lost connection from the game and was also ejected.

That meant there were ten of us for the race. The first corner was pretty chaotic with almost all the front runners coming into mild contact and spinning. Soon after some of the drivers noticed their racing line had disappeared, as it did for some in Championship A, giving them an extra challenge. No damage seemed to have been done though, as by the end of lap 2 the order was almost re-established. On the fourth lap the majority of the drivers pitted meaning a very busy pit lane. Spooferbarnabas managed to come out in front of two cars that were previously behind him due to a fast pit stop. The race continued without much contact being made between the cars. The order changed quite often with cars spinning frequently, but JamboGT managed to keep his cool and gain the first win of Championship B. Ashgraham wasn’t far behind to take second, with Michi coming in a solid third.

The final standings were:

  1. JamboGT – 25
  2. Ashgraham99 – 18
  3. Michi – 15
  4. Djkaty – 12
  5. Yersal – 10
  6. Charles Logan – 8
  7. Gernboes – 6
  8. AG2297 – 4
  9. duncanuaz – 2
  10. Josh653 – 1
  11. Ro6afc11 – 0 (DNQ)
  12. Freezebug2 – 0 (DNQ)

 Championship C

Two reserves were needed in this championship with tom_lord covering for stingraz and tonyyeb covering for Kamikaze-UK (who had the nerve to put the birth of his son before a race on F1 2010; the cheek of some people).

Tom_lord managed to secure pole during qualifying in what was some extremely heavy rain.  During the race though he spent a lap too long on his options and ended up spinning out and losing his front wing, meaning he lost time returning to the pits. Punctures were the name of the game with LFC-Gaz, Baxteros, Squalje and SuperJag86 becoming victims. Luckily for Superjag his puncture came just as he was entering the pits meaning he lost very little time.

Battles were fought during the race between Colin and Baxteros with both drivers side by side at one point before both missing their braking points and running off the track. Later on Colin was following baconsarnie for several laps but couldn’t quite make it past him, but his patience paid off as baconsarnie made an error and ran off leaving Colin to take second place.

The final standings were:

  1. SuperJag86 – 25
  2. Colinbarr66 – 18
  3. baconsarnie – 15
  4. Baxteros – 12
  5. stingraz – 10
  6. Kamikaze-UK – 8
  7. Wick15 – 6
  8. DJ_Judas – 4
  9. icuyesido – 2
  10. LFC-Gaz – 1
  11. Squalje – 0 (DNF)
  12. Sympozium_666 – 0 (DSQ)

Congratulations to Manorhowze, JamboGt and SuperJag86 on the first wins of the Championship.

Next in the racing calendar is Shanghai. A huge straight followed by a very tight hairpin makes this track all about the top speed of your car, timing, and braking. Not to mention a deadly pit stop entrance that could easily see you destroying your car. The week after next will see us racing at Monaco; a  street circuit that takes no prisoners so expect to be replacing front wings and punctured tyres often on this track.

How was the first Championship race for you? Do you fancy your chances on the next track? Any predictions on next week’s winners? Let us know in the comments below.

This post was written and submitted by AG2297.

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33 Comments

  1. In SP at Montreal, I was setting a blinding qualy lap, when down the straight to the final chicane, I got a puncture! I decided to carry on regardless and still got the top time of the session. :P

    Some great driving’s been going on already. So I’m looking forward to Shanghai. Should be interesting to see the differing set ups and how they match up to one another.

  2. Shanghai’s a tricky one for me, hard to spot my braking point on that hairpin after the long straight as I don’t use the racing line. Everyone else should be ashamed of themselves for using it by the way.

    • Well its possible it might do another dissapearing act so I will be practising without it otherwise I stand no chance in the race with that hairpin.

      • Also think it’s dangerous when following a car, if you’re looking at a line on the road and waiting for it to turn red before braking you can’t be concentrating on the car in front. Not sure how easy the line is too see at the start either with all the cars covering it.

      • I always pick a track side object for braking points. When practicing a new track in TT mode with the line on it can be difficult to spot when it turns red if your ghost is just ahead.

      • What cam said, get braking markers, its how real drivers do it too.

    • If you mean the last corner I generally use the tarmac that goes off to the right, as you approach the corner, as my braking point.
      If it’s the first corner then I hope for sunshine, I know I shouldn’t really but I use one of the shadows from a trackside sign as a braking marker. Just means I end up braking too early if it’s dull as I feel totally lost approaching it.

    • I’ve found that I get on better without the line anyway. Always find I’m looking out for it to change red rather than paying any attention to the track which results in me never learning it

  3. I managed to have a fairly non-evetful race, getting through the first 2 corners and once Beelzie fell off the track I was just concentrating on not falling off the track.

    Shanghai is a good track and Monaco is always hectic (please, no rain)

    • Please rain. I love Monaco in the rain, always do well.

      • Well you can have rain in your group, we can have a dry race :)

  4. Good to see Shanghai in there, I really like that track. Good point about the Pit entrance though.

    I’ve raced Monaco once. Complete and utter disaster. When it comes to walls, my car is the touchy-feely type, somewhat distressingly. Nothing to do with my driving skills naturally. ;)

  5. Ooh Monaco I have bad races there but love it. Last race with TSA there I lost 6 front wings

  6. Wish my work schedule was less messy so I could have joined in!! Sounds
    like a blast!!

  7. Monaco will be mental!

  8. Ooohh, im looking forward to monaco. wouldnt mind if it rained, too. i probably wont make it to the finish, but it would be great fun guaranteed!
    i also will practice more for the coming races, didnt put in enough time for montreal…

  9. Just been doing shanghai in my season, and now on monaco!

    Lookin forward to both, should be a blast!

  10. Nice choice of tracks, Shanghai is nice and fast & Monaco will just be crazy. Still can’t get a good setup for Monaco though, car keeps bottoming out all the way up the hill and leaving Casino it takes off momentarily. Anyone else have that problem?

    • Perhaps your ride height is too low, or your suspension not stiff enough, or not enough wing?
      Just don’t go as fast :P

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