Bahrain GP - Sakhir (Sunday, december 9th, 2012) – Race Report, by Sexy Brigadeiro & pictures by Arek
For ALL the pointers and Championship standings, just take a look below!!!
I think I could write a book talking about how juvenil I was in this race...
I had my best Q1 ever (6th fastest driver)... screwed everything up on Q2 (made a mistake, had a terrible lap time, started in 10th, throwing away a chance to start close to or even among the top 5 - something I NEVER did before)... and in race, I just kept doing shit... Ok, I think I was a little bit out of luck too (a simple kerb costed me my whole race), but... if in Melbourne, all kinds of shit happened to me (caused by other people), this time I just couldn't blame anyone but myself for another terrible race - special apologies to Tony, who unfortunately got involved and lost his whole race too (none of us could do anything to avoid that). It's just sad to know I threw away the chance of having my best race in the league EVAH and god only knows when/if this will ever happen again... It may have been my one and only chance and... I wasted it away... - good old me - YAY!
So, enough for the personal drama, let's talk about this weekend on the rFactor Racers League - the BEST rFactor and SimRacing league in the UNIVERSE!!! ...right?
Anyhow...
At least a great thing happened 'to me' in this race! I had the pleasure of seeing my teammate, Joe El Muchacho Suave McLaggen getting his first pole position in his rFR League carreer and he also finished the race in 2nd place (ony behind soutie, who was extremely faster than everyone else, so... Joe can consider that a 'victory' - lol) and, to put the cherry on the top of the cake... Joe closed the weekend as the Championship Leader (just like McLaren - our team, although I didn't contribute with any points to that so far... shame on me, I know... - is also leading the Constructors' Championship), so... just AMAZING, Joe! I know we only had 2 races out of 17, but... who KERS?!?!?!... ARRIBA, MUCHACHO - ANDALE, ANDALE, ANDALE - AYE CARAMBA - AREK IS A JUVENIL!!!
And another weekend/race highlights were:
- soutie won easily.
- Arek, The Noob Juvenil, got another podium and for being regular in the 1st two races, he is right behind Joe in the fight for the Title (but followed closely by Grisu and soutie).
- Grisu, who won easily at Melbourne and was a strong candidate for the win here too, abandoned the race early.
- Wallace improved a lot from Melbourne and although he still has a lot to improve, he deserves some cheers for what he did so far - and if deadfish don't appear to race at China, Wallace will be the next Reserve Driver to get promoted - and Biebs will finally get a teammate! Ooh, baby, baby, baby!
- Sven also did another simlpe but regular and good race - and he forces me to say a little something about him in every report, just because he is the Boss and if I don't do it, I'll go back to the solitary (somebody help me! )...
- ADI was 'promoted' from Reserve Driver to Official Driver (or whatever you want to call it) and since we were teammates for 2 seasons, I'm obviously happy for him, since we're still friends - aaaawwwww - no homo, pliss!
- We had some guys who couldn't be at Melbourne having their 1st race of the season here at Bahrain, so... 'welcome' soutie, Jure, Otti, Jack and Tony - soutie won, as you guys already know, Jure scored 1 little point (which is ALWAYS better than nothing) and the other 3 didn't have a great season debut, but... we've only just begun!
- LOTS of drivers had brakes issues and also had to abandon for that reason - and that never happened before in the league, so it was pretty unnexpected... But that's what happens when you have a new mod that everyone still needs to study and get to know it better... - which is also good for the league, since more surprises may happen on the next races!
- Some penalties will come... I 'overheard' some admins talking to each other the other day and a small little bird told me I may get a penalty myself... It won't change MY race result, but they (the penalties) may change some things in the 'race story', so... be warned, kids!...
- Oh, I almost forgot: The Sexy Crashadeiro Award goes to... Me, Myself & I, of course - yay... NOT.
And yes, as always, enough of this bla bla bla, because Arek's pictures and our captions 'tell' the story of the Bahrain GP a little better - now STFU and check them out below:'Checkered flag is out and so am I!'
Arek's Slideshow: (Don't be a juvenil! Watch it in HD (720p) and full screen, pliss!)
BAHRAIN FULL RESULTSSakhir Pics:
LAP 1
- Arek: The Start of Bahrain GP. Joe on his first ever pole position!
- Sexy: Yes, I'm REALLY happy for him and also glad because... (Well, Tom knows what I mean...)
LAP 1
- Arek: Sprint to the first corner. lau fights vs Otti meanwhile Arek jumps to the 4th place.
- Sexy: As for me, I could only see Arnie passimg me like a cannonball... I was thinking to myself: 'What a damn, 'Otti start' he had over me!'
LAP 1
- Arek: And we got the first corner!
- Sexy: The outside green area is the safest place to be on that braking on the very 1st lap...
LAP 1
- Arek: Tom has a bad luck hanging himself on the inside kerb jumping down to last place!
- Sexy: ...and lau and Jure's cars just ignored a few laws of physics (poor Mr. Newton), 'co-existing' in the same space, at the same time... Weird!...
LAP 1
- Arek: Battle between Sexy and Arnie seen from Cueball's car.
- Sexy: I tried my best to avoid a contact and even went on the grass (Arnie's back door is a pretty 'nice' door. I saw it closely when he shoved it on my face! ¬¬')... Unfortunately, the touch happened anyway, he spun and I'm sorry for that. Maybe I even get a penalty for that, but pliss, Arnie, next time give a little more room, ok? I don't want to buy your door. Thanks!
LAP 1
- Arek: And this is how it ends up. Similar screen as from T1 in Australia. Surrounding is a little bit different but one driver is still the same Let's see if we got similar screen in China next weekend
- Sexy: Since other 2 cars spun and I haven't, it's easy to see me as the 'bad guy' here... I understand.
LAP 1
- Arek: Grisu makes a mistake and spins his car! He jumps down from 3rd to 19th place!
- Sexy: When I saw him spinning, I didn't believe it was him. He was one of the fav guys for the win here.. Bad race for Biebs - ooh, baby, baby, baby!...
LAP 1
- Arek: Joe makes a mistake and let soutie through!
- Sexy: I don't know if Joe would be able to keep soutie behind the whole race, but.. still with that mistake, he ended up making things a little too easy for Sam. That's a shame, but... 'this is racing', right? Joe already did an amazing job just by getting the pole AND also setting his PB on Q2 - SPICY!!!
LAP 1
- Arek: Otti (6th) hits Luft causing his spin!
- Sexy: Easy, Dildo Boy!..
LAP 2
- Arek: Then Otti and lau starts to fight each other.
- Sexy: Good matchup, but...
LAP 2
- Arek: But a while later Otti doesn't leave enough space for lau who catches the gravel and spins...
- Sexy: ...not so great fight - what a shame!
LAP 3
- Arek: Blackfox passes Sven in batte for the 6th place.
- Sexy: Nice & Clean!
LAP 3
- Arek: ...
- Sexy: ... (sorry, Tony... )
LAP 3
- Arek: Bad begining of the race for Otti. He slides on the kerb losing three places and joins lau again!
- Sexy: New BFFs
LAP 4
- Arek: Meanwhile Bober took his adventage after others mistakes/fights and moved up to the 4th place.
- Sexy: This is also known as 'The Belarus Secret Strategy'...
LAP 5
- Arek: Another mistake by Otti. What a terrible race! This time he leaves the track for good...
- Sexy: Good job!... (Better luck in China! )
LAP 5
- Arek: Luft (13th) leaves the track after incidents with Adrian.
- Sexy: Nah! He was just trying to get a detour... right?...
LAP 5
- Arek: Another crash... This time ADI misses his braking point and tooks Adrian down.
- Sexy: They have a law between 'Adrians': there can only be ONE!
LAP 6
- Arek: Blackfox (5th) spins losing four places.
- Sexy: And if your good at maths, that means he fell to the 9th place - yep, I'm good at maths!
LAP 8
- Arek: lau passes Sven in the battle for the 5th place. Denis follows them. Two laps later Sven takes his revenge!
- Sexy: Sven believes revenge always tastes sweeter!
LAP 8
- Arek: Black and raikkO are having a great and clean battle for the 9th place.
- Sexy: Very well done, lads!
LAP 9
- Arek: The horse vs the bull and the horse wins
- Sexy: I guess someone is facing the wrong direction...
LAP 10
- Arek: Arek who was 3rd leaves the pits and gets a fight vs raikkO
- Sexy: The Horse Vs The Bull - Part II
LAP 10
- Arek: Civil war inside the Croatian team! Now I get why Luft wanted to have a tank on his helmet before the season! Jure vs Luft for the 8th place.
- Sexy: Civil War: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HgM7vY-GT0&hd=1
LAP 10
- Arek: Joe McLaggen (2nd) in the pits
- Sexy: Although I think the 1 stop strategy was better, the 2 pit stop strategy fit him well!
LAP 11
- Arek: soutie still leads.
- Sexy: ...zzz...
LAP 11
- Arek: Battle between lau and Adrian for the 11th place.
- Sexy: Two pretty fast guys! Interesting battle!
LAP 12
- Arek: Arek makes a mistake and loses his place for raikkO. But as soon as lost it he got it back.
- Sexy: That's when I say most noobs are lucky... (The Horse Vs The Bull - Part III)
LAP 12
- Arek: Denis (5th) comes to the pits. His teammate Bober was in the very high 2nd place then but before his pit stop yet.
- Sexy: Team Belarus doing a pretty good job at Bahrain!
LAP 14
- Arek: There he is. Fighting vs Sven who hasn't pited yet and Joe who joined the party on fresh tyres.
- Sexy: Easy to guess the result of it...
LAP 15
- Arek: It was pretty interesting fight. After all Joe pass them both.
- Sexy: El Muchacho Suave spicing up their lives! ARRIBA!!!
LAP 15
- Arek: soutie comes in. Jackblack (18th) in the background.
- Sexy: Yes.
LAP 15
- Arek: Bober and Sven pit in the same lap losing their positions.
- Sexy: Still they were both doing a good job as well.
LAP 16
- Arek: Jure Pazin (12th), Cueball and ADI
- Sexy: These 'new' Jaguar and Jordan cars always look nice on the pics! great idea to add them to the mod! (Note that Toyota & Jordan use the same 3d model... )
LAP 18
- Arek: Tom passes Cueball and his next target are ADI and... JURE
- Sexy: Here we go...
LAP 19
- Arek: Tom is getting closer and closer to Jure. You can feel the tension rising up and up in the air because we know from the past that their battles on the track (and not only! ) are very hard and uncompromising and they went to the history!! But now seems like they are gonna start to write another chapter!! Jure makes a mistake on the kerb and Tom almost takes off! WOW!
- Sexy: I'm NOT judging ANYone or taking sides, but this goes to EVERYONE: hard fights are ALWAYS ok and actually great and fun, BUT... only as long as they are fair and respectful between the drivers involved. There's a thin line between being aggressive and being unfair and we all must be careful about it. (not talking about the picture, but about what Arek said.)
LAP 20
- Arek: lau overtakes raikkO on the main straight and takes the 3rd place. Arek was in the pits for his second stop then.
- Sexy: Lots of Romanian x Romanian fights - come on, guys! Peace & Love, pliss!
LAP 20
- Arek: Tom vs Jure battling hard for 12th place. A moment right before their crash. I can imagine temperature prevailing in their cockpits during the fight!!!
- Sexy: ...as I was saying...
LAP 20
- Arek: And this is how it ends up!!! Now is the time to finally release the anger!
- Sexy: ...saw it coming...
LAP 21
- Arek: If there wasn't enough emotions Arnie who likes to stick his nose here and there join the party leaving the pits!! Another part of fireworks is coming up! Adrian S Shole (11th) in the first plan.
- Sexy: Arnie definitely became a great driver compared to how he was in the 1st season, but at the same time, sometimes he is a little bit too aggressive and makes some risky moves - not sure if this is good or bad...
LAP 21
- Arek: Meanwhile lau passes Luft and jumps up to the 7th.
- Sexy: Once again the 2 new teams - love pics with them! *-*
LAP 22
- Arek: This is what I got on my mind talking about Arnie a while earlier Arnie goes wide and Tom passes Jure in the next turn.
- Sexy: ...as I was saying... [2]
LAP 24
- Arek: Adrian spins losing his place for Arnie, Tom and catching Jure on his back.
- Sexy: Not the greatest race of Adrian's life, but he is the current Champion, so... how could we criticize him for a bad weekend? It's ok, mate - you'll survive!
LAP 25
- Arek: Sven with his one stop strategy found himself in front of Arek who made a good use with his fresh soft tyres jumping up to the 4th place.
- Sexy: That was expected...
LAP 25
- Arek: A moment later they both pass Bober who has brakes issue.
- Sexy: That was also expected (I mean, since he had brake issues)...
LAP 25
- Arek: Bober has to retire after a very strong race...
- Sexy: Sorri.
LAP 26
- Arek: This lap was the last one to Black who has similar problems to Bober's: No brakes.
- Sexy: I had a 29 laps practice test the day before the race and I also had issues with brakes. But I realized I was using Brake Pressure in 1 and I knew that was what caused it. Then I changed it to 3 and I could've won a good number of places at the end if I was still 'alive' - we never had so many drivers abandoning because of the brakes before!
LAP 27
- Arek: Arnie survied just one lap more and had to say bye bye to his one point for 10th place.
- Sexy: ...As I was saying... [3]
LAP 29
- Arek: ADI who took the pernament seat in Jaguar changing Backmarker finishes his race in a very good 6th place. He spent almost the whole race off the points, but what a finish!
- Sexy: I'm really happy for him! Great to have my former teammate 'back' to the League (officially) and also having good races!
LAP 29
- Arek: soutie wins with a huge gap!
- Sexy: Yay.
LAP 29
- Arek: Joe crosses the finish line as second!
- Sexy: Another AMAZING weekend for Joe!!! First pole position of his career in the League and a 2nd place that certainly tastes like a victory! Not to mention the lead of the Drivers' Championship so far - congrats, mate!!!
LAP 29
- Arek: Arek is 3rd!
- Sexy: Lucky Juvenil!...
For ALL the pointers and Championship standings, just take a look below!!!
BAHRAIN DRIVERS’ POINTS (OFFICIAL - AFTER penalties):
1 soutie (RBR) 25 points 2 Joe McLaggen (McLaren) 18 points 3 Arek (Ferrari) 15 points 4 Sven (Toyota) 12 points 5 lau (Jaguar) 10 points 6 ADI (Jaguar) 8 points 7 Adrian S Shole (BMW Sauber) 6 points 8 T McKay (Renault) 4 points 9 raikkO (STR) 2 points 10 JURE PAZIN(CRO) (Jordan) 1 point
BAHRAIN CONSTRUCTORS’ POINTS (OFFICIAL - AFTER penalties):
1 RBR 25 points 2 McLaren 18 points TIE BREAKER: best finish pos.: 2nd (Joe) 3 Jaguar 18 points TIE BREAKER: best finish pos.: 5th (lau) 4 Ferrari 15 points 5 Toyota 12 points 7 BMW Sauber 6 points 8 Renault 4 points 9 STR 2 points 10 Jordan 1 point
DRIVERS’ CHAMPIONSHIP - After 2 races (OFFICIAL - AFTER penalties):
1 Joe 33 points (+2) 2 Arek 27 points (+2) 3 Grisu 25 points (-2) TIE BREAKER: best finish pos.: 1st & 22nd 4 soutie 25 points (+17) TIE BREAKER: best finish pos.: 1st 5 Adrian 24 points (-3) 6 Sven 20 points 7 lau 16 points 8 raikkO 12 points (-3) 9 ADI 8 points (+8) 10 Tom 4 points (+5) TIE BREAKER: best finish pos.: 8th & 15th 11 Alex 4 points (-3) TIE BREAKER: best finish pos.: 8th 12 Bober 2 points (-3) 13 Arnie 1 point (-3) TIE BREAKER: best finish pos.: 9th & 13th 14 Jure 1 point (+7) TIE BREAKER: best finish pos.: 9th 15 Cue 0 points (-2) TIE BREAKER: best finish pos.: 11th & 13th 16 Denis 0 points (-5) TIE BREAKER: best finish pos.: 11th & 18th 17 Wallace 0 points (+1) TIE BREAKER: best finish pos.: 12th & 18th 18 Sexy 0 points (-6) TIE BREAKER: best finish pos.: 12th & 21st 19 Black 0 points (-5) TIE BREAKER: best finish pos.: 14th 20 Luft 0 points (-4) TIE BREAKER: best finish pos.: 15th 21 Jack 0 points TIE BREAKER: best finish pos.: 17th 22 Veefour 0 points (-3) TIE BREAKER: best finish pos.: 19th = Otti 0 points (-1) TIE BREAKER: best finish pos.: 19th 24 Kurt 0 points (-4) TIE BREAKER: best finish pos.: 20th = Tony 0 points TIE BREAKER: best finish pos.: 20th 26 Backmarker 0 points (-5) TIE BREAKER: best finish pos.: N/A = Dead 0 points (-5) TIE BREAKER: best finish pos.: N/A
* - 'tie breaker' = best finish position (in case of a new tie, the next best finish position - and so on...)
CONSTRUCTORS’ CHAMPIONSHIP - After 2 races (OFFICIAL - AFTER penalties):
1 McLaren 33 points (+2) 2 Ferrari 27 points (+2) 3 Williams 25 points (-2) TIE BREAKER: best finish pos.: 1st (Grisu) & 12th (Wallace) 4 RBR 25 points (+8) TIE BREAKER: best finish pos.: 1st (soutie) & 18th (Wallace) 5 BMW Sauber 24 points (-3) TIE BREAKER: best finish pos.: 2nd (Adrian) 6 Jaguar 24 points (+1) TIE BREAKER: best finish pos.: 5th (lau) 7 Toyota 20 points (-1) 8 STR 12 points (-3) 9 Renault 5 points (+1) 10 Brawn 4 points (-2) 11 Force India 2 points (-1) 12 Jordan 1 point (-1)
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