[Completed] - RACEONOZ Grand Prix de Monaco - Winner: Seth123

Gratz @seth123 , @Motorsports560 and @Knuckles

and to all the finishers, just for finishing!

Well, what can I say. Race was essentially over before it really began. Much like last week my quali time was A) better on my first run than on my second run and B) a PB compared to my practice times. The race got off to a fairly good start, went from 14th to 10th by sweeping round the outside at T1. Was side by side with someone (I think it was a Ferrari) who eventually let me though on the way into Massane. This is where things started to go really wrong. Had a car up my inside which punted me wide into the car on my outside causing me to lose part of my wing, at which point i was then forced back across to the left where i hit the wall at casino square and lost the other side of my wing. Was pretty upset with what had happened and proceed to make my way back to the pits as quickly and as safely as i could.On the entrance to the pit lane, i locked up at very low speed and went straight on into the wall ahead of me losing the remainder of my front wing. Just as I was about ti stick the car in reverse the game decided that my hit had in fact been to hard and that was the end of my day. Real shame about what happened, was really looking forward to making some progress, but it wasnt to be. Must admit i was pretty frustrated at the cars who I think forced their way by me a little to aggressively, especially on the first lap. Wont be looking to make a protest, just frustrated that all week we all agreed to take it easy on the first lap, and yet i was sent pin balling between cars and walls on the first lap

Quite possibly the hardest race i have ever completed. Sore shoulders. Barely keep my eyes open. Stoked with the result. Slow and steady. With a couple of near misses. Congrats to all. And special mention for everyone at turn 1 lap 1.

Didn't @Knuckles finish 3rd. On my screen @Samsung1998racer had 9 seconds worth of penalties?

Thats what mine said. That being said. I am absolutly not getting involved. Talk to the boss man.

Best race I could have ever had on any F1 game potentially. Very proud and pleased that I never lost my wing or a tyre fully and I haven't done any laps on the game outside of the league since the start of season.

Enjoy your championship guys.

*re post

I can't even work out how that race slipped away... After Zulu lost it I was carefully easing away, looking after the tyres and keeping the gap in check...

I really should have tried to get a pit stop gap ahead of Benny, as it was when I got behind him it all went pear shaped. I still am unsure of what even happened, but I got caught out by Benny braking into turn 1 on the much older tyres, and I was in the back of him, trying futiliy the GT6 pause trick. It was yet another not so cool under pressure moment from me and I knew from there my race had become much harder. A safety car eased the pain of a wing change, only to clip the inside wall at Tabac and spin spectacularly. Another stop for SS's and I began praying for another SC so I could chuck on ultra softs at the end. Sadly I clipped the inside wall at Casino Square and just like that it was all over.

With Beau not in the points that was a golden opportunity for points gone in a flash, so to say I'm disappointed with the result is a massive understatement. To win Monaco would have been incredibly special, but I have only myself to blame for the DNF. The ugly Spain to Monaco curse has struck again, Maldonado in 2012, Verstappen in 2016 and now myself in F1LOZ S1, I should have seen it coming!

I've stayed in the race to get some footage of the end for the video, and my oh my the battle between Motors and Samsung, seriously what are you doing on Thursdays, it surely can't be better than this!

Onto Canada, and one of my favourite circuits, I can't wait but it'll take awhile to get over tonight...

First time ever race report here we go!

Real weird roller coaster of emotions, Crashing in qualifying at the final corner with would have been beautiful pole lap. Lucky my lap 1 which was a more precautions lap sat me at P4 at the end of the session starting on the better side, I was really out of sync at the start crashing lap 1 or 2 spinning and ruining my wing costing a near a second per lap. crawling back through the grid spending time hanging with @its-benny-racer great fun mate.

The middle of the race was a blur just me being a little upset I had broken my 3 wings for the race and spent 50 laps on an orange wing but kept at it, first safety car happened just as I passed pit lane was spewing big time, somehow managed to get a position during that SC, the next stint was a little boring until heaps of DNF's, Followed by @Beau_Albert 's massive lag!

Eventually we lost the the ones to beat @zuluwoffle & @N64TheStig007 , trying to keep a rhythm to avoid being the next in the wall, Believe we lost old mate @Zharvs92 which trigged a SC just being ahead enough I ripped the soft tyres off and went to the super softs to defend from the ultra soft and soft drivers behind being the best of both for the final 20 lap stint which I went all out on.

Sucks we lost so many drivers but thats racing, WD to podium and those who congratulated me, Awesome feeling winning the first Official Raceonoz F1 race

Those who were wondering there is only 2 spare wings available until you are stuck on what ever wing thats currently on

Here's my interview:

That's the hardest online league race i've ever done
Qualifying 3rd was a pleasant surprise as well.
Had a clean first corner and started to settle into a groove i presume whoever was on pole spun because i remember going up to second behind Jono.
Ran cleanly until lap 16 where i clipped my rear wheel at Tabac and spun the car around losing my front wing. Got back to the pits and put another set of Ultras on.

First safety car came out and for some reason i managed to forget when the safety car comes out you have to match the delta time and as soon as i realised the mistake i made i'd already gotten the drive through penalty.
Served the penalty one lap after the safety car came in and it was perfect timing mainly because the 2 cars directly ahead of me crashed that lap. Also in that stint my wheel worked its way loose so while @Samsung1998racer was on my arse i was fiddling with my wheel trying to tighten it back up again ended up taking 10 laps to do it successfully. I then had the dilemma of trying to work out if the super softs could do 40 laps my calculations would have meant the left front would have been on 79%.

My huge break occurred when the second safety car came out was able to put on my Ultras knowing i could get to the end while @Samsung1998racer was on softs and @seth123 was on super softs also with @its-benny-racer and @Knuckles on ultras as well the ending was going to be epic

And it was, Safety car came in and Seth was gone within a blink of an eye while i had to try and pass Samsung cleanly and that happened unexpectedly at the second to last corner. Samsung broke so early for the corner and i had no option otherwise i was gonna lose my front wing ended up going side by side final corner trying to leave as much room as i could. Benny was also getting into the fight and i believe also passed Samsung for 3rd.

I at this stage has an orange front wing thanks to running into the back of samsung a few time and Benny was piling the pressure on that was relieved when he spun at the chicane not entirely sure how but that eased the pressure greatly. After that i nearly threw 2nd away by hitting the wall hard at the swimming pool section yet got no damage after that i just cruised to the end and that was that 2nd at a track i was confident i would DNF at. It was a nice surprise to say the least.

Huge congrats to Seth i had nothing at all to give you a fight for the win so well done. Also to @Knuckles (on my screen) who got 3rd drove very well. Also to Samsung, Benny, @Crunch and a big shoutout to @Bounty05 yes you finished 7 laps down but you still finished the hardest race of the season in a respectable position also credit for getting out of the way of the quicker cars at such a difficult track massively respected that

And that was that i conquered Monaco

For those just wondering:

@N64TheStig007 just as presented those who DNF score no points?

I'll get back to you all on this, I didn't anticipate this many cars retiring and forgot completely about this rule, I'll ponder over it later today as it could open some debate regarding people rage quitting whilst their AI continues on for a points finish... I'll have confirmation later tonight.

you guys are right - I was going off what I saw crossing the line, I didnt realise samsung had penalties applied afterwards!

Original Post edited

Zulu had pole i believe.

Will do

Last night was rubbish on my part Internet modem died leaving me to use Mobile data and it ended up with me being very laggy.... sorry if i caused anyone any grief but after 20 laps my driving went out the window with cars lagging to a complete stop in braking zones leaving me with no where to go, also apologies to crunch for what happened at the chicane out of the tunnel. Lag or not, i missed my brake marker and tried to pull it up anyway instead of bailing out.
Anyway... here is a race edit, very different to the others and featuring 7 pitstops, punctures galore and alotta lag on my part

Pretty fked off that i lost my 3rd place due to avoiding Beaus laggy wreck and not gaining any time, but no the game gave me 3s even though i had nowhere to go. The other 6s were self inflicted trying to not go a lap down early on in the race.
Awesome battle with @its-benny-racer and @Motorsports560 , and thanks for accepting i was on a different strategy and letting me through last night when you didn't have to @Knuckles.

#SoFknDone

No worries, i just wanted to survive till the end. Pushed a little harder for last 10 or so untill engineer said you had time penalty. No way passed. Good clean racing till the end. Even when i could see your tyres were rubbish.