[Marco Monitto]

I accept Aldo’s apologies. We was on the same discord, and we are from the same city. He emulates Grosjean on 2012 start :lol

[Marco Monitto]

Before of all, Congratulations to Dominic, it would have been a beautiful and uncertain race until the end I think. Unfortunately Simon also suffered the end of the world at the start
My race started badly. Unfortunately I was hit hard and unexpectedly from behind by Aldo, and due to the heavy damage I had to press esc and start again. I lose 60 seconds of time. I do not give up and start to reassemble, having a race pace on 46.5
Fortunately, the choice of aero set-up (wings 0-0) allowed me to overtake anyone without problems, even though I lost a lot in the central sector (my top speed was 345 km / h).
The championship could have been much more beautiful and fought on the track if we hadn't had these stupid accidents every holy race. I don't understand how it can always, despite the constant warnings, create havoc already within the first 500 meters of the race. I have no words.
The only real race so far that Domninic and I could play was in Austria. For the rest, either me or him, accidents in the first corner. What a shame!
Anyway, see you in Germany. Bye!

[Dominic ORourke]

Thank you Marco. It was a strange feeling for me because I really wanted to win a race in the F1 car, but when I did it was not how I imagined. What I take a lot of satisfaction from is that from my side I drove my best race yet with no mistakes. The only issues I had were someone trying to let me through in the middle of Eau Rouge, and someone spinning in front of me at Stavelot. After the first lap I saw the situation and took it a bit easy which helped me find a rhythm for the race.

I don't know how I would have raced Marco having tried his setup. I am convinced my setup was faster (for me) but with a huge top speed difference it would have been very difficult to fight. On to the next race and hopefully a clean first lap.

[Simon Speth]

Its really intresting that that many kinds of setups work on this track. 0/0 of marco, more downforce with dominic, I tried something medium. I lost a lot of time when tring to go through the field but not being able to overtake since I lacked top speed (307km/h) topspeed. I was so slow on straights that when a 0/0 guy behind me had less than 1.5 seconds gap after T1 he would have overtaken me. but then they lost 2 seconds in Sector 2 with no place to pass ... This again reminded me that a godd quali setup is not a good race setup.
So see you in Germany and lets have a good battle for P2 in the Championhsip Dominic. I guess Marco is too far ahead with 13 points that we can do anything there...

[Marco Monitto]

I’ve just added my setup on the discussion setup. Try it!

[Donnchadh MacGarry]

I’ve just added my setup on the discussion setup. Try it!

I just spent some time with your setup and I have to say its awesome. In the race my fastest lap has a 1:47.35 and I'm estimating I averaged about 1:47.9 (possibly being kind to myself but it was about that in practice). Once I got used to the no wing and could lap consistently (took a while but I got there), I tried a twelve lap stint on softs like in the race. Fastest lap was 1:46.35 and averaged 1:46.9 (that one was actually calculated). So I can pretty much say I'm 1 second faster with it. Good stuff.

[Marco Monitto]

I’ve just added my setup on the discussion setup. Try it!

I just spent some time with your setup and I have to say its awesome. In the race my fastest lap has a 1:47.35 and I'm estimating I averaged about 1:47.9 (possibly being kind to myself but it was about that in practice). Once I got used to the no wing and could lap consistently (took a while but I got there), I tried a twelve lap stint on softs like in the race. Fastest lap was 1:46.35 and averaged 1:46.9 (that one was actually calculated). So I can pretty much say I'm 1 second faster with it. Good stuff.

People don’t try strange things normally. I’m a little crazy, so I always start a setup from lower wings. I stay focused on certain corners. If I’m satisfied I stay with the lower wings as possible. In the race this is a winning key, because no one can pass you, specially in SPA, if you are 40 km/h faster on the straight...

[Simon Meisinger]

I also had really good results trying such ridicoulus wing settings at Monza, I'm glad that it's not just me because I was really questioning myself

How are you guys doing on Nürburging? I feel a bit uncomfortable with this combination for some reason. My laptimes are 01:35/36 on mediums but it feels like I could go at least 3 seconds faster if I just knew how. It's either way to much oversteer or understeer, I can't find a middle ground.

[Simon Meisinger]

Okay nevermind, all those beers the day before were the reason 

Now I'm at 01:33:xxx in race trim and 01:31:392 in qualifying trim (which would have been 2nd place in qualifying that year).

[Simon Speth]

Okay nevermind, all those beers the day before were the reason 

Now I'm at 01:33:xxx in race trim and 01:31:392 in qualifying trim (which would have been 2nd place in qualifying that year).

I watched the 2009 German F1 race as preparation this were funny times with refulling and starting the race with youre quali fuel. So not to disapoint you should be a bit faster in our quali

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So to give my feedback to this series so far: The best decision ever was to do the races 1 hour long! This takes away the tension at the start, gived you more time in quali, rewards people who prepare a lot, is more like real life, and finaly awards people how are fast without mistakes. Most importantly the field behaves a lot better than on short 20 minute raes where everybody thinks he can win with a lucky lap 1. Now the top guys showed that you can even come back to the podium from last place.
Also I find this 2009 car is way nicer to drive than the 2018 cars (I mainly had problems under throttle and I guess this due to the automatic engergy deployment) and with KERS this added a nice tactical side as well.
In my opinion all the following F1 races should be 1 hour long alone because of the interesting startegy!