Salzburg74 - 9th of October 2025 - Round 9

[Olaf Lehmann]

Link to track.ini:
http://race.eolc.de/Olaf_Lehmann/trackiniSALZ74.zip
It's important. With track.ini of the server the polesetter doesn't see the starting flag.

BR Olaf

RESULT:

Track: Salz74 Thu Oct 09 21:36:38 2025

PRACTICE TIMES

1 14 Andre Jahren Cooper MON 1m11.253s 16
2 13 John Hammonds67 Ferrari GBR 1m11.438s 00.185s 11
3 18 Seb Gore Lotus GBR 1m11.604s 00.351s 16
4 20 Rainer Alpen Honda GER 1m11.738s 00.485s 16
5 9 Bjørn L Finnestad Brabham SWE 1m11.942s 00.689s 16
6 19 Olaf Lehmann Eagle GER 1m12.016s 00.763s 11

RACE RESULTS (After 50 laps)

1 14 Andre Jahren Cooper MON 50 61m10.797s
2 19 Olaf Lehmann Eagle GER 50 62m24.907s 1m14.110s
3 13 John Hammonds67 Ferrari GBR 50 62m31.079s 1m20.282s
4 20 Rainer Alpen Honda GER 49 61m21.525s 1 lap(s)
5 18 Seb Gore Lotus GBR 49 61m32.417s 1 lap(s)
6 9 Bjørn L Finnestad Brabham SWE 49 61m46.286s 1 lap(s)

RACE FASTEST LAPS

1 Bjørn L Finnestad 1m11.853s 38
2 Andre Jahren 1m12.312s 3
3 Seb Gore 1m12.336s 46
4 John Hammonds67 1m12.542s 23
5 Rainer Alpen 1m12.711s 16
6 Olaf Lehmann 1m12.882s 10
7 F 1HistoricTV No time
8 F1HistoricEs No time

LEADERS

Driver Laps
Andre Jahren 1-50

Number of lead changes: 0
Number of leaders: 1

LAPS LED

Driver Laps led
Andre Jahren 50

HIGHEST CLIMBER

Driver Start Finish Change
Olaf Lehmann 6 2 4
Andre Jahren 1 1 0
Rainer Alpen 4 4 0
Bjørn L Finnestad 5 6 -1
John Hammonds67 2 3 -1
Seb Gore 3 5 -2

ON TRACK LAPS

Driver Laps/Total Percent
John Hammonds67 (50/50) 100.00
Olaf Lehmann (49/50) 98.00
Andre Jahren (49/50) 98.00
Seb Gore (47/49) 95.92
Rainer Alpen (45/49) 91.84
Bjørn L Finnestad (44/49) 89.80


RACE LAPTIME CONSISTENCY
(first lap excluded)

Driver Avg Deviation Std Deviation Avg Laptime Laps
Andre Jahren 0.691 1.010 1m13.324s 50
Olaf Lehmann 1.953 6.222 1m14.724s 50
Rainer Alpen 2.475 6.312 1m14.853s 49
John Hammonds67 2.866 6.691 1m14.898s 50
Seb Gore 3.334 5.601 1m15.210s 49
Bjørn L Finnestad 3.863 8.159 1m15.435s 49

[André Jahren]

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[André Jahren]

A messy qualifying from me. Ended up a bit of my pre-qual time. Still good enough to snatch pole.

After a good start I quickly built up a gap back to John.

I planned for a non stop, and it work out. But I wouldn’t say we’ll. Had really slippery tires the last 15 to 20 laps.

Congratulations to Olaf and John for joining me on the podium.

See you all at Zolder.

[snafu]

Well, a race of extreme highs and lows from me, I just didn't feel happy around here and was really suprised to qualify in 2nd, still in a state of shock I completely fluffed the start and was passed by Rainer's Honda before the 1st turn. He them ran wide at the hairpin and I regained 2nd place with Seb hot on my heels.

Then I pushed it a bit too hard coming off the final corner and caught the outside kerb and spun into the barrier dropping me behind everyone apart from Rainer. The car didn't feel right and also it quickly became apparent I had an engine problem as Rainer's Honda breezed past me on the SF straight and I couldn't even get into 5th on the back straight so stopped for repairs and tyres around lap 9 and rejoined way off the back of the field with Andre already showing in my mirrors.

Let him through putting me a lap down. Passed Olaf when he pitted and tracked Andre until around mid race when he ran wide at Fahreriagekurve and finally I got back on the lead lap.

Ran until around lap 38 about half a lap down on the leaders and suddenly noticed Seb dropping down the order promoting me to 4th, a few laps later Rainer pitted and I was 3rd, then I came across Bjorn on 3 wheels and I was suddenly 2nd. "Can life get any better"? Well, erm "No" is the answer.

We entered the final lap and I had a healthy 0.5km lead over Olaf and was taking it really easy. Then without warning the engine blew up entering Fahreriagekurve, Had I been another few hundred meters further on I could probably have coasted to the line, but needed a shift-r and was faced with the dreaded "Track not clear" message so had to wait for Olaf to take my 2nd place before rejoining.

So, would I have taken 3rd at the start? You bet I would. But really annoyed at being let down by rubbish Italian engineering.

Congrats to Andre as usual and Olaf for 2nd place.

TTFN
John.

[Olaf Lehmann]

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 PITSTOP LISTING

  13:28	 44.9s	J.Hammonds67	Repair/Tire change
  28:04	 31.8s	B.Finnestad	Tire change/Refuel
  31:59	 42.3s	O.Lehmann	Tire change/Refuel
  51:54	 47.2s	S.Gore		Repair/Tire change/Refuel
  54:15	 38.9s	R.Alpen		Repair
  58:10	 47.2s	B.Finnestad	Repair/Tire change

I don't like this track. On the one hand, I find it boring, and on the other, treacherous. The bumps in the left-hand corner in particular caused me major problems in pre-qualifying as soon as the tyres had done 15 laps (mainly because my rear tyres wore out twice as fast as the front ones, which led to nasty oversteer). That's why I even had to consider the two-stop option.
After adjusting the brake balance from 56% to 58% to distribute the tyre wear more evenly, I decided to make one stop after all. I was extremely careful in the aforementioned left-hand bend once the tyres had done ten laps...and I got through the complete race without crashing.
After my pit stop, I was last as usual – still ten laps to go. Then one after the other started having problems – including John in the last corner – so I ended up second. It was really crazy.

Congratulations to André and John! It was nice to be on the podium with you...


@André: I noticed that the image section slipped in the last livestream. That's why you can only see the upper half of the numbers in the bottom line (speed, etc.), which makes them difficult to decipher. Perhaps you could adjust this for the remaining races?

[André Jahren]

Will fix the screen layout before the next race

[Bjørn Finnestad]

A special race in many ways. I started last but made up some ground and came up in the field due to other people's mistakes. I chased Olaf through a few laps but was also overtaken by Seb and Rainer. The Brabham didn't feel that easy to handle, especially out of the last corner, but then there were definitely good drivers was going to fight against here at the Salzburgring .
I agree with Olaf's comment on this track. The tire wear was high, and I went into the pits early. After a successful stop, I still tried hard in the next stint to continue to use these tires.

The warning that the tires had no more grip at the rear came quickly. I drove out and hit without any significant damage, was more careful, but not enough, broke one front wheel. I drove to the pits and got a new wheel. I chose to change the tires too, so I could be able to get to the finish in the few laps that were left. In this race I could have planned two stops as well.

During testing I tried different diffs without it making any difference to the tire wear, but a smoother ride probably has more effect. Don't underestimate overheating which probably has a big impact. Apart from those mishaps it was a very nice race. In any case, I set the fastest lap in the race.

Congratulations to André for a good win, Olaf who made a good run to second place and John who was unlucky so early in the race, had engine problems at the end, despite that he took third place!

Since everyone faced similar challenges, everyone deserves applause after this.

Thanks for the race, everyone!

See you all next