Verstappen hasn't pitted yet
#Audi - Defeating My Creation
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Wasn't enough to stop the 1-2, also Russell back row to points pop off
Ocon and Tsunoda had faults, but Ocon could still move
Our lead is getting more comfortable
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In Mexico, Dumas lost out to Piastri due to a skill issue of timing cars to go out in the wet, and Cooper needed another ERS so not the best start
Verstappen out of Q1, crazy
Dumas has a terrible start
Also shoutout for Magnussen for being this high up
Pourchaire red flags it
Dumas gets it back turn 1 this time
Bad ERS for Dumas too
Oh it disappeared, cool
Not much else to say, we're far ahead
Spoke too soon Dumas had a pit issue now Piastri is ahead
Not much happened, Dumas won again, Verstappen surged ahead as expected, good on Hulk I guess
Dumas is coming for the Mclarens now
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Close sprint quali in Brazil - Dumas and Norris set the exact same time
(Dumas set it first so is P2)
You guessed it - Dumas lost a place at the start
She gets it back with DRS
No action our end we just dominated
What happened with Zhou?
In the main quali, Cooper crashes out of Q1
Cooper has destroyed 3 gearboxes this season
The rest of quali was crazy - Hulkenberg P4, Ricciardo P5, Albon P6, Marti P9, Sargeant P10, wow
Hamilton joins Cooper at the back
Dumas holds her ground at the start
Cooper is 19th by lap 1
The sheer power of tyre managment and attack wet being broken
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So yeah Cooper could only manage P4, but still a great recovery drive
What happened to Hamilton?
Dumas closes in, Cooper gets further ahead
We could clinch the title next race
Our drivers sure can develop, maybe they're not the biggest problem after all
They both have very high dev rate
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Thanks Frontier - anyway Ocon crashed
This meant our drivers could only set one lap in Q1... and one of them got impended
Thanks again Frontier
Another quali, another red flag
At leats Dumas got pole (why does she have a grid penalty I just changed her engine to one I already have)
It's not fun for Hamilton either
Dumas starts 6th
Dumas P3 after lap 1
Cooper P14
Bigass crash
Red flag
The DRS zones in Vegas are long, so you can't leave anyone behind
But Cooper can DRS from car to car to climb
I don't wanna jinx anything but Hulkenberg is running P3
One thing I hate about racing games is general is when TV screens show us exactly what we see - why can't you show us other stuff
Apparently Cooper crashed but she has no damage and the replay didn't show it
Sargeant didn't lock up or spin he just drove into the wall like a clown
Dumas: What position am I in?
Franklin: 19 laps to go
I think that sums up her ability quite well
That put us in the mix with the McLarens
We somehow managed to lose them before the end
Twas close right to the finish, Cooper got the win
And what a race to do it with...
Embry Cooper, youngest evert WDC
Max had a bad day
No one's stopping Cooper now
To get the WCC, McLaren needs:
- Outscore Iron dames by 7 points in the Qatar sprint
- 1-2 + FL the last two races while Iron Dames don't score
To celebrate out first championship, our car is gold now
1-2 for the golds
Mercedes did well considering
Leclerc did not
2 seconds clear lap 1
Yep, we won
Starting from the very bottom, not even Cordeel level...
We are the champions
1-2 in quali too
Grid after penalties
Cooper pit issue - not good double stack
Still 1-2
Cooper spin
Still 1-2
So, we were fast
+5 around a 57 lap track... geez
Took this long for Tsunoda to get past five race Floersch
At the top we stay
Uh no... we won't
Going into Abu Dhabi, no Mercedes replacement announcement
Let's finish the season - both cars got held up in Q3 but it doesn't really matter
We are just chilling at the front with Piastri, who is now the highest rated driver in the game
We cleared him
Ah, Marti
For his final trick... Marti shunted Gasly off the track
Leclerc got stuck behind the safety car, laugh
After that it's kinda a mix again
Eventually we got past everyone for a 1-2, although it took longer because I don't need to worry about minmaxing this one
Dumas steals third, right at the end
And that's us right there at the top
Our pit stops were mid
Antonelli wins F2 for Trident
Unaffiliated Novalak wins F3, also for trident
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Time for the interesting bit, the driver lineups
Iron Lynx, despite allowing men on the team, have stuck with Dumas and Cooper - they also stuck with the gold colour scheme
Their most significant change is signing a new team principal... Carlos Sainz
McLaren also stay put, hoping to clinch the title this time around
Same here too
And here
But we have a second new team on the grid - Porsche join the sport after buying VCARBs license - they stick with their old driver lineup
Williams same
And Mercedes... uh... Mercedes? Are you okay?
These two are the same
And finally our third new team - We've known Audi were joining for a while, and they've stuck with their lineup
A significant signing from them is Ella Rosetta, outgoing team principal from Iron Dames, can she bring up Audi to defeat the titan she created?
Audi - Defeating My Creation
(Just to be clear this isn't an around the grid, save ends when I win with Audi I have another CAT challenge I wanna try)
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So let's get into this - I've heard stories of teams being horribly in debt when you join them so I think I've got it easy
I've accumulated enough over pre season to design a chassis and underfloor, Usually I'd have two designs of most parts by now, oh well
Audi on track
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This is the Porsche
ebon anchor
Tag Heuer Porsche, mword Wehrlein jk
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Iron Lynx no longer has sponsors because I didn't decide them
Observations from the first practice:
- Williams is the slowest car hands down
- We'll probably take the fight to the Aston Martins at the start, ideally going up to Porsche and Mercedes after the summer break
Watch me be so wrong
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Bahrain quali sees Iron Lynx still at the top
We are Q2 range, better than I expected, maybe points are possible (Kick Sauber never scored any)
I hereby crown Toto Wolff king of questionable driver decisions
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We overqualified - losing positions and fighting att he back, everyone is much more aggresive than Pourchaire (and Ocon is slow anyway)
Ocon has the problem of someone speeds past with DRS and they're instantly too far away for Ocon to get DRS, repeat every DRS zone
And finally, Ocon is last
Pourchaire is heading up the DRS train in P15
He got away and is now battling Hulkenberg
Ocon pit and he's last, not his day
Yeah Magnussen came out 1 second behind Ocon... on his second stop
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Out on our final stops we're so far back - P19 and P21, maybe this strat wasn't the best idea
Cooper wins it, what happened to Dumas
Can't even double podium wothout me
We tried our best but other cars are just faster
Two new teams get debut points, one doesn't
nimble dirge
Iron Lynx, despite allowing men on the team, have stuck with Dumas and Cooper - ...
Which Carlos Sainz? Sr. (the father of Carlos Sainz Jr.) or Jr. (the son of Carlos Sainz Sr.)
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Jr probably hence he retired
But I like the headcanon of both
And their arguments in strategy caused them to lose Dumas' podium
brittle yarrow
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...it crashed
Welp I gotta do Saudi all over again
This time around I could only get Theo into Q3
And Q2
Ocon got held up
Ocon has literally said "I can't do anything" for 3 conversations in a row, he's P21 now
Pourchaire has dropped to P15
And Sargeant bins it
Immediately on green flags Albon does the same
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At the final pit we came out P18 and P19 - I did my best to make things up, but no points today
What's going on Dumas, if that were me they'd be dominating
Considering this is the slowest car on the grid it's not bas at least
With a new underfloor for Australia, we're the 8th best car now, let's see what that can turn into
...Theo outqualified an Iron Lynx
Ocon got the underfllor too, what happened to him?
Dumas' horrible start put her P8, Theo keeps P5
Meanwhile Ocon made it up to P14 on the firts lap, that's more like it
It's understandably quite the struggle for Pourchaire to keep everyone behind
First mechanical failure of the year - Albon (back)
Everyone is somehow able to overtake, Theo down to P13
And to top things off he crashed
Well this is gonna be a depressing first half of the season
Ocon restarts P17 and honestly I can't see him going any higher, we just have no race pace
Thanks Frontier - Hulkenberg crashed
McLaren 1-2 interesting
Yeah Ocon just couldn't do anything, we have zero race pace for some reason
Can't even say strategy it was inter-inter for everyone
so the master plan is probably focussing on the future, getting mentality up, building the car etc
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Let's do Suzuka and see if that makes me happier or the downward spiral continues
Dumas pole, Piastri fastest in Q1 tho - anyway Pourchaire P7
Ocon got booted out of Q2 but has quite the company around him
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There's not much to say except after Pourchaire boxed he came out P10, so points are possible for sure
And Albon binned it again
But at his second pit, he's P15
Ocon on the other hand is P11
And there's a red flag... Hulkenberg crashed under stt bridge, no screen time fr
7 lap sprint to the finish - Ocon P11, Pourchaire P14
Ocon makes it up to P10, Pourchaire p13 after the first lap
In the end it's P10 and P11 - AUDI SCORED A POINT
What is ahppening at Iron Lynx? I left them with a dominant car 20% faster than McLaren
Norris leads the championship as Ocon climbs massively
Let's hope there's more in China
cobalt sable
Looks like you have a steep climb ahead of you
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The main problem isn't even this year, it's next
Having to limit myself to females means the drivers and staff are, to put it lightly, trash
Dumas' contract ends this year and with all the money I left them and a dominant car, they can get in someone good and then it's basically over
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We're on the front row in the Chinese sprint
Kvyat had an insane SQ1 time somehow, didn't work in SQ2
Theo quickly loses the front row
He breaks free from P4 whereas P2 breaks away from him too
Meanwhile Ocon is in the P4 DRS train, lead by Perez
Theo locks up on the last lap and Norris denies us a podium
Looks like a lot happened this sprint
F for Haas
Iron Lynx front row in the main race - Theo P6, I think that's about where we should be
Ocon locked up on his first flyer and was held up on his second, what happened to Alonso?
Pourchaire ended up P8 before being in the middle of nowhere
And for Ocon it's P19 - where's his pace?
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Ocon did manage to climb to P10 but a pit issue took him back down to P16
You know Kvyat is slow when you can overtake him like this
Harvest ERS btw
Verstappen is very aggresive, pitting twice before Pourchaire pits once
Cooper bins it from the lead
Once again Ocon is fighting for a point, with Hamilton
But Pourchaire is P6, middle of nowhere
I mean it, that's quite the gap
In the end it actually ended up being very close to P5 for Pourchaire
Very similarly, close to P7 for Ocon
Alonso and Ocon climbed together - also drug test for Kvyat required
Why is my awesome dominant creation now doing well without me?
Almost forgot constructors
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In the Miami sprint it's a P8 start for Esteban
Don't ask what happened with Theo, he just didn't improve on his second lap
Ocon has a great start to get him up to P4
It is however still P16 for Theo
Ocon is gradually slipping back down again
At the end Ocon is making moves again
Theo is P10, far away form anyone
In the end it's a P6 for Ocon - could've been P4 if I managed ERS better, but oh well
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Ocon's P8 and Theo's woes carry through to the main quali
Quali was wet so realistically each car had 1 flying lap
We advanced in the opening to P7 and P9
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It's dry with 23 laps to go... only we pit
Of course Magnussen decises to trigger crashgate
So yeah, red flag
But Theo has an amazing start - he's in 2nd
This is not a drill - Audi is leading in its debut season
By some sort of miracle Pourchaire broke DRS to Verstappen and Cooper
They caught up and Cooper broke DRS
Kvyat was in the points until he crashed himself and Norris out
Alonso and Bottas stayed out so it's P3 and P7 at the safety car
...and they red flagged for no reason
It's a 4 lap shootout - Theo leads at the first
Theo keeps the lead in the final lap, but it's close
Dang it, cooper denied us the win right at the end
That was one of the most chaotic races I've seen
Cooper is back in a familiar place
Take that Alonso
Let's do Imola today too
We've fitted a front GigaWing™ so let's see how it goes
There is no defeating the titan yet - but we're close
Dumas at the bottom of Q2?
We can fight with Cooper
Okay never mind
Man
Ocon's slow stop meant it could only be P6 for him, but Pourchaire keeps his podium, Cooper dominates
And yes, that is a Kvyat point
Our climb up the table continues
Ferrari fans crying rn, oh well they all have therapists probably
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It's Monaco time
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The image I am about to show you will blow your mind
We are 1-2
What happened to Iron Lynx?
What happened to Red Bull?
Perez had a shock Q2 elimination
And Verstappen a shock Q1 elimination
At the start we broke DRS but Leclerc is still close behind
Leclerc caught up
Alonso comes into the garage, terminal failure
Gasly is getting lapped already, he picked up some damage lap 1
Ocon is way out front, Pourchaire is way in p2
Ocon keeps that gap... and WINS
Iron Lynx tried, but can't deny the Audi domination
We're moving up
We're coming for you Iron Lynx
Our car is quite low speed focused hence we did well in Monaco - we have some high-speed sidepod upgreades for Canada, so we'll see what we can do
I'm not able to do much in terms of upgrades - 2-3 slots instead of 4, but I believe I'm managing my money better than the AI at least
Probably
Well Theo still managed to pole it - Ocon got held up both laps
Russell assassinated Hulkenberg, safety car lap 1
Right on the restart Bottas assassinated Hamilton - another safety car
This does not please Mike Krack
Ocon made one move per start so P3 now
Lap 10, one incident free lap of racing, we're 1-2
But not for long as others somehow caught up
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After our pitstops, Theo exited in front of a bunch of cars - and Ocon behind them
After the bunch broke up, Theo is in P3, a few seconds behind those on inferior tyres
Ocon is P5 fighting Leclerc
Theo no-
Ocon eventually broke free to P3 but Piastri on fresh softs is behind him - I don't think this can be defended
Piastri even managed to catch up to Pourchaire
Theo holds him off, win number 1 for Pourchaire
Ocon on the other hand got held up by a lapped Magnussen to see Norris slip by right at the end
No points for an Iron Lynx? Oh dear
The charge continues
How are Haas so high?
