UKGTL Season 5 Classic Endurance - Le Mans (Sarthe) - Jun 19

[Adam Parle]

I've run 4:40 in the Pant-tearer, got a bit more to go with it to get into the high 38's though.

[Chris The Rookie]

Look forward to seeing you there. Ever considered joining a team?

Keep your hands off our man !!
Chris and I work together so I have been grooming him for Team Oldie! That is if Tinman and the team agree!?
He is a little younger than us but not one of those young buck ! 
What do you think Team?
M.

It's nice to be in demand, I wonder if I'll still be in demand after my run out at Le Mans 
I'm 32 but feel about 40 (due to being married with baby #1 well on the way) if that helps me qualify for a team!?

Thanks for the good wishes all, I'll do my best to not get in the way (or cause a pile up at T1). I'll keep an eye out for you Alex, hopefully that'll be in my rear view obviously 

With regards the cut track warnings on chicane two, Phil summed it up perfectly:

I was having the same problem. I found it best to keep away from the left hand white line. Go near it and you risk a warning. It means taking the corner a bit slower but better that than repeated warnings.

On a few occasions it's warned me when I've still had at least a yard to spare  So like Phil I've slowed it right down there & it's getting to be less of a problem.

[spanner]

Keep your hands off our man !!
Chris and I work together so I have been grooming him
M.

I never thought i'd see the day, and i thought this was a respectable forum

[Wiltshire Tony]

Keep your hands off our man !!
Chris and I work together so I have been grooming him
M.

I never thought i'd see the day, and i thought this was a respectable forum

This ain't one of those chat rooms you read about in the Daily Mail is it?

[TinMan]

Keep your hands off our man !!
Chris and I work together so I have been grooming him for Team Oldie! That is if Tinman and the team agree!?
He is a little younger than us but not one of those young buck ! 
What do you think Team?

M.

Check your e-mail, Martin. We can't afford to pass up young blood or we'll be extinct(er)

TC

[Mark J]

Im down to 4:39 in the RSR now, so i feel a little happier 

Im still dog slow in the GT40 though (4:48) which is a shame as i would have liked to have driven one of them at Le Mans. Guess im way off on the setup but no time to put one together.
Still, driving the 911 is mega nostalgic too..eat your heart out Steve McQueen 

Sounds like i will have V8's blasting past me left right and centre down the Mulsanne  ....i'll just have to kick their ass in the porsche and dunlop curves. 

[sooty1977]

Yer i got 4:40 in the 911 and like you say is quick in the twistys

[Mark J]

yeah baby !...pass me my martini 

http://www.porsche.com/microsite/lemans2008/flash/default.aspx?language=en&market=INTERNATIONAL&pool=international&browser=other&instance=804&variant=&section=&showintro=true&bandwidth=dsl&width=1005&height=415
(click on the multi-media tab...an onboard vid should appear)

Le Mans '77 stylee 

[Blunder]

Wow, how cool is that!! 

[Mr.BMW]

My race was over by 3rd Gear.

I think MJ actually had a little to many Martini's as he was spinning off the line (or maybe he got hit, there was alot of smoke) I had to swerve hard to the right to miss him, which conciquently put me into one of the many ballet dancing Oldies who were spinning and flipping all over the track. I got hit by a few cars, Hit a few myself while trying to escape. From what it felt like I lost my front splitter, so it was looking like I was going on vacation to the pits this year. Spent about 2 and a half minutes in them (a bit shorter than TinMan) and got out in second last. Car was fine in the straights but was extremely squirrely in the Esses. Didn't have the concentration or desire to continue much past that and just retired.

Crappy way to end a season, but see you all next year!

BTW at the time of me quitting there was over a 20 second gap from 4th to 5th!!!

Get some points, Prodigy!

[Blunder]

  Not another race that I have to apologise for!? 
Really sorry to everyone 9th or further back at the start. Completely my fault as far as I can tell! 
Good start from 8th but had to move right to avoid slow Capri in front while still in first gear causing an unforced spin into the righthand barrier!
After that who knows!... was hit by everybody?, car very damaged.
Limped round for 4 laps until the suspension gave up.
Hope I didn't ruin too many peoples races.
Was really looking forward to this and had put in loads of hours.
Very frustrating.

M.         :'( 

[Minton]

Sorry to all for the terrible start looked like i caused mayhem behind me.

[pribeiro]

Qualified 3rd, had a good start and at Dunlop chicane i was in 1st.
I remain there for one lap, but then Sooty overtook me in a top speed fight,
meanwhile Mark was in my rear bumper. On 2nd lap at the begining of Porsche corners,
i spun and hit the wall, loosing my front splitter 
From there, i was loosing 5 seconds for the front drivers, kept the 3rd place at the 6th lap
when i pitted to refuel, change all tires and replace and repair work.
Spend over 2 minutes repairing and return on track in 17th 
Then, i drived like a trully 70´s professional race car driver 
and managed to finished in 3rd 
Congrats to Sooty and Mark.
Well done to all, my hat off to the GT40 drivers 
Dear Admins, can we have a new league soon please? 

Cheers

[Adam Parle]

Total shambles from me.



Started really well - avoiding the carnage, and was sitting pretty in 6th, having a great fight with Geoffers, I blew by him on the straights, then he'd get me at the end of the lap.  We had a couple of laps of doing this, with me just about having the upper hand.  Unfortunately it was too good to last, and I cocked up T1/2, and got in the kitty litter.  Even though I was being carefull with the loud pedal, the big green machine chewed my foot off and it spun me round.  That left me with TT and Steve for company.

The power of the Vette was massive and I duly passed both on the straight.  I was catching someone else when I got a better exit on one corner than expected, hit the stop pedal at the normal point ... and duly overshot the next and hit the wall.  I lost the front bumper, but the real pain in the ass was a right front puncture.  Needless to say I got passed by a good few people on my way back to the pits.

The pit stop gave me time to read today's Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, the Times, and Viz (just to kill a bit more time) .... but in my haste to get out and back on track I forgot that GTL likes to disengage the pit limiter for you .... so I got a stop and go .... in I went and that was me firmly in last place.

The stop and go was uneventful, and I got back on track again, making up time and passing a couple of people as they pitted.  I was bettering my lap times, and got up a few places.  It went horribly wrong again when Mark McClean came round to lap me.  He got out of shape approaching the penultimate chicane - and I was trying to be careful and not run into him .... and duly completely missed my braking point, tried to run off and away from him .... and duly T-Boned him .  Really sorry Mark - but given the speed you dissapeared up the road I'm guessing it didn't slow you down any .

Anyway, in the aforementioned incident I got ANOTHER stop and go .... DOH!!!  I was also low on fuel (or so I thought) so I duly pitted ... at which point I discovered the S&G having missed any on screen notification of it.  Balls.  Thankfully I had enough fuel to get round and chuck a bit more fuel in, no complications this time, and got round again.

Only on passing the chequered flag at the end of the lap (with 65 litres) on board did I discover how totally wrong I got it all .



Ah well, you live and learn .....

[will16v]

I don't know what happened at the start but i could only see 4 or 5 cars in front of me, and a load of smoke.
Then after a few seconds alll the cars flickered onto the screen - pretty lucky i didn't hit anyone really
Anyway, got a good start, up to 5th i think.
Having a great battle with two capri's for 4th spot untill i lost it on a bend and knackered the suspension.
Pitted in on lap 11 in 6th, thinking new tyres and fuel, then i thought 'no don't bother repairing the suspension, who needs that - it'll cost loads of time'. Idiot.
1st lap out with fresh tyres on and spun it into a wall.
Had to pit again.
Lost more positions.
Spun out on 1st lap across the chicane on the strait and got a stop and go.
Went in for that, came back out in 18th  :'(
But nevertheless - what a race...
Well done all who finished, and grats to podiums