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UKGPL Season 22 GT Teams Championship
Race 4 Mosport

 The fourth race in the GT team series takes us to Canada and Mosport where the Porsches might just begin to gain an advantage against the big GT's.

 
Please check the Season 22 pages for details (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=335&theme=6) regarding rules and the GT Teams Championship (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=338&theme=6) pages in particular.

Reserve drivers should not join the server until there are only 30 minutes of qualifying left so as to give the FULL TIME drivers chance to join, and drivers are not to go out on track until there are 30 minutes of qualifying left as this helps all drivers join the server successfully.

Please restrict chat to pit messages if necessary, and this includes the end of the race, until all running drivers have completed the necessary laps.

The GT races are run under Int Long rules and there will be full moderation of lap one Red Zone and reported incidents for the rest of the race, however the moderators reserve the right to review any incident. Drivers are reminded that they are limited to ONE Shift-R

Please submit incident reports within a week after the race so that the moderators report may be out before the next race.

Race List = iGOR
Server = T7_2
IP address =62.149.202.168
Race date = 29/12/2011
Time = 21:00 UK time
Track = Mosport
Variant = GT mod
Damage Model = Int
Qualifying time = 30 minutes
Race length = 35 laps
Password: see above (#post_event_password)

There will be rolling starts for all races with full moderation of both the warm-up and first lap.

Guidelines for rolling starts...

The car on pole will lead off the grid and maintain a steady pace for the 1st lap around 175kph
All drivers should form up in single file behind him leaving 3-4 car lengths between each car.
There is NO OVERTAKING on the 1st lap until the exit of the last corner.
It is the reponsibility of the lead car to ensure that all drivers are with him as he approaches the final corner.
Racing and overtaking begin AFTER the exit of the last corner, so you may overtake between the exit of the last corner and the S/F line.

Any driver who loses his position on the rolling lap, by going off, blowing his engine or through contact with another car ( regardless of fault) must rejoin at the back of the field.
Incidents on the rolling lap ( Lap 1) will be fully modded and anyone found to have caused another competitor to lose position through bad driving will be penalised appropriately.
Also, please make sure that you know which car you should be following on the rolling lap, so that you do NOT get out of position.

The teams have been chosen and the cars are polished and ready to go.

TEAMS

GT International Team
Juha Hallikainen, David Rainier, Axel "Cookie"   
Cars                     
Ford Mk2B, Ford Mk2B, Lola T70 MkIII


Team 7
Fulvio Policardi, S2173, Samb
Cars
Lola T70, Mirage M1, Porsche 910


Hiki Waza Racing
EvilClive, Nigel Smith, FMG?
Cars
Porsche 910, Lola, Ford GT40 Mk4


Clark Hill Racing
Al Heller, King Hiro, Bartosz/Vosblod
Cars
Mirage M1, Lola T70, Porsche 910


Team Green
Doni Yourth, Phil Thornton, Jason Blito
Cars
Ferrari, Ford GT40 Mk2B, Porsche 910


Team Godzilla
Alex Barresi, Mark75 Barresi, Badblood   
Cars                     
Ford Mk2B, Ford Mk2B, Ford Mk2B



Driver lists can be found on the championship standings page (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R;group=338;theme=6)

Password: see above (#post_event_password)

 ;)

What?! You mean I have come out of hibernation again!  ;D

T7 server is set for 35 laps Long race and listening on Igor in Console session.
Ciao

Hibernation!!!!!????? you were supposed to be in total training since the beginning of December, so that your fitness and driving would be unbeatable!!!!! :cursing:

What was the point in me telling your girlfriend that Christmas was cancelled, because there was something more important that you had to do?  :whistling:

tsk! tsk! some people don't take this GPL seriously enough  :-\ It's not a game you know!!!! or at least that is what I am told  ;)

I don't know Clive - I think my rest has done me good (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=10110.0) really ;)

I cannot see any password above (neither left, right or below  :)  )

Me too.
Ciao

Now I can ;)

My apologies to my team mates. My wheel has finally given up the ghost. Probably improve my driving but I will not be on track this evening. I seem to be having a series of woes. My power supply seems to be dodgy as well. Hopefully I will get this all sorted by tomorrow night.

Black screen just after quali... >:(

Sorry to my team mates, I came home too late to join the race.
Ciao

You're allways late!  >:( :wetfish:

My bad luck seems to have wore off abit...  I didnt have any good luck tho - I didnt do almost any mistakes and allways kept my place, but the ones infront refused to retire...  ::)

I had a great setup for the mirage... and suprisigly, the car felt wery predictable and easy to drive, almost boring. I had other problems tho... at start of the race, my fps was dropping almost to 25 at places, so i had to be careful... and at end of the race, I was very motion sick... seems to happen only with closed cars tho. Also I was wery slow, or more likely the other drivers were very fast... So, yeah.

Well - I did better than expected.... I couldn't race as my wheel, literally, fell to bits yesterday. I gave one lap of qually a go on the keyboard and crashed. A lot. Didn't set a time.

Classified 13th ahead of Cookie  ;D 11 points - my best return of the season...

Might have to look at the rules on this one... although I did take the car out thinking I would be classified last.

Paul, if you crossed the starting line, you are placed in front of me.

I had no chance to start after the disco...

Rules are perfect, and i am proud of my First Driver !
Bravo !

Hmmm. No I didn't. I didn't think it would be fair to race at all in case I took somebody out off the start line. I was happy to be qualified as I was there (started the server and did the import!) but as you can see I am qualified DNS and you don't even get that. Which is odd. Maybe because I had a connection to the server after the start time (to watch)?

I'll ask Clive what he wants to do but you should get one place back at least although my team captain may not agree  ;D

Mosport proved to be an interesting circuit for the GT cars, with the Lola proving to be THE car to have again.

 Juha and FMG had a tremendous fight up front from flag to flag. Behind them the Ferrari and Mk2 Fords were locked in battle with a few Porkers, with the muscle cars protecting their positions with their superior speed on the straights only to be hounded around the twisty bits by the more agile Porsches.

I enjoyed a great tussle with Doni, Alex and Mark in their BIG cars and in between Al, Samb and myself argued over who would be in the first Porsche across the finish line.

Hiki Waza are leading the team table ATM because Nigel struggled around Mosport with his bulldozer thinly disguised as a MK4 Ford to collect valuable team points. As we approach half way in the season things are still very close and any team could still rise to the top as the cars are switched around between the drivers. I suspect that Tripoli at the end of the season could be where evrything is decided and every point will count  :scared: :fencing:

That was a cracking race with Juha!
I deffinatly seemed to have the fastest car in the race as I was able to all sorts of silly things while trying to distract him that would normally drop me back half a second or more as a consequence - yet my Lola seemed quite happy to catch back up again in a lap or 2, mostly at turns 3 and 8 where I appeared able to carry more speed  ;D

Shame he beat my qualifying time just as I switched over to the race setup to re-adjust or I think I should have won with possibly a bit of a cushion  :)

Anyway, Juha performed some excellent driving to keep me behind for the entire race - I honestly had no idea how he didn't crack until after the race when he admitted he wasn't watching the mirrors - all that dancing by me wasted...  ::)
Backmarkers where supurb, we got a scare fairly early when someone span a tank in the dip before Moss while myself Juha and Mark were all fairly close together. Thankfully we all left each other plenty of room and lived to race on. Mzrks pace early on was also fantastic considering what he was driving!  8)

Didn't see what happened to him but it's a shame he dropped out (Blown engine I assume?)

Well done to all finishers, and well done Juha on a sterling defence  :)

It's because he's a finn!  ;)

A hard race that. Me and the Porsche simply don't get on. Lovely as it is through the bends I can't stand the lack of grunt  ::). The whole race involved me trying to pass bigger and faster cars on the straights, and all that ended up with was frustration and off-track excursions. Was rather fortunate to finish 5th. Might have been 4th had I not tried a reckless pass on Doni early in the race  :).

indeed again some good racing on front,  i was suprised i got a pole position on quali that was my new personal best time for Lola too. I knew if im get to the front positions on the grid i have good changes to even win the race. Knowing this track did not give you many good opportunities to make any overtake anywhere except maybe backstraight ? but that too hard with big GT's to try. Tim was close few times backstraight but i close the door few times taking inside line to the right hander.  (yes i did watch mirror few times :) )  There was some backmarker who spins at the dip some point of a race but we all survived that easy, all race distance was defending my place but all was worth that as it was success!  Setup for Lola was excellent and grip was good :) i did count fuel consumption wrong as in the end of race i checked the the tank and there was 30liters left. lol   :)
thanks Tim for great battle !


to the Rouen !

Juha

Grats to Donni on a podium for Team Green.  Sorry I missed this teamies, my internet has been down for 5 days!!  :taz:

My goodness me!  What a duel for the point!  It didn't take long for Juha and Tim to disappear into the far distance and I had no idea that these two carried on a fierce chase right to the checker.  Amazing stuff, gys.

Also amazing, the pace that the Brothers Barresi could wring out of the big Ford Mk2.  Simply astonishing to see those big muthas haul around this circuit which is more known for demanding crisp handling in a light and small car.  Anything but a Mk2.  Great job, fellas.

I must correct Clive's statement above of "...only to be hounded around the twisty bits by the more agile Porsches."  I'd say it should have read more like:

"...only to be hounded MERCILESSLY around the twisty bits by the more agile Porsches."

 ;D

OMG!  The little put-putts were just dynamite here at Mosport witness Clive out-gunning me in qualifying to start P4 to my P5.  Boffo stuff from the little car!  Only thanks to my extra bhp up the back straight was I able to sift by on L1 and then hang on for dear life.  Trust me, gys; I was driving with some pace.  Of course, that just set the stage for Clive and Sam to hound me til a strange collision with Sam in T3 on L7 had Sam arcing off the road.  From the server replay that I downloaded, I really can't detect any obvious contact; more like GPL's collision detection making a wild card call to Sam's great loss with a spin to the outfield.  Sorry for that, Sam.  Down in the hairpin, I made a gaffe by turning in a bit early for 5b and struck the kerb.  This bounced me wide and had me slow to retain control.  This caused Clive, right on my tail, to lift and swing wide on the grassy verge on the left to avoid hitting my taill.   Very bad luck as my error caused Clive to lose several seconds and two positions.  Sorry, Evil.  :(

This actually worked to my advantage as now I had Alex in his big Mk2 directly behind working as sort of a blocker for me against the Porsches.  I was able to concentrate on getting down decent laps and soon actually started to close in on Mark.  The gap was as high as seven seconds at one point around L15 but by L22, was a mere two second deficit.  L23 and a long, lazy and unfortunate spin by Mark in 2a opened the door for me to move through to P3 which I was able to  hold to the finish.  I ran conservatively over the last half-dozen laps or so to maintain that important podium finish.  Juha and Tim were long gone.  Sam did a great job to recover from that off to finish a fighting P5.  Well done.  Mark and Evil suffered more assorted mis-adventures to finish P6 and P7, respectively.  Sam was not far behindin P8, last car on the lead lap.

Hats off to both Nigel and Dave for being very heads-up in lapping situations.  Thanks, lads.

My vision held quite well til the later laps when a little fogging presented itself but it was nothing like the horror of last week's Works event at St. Jovite.

On to Rouen!

Modding done....at last ;)

We'll forgive you - it was a VERY busy mod <ahem>

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