Fun Race - 8:30pm Saturday 7th May 2005 - Oscherleben

[Simon Gymer]

Track: Oscherleben
Cars: Free car choice
Weather: Dry
Race Distance: 18% (32 mins)
Server Name: UKGTR (will be broadcast in the lobby)
Time: Qual2 - 8:30pm, Race - 9:00pm (approx)
Rules: General rules are the same as for any race, e.g no speeding in the pit lane, please familiarise yourself with the rules from the website if you haven't already. Start procedure will still standing start followed by 1 pace lap led at moderate pace by the pole sitter as per normal rules.
Sessions: Are set to non time scaled, so orderly voting is required to move between sessions.

** IMPORTANT NOTES: **
1) The server is up broadcast in the lobby all the time so feel free to join at any time. Please note as part of the testing, outside fun race hours we may need to restart the server to change configuration or update the game in some way. We will try to keep this to a minimum. The password and server name will not change throughout the 3 days unless stated otherwise.
2) This is a trial so if you experience anything wrong, e.g. high pings, can't connect, can't see game in lobby etc, please post in the forums. Try to refrain from using in game chat for reporting this as with large numbers of players this becomes difficult and we would like a record of the problems found. The server will be available for 3 days so don't dispair if you can't connect or join in tonight.
3) During the fun race times, please watch out for messages from one of the admin team. We may be providing instructions during the sessions.

[Luis Branco]

Hi again Simon, 

It's a pitty, but I can't join this one. And when Oschers is one of my favourite track

[Simon Gymer]

Not expecting everyone to turn up to all of them, wanted to make enough variation available for everyone to have a go at some point.

[AdrianD]

I'll miss Monza but I'll definately be at Oschers, I hope there are some NGTs there as I think I'll be in a Porsche RS tonight

[Mark Harrison]

I'll be there too, probably in an NGT by way of a change

[AdrianD]

Well Porsche NGT, I was very dubious at first, but what a great little car It feels very odd at first but once it gets going you can drive it all day, fantastic

After a being shunted when everyone was still on cold tyres, traded places with Dave all race long I can't fail to remember that orange.

I later got wedged onto a gardrail and had to reverse slightly, as I rejoined I witnessed yellow Lister get it's entire front end removed , I hope it was'nt my fault at all

Bit choppy for me with so many cars, but otherwise fine.

[Paul968]

Big sorry to Smudge, who was the unfortunate victim of either my stupidity or the games idiosyncrasies - I'll let you decide. The race was going really well, had the NGT class lead by a good margin, and should have been cruising to the finish a few minutes away. Instead I was still chasing the GT boys hard in case they messed up and glory beckoned - what happened next was anything but glorious!

I took a bit too much curb near the end of the lap and spun, and by the time I got going Mark Harrison in the next NGT was past - bugger! I chased pretty hard and it was nip and tuck for a couple of laps until my rear tyres finally got fed up, over-heated and I spun. I recovered but then went of a few corners later with a very odd feeling car, and as I got back on track and up to speed I saw a yellow car in my mirrors on the racing line. I moved over to let him by and he appeared to move over as well and swipe me off. From the replay this looks like warp as he was unaffected and seemed to jink right for just a moment, something no car can do. I was left upside down considering retirement, but I thought I'd finish so trundled back on track, only to find another yellow Lister (Smudge) coming right at me - AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH! For some reason the game had reset me facing the wrong way, something I had no idea could happen. I'll know better next time, but big apologies to Smudge who was rightly p****d off. Sorry m8.

Paul

[Glen VW]

I had a lot of fun out there today @ Oschersleben. There was 19 or 20 members out there. Finally, more than 7 racing at the same time together. The server seem to work fine for me, but I did see once or twice a car flicker at the 1st turn area.

It seemed like the leader may have driven a little fast on the pace lap, but then again I got in late and didn't qualify so I was at the back. I'm just glad I got in and got a chance to drive with everyone.

Thanks for the fun...........

Glen

[sooty1977]

My 1st taster with you guys just wanted to say good racing all and to say sorry for denying mike podium finsh at the end  

[Simon Gymer]

Thx for the feedback. As pole sitter I sped away from the line for the first 3 corners to get some heat into things and then bunched it up a lot for the rest of the lap I thought. I'll review the replay, maybe we need to ask the pole sitter to drive much more sedately than we have been in the races this weekend.

Good to see so many out there, altough it was tough lapping the field to see through the voluminous plumes of smoke everybody was leaving behind from their lockups and spins. Some more practice in order 

[AdrianD]

Anyone got the replay?

[Simon Gymer]

if you go the the UKGTR website the replays are now available on there (there's a link on the left)

[Vekiq]

Hi all

Got in the race quite late, did not set qualy time, had no practice at all.
I was on a family outing today all day, had too much of old vino, they say for a reason dont drink and drive.
It ended with me knocking off my front end at 3 rd lap, but before that i nudged Adrian, my apologies to him
and i wil not complain on few points on my license, hope no ban will be issued lol

[AdrianD]

What you , I thought it was some stranger

I downloaded the replay and it goes bad about ten minutes in, still I do see my great 360 and instant recovery

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

if you go the the UKGTR website the replays are now available on there (there's a link on the left)

Unfortunately despite the game uploading not one but two copies of the same replay, both end afer 800 seconds. GTR seems to have more bugs than an insect house. :'(