Endurance Race - 8pm Saturday 28th May 2005 - Enna

[Iain]

just had a race on estoril with the guys left on the server... i took too much wing off and couldnt drive haha! so i had to leave

i have never drove there with a lambo before it was funny



I wondered where you where adrian, i notice last time i was one place behind you, although this time we were top2 NGT not bottom 2
was gutted i got the 'driving bug' after a brill start


PS will the replay be downloadable?

[Zacari]

Well, 90 mins sure was different!  Didn't have a good race personally, overdrove the car far too much (and in the wrong places) decided to be cautious throught the chicanes but tried to make up for that everywhere else far too much!  Also had a horrible few laps in the lead where everyone seemed to throw their car off the road which lost me a heck of a lot of time.

The reason I spun just after Shark did through the chicane was purely frustration at having my lead eroded due to other people making errors, coupled with what I felt at the time to be a disregard of yellow flags by other people.  I've got a feeling the whole street heard me when I went off    glad my housemates were out! 

After that just had problems with the backend of the car coming round under braking everywhere, which wasn't a tyer issue 'cause it was the same after my stop and no amount of playing witht the brake balance helped either.  Spun a few times in really stupid places, thankfully without affecting anyone else.

The 90 mins was great, hopefully for a 'real' 90 min race there'll be a few more people racing.  Even for a race that length I was suprised how many went out.  Well done to the finishers! And I really hope that's the 1 and only time anyone suffers from the 1fps bug in a race, must be frustrating as hell

EDIT:  silly sp error

[Don]

i got a good 6 seconds out of the car via the garage .

Tried to settle into a rhythm after that, but sadly a misunderstanding meant I hit Don1 just after the 1st fast chicane.  Sorry Don, I thought you would hold your line just one of those things I think.  Rejoined a few seconds behind the leaders in 3rd.

No problems there Mark.
I have to say that I made one mistake after another last night, from using a car I had never run on that circuit and having no pre race set up planned. I was embarrassingly slow during quali and should have pulled out there and then, but thought I could do with some practice and learn the circuit.
I managed to run the first 45 Min's (albeit 4 laps down). But then the in evertable crash into the second chicane finished my race.
I suppose on a positive level for me  I did learn a bit about being lapped and how to hold my line and  the faster GT's can find their own way through.

ps. a note for Dave(Gizmo), please don't feel you have to make any ruelings on last nights fun race(for me), my mistakes alone will keep you busy all week.
Don.

[picnic]

Replay available http://replay.ukgtr.org/20050528_Enna/

[AdrianD]

Replay available http://replay.ukgtr.org/20050528_Enna/

Thanks for this

[Iain]

Cheers Picnic 

are we reporting incidents here or no?

every time i press play GTR crashes to desktop

[Glide]

Great that replay file.

I am a bit embarrassed about my bad driving yesterday evening. I did make a personal best of 1.35.836 during qually. I started the race with hards front and rear, pitstop strategy of two stops but definitely a very very bad choice..Should have gone for med's.

After ten laps I hit one of those tire barriers at turn 7 and race finished.

Congratulations to those who finished the race.. real endurance!

One question, where do these .txt files come from in the zip file? Is this something that can be found back in a GTR subdirectory?


greetings,

Glide

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

are we reporting incidents here or no?

I don't really have to energy to go through another incident packed "fun" race right now, especially not a 90 minute one.

[picnic]

One question, where do these .txt files come from in the zip file? Is this something that can be found back in a GTR subdirectory?

Have a look in <gtr install dir>\Userdata\LOG\Results

[fozzmeister]

Rejoin last and gradually catch the NGTs  (Enna really sperates the classes very quickly) and settle behind Fozzmeister, why pass, I would'nt want him breathing down my neck for an hour ?

Don't kid yourself, at least in that race you were waaaaaaaaaaay quicker than me, The only thing i seem to be getting good at is not letting people passed!

[PaulW]

My dented 911 bodywork is testament to that Fozz 

[fozzmeister]

My dented 911 bodywork is testament to that Fozz 

Haha, I didn't feel I had much contact with anybody, except for one nasty spin and reverse fiasco. I'm just happy u both kept your cool and didn't nurf me off. I'm going to switch to the 911 in future I think, I think I'm quicker in the 360 but I'm far less capable of handling tire problems / rain / anything in it, and no doubt it won't take me as long to be as quick as the 360 with practice.

Foz

[BiBo69]

My sunday afternoon became too long to be at home and participate. You were racing already when I connected.  :'(