UKGTR Season 9 Upper Endurance (GT1/GT2) - Donington Park (GP) - May 31

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Or perhaps just give up if all I am doing is getting in the way of the aliens....
Didn't enjoy that and finished last - perhaps it would do everyone a favour. 

It most certainly would not S10 and a fresh start is just around the corner (in your own time Dave ).   

[Truetom]

Women!!!
At the pitstops my otherhalf announced that the cat had escaped so I continued for a short time before calling it quits to help the search. Where was he.......Under the bed Was enjoying a steady run before that. Would never have won but 2nd was there to be taken. Will report back with due grats later

   It's gets easier to shrug off this events in later years. My wife has given up on dragging me away as I just yell out: "Sorry Dear. Can't hear ya!" 

[picnic]

Or perhaps just give up if all I am doing is getting in the way of the aliens....

Didn't enjoy that and finished last - perhaps it would do everyone a favour. 

Results don't lie - you beat me to   You also know generally we are pretty evenly matched. I have no idea where my qual lap came from but it was the only one I did quicker than your qual time.

My race was ruined by my game crashing as I approached the last corner of the last lap. I seem to be suffering this problem quite a lot It's either caused by all the fun crashing we do after or when people quit to garage or the game. Freq was getting close to lapping me again when I started my last lap so it was a long run to the finish. Cost me 4 places. I should have been 13th.

[Blunder]

Had really good start, really close racing with Blunder, great driving mate.

You too buddy! that's what it's all about!

Don't sweat the pit stops! All I would say is, strategy in the Endurance events are as important as ultimate speed!
Has taken us a long time to perfect ours!

Great race for me! Was getting quicker and quicker as the race went on but just didn't have the pace to run with the top 3 !

Congratulations to Legzy for an excellent season and well deserved 1st place in the GT2 championship.
Shame MJ and Purdie didn't turn up to make a race of it!?

Thanks mainly to Legzy's determination to become a set up guru!  and his determination to make sure I was quite good too! (so he didn't have to do all my set up's ! lol  ) I managed to scrap a second in the championship but again would have been more satisfying if all the fast boys had been about!

Thanks to all the organisers for a really enjoyable season.
A 1st Team championship for Team Oldie ever, plus 1 and 2 individually!
How are we gonna top that!

Thanks all

M.

[Simon Gymer]

Well done Joss on the championship, another dominate display to snatch the championship back from Gazza at the last round and also help secure a victory for Team Shark in the GT1 team championship.

Also congratulations to Team Oldie and Legzy on the GT2 championships who prove that when you're retired you have more spare time to practice.

I had a pretty uneventful race, plodding around in the Lister (cor that car is so easy to drive, it was like a Sunday afternoon cruise), coming home 2nd to help secure the team championship.

Thanks again to all the organisers, you know who you are and a special mention to Pete for the pain he endures with the demands of liasing with the server providers.

Women!!!
At the pitstops my otherhalf announced that the cat had escaped so I continued for a short time before calling it quits to help the search. Where was he.......Under the bed Was enjoying a steady run before that. Would never have won but 2nd was there to be taken. Will report back with due grats later

Unlucky there Jon, otherwise it could have been a Team Shark 1-2-3 lock-out in GT1!

Can I make a quick suggestion that those who are yet to pit, leave those who have through when its possible. There were a couple of times when spanner and I were held up tonight when I thought it was totally avoidable.

Have to disagree with this. If it's racing for position then those drivers have the right to fight for it. There is no telling what the weather will do or anything, so they may not actually be a pit stop behind. Endurance is partly about tactics and doing long stints and playing the weather game is one of those tactics. The crux of the matter is though that if you are battling for position, then you are battling for position, no matter if you are a pit stop out at the current time, there is absolutely no reason to move over because you are not being lapped. Holding the opposition up on worn tyres may be vital further into the race, so it's all fair and important stuff.

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

My race was ruined by my game crashing as I approached the last corner of the last lap. I seem to be suffering this problem quite a lot It's either caused by all the fun crashing we do after or when people quit to garage or the game. Freq was getting close to lapping me again when I started my last lap so it was a long run to the finish. Cost me 4 places. I should have been 13th.

Silly question I'm sure but you have got Simple Debris Collision turned on haven't you?

[purdie]

sorry guys..............

after a run of missing races I cudn't make this one as it was my birthday weekend and my gf took to me to Brighton all weekend, didn't get back until 9pm last night  .............. a real shame as in both sprint and enduro gt2 champs I could have edged into the top 3 

BIG grats to Legzy  .... apologies you were on your own yesterday but it was a solid victory overall..... 5 podiums out of 8 races...

and grats to FreQ who's brain work a bit quicker than us gt2 drivers with the 

[picnic]

Silly question I'm sure but you have got Simple Debris Collision turned on haven't you?

Yes Dave, first thing I checked

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Have to disagree with this. If it's racing for position then those drivers have the right to fight for it. There is no telling what the weather will do or anything, so they may not actually be a pit stop behind.

Clearly a "glass half full" kinda chap Ever the pessimist, I have always ceded the place in that situation and will carry on doing so.

Talking about the pace of race, gotta say the times above show that all the GT2 gents were pretty damn close in my opinion. With such evenness it was a case of not making mistakes and it looks Legzy drove a beaut. Hopefully next season (in your own time Dave
) will be much more of the same

[Mark J]

Sorry i couldnt be here for this season finale, would liked to have taken the fight to the regular contenders from this season. Alas i was away in Wales for the weekend and did a 500 mile round trip in the 911. Got back in the evening but was too done in to join after a day driving in the heat.

Congrats to Team Oldie on their Endurance championship win and Legzy on his drivers title  and well done/thanks to all in the series that made it a good 'un. 

[Mcfids]

Very enjoyable race with Rad as there was nothing between us.

I take my hat off to the aliens up front with 1.24s - I have no idea how you do it - I could only muster a low 1.27 in the end, which put me near the back of the GT1 grid. The battle with Rad started almost immediately and we both lost a bit of time as we tangled up on the 1st lap. He then started to pull away when I half pirouetted on both of the hairpins in a schoolboy error stylee.

A low fuel warning sent me to the pits at mid distance and it must of been a blinder as I came out *just* in front of Rad but with cold tyres I couldn't hold him off. From then it was terrific fun chasing him through traffic with the gap yoyo-ing as we negotiated the GT2s. I was right on his tail for the last lap but he held well to take it by half a second. Good stuff!!

Tried to regale the wife with my endeavours on the track but was met with a brief look of feigned interest followed by supreme indifference. They just don't understand...

Well done to the podiums and the season winners. And a big shout to the league organisers - always a great pleasure to race here.

[Legzy]

Thanks for all the congrats, it's been a great season where everything just seems to have come together for Team Oldie & myself.

Not sure what the biggest honour was last night, winning my 1st GTR2 a race or actually beating SBG  & it all happened at Donni (a track I really don't get on with).

Knowing that even if Purdie had been racing tonight, I just needed a reasonable finish to pip him & Blunder to the GT2 title, I tended to shy away from any paint swapping opportunities tonight. When SBG made a mistake fairly early on & I got past, I held him up a little after he recovered, but he really was so much faster per lap. Later on i had Spanner breathing down my neck for a few laps, but I ran a little wide on T1 once & decided to flash him through too.... confident in my strategy that we'd remain close when the chequered flag would be waved.

After pitting just before the half way stage, Prof did a decent job of holding me off till I earned my pass (something I believe you did with Spanner & SBG too, so all's fair as far as I'm concerned buddy & definitely keep plugging away)... then it was just a case of watching the GT1 chaps sail past me as I did my best to manage the gap back to the scrapping Spanner & SBG, all the way to the finish.

Missed my usual season/race long fight with MJ in this one, but I'm sure he'll be back to put me in my place soon enough 

Well done to last nights podiums, all the overall podiums & not forgetting everyone who've lasted the distance.

Thanks to Dave & Picnic for a great season.

[Legzy]

S10 and a fresh start is just around the corner (in your own time Dave ).   

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Hopefully next season (in your own time Dave ) will be much more of the same

Here here! 

[Truetom]

Tried to regale the wife with my endeavours on the track but was met with a brief look of feigned interest followed by supreme indifference. They just don't understand...

Exactly.    Tried to explain to my wife what a GT2 title means to me and she was politely nodding... Then I just gave up. 

[Joss]

Happy to have beaten the qualifying record though

Yea...where did that come from?! When I saw 1:24.1 I just went "if you can run that pace, you can have pole"  
I was on the limit for my 24.4. If I had done a perfect lap, it couldn't have been much faster, so you were definately quicker.

Can I make a quick suggestion that those who are yet to pit, leave those who have through when its possible. There were a couple of times when spanner and I were held up tonight when I thought it was totally avoidable.

Have to disagree with this. If it's racing for position then those drivers have the right to fight for it. There is no telling what the weather will do or anything, so they may not actually be a pit stop behind. Endurance is partly about tactics and doing long stints and playing the weather game is one of those tactics. The crux of the matter is though that if you are battling for position, then you are battling for position, no matter if you are a pit stop out at the current time, there is absolutely no reason to move over because you are not being lapped. Holding the opposition up on worn tyres may be vital further into the race, so it's all fair and important stuff.

Up to the driver ahead really, it's annoying but you should be on new tyres and them on old - so just pass them