UKGTR - Le Mans (Sarthe) - Jun 15

[H@L9000]

Been practising on a wet track against the computer, when I have the headlights on there is a glitch in the textures unless I use max viewing distance. I am using cockpit view. Just thought I should mention it in case anyone else has this problem.

H@L9000

[JonM_uk]

Was gonna join but in the wet I just kept crashing More practice required I think. Hope you have a good 'un

[sooty1977]

Was gonna join but in the wet I just kept crashing More practice required I think. Hope you have a good 'un

You can race me m8 i have had nearly zero practice and from what i have seen am like 12 seconds at least of the pace but it doesn't bother me
i just fancy a race tonight at least here i cannot get lapped i hope !

[H@L9000]

CTD at the end of qualy :'(

I hope my car was not on the track for too long

Have a good race all, I am sure it will be one of the greatest UKGTR races of all time

H@L9000

[JPS]

My best GTR2 Quali session yet..2nd in the GT2 Class.

Race started well in atrocious conditions, and by the 2nd lap I was 11th I believe, 1st or 2nd in the GT2 Class, then suddenly my rear end went through the 4th Gear swoops, my retirement stated suspension which would explain the sudden and mega rear end swap, although I had soft wets which I am sure were probably cooking on the rear by then....Hmm.

Great Race albeit a short one , Great Circuit  and Excellant real time weather .

Thanks for putting on the show Dave 'Gizmo'
 

[Truetom]

My comp froze. 

[Mark J]

Nooooo !!  :'(  lost connection when i went to leave my pitbox Dont believe it, i was loving that.

Was enjoying a cracking race despite all the weather could throw at us. It felt like a proper Le Mans endurance race, making tyre guesses, watching the weather, moving off line to cool my wet tyres etc.

Ran 3rd G2 for a long time after several people had early spins or got caught in the 'proper' gravel traps here, myself included !
Was on soft wets from the start even though i think i should have picked hard wets but the track said flooded so took softs.
Within 2 laps they were overheating big time on the straights as had only test dry and hard wet tyres, so it was a constant case of keeping them cool offline. Enjoyed an early battle with andy eves but then my rears reached 'hot glass' proportions and the car even started swaying on the Mulsanne 
I dived in the pits as the weather got brighter and brighter and thought/hoped that the damp may have dropped enough to use slicks....oh no !
Came out the pits and tippy toed around for a whole lap including 20secs lost in a gravel trap as the car was like bambi on ice. Damn..thought it was a smart move with track drying and sky turning blue.
Anyway decided to pit again and put intermediates on and hope for the best until my next fuel stop but just as i exited the pit box i got an instant 'connection lost with host' message  :'(

Cracking race track, brilliant event and good turnout. (24) 

Hope everyone else had more luck and a good race.

[baracus250gt]

I'm a fool!
Catalogue of disasters!
Qualified well but other than that.... can't say too much lol

1) Off on lap 1 - last
2) Wrong tyres - should have used inters! Had temps of 110 - 140 even when not skidding.
3) More off's due to tyres and my own stupidity
4) Suspension damage
5) 2 minute pit, well outside my pit window
6) Lost concentration - thought I was at 1st chicane, but it was the 2nd! Straight on into barrier. Lost wheel.
7) Game over

I take my hat off to any and all finishers - maximum respect!
- that was incredibly hard work!

[spanner]

They were the worst conditions ever!

I cant belive how bad that was, both the conditions and me! Just want to say sorry to everyone who i hit, got in the way and surprised by crashing. I hate those gravel traps.

Why dont they do a monsoon tyre!

[sooty1977]

Phew its over thx god my thumbs are aching 

Quail 10th and found myself running in 3rd or maybe 2nd after around 10 laps after watching everyone fall of in front of me.

So two thirds of the race went better than i could have hoped for but last stop totally destroyed my chance of 3rd as the stupid gits filled here to the brim rather than a splash and dash,so once again i implode evrytime i do pit stops.So ran the last 15 20 min totally reving at myself so was falling off the track nearly evrylap till the end 

Congrats to all that finsihed and podium boys

[Busi]

I started pretty well, but I was on soft wets, the highest temperature I saw was 160ºC in the left rear lol and they were also very worn, so I had to pit earlier than expected cause I was a mobile chicane.

I put inters and kept going, but I had to go so retired. I love Lemans, but I prefer it on dry conditions I couldn't believe the pace of the front runners, don't know what tyres were you on but I didn't feel like I was lapping slow... anyway congrats to the winners

[picnic]

Replay and Provisional Results posted

What's with the DQ Freq?

[Kerr]

Replay and Provisional Results posted

What's with the DQ Freq?

Thought he DQ'd after the race?

[psuedo]

I had a nightmare.....but loved every minute of it....PLEASE dont drop super e....it rocks.

2 seconds short of my pb left me down in 6th on the grid...sorry for the confusion on warmup lap Paul...I didn't have my labels on and just saw a car passing me and thought 'cheeky begger' so took it back  ...realised after putting tabs on that you actually should have been there, so let you back in..sorry  

Weather was very Manchester....wet, cold and misserable but I had put some praccy in so was feeling ok.
Didn't go to plan. Just could not find any sort of rhythem for the first few laps and dropped back. Made a mess of the tyre choice first pit stop so had to come in again a couple laps later just for tyres....so I altered the board to add zero time in fuel and off again. Next stint was ok...started getting into it and through others pitting and falling off I got back to 5th.

Next pit stop though I totally forgot to put the fuel amount back up to 100 L, had a great stop too, now I know why...they only added 50 L  . That meant a splash n dash at the end with Paul only a minute behind...I just got out in front only to lose it in T1 and give the place away. Couldn't catch him again and had a couple of spins trying so backed off to cruise to the line.....Got a (pleasant for me...sorry paul) shock to see Pauls car parked up with flames rising from the bonnet on the last corner of last lap...so got the place back...(not how I would have wanted to though  ).

Great race everyone. Brilliant to see so many turn out.

Grats to winners and podiums.....lets just hope for more of this.

[Kerr]

That was so tough, credit to anyone who brought their car home in one, or nearly one piece.

Qualified 0.3sec behind Freq in the dry.

The race started flooded and Freq was too quick. He was gone but I guess his tyres went off as he had a spin that allowed me to catch and after that looked to be struggling for grip.

I only made a couple of real mistakes. I lost it coming out of the second chicane and hit the barrier. I though as it was happening I will be ok here. NO. Aero and suspension was ruined. I could barely drive the thing back to the pits.

I was 1min 40sec up before it happened then about the same down after getting back to pits and having the repairs carried out.

I then landed it in the gravel and was stuck for about 30secs. I approached the corner as normal and for some reason the front just washed out badly.
  
After that and Freqs early stop it was clear we were is a direct race to on another, but actually nowhere near each other.

Come both our final stops it was close, Freq was just a few seconds up the road. he had a spin in front of me and that allowed me to get passed and enough of a gap to hold it to the end.

Well done Dave for gt2 win and everyone else for finishing. Unlucky to those who discoed and Paul for a late blow up. My engine only dropped from 97 to 94%