UKGTR - Le Mans (Sarthe) - Jun 15

[sooty1977]

Dous anyone els have a problem with the replay evrytime i download it says it is corupt

[psuedo]

Seems like you are not getting all of it.....check how many Kb you are downloading and how many the pack contains.

[Reign Man]

Wow hard work 

The first stint of the race was without doubt the worst I have ever had since I joined this league.  Truely shocking. Not becuase of any other drivers, it was my own performance. I think my average lap time would have been around the 4:30 mark, soft wets were just truely awful, I couldn't keep it on the road, I sampled every gravel trap. Even by team Psuedo standards, thats just poor. 

At one point I was holding up a GT2.  I can't remember who it was but I apologise.  I wanted to stay out so I could have just two pit stops so I battled away..... but when I did a 4:45 on lap 8 I decided to pit in through sheer embarrasment.

I got lapped by the leader while in the pits which I wasn't pleased with I at least wanted to stay on the lead lap.     Others were starting to pit swell by this point.  I put inters on and rejoined in 13th place I think.  From then on it was a matter of keeping it steady I was able to go much better and started making places up (mainly while others were in the pits)  I had a lof of fun watching the gap reduce to the person in front of me each lap, trying to be consistant.

Half way through the stint I found myself in 5th 1 Mins behind Gazza, who was in turn around 2 and a half mins behind the leaders.  I was gaining on Gazza at a rate of around 10 seconds per lap, I think he was having trouble with his tyres at this point. When I was about 20 secs behind him he pitted.  I pitted 3 laps later and when I came out of the pits it was just infont of him.....which I was very pleased about.   .

Before I pitted I set to work on catching Sooty who was in 3rd at this point, he was about 35 secs up the road and I was gaining around 8 secs per lap.  The gap Increased to 2.5 mins after I had pitted.

After Freq and Brian pitted I found myself only 1 min behind them.  Sooty was in the lead at this point but he pitted and I passed him in the pits which was a real shame as at the rate I was catching him I would have like to have battled him for the position instead of taking him in the pits. The gap to the leadin pair stayed at 1 min until the end on the race finishing 3rd.  2nd place thanks to the DQ of Freq 

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

I thought I had a sniff at a GT2 win with the small size of the field but when the race started wet I figured I was screwed since my offline testing had failed to find a working tyre combination. Luckily the rain was a lot heavier than I expected and along with an extra click of rear wing (1/7 - madness), soft wets on the front and hard wets on the rear worked pretty well.

Things didn't start well when I completely failed to see a GT1 barelling down the inside into Dunlop and got thumped off. Rejoined and then fell off all by myself in the second Ford chicane whilst trying to talk to FreQ on TeamSpeak. Lost nearly a minute digging myself out of the kitty litter and thought that would put me completely out of contention, but kept plugging away knowing that there was still a chance of a podium if a few other GT2s fell off.

If there's one thing I really dislike in a multiclass racing, it's letting faster class cars go by, only to have them fall off repeatedly in front of me, costing me yet more time as they pass again and again.

Tyres held up fairly well as the rain kept falling, and even after it stopped the track was so wet that I could go for well over an hour before they were overheating so badly I had to stop. By then my fuel was getting low in any case, so I pitted and gambled on hard wet fronts and intermediate rears, and filled the tank hoping to avoid taking any more fuel next time.

The strange tyre mix worked well for 5 laps until the rain started falling again; I spun in Ford 2 again, lucking not ending up in the gravel, and realised that I was now in need of full wets on the rear, and had to do a tippy-toe full lap back to the pits. Went back to my original selection of hard wet rears and soft wet fronts (and a splash of fuel, 'just in case' - wasted) and all was good again, despite a slightly overheating left rear in the faster sections. I'm not at all sure at what point I passed Andy for the GT2 lead - some time after the first stop I think - but by the end I had a big lead in class.

I've always found the 360 GTC to be too 'snappish' but at La Sarthe, the stock setup with very minimal tweaks (basically just diff, wings, ride height) was a peach.

CTD at the end of qualy :'(

We were hoping you'd get back in in time - why do these things always happen with too little time to rejoin?

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

We couldn't work out where you'd gone - I didn't notice a "MJ has left" message, I went to check on the standings and you just weren't there.

Thought he DQ'd after the race?

Silly sod was driving the wrong way up the pits after the chequered flag. Results now corrected. That's why the rules say

Drivers should not drive the wrong way round the circuit after they finish, or engage in other activity likely to lead to an in-game DQ.

Otherwise poor old muggins here has to manually work out the race time and correct the results.

[sooty1977]

Silly sod was driving the wrong way up the pits after the chequered flag. Results now corrected. That's why the rules say

Drivers should not drive the wrong way round the circuit after they finish, or engage in other activity likely to lead to an in-game DQ.

Otherwise poor old muggins here has to manually work out the race time and correct the results.

Can i have my 3rd place back then if he broke the rulze 

[Tibernius]

Thought he DQ'd after the race?

Silly sod was driving the wrong way up the pits after the chequered flag. Results now corrected. That's why the rules say

Drivers should not drive the wrong way round the circuit after they finish, or engage in other activity likely to lead to an in-game DQ.

Otherwise poor old muggins here has to manually work out the race time and correct the results.

Maybe if you didn't correct the results it would be an encouragement not to do it?

[Joss]

Thought he DQ'd after the race?

Silly sod was driving the wrong way up the pits after the chequered flag. Results now corrected. That's why the rules say

Drivers should not drive the wrong way round the circuit after they finish, or engage in other activity likely to lead to an in-game DQ.

Otherwise poor old muggins here has to manually work out the race time and correct the results.

I was merely "testing" the tracks warning system for backwards driving! I got no verbal warnings, just a sudden Disq - appalling!

Was a really tough race. I think I made a mistake taking 1-1 wing in those conditions, as I was expecting things to dry out. It made staying on track really difficult, especially on the slow corners.

I also made the same mistake as RM by taking softs all-round at the start. Seeing the track "flooded" made me think they would last, but alas hard wets were the way to go, and after a few laps my rears were at 180    2 spins in my first stint and losing the lead to Brian meant coming in for new rubber and starting again.

At one point I had a lead of over a minute, then slid into the barrier just before the start of the Mulsanne....brilliant    Had to do almost a whole lap with a puncture and explored most gravel traps on my way back. Then I stuck on inters as hard wets were melting and the track was far to wet for slicks. They were great for 2 or 3 laps until it started raining more heavily again, pitting once more for hard wets and too much friggin fuel (100l instead of 82). I cocked up my pit limiter as well....and had to manually cruise along at below 36mph to avoid a penalty....noob 

Looked great when Kerr exited just behind me and I thought we'd have a good fight to the finish...then I spun at the end of the lap and gifted him a 10 sec lead he wasn't to relinquish. Top drive in such difficult conditions!

Also, great driving to Sooty who was bloody quick all race, and to Psuedodo who looked a lot more competitive than usual in his dashing Saleen  

N1 on the class win boss 

[Truetom]

Thought he DQ'd after the race?

Silly sod was driving the wrong way up the pits after the chequered flag. Results now corrected. That's why the rules say

Drivers should not drive the wrong way round the circuit after they finish, or engage in other activity likely to lead to an in-game DQ.

Otherwise poor old muggins here has to manually work out the race time and correct the results.

Maybe if you didn't correct the results it would be an encouragement not to do it?

Bah, what's a few doughnuts to celebrate a tough race and a good position. 

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Maybe if you didn't correct the results it would be an encouragement not to do it?

The rules say "should" not "must" - the data is still in the export most of the time, it just has to be reconstructed by hand. Sometimes somebody is DQ'd after the race through absolutely no fault of their own so I normally correct these results.

[James101]

Wow a bit of a tough race, i'm not that good in the wet,
I got quite friendly with the barriers and nearly spend more time facing the other way and of the track than on it,
(oh and my first qualifying lap was finished by crossing the line in reverse lol )
got a stop go for speeding in pits,
cooked my rear tires by spending i think a minute or two trying to get out of a gravel trap
but what fun it was!
cant wait for the next one

[Andy Eves]

I changed to inters at the first stop, which worked well on the drying track. I didnt notice when it started to rain again, so locked up going into the second chicane, thought thats ok, aimed to bounce over the gravel and spun. Had to wait for a few cars and Dave past me then.

I was about 38? seconds behind Dave when I got spun which left he looking the wrong way under the Dunlop bridge. Droped to about 50 seconds, then had a poor lap cause I thought my wing was missing.    Spun a few laps later, so just took it easy after that. 

Thats the worst conditions Ive ever raced in online, first lap was so tippy toe, and I still drifted off into the gravel. Didnt help that my force feedback was playing up, so gonna order a G25 later. 

Thanks all, great fun and well done the winners/ finishers.

[sooty1977]

Top drive in such difficult conditions!

Also, great driving to Sooty who was bloody quick all race, and to Psuedodo who looked a lot more competitive than usual in his dashing Saleen  

Not sure about quick mayb consistant with only realy one bad lap which i could have done with a shovel onboard. 

[Kerr]

Top drive in such difficult conditions!

Also, great driving to Sooty who was bloody quick all race, and to Psuedodo who looked a lot more competitive than usual in his dashing Saleen  

Not sure about quick mayb consistant with only realy one bad lap which i could have done with a shovel onboard. 

I never got round to trying the Viper in the wet. I just assumed with such levels of torque it would be a bit of a handful to keep straight.       Even for the dry I had set the gear ratios very low to help get the power down.     Did you end up using my set up, did it feel ok?

[sooty1977]

Top drive in such difficult conditions!

Also, great driving to Sooty who was bloody quick all race, and to Psuedodo who looked a lot more competitive than usual in his dashing Saleen  

Not sure about quick mayb consistant with only realy one bad lap which i could have done with a shovel onboard. 

I never got round to trying the Viper in the wet. I just assumed with such levels of torque it would be a bit of a handful to keep straight.       Even for the dry I had set the gear ratios very low to help get the power down.     Did you end up using my set up, did it feel ok?

Yer m8 thx for setup it felt allright realy, as long as u do not push beyond it's limits also i ran hard wets on all stints front and back with know tyre were problems at all.

[Jeffrey]

I never got round to trying the Viper in the wet. I just assumed with such levels of torque it would be a bit of a handful to keep straight.       Even for the dry I had set the gear ratios very low to help get the power down.     Did you end up using my set up, did it feel ok?

Viper has a natural understeer, and very soft feel, which both help to keep the car "safe" under wet conditions. Also, the Dunlop wets are the most forgiving wet tyres.