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Car:	LMP2 HPD ARX-01C or GT2 Ford GT
Track:	Phillip Island
When:	Sunday 2nd October
Practice:	17:40 (80 mins)
Qualifying:	19:00 (30 mins)
Race:	19:30 - 21:00 (90 mins)
Start:	Standard iRacing double file rolling start
Resets:	One

Password:

>>>> see above <<<< (#post_event_password)

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There will be a hosted practice session on the Saturday evening before the race - hosted by our partners at Legends League / TWFR.

The session will run from 18:00 UK time with 3 hours of practice and then 20 mins qual & a 25 min race.

Probably wont be here for this one :)

Its my 30th Birthday on this very day, and I be at Silverstone thanks to my dad, watching the final 3 rounds of the BTCC  :D

With 4 drivers within a chance of winning the title :D

And only one of them deserves the title (Sheddon).

Have a good one.

I'm in two minds as to whether to do this event. So far all my outings in the GT have been pretty much a disaster. I've tried some random setups off the web but I have a feeling me and the car do not get on. If anyone has a setup that is drivable by non aliens they'd be happy to share please pass it over.

My normal supply (Team Shark forum) seems lacking in Ford GT setups :(

Try the lmp2 with it's fixed setup for this track. Seemed pretty decent to me :)

I never drive owt but the official fixed setups. Samu seemed to be putting that to good effect in the 5pm UK race today.

I'll PM you my setup Peter, it's the same I've been using since Road Atlanta except for gearing, and a little bit of ARB and break balance adjustments. You need to have a gentle right foot though, especially once the tires are (over)heated. This car takes a fair bit of practice to get to terms with, took me half the season to have it not feel like crap... :D

This track has been a blast in the official series though, a bit hard to overtake your own class but seems to work good for multiclass. Should be fun!

EDIT: nevermind, PM didn't work, thought you could attach files there. Here's a link ;) http://www.2shared.com/file/tnX4_-NV/Phillip_Island-2011S3-R-JG.html (http://www.2shared.com/file/tnX4_-NV/Phillip_Island-2011S3-R-JG.html)

Thanks Jasper, I'll give it a whirl and see if I can at least get consistent. I don't expect to be very quick though as I'm not in anything ;)

Just a quick heads up that I'm not going to be able to make this one I'm afraid........ looking forward to first race at the track too :(

Sry, no show for me this time, I'm out of town tomorrow and I won't be back home in time for the race.
Next one
Fulvio

Room for a small LMP2? ;D

Warning, it's running 30 minutes too early, be quick or...

I can't find the server?
Race isn't starting for another 15 mins ???

I don't get it >:(

If a race is advertised as being 7:30pm, it should start at 7:30pm or at least 7:30+ a couple of mins!
I realise it must have been an honest mistake putting the race up early, but that mistake was realised by at least as early as 6:30pm!

Was the idea to limit the number of people that turned up? I managed to find it by viewing what James Hughes was driving & it looked like a smaller than normal attendance.
I have to wonder why I put in the practice time, to then find the option to race has been taken away. Very frustrating.

15 minutes too late and all downhillfromthere  :'(

Was running a safe second and coming up to lap Baz and just following him until we got to the main straight when all of a sudden he seemed very slow between 9 & 10 and I hit him. Not sure if he was trying to let me past but if so I really wasn't expecting it there. Either way, sorry Baz :(.

I got the meatball flag, went straight into the pits but got the "too much damage" message and it wouldn't repair me even though I hadn't had any previous repairs. Was the 'free' repair option enabled or did I get caught out by the invisible repairs that can take place during a normal pit stop? (can't think of why I would have damaged anything prior to the first stop - I was grounding a little but nothing major & I didn't hit any kerbs hard or anything like that).

Couldn't make this one in the end as my study was in tatters and even if the race had started when it should have done I would not have had the network plugged in again by then. Oh well, tired anyway, hope you had a good one. I'll try to make the next one.

Sorry for the cockup on the timings - the server started at the right time, but for some reason it was only on a 50 min practice session, rather than 80 .... it was late going up the round before and the session lengths hadn't been ammended.

:(

Unofficial results here (http://members.iracing.com/membersite/member/EventResult.do?subsessionid=4302978); I'll leave Adam to import them into the SRou system, partly as a punishment for getting the settings wrong :P and partly to make sure everything will run smoothly whilst I'm in NZ. Unlike the dedicated server, once a session is up, unless it's massively wrong it causes more problems than it solves to start a new session, as AFAIK there's no easy way to cancel the incorrect session, especially if you're not the host.

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I did quite a lot of running in the official series one way or another this week and all that preparation really paid off. I knew about the landmine in turn 1 after a disastrous time trial early on Saturday, and broke with tradition, starting on 50kg instead of a full tank to avoid having to run over it on the first couple of laps with low tyre pressures. Dmitry and Peter had a little coming together at the Honda hairpin which promoted me to third, and soon I found that I had much better race pace than Peter, who I suspected had already picked up some damage from the mine, and was soon past him and off after Rik.

I was even more surprised to be able to pass him too, but had to keep pushing and stay in the 17s on all the clear laps as I knew I had to take a full load of 50kg at each stop. In fact I ended up taking 48 but I suppose even if I'd started with 60kg I'd still have had to take 43kg per stop.

That dropped me back to third until the two cars ahead also pitted, after which I was never out of the lead. To my surprise this track has proved much better for this mix of cars than I expected; lots of places where the LMP can use its downforce to blow by GT cars on corner entry or exit with little risk or time lost for either, and a few where it's even possible to go round the outside - though I wasn't brave enough to try it at Lukey Heights until I saw Rik make it work there. Top marks to all the GTs coping with me sweeping round into, through and out of T2 and the final pair of left handers. 8)

The icing on the cake was getting the white flag with a full lap lead, which meant I could throw caution to the wind for that last lap; I made a little bit of space for myself on the penultimate rotation and then gave it everything for that final lap, knocking two tenths off my PB and getting what I think is one of only two outright race lap records I hold at SRou (the other being at Sebring Modified).

That's a cracking way for me to bow out of the series - sadly I'm going miss the last round at Okayama - sadly for you lot anyway, it'll be okay for me as I'm on holiday. :P ;D

I'll get the results imported this evening .... and I'll be quadruple checking everything next time :(

Yes Rik I was slow over that rise as I kept locking breaks and missing the apex so took it easy, sorry if I caught you out but thought i was keeping to the right to allow you to sweep round. I think I also caught Dimitri out earlier as he breaked and went off out of control and tboned me after that corner. I went flying through the air and ended back in the pits for a repair and full tanks, Weird. Then I had a small brush with Willem but not much damage although top speed seemed compromised.  I also hit that frigging land mine and got given a 15 second hold drive through penalty, which gave me full tanks again. Then our little touch Rik when next lap I drove off and just hit the tyres lost the front and was told to much damage were done. I think I might have had a paintswap with James early on and a spin but it didnt seem to affect him. So I lasted 55mins and DNF sorry if I caused any grief but think I managed GTs OK just not enough practice to trouble anyone else.

Maybe they should of used the Army to laser scan the track ;D

Results up ... hopefully I've not ballsed anything else up :D

Had a great race again!

Hadn't done much practise as been doing the 24 hour race stuff all week so was pleased i was still on pace with the usual suspects.

Just grabbed pole at the end of qually but knew Jasper was gunna be quick and Russell. Didn't get a great start and Russell got ahead into T1. We were all nose to tail until the lapping started, Russell had a problem which left me in the lead but Jasper was all over me and i was having to concentrate so hard to stay ahead. We went side by side for 3 turns and i managed to stay ahead (it can be done, great driving Jasper  8)) till my stop where it all went wrong. Somehow i had messed up the fuel and took way to much which let Jasper get ahead. He had a 9 sec gap at one point but i never gave up and the last 10 laps or so i was flying and i got the gap down to under 2 secs on the last lap  :o  but it wasn't quite enough.

Grats Jasper, was a great scrap.
Grats to Dave as well.

P.s where has everyone gone lately?

Couldn't make this.  My Hard drive packed up, just got my replacement through.

Grats to finishers and to gazza for putting more team point on the table :D

Congrats on the win Dave, you certainly had the best pace in the actual race. I could have been faster, but only at serious risk of spinning. I did think for a while that I would be able to close the gap through a shorter second stop, but by the time I crashed out your lead was too large for that to have any hope of working.

Are you only going to miss Okayama or will you also be missing the real last round at Daytona Road?

That one too (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=9908.0). :laugh:

Congrats on win Dave, surprised no other Sharkies present :(