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UKGTR SEASON 16 LOWER ENDURANCE CHAMPIONHSIP  - ROUND 3

All members welcome

Practice 1: 20:00 BST (20 mins)
Qual 2:       20:20 BST (20 mins)
Race:          20:40 BST (60 mins)- note: no warm up!

Cars allowed: Any GT2 from the UKGTR car pack (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3356.msg54519#msg54519) v2.16.0.0
Track: Sakhir 2005 v1.2 (download here (http://www.nogripracing.com/details.php?filenr=18882) from this nogrip page.)
Race Start Time: 14:00

Weather: Changeable - Based on real world conditions.
- Forecast to be released at 19.30 BST on race day.
- Weather generated randomly using custom UKGTR weather generator.
- The in game ambient temp used will be no lower than 12 degrees C despite the real word ambient temp.
- No heavy or monsoon levels of rain will be used.
- All sessions will use the exact same weather to give drivers an idea of what will happen in the early stages of the race.
- Real world ambient temp readings will be taken from local day time at the real race track but, rain probability readings will be taken from the real race track at 19.30 BST.
FORECAST
 Weather: Dry with cloud
 On line: Dry
 Off line: Dry
 Ambient: 33.00
 Track: 36.33
 Probability of rain: 0%
 Early Conditions:  Dry
 Mid Race Conditions:  Dry
 Late Race Conditions:  Dry

Tyre wear: normal.
Fuel consumption: x2.
Pit Stops: You must make a minimum of one pit stop during which you must take on at least 1 litre of fuel and/or change at least two tyres. You cannot take a mandatory stop at the end of the pace lap, or with less than 1 lap to go.

Server: simracing.org.uk GT2
Password: see above (#post_event_password)

Notes:
(1) Please make sure you are fully aware of the UKGTR Rules (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3349.0) - especially the speed limiter starting procedure and the rules about in-game chat messages.
(2) Driver lists can be found on the championship standings page (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R;group=356;theme=3)
(3) You will not be able to join the server without the car physics pack and track (see links above).
(4) Drivers may only change car once in the season without penalty.
(5) Drivers are reminded that they must select ISDN as their bandwidth, otherwise the stability of everyone's connection will be reduced.
(6) Please use the Driver Details (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=profile;sa=driver_info) page to ensure that the league management software has your correct GTR2 'Driving Name' (not necessarily the same as your lobby name).
(7) The server will be set to 26 slots, not 28.





EDIT: Forecast released.

I'm a bit drunk, but I managed to do a 2.03.0 in qualif fuel in some way  ;D ;D

Alcohol... gives you speed  ;D ;D ;D

Edit: LOL I even posted on the wrong topic... it's better if I go to sleep now

Hopefully I can make this. I've got a three hour drive this day, so as long as I can make it back with a little time to spare I will race :)


 ;D ;D ;D

Speed limits don't matter when your racing Jon. Get you foot down :-)

Oh, only just notice the download link. So its not the track in game? which i can never remember but its a gulf state! damn, always like that track.Edit: Oh, its dubai i think, they all blend into one sometimes. This track is the one we did a 24hr race around isnt it?

Yes. :)

ooh new track  :) Should be able to make the race but not done a single lap due to being away on hols, will have to find some time before the race whilst also watching the F1 and the Blancpain GT endurance races and ALMS !  I will be popular with this missus this weekend  :whistling:

i know that feeling, dont forget btcc from donington as well!

Didnt really do any kind of quick run but using my spa set with some tweaks was doing a 2.03... which errr sounds a bit slow. maybe my memory from last night is a bit off!

i have done 3 sets of about 10/15 laps with the default set up in the porker and got down to 2:03.8, and i always seem to be at least 3 or 4 secs a lap off the top racers in this league.

anyone got any porker set ups they are prepared to share, i still seem to get nowhere when i try changing suspension & diff settings

The GTR2 lobby seems to be down at the moment. Hopefully it will come back on before the race tonight. :-\

By all means but i've no idea how to share it.

Hi guys.
An Italian guy suggested me to read Pilsbierbude forum to join the lobby. I tried this solution and it works fine for me, cause I managed to join the lobby.

There are only 2 simple steps to do it:
1) Open the file "LOCAL_IP_LOBBY.TXT", and cancel the original text. In place of the original lobby address, just write "file.bier-buden.de", and save the file.
2) Before to join the lobby, you have to do a new registration with the same User/password/e-mail that you used til now. That's all. You will now able to join the lobby.

It worked fine for me, and it could be the only chance to race this evening. I don't know if this solution could be applied on your server, but watching in the lobby, there are even a few servers of other leagues so I guess the answer is yes. It could be useful to give it a try.

Hope to be useful as ever. See you :)
 

u are right it works for me,   i hope it works everyone, and the timed race is not right    p.s.
 thanks manteos i think 29 or 30 maybe

I think we should cancel the race for this evening if he lobby does not come back on by 8. We can reschedule for another Sunday.

;)

I can kinda get on but can't see all servers. I can't see ours.

We could always do this one after Silverstone?

H@l I can assure you that the way I explained in my previous post works fine even for other teams/league that tried to put their server on the lobby. You have to do the same operations described by me on the GTR2 installation on your server. It's really simple, and it will avoid to cancel the race.
When the lobby will be operative again, it's enough to restore the old file "LOCAL_IP_LOBBY.txt" if you did a backup, or you can just overwrite the text with the old one "gtr2server1.gtr-evolution.com". That's all.

So?

I did manage to start and join the server but, I have only just done it now.
I think we could be down on numbers as I should have sorted this out a few hours ago.

I believe the best thing to do is postpone the race due to being so late in sorting this out. Sorry Guys. :-\

We are in the server TT. Join us :)

If we are too few we can just do a training race between friends. At the moment 4 drivers still joined the server ;)

Go TT :)

didnt try and join the server until 8.20 in time for qualy but then found i couldnt connect to the server. Just read the posts on here to confirm but too late for me to faff about getting in with new reg etc. Hope the race is postponed to later date, shame as i was looking forward to this challenging track :'(

You need 1 min to get the things sorted. The official race will be postponed as H@l said. We're now starting a 40 mins fun race in 10/15 mins if you want to join it Mark :)

what date is now this race?
i hope next sunday already.

good fun this track is.

servus

This race will be rescheduled for 13th May.

I will update the web site soon.

In that fun race we ended up having, I got a CTD as the game changed over to the race session. :(

I can get 2.02 might be able to get another 1 or 2 seconds off of that but not sure.

I will jump the race this Sunday. I will be at Le Mans for the test race 1. Have fun guys :)

Cu :)

interested to hear what laptimes you guys are doing around here as got nothing to compare against  ???

I am doing 2:02's with a full tank of fuel, so expect to get down to 2:00 with lower fuel runs, maybe creep into the late 1:50s with a decent tow  ;)

Great track this.  8) Hope we have as good a turnout as the last GT2 round  :)

The server is now running weather that is similar to what we can expect in the race.

The current forecast is dry and very warm. We will not use ambient temps higher than 35 degrees Celsius in the race.

hey H@L the server is only set for 1x fuel not 2x. For the time being I'm going to run with double the fuel I'm going to use.

half way round the first lap and the screen froze for a second then went black then back into the game (so i could of continued) then i pressed escape in the confusion  >:(

Mine dropped to desktop  5 laps from the end :'(
Just had the frozen roar of the engine playing on. Bit cheesed off with that one. I hope I didn't ghost for you all.
Anyway apart from that it was great fun battling with H@L and Bergs 8)
Berger, I noticed when you were driving that your brake light was coming on down the straights. Maybe it's something to have a look at, not that we need you to go any quicker ;D

Well done all who took part and the podium 8)

very bad luck you had jon,

did not feel good to win this race, you was much more fast in this track and you was on a easy win.
and yes, i think my brake pedal do have problems, i was sometimes totaly slow in the straights, sometimes not, this did confused me.
but more problem for me in this race was, that i did start with medium in rear and after any laps i did feel already that car is not stabile in rear and in end of 1st stint, car was nearly not controllable,
same in 2nd stint, if jon was after his stop around 4-5 sec. behind me, i did push on limit and was in 1.59.low/1.58.high laptimes, but this was to much, tyre in rear was then often totaly red, sometimes 120° and little more and i did make any mistakes and jon did overtake me easy then, but without mistakes it had only take 2-3 laps more if he had catched me.

speed was ok, but i did to much mistakes in this race, in a track which normaly i do like much.

well done podium

servus

How the heck did you manage to run so fast with what must have been massively overheating medium rear tyres Berger?!! I had to use hards on the rear and flatten out my camber to keep them cool enough !
Amazing pace up front again from the front 4  :o

At last i got a top 5 finish! after being robbed of high points in 2 rounds due to fuelling issues. This time i finished with 12L in the car  :)

Had a great first 30mins or so chasing ApexUSA and NSfast ahead of me in their bmw's. When Apex stopped i had gotten his lead down to 4 secs and then carried on for another 5 minutes before i made my own stop, which meant i could put less fuel in. I also decided that my tyres could get me to the end with reasonable pace so i didnt change them, making for a nice quick stop that got me out about 15 secs in front of Apex  :) ...hurrah, i finally make up positions in a pitstop  ;D
For the last 25mins i just had to keep it smooth and consistent and when Jon had his misfortune i gleefully brought the car home 4th  :)

Great challenging track this, the corners are so fast and swooping that you really drive on the edge and the extreme heat added to the test  8)

Fantastic race.

Sorry to spanner for the wee nudge on turn 1, I thought you were already passed me.

only had 3 hairy moments where I hit the sand with 2 wheels but didn't slow me down much.

I opted to race with medium front and hard rear tires, I decided to keep the fronts and only change the rears and add a wee drop of fuel, but the last couple of laps had catastrophic under-steer on the slower right hand bends but I would have lost a lot more time if I changed the fronts.

I am still not good or fast enough to keep up with most of you, but I am getting round without falling off the track very often and even if I do it doesn't tend to make a huge difference.

Loving that 997. Definitely the best car for me out of the GT2's.

Ci vediamo in bella gente italia. (I hope that is right thanks to Google translator. lol)

That was a difficult race. :sweatdrop:

I was trying to stay with Jon and Berger and I was able to do just that for a while as they were fighting. I even got past Jon and one point if I remember correctly. It was not long before he got back passed. My strategy of using hard tyres on the front and back was looking good as I did not need to change tyres in the pit. Unfortunately I over ran my pit box in the pit stop and had to go around again and come in to the pits a second time.

I could not recover form that. After my second time in the pit, I came out just behind nsfast. We had a fight for a while then it appeared that nsfast had a slight mistake or something as I was able to pass and had an instant 1 second lead as he recovered.

Jon then lost connection gifting me 2nd.

Grats Berger, unlucky Jon.

Well done all, see at the next one. :)

Dont remember anything QS, sure it was me?

Evening to forget really, never was happy round here, struggling under braking into pretty much everywhere. Surprised at my qually, still trying to learn the car! Probably didnt help not actully practising for this before hand so prob. my own fault.

Got caught out early on following nsfast too closely  then fell off a few more times and by that stage was just annoyed with it all s o after losing it again under braking into the tight LHer  in the middle and hitting the barriers decided to quit :(

 

Couldn't make it on time, sorry. :(