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****NOTE: Track and cars changed!!!!!!****

RACE START: Go on GREEN

Practice: 19:20 (GMT) (60 mins)
Qual 2: 20:25 (20 mins)
Race: 20:45 ~ (19 laps)
Cars allowed: BOSS 302 Mustang, Pantera BOSS, Porche 911 IROC, Cobra 427, Cobra 289 Coupe (All) + Roadster, Porche 914.

Track: Paul Ricard HTTT - PR Download and install this (http://www.nogripracing.com/details.php?filenr=15416)
Time of Day Setting: 13:00
Weather: Dry
Start: Standing

Tyre wear: Normal
Fuel consumption: Normal
Pit-stops: None required

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Championship Standings (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=380&theme=34)

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(4) P&G has no 'Pit Speed Limiter' function.You may go as fast as you like in the pits, but please exercise caution. Penalties will be handed out for causing contact in the pit lane. Use your best judgement when making your pitstop during the race.

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Excessive cutting of corners will seen as cheating and the results may be altered to reflect

Nice track and cars, but sadly i think i am out that week  :'(

ps..  Dijon Prenois is also a great track for vintage racing, ala the old GTL days.  8)

He's right you know https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=11247#event3347  ;)

My goodness, I can't even remember the last time I raced at Dijon. Nice 8) (as is Paul Ricard ;D)

On me hols :sweatdrop: so I'll miss this'n. Have fun.

Likewise.

whoohoo, extra points up for grabs!  ;D  ;)

LOL. I am away for the next two events  :(
London next week and Bristol the week after. Bah, codding work keeps getting in the way
or important stuff  :taz:

Will make up for valentines night then  ;)

Me and Jules will be here.

Moving chicane reporting for duty..  :tank:

Shame im not here for this as the racing has been so great the last two events  :'(

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Advert posted at No-Grip too  :angel:

I'm being booted as possible cheat as well Matt.

Thanks Clive, I have reinstalled the track on the server and it made no difference.
I will change the track to Paul RIcard HTTC - PR and run some other cars. Watch this space.

****NOTE: Track and cars changed due to on-line issues with '88 track****

****NOTE: Track and cars changed due to on-line issues with '88 track****

****NOTE: Track and cars changed due to on-line issues with '88 track****

Spent hours testing this replacement event and these cars are great here, the nose heavy Vettes were horrible in
the tight twisty bit so I dropped those though there were some that would have been on the pace.

Rough guide to times with little setup, race fuel, and a only a few laps each:

RSR3.0                  = 2:12.0
Cobra 427              = 2:12.2
914                       = 2:12.8
BOSS Mustang 302   = 2:13.4
Panty BOSS             = 2:14:4
Cobra Coupe Wilment = 2:16.5

The BOSS Mustang is a joy to drive here, I had to put harder fronts on, as it does eat tyres a bit.
Big spread of times but should be something for everyone.  ;D

Did you mean IROC version of RSR3.0? That car is evenly matched (give or take) with 914 unlike pure race ready RSR3.0 which is at least 5 seconds faster, not 0,8.

I suppose that the track is now stuffed full of poxy chicanes?  :(

Hmmm ...... another change, this time both the cars and the track ::)

I feel a little stupid having spent time learning the track ( which is hard for old boys like me ) testing the different car options ect.

Is there some way, we could help you test a track on the server beforehand Matt ?


Stig

I'd hazard a guess and say you're right there. Shame because the non IROC is a great drive here.

There is only one chicane Clive and it's almost flat out with a blind entry over a slight crest. At least as good as the '88 track imo  8)

I meant RSR 3.0 not IROC, you can take the IROC if you want, If Aliens post RSR3.0 times 5 seconds faster than the Cobra 427
then I may edit the cars choice, if a car is too slow for you then take a faster one  ;) if a car is too fast for you take a slower one
Some of our faster drivers tend to choose a car that is not the fastest so they get a challenging race.
People can take any of the listed cars, but if an Alien takes the RSR3.0 or the 427 Cobra they may have a lonely race up front.
I found the 914 got through the twisty part better than the RSR 3.0 hence - for me at least, the times were not a huge difference
and I wanted to keep a Cobra in that was competitive.

I picked the PR version CLive because the GT one has some big chicanes that I got lost in, this one is great fun when you get the
hang of it. (IMHO of course)
Sorry for the changes guys, Is difficult for me to test the tracks with our server when I am away from home so much. I am away yet
again next week, hence the mad testing this weekend.

Think ourselves fortunate that I tested it on line yesterday. (I spent most of Saturday and Sunday Morning despite domestic pressure  :o  )
rather than find out mid week.  :hang:

@Stig. I will tell you waht to do, later, but I have to go drive now.

If someone wants to setup a test server and try any or all of the upcoming events on line I would be very grateful

Actually this event is now way better than the original, in track and in cars. If someone complains that there are not enough car
choices I will screammmmmmmmm   ;D

Right that's it, I off down the M5 to spend a week in Bristol. No fighting now girls and boys, play nicely  :angel:

Sounds awful!

I wouldn't mind testing it Matt, and surely I could find someone to help me.

but ..............   :( unfortunately, I don't know how to do the nescessary port-forwarding on my PC to setup a dedicated server that works.

Can some teach me how?


Stig

@ phspok
As I said in Oulton park topic - I like underdogs and despite not being an alien (also not slow) I`ll take something slower with 4 gear gearbox.

To help little about car strength, this is my times. 3 measured laps, fuel for 20 laps and harder tires:

RSR3.0 - 2:06:6
Pantera boss - 2:09:9
boss 302 - 2:10:0
cobra 427 - 2:10:6
IROC - 2:12:3
914 - 2:12:5

I admit that I`m not able to extract cobra`s best but I still think that nothing is match for RSR3.0 here ... on the other hand, I like the way of giving choice here as you described.

Regards

Thanks Ed, I am rubbish with 911s so my RSR times are usually slower than most people.
The RSR3 was such a good drive here though that I wanted it in. I am also historically poor with Cobras
so I am hoping that a good Snake Charmer will give the Coleopterists a hard time.
My emergency plan was to make this an RSR3.0 spec race, so if that's how it ends up so be it.
I have tried to give people a selection as well though. I tried the Panty Modena and the GT40
but the Modena was several seconds faster than everything else, and the GT40 was too fast
for the group.

If everyone gets the RSR3 round 4 secs faster than the Cobra 427 (not sure how much difference there is
but there are a mix of 427s) then the RSR might get dropped, but I don't like changing things the week of the race.
Stig sends ICBMs over the North sea if I do.  :o

I think dropping a car like the rsr into this mix is a wrong move. It's just changing the parameters too much Matt. The original car choice was mainly heavy metal with big engines and unsubtle handling but now you have precision instruments like the RSR in it  ??? Doesn't make sense. As soon as 1 other driver has proved it's 4 secs faster, it's no longer viable.
It's worth seeing GC's car groupings for cars on similar pace, all based on actual times achieved from several test races.

 ;D ......  ;D ;D

You're doing a great job Matt. Whatever and whenever you decide, is fine by me.
I won't have time to practice this week anyway.

Stig

If I take out the RSR3, then I must take out the Cobra 427, then the 914 will be too fast then the
BOSS mustang will have to go, then if I leave as the original cars the Panty BOSS is 2 secs
faster than the original other two.......

Ed's times may be "normal" but I am surprised he has the RSR3 so far ahead.
Gimme some times guys, and we may adjust the car choice.. If Everyone gets the same spread with
the RSR3 so far in front of everything else then I will remove it.

This is my best shot after spending most of the weekend testing cars.
If you want to do some testing Mark and come up with a better selection then shout up quick
and I can change it. I don't like changing things during the week of an event though as it bothers people
but nothing is cast in stone.

Personally I think this will make a good race if people are sensible with their car choices
The RSR3 and the 427 Cobra are great fun round here, the Cobra is harder to drive fast
but could win in the right hands, and the other cars are easier and also good fun.

P.S PLease can people remind me of the GC and/or Bierebude lap times pages?

Gamers Crib PnG laptime pages:

GC Pub Server (standard tracks): http://78.46.95.57/webpub/GCPnGV3PUB_LapStats.html (http://78.46.95.57/webpub/GCPnGV3PUB_LapStats.html)

GC Pub Server (Add-on tracks): http://78.46.95.57/webpub/GCPnGV3ADDON_LapStats.html (http://78.46.95.57/webpub/GCPnGV3ADDON_LapStats.html)

GC WSL: http://78.46.95.57/webpub/GCPnGV3WSL_LapStats.html (http://78.46.95.57/webpub/GCPnGV3WSL_LapStats.html)

NG League: http://78.46.95.57/webpub/GCNGPnGV3_LapStats.html (http://78.46.95.57/webpub/GCNGPnGV3_LapStats.html)

The last two may be the most useful as they will already have the car classes restricted to provide some good matches. Not too many race results on these yet though - more will be added week by week.

Thanks Frex, much appreciated.
Hard to tell with this track, but looking at Marko's times for Melbourne suggests that the
427 is not as fast as I think it is. The long straight here might make the difference.

Could do with knowing how others get on with the RSR3.0. I'm with Mark on trying to keep
some sort of historical grouping for the cars, but I will run whatever produces good racing
as required. RSR3.0 is on probation at the moment, I am wondering how the 427 would
figure if I were to drop the RSR3.0?

Found some time after all .....  ;D

Pantera Boss  2.11.000
914               2.11.800
911 3.0         2.06.500 after just 3laps !

Stig

I got to mid 2:05s in the RSR and stopped practising as I was sure it would be dropped for being too quick. When it was hinted that the RSR might be replaced by the IROC, I started practising in that and would be a little miffed if it was not available now. I'd never choose to drive a tank if something else were available.

Imho a well driven tank will be a good match for the IROC or the 914 over a lap and will also have an obvious advantage down the Mistral straight.

Thanks guys, so we drop the RSR3.0. what about the Cobra 427? is that now going to run away and hide?

didn't test the Cobra yet but got mid/2.05s in the now dropped RSR. Didn't get to grips with the IROC. The Pantera will just about get into the 2.09s for me, Boss Mustang 2.10s. Will try the rest.

Is there a test server up? I can't see one.

Thanks NPP it's Monday, Tony will be running a GTL event, he will probably restart the PG practice server
when his race finishes.

cheers!

I get the Cobra into the 2.09s but that's hard work and the 914 could just get into the 2.10s. All of my times are with soft tyres and about 10 laps of fuel, my race pace thus would be considerably slower. I'll probably run the Pantera as I am not that much into the American muscle stuff.

If you are worried because of possible top speed advantage - don`t be.

Acording to MoTec this was my top speeds on Mistral:

Pantera boss: 262,8 kph  -  163,3 mph
cobra 427:  260,4 kph  -  161,8 mph
boss 302:  258,4 kph  -  160,5 mph
IROC:  247,5 kph  -  153,8 mph
914:  234,2 kph  -  145,5 mph

RSR is not in combination any more but just for info: 254,7 kph - 158,3 mph

interesting. If I remember correctly, the Cobra topped out at 255km/h for me, I can't remember any except the Pantera reaching 260 so I must have used considerably shorter gearing than you

I allways leave some space (revs) for slipstreaming ... just checked, for me pantera have higher top speed because i can brake later = longer Mistral.
Anyway I`ll take boss 302 and pray that tires will last the distance ...

Just had an evil thought, I could make it a wet race  >:D
That would equalise the field a bit Muhahahahaha

or we could have snow, I'm already used to this after today's snow-related travel chaos

My pc crashes to desktop every time that I select "continue" after selecting car and track.  Both on and off line.


How about a series that just uses standard tracks that shipped with v3?  Fed up with messing about.

Agreed, that's where we going to go before my enforced layoff. I don't share this passion for a new experience each week.  I'm too old to learn and be happy to race new track every week - luckily I've raced some of the tracks in GTL.  Going to check this out to see if it's like a GTL version.

That's an easy decision, drops me out of PnG each time I try - online or offline.  Also screwed up computer shutting it down and locking me out.  Had to disconnect power supply and go into protected mode to sort out.  It had also turned off my Norton Firewall.   

Did I miss something or does the DL-link for this track lead to the GTL version?

from nogripracing by DucFreak

Correct. I've just created a new link to the GTR2 version. Sorry guys, totally my bad.

Watchadoin WT? Dave has created or rather updated the SROUK link, but I left it as the No grip one in case
there was any difference and I didn't want to annoy these sensitive gentlemen any more, after they have suffered so much  :P

Let's use only the built in tracks? boring boring boring boring... did I say boring? ah ok.   :sleep1:

Nice to use tracks people are familiar with, but it's good to go somewhere else as well some times IMHO
I hardly ever run a track that I have not raced on in one of these excellent series either GTL or GTR2 or PGvX

Heck, you get what you pay for guys.  :whistling:

Making matters worse, probably.  :no: I'll go away now  :boat:

I'm with Matt on this one.  :thumbup1:

Not as boring at trying to get my pc to run every time that I show it a new track!

I've been scratching my head trying to provide a timetrial for Jules to chase. I've created and saved one on my pc, but when I try to copy it over to his it doesn't show up  ???

Any clues?

never done timetrials, but, does it want it where the replays go? so maybe users\name\myDocuments\GTR2\replays

oh, please let's have add-on tracks, preferably old GPL favourites!

Though, as a newbie, I obviously defer to the opinions and wishes of those who have an established stake in the series.

I've never tried some of the standard tracks because we never use them!  ::)

@Tudor

You save your TT lap in Grid/time trial (just click on SAVE when in the TT window.) and it appears as a .GTT file in the Time Trial/(track name) folder.
Paste that GTT file into Jules' folder and it should be visible when he looks in Grid/Time Trial/
Just highlight it and select load.  It should then appear as his ghost car until he beats it.

Yep that's where they were saving.

Thanks Matt and Clive.

A few gathering on the server now...

Umm, I think I have some of the builtins coming up in future events.
Donny is in the Brit series, Brno is in the sports car series.
Zolder is in there somewhere...
I don't mind builtins, I just feel that there are so many good tracks to use
that most people have raced at before, why limit ourselves. Most people
will already have many of the add on tracks anyway.

Nail on the head there. One of the reasons for my return from iR is linked with being bored of doing the same ~16 tracks all the time ::)
Love built in tracks, love variety, keep up the good work Matt 8)

Clive weren't you moaning about your old PC back in the dark days when I was running UKPNG (2010)? You spend so much time racing, it's got to be time to treat yourself to a little upgrade mate?

My TT laps go in PnG\TIMETRIAL\track-name

Not REPLAY.  That file is just a HOTLAP showing two cars.

I got that Clive. Once I knew which quiet little corner of W7 these were ending up in, I found them easily enough. Ta for the help.

I have just about wrestled the Cobra down to a 2:10.5 and due to domestic situation will not have time to mess about with anything else.

I expect that I will grumble about in the Cobra until some latent hairdresser's car smashes into me at mid-corner.  Then I'll stomp off to my motorhome and throw stuff about a bit.   ::)

I'll be in the 914. I'll also be bringing along my comb and scissors, so if anyone wants a quick short back and sides or a nice perm come and see me in the paddock  ;)

You're on, a nice perm sounds good, can you do a blue rinse too?

I'll be in the Panty or the Stang (have done 2:10 in both), do either of those come with built in hair dryer?

LOL
A kind offer but I probably won't take my crash hat off until I'm on the plane home.


@Legzy: Don't think that the Mustang will be coiffure dependent but not too sure about anything called a panty!  Sounds iffy to me.

If I could be there  :'( then I would probably be in a Panty or a 914. The 302 is seriously good fun here
but tyre wear is too much for my limited skills. I am soo looking forward to next week when I can
actually do a race!

lol i'm loving the chit chat ladies but a real man has come along and will take the IROC 'stang BOSS  :-*

Likewise Matt,  :'( except my next race wont be until Brands.

Tonight should be a good race on a good track, shame im missing it.  Glad i got my weekly P&G fix with the GC gang tuesday.

Just make sure you all beat Legzy and i'll be a happy man  ;D

I can't decide, the understeer in those twisty bits with the Mustang BOSS seems to haunt me no matter what setup tweaks or driving style I try!

Not a problem that I encountered with the Cobra.

It seems to be happiest when facing back the way it just came from!

Now that was a short race. I qualified really well in 2nd (though on soft tyres and low fuel). Then things started to go wrong: sitting on the grid, I wondered why the lights were already green. Then, when the grid was full, cars started moving (in my mirrors I saw a blue Mustang charging through the field), so I thought something with the lights was wrong and went as well, then was given a stop and go. While I digested this, the lights went red, then green, I floored it and hit the wall. I hit esc to get out of the way as quickly as possible. All in all, I must have raced for about two metres. Shit.

Pc crashed after 2 laps of the restarted race. Bugger.

they restarted? Bugger, I could have stayed around then.

Yep.

Looked in my local drive to generate race report but found that the log did not contain individual lap times.
Autosimanalyzer won't have this.

Great race btw. Action all the way!
 

Fantastic Race,
                     Most of the race was me following Alex not being able to make a move. It was funny really because you could see where the Porsche was faster and where the Mustang was quicker.  :) Managed to keep behind most of the race and had some great side by side races in some places. By about lap 17 my tyres were gone because I was pushing so hard to keep up with Alex.

Well done all finishers and Jos for the Win.  :) :jumpjoy:

Thanks for yet again another epic race.  :)

Glad you had fun! And congrats to the winners - and finishers!

 :sweatdrop:
Tremendous Race! (Eventually ::))

Having qualified 4th on the grid (dizzy heights for me!), was disappointed to be starting 18th (now last, as it seems my new team mate unfortunately exited, unlucky there NPP :()
But what a race, 18th all the way up to 3rd. If only Jonzo had been there to see it be overtaken too :-*

Some tremendous battles along the way, praise has to go to Purdie who obviously understood the differences between our cars & harassed me where he could while never putting the two of us in danger :euro:, then as thanks he got to eat my dust, watching as I disappeared down the straights ;D
Some good stuff with RoadRunner (& others) too, a lovely moment where I snuk past but he out cornered me through some curves to get back past 8)

Brilliant brilliant combo between the raw Mustang power, the handling of the Porka & the Panty sitting somewhere between them. Meant each driver I came to was going to present a different fight 8)

See you next week.
Chris

p.s. I think Clive's got it easy in these power cars, I reckon he should do a few in the lesser powered cars & show us his patience being stuck behind the barge I will now be driving :lol:

Replay is broken again. is only a 24k file. May need to reinstall PG next week.
Results posted. Two "unknown" drivers. If you get chance to register then I will try to regenerate the results so
you get points.

What happened at the start? looks like there were some false starts? I tested this (as I now test all events) for the
start, and it seemed straightforward. It sounded like the lights were green before the start, then went red
then green for the actual start? didn't notice that in testing.  ???

Sorry thought of a couple more things:

-If SeniorDan wasn't a SBRC driver, I'd suggest somebody inspects the replay to see how he mysteriously got DQ? :-\

-Great win for Joss in that beast of a car & to Ed for holding onto the 'Stang's tyres as long as you did 8)


A good handful of people hadn't practised the race start in offline mode, majority vote was to restart & try again.

Think that would be for track cutting, i checked his laptimes when he 1st mentioned it, and he had 3 laps not counted, which would be a drive through, the last of which was 3-4 laps to go, so would have been DQ`d when he finished

start was definitely a complete mess for me, lights green then red then green and people getting going and stopping again. If I had been aware that there was something fishy I had just watched the timing but I let it all confuse me.

Next time around I'll practice the start offline. I did a whole 19 lap long run to see how tyres wouldhold up but didn't think of testing the start, sorry

@Clive & MJ,
Is this link displaying right for you, I think something must be broken: https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=380&theme=4&scoring=752#ch752
 ;)

here is the replay of this evening race, in case you need it
https://mega.co.nz/#!sxtjyJjS!UFr7vw82BCbD7xHNpKTulVOaOXF3b8FvjN7-38gof-A (https://mega.co.nz/#!sxtjyJjS!UFr7vw82BCbD7xHNpKTulVOaOXF3b8FvjN7-38gof-A) (7.0 MB)

Cheers!

Could you also perhaps drag out the log file from your local drive. It's under \PnG3\UserData\LOG\Results.
It should be larger than 5 Kb.

Great piece of driving Jules. Could stretch my lead on the Mistral straight but you where right on my bumper in the twisty parts.. And that for almost all race. Tyres were also pretty melted and almost lost it a couple of times.
Congrats to Jos The Boss for the win.

@Alex

I have uploaded the broken replay and the server's log files to the usual place if you want
to have a look at it.

I started to watch the replay for highlights and ended up watching almost the whole race again!

From a fellow IROC driver to another, I have to say Goldtop had some amazing pace!!! Grats on Jos though for getting top step of the podium!


Was a great race, starting a few places down from where I hoped after the restart but no excuses since Legzy drew the short-straw at the back! Had a cracking battle with Geoffers (sorry about tap on last corner!) and then trying to hold-off Legzy and then hold-on too him meant 19 quali laps!!! I knew if I had any chance of winning that fight I needed to make a move in the corners and get the gap onto the straight but once behind I had no such opportunity.

No worries about the tap Nik, I held onto it just  ;) and thanks for slowing down/backing off  :)

Great driving everyone...... we need Power and Glory races every week and the odd 90 min Enduro!!!!  :laugh:

70min enduro next week. I just followed the formula that HAL uses for GTR2 events.

nice one as usual mate  ;)

Looks corrupted to me.

Hehe, thought the same Clive, some erroneous data must have been imported  ;D

Looks like (as suspected) i missed a corker  :'(   I'll put some praccy laps in for next weeks event but very much doubt ive got any chance of racing, might just have got away with a normal race distance but a 70minuter will take the whole evening away.

First of all thanks a lot for letting me race with you guys in such short notice.
It was a great fun race for me even though I had very little time to really prepare but it helped cuz Iv raced this track in modern cars.
Some of the guys here Iv raced before some were new to me, I must say some fast driving out there very impressing.
Im sorry to Andy and Geoffers for the contact was just miscalculation by me in a corner I found hard to brake with the IROC



Cheers mate :) glad it wasn't major, and after I saw the replay I lost my car right in front of u in the first lap and u hit me sorry about that as well, the car was just turning right nothing I could do :(

Im looking forward to race again with you guys if ull have me :)

Cheers

 :oops: sorry about breaking the normal procedures when uploading the replay in advance in this thread 

Don't think it was me Purdie, I had already made a mess of things early on, after a good start. Was way down near the back of the field struggling to contain some lift off oversteer on the Pantera that was much worse than in qually. Couldn't seem to find a setup that was consistent, had one that gave me 2.07 laps in testing but was total bubbles in practice, made it better for qually then that was pants in the race. I'm trying out lots of different cars at the moment but I think I'll stick to something I can drive next time!  ::)

No problem with the collision Nik, just one of those nights!

LOL
Me too.

Have been totally out of it for the last couple of weeks and will hopefully get some enthusiasm back in the mix soon.

I am totally gobsmacked by Jos' performance in the Cobra.  The darn thing tried to kill me at least four times during the race and I slipped from front to back as I tried to keep it on the road. 

Grats Jos, you beat off all the hairdressers in great style.

Sorry I meant Clive !!

No problem Andy.

Compared to JPV's last desperate lunge two corners from home it was a non-event!  No worries either JPV, I was laughing like a drain all the way to the finish.  Sorry for getting in your way but it was the only tactic that I had left!

First off, after yet another mis-start I'd like to request that clear instructions are included in all race announcements for using the HUD or for practising the start beforehand and consequences of not doing this. Imho re-starts should only be under exceptional circumstances (mass discoes etc) and not for lack of prep. We never used to have this problem here and all it does is cause confusion and indecision. If drivers jump the start, they should then pay the penalty. Rant over.

When we eventually got going again it was another corker. I'd been demoted from pole to 6th on grid and got another quick start and was soon chasing down 2nd position. A few laps in I managed to get past Daniel's IROC and set about chasing Jos the Boss. We were nip and tuck for the rest of the race as I managed to squeeze past a few times, only to be out-dragged on the straights. I was hoping the Cobra's tyres would start letting go towards the end, but it wasn't quite enough for me to take advantage and I got pipped on the line. 10 metres less and I'd have taken the win ::) Great driving Jos, particularly as we were so close for much of the time and vying for the same piece of tarmac  8)

I've had a lot of fun again!

In short, my race was all about this:

"EAT MY DUS.. so, we meet again" x 19

thanks guys! :)

first off I wanna say sorry to the guy in the pantera I hit at the start. it was hotkeys I think...
I popped my cobra beast into second and it jumped to the right hitting the pantera :(

Rest of the race was very nice though, it was a battle of power vs handling. it was the long straights that made the track a little more suited to the Cobra.
Goldtop was always close at the last corner and even past me a few times.

It came down to a drag race to the finish which I won by 5 hundreth of a second! wow

 :sweatdrop: gonna watch that finish on the replay

looking at the replay I was doing more of a burn-out then actually accelerating  :D still a burnout in the cobra is still as fast as the porsche :P

You did nothing wrong Dragon. Usually  I post the server's replay immediately after the race. The last 3 events the server has
messed up the replay. I tested it last weekend with a short test race and it worked fine, but in a real event it messes up.

I will try a reinstall of PG3 next week and see what happens. It was good of you to offer up your own replay as the "official"
one was useless.

Also.. I'm with Tudor in the restart thing, we've been doing this for years with add on tracks, suddenly we are having false starts
maybe I have just been unlucky with the chosen tracks so far, but it's not my responsibility for people getting the start right it's
everyones. I always do a test race start to check the lights and post what I think is enough, if a couple of people get jumped
starts there will not be a restart like in GC, where I've been in races there where there have been 3 restarts just because someone messed up.
We traditionally never do restarts here unless as Tudor says there is a mass disco, so please don't expect one on demand.

Also please do remember if you hit someone for whatever reason, you should wait for them or take a drive through.
If they are so damaged that they can't get going again, you can wait for an incident report to possibly be put in against you, or
leave in shame. Hard words perhaps, but people have left in shame before. No one in this event whether old or new members
are unreasonable drivers, but everyone makes mistakes now and then, just please act accordingly.

Here endeth this mornings sermon  :angel:

The result files look are a-ok  :thumbup2:

Unofficial LapChart* (http://www.justanotherpage.nl/Srou/PnG/GTR2_pr_paulricard_httt_2013_2_7_20_54/)

I just thought that perhaps you had a full log file as mine was corrupt/incomplete. Apologies if this lead to any misunderstanding.

@Matt (or other admin)

The #009 and #070 (#70009 and #70070 I presume) Mustang BOSS 302 are listed in the 70s Group 2 class, not the P&G Group 3 O2L  :whistling:

Thanks Alex. I can't change that (I think) all I can do is set them as "60's" or "70's"
I will ask Dave.

A little late, but better late than never ...
I knew that my tires can not last the distance so I made few changes on car in order to preserve them. And didn`t actually try to race anyone, just to keep my pace but that wasn`t enough.
Last 6 laps was agony but only because of one place - exit from slowest corner before Mistral. No traction, even short shifting didn`t help to prevent sliding ... but honestly, I ended up in 6th place only because of reshuffle for restart giving me advantage over some faster guys.

There is one other thing i want to say. It`s a real pleasure to race against all of you here.
No BS just fair racing.

If this cryptic exchange is trying to say that #70070 in the results is mapped to the wrong car (60s when it should be 70s), Matt you should be able to fix that by simply correcting the SimCar mapping and regenerating standings. The classifications are derived from the cars.

Thanks to the admin who changed it. Really appreciated (Record in Manly Mustang=more bragging rights  ;D) !!

I wish someone could retrieve my pole from the quali session. I don't get many of those  :'(