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UKGTR SEASON 18 LOWER SPRINT CHAMPIONSHIP  - ROUND 2

All members welcome

Practice 1: 20:00 BST (10 mins)
Qual 2:       20:10 BST (20 mins)
Race:          20:30 BST (22 laps ~40 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: Mugello (v1.1.1.0) (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3356.msg54521#post_mugello)
Race Start Time: 14:00

Weather: Dry

Tyre wear: Normal.
Fuel consumption: Normal.
Pit Stops: None required.
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=410&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: Track download link updated.
EDIT: Lap count added.
EDIT: Championship table link updated.

I thought about my rare win last week, I reckon it must be linked to having a little pre-race practice (Is that cheating? :-\ ;)), so I'll be doing the same for this one.
So move over front of the grid, I'm coming through! :wheelchair: ;D

Aint gonna happen. Its time for young ones (younger) to mak their move. Ill give you a freindly wave on my way past. :-)

Hmm, have troubles to set F430, seems slow with low and high wing, with hard or soft suspension. Might be an interesting race. :D

Hope to join you guys for this one. Not turned a sim wheel for about 3 weeks so bit rusty. :) love this track but never seem to do well here, the porkers get too unbalanced with all the cambered switchback corners and kerbs.

Hopefully i'll get my water cooling loop up and running by then.

Had a quick blast and managed 1:52.x but I recon with a bit of tweeking i can get into the low 1:51's maybe even high 1:50

Well that didn't work out as I hoped, didn't get any practice & it showed big time.

Great to see the grid growing again, especially my old Team mate Lazlow returning (& finishing right be hind me ;))

Cracking race that, really enjoyed it.  :)

Qually was a great 4 way battle that kept changing order. Twice I thought I'd nailed pole with a quick lap only to have it beaten each time.
Race was more of the same, TT pulled out a quick 3 sec advantage but 3 of us charged on at qually pace for the first half of the race for 2nd to 4th.  :fencing:I was in a team sandwich and the pace was relentless. I finally made a small error running on a grass verge allowing Apex past and it was all the invite he needed.
I chased after him again but as soon as my (hard!)rears reached 15 wear I started to develop bad oversteer and the car became a real handful, spinning me once. Fortunately us front 4 had pulled a 20 second lead over the rest of the pack and I was glad of it in the final phase of the race as I had to slow my pace by 1-2 secs a lap to avoid spinning.
Finished 4th. Congrats to the podium, you guys were fast and consistent  8)

That was a disaster in the second half. That car was too slippy i think i might have set the rear wing a bit too low. But was fun and such big grid was good too.

Wasn't satisfied with F430s behaviour, was not willing to turn in and had a nasty power oversteer if pressed too quickly. Made some compromises but I wasn't happy with it. Seems like other cars were equally difficult to set. I had 4 wing, anything more and I'd be eaten on a straight. Tyre wear was terrific, had 27 on my left front, two mistakes made me lose precious time but I was more lucky than I deserved. Well done racers, nice to see better grid and some guys come back, with some new here. :) Kako ide, životinjo strašna?  ;)

BTW, Legzy, you can change the car...  :-*

I assume you went for soft tyres all round TT?

I used wing 4 for qualifying and 5 for the race - it just felt more likely to stay on the road. I also used medium front tyres for the race with soft rears to try to keep the wear and balance even. As a result I sacrificed top speed and time early in the race but could race as hard as I could throughout. Front left wear was about 12 at the end. The gavel tends to grab you at this circuit and I didn't want to risk it.

H@L.

The championship standings link isn't working. on the race page.

Super race last night. Very enjoyable.  :)

Qualifying was very exciting for a change.

Made my usual slowish start to the race and was under pressure from MJ & Apex immediately - MJ getting very close on one occasion to going past. I seemed to be way too slow at T1.  ::) After a few laps things settled down with TT a constant distance in front and MJ just far enough back for me to relax a little.

About midway through the race MJ & Apex seemed to drop back a bit and I started to close up on TT. Unfortunately as soon as I got close to TT mistakes started to creep in including one very scary off track moment in which I nearly took Apex out.  :o  In the end I was lucky to finish 2nd after Apex had an unfortunate last lap incident.

I was lucky that the car handled nicely throughout the race with just some predictable understeer in the 2nd half of the race as the front softs lost a bit of grip.

It makes such a difference to races when we have a good turnout. Thanks all for racing.  :)

It was like the good'ol days last night 8) Great to see so many old faces! TS hasnt been that lively for a long time!

Gutted my connection dropped, i was enjoying the race, car felt pretty good and was sitting behind Prof looking forward to chasing him down.

This circuit is horrible with the off camber corners and somehow got the car working but never saved the setup doh!

GT1's next week are going to be really tough.

Yes, I had softs. Nearly regretted it too, thought I'm not gonna make to the end at some time. More pushing from MJ / nsfast / Apex and I'd be off to pits or gravel. Or both. :-\

1st post updated. Thanks for the info QS.

lol, it may well be required. I thought at Spa I might finally be able to drive a Porka... Mugello proved othewise :laugh:
Ah well, will be one less Porka on the grid at least :o