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Practice: ~19:20 (60 mins)
Qualifying: 20:20 (10 mins)
Race 1: 20:30 (14 laps)

Practice (Car change): ~20:50 (10 mins)
Qualifying: 21:00 (10 mins)
Race 2: 21:10 (14 laps)

Track: Snetterton 2005 Download this (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3358.msg109873#post_snett2005)

Cars allowed: Lotus Elan, TVR Griffith 400. (Drivers must change makes for Race 2).

Time of Day Setting: 14:00
Start: STANDING
Tyre wear: Normal
Fuel consumption: Normal
Pit stops: Not required

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Notes:
(1) It's best if all drivers can make sure they are connected before the Qualifying session as drivers on track during qualifying will not see cars that join after they are on track until they go back to the garage.
(2) Please make sure you are fully aware of the SimRacing.org.uk Rules.
(3) The AI control should be turned off so that you have control of the car at all times, including pitting. Your player file should therefore read
Autopit="0"
Force Autopit Off="1" // Forces autopit always off
No AI Control="1" // AI never has control over car
If you still finding pitting problematic, experience tells us that its less to do with positioning and more to do with approach speed. A slow approach to pit crew chief has proved most reliable.

Special Notes: Note early race start time! Drivers shall not change cars during qualifying.

Just realised that this is the weekend that we are attending the Christening of my sister's No 1 daughter at Bromsgrove. We will be travelling back home Monday afternoon, so I'll give this on a miss.  :(

Happy birthday Erling. Have a nice day!  ;)

Cheers!

If anyone are interested and tomorrow don't run in AC......

https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=13343.0

Cheers!

Happy Birthday Erling, have a good day. :rockon:

Belated Birthday wishes Erling  :balloon:

Thanks guys - got a bit of a premature and unexpected gift in Monday's race  :)

Cheers,
Erling

Having trouble getting this track to work. It CTDs after between 1 and 16 laps. So far I have:

- reinstalled GTL
- reinstalled Win7 (I don't use it for anything else)
- tried a different graphics card and driver
- tried downloading the track from a different source (Nogrip)

Standard GTL tracks appear to work OK. I left a race running for an hour each at Donnington and Spa this afternoon without problems.

It definitely worked in the past because I came 4th last time we raced here  :D

Does it CTD if run online?

Haven't tried that yet Tony. Will give it a go later.

Is the server down?

Hmm the server said it was running, but it was not showing in the lobby. I have restarted the server and it appears to be ok now.

Probably not helpful. but I am now running under Win10, and I have to run as admin, and in XP U2 compatibility mode
Only done a few laps in each car but have had no issues so far. 21 in the Trevor and 22 in the Lotus, but more to come.

It didn't, but I was the only car on the track and offline there were no problems as long as I was the only car.

After much testing it seems I had too many AI opponents selected. By reducing the number from 35 to 13 the problem went away. Not sure why my i7/GeForce GT240 can't run the maximum number of cars at this track but hopefully I won't crash out tomorrow evening.

hi all

any benchmarks? for me in 1:21 with both cars. not a alien time...............

cya tonight

greets hayman

According to Matt's post he is attaining similar times

I've done a 1:18.6 in the TVR.  Can't recall best Elan time, but it was slower, by 1-2 secs I believe (At work; can't check).

Cheers,
Erling

Same time for me in TVR and 1 second slower in Elan.

Results and replays now posted

Quite a mixed bag, yesterdays races.

Race 1:

Qualified 3rd, but made a poor start. Ziu slipped past, dropping me to 4th. Chased him as hard as I could over the next many laps, while keeping a wary eye on Hayman right behind me.  Stalemate was broken by a chain reaction, starting with Ati hitting Hayman at the chicane. He in turn hit me, sending me into a spin.  Both gents let me past, but Ziu was long gone. 

As often when things start to go wrong, they continue to do so. Following lap same place, I got a bad exit from the chicane, which was all Hayman needed to get past.  Next had a bit of a slugging match with Ati. Bit too much of a contact sport for my taste, and some shoulder rubbing saw me lose places.  Dropped from 3rd to 6th.  Last lap, I had Ati in front of me, but suddenly he pulled over and braked, which looked strange to me.  Finished in 5th, behind Hayman, but I believe he was DQ'ed from S&G so I got uprated to 4th.  A disappointing race in many ways, but grats to the podium nonetheless.

Race 2:
Qualified 4th and made another poor start. Lost some places on the run up to T1. Tony came thundering up the inside in his lone TVR. He collided with Matt in front of me, and I braked too late, bumping Matt too - sorry about that. Net result was I spun and dropped to 11th and dead last.  Set about chasing the field and making up places.  First two were for free, when Tony went off and Matt later spun at the chicane. Passed Bob while braking under the bridge, and next lap got a better exit from T2, allowing me to pass Steve down the straight.  Next one was free too, when Hayman went very wide at T1.
Up ahead was the tiny yellow speck of Phil's Elan.  Drove my wheelnuts off chasing him. Aside from anemic sound, the Elan is a wonderful car to give a good spanking  :)  Ever so slowly reeled in Phil and got close over the last few laps, but an opportunity never presented itself.  A few more laps to pull something out of the hat would have been most welcome..  :)

I have to settle for congratulating him and the rest of the podium.  1st & 2nd in this series seems decided, but 3rd is up for grabs and should make for an exiting finale  :)

Cheers,
Erling

Perhaps the worst nights racing I can remember. Cars felt like they had no grip even though I was using the exact same setups as I had practiced with. Error after error until early in Race 2 after going off in the exact same spot I had previously gone off at I decided to throw in the towel and give up. Sorry to the other drivers who I collided with, hope I didn't muck your races up too badly.

Need a good night at Paramount Ranch now to restore my faith.

Almost managed to have a race with me old mate Phil in race1, but with the mess at T1 was not able to get close enough
in Race2, and Phil was a bit quicker anyway, but would have been nice to be in close company from the start  ::)
Still qual 5 finish 4 is good result.

Hi

a nice event! Thxs for setting up, Tony.
close qualitimes in both races!
Race 1 looked good for me. Found myself on P3 after some laps. TVR run good, I fear in this car. In last laps Ati was coming nearer and nearer. In chicane before S/F he gave me a tap and I got a cut warning, 2 laps later same place, tap from Ati,  2nd cut warning. bad luck. bigger bad luck: in last lap I made a cut warning myself  ::) Off that P3,  ;D

race 2 in elan was serious. Was an P4 I think, but did silly missbraking. I like elan very much, I can drive it good, but all this was gone after race with TVR before.
so another missbraking followed. Ok, it was real fun to chase others in front to overtake.

thxs all for fair and fun races

greets hayman

Good fun yesterday!

1st race. The first 2 laps had a good fight with Ati, but he made a little mistake in the last chicane and lost many positions. After that I can push hard to try to get the fastest lap and I got it  ;D

2nd race. I don't know what happened with Ati, but in first lap he went to boxes.  ???
I tried to keep the pace that Ziu but I can't. Grats Ziu!

Grats pod and all finishers!

See you!

Very few practice,great self-confidence.I'm really sorry Hayman and Erling  :( I'm not used to be unfair,but now a lot of fault.Sorry again! (damn google translator  ;)  )

In brief, was very pleased to be back on the track after about 7 weeks away from it and surprised myself with 6th over the line race 1 :D. Race 2 was feeling equally comfortable, running about 5th until lap 7 when my game pad button failed to turn the car left, so straight into the barriers I went ::) Enough damage sustained to ensure I stayed last. It's the third time this year that it's happened to me, this time with a brand new (and tested) gamepad.

Anyway, am happy with a 6th and well done to Jose and Ziu for your 1st and 2nd places. :)

Nice to see you back again Steve, I was wondering...............

Grats Jose !!!! And for me was impossible keep your pace in race1. In race2 i changed my lotus setup because rear not was good (i was using Goodwood setup ) and so i could drive easily my lotus until the finish. It's the first win for me here on UKGTL thanks at all. I'm sorry for Ati i dont know what happened to him, i saw he going to pit.

Sorry - I'm a bit late  ::)


Results_Race1 (https://googledrive.com/host/0BzUpS2smyYQ_VnQ5SVBIajdHeVU?ltmpl/index.html)

Results_Race2 (https://googledrive.com/host/0BzUpS2smyYQ_TnlWSTRCTlhSUjg?ltmpl/index.html)

Too tired for race 2 -  :P

888th post ;D

Thanks Kurt, very much appreciated  :thumbup1:

Thanks Kurt!

And grats for your 888th post  ;)