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Upper Sprint - Race 3

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Practice:  20:00 GMT (20 mins)
Qual 2:    20:20 GMT (10 mins)
Race:      20:30 GMT (18 laps ~ approx 40 mins)

Cars allowed: Any GT500 from the SuperGT Mod. Available here (http://teambbsgt.blog.fc2.com/) or here (http://www.nogripracing.com/details.php?filenr=36596)
Track:: Spa 2004
Race Start Time: 14:00

Weather: Dry

Tyre wear: x2
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.

Password: see above (#post_event_password)

Notes:
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(2) Driver lists can be found on the championship standings page (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=473&theme=3)
(3) You will not be able to join the server without the car physics pack and track (see links above).
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(7) The server will be set to 26 slots, not 28.

Lap count calculated, 1st post updated.

I can just hear the crowd now, "boo, hiss" as race by race I'm stealing the wins from the obvious thoroughbred driver on the grid, Apex :-[

Tonight Apex was once again too good for me & I decided on lap 9 to switch to a 'splash & dash' plan, as there was no way on earth I could beat Apex @Spa on a like for like strategy.
The car was so wobbly & slidy is some of the late laps i thought i must have blown it, but I came out of the pits with one lap to defend a 3.5 sec gap :o 8)
Couple of corners later it was down to 2 secs, coming into the bus stop it was just 1 sec  :surrender:
But Apex must have been distracted by how slow I was through there(?) & I managed to get round to the flag still in front :sweatdrop:

Shocked it came off for me, I guess you must have had some troubles passing drivers after you'd pitted maybe?

Cheers all, was very entertaining race right from the start, with Spanner, then NSFast & SRW all keeping me on my toes as Apex drove off early on :thumbup1:

Grats to you Legzy well played........ I am still scratching my head........ my driving performance was great, but never thought about traffic playing a role in my equation..............  great stuff by Srw........ nice it was difficult to pass him......... so I lost a bit of time there as he was quick and racy himself nice racecraft !!!  Grats for the Podium spot Srw

thanks, it was good to get a podium on merit rather than people in front dropping out!

I don't know why I was closer to the pace, I didn't do any more practice than usual (usually about 1 hour during the week). it might have been due to car setup, as I don't have much time to practice I usually stick with the default setup and just tweak the rear wing and gear ratio's. so if the default setup is ok I am in with a bit of a chance.

All I changed was gears and wings but never having driven this car before tonight I had no strategy. Guessed at fuel and changed tyres at the pitstop, lost 20+ secs to everyone doing this :( Awesome strategy by Legzy proves having some sort of idea of tyre life etc is quite handy ;)