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Practice: 19:20 BST
Qual 2: 20:25 (20 mins)
Race: 20:45 ~ (31 laps)
Cars allowed: E Type Jag (ANY), Ferrari 275 (not Speciale), Porsche 911 2.5ST. Pantera Stock.
Track: Snetterton Download and install this (http://gizmo71.www.idnet.com/srou/ukgtr/tracks/SRou_Snetterton2005_2.0.0.1.exe)
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=466&theme=34)

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These cars seem to be very well matched Matt.

I just tried all 4 car options, and the lap times were within 1 second of each other.


Stig

Cool, Thanks Stig. I had all but the Panty within a few tenths.

ooooooo  Jag or Porsche, tricky one  ???

OK, so all of the cars are within..either a second, or a couple of tenths, but of what laptime????? :taz:

I could no doubt get all the cars within a few hundredths, if I spent 5 minutes a lap with each car.  ::)

C'mon guys, what is a good time for these cars around Snetty??

The Pantera is one of my favoritter cars, so that's my choice even though it's not likely to be the fastest option. It's hard to do a fully legal lap here, especially in the last turn it's difficult to go fast with two wheels on the right side of the white line. My best legal lap was 1.18.900

The top guns will probably do a low 1.17 :-))

Stig

Ask me again after Thursday.   ::)

I am asking you after Thursday.......last Thursday!!  ;D

This prolly means that Mr Loynes is sub 1:15!!!  :shifty:

My wife tells me that I shouldn't try to multi-task, so I can't look at Rouen and Snetterton at the same time!   :P

Just not possible!  I have enough trouble trying out two cars at the same track!!!

Argh ...... buggar !

I just found out I can't make this one either  :cursing:

Somehow it had slipped my mind, that the wife and I are off to an extended weekend in London starting thursday morning.

Considering the fact that you guys drive in the wrong side of the road, there's no telling what I will run into

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Stig




 

Blimey, that's impressive, I have enough trouble trying to drive one car at a time, but two. :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy:

There's always one!

Shame I'm up north this week Stig, I could have waved at you as went into the bloody tower  :punk:

LOL, I'll try to stay clear of the Tower of Power Matt.

I would have loved to buy you a pint or two, maybe next time  ;D

Stig

1 18.5 for me so far in the 911, praccy race fuel. Not tried a Jag yet

Sorry, I won't be participating tonight  :'(. Having some sort of muscle/tendon problem in my left arm which is aggravated by using the steering wheel. On top of which I also have a swollen right knee which is causing me problems, so having a rest from racing for a week or so until they hopefully clear up.

Have fun guys, hopefully be back next week.

Sorry to hear that Geoff, get well soon. I will hopefully make it in the 911.

Get well soon Geoffers.

Can't be too careful at your age.   ;D

WHAT! No racing when you still have a serviceable arm and leg  :no:  ;)

Get well soon Geoffers.

Click HERE (http://www.planet-venom.co.uk/PnG/SnettRep/index.html) for Analyser Report.


Five more laps and I might have been in the right car! 

The SBRC strategy group obviously trained with Mercedes!

Looked like being a good race for me, as in I was fast enough to have some people to play with
But fell off twice, and got a long way behind, then fell off again making sure to give Fede plenty
of room, so as I was now a lonngggg way back, quit out.

i was sorry that you quit when you did, as I had given up hope of catching anyone in front and was on the point of waiting for you so that we could do some synchronised grass cutting.  ;D

My lack of preparation showed in this race. Normally, I might get and hour or so on a Wed evening to download the track and cars and then do enough laps to learn the track, before jumping on a practice server to test that all is OK.

That did not happen this week and all I managed was to download the track and do about 5 laps in the Fezza, tweak the setup a little to make it more comfortable and return a 1:19 lap on race fuel.

So, when I arrived on the server later than usual last night I was hoping to use the 275.................the server decided that it did not like my 275 and promptly booted me twice!!! So at the 3rd attempt I switched to the Porker , no setup and no practice  :-\ and actually no clue either!!

Trundled off the grid in last place and quickly made that position my own by dropping back with each lap. I only passed Phspok when he went after a wayward blade of grass that he had missed in previous excursions.
Everyone else was lapping at least a second faster than me, so I was about to slow and wait when he quit. Now I was last and all alone ...Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh! ::)

The soft tyres were not even mildly troubled by my lack of pace and even though I did slowly improve my lap times as the race progressed, I was never competitive. The gearing was wrong, the castor angle was causing me probs ( I think) and the brake balance was not what I would have liked. other than that the car was a joy to drive!!  ::)

Grats to Federico Clive and Simon, and hard luck Frex who appeared to have 3rd place sewn up !

Really enjoyed that one, had something to do all race..! Only downside was my shifter playing up, which was somewhat frustrating, and that plus a tall first gear lost me some places at the start (I think I was last at the end of the lap). Had a nice fight with Matt for a few laps (shame you went off), then set off in chase of Simon. Caught him, passed him, then lost my rear tyres and he came back at me. Not much left to fight back with and he repassed me, but hung on to him until I pushed a little too hard on the last lap and spun. Great fun though.


Not really Evil, as mentioned above my rear tyres melted just as I passed Simon and he deserved the place back. Congrats podium.

Only a small field but some great race reports.   :thumbup2:

As I have already said, our strategy team must have trained with Mercedes as the 911 was dismissed as not being able to get to the end of the race with any rubber left!  This was probably true but what we hadn't banked on was how fast it was going to be before it ran out of rubber!

It was clear that what I needed was a good start.  And that's exactly what I didn't get.  As we approached T1 I thought that I still had Frex on the inside and so took a wide line, thus losing all hope of having a "go" at Federico on the straight.  I closed but not by enough and that was it, race over. 

At the time I thought that I just had to keep up a decent pace and Federico would run out of rubber.  But it didn't happen.  Well, not soon enough anyway.  Looking at his lst couple of lap times he was easy meat but the trouble was that he was too far away!  :( 

The Jag tyres were only half spent so another five laps of the same my have been what I needed.

So congratulations to Federico on a fine win.

Wonder how I can mess up next week's race.  I'm sure I can find a way.   ::)