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Endurance Championship - Season 2, Round 8 at Oschersleben

Date: Sunday 16th April

Practice 1: 8:00pm (30 mins)
Qual 2: 8:30pm (30 mins)
Warmup: 9:00pm (2 mins)
Race: 9:02pm (80 mins)

Cars allowed: those classed as GT or NGT, according to each driver's registered class. A list of which cars are in which class can be found here (https://www.simracing.org.uk/index.php?ind=lm2&group=7). Seat Toledo, Lotus Elise, BMW Z3M and Porsche GT3 Cup are not permitted.
Weather: Will be decided just before the race based on real-world weather.

Server: UKGTR Endurance S2
Password: Will be emailed to those that need it.

Notes:
(1) Please try to arrive at least 15 minutes prior to qualifying, during Practice 1.
(2) Reserve drivers should wait till 5 minutes before end of Practice 1 before joining (8:25pm) so that they only take up genuine free spots.
(3) See  UKGTR Season 2 Info (https://www.simracing.org.uk/index.php?ind=lm2&group=15) for general Endurance Season 2 info.
(4) Please make sure you are fully aware of the UKGTR Rules (https://www.simracing.org.uk/index.php?pid=7)
(5) Season will be run using a UKGTR carpack which will need to be installed prior to racing. Details of this pack can be found elsewhere.

Blimey it's quiet in here, fingers crossed everyone has forgotten about this one :whistling:

Just me and you then Pops :scooter:

You wish...  ;D

Looks like the main lobby is back up!

Fingers crossed we all end up in the same place...

ggggrrrrrr, Had a CDT i was on for the win as well. ;D

Bah! I had little practice this weekend and unfortunately I'd never been in the rain here before. My race setup just seemed to fall apart after about 15 laps, could be something to do with those soft fronts ;) Had a few spins and got a bit of damage then had that repaired in the pits, went straight back out and fell off the track. It was at this precise point I lost the will to continue :death:
Apart from that was a nice few laps ;D

Wasn't expecting rain tonight, had done a little practice in the dry yesterday but not a lot. Was very pleased to get pole position in NGT with SBG breathing very closely down my neck.

Race started and I slowly pulled away from SBG eeking out probably about 20 seconds come the pit stop. Very calm pit stop and off I went. First lap out and I span out the back (grrrr), probably losing me another 15 seconds. Was very annoyed cause I soon reaslied SBG was not stopping!!!!!! Thought it was going to cost me the win, but I chased for all I was worth and the lighter fuel load in the second half of the race meant I could go quicker. I rapidly closed the gap to SBG from 35 seconds to nothing with 4 minutes to go. His nerves must have been on a tight rope as I kept banging in the laps and taking huge chunks of time out of him. Sure enough with me desperate to not have my win taken by a no stopper after only about a lap of pressure he fell off in front of me (bad luck) and both myself and I think CJ had to take avoiding action (good driving there from CJ) and I cruised on home for the victory.

Must say that was very very hard work, my concentration levels were so high especially second half when I was pushing hard too. Well done to SBG, you really ran it close there.

Very good lapping from everyone in the wet again, cheers guys and well done to CJ for yet another win (despite his mishap on lap 1 which dropped him right back into the mid NGT pack).

That was one of the toughest I have been in! and glad I managed to finish.
Great driving by the GT boys, very clean and patient as usual.
I didn't have that many scraps with people, but at one point enjoyed watching Bernie in front of me struggling with what must have been badly worn tyres and just waited for my chance  to get past;) (were you on hards and a non stopper?)
Grats to all the winners and finishers ;D

Congrats to Shark  ::). And mo and naks for a great team effort in the very stiff GT ranks.

Out in the late spring sunshine all day I, like everyone else, forgot to look at Oschers forecast. Made for a very good quali as everyone came to grips with the tricky conditions, amazingly good effort by everyone I thought.

Thought I'd gamble on non stopper with soft wets (never get the hards hot enough) without a clue about tyre ware but knowing that I had to take it gingerly. I knew I was in trouble as first Dan and then TT caught me and I had to push harder than I wanted to hold them off. Good dices with them both. I was delighted to see both of them off however I guessed that tyres were really going to struggle now. They didn't seem that bad until about 10 minutes to go and then felt like it was more ice than rain. Tried one last push when Shark hunted me down which produced my first trip to the sand 3 laps from the end  :'(. If only they had a medium wet I could well have sneaked a crafty win. At least I willn't get lynched now.

Roll on next week, and a dry one.

Oh, man, I really thought SBG was gonna pull a move on the Shark!  ;D Another defeat 'cause of a non-stopper would really pull his whiskers and he would have to rethink his entire philosophy of the pitstops.  :P Unfortunately SBG got too nervous. Not to blame, SBG, I was nervous even about finishing the race, and to have Shark behind my ass...

Anyway, my quali was as bad as ever. Went slow from the begining, following SBG and Popabawa. Popa then got involved with Enza I think and I gave him a light tap from behind. Fortunately he was able to go on. Sorry, Popa, couldn't see $hit in front of you. Popa made a mistake a bit later and I went to follow SBG. Caught him and we must have been glued for 15 laps, bumper to bumper. I could go faster through the bends, but he allways danced away on a straight.  :cursing: That was hard work and I saw my (soft/soft) tyres were going down, I was gonna have to pit, but couldn't go past him.  >:( At about half race my rear tyres just suddenly gave in, fortunately I was (almost) able to slide into the pits, so I only lost about 10 seconds. After I pitted and drove a while I saw SBG is ahead and going and realized he's on a non-stop. Also he was in front of Shark and I decided to wait for a mistake of either. They both made one, but were too far ahead to take advantage. I'm third NGT, but as far as I'm concerned, I won.  8)

Why? I never ever finished a race in Oschersleben even in dry.  ;D

Good job to all finishers. More luck next time to those who had to quit.    

Really enjoyable race for me once I got over my frustration after some early rookie type mistakes. Had a couple of offs followed by a shunt where I lost my rear wing and then the tricky drive back to the pits where I spun a few more times, I eventually rejoined in 14th with a fulll tank and 55mins to go.

Managed to hold it together and put in some consistant times which meant I clawed my way back up to 4th, which was where I started I think.
Its always rewarding to drive in the rain and everyone seemed to keep it on track tonight, rain was a big surprise for me too.

Congrats to CJ and Shark on the class wins, and also to SBG and Nak for the podiums showing a good KC result overall.
Thanks for great driving by all the nGTs while being passed.

Well another disaster race for me i seem to be driving like a muppet at the moment!    Got a great set-up dialled in quali and was optimistic for the race, chose to go for a non -stopper on soft wets. Had a good dice with SBG for the first 4 laps and could of made a pass a couple of times but didnt want to risk it, then i hit one of the orange markers on the right hander after the back straight and took my rear wheel off >:( :'(    .    Debated wether to throw my steering wheel out of the window or limp to the pits , decided to limp back as my steering wheel really had nothing to do with the incident  :laugh:.    Then for some reason it changed me on to slicks  ???,    Didnt realise this so spent the first two corners in the gravel traps, by now i was 2 laps down so retired.
Grats to the class winners , great drive by Claus after spinning.

well qual went pretty bad but it was really close up at the top except for CJ's usual 1 sec gap.

Started in 5th and start went well, CJ seemed to have problems with T2 then went clean off in T3. I think mo went off not long after and that left me chasing Krue, chasing JonM and we were all 3 within a second. Jon seemed to start getting loose and I was right on him and somehow blew T3 and slid off sending me back to 5th.

Reeled in Nakano in a few laps and he got loose coming out of 2 so I thought I could get him b4 3. was able to get up beside him but I guess the grip is a lot less offline in the rain so I locked up taking both of us out :'( Sorry man I thought I could get by clean. Anyway took my drive through for my penance and set to work again.

Got back up to 3rd before my pit and went early as usual. Came out in 5th then to 4th when someone pit and was about 40 sec behind Nakano who had not pit I guess. Went to work and was taking big chunks out of him but with about 10 min to go and like 9 sec down on 3rd I went off on the back side into grass. I thought i could just graze the wall and get back on but there must have been a jog in the wall there cause as soon as I got close Wham, stopped me dead, knocked off splitter and killed the engine which wouldnt restart. Game over  >:(

Anyway everyone seemed to do great and was fun while it lasted, see you in Estoril

Replay (http://www.ukgtr.org/replay/Oschersleben%20-%20Endurance%20S2%20160406.zip) and provisional results posted

Hi Guys Had a good set up and was luking near the back looking to pick up places but a domestic missunderstanding! caused me to go off. bye for now gerald

My dismal performances in the wet continue :( I'm just not very good at it!

Qualifying went OK and the race was shaping up nicely right behind SBG with Truetom on my tail when I inexplicably missed a braking point to lose a whole chunk of time wallowing round in the sand.

BTW, Truetom, NP on the tap, it was the lightest of touches. I came within a whisker of hitting the GT, I'm not surprised you couldn't see what was happening, it was a very odd place for an incident.

Managed another off after misjudging my braking point down the back straight. Manged to catch right up to Don as we came in to pit about 1s apart, I was praying we wouldn't be allocated the same pit space!

Don made a mistake for me to get past then a couple of laps later GTR minimised back to desktop for XP to show me a "found new hardware" dialogue! :cursing: WTF? Luckily I was on the start/finish straight at the time so I was able to ALT+TAB back into the game and continue. A sincere apology to anyone wondering that the hell was going on with me at that point!

Bernie went off so I grabbed a place back there, tried to chase Don down but got caught behind SBG (a lap ahead of me) looking like his tyres were in VERY bad shape. I didn't have the bottle to try to overtake, I wouldn't have caught Don anyway.

Great drive Shark / SBG / Truetom for the podiums, you were all well out of my league tonight :)

Sorry i missed this race guys, (my second in a row :'(), i was away in sunny Rome. Hope you all had a good race and look forward to re-commencing battle with you next week  8)

NGT Legends have a strong lead in the NGT team championship. Very tight for 2nd place though.

2 races left, all to play for.

You're pretty close to the NGT title Shark and SBG's all but wrapped up 2nd place.

It'll be close between Don & Mark for the last podium place though!

I'm surprised we're so far ahead in the team championship, we've been pretty consistent and managed at least 2 drivers in each round though which I'm sure has helped!

LOL! Was behind ye when that happened! All of a sudden u went straight on, hehe! :D

Bi-T is cwap in the wet on a twisty track, nuff said :)

T

Can you specify "domestic missunderstanding"?  :wacko: :hammer:

 ;D

Like I forgot to tell my missus I was racing and she got a bit upset as we had a guest. Its a bit difficult to keep on track and have a free and frank dicussion about domestic arrangements. Never mind I am rehabilitated now.gerald

Thanks for that pops, and tyf who was stuck behind you. Did realise you were a lap behind but I was just to scared to get off the racing line  :boat:. I saw Bernie go off in front only to slide off at the same point, our tyres went at the same time  :surrender:.

Lol ginsters! I noticed Bernie too. I was so far behind in laps though (had to do 2 stops for front tyres :() that I didn't really mind. Just a shame I had to let Popa by, since he was ahead of me as well and I didn't know if he wanted to give it a go for the last laps :)

T

Was very difficult to say the least once the tyres decided to go west. Hats off to you ginsters you did a great job keeping it on the grey stuff. Once my tyres were gone i think I was off at least once per lap for a good few laps in a row.

Lol - we`ve all been there Gerald   :D

Cheers

Rob

I haven't!

* sniff *

 :-\ :-[ :'( :no: :no: :no:

T

Good fun , after my other league race did got canceled , i could join in this race after all  :) .  It was nice to have a good result after the few not so good races.  Rain was perfect from my point of view since both me and my F575 seem to like it  :D.  After a good qualifying it was nice to start the race and some 1st lap it was too  :o, cars sliding off here and there but finally found my self from 2nd place after the things had settled a bit.  Chased Jon there a few laps and we had a good fight going on , before his tires started to give away and overtook him on the mainstraight.   After that i slowly pulled away and had a comfortable lead , or so i thought...  before CJ got back to 2nd place and gap slowly started to shrink.

2 laps before pitstops i had about 10 secs lead , but i had some trafic on both in- and outlaps.  On top of that i had a slight off in pitroad , so i lost some valuable seconds there.  I knew its going to be tight after that and when CJ came out of the pits he was about 0.5-1 second ahead of me  :o , good tactics there mate , i was too conservative on my strategy  ;).

Rest of the race i tried to keep the distance to CJ as low as possible , to be there if the rain surprises him , but CJ kept it solid and 2nd place was the best i could do this time.  Pretty happy with the result all in all , some things i could have done better , but maybe next time   ;D.

Thx all for the cool race and congratulations for CJ , nice comeback after early troubles   8)..  Grts to Shark and other podium finishers on both classes too.

Going to miss the next race prolly , so see you around...   :angel: