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Track: Thruxton Download this (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3358.msg187122#post_thruxton)

Cars allowed:

CLASS A (0-1000cc)

Mini Cooper 970S Download this (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3358.msg54518#post_mini_cooper_970_s) Note: Not included '69 Mini.
Hillman/Sunbeam Imp Download this (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3358.msg54518#post_hillman_imp)

CLASS B (1000-1300cc)

Mini Cooper 1275S Download this (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3358.msg54518#post_mini_cooper_1275s_1968)
Ford Escort 1300GT Download this (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3358.msg54518#post_escort_1300gt)

CLASS C (1300-2000cc)

Ford Escort 1600RS Download this (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3358.msg54518#post_escort_rs1600)
Ford Escort 1600TC (FVA) Download this (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3358.msg54518#post_escort_fva)

CLASS D (Over 2000cc)

Chevrolet Camaro Z28 (from the 1970's carpack) Download this (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3358.msg54518#post_american_v8)
Ford Capri 2600RS (requires skinpack) Download this (http://www.mediafire.com/file/nv4lxqiu7nhdcnc/Ford_Capri_RS_2600.zip)
Ford Mustang Boss 302 Download this (http://gizmo71.www.idnet.com/srou/ukgtl/cars/SRou_GTL_69Boss302Mustang_1.1.0.0.exe)

Drivers are limited to a maximum of FOUR drives per Class, with a limited number of drives per car. For more information please click HERE (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1I7egPwfJnD3svMwKxFhsK633XLm8BLocdNuofsj2VKg/edit?usp=sharing)

Practice: ~19:20 (60 mins)
Qualifying: 20:20 (20 mins)
Race: 20:40 (25 laps)

Time of Day Setting: 14:00
Start: STANDING
Tyre wear: Normal
Fuel consumption: Normal

Server: simracing.org.uk Monday
Password: see above (#post_event_password)

Notes:
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Autopit="0"
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Special Notes: None

IMPORTANT

Once qualification has started drivers may not leave to change class/make/car. They may leave to change skins.

It s the version of Thruxton during the second world war after a bombing ? (http://www.vocinelweb.it/faccine/mad/pag4/01.gif)

Looking forward to this one after my last two pathetic race attempts.

Seem to be doing well (for me) in a Capri at the moment, mid 25's.

After a sudden malicious attack of sciatica last week putting Golf off the menu for me I thought it would be a good chance to race online on Monday. After a couple of minutes in the chair I realised it wasn’t on so had to give it a miss. :wheelchair: I tried again yesterday and I’m sure I can manage it now so hope to put in an appearance on Monday unless some Easter event crops up. :scooter: I’m sure I won’t be back playing Golf by then.

I like the cars and I like the track so I am just about to do some practice and hope to see all on Monday.  :)

Hope to see you there, Misnoimis.

Indeedy, and hope the back gets back to normal soon

Hi all!

Is it possible to race here at UKGTL for me? I have been racing at ETCC and GTL Virtual 63 World Sports Car Championship. 63 is almost over, only one race left.

I have done testing at Practice server for Thruxton.

I would be happy if I can race with you... :D

Br,

Mike Harley

Hi Mike and welcome to UKGTL.

There will be some familiar names on the grid I'm sure.

Hope you can join us this Monday and perhaps for a few more?

Cheers

WT

Hi,

Is there something what I need to do to my GTL? When loading drivers it loops with three drivers?

br,

Mike Harley

Have you downloaded everything? Which drivers?

Oldgeezer, clive and some.

I checked that I have all but I might have missed something.

Ill find out what their driving

RS1600 Escort

Now it's loopin Jeep, oldgeezer, clive

Br, Mike

Replay and results now posted

Thx Tony.

This track seemed to favor the faster cars, so concentrated on them when trying to decide what to drive. When some practice and setup tweaking indicated I could drive the Capri without getting mugged at the slightest prod at either pedal, I decided on it - had to use it somewhere, even though I hate it, so why not here.  Dismaying to return for more tweaking after a few days, and find it had reverted to being the usual malicious, disagreeable beast  :censored:  Took the better part of an hour to get back 'in tune' with it again.  If only this version would be as easy to drive as its fire spitting turbo cousins in the Asia Cup..  :wacko:

Entering the server today, I started wondering if Ziu is clairvoyant, or if he's simply hacked my PC. This is the 3rd race in a row in this series where he's picked the same car as me, in advance..  :ninja:  Happy with qual, as I knocked 0.3 sec off my pb, but with Ziu in the same car, it would of course only land me 2nd.

Bad start losing two places, to Matt & Clive. At the end of L1, the latter's slow entry into the chicane caught me out, so had to back completely off. Damn near lost another place, to John behind me. Also gave Clive an opportunity to get away, and I spent the next lap catching him again.  Passed him approaching the chicane at the end of the lap, but forced me on a line too far to the right.  Couldn't make the entry and bumped over the left part, promptly catching a cut warning.

Over the next laps, I extended the gap to Clive a little, while staying in touch with Matt.  Then a couple of unforced errors increased the gap to Matt.  When backmarkers next were thrown into the mix, all went tits up. Was just passing the 3rd of a gaggle, when the fastest corner approached. Its driver kindly stayed right, giving me the racing line, but I couldn't turn in where I usually did, as that would have seen us collide.  Hadn't shed enough speed for the wider entry I had to take, and thus ran wide onto the grass. Took forever to get back on tarmac (forever in this case being equal to 7-8 secs..).  Then had to do the work of getting past the same 3 cars all over again, which of course cost extra time.

Had been confident early on that I could catch Matt's Boss Mustang, if not sooner, then when his tyres went off.  With all the time lost, it started looking bleak though. On lap 23, I caught another backmarker approaching the chicane. Resulted in a complete repeat of the situation with Clive, including another cut warning.  Thus had to be very careful on the final two laps.  Was getting closer to Matt towards the end, but too little too late.  Grats to him on 2nd and Ziu on the win.  Glad to see that Huggy apparently stayed with us for the entire race - hope you can work out a solution to those AVG problems.

Had a really annoying problem during the race, as I had to keep slamming my steering wheel back into place. Switched to a Thrustmaster recently, and while their clamping system looks good on paper, I really miss the one used by Logitech. The latter you can tighten during a race, while it's virtually impossible with Thrustmaster's.  Even though I tighten it to the point of being afraid to break it, I still pull the wheel out during a race.  Will have to find a solution before next Monday. (Probably make a recess or edge of sorts beneath the table, to prevent it sliding)

Cheers,
Erling

My preparation for this race was virtually nil, so went with Capri as it was the car I was most happy to use up in this situation! Finally on Thursday my Av/maitaience system had a major update which screwed up big time. GTL wouldn't logon and Av and Win7 were incompatible.

Luckily grandson came down Saturday night so in between walking his dog he helped me uninstall Av and sort out GTL. I managed a few laps, then logged on and sat with grandson talking until M5 traffic eased before I got back to my car for the end of qualifying.

In view of above I had a surpriseingly good race. ::)

As I picked the slowest possible car, in case my crash-to-screen problem reoccurred, wasn't expecting much - and I wasn't disappointed :)
Still, it was quite an enjoyable drive as the little Imp generally goes where you point it and guess what? No crash, despite the fact I was unable to install the Joytokey patch that was suggested (not compatible with Windows 10?) or turn off AVG - the latest version makes no provision for that. Oh well, we will see what happens next time I guess.

I was fortunate in having ( almost ) overcome all of the issues that my AVG update has thrown at me at least as far as GTL is concerned. GPL is still recovering from major rebuild surgery after being completely scrambled by the update. I would complain to AVG, but frankly I don't think they give a toss about any software issues as old as the stuff we use.

I did do a couple of test runs at Thruxton over the weekend as I continually checked that it was still working whilst repairs and rebuilds of GPL were underway and to be sure that installs/downloads/ and modifying "A" had not affected "B".

The tests at Thruxton certainly indicated that the big cars would be favourite, and I did a run in the Mustang for a couple of laps and got down to a 1:25 lap quite quickly. Then I looked at the points table, and realised that maybe I needed to score some points in one of the other classes before the chances disappeared so I tried one of the fast Escorts.
I think I deluded myself that after getting a 1:27 lap after about 5mins there should be room for a couple of secs improvement and a chance to bother the big cars?........In hindsight I think I had a lucky lap and was almost at the best I could get with my ability, as I barely improved.
I did allow myself a smirk when I jumped Erling at the start and for a couple of laps I was almost able to hold onto Ziu and Matt with Erling behind looking to use his extra power and speed. Slowly the 2 leaders eased away and Erling looked increasingly eager to join them.
Sorry about being slow at the chicane, but that was one area of the track where I never got the braking point or line correct throughout the whole race. Maybe if I could get that right I might have found those elusive 2 secs??

Erling eventually made his extra speed count and then did a nice bit of Rallycross over the chicane  :D. He was able to ease away and the rest of my race was quite lonely.
Passing backmarkers livened things up, as I discovered that although I could carry good pace through the bends on a clear track, when obliged to modify my turn in points it really did upset the balance of the car and I had one or two "interesting" moments. No issue with the cars that I was passing, they were entirely innocent.
Fortunately by that time I had a comfortable cushion and was in no danger of losing places. I would have liked to be bothering the bigger cars ahead, but they were just a bit too quick  :-\.

Grats to Ziu ( I hope that your AVG probs are sorted), Matt and Erling. I guess I will have to wrestle with that Capri at some time....should be interesting  ::)

Clive:Passing backmarkers livened things up, as I discovered that although I could carry good pace through the bends on a clear track, when obliged to modify my turn in points it really did upset the balance of the car and I had one or two "interesting" moments. No issue with the cars that I was passing, they were entirely innocent

That's a relief - I did witness an interesting moment, and thought "oo er, I hope that wasn't me!" :)

Well, I could think the same thing for you (http://www.vocinelweb.it/faccine/biggrin/24.gif)

However on class D Ford Capri was the best choice because agile on these corners Z28 too heavy and Boss302 too problem with tire wear.

I have say that i used the Hocknheim setup because i was tired and i did few laps just for learn this track and i learned that i dont like drive here, not it s Ziu track. But i have say also that i go under 1:25 for the first time before qualy with race fuel so i could get 1:24,9 like my fast lap race but i not  forced my pace during the race becuase Matt with his Boss302 was a wall for Erling and Matt not had many chance too attack me because on slow corners my Capri was better that Boss302 he tried to pass me just on first lap at last chicane, i left him the space on the internal line because i knew to have a little advantege on second kerb so i could keep 1st place. However force the pace here not was a good idea also if i admit that i drove bad and i not had confidence with the setup and this is the most important element for be fast and go over the limit.

I m not still thinking about this championship it missing too races even and i did not get any points on first race.

One special thanks to Clive, after the race on Gellerasen i read his post about AV problems so i controlled the setup on my AV and it was managing my GTL so i disabled it on GTL then we will see if the next races i will get problem again, i think no. If happen that i can win at least one championsip despite my poor skills, it will be thanks to Clive.

Grats to Matt and Erling for podium, specially for Erling, he did a great qualy lap and great pace race. The Professor is becoming ultra fast.
Grats to Clive, to Geoffers and......grats to our Boss Tony !

Welcome Mike, I hope that you can have lots of fun racing with us (http://www.vocinelweb.it/faccine/felici/felici-set3/02.gif)

I quite enjoyed my race, Chose the Mini 1275S although I think the Escort 1300GT was a bit faster on this track (will use it another time).

Had some fun trying to chase down mikeharley (nice to welcome a new driver). I think I must have pushed into the right handed corners a bit too hard as my left front tyre really started to wear late into the race. I could only maintain the gap and after making a slight mistake under breaking at the chicane and losing some ground I guess I abused my worn front tyre too much, got two wheels inches off the track onto the grass but it was enough to give me a bit of a tank slapper when regaining the track (amazing how accurate GTL is at times). I didn’t fight it and managed to keep it straight avoiding disaster but I think it cost me about ten seconds ruling out any chance I had of catching Mike, let alone passing him.

I had to watch out for the fast cars (and drivers) lapping me towards the end of the race. That was interesting, being fair and letting them through while trying to catch out Mike as he did the same.  Pity I couldn’t keep the car on the tarmac for the entire race but there’s always another race coming up. I don’t think I can make next week’s race but should be O K again after that.

Grats to winner and podiums.  :clap:

Hehe no, if I had that knowledge, I wouldn't be stupid enough to pick the same class & car as you  ;D

Cheers,
Erling

Ok Ok i understood, to resolve this issue you need say which car you will use at Siverstone so I avoid to pick the same car (http://www.vocinelweb.it/faccine/felici/felici-set3/51.gif)

Grats to the podium and Ziu for his win.  I had some equipment troubles early, shifter clamp was just loose enough to cause double downshifts from 3rd to 1st causing a spin in the chicane.  Happened twice before I figured it out.  Steve, Geoff and I were running close together then and almost took us out I think.  When it came really loose I figured it out and did the fix and never had any problems after that.  Couldn't catch Steve, the Capri motor  was too fast down the straights, and behind me Geoff was in the same situation with the small motor Escort.  So finished just were I qualified.
Want to thank Tony for sending me his Escort setup,  I used your shock settings and it really made it a great driving little car.  Never had a off except for the downshift spins.
Good to see the great turnout and welcome to Mike.  Hope you will continue to join us!!!

See you all at Dubia
Bob M.

Went with the 1300 Escort for no particular reason other than I thought it would be quite fun around Thruxton.

Had a bit of a battle with Bob & Steve for a few laps at the start, mainly due to them making a couple of mistakes, eventually their power told & they pulled away. A few lonely laps followed before I got too much kerb at Church, a long two-wheeled moment followed before the car did its own thing & rolled over to have its tummy tickled ::). This dropped me behind the two Minis of Mike & Misnoimis before I regained the track. Caught up with them after a couple of laps & was fortunate that they both made mistakes which let me past. Remainder of the race was uneventful, being lapped by the leaders being the only excitement.

Congrats to Ziu, Matt & Erling  :clap: :clap: :clap: & also to Clive & Tony winning their classes.  :clap: :clap:

Enjoyed that one  ;D
Tried a few cars, and fancied the 1275 Mini, but the big BOSS was more fun for me. The other yank tank was 3 secs slower with
me driving it  ??? Ziu said it was heavier? perhaps that's it. Was surprised to out drag Erling, then tried to harry Ziu as best I could
but the BOSS was a tad "unstable" under braking into the bumpy final chicane, and though I cvould gain on the straights i could
not get it through the tight bits anything like the speed of the Capri.

Off topic: I notice we have a race at Croft later in the season  :thumbup1:
here's am in car of me making a mess of "Sunny In" a few hours before this race  ::)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kri1gqZnb1Q

Results (https://www.avonrise.co.uk/srou/kurts/Thruxton_17042017)

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Not much to say about this one. Not my favorite track/car combo without any practice after returning late from my Easter weekend.
Some fun with Tony in the opening stages ;D but then I had to concentrate on seeing the chequered flag without a stop&go after two
cut warnings.

See you next week.

Thanks; may take you up on it, but in a way it feels a little bit like cheating, so not quite sure..  :)

This series is completely unpredictable, since drivers not usually winning are scoring victories; will be interesting to see the final tally at the end of the season - could be a few surprises waiting..   :D

Cheers,
Erling

I had tried most of the cars here and for me the Mustang was by far the quickest but worries about the tyres and being such a fast track I knew any mistake would probably be a big one so decided on the RS1600 Escort as I felt the most comfortable in the bumpy braking areas.

A quiet race for me after the 1st few laps. Qualified in 6th having just crept into the 1:27's. Got a good start and jumped Steve by T1 and hung onto the back of Erling for the 1st few laps even having a sniff at an overtake at the end of lap 1 but sanity prevailed and I bailed out of what would have been a very messy move into T1 on lap 2. Lost a bit of rhythm a few laps in and the front 4 made a break, I meanwhile managed to extend the gap out from Steve by an equal margin. Once the race settled down and we began to lap a few drivers I knew there was nothing to be gained by pushing my way through so waited for an invite or a straight to make my moves. Steve began to come back at me towards the end but I knew as long as I didn't throw it at the scenery I had plenty in hand.

Thanks guys, great race, really enjoyed it as always.

TTFN
John.

I felt a Class D car would utilise the straights best so chose the Capri for handling over the Z28. However, I was aware that running a Capri amongst the other classes could potentially put me in the thick of things, so felt quite excited and nervous at the same time.

An average start off the line was wasted at the first corner where I found I was watching the cars in front rather than where the track was, got a bit cross-eyed, locked the front brakes and allowed 4 or 5 cars to pass before I could get going again. Down to 10th in a flash!

With a mix of classes on the track I thought just keep calm and with no further mistakes, get back into the thick of things. The Capri's pace soon took me past Mike and Misnoimis in their yellow minis. Next car passed was Geoffers who unfortunately made it rather easy for me by nose-diving into the hoardings on the start-finish straight. Next ahead was Bob's Escort whose rapid pace I could only just keep up with, even in the Capri. A brief spin by him allowed me to close right up and on the next long straight was able to get ahead for 6th, which stayed that way to the end. I'm not used to lapping other drivers, so thank you to those who moved over for me.

I noticed quite a few references this week to drivers using wheels, shifters (and pedals?) and the various problems they can throw at you. I've always used a gamepad (yes, I'll admit to it!). I've found I'm a little quicker with a wheel and shifter, but am less consistent with keeping the car on the road, so have always opted for a trusty gamepad.

Well done to Ziu again and to Matt and Erling for filling the podium.