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Password: see above (#post_event_password) (released 24hrs before the race)

Round 3 - Imola

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January 31st - Password entry (on day of race)

Practise: 19:30 (45 mins)
Qual: 20:15 (15 mins)
Race: 20:30   40 minutes

Cars allowed:
Ferrari 599xx

SKINPACK (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=14762.0). Top of driver's list on the opening post.

Track:  Imola


Live Timing: stracker.simracing.org.uk:50041/lapstat (http://stracker.simracing.org.uk:50041/lapstat)

Time of Day Setting: 14:00
Weather: Clear
Start: Standing
Tyre wear: Normal
Fuel consumption: Normal
Pit-stops: Not required

Server track settings:
SESSION_START=100
RANDOMNESS=0
LAP_GAIN=0
SESSION_TRANSFER=N/a

Damage: 70%

Password: see above (#post_event_password)

PLP App - Not used in this series. Cutting will be monitored on replay and penalties issued for excessive cutting.

Notes:
(1) Please make sure you are fully aware of the UKGTR Rules (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3349.0)
(2) Driver lists can be found on the championship standings page

Ballast:

Maikel: 80kg
Felix: 60kg
Manteos: 20kg
nfsw55: 60kg




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Ballast for next round is posted.

Can everybody with ballast check if they have the right amount? It's all done manually, so it's likely there will be an error at some point  :P.
I can't make this race, which is why it's Imola  ;D

I won't race for sure tomorrow, so even if mine it's wrong it's not a problem. Will check it for the next one. See you next week :)

Darn,  there was me thinking I was outpacing Felix for a change on the practise server  :o but I forgot he has Jeremy Clarkson sitting in the passenger seat with ballast  ;D

Yes, I'm over one second slower with the ballast.

This is one of the worst tracks to carry so much extra weight  :(

At least it is working then and people are not driving around overweight without any use:).

IMHO, Road Athlanta will be the same bad track for extra weight balance.  ;)
I not have any time for traning Imola but tomorrow ill' try to do some tens of laps  :)

HI everybody, couldn`t find an introduction thread so somebody point me there please if there is one. Anyway would it be possible to join this league? or is it closed?
Saw your thread on AC forums which brought me here in the first place.

Hi and welcome Flavus. You can find more information here:
https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=14762.0

It is still open so no problem if you want to join. If you want a custom skin you can post that in that thread and send me your steam GUID :).

Welcome Flavus,

enjoyed racing with you for the first few laps (until you disapeared off into the distance), very close. clean fight

I was worried I wasn't even going to make qualifying as I was still putting the children to bed at 8pm! Didn't even know what track it was so had fingers crossed that I didn't need to download anything. Jumped on the server with a few seconds of practice left, loaded my setup from Nurburgring and swapped the settings from left to right (as it's an anti-clockwise track). Worked out what fuel I would need during qualifying, but not really on it so started 9th was it?

Anyway, had some great battles for the first half of the race as I got to grips with the car/circuit combo and eventually discovered how to drive it properly. I was really getting into it and rampaging up the order, not long before the tyre drop off point, whilst chasing NFSW hard, I was suddently possessed by the ghost of Ayrton Senna. I started setting green, followed by green, followed by more green laps and then...as if I was totally at one with the car...the holy grail...a purple lap! Me!? A purple lap! Me?! :eek:

Ok, yes others had (a tiny ;) bit of) ballast, but it was on half worn tyres and I'll take whatever I can get, so just for a little while, I'm going to savour that purple lap, like the victory it feels like.

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Enjoyed the race but I had no idea how long the tyres would last. I saw everybody was on mediums so I put them on but for some reason I thought it would be a 30 lap race and did not think the tyres would last so I planned to pit. Halfway  through the race I realised my mistake but had to pit for fuel so lesson learned. Started to get a feel for the car as the race went on and had a good battle trying to pressurise a green car into an error and if he had held it on track for 2 corners more he would have had me off his tail as I had to pit  :) I did not have driver names on so I do not know who it was but it was good fun.

Bah that didn't go as I hoped  :(

Qualied well with a new pb to grab 4th, so far so good.  :)
Got a good start and stayed with the front 3 for a couple of laps. However that all un-ravelled when I had to take a big avoiding action to avoid smashing into felixs almost stationary butt on the fast downhill left  : :o
Don't know whether he had tangled with Nfsw or it was the ballast but it was quite a shock to close so fast.
Unfortunately that dropped me into the clutch of Frex. We enjoyed a good battle for ages whilst Simon closed on us.
My main gripe of the night was the completely different grip we seemed to have compared to the online practise server. My setup which had been good for numerous low 42's now couldn't even get me out of the 43's  >:( and the car was over-steering too regularly, one dose of which allowed Simon an easy pass at the first chicane  :(
Anyway my fight with Frex was good fun and went on for ages until he got a bad oversteer in a fast left and stoved into my side whilst I was doing near 100mph  :o ...about 2millions worth of Fezzas wrecked right there!
The car didn't feel quite the same after being converted into the colosseum  ;D
I steadily closed on FMG after, who had also got an easy pass due to the accident  ::) but ran out of time/laps and finished a lowly 7th...boo.

Well done to Maikel and the podium..and shark for his purple patch  :)

I haven't enough time for this race traning. Qualyfied the 2nd was a very good for me. Thanks guys for absolute fantastic, correct and proper race start. I love UKAC for that. The first turns was ideal as i remember  :)
Maikel went for Win with +80 kg. No other way  here  ;D
I tryed to support good pace in race distance and have lonely laps which is saved my concentration in good level. In 2\3 Felix was vacated from nfsw55 cool battle and begun to chase me. AAAaand.. I fueled 59l at start. In race i seen that my fuel app is in bug(!) and don't inform me about fuel. I had bad forefeeling and understuud this in last laps. This moments i lost my patience, make a mistake and Felix pass me in Rivazza. Now i have time to check fuel manually using brain  ;D
Checked that i dont have 1-1.5 litre for last laps. Begun to save fuel and finished with 50 gramms  :)  Simon finished just after me, so i was lucky here. :)
And yes- as Mark said- i have the different car feelings in this session too. Good that i manage my final setup in official practice. With my old and more calm setup it was impossible to drive fast here.  :)
Thanks guys for the race and see you all in Road Athlanta if i 'll race it due my birthday  :P
PS . Yeah, Simon is cool in purple colour!  :)

PPS. Start and no fuel finish onboard vid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyMI7dnHbdU     

Is ballast on championship positions or last race positions?

Race positions.

So I was right not to push too hard on the last lap to get past Alexey. ;) :angel:

Decided to turn down the traction control and improve the front end here after struggling for outright pace in the previous 2 races - definitely quicker, but also twitchier..

Early laps were hectic and great fun, many changes of position and good fighting. When MJ went wide avoiding Felix I nipped past and more fighting ensued - good fun! Eventually though I started to pull away, and even start to close on the heavily laden Felix up ahead. But then undid all of that by going wide, which left me vulnerable again to those behind. And next lap I got too much kerb at Piratella and was spat sideways into MJ, taking us both out - really sorry Mark.

Notyhing to do except limp to the finish after that, but really enjoyed those early laps.

Congrats podium.

Yeees, very clevah  :P. You won't get any ballast for Road Atlanta ;).

That went pretty good. Found the car still enjoyable and good to drive even with the ballast. Pushed hard the first few laps to where I had abit of a gap to Baikal so I thought to take it abit easier, but then I saw him doing fast laps so I had go keep the pace to the max. Then in the later half I saw Simon hitting purple and tried to get it back but couldn't anymore  ;D

Next up Road Atlanta where I've never driven before  8)

Had a positive feeling before the race, practice and qualifying went well, but as soon as the lights went out I struggled and couldn't find a rythm.
In turn 1 I got a little tap from behind, but I don't think that this caused much damage to my car. For the first few laps I held Felix behind me, but due to my unconsistent driving he soon got past me.
I tried to follow him but at the halfway mark I touched the inside wall on the s/f line while doing 220 km/h ;D Car was done after that and so I lost another place to Simon.
Only positive thing is that I can unload some ballast for the next race :D

WD Maikel and podium