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Round 8 - Brands Hatch GP

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April 18th - Password entry (on day of race)

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

Cars allowed:
Porsche 962 Short Tail

SKINPACK (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=14771.0). Top of driver's list on the opening post.

Track:  Brands Hatch GP


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

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Ooft...Porsche 962 & Brands Hatch GP, what a combo  :punk:

And for your viewing delight :-
https://youtu.be/hWS4NS2wT_A (https://youtu.be/hWS4NS2wT_A)

Nice video!

Car feels great here but such an intense circuit,  there is no let up anywhere! 40mins of extreme focus required  :o

I shared my setup in case you guys wanna try it out  :)

Thanks, much appreciated.

I saw quite a few laptimes on mediums, are those the tyres that can last the race?

Yes, they would most likely last. But don't ask how much fun the last 10 laps or so are going to be..

I can't race tonight .  :(   Have a good fight, guys!

I'm not gonna make it tonight either.

As already stated one week ago, I won't be able to join the race :(

Have fun chaps :)

Small grid today maybe - shame as this should be a fantastic race 8)

Bummer to hear so many regulars wont be racing such a cool combo  :'(
Hopefully more points for the rest of us mortals though  ;)

This combo is masochism for me  :o Only plus point is, that I can see MJ's house from the pits  ;D

Ever since I have had AC I have struggled with the steering, it took me agaes to work out that the
only half drivable setting I can get is to move the slider to full right, even then it feels like a huge deadband
i drive off onto the grass on straights while sawing at the wheel.  IS similar on my G27 and G25
though this (the place I am) is the G25, which "might" be worse. I think Picnic has similar issues
as both of us can drive in a straight line in Raceroom no trouble.

 :'( Sorry not to make it again, hope to join in a couple of weeks, got all the issues of a 73 year old right now.

Sorry to hear that Bob :(

That was an awesome finish to a fantastic race - apologies to Jeffers for the contact early on while we were side-by-side, I tried to re-dress but you wouldn't pass me so I pressed on before Porko could snare you.

How the Rift didn't fog up I don't know - I'm covered in a sheen of sweat after that ending. I could see Fabri was struggling all race in his car and was desperate to pass him as then I should have been able to pull away.
But I kept on getting into scraps with Jeff instead when either of us got close  ;D

Off to watch the replay now with a drink, see you all at the next one :angel:

I was bored alone at the front and I noticed that 2nd, 3rd and 4th were really close, so I waited at druids and joined the fun.  :)

On the replay I noticed that when passing Jeffrey I didn't leave him enough space. I'm sorry man, it was not my intention  :oops:

Superb combo, the first 15 minutes were such a rush, hanging on to the 5 front cars ahead in a frantic fast train  8) this track (and the pace) was relentless!
I was glued to Porco and he was getting quite ragged kicking up dirt on a lot of corners but mostly staying ahead. After that first quarter of an hour I noticed my rears were already yellow  :o and I paid too much attention to the tyre app and losing ground on Porco and the front guys.
By mid race my rears were red but I could still do mostly 1.22’s for the rest of the laps, but it was a shame to not be able to push or attack for the rest of the race.
Lack of numbers was disappointing tonight  :( and it made for a lonely race once Porco pulled out a 6+ sec gap over me with nobody to race.
I was drenched in sweat but only made one error, with two laps remaining I ran wide at Clearways exit and lost about 7 seconds, but no harm done.

Pace up front was amazing, well done to the podium  8)

Was a restraint race for me, no enough pace, really slippery setup, I tried to kept the position. I was able to stay close from the firsts for about 15 mins, after fatigue won, did some mistake and never catched the same laptimes of the first 15 mins, just managed the gap with Mark. Also two wrong downshite forced me to manage the engine to avoid mistake and retire.
At the end I saw some mistake in front me, but I was so unconcentrated that when I saw the smoke I went straight for the grass :)
Great race anyway, and great pace from Felix, 1 second faster than others, in any cases, impressive.

40 minutes infernal. 40 minutes of huge understeering.

For some reason my race setup had big problems with the front end. I do not know if it can be explained by the crash of logitech software that forced me to reboot just a few minutes before the qualifications. In any case, the car was undriviable. I had really great problems in braking and entering. I had to brake 20-30 m before the normal point, and this was also dangerous for the other pilots behind me.
The case wanted me in 2nd and then 1st position (after Felix has decided to get through the group, because he was too bored leading alone).
If I was behind maybe I would have retired (it was a real pain drive with a car so badly put), but being ahead I tried to defend myself in every way, but at the last corner Felix easily overtook me.

40 minutes infernal. 40 minutes of huge understeering.