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Title: UKGTL Ladder - TC-65 @ MagnyCours GP - 19th October
Post by: Simon Gymer on October 05, 2006, 10:43:33 AM +0100
All members welcome.

Practice: 20:15 (15 mins)
Qualifying: 20:30 (20 mins)
Race: 20:50 (19 laps = ~40 mins)
Track: Magny-Cours GP
Cars allowed: Alfa Romeo GTA (rating 3.8), Lotus Cortina   (rating 3.6), Austin Mini Cooper S (rating 3.2)
Time of Day Setting: 09:00

Server: UKGTL Ladder; in the event that the lobby is unavailable, connect using Direct IP, entering games.avonrise.co.uk in the Add IP box
Password: See this post (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=1665.0)

Notes:
(1) It's best if all drivers can make sure they are connected before the Qualifying session as drivers on track during qualifying will not see cars that join after they are on track until they go back to the garage.
(2) Please make sure you are fully aware of the SimRacing.org.uk Rules (https://www.simracing.org.uk/index.php?pid=7).
(3) General information on the ladder can be found on the series home page (https://www.simracing.org.uk/index.php?ind=lm2&group=25).
(4) The season will be run using a UKGTL carpack v1.2 (https://www.simracing.org.uk/downloads/UKGTL-skins-1.2.zip) which will need to be installed prior to racing.


Title: Re: UKGTL Ladder - TC-65 @ MagnyCours GP - 19th October
Post by: Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer on October 05, 2006, 10:55:55 AM +0100
I sense a lot of slipstreaming... :D


Title: Re: UKGTL Ladder - TC-65 @ MagnyCours GP - 19th October
Post by: Madd-RIP on October 18, 2006, 10:11:47 PM +0100
 :eek: Groundhog Day!! :P


Title: Re: UKGTL Ladder - TC-65 @ MagnyCours GP - 19th October
Post by: Mark J on October 19, 2006, 12:34:37 PM +0100
Drats, cant make this one  :'(

Though i am O.D'd on racing after the last 4 nights on the trot  ::)


Title: Re: UKGTL Ladder - TC-65 @ MagnyCours GP - 19th October
Post by: Radius on October 19, 2006, 12:37:07 PM +0100
Cortina it is then! :)


Title: Re: UKGTL Ladder - TC-65 @ MagnyCours GP - 19th October
Post by: Jeffrey on October 19, 2006, 12:41:44 PM +0100
Even if I would want to race here, I can't. My GTL DVD has a small crack on the inside (transparant part) and I'm not gonna risk blowing up a 2 day old PC. And as I can't be bothered to get a new one, GTL is over and out for me (or somebody must have a no-cd crack).


Title: Re: UKGTL Ladder - TC-65 @ MagnyCours GP - 19th October
Post by: Adam Parle on October 19, 2006, 02:38:34 PM +0100
I should be here for this - still recovering from my 3rd bout of tonsilitis since May.


Title: Re: UKGTL Ladder - TC-65 @ MagnyCours GP - 19th October
Post by: NoSpeed on October 19, 2006, 03:02:43 PM +0100
Cortina it is then! :)

Yepp, u damn right  ;D

Q: i just dl the skin pack and installed, but can i use original as well? or have to go in one of the skin pack cars?


Title: Re: UKGTL Ladder - TC-65 @ MagnyCours GP - 19th October
Post by: Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer on October 19, 2006, 03:29:17 PM +0100
Q: i just dl the skin pack and installed, but can i use original as well? or have to go in one of the skin pack cars?

Original cars are fine too.


Title: Re: UKGTL Ladder - TC-65 @ MagnyCours GP - 19th October
Post by: NoSpeed on October 19, 2006, 07:07:08 PM +0100
just tried to join and it said i didnt have to track installed, but its a original.... ideas? and pw didnt work either


Title: Re: UKGTL Ladder - TC-65 @ MagnyCours GP - 19th October
Post by: picnic on October 19, 2006, 07:16:29 PM +0100
not a case of the lobby changed server on you while you were typing the password was it? This bug exists in GTR1 and 2 so I'd be surprised if it's not in GTL too :(


Title: Re: UKGTL Ladder - TC-65 @ MagnyCours GP - 19th October
Post by: NoSpeed on October 19, 2006, 07:42:47 PM +0100
hehe no, but i know what u mean, it is existing in gtl too LOL dunno maybe it isnt same pw when its practice? and its not a moddifyed magny gp i hope?


Title: Re: UKGTL Ladder - TC-65 @ MagnyCours GP - 19th October
Post by: Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer on October 19, 2006, 07:54:15 PM +0100
hehe no, but i know what u mean, it is existing in gtl too LOL dunno maybe it isnt same pw when its practice? and its not a moddifyed magny gp i hope?

Not modded, but the practice server will have our usual practice password (see Passwords forum), not the race one.


Title: Re: UKGTL Ladder - TC-65 @ MagnyCours GP - 19th October
Post by: NoSpeed on October 19, 2006, 09:58:32 PM +0100
well, gratz to podium wd!, and damn this was lonely, got bored after 10 mins.  :P

Guess the GTA rules here...


Title: Re: UKGTL Ladder - TC-65 @ MagnyCours GP - 19th October
Post by: Radius on October 19, 2006, 10:06:38 PM +0100
gr all, my 1st GTL race in 3 weeks and its really grown on me once again!!

I FEEL ITS SOUL!!!  O0 no not soul-glo! lol


Title: Re: UKGTL Ladder - TC-65 @ MagnyCours GP - 19th October
Post by: Madd-RIP on October 19, 2006, 10:10:13 PM +0100
Well got a pb so couldn't have been all that bad for me, must say sorry to pribeiro and assassino, lost it under braking many apologies, I'll chastise myself to the moderator!
Well did anyone see the tumbleweeds rolling across the track.....sooooo quiet. only 14 of us.... mind you was nice'n'smooth.  ;D


Title: Re: UKGTL Ladder - TC-65 @ MagnyCours GP - 19th October
Post by: Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer on October 19, 2006, 10:13:48 PM +0100
That was good fun for the first half, battling with Zacari and Shark and looking like I might make an impression on Madd-RIPP and PRibeiro, until at about half distance my rear tyre pressures suddenly started acting vey erratic and I had understeer in the slow corners occaisionally punctuated by massive oversteer in the fast stuff, which was especially fun when it happened in Nurburgring, letting Zacari past, and then again in Estoril, putting me in danger from Goran behind.

They weren't especially worn and I didn't really change my driving style up to that point so I'm perplexed by what happened. ???

I should've taken the Cortina, it was very quick on the fast straights once it got some wind in its sails and I normally prefer its handling.


Title: Re: UKGTL Ladder - TC-65 @ MagnyCours GP - 19th October
Post by: Pero_Grozni on October 19, 2006, 10:16:24 PM +0100
 ;D
Great, superb race. I loved every minute of it. Very close front battles - it was exactly what the TC65 races are all about.
In qually I did very well - but LeH got a great lap in just second before next session. So I started second - than in the race I went into p1, droped back to p2, attacked again and droped down to p3. After a few laps I was able to get back into second place and make a safe gap on Baracus. I than started my attack - started doing some seriously fast laptimes - getting down into 2:11.6 (0.2 better than my qually time) in the proces. Right at the end of the race I cought up with LeH and immidiatly started an attack at the hairpin - I wasnt able to pass at first, but I made sure that I was close behind going into the last lap. I was able to get alongside LeH and make a clean pass into the hairpin. After that pass he wasnt able to repass me - I have been quicker in the midd section all trough the race and got enough of a gap to have a not too tense run to the line.
Well done everybody - I think that this was the first UKGTL race where there was no lapping and the pace at the front was very quick.  :)


Title: Re: UKGTL Ladder - TC-65 @ MagnyCours GP - 19th October
Post by: Simon Gymer on October 19, 2006, 10:16:58 PM +0100
Well I admit to making a complete noob error on the formation lap which I hope to severly battered with a wet kipper for. :wetfish: Weaving around and lost it spinning onto edge of track. Had to wait for whole field to come by and rejoin at back. It all sort of happened in slow motion really. Hmm, turning a little too much, hmm weight of car pulling meeee rooooound, ah, seem to be losing it, best do something about it, ahhh, toooo late. Most embaressing. Never done that before and hopefully never again.

Anyway, gave me some fun for the first few laps as I past the tail end. Then got near Zacari and Dave and promptly spun again on my own into the hairpin under brakes losing 4 seconds. After many laps I caught them up again, got a great exit out of final chicane and Zacari let me past. Did the same to Gizmo who made a mistake in the final chicane and I pulled along side and told him over team speak "you go" as he had the inside line, and he was like "no you go", very gentlemenly, but eventually we'd really slowed trying to be polite into T1 and I decided to go.

Then left Zacari and Gizmo for dead and caught up to Ribeiro in the last 2 laps. His line was braking very late and then cutting sharply back onto the apex whereas I was just smoothly driving the line. With only 1 real lap to do something I tried but it wasn't safe and not enough time to learn where my passing opporunity really was. Was a good scrap at the end thx.


Title: Re: UKGTL Ladder - TC-65 @ MagnyCours GP - 19th October
Post by: picnic on October 19, 2006, 10:51:12 PM +0100
Replay (http://ukgtl.simracing.org.uk/Magny-Cours%20GP_061019_2056.zip) is available.

Could fastard please identify his forum name so we can import the results cleanly TIA.


Title: Re: UKGTL Ladder - TC-65 @ MagnyCours GP - 19th October
Post by: pribeiro on October 19, 2006, 10:52:22 PM +0100
Nice race, cant do better than middle field ::).
Had some small fair dice with Madd-rip ( no problem M8, i managed to avoid, cutting the grass :) )
tryed to follow Radius (couldnt do that, i was loosing ~1 sec. per lap) :)
and at the 2 last laps Simon catch me dangerelous :sweatdrop: :helpsmilie: but he was very fair and i could keep
the place until the end :yes:, so, thank you all  ;)

See you next race
Cheers


Title: Re: UKGTL Ladder - TC-65 @ MagnyCours GP - 19th October
Post by: Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer on October 19, 2006, 11:37:41 PM +0100
Could fastard please identify his forum name so we can import the results cleanly TIA.

Fastard is Grimfairclp - I asked during practice 'cause I remembered we couldn't identify him previously.


Title: Re: UKGTL Ladder - TC-65 @ MagnyCours GP - 19th October
Post by: LeH on October 19, 2006, 11:47:16 PM +0100
Yes, this was a very nice race. Already quali was exciting, and again it showed how much faster online laps are. I was very happy to get pole, especially since I knew I just had this one last chance to make a perfect lap.

It happens that it takes me a few laps until I find my ideal pace with the race setup, and Pero took that chance and overtook me rather easily right at the beginning. I was already fearing he would disappear at the horizon soon, but I could manage to counter and even open a gap to him. I was surprised that he even fell back to 3rd, and started to wonder what was going on with him. Then in the last third of the race, when I already thought it would be a boring finish and went a bit easier, I saw him coming closer again. I tried to push more, but couldn't get the laps done as clean as I needed, while Pero was just flying closer. The lap before last I could keep him still behind by driving fast enough, but in the last lap he used my slipstream nicely on the straight, so I decided to brake into Adelaide on the inside, so he had to take the longer way. This gave me a disadvantage accelerating out tho, so he could get in front until the chicane. I could manage to stick close to him, but had no chance for a counter until the finishline anymore.

I wish Ruskus would post one of his laptime tables, since I really want to know how Pero's and my laptimes developed during the race, to learn if it were my times getting worse or Pero getting an adrenaline boost, or a combo of both, that caused this developing.

Very nice race all, and awesome job Pero.

**edit**
Just saw that the export with laptimes is in the replay-archive. I managed to driver rather conistant 2.02s throught the whole race, while Pero started with 2:03s and then really must have gotten an adrenaline boost and did a couple of 2.01s. Very nice job.


Title: Re: UKGTL Ladder - TC-65 @ MagnyCours GP - 19th October
Post by: picnic on October 20, 2006, 07:18:07 AM +0100
Could fastard please identify his forum name so we can import the results cleanly TIA.

Fastard is Grimfairclp - I asked during practice 'cause I remembered we couldn't identify him previously.

Thanks Dave, Provisional Results (https://www.simracing.org.uk/index.php?ind=lm2&event=220) now also available :)


Title: Re: UKGTL Ladder - TC-65 @ MagnyCours GP - 19th October
Post by: Simon Gymer on October 20, 2006, 08:56:34 AM +0100
Thanks Dave, Provisional Results (https://www.simracing.org.uk/index.php?ind=lm2&event=220) now also available :)

Thanks.

Wow that's jumped me to 8th in the ladder from just behind Gizmo! 8th now, next THE WORLD! :laugh:


Title: Re: UKGTL Ladder - TC-65 @ MagnyCours GP - 19th October
Post by: drumbstick on October 20, 2006, 12:44:47 PM +0100
Hmm reading your reports almost makes me want to dig up and dust off my copy of GTL.

May wait until the TC65s come round again though  :-\


Title: Re: UKGTL Ladder - TC-65 @ MagnyCours GP - 19th October
Post by: Radius on October 20, 2006, 02:08:02 PM +0100
Thanks Dave, Provisional Results (https://www.simracing.org.uk/index.php?ind=lm2&event=220) now also available :)

Thanks.

Wow that's jumped me to 8th in the ladder from just behind Gizmo! 8th now, next THE WORLD! :laugh:

gl 2 u sir!!!  :D