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Practice 1:	20:16	(9 mins)	full time drivers only
Practice 2:	20:25	(10 mins)	reserves may join too
Qual 2:	20:35	(25 mins)
Race:	21:05	(40 mins)	note: no warmup!

Cars allowed: any G2 or NGT from the UKGTR Skin Pack v2.2 (https://www.simracing.org.uk/index.php?pid=27) (see this thread (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=2228.0)) (G2 cars will not score points).
Weather: Dry
Track: Donington GP 2004
Race Start Time 14:00

Server: UKGTR NGT Academy
Password: here (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=2310)

Notes:
(1) Please make sure you are fully aware of the UKGTR Rules (https://www.simracing.org.uk/index.php?pid=7) - especially the speed limiter starting procedure and the rules about in-game chat messages.
(2) Driver lists can be found on the championship standings page (https://www.simracing.org.uk/index.php?ind=lm2&group=40).
(3) You will not be able to join the server without the skin and ballast pack (see link above).
(4) Drivers should remember that they get only two free changes of car in each series.

Looking forward to this.

And Happy New Year

I'm going for this one too, seeing as I've missed the last few NGT races :)

ooo, its getting hot up the top of the table!!!!

lets race gents!  :)

After having problems most of last month :'( with the pc due to graphics card and mobo am now glad to be back up a running fine!!!  8) looking forward to it!! waheey

I'll be there for this one, but I'm still having issue with dodgy framerates so if I bail early that'll be why.  Bit of a pain in the arse, nothings changed on my system since before the problems so I haven't got a clue where to start looking.

if i can get my online password to work i'll be there..waiting on a response from 10tacel.

lol, good luck there mate, ppl never get responses!

If this is your lobby password just create a new account with a slightly different name if you want to race.

 :-[ and sorted now if i can just get the track unlock thing to work ::) anyone know if the patch stops it working..

Wouldn't have thought so but aren't you just reusing your old profile? Or is that lost forever?

Does nobody do backups any more?

What do you mean "any more". I've never known anyone out of the industry do them until they have a failure and loose something!

Looking forward to this one,havent even touched the game over christmas and have had no practise.Hope to get some time in over the weekend.

i thought i had backed it up but coming from xbox/360 world i cant have done it right.and when i'd tried to put it back in the game i could'nt get online with it  :-\
lookin for a cheap copy of pc for dummies  ;D

Unplug PC
Open PC
Clean dust.
Use hoover (oh so geeeeently). DO NOT let the airflow turn any of the fans (hold them down while cleaning). Rest of dust can be cleaned with a brush of some sort (made out of NATURAL fibres, plastic will fry your mobo due to static electricity). Do not wear anything made out of plastic, try to be grounded (barefoot, if nothing else).

Simple.

Best regards,

your computer maintenance guy.

Been there, done that, got the T-shirt.  Should be fixed for next weekend, but I might have to give Tuesday's race a miss, had a race offline and was getting major problems before finishing the first lap.

I don't want to miss this one, but common sense (from a Legends Racing driver??) means I'm going to have to, I'd just be causing incidents all over the shop if I tried to race.

Come on then guys! Depress me with a few lap times!?

I can do 1.35 something all day but can't get any quicker!!

Trying the 360 this time!!
I assume the Virtual mirrors work on the server!?
Otherwise, I'm gonna have a problem getting out of your way!!

Really looking forward to this! Hope I get in!!

M.

Im on 33 highs at the mo,not had any practise.Going to get on there tonight and see if I can get any quicker...

Ha!

How about mid 1.37's...... Can't get any quicker for me with my current 'set-up'

Regards
Colin 8)

I've done a sub-1:32 in timetrial mode but that's not usually a true reflection of my actual pace in the race or qualifying.

To be fair, Donington was always one of my bogey tracks in GTR and I've put in far more practice and setup time than I normally would. I should do pretty well in the Sprint race (aiming for top 6) but as usual it's the Endurance race I'm really focussing on.

BTW my current qualifying setup is available in the online setups if anyone fancies running the 350Z.

Just done half hour on the server and was able to squeeze a high 32.Hope Ican get it down abit tomorrow....

The Masters NGT Endurance race (https://www.simracing.org.uk/index.php?ind=lm2&event=258) on Sunday had qualifying times ranging from 1:30.6 to 1:33.7 and fastest race times ranging from 1:31.6 to 1:34.5, so I would expect the Academy qualifying times to be in the race times bracket of the Masters.

Wow, you guys are too good!!

I've put loads of practice in as well!! :(

I've even none a few laps for real on a track day on my R6 a few years ago!
Awesome!!
( Obviously I was slow on that too !! )

 ;D

Hope you guys have a good race this evening....and I hope to see you on Sunday with a fully functional PC once again.

R6 =RS6?? Phat car  ;)

I'd guess bike rather than car.

Bike boys! None of these girlie cars!! ;D

Perdy,

I appreciare your help on the personal messages.
I did send you a reply but it doesn't show in my outbox!? Did you get my reply!?

M.

PMs are only saved if you check "Save a copy in my outbox" when sending them, which is probably why you can't see it.

Aah! OK Thanks for that!  ;)

Sorry for quitting during qualli but I was having major problems with my wheel and pedals. I couldnt keep the thing on the track, and I "interrupted" 1 or 2 peoples qualli sessions. I apologise for that. Didnt want to cause any problems during the race itself so called it a day.

Hope you all had a good race.

Cheers

Rob

Nope, not only can't I spell NGT I can't drive either.

Big apology to Don in NGT academy.
Sorry mate, i should have waited to spin my car back around waiting for you to pass. Hand up on that one.

Have to say I'm rather gutted about that.... Was looking like my best Sprint for ages ???

Well how bad could it get.

Had 2 offs,which put me back in 17th.
Thought I'd stick with,before having to evade a kerbcrawler and spinning off.
All that practice and I'm still crap. :'(
Couldn't get any near my times in qualifying for some reason.

Anyway congratulations to who ever wins.

And I'll see you all in the enduro.

Good race really enjoyed that.

Grats to Perdy, well done fella.  Might have been able to put you under a bit more pressure if I wasn't so inconsistent nowadays, still did my best and enjoyed the race.

Hi were my brake lights on . It felt like it. Had to cane engine in low gears just to get along at some places.bye for now gerald

Hey beholder buddy!
I was that kerb crawler!!
Sorry was doin my best!!

Oh and thanks to whoever bumped me off on about lap 5, gutted!

Good racing though!
Was catching Tinman and Jamera for about 10 laps, really good fun!
Tinman spun off and I never quite caught Jamera!

Top circuit though guys eh!!

M.

:)

Congrats to podium.

Although i went from 2nd in qualifying to finishing 2nd last  :o i really enjoyed my 1st race and look forward to the next.

Thanks to staff at simracing for giving us all such a well organized league.

Had a really bad qually but thankfully Luke my team mate was going to help me in the race. Bit of trouble with the coms as no one could hear me (damn mic) but then as he let me passed I clipped the kerb and went into him punting him off! Sorry about that mate!!

Managed to find my way up to 2nd and was behind Perdy although really couldn't get close enough to make a move. Then dropped it and had a brief spin so back to 3rd behind team mate Greg. He later had a slight off and I got back passed although he said he did it delibrately for the championship stakes  :P

So 2nd overall now very close at the top. Congrats to Perdy for the win, shame I had that spin or it might have been a bit closer.

Good race all and big thanks again to Luke (although we don't have any team orders!!)  ;)

Good show and bad luck.

Great race for me, marred by seeing Picnic retire when I need all the help I can get to try and stop 28CDm taking the NGT Team title.

Qualified well below where I was expecting, just couldn't get a good lap in. Finally hooked one up right at the end of qually but was still behind Picnic's TVR in about the middle of the pack.

The opening lap was... well, I was up to about 6th or 7th by the end of it, and carried on climbing after a great dice with a yellow Ferrari whose name I didn't recognise.

After a few more laps I slipped up the inside of the Fezza into the Melbourne Loop and was thus 4th, and there I stayed until the end of the race despite Greg's best efforts to chuck his car off the track. Tyres started to go off near the end and Luke Mustoo was heading my way at a great rate of knots until he was kind enough to spin off out of (I think) Coppice and give me some breathing room to bring it home just shy of a podium place.

I really rather looking forward to the Endurance race now! ;D

Replay (http://ukgtr.simracing.org.uk/Donington%20Park%20-%20NGT%20Sprint%20Academy%20070109.zip) and Provisional Results (https://www.simracing.org.uk/index.php?ind=lm2&event=290) available

lol hope you guys dont mind i took part in this race. I was running waaaay late from another race meet and still had that profile loaded. Masters was showing 24/25 and still i couldnt join :( but academy had only 20 drivers.

So i took the vertislow and decieded to start plum last. Tried not to get in anyones way, dont think i did and finished 9th i think :D

Thanks for the hospitality  :D ;D

sorry mate, didn't get the pm! try again!

Well quali was fun...Buckie and I had a great quali contest, pole snatching!!

But that was a tough race! Keeping concentration when on your own is suprisinly hard! The first half of the race was tough, got a good start...buckie left a bit too much of a gap on s/f line (you can come up to my rear bumper mate for future reference). Hope the pace lap was not too fast apart from that.

Paul had made up a few positions and I had already marked his card after looking at the championship table! :'( After buckie and rogue fell off the track Greg closed quickly and was keeping a second behind. Thankfully Paul R caught him and pressured him giving me some breathing space! If it wasn't for a mistake each by Paul and Greg then the finish wud have been so so close!!!!! Greg with fastest lap etc

This championship is hotting up! Bring on the next race Paul R and some wicked racing  ;)

Unofficial Lapchart (http://www.lapcharts.teamshark.org.uk/Lapcharts/Donnington NGT 09-01-2007 ACA/index.html)

thanks ruskus! usual efficiency!  :)

may I be cheeky and as if you have the replay for your Master Qualifying. Would love to see how a 1m29 is done!!!!!!!!!!!

I wish I could, but it doesn't save the hotlap of every session. And because that 1:29 was lucky, I guess I can't do it again :D

lol no worries

Ive got a 1.29!!!

but my cat ate it teacher  ;) :D

I do however have:

1:30.5 in the RSR
1:30.9 in the TVR
1:31.2 in the Vertiblow

i'd love the RSR one please!!!  ::)

http://w11.easy-share.com/762774.html

AHHHHHHHH.....so you were the super-hiper-rocket Vertigo, that i couldnt follow close :o
And i thought for a moment,  hmmm...this Worship guy drives like good old Rad

 :wetfish: Now, my  :cursing: lovely race :thumbdown:
Had one of the most bad qual, in 14th :wheelchair:
During warmup lap, i spun :-[ (theres always a 1st time for everything) :hammer:
So, i let all field pass, and i started last ::) (i was laster than you Radius) :whistling:
hahahahahahahahahahahahahah.........with some luck i finished 11th :yes:
Now, aiming for next round :yawn:

Thanks all for your quality driving

Cheers

thank you very much mate!! appreciated!  ;D

You can take me off the list of full time drivers for the Sprints Dave, thanks.

:(

Wondered who "Grecian Worship" was! :lol:

We might have to come up with a better plan for stopping those who are normally Masters from affecting the championships in the Acaedmy; the Vertigo was a good idea and I thank you for it. Unfortunately Greg's appearance in the Academy (with my blessing - boy do I feel like a chump now)  coupled with Picnic's DNF has extinguished the last (admittedly distant) hope of Team Shark getting the team championship. :'(

Good morning everyone,

Really sorry I didn't make this one. After leaving the practice yesterday and starting to get a nice set-up and pace, I logged off and then my internet connection went. Having big big problems with Orange at the minute and I think this might be part of the problem.

Anyway I wont be online at home for another 2 weeks so I will be back, with DFP for the next set off races.

Regards
Colin 8)

same with Racin24-7!!! Might have to ask RoGuE to help out more often! And bloody spin first lap! haha

Sorry guys. Couldn't make this one again due to my connection :(

Dave,

Does that mean you have a Full time place available!!!????
Am I at the top of the list yet!?

M.

 :)

Dont worry Dave, if all goes according to plan I will off down under in about 5 weeks.  It was nice to be able to enjoy my racing and relax for a change  ;)

Well i was plannig on taking the 350Z lol but common sense prevailed  ;) ;D ;D

I was expecting not to score any points (let alone be included in the results) therefore those behind gain a place and some points! init?

lol, shame there isn't a GT1 version similar to the Japanese Super GT's one! Then i'd chose it  :)

At the moment the software which generates the results has no capacity to avoid giving points to "guest" drivers. Since the divisions are supposed to be ability-based, it's not generally desirable to have Masters in the Academy or vice versa.

That would mean i take a solitary point after my poor show!!!  :-[ so yes please!!  :-*

Munk

That doesn't seem to be fair.  >:(  Academy driver who would get a point gets excluded 'cause "Masters wanna race, my boy"! ?  ???

TT

I never said it was fair - I said the software isn't designed to have people racing in the "wrong" division.

I was looking forward to this race but my connection has decided to crap out on me. It will hopefully be fixed for the enduro. Though I am not hopeful.

Looks like I missed an eventful race!

Reign Man

Hi Dave

Just an explanation of why I baled out last night.

It seems that the frame rate problem I had last week at Laguna came back to haunt me.

After much gnashing of teeth I narrowed the problem down to my having installed the latest video drivers. 93.XX or something so I went back to the old drivers and everything now seems OK.

I must stop faffing about with my computer


Oilseal

Quite an intense race for me last night....
Quallied 6th with my PB and had Paul up behind me,he went up the inside of me and we just clipped each other which sent me into the gravel and down to 12th.
Fought my way back up the field and a few good battles on the way,was able to get upto 5th and with 7 minutes left I was 3 seconds behind Giz.started pushing to get up behind Giz and when I got within 1 second of him I spun out....
Got back on track and had 2 extremely intense final laps with Camusito(really sorry for the touch on last lap  :-X  :'( )and Rouge,in the end finished where I started 6th...
Not a bad final result....Fighting for the team championship  ;D :P

I was again having problems coming round the Melbourne loop - the point where the garages and other pit area structures are in view. Nowhere else, just there.

Yeah me aswell,also with about 2 minutes left all the cars just disapered from the screen  ??? :o ,scary moment

Hi I was getting variable feed back some laps were good others as i said felt like the brakes were on.Looks like I had the fastest tvr race lap how could that be when I was  complianing about lack of speed.cheers gerald