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Practice 1:	20:00	(15 mins)	full time drivers only
Practice 2:	20:15	(10 mins)	reserves (not Clubmen) may join too
Qual 1:	20:25	(5 mins)	Clubmen may join too
Qual 2:	20:30	(25 mins)
Race:	20:55	(80 mins)	note: no warmup!

Cars allowed: any GT1, G2, GT2, GTC or GT3 from the UKGTR Skin Pack v2.3 (https://www.simracing.org.uk/index.php?pid=27) (G2 and GT3 cars will not score points).
Weather: changeable, based on real-world conditions at the start of the event.
Track: Estoril
Race Start Time 14:00
Pit Stops: All drivers must make a minimum of one pit stop. This must involve entering the pit lane at the speed limit, and coming to a complete standstill in the designated pit box. Tyres do not have to be changed and no fuel has to be added. You cannot take your mandatory stop at the end of the pace lap, or with less than 1 lap to go.

Server: UKGTR Endurance Masters
Password: available from the event page (https://www.simracing.org.uk/index.php?ind=lm2&event=368) (see the Show Password link under the announcement text)

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=52)
(2b) Reserves (anyone without a full time spot) should not join until the stated session, regardless of the time.
(2c) Drivers with a full time spot in the Endurance Clubmen should only take G2 or GT3 cars. Other reserves may take any permitted car.
(3) You will not be able to join the server without the skin and ballast pack (see link above).
(4) Drivers may only change car once in the season without penalty.
(5) Drivers are reminded that they must select ISDN as their bandwidth, otherwise the stability of everyone's connection will be reduced.

Hmm, dunno what happened there. Had a great race with Freq for the whole 74 minutes, one pass each with him leading me into the closing stages by a couple of seconds. Pit stop was perfect and I pitted one or two laps earlier than Freq. He came out of the pits just as I went by and we exchanged places a couple of times on that lap eventually Freq getting the better of me.

Then with about 6 minutes to go in 3rd place with my engine temp in the cold (70s/80s), not been over-revving the engine and with 20 litres of fuel left my engine just died. Very wierd. That's two races in a row my engine has gone. Last race it went at the finish line thank god but not this time. Spoilt my dice with Freq (although to be fair he had that in the bag) and Jeff was closing fast so that would have been interesting.

Never had such an unreliable car (yes two engine failures is more than i've ever had so it's unreliable in my book), especially when I've not been over-driving the engine. Might give up with that yank peice of crap if it can't go 80 minutes. ;D

Great wins Jon and Leuven.

What a good race that was.  ;D

Qualified 2nd, unable to keep with Leuven amazing pole. For the race went with med-hard as the track was unusual hot (yeah in Portugal is warmer  :P ;D :D).
Leuven was quick in the first laps, but I was able to catch up with him and run some close laps. After a small error from Leuven got to first and from then on the distance to 2nd was steadily increasing.
But then, amazingly, Leuven shaved some 20 or more seconds in is pit stop (no fuel I'll bet). From then on was a chase all over the second stint, closing the distance but not enough to get 1st again.

Congrats to the winners and to all for a great race ;)

 ;D pb in quali, and an absolute mega fight with Pribeiro and Reign Man again, I was trying all i could to get past Pribeiro but the 360 has just got the edge, and any mistakes I made were pounced upon by Reign Man. Pribeiro and I managed to eek out a small gap and then Saw Anthony spin in front of reign man in my mirrors and pretty much give me a big breather for the remainder of the race.

A couple of errors on my part saw Pribeiro lose me and then I got caught up in the GT1 fights so tried to stay out of the way as much as I could, which cost me a shedful of time tbh. But I don't think i could have kept up with Pribeiro for any great length of time as the rear of the car was really starting to misbehave! after pushing so hard :D. Having said that the car was Sublime for the most part, setup worked nicely and consistent so more than happy with that.

Well done everyone.

Managed to get a pretty good qually time in quite early and ended up piping Luis for pole. :)

Race temp was pretty hot so I wasn't expecting to be going fast, allthough Luis had other ideas. :D
Managed to keep him behind for a few laps but I ran a little wide after the silly chicane (in sim games anyway) but put a couple of wheels onto the marbles at very low speed but it still decided to do a half spin. :wacko:

This left me about 6 seconds behind Luis untill he pitted where I managed to get out around 20 seconds infront, but I took too long to get the tyres warmed up and over the next few laps my lead had dropped to about 10 seconds.
A few more laps and GT1's lappers later (who were great tonight BTW) the time was about six seconds again but in my favour.

Held on to the finish so quite happy as the car was a little bit of a pig at times, but it's reliable so I'll let it off. ;) ;D

Great racing Luis, even though we weren't very close for most of it We were in a constant battle. 8)

Well done to Jon and the other Sharks,
Shame about Shark and his machinery that let him down again. :-\ Lambo or 550 next race? ;)

Interesting race for me. Qualified in 3rd behind Jon and Paul.

Paul made a mistake at the beginning, so I was chasing Jon after that. The only way to overtake him was to keep the loss in the last turn to the minimum. At once I did that and I could outbrake him. I could increase the gap to 1,5 before it decreased again.

When Jon tapped me I took the risk of pitting in at that point to not drive with the damage for too long. With 53 minutes to go I fueled 85L. When everybody onfront of me pitted I was in the lead with 30s. But I noticed I wouldn't make it till the end with that amount of fuel, so I had to do a slash and go, dropping me into 4th.
I was aiming at Simon's Saleen so with some voodoo power his engine died  ;). The Saleen is reliable Simon, I've finished many 115 minute races with it  ;D

It's my gamble that cost me the win, not the tab Jon so no worries  :-* ;D.

Grats to Jon, Leuven and Madd-RIP

Oh yes, can I just say thanks to all the GT2s as you were very kind tonight. Sometimes even when I didn't expect you to move over you did and that was very generous. Cheers guys a pleasure tonight.

Provisional results (https://www.simracing.org.uk/index.php?ind=lm2&event=368), replay (http://ukgtr.simracing.org.uk/) and provisionally updated standings (https://www.simracing.org.uk/index.php?ind=lm2&group=52).

Not a good race for me. The start was very promising! I was sitting behind Pribeiro and Madd-Ripp and the car felt good. But A. Humpheries got up to speed in his beamer and closed up to my rear so I let him by but it wasn't long until he span in front of me in the middle of the road, I could no nothing else but plough into the side of him.

Thats where my race ended. I went off the road 4 or 5 times in the remainder of the race. I was surprised to see myself only 6 seconds behind Madd with around 15 mins to go so I tried to push my pace a little but that ended with a trip to the gravel.

Not happy at all with that performance. >:(

Grats to Madd-RIPP, you can really drive that Morgan, and to the other class podiums.

Thanks to the GT1's for there patience.

Reign Man

Lets just say you now know where Ross Brawn went when he left Ferrari.  :laugh: ;)

(I wish)

Unofficial Lapchart (http://www.lapcharts.teamshark.org.uk/Lapcharts/Estoril Enduro Masters 06-05-2007/index.html)


Lapchart up and running. Thanks Simon

Thats a shame that happened  :( especially as Anthony being in Full Time in Clubmen should have been in a G2 or GT3 car and NOT a GT2. ???

Quite happy with quali and finish positions (1st of the no-Porsche Trophy) ;D
Had a sweating, hard but fair fight with Madd-Rip (again) :D
Its impossible to follow those Porsches (me ofcourse, because i know there
are some alliens that can) :P. I was loosing 1 second a lap for the last RSR.
So, my aim was keep an eye at mirror and hold the spot behind the RSR.
Thanks all for the great behavior. ;)

Cheers

Put this in the wrong bit :-[ ;D


Nice enough race but I made another contact with my Team mate from the Senior team.....Really sorry mate Sad Apart from that  I had a few spins and thought I was gonna run out of fuel. Finished with 0.9L, was watching my fuel gauge and ran off the track also Embarrassed Grin. I just couldn't go for another race in the MC12. I found it to hard to handle once the tyres had worn. Just decided to go back to what I knew in the Lambo. Nice race all. Cya next time Smiley

And grats to Leuv 8)

Apologies to Reign Man for loosing the back end of the M3 right in front of him (i failed under presure)  >:(

And Apologie to the entire field as I was indeed in a GT2 car when I should have been in G2/GT3 etc (I know this now) Sorry I should have read the rules.

After my accident I was punted about 200m into the air, Race over!!

Welld one winners, you masters are def in a league of your own, back to clubman for me  :P

Not done a good job in quali. Didn't touch the car since GT1 Sprint here and it showed. Seems like I have to do some laps prior to race to refresh my memory and to adapt a car to my daily character changes  ;)
Qualified 8th and to be honest 6th,7th,8th and 8th were within 0,5 seconds, I think. Sounded promising.

Race started and I came into slipstream of Zacaris F550 at the last corner came alongside and started braking before my optimal braking point - to have some reserve. Well, seems like the margin was still too low as I clipped Mo (who was driving before Zacari) in his Viper, turning him and he ended in the sand. DAMN!  :oops:  Did exactly what I warned others not to!  :-[  Braking with cold tyres and cold brakes too close to the car in front.  :(  Fortunately Zacari was able to drive through the mess. Anyway, I waited for Mo to join the race to let him past, but NGTs came by and he had to wait before rejoining safely. I also waited but then noticed I was in a way, so I started going again. After I overtook NGTs I was driving slowly to let Mo catch up - my race was ruined anyway, so I thought to have a scrap with Mo. Seems like he ran into some kind of trouble and after some laps he quit. I felt really miserable, not motivated to go on, so I fired up my engine into a big cloud of black smoke and quit.  :-\   Sorry again, Mo!  :(

TT

No worries TT, I saw you waiting but I had to let the field pass before rejoining.
After getting through the GT2 cars (hope I did ok I only passed on straights to try not to interfere with the racing) I eventually got a good lap in on clear track and it only brought me 0.2 closer to the car in front. Realising I wouldn't catch anyone for the rest of the race I ended up thinking about the six pack in the fridge instead of my braking point for T3 and decided to call it a day.

Decided to take the Viper last minute and was very surprised to qual in 6th only 1 sec off pole, not a bad car really apart from the understeer so I think I'll take it for the season  :clown:

Lapchart working now, see page 1.

Thanks Ruskus,
allthough I only get "Not found"  :(

That's my fault, I had a major case of the "wrong button clicked" on the new website (DELETE ALL!!!) so I'm crying right now. :'( :'(

Jeff, could you upload it again thanks. :laugh: :laugh:

 ::)

Up and running again. ;D

Sorry I missed this one guys. I was going to do it, after a 3hr drive back from Kent, but plans changed when...

We won!  :jumpjoy:

Class victory at Brands Hatch after a 40 minute, 2 driver race. Well chuffed with that, considering we completely rebuilt the suspension during the week and threw some numbers at it. I overtook the class leader on the last lap :D

Nice one Edam, well done, very pleased for you ! ...at my home track too :thumbup1:

Great  stuff Edam 8) 8) 8) Well done mate 8) 8) 8)

 :thumbup1: :thumbup2: :clap: :punk:  Edam.

TT

Brilliant Edam, congratulations  :D

Well done sir! My hat goes off to you ->  :euro:

Superb, grats Edam.

Well done Edam! :punk:

Nice one Edam  8)

Sorry I was indisposed for the race on Sunday, but rest assured, the Team Oldie Lister will be making an appearance in the Dubai Classic  ;D

 :thumbup2: :clap: :jumpjoy: :yes: :punk:

Grats man!

I was surprised about the Viper at the Donnington test race. Twisty track but I still managed pole. But more important, with the weight reduction, the car actually feels pretty nice to drive. And it looks cool ;D. So I could also take the Viper for the GT1 Sprint in season 6 (as it will be crap in enduro :D).

Forgot to post on this race!  :oops:

Had a great battle with Simon all the way through. The car felt a bit odd at the start and the rears were getting a little hot and pushing harder just seemed to slow me down/heat them up, so when he got close along the straight I flashed him through expecting him to dissapear. But on slowing down a little, the rears cooled....and I was going faster?  ???
Was happy to follow Simon as his pace was the same as mine and I was on a heavy-ish fuel load. Later on the car started to feel better and the race was on, and it was real close coming out of the pits after a late stop, great racin'  ;D
Real pleased with 2nd, although that was more Ruskus' misfortune than my pace.
Congrats Jon  :scooter:

Congrat's to Luis Branco!! eheh

and the winners of course!