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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 v2.4 (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: Enna
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=370) (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.

Man that C5R is a joy to drive here. really has no problems with the curbs. So I hope to nail a 26 this time.

Hey Madd! You gonna be around for this? I want revenge for the last two races!!! :gun_bandana:


...being overtaken in the last laps is bad enough once......twice, however is just cruel!!  ;D

The Morgan really doesn't like this track AT ALL >:( , it's like a ruddy pogo stick!!  :wacko:
But yes I shall be there, although looking at your sprint race pace, I'm dead tbh.
 :detective: lots of setup work to be done just to get the sod driveable!!

What's your qually time now. I had a race at Enna in the Morgan, so I have a setup in which I did a 1:36.3. If you want I can sent them.

i shud have a good one here after doing the clubman and sprint! (u'd think that anyway) lol

hmmm.....GT1 or GT2????

 ??? ??? ???

my Morgan setup provides excellent flight characteristics 8)

I will try and join if i can get some praccy in today hopefully

might join in a GT3 porker if i get the chance

The more the merrier :D

Yep, at least then I won't be only non scoring Legend.  :P

Dunno what happened then????????

Joined the server during quali 1...no probs...everything going smooth....didnt go out on track...thought I'd leave it till quali 2...Then dave joined....."loading Dave 'Gysmo'" came up....went away....came up....went away then GTR2 shut itself down  ??? ???....rejoined and every1 loaded, up to Dave and the same thing happened.....and the third time....same ?

Pitty, I was looking forward to the race  :'(

Another early bath for me. This time I was driving more slowly and carefully to keep my podium position, but it didn't work and the first tyre chicane got me again. A very uncompetitive race in GT2 anyway was not enjoying it. Right from the first lap there was miles between all the cars in pace so I'll be glad to see the next track and hopefully some more fun again.

In two words: lost connection :(

Until today I never finished a race at Enna, neither in GTR nor in GTR2. In some way or another, me and the track don't get along ;D

 :( Sorry had to go in such a hurry, Lee's (my Wife) Gran has taken a turn for the worse in hospital and we had to go to see her to find out what is happening.

Short race for me. Somehow avoided Mo's wreck on the opening lap by driving under his flying car  :eek:

Then on lap 2 I'm guessing somebody had crashed just ahead of me at the chicane as my frame rate dropped to about 2 fps briefly, but just as I started braking for the chicane. By the time the screen caught up with what was happening, my car was facing backwards and in the tyres.  :-X

Best wishes !

That race had everything - a botched start (ran off in turn 2 twice under power), a fight back through the GT3 Cups, a trip into the tyres, fastest lap in class and new PB, being lapped what seemed like every other lap by the leader, overheating brakes and a sticking throttle, two stop gos, a late stop for fresh rubber and another assault on my PB, and finally a trip into outer space at 350mph after clipping the second tyre chicane. The car just kept going up so I had to quit out.

Sorry to Zacari for some light contact at one point - a whole gaggle of GT1s were coming past and I just lost track of who was where. :-[

Sorry to hear that mate.  Best Wishes...

Hope she's ok Madd

Argh, so frustrated with myself - crashed 3 or 4 laps before the flag and Zacari who was 20 seconds behind me, finished second! Oh well, 4th will do. Even more annoying was it wasn't at one of the chicanes of death, but the crappy little left hander before the lap-ending chicane. Least I didn't get any pit lane speeding penalties :)

Well anyway, should be happy as my qualy pace was in the 29's (woohoo!) and my race pace was faster than the sprint. I actually ran softs front and back for the race as well and was surprised that they held up OK, maybe not as good as mediums but they gave excellent grip for the first 20 mins.

Well done to the top 3 :)

Yay I finished  :P

But was robbed a grandstand finish with Reign Man when the race ended 12 minutes early.  :(

Glad to see the back of this track if I'm honest.  ;D

Good racing guys....

Best wishes Madd  :yes:

Races at Enna are never boring. But this race I wasn't pushing. So my fastest racelap was kinda poor. Luckily I did a 26 in qually  :).

At the start I could drive away, but then it stalemated. Gap stayed the same and later Backo came closer. But I guess he was making errors, as everytime the gap shot up again.
I was quite sure about my pitstop strategy, so even if he would have overtaken, I thought I would come out of pits infront.
But when I was in 2nd and Backo in 1st, and he had to pit, the gap was 1 minute. So I thought I'd never be on time. But surprisingly I was, and not only that, I had a 35s lead afterwards :o. Which was only 7s when I enetered the pits. Dunno if he had damage, but it's weird. My stop was only 45s, so to stand still for 90s. What happened Backo?

Then I had to drive to the finish and not crash like I did at Clubmen enduro  ;D.

Shame about your stop Jon. We were at TeamSpeak and we calculated 45 laps max, so if only you would have been there  ;).

I think I saw Dave's CC a$$ about a million times. Can't get the image out of my head :P

Ditto.  :(

Just wann say sorry to those right behind me (Luis and Shark) on the pace lap :-[, as I had a printer cable inbetween my brake and clutch pedal and underneath the travel of the brake pedal, so I was trying to move it as it would have meant a chopped cable or much worse, non working brakes.  :o

Thats why there was a big gap between us and the GT1's. :)

Sorry to hear that, Madd.  :(  Best wishes from me too.  :)

Enna =  :-X
Was determined to finish and did it despite the damn chicane got me 3 times. Every time when I stopped spinning I listened if the engine still works and it did.  :D  The third time I barely got to the pits, stayed there for at least two minutes and heard the conversation I never did before, like: "Hurry up! We're losing positions!". The answer: "(Shut up) You've got mechanical failure."  ;D

The race felt like going to work - no fun at all, just duty. For the record: I'm seriously considering boycotting a race at Enna in S6 if it stays on the calendar.  :dots:

Grats to all finishers. Winners are  :ninja:

TT

Replay (http://ukgtr.simracing.org.uk/Enna%20Pergusa%20-%20Endurance%20Masters%20070617.zip) plus provisional Results (https://www.simracing.org.uk/index.php?ind=lm2&event=370) and Standings (https://www.simracing.org.uk/index.php?ind=lm2&group=52)

First off I hope everything will be ok for Madd's family.

 :( I couldn't connect(couldn't see it in the Team Shark forum) to Teamspeak through the teamspeak viewer thing :( Thought it was down or something. Hehe felt like a bit of a lemon I can tell thee ;D Was glad to see a TSJr member go past into 2nd though :)
My plan for the race was just to finish after the poor showing in the sprints so I just settled into a steady rhythm, that being said even if I went beyond my best speed I'd have still lost time to Jeff :o Great Pole and race pace mate. Dunno what happened to BACKO at about the 3/4 stage, he was about 6 secs ahead and then pitted for the 2nd time in about 5 laps. All in all I'm happy with 3rd but Like TT said I'll be glad to see the back of Enna also. Strange thing happened in qually. I got a cut warning for the 2nd tyre chicane ??? I approached as close to the left side tyre wall as possible and was surprised to receive one.
Grats to Jeff and Leuv on there victories and anybody else who finished ;D

Unofficial Lapchart (http://www.lapcharts.teamshark.org.uk/Lapcharts/Enna Masters Enduro 17-06-2007/index.html)

The Team Speak loader was extremely slow Jon. I joined directly via TS.

I see now that the first cars are all Team Shark drivers  :thumbup2:, and that I've been the first DNF  ;)

Furthermore I see that Backo had a s/g in lap 30 and 41. :-\

wow...just watched replay and followed Dave round.......Mate, you are now officially an ALIEN.

Not sure which planet you were on your way to visit....but that launch was definately out of this world. ;D

(about 3780, ish on replay)

Best wishes from me too Madd.

No worries Dave, I knew it was going to be tight getting through there! :D

The race was really weird, I was well off the pace and ended up 7th on the grid at a track I used to like in GTR1!  I couldn't get the car setup to like the kerbs so I was losing a lot of time in the first sector and out of the sencond tyre chicane.  I decided on mediums all round for the race, the fronts never really got hot enough :(

Race started in an action-packed way, I was directly behind MO when he clattered the second tyre chicane :o thankfully (for me at least ;D) he shot straight up in the air and I drove nervously underneath... but safely through.  Then Nev disappeared from behind me next lap and I was left alone in 5th with Freq a few seconds ahead.

I managed to catch Freq pretty quickly who was right behind Jon and backo.  I managed to get a run and got passed pretty quickly, but made a mistake running wide half a lap later and he slipped right back passed ::) and that was the last time I got close, really.  I had a few laps where I lost a bundle of time to backmarkers, not their fault it's just a horrible track to be lapped on!  (If anything the backmarkers were too keen to let people passed, a couple of times I was blending off the throttle coming up to a corner so I didn't get too close, only to be flashed passed and have to stand on the throttle again :D Also apologies to Darren who I failed to avoid coming into T1 :-[)

Around half-way through and the leaders started to pit.  I'd started with 100L and I was thinking about coming in, when I turned in too late for the first tyre chicane and smacked the left-side of it.  Amazingly the car was fine, a slight amount of damage but no lost bodywork and no suspension damage :o  It took a while to get out of the kitty litter but I got to the pits fine, came out in 5th, 20s behind freq.

After that I was trying to keep it on the black stuff, expecting like most people for the race to run 'till about 51 or 52 laps. I passed freq who was in the pits again at some point, got passed backo who appeared to have had a run-in with the tyres, and then amazingly passed Jon who was pitting, though I was only infront by about 4 seconds.

I was just wondering what I could do to keep Jon behind me for 12 minutes, when the race finished!  I seem to recall Simon saying something about making the races run to the full time regardless of the distance, and I assume that isn't the case, but could the race time/distance rules be clarified please?  That way I'll avoid ending the race with 25 litres of fuel :P

Grats to JR and Leuv for the wins, and to all the survivors :)

That was my experience also, which was why I wasn't on TS either!

I was looking forward for this endurance but happened what happened and I finished like 6  :(.I don't understand what happened but Ruskus when you went in pit ,you've been about 7 sec in front me then I've got fuel for about 4 or 5 laps which I did without any crash ,after that I went in pit ,when I come back I was second and loosing 35 sec :o!!!I couldn't believe it!!!After that I started to push and  I did lap record  :o!!!!!!!!!!!also lots mistace >:((2x stop and go penalty also I destroyed my car)  :(.Congrats to winners !!! ;)

 :laugh: More like an Alien Abductee! :angel-wings: :alien:

Actually I thought it was good the gap so that us GT2s stay out of any GT1 trouble on the first lap. Back in the old day when I used to occasionally get pole in NGT in GTR1 I did sometimes purposely leave a bit of a gap to the GT1s just so we could have our own race uncompromised by lap 1 GT1 mess ups.

After seeing Madd leave I seriously thought about leaving. Hope everything turns out ok Madd.

I did decide to stay but it was a very poor race, I think I span 3 times, got a stop/go for speeding in pit lane and generally had a very inconsistant race.

Thank god its over

Calculating the maximum amount of laps is dead easy:

A real race lasts 180 minutes or 500km

The UKGTR races last 80 minutes or 222 km.

Enna is 4,9 km long. So that makes 222/4,9= 45 laps maximum. I fueled up for that amount of laps and finished with 8L left as the race was 44 laps long. Then you can check if the race will finish with laps or time, by multiplying the amount of laps by the expected average race pace. I suspected 1:29-1:30. 45*1,5= 68 minutes. With pace lap and pitstop it would be around 70 minutes.

But remember, all the UKGTR named tracks (editted c/t protection) will ALWAYS finish with time, and NOT laps. So races at Enna (when editted), Monza and Spa will finish after 80 minutes, and not shorter due to laps.

After spending nearly all weekend watching Le Mans and the F1 race i thought i had best pass on racing, especially for a non points race, as didnt want my balls served up on a platter by my better half. :wacko:

By the sounds of it i didnt miss much :-\....we should have had a Le Mans special event race !! 8)  Anyone tried it in GTR2 yet? Its a fantastic track, really well re-produced using the games better graphics.
We could have had a fantastic race here with changeable weather (like the real event!) and a combined endurance grid of masters and clubmen using 2x weather scaling and tyre/fuel wear. 8)...maybe one to consider for the future?

I'm well aware of how to calculate the race distance, in S1 I won the enduro at Enna by not stopping atall in the 550 which baffled a few people :D  I simply want clarification that races wont be artificially forced to finish at the time limit rather than the correct time or distance limit, because I have a vague memory of someone saying all races would be forced to run for the full 80 minutes in S5 regardless of the distance.

You heard incorrectly then. Simon said something like: All the UKGTR tracks (the ones editted with stricter c/t warnings) will ALWAYS finish on time and not laps. Enna is not editted and therefore will finish on laps, as 222km comes before 80 minutes.

That's what I'm after, thanks :thumbup1:

You can check the maximum possible number of laps because GTR2 displays it in the top right of the pit monitor screen.

Unfortunately Lee's Gran had Renal failure followed by multiple organ failure at just past midnight this morning and passed away.
Thankyou for your kind words of support.

My condolences  :'( . Best wishes to friends and family

Sorry to hear that, Madd.  :'(

TT

my condolences Madd, sad to hear that :(

Condolences Madd and family....Sad times.

Sorry to hear that Madd, condolences to everyone  :(

My nan's in and out of hospital these day's too, so know the feelin. My condolences, it's all about the life though, not the death. :)

Le Mans! Why did I not think of that?! Would have been great to tie-in a Le Mans enduro into the Le Mans weekend! We gotta do that next year - even if it's just a fun race! ;D

My condolences MADD :(

Sorry to hear that Madd.
My wife's Nan also just passed away this last Thursday, so not a good week for the old girls I'm sorry to say.

Hi all  sorry to hear about sad news for many, but being old myself its not so bad departing as the young think.Its quite a burden carrying an illness for some time . Be thankful for the good memory's and console yourself that you did the best for them when you could, thats all any of us can do for loved ones.

My deepest condolances Simon.

Sorry to hear your bad news Simon and Madd. My condolences to you and your families.