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Practice: 20:15 (10 mins)
Qualifying: 20:25 (25 mins)
Race: 20:50 (21 laps = ~40 mins)

Track: Misano v1.0 (download here (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3358.msg54520#msg54520))
Cars allowed: AC Cobra, Lotus Elan, TVR Griffith
Time of Day Setting: 15:00
Start: STANDING

Server: UKGTL Classics Cup
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I'll be driving the Cobra in this one. Is it the 289 or the 450?

You sure?  There's a lot of time between now and mid-January to change your mind!!!  ;D

The Shelby Cobra is one of the few American cars I actually like. Maybe it's because it isn't American.

How come the GT350 isn't being used this season?

It's hard to fit it into a safe environment with like-performanced cars.

Are both of the Cobras being used here or is it only one of them?

Maybe Alfa vs GT350  ;D
(Nah, unfair to GT350, Alfa would kill it  ;D ;D)

Either Cobra.

TEE VEE ARE

I like the loading screen ;D

Not another one that shows the wrong track? :o

Yes, something like that.  ;) :angel:

I wish they'd stop doing that. This is supposed to be a racing sim. >:(

I'll be using this one instead:

http://forum.racesimcentral.com/showpost.php?p=2899165&postcount=23

Much better. Well it would be if the link worked. :(

Pit girls are an integral part of real life racing too you know ;D

mmm mmm I like the girl on the far left, she looks Polish-rific

This is also supposed to be fun. :-*

I think there are some serious safety concerns driving without a helmet or fire proof garments, but what the heck as long as they sign the disclaimer. ;)

I've just installed the LOD from the 1.2 version of Misano from here:

http://www.altbierbude.de/

So now I'll actually have a track map. So now we know what to blame when I win the next race. 8)

I know the track already, from the MotoGP. A very good choice, though I dread to think what it'll be like it a Cobra! :scared:

You'll learn to appreciate those things when you get older  ;)

I used to spend ages trying to find a decent mod for Morrowind, only to find that most of it is like the loading screen for Misano. I suppose that's why I'll be using the altbierbude LOD instead.

Personally I'm more interested in finding out if what the BBC say is true, and that the Dakar has been cancelled! :o

BTW, I'm 18 on Sunday. ;)

Sorry for going off-topic, but it's true! :scared:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/world_rally/7171426.stm

I don't think I'll be able to race in this one. :'(
I'm getting motion sickness everytime I move, so no racing until it's over. I tried yesterday and I just can't race.

What can Elan's do here? With no real straight I wonder where the Cobra is gonna be.

we discussed this on our team site, seems an odd combination of cars to choose from  ???
Am presuming they all set a roughly equal laptime despite varying so much in characteristics  :-\

TEEE VEEE AREEEE


Actually, I'm having a tough time setting it up, without totally destroying the tyres on turns. It's making some progress tho, and I love the roar of the engine.

I have a feeling the Elans will get pounded here unless put in the right hands, there are a few turns that the Elan can make some ground up on, but alot of turns are rather fast, and the Cobra and TVR can really fly out of those exits, and catch up on the straights if they make a mistake.

So far in offline practice, I'm peeling away from the Elans untill I hit T2 and the Last turn. The Gap I can build through the majority of the track is only allowing the Elans to start to smell the burning fuel before I take off again. Tough to say what will happen.

I hope the muscle cars have the edge at this track, as before the proper handling cars were always the quickest round.

After waiting for weeks to race the TVR, I get F'ed in the backside and I'm unable to attend tommorow.

Also, my attendance possibility looks pretty bad now for the rest of the season  :'(

i'm doubtful for this one too, might turn up late in qually and just have to muddle through in the race as best i can.

Thats a bugger Jeb/MJ the TVR is great fun around here, especially riding those high kerbes. In my hands it'll be slow but who cares? Find a way to attend :)

After deliberately staying away from the last couple of GTL races I may show up for this one.  I really like the track, and I'm sorely tempted to give the Cobra a run out.

I ran a few laps last night and was running alright in it, but ultimately it's a question of how busy I am this evening .... real life's increasingly getting in the way of the racing  :-[

To  give some comfort and credit, last race was very clean! :thumbup2:

Jeff, you'll be driving Cobra, right? Would you post you setup? I know it's last minute, but I'm not liking my current one, and I remember your shelby setup for Road Atlanta suited me just fine.

I'm using Shark's setup, so it's more understeery than you'd expect from a setup I use. So he must give permission for the setup :)

Share and share alike. Go for it.

Okay, then here it is ;D, for the Cobra:

http://files.filefront.com/SG+Setupsrar/;9411618;/fileinfo.html

Thanks.

 ;D Stunning track, wonderful flow in my little Elan, doing 1.52's atm and just getting used to the track, good fps here too, up in 300's offline

Having trouble with this track...game crashes when i try to load it. anyone got any ideas?

maybe your computer doesn't like bewbies?

 ;D



Try re-installing the track, sir

 :D... tried that mate no luck. :(

Is everything in the correct directories?
I had a similar problem after i installed some add-on cars and a couple of files ended up in the wrong place - maybe worth a check?

Reinsatlled game , skin pack, track and patch with 2 minutes to go then it told me incompatable game versions.    >:(

Someone unfortunately missed the start in front of me and I crashed avoiding him. Shortest outing EVER. O well :)

Now someones gonna tell me that were not using patch 1.1 ::)

I am so p****** !
I would love to know what happened beetween 2nd and 3rd corner,
because i got a so heavy kick, that i thought, maybe a TIR truck had hit me :o
I fall from 8th to 22th (2nd last)   >:( with only 200 meters of race  :-X
On second lap, trying to recover, i got another hit and spun, more time wasted.
On 4th lap when i was in 17th....and counting...  ;D a driver spun in front of me,
i pass him and then, at next corner he tried to overbrake my Elan with a Cobra  ::)
Guess what....another hit another spin.  :o
It was too much for me only in 4 laps.....so i grabbed my hammer and hit my ESC key.
Very desapointing.
I hope you all had fun.  :)
By the way i saw a 3rd driver with GS Elan skin (sorry, i dont remember the name)
are you as GS team member?
I am sorry to hear about your start issues SBGinsters.

Cheers

From where I saw someone had some major lag, dissapeared, and then hammered into a number of people.  My teamie Steve suffered a similar fate - albeit not the same loss of positioin.

I managed to keep clear of trouble for a good few laps .... and the "Cobra ballet" began .... a couple of quick spins dropped a few quick places and by lap 16 I just couldn't handle the car.  The leaders were coming round, and I was becoming a liability in the lovely Legends AC.  I really enjoyed the first half of the race .... but when the grip went, so did my enjoyment.

Still, bar the incident at the start I don't think I saw any contact and the driving was good - so that's a big plus in my eyes.

I was airborn into T1 and that was it for me.

the car wasn't to responsive afterwards. I caught up to 22nd place around lap 9, but the tyres quickly degraded and by lap 12 I literally was sliding off of every turn. Decided to retire before I slid into the front runners.

Probably a bad choice to pick the TVR overall, as I didn't get a stable setup untill this morning - but it's to much fun!

Did a PB in qually and just got into the 47's.

Had a pretty good start, but I was lucky to have a clear track infront. From the start I could win around 0.7s a lap on Keith, so it was a matter of keeping it on the black stuff (eventhough we Dutch love the green stuff  ::)).
I saw you were struggling Adam, you had some funny looking fishtail moments :).

By the sounds of it PR, it's lag. Of someone can hit you that hard it's often because the don't see you.

Dan: WE ARE USING THE 1.1 PATCH!!!! :smartass:

Thanks for the drifting class. Quite fun to see you get sideways when you overtook me... and disappeared in the distance...  :)

Unofficial Lapchart (http://lapcharts.simracing.org.uk/Lapcharts/GTL Misano 10-01-2008/index.html)

Yeah I was having some fun the last few laps :). Better to force the oversteer yourself than let the car decide and get taken by surprise ;D

That was good fun. Don't know why but I really like the Cobra despite my loathing of most of the American cars. For some reason I just get on with the Cobra, it seems to have a lot of feel for a big old brute and that's what makes it fun to drive.

Qualified well ahead of my expectations in 5th and off the line I took two Elans to end up in 3rd after Lap 1.

Spent half the race sat behind the Poodle with no way by and Baracus breathing down my neck, was hard to watch front and rear so closely for so long. Eventually I got along side Poodle down the start finish straight and I tried to go around the outside of T1 thinking we had enough room, but surprise surprise I came off the worse as the cars seemed to lock their door handles together. After that I was pushing too hard to catch back up and that was in turn slowing me down. Eventually I got some rythum back and stopped trying so hard and was catching slowly Poodle and Baracus. I wasn't going to catch them, but kindly Baracus wanted to mow the lawn with 2 laps to go and I nipped through to take 3rd.

Great result for me. Loved the track it's got such a nice flow to it I think and lots of different corner types.

That was majorly hard work but great fun!
Got a crud start becuse I couldnt hear my own engine with all the Cobra's around me, so I changed up to 2nd too early and got a bit of a wobble on.... 2nd to 4th. I doubt it would have made any difference anyway as the Cobras would have passed me before T1 anyway ! :)

Then a very close race with Simon and Keith for the whole duration. Every time I was tucked up behind in the apex and ready to accelerate, I couldn't do it so I was stuck! I was trying to find creative lines so that I could actually get a run out of the bend and maybe get enough alongside to get into the next turn first but there was no way! Those Cobras so wide :)

Penultimate lap somehow the car span out in T3 (tight left) still don't know why as I wasn't sliding and tyres were not RED, so gave my previously handed P3 right back :0

Great battle really enjoyed it!

Disappointing race for me   :P

First time in ages I lost places off the line, from 4th, forgot what a high 1st gear the Cobra had and simply bogged down.  Idiot!   ::)

Then in the melee that was T2 I was harpooned out of, about 7th, right into gravel, rejoined in 17th.  I was slightly annoyed, but since it sounds like a connection issue, such is life.

Managed to drive through to 7th, although the tyres took more of a beating than I wanted.  On the way I got by Adam and then 2 corners later gave a good demonstration of a lead right foot and powered off entering the s/f straight   :D

Tootling round in 7th with no acceleration at all, 30% diff and worn tyres was sliding all over the place, and as I seem to do with the tricky V8s I totally tightened up thinking 'ooh, last lap' and instead of powering through T3/4, I got tentative on the power and understeered serenely wide so Mark nipped through.  I think he may have deserved 7th anyway, as when I got by he had run wide after flashing thanks to a lappee and I guess lost concentration.

Still, pretty disappointing considering what I'd expected.  Must try to remember not to drive V8s........

Congratulations to the podium guys, nice driving.

I am relieved that nobody, based on gossip so far, got tangled up in my gymnastics off the line. Thats the first time I've made a great start and typically someone was dozing in front of me  :D

Gutted not to take part really as the TVR was a complete blast and I really wanted to take a few of those nasty Cobras. A TVR vs Cobra battle should be part of every GTL season :-*. Gotta say that was a really good track choice Simon, ta.

Had a great start and was making up loads of places until A stationary car appeared right in front of me! Orange TVR!?
Second race on the trot that someone elses lag has caused me issues!?
Luckily no damage this time but was last to leave the first straight!
May have given someone a minor bump from behind in turn 1, sorry but I don't think that caused any issues!
Really can't seem to get a set up that I am happy with but did make up some places and keep it together to get back to 15th having started 18th.
Can't complain! :) but was way off the pace!

M.

I had a very good quality session and a great race too :)

Had a fairly poor start off the line – I managed to bog the Cobra down slightly > still by T1 I was in 2nd so the progress was made. I kept with Jeff for the opening laps…but Jeff was edging out a larger & larger gap from lap 4'ish onwards. It was either try to close the gap by taking  risks and probably totally destroy my tyres in the process or just drive with a P2, P3, P4 finish mind. I selected the later option. 

Still by lap 10’sih  the tyres didn’t seem too clever…I had both Baracus & Simon hunting me down and the pressure was on.  Holding off Baracus was my greatest challenge of the race…as we all know he’s a fast driver, my tyres where rather worn…even keeping in front on the straights was becoming hard work > still lucky for me the times Baracus did pass me..directly after there would be a nice piece of straight – so I was just able to gas the 427 up and blast past back into p2  :)
Both Simon and Baracus made mistake toward the end…and the last few laps I had a nice juicy gap, phew.

21 laps in a Corba and p2 finish, I’m so HAPPY  :)


Grats to Jeff – another fantastic drive. Baracus – whatta great quail session getting p2!! (actually at the end of the quail session my money would have been on Baracus to win the race). Great performance from Simon, who had me checking my mirrors enough times!

The dudes I lapped where gents – thanks to them for checking their mirrors & moving off-line, etc.

Cheers all,  Keith

Whereas Simon, with his 10 UKGTR drivers trophies, 3 UKGPL drivers trophies and countless team trophies is not known for being fast at all. :P ;) No challenge at all keeping me behind. ;)
 :lol:

Yes, I agree completely.    :-*

TT

Do they give that with a Happy Meal now as wel? ;D

Can I have supersized fries with that?