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Endurance Championship Division 2 - Season 1, Round 2 at Magny-Cours

Date: Sunday 7th August

Practice 1: 8:30pm (30 mins)
Qual 2: 9:00pm (30 mins)
Warmup: 9:30pm (2 mins)
Race: 9:32pm (60 mins)

Cars allowed: Any. (Seat Toledo, Lotus Elise, BMW Z3M and Porsche GT3 Cup will not be eligable for points.)
Weather: Random.

Notes:
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(3) See  UKGTR Season 1 Info (http://www.ukgtr.org/series.php?series=103) for general Season 1 info.
(4) Please make sure you are fully aware of the UKGTR Rules (http://www.ukgtr.org/rules.php)

Ho Ho Ho, bring on the rain  ;D

Whats the latest rules about weather then?
i.e do i need to practice monsoon conditions?

I'm hoping my new mobo turns up by the weekend, or I'll have to sit this one out  :-\

Best to practice in a variety of conditions, just in case. :o

Fingers crossed I'll be able to take part in this one. M1/M6 from the North West on Sunday evening allowing!

Hopefully we'll have a larger contingent of NGT's this race, if not, are the Div 1 guys turning up in non-scoring cars again?

Pops.

I'll prob be there, its nice as I've done my D1 bit by then, so am fully practiced and just come for numbers/fun :-)

Foz

Down on a South Wales beach this weekend but, M5 allowing I'll definitely jump on for this one.

Excellent news, we can split a keg of Watney's Red Barrel after the race  :D

yeah quite likely to if there is room.

Which will be devastating for the morale of some of us! Lol! Having a Z3 overtake you while driving a Bi-T can do that to a man (or a Penguin ;)) you know! Still very happy to know I overtook Shark in his Z3 in the last laps on Barca! :D

T

Yet again I cannot confirm if I will be able to attend, my brother and his family are visiting today and it all depends on what time they leave.

Fingers crossed.

Good luck to all and have a good race.

Taz

i fixed my pc so i can be there ;D

but i have not practiced so i will be sloooow  :-[

I've fixed my old PC too so I can make it  :)

Server is on the way, and shock horror it's dry :D

well was going well till the 1fps bug struck again so reinstalling hope this works

F**king Game!!!!! got stop go pen, been sitting in pits now for 8 mins and it wont let me go!!!!!!!!

Well I've had to end up quitting after 12mins!!!!!!!!! I think its because my pit space was allocated right on the exit line, therefore it didn't recognise that i was there, although it prevented me from moving off, this game seriously needs sorting out

Well guess the points wont show it but did enjoy that tonight.
Some tremendous clean battling going on for the podium places, and felt I had a chance of a top 3.

The going through the quick right left drop a Porsche let one GT through then span in front of me ( no problem BTW one of those things!) and gave me nowhere to go.
Dropped me a lap or two down and then forget to increase fuel to allow so had to pit again. Last couple of laps were a shambles but guess getting beaten by the NGT's won't matter for GT points.

Could have been a lot better but take it on the chin and look forward to the next round.

Great racing though guys

qualed 2nd ngt behind Tyf

passed him pretty quick... hit 2 invisible bollards and was behind 3 ngt cars

the leader (tyf i think) of us 4 spun...1 down
the middle of the 3 left spun... 2 down

only pops left :P I caught him and passed ;D

started to relax knowing i was ngt nr1, then i see tyf catching and catching. so i think i gotta put me foot down here and maybe he made some mistakes also but i was gradually pulling away


i got really confused after pitting as i didnt really know where i came back

i cant really remember but i think i came out just in front of dave gymer... got hit by a lister then passed him again

either way i won NGT even passing a very late pitting lambo in the last 5 mins :P :D :D

nice race thnx m8s :-)

Joined in for some racing with division 2 drivers and was having a great time chasing Don1 around for the 1st few laps in the BMW, but spun sideways in a turn and fell behind a little, but was getting back into traffic and on lap 13 I had 1 FPS bug show up again, just like in last weeks race. Very frustrating, I even turned of the replay option hoping to cure this problem as some have reported it fixing. No luck. I guess it's time to reinstall the game or throw it into the trash and wait for Rfactor, haven't decided yet.

Any one have some suggestions on the 1 FPS problem? I really enjoy driving in the series but if this is going to continue in every race, it's just not possible.   

Thanks
Glen

>:( CURSE SIMBIN >:(

I was that Lambo Iain, lost the will to live by then and burnt the tyres up last couple of laps as well just decided passing you would make no difference in the GT class so just wanted to bring it home.

Mixed feelings. Having really hashed up quali delighted to get to 2nd with a lap to go (all be it a lap behind Jon). Then had my my first spin and surrendered place to Greg so not sure how to feel, apart from knackered. However I got to say that was best race so far (do I say that every time?) with great 2 abreast action into fast chicanes really getting me buzzing. Especially good fun with Nick who I think overtook me 3 times ;D. Thanks once again chaps.

Well that was fun!  :D allbeit a bit scrappy.

Started 2nd was very happy with that, then had a 'wonderful' idea of changing my race setup last minute to hard rear tyers, which seemed a good idea at the time, but changed the rear end of the car into one bouncing sliding monster!   V. early on lost 2nd then had a good battle with MO for 3rd/4th, then the rear end was all over the shop under braking and exiting corners.  After a couple of very big slides, a tap from behind (not sure who from), and a small spin (after the 150 board got clattered i think... damn you!!!) I ended up pitting about 5 laps early.

Put on medium rear tyers and it helped restore the balance of the car, but I didn't adjust the fuel and I knew I would run out around lap 35.  Had a couple of battles with people, and a couple of offs from weird incidents involving other cars, ended up 6th I think with 1 laps fuel left.  Had some good close racing and saw a few good NGT battles too, can't think of any drivers being lapped doing anything other than being curteous so thanks guys :)

Overall a good race which turned out nicely in the end for me.
Qualed 5th, not too bad.
Race started and I decided to follow the lead cars around for a while to see what happened, nice steady pace not pushing too hard.
Well one by one they spun off, bargain I'm up to 2nd and holding Jon to around 20 secs in front and the 3rd place car around 10 secs behind.

About 3/4 thro the 1st stint I loose concentration, forget that the 150 board is missing and overshot the hairpin, no probs still in second until I spin it again on the same lap and drop down to 3rd.  Frustrating or what , cost me around 15 secs in total for the silly mistake, not to mention overheating the tyres and having to be extra carefull for the next couple of laps.

Anyway slowly catch up with SBG, he pits and I take over the lead for a lap.
Pit in which takes an age and rejoin 11 secs behind in 4th place, god knows how that happened.
So on we go, 3rd pits, up to 3rd again, about 11 secs behind SBG with not to many laps to go, Mo is behind me and giving me some hassle, time to get a move on.

After a few laps Mo has a spin and I'm right up behind SBG, take the inside line to overtake him and spin on exit, bugger only 2 laps left, whilst I'm catching him fairly quickly I figure we are going to run out of laps.
Then disaster for SBG, he has a spin right in front of me and I'm up into 2nd again with 1 lap too go, just a case of bringing it home now without doing anything daft.
Grats to Jon who drove a great race and thanks to SBG for that final spin handing me 2nd place. ( Only kidding mate, bad luck,I don't think I would have got past you )

Overall an enjoyable race with a couple of frustrating silly mistakes which could have proved more expensive than they did.

Yes think I did but losing the lap nailed my race otherwise felt I was pretty quick considering I quallied 8th

No probs with connection everything was super smooth for me.Had a good quali and race. Robbed my quali setup from redline then just stuck meds on for the race. The car was superb, just had to stay on track really. Thanks to all for moving over when lapping and sorry if i was a bit hesitant when overtaking. Grats to iain on the NGT win  ;D

well done to you also Jon, looked close at the end when 3 gts wanted to pass me at once ish :-S ;D

Bad race.

Spun, Pitted, Did one lap, clipped a curb coming out of the first set of corners (often go over in the 360) and it turns me into a missle going 90 degrees to the direction i was going. I took out somebody in that and am gutted for it. I only wanted to stay out of ppl's way and have a bit of fun and that happens, spun a few more times and quit.

I thought I had that Seat covered, liked it greatly in qual, Z3 next time I think.

Foz

Good stuff peeps,

Although I think the Bi-T is a lot better in the wet (last D1 endurance race :)). It really is a boat I guess you can say, heh! :D

Qualified fastest N-GT I think (not sure if I was quicker than Fozz in the non-scoring Seat), which was nice, but I knew that wasn't going to last ;).
Decent start, let Iain by after a couple of laps, because I noticed he was a little quicker and I was trying to preserve my tyres for later. Was on a 1 stop, tyres only strategy, because the fuel could just make it. Which turned out reasonably right, I decided to make an extra stop in the end, just because I had a 1 min lead over #13 and the Bi-T is really hard on tyres.
Race itself was a bit scrappy for me. Couple of incidents with GT cars trying to overtake me in the wrong places in my opinion, a Seat who was breaking earlier than I expected and of course the dog I was driving barking at me for 60 mins, lol! ;) :D ;D

Overall a good race and uuuuuuuh, if I'm correct a double win for ZE INSANE PENGUINS! Woohoo! You can both thank me later for holding up the entire field when they tried to overtake me ;).

T

P.S. Oooh and Iain, check your mail... Obviously you failed to read the team orders... Your illustrious clanleader was supposed to win N-GT!  :o >:( ;) :D ;D
P.P.S. Sometimes the server/connection felt a bit unstable/low fps. Anyone had that same problem?

o right! sorry the spam filter must have got to that one :P  ::) ::) ::)

No probs Greg, perhaps you can do the same for me one day? (It took me a while to work out who the hell SBG was ;D). Shame your not
a Reading fan.

Iain and Jon congrats on well deserved wins.

Ginsters, I probably will mate, especially at doni where going off seems to be my speciality.
Pitty i'm not a reading fan !, rofl, wolves fan as it happens, had a good day out at southampton yesterday, if you get the chance I recommend you getdown there this season, lovely stadium.
Wonder if we will meet each other in the playoffs again(hehe)

Yeah - just for a few laps I was leading NGT with my cunning non-stop strategy in the Vertislow. Had run off earlier letting Nick through in the Team Shark Lambo but no damage done, but lost valuable seconds which meant it was far too easy for you to catch me. Assuming that the results screen after the race was correct, that was still second in class and I have to be pretty pleased with that considering my awful qualifying performance. :D

I also boobed putting too much fuel in - I knew the Vertigo is easy on fuel but didn't know how easy compared to the time the game shows - I ended up with 9 laps too much. Wonder how much time I could've saved without the extra. ::) Tyres actually lasted the distance although I did have to cool them for a couple of laps in the last 15 minutes 'cause they were getting a little toasty... :o

Bit of a mixed bag for me that race, got lots of practice being overtaken (again and again!) by the GT's at least!

Had the 1FPS after about 10 mins of qualifying. Haven't had that for *ages*, thought I'd cured it. Got back in to post a decent time so I qualified as well as expected, 3rd in the scoring NGT's. Blistering times from Iain & Tyf, well beyond my best lap times at MC so hat's off to you guys there.

Super start to the race with as-here all over me, had to battle really hard to keep my place, then found myself leading the NGT's as Tyf span! That gets a big WhooHoo as it may well never happen again!  ;D Didn't last long as Iain chased me down and passed far too easily for my liking  :-[

On the next lap I failed to see the first braking marker had been clobbered and completely missed my braking point into the first hairpin, locked the brakes and flew right to the back of the gravel, that is a LONG way! So long, that I couldn't see the track, got disoriented, then almost tried to re-join at the wrong point, had to double back to get to the correct re-joining point. AARGH! Think I lost about a minute on that little detour  >:(

Pitted for tyres and fuel after 30 mins, regrouped and tried to chase down Tyf in front of me. No chance, he was pulling out 2-3 secs a lap on me. Had a brief moment of hope when Tyf pitted towards the end but the gap was too big.

Congrats to Iain, Dave & Tyf on their podium places.

Great work from the GT guys as well, very patient and courteous overtaking, though you must have been sick of overtaking NGT's in the end!

Pops.

Replay upload to the website  :)

Greg, I can only make it to 2 away games this season. Southampton is one. Then, on new years eve (bloody odd day for football), I head up north were we will have an easy three points ;D.

Playoffs! I'm so pessimistic that the first result I looked for was Crewe.

Take a look at this thread...
https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=412.0

Results are up here:

http://www.ukgtr.org/lm2-report.php?group=10102&event=12

well I enjoyed the racing last night - first time I've been able to keep up with anyone!
had a buzz with Greg130 and Zacari for a while - couldnt catch you Greg130
although I still think I need to practice turning, oh yeah and braking, er.. and concentrating.
One of these days I'll manage to bring it accross the finish line instead of smashing it into the scenery....

Oh yeah, nearly forgot my obligatory moan about chat during qualifying and even the race.  ::)

Pops.

I have made sure chat won't be a problem for me, I have turned it off in-car altogether.

I turn it off for races nowadays. Shame but people just can't stop yakking it seems!

you still hear the 'click' though so the distraction is only lessened.

I've noticed the last few days, I'm getting clicking when by myself. Most wierd.

Apologies if I "Yak" too much, used to being able to in other leagues, will ensure I shut up in future. ;D

Take it sorry and thankyou is taken for granted whilst in race?

Yes. Although I'd love a horn and customisable medlies to play depending on what your communicating.  ;) ;) ;)

The clicking when 'alone' I've had when in Multiplayer and hosting my own server or joining an empty one. I think it's the people chatting in the lobby sounds that are sometimes still coming through!? (seeing there was stuff typed when I returned to check ;))

T

there was chat??? lol

i didnt notice

sheesh no wonder i won NGt if im the only one who can focus on a race and not the other stuff that might be going on :P :P :P LOL

Rofl!

Getting cocky after 1 win huh? ;) Shark must be a rooster by now then!  ??? :o :-\

I know, doesn't make any sense! ;) :D

T

Lol Tyf- your posts RULE  ;D

Lol, hope you still feel the same m8, after getting punted off by me today ;)! :D

T