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Practice 1:	20:00	(25 mins)
Qual 2:	20:25	(30 mins)
Race:	20:55	(80 mins)	note: no warmup!

Cars allowed: any GT1 or GTC from the UKGTR Skin Pack v2.7.5.0 (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3356.msg54519#msg54519) (download from here (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3356.msg54519#msg54519)).
Weather: changeable, based on real-world conditions at the start of the event.
Track: Anderstorp GP
Race Start Time 14:00
Pit Stops: You must make a minimum of one pit stop during which you must take on at least 1 litre of fuel or change your tyres. You cannot take your mandatory stop at the end of the pace lap, or with less than 1 lap to go.

Server: UKGTR Upper Endurance
Password: see above (#post_event_password)

Notes:
(1) Please make sure you are fully aware of the UKGTR Rules (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3349.0) - especially the speed limiter starting procedure and the rules about in-game chat messages.
(2) Championship standings can be found on the series page (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R;group=67;theme=3).
(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.

I'm gonna have a go at this, just got GTR2 this week, Tesco online was the only place that I could find that would supply it!

I'm probably going with 20KG tonight if other front runners are too

Sure, why not. Don't know if I'll be a front runner though, no practice yet in the Fezza.

Oh, just realized you're probably not driving GTC like me?  Heh, well, no matter.

Is this an open race or do you have to be accepted in, i race in the super endurance at the min.
Also i will be going for the wooden spoon as i have zero experience in theses cars and this track  ;D
If allowed to join that is !

Yes open series :). Cya tonight :D

Rapid reply and yer sould see you there just gota persuade the wife now  ::)

Why? does she drive too?  :o :laugh:

She keeps me on a tight lead  :-\

And i will join you in the virtigo me thinks you can show me how its done  :P

Why moan at the men racing... this racing malarkey keeps Ade amused for hours , then again so do shiny objects!!! ;D

Me and Zacari are  :laugh:

I've taken 10, because the Vertigo is already struggling to keep up, and the last thing it really needs is weight (less power :D).

Cannot join race track not installed wtf
I was on there practicing b4

The lobby probably changed game under you, try again a few times before giving up!

Game Full - Oh well no racing for me then.  :'(

Hope everyone has a great race...

Hmm, game locked up with 4 mins of praccy left.  Couldn't get back in time. :(

Not amused in the slightest.

Struggled to fit a clean qualifying lap in with all the GTC cars on track. Had a few good laps and was happy with my time to get pole.

I was worried about my connection after last Sunday night but the connection was fine during the endurance event yesterday.

On the warm up lap I was looking back and Backo was weaving his car. I turned around again and he was mid spin. I hope it was nothing to do with me and my connection?

My car felt ok apart from the brakes could have been a bit hotter. Braking for the second corner was not what it should be.

Managed to ease out a little gap over the first few laps.

Suddenly all went quiet and I knew what was coming. "Connection lost".

That's two sundays on the trot and not far off the same time either.

Makes it worse when you are having a good race in a strong position.

I shouldn't have joined this one. No practise and my setup making know-how is going backwards. Car was rubbish all practise and qually, started 2nd last of the GT1's and then promptly binned it on lap 1.
Dangerous re-join, got in the way of some GTC's, the lot.

Send me some incident reports. I can't feel much worse.

Bad luck to Brian on the lost connection, you don't deserve that. Sorry to any GTC's I got in the way of, and gd luck to those that are fighting for the lead. Looks like we'll have a new winner ;D

Well that was absolutely  :cursing: :censored: :cursing: :surrender: for me  :(

Done loads of praccy...car felt dead good all day 1:31:5 in the Vertigo was with full fuel etc.

Damn thing just would not stay on track tonight....it must have got icy or something between my practice and race time ::)

getting to be a regular occurance this....seem to be wasting alot of my time practicing for diddly squat. :(

grats winners and podiums......see you all when the pubs shut :taz:

I can't understand why you car feels that much different. If anything mine usually feels better. Rather odd.

No way!!!,again my engine fired!!! ::) ::) ::)I had cool :o and very close race first 18 laps ,then my engine blow.
 :-\ :-\

Did not do so well quala 10th in class with a time no were near my pb from offline praccy
Then did my normal thing on the 1st bend and put the limiter on instead of changing up a gear thats twice i have done that now  :laugh:
So that cost me two places then blamo 2 laps later and i smash right into the side of a pug which looked to be going of the track but the inflatable kerbs bounced it right back into my path,then i spent the nxt couple of min trying to get out out of sand trap
Was going to carry on but took some nasty damage and was about to be lapped buy the leading gtc cars after only 5 laps so instead of causing everyone a headace i quit.

Don't worry mate ,this time was my bloody mistake ::)

I seem to suffer from the same problem i was doing low 31s after i was on the server earlier then back to crappen on it

OK i've had the odd problem, mainly with my pc but nothing like tonite. Halfway through practise it just quits to desktop, bizarre.

I was partly struggling as it was the first race using my new DFP and it feels a bit different.

I'd like to know about the random weather generator, in terms of how it sets the track grip level. During praccy/ qual the track temp said 19-20 deg but i had no grip, i couldnt even get softs on the front into the green!

Managed to avoid the carnage around on the first few laps and was shadowing Munkez again but slowly dropping back and the leaders started coming through. As Dave was passing me out of the first turn my machine froze then my TFT monitor suddenly says 'no input' and powers down. A reboot and all is well again. Very strange.

A quick 15min offline race and suddenly i can turn-in again ;) I think i've dropped about 20-30 fps compared to normal, is this track quite heavy on fps? maybe its the wheel?

Bit of my story as well, didn't have much time for practise, so I knew it would be a race from behind. When I was closing in behind you, you ran a bit wide due to cold brakes I guess and then it all went real quick resulting in a sort of public bump :-\

Not sure if its me case of manflu or that car/track combo but that was as much fun as clap.

The way Simon wizzed past me like I was in Vertigo on 1st lap left me gloomy. A pistsop that was clean but lost me 16 secs to Hol and the difficulty of passing GTC (not anyones fault just due to track) left me in despair. Last week had a ball got discoed. No such luck this week :)

Congrats to our Paul and Gymer gents.  

I had the same in qually less than 20fps in places - almost undriveable.

Things went much better in the race and the car was more easy to drive - lots more fps. I made up lots of places due to others' misfortune - offs and discos.

Finally apologies to LeeB for the Touring Car overtake just as we were starting to have a good scrap! I got my nose inside into the second of the banked 180 turns only to see two gt1 cars arriving at speed also side by side. I think the unintentional nudge I gave you ended your race - apologies again.  :(

Replay and Provisional Results posted

Fun race again for me. :)

I messed up about 3 drivers laps in the opening stages of qualy, sorry about that. Other than that it was a rather enjoyable evening. I had Dave pressuring me right from the start and it was not long before i fell off the track. I pushed hard to keep up with the other GT1's and managed to get SBG in the pits. A few GTc's lost time because of my lame overtaking skills, sorry about that as well.

Nice result for me, mainly because of retirements i think. But like any Ferrari fan i will take a victory any way I can get it :D

Back to my usual form - rubbish in qually and miles better in the race. :laugh:

550s were leaving me for dead on the straights but I was all over Hal's bum through the rest of the lap and he duly fell off. :laugh:

Awesome dice with SbG through the backmarkers - sorry about the tap coming out of T1, I was trying to box you in behind that GTC and didn't quite make enough space for myself. Was worried I'd spin you off but you held it together, great job! The MC12 was quick down the straight compared to the Lambo - mind you, the RSes were too! - but I was getting an awesome run out of T1 compared to the other GT1s and the R-GT was also fabulous on the brakes so once I was alongside I knew I could nail you in the right hander at the end of the runway and duly did so. ;D

After that Backo's engine went and I was then chasing down Paul R and Shark for the lead - being able to see the leaders just ahead is uncharted territory for me! Car's balance remained excellent on worn tyres and I stayed out a lap longer than Shark, picking up the lead for a lap, but then the Lambo's awful consumption dumped me back to effective 3rd and with no real prospect of catching up again.

Traffic was a nightmare in a good way - multiclass racing at its best. Hairiest moment of the race was Greystreak's Vertigo blowing its motor right in front of me. :o

After 2 hours and 10 minutes in the Lambo yesterday I decided I wanted to hop into something new so after downloading Gregor Huttu's F550 setup for Anderstorp and heavily modifying it to more fit my driving style I was doing lap times the same as Lambo.

Qualified 5th on the grid and was looking forward to finally having a bit of ooomph down the straights even putting up the wing one notch from qually to give me a little more grip and stability. Sure enough, lap 1 and my Italian stallion went straight by the floundering MC12 of Gingsters. Sorry, but it's finally nice to have the boot on the other foot from all the times I've been left for dead in the Lambo! For all the F550 is good on the straights, it's not exactly friendly with the corners, so it had one of the most radical setups I've ever driven with to get it round the bends (90 rear ARB!!!), the Ferrari really doesn't feel like it's got much grip in the corners and understeers like a wallowing barge.

After that had an extended battle with Backo and lapping GTCs was very scarey indeed when the top three GT1s are so close together and not wanting to lose out too much to each other. Had some hairy moments and had to make some more forceful moves than I normally like, but didn't hit anyone thankfully. The closing speeds in the GT1s, especially on the Vertigos is simple frightening. A number of times I was absolutely miles away at the beginning of the straight but by the end of it you've caught a car so fast that you are then left with the dilemna of whether to go for the outbrake with such immense extra momentum. Hope I wasn't too forceful, I know there was one one Jeff that was particularly last minute that was probably a little too late, but his awareness and skill allowed me through (thanks!).

After about 30 minutes I started what was to be the battle I would have almost to the flag. Getting the lead from Paul R, losing it in the pit stops, getting it back, then losing it again and finally after I put up a good chase towards the end, just running wide into the gravel momentarily with just a couple more minutes to go to finally take the pressure off him. Deserved win Paul, well done, very competitive racing.

Shame about the depleted GT1 field at the end, again only 10 starters and with more unfortunate discos and so forth (and Joss being useless  ;) ;D :angel:), but great to see two Gymers on the podium.

Well done to Jeff on the GTC win in an unlikely car for Anderstorp (although he was running 1-1 wing to compensate for the Vertigo's natural straight line speed disadvantage) and the other podium places Paul and Mike.

P.S. I don't understand how that event felt so long after yesterday's Super Endurance race, I think the practice session goes on too long so it makes the whole event take longer than you'd think for a measly 80 minute race. ;)

Heh. I did all my crashing on the practice server. Well, most. One crash during practice on race server.

Qually could have gone better. Constantly got -0.350 to the first interval, but couldn't make it stick for a whole lap. Even so, I nabbed 2nd (GTC) from Paul968 with a few minutes left and switched to my race setup to get a few practice laps with full fuel. Didn't even get a lap before Paul took 2nd back.

Had a great race in the beginning with Paul in front and TT behind. The Fezza is kind on tires, and sure enough Pauls tires seemed to go off before mine, and let me past on the return staight. Was catching up to Ruskus a little, one second in four laps, but then the GT1's started coming through and I fell back again. SBG was in my mirrors and I thought I'd go wide into T5, let him pass on the inside, but instead I jumped off the track and into the wall.

A few laps later I did it again. And a few laps after that went off in T4.

Sigh.

Did a late pitstop, and came out 6 secs down on McClean. Caught up and tried to put some pressure on. Soon enough, he was a bit late on the brakes for T1, went wide at corner entry and I got ahead after being side by side down the straight.

Was 13 secs down on Paul at this point, and I was sceptical if it was possible to catch up. But again, it looked like his tires started to give before mine, and I started to close. Slowly. But it was two steps forward, one step back. Getting lapped, and in turn lapping others, the gap went up and down. Paul must have been in the same situation, of course.

Got the gap down to 6,5 secs, but then I did a series of rather silly spins, and that was that.

Didn't really enjoy the Ferrari around this track. A bit too understeery, and no chance of using soft fronts due to the heavy tire wear this track has. Couldn't get the gear ratios suitable either. Had to leave 1st low for the sandtraps, and had to put 2nd pretty low as well, for acceleration out of the last corner. This left me with a 3rd gear which was a bit too tall for T1, T2 and T while 2nd gear was too short for T1, and a little adventurous in T2, T3. But I shouldn't complain too much, car was okay on the whole and quick enough for a much better performance.


Sorry to Munkez for the nudge. I was so very relieved when you did not spin off.

Grats to Paul Richards and Ruskus.
Nice driving by Paul968, seems 20kg difference isn't enough for me to make it more interesting for you  :D
Hopefully I'll improve with experience.


Good racing with you guys once again. See you next week.

Unofficial Race Report (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paul.harrington/Anderstorp%20S7%20UE/)

It was probably just as well my game froze, as I realised 10 minutes later that I had completely forgotten how pitting works in GTR ;D

I will need to see what is wrong with my connection. That's two sundays on the trot this new connection has given up. It drops the connection completely for a few minutes for some reason. Don't know if there is anything in that?    It has been fine all week and even the long endurance event on saturday was fine.   So I don't know if I have been unlucky the last two sundays or there is something significant to the fact of discos on sundays?

Does your router have a log which allows you to see whether it's a loss of sync or the LCP going down?
Have you tried rebooting it just before a race?

well that was a very tough race last night but am delighted with my 2nd win discounting fun races. Went into this race reasonably confident as i had i good race here in the 575 a couple of seasons back.

Qualifying went ok. Twice i was well up on my best hoping to challenge brian for pole when i hit traffic right at the end of the lap. Third was ok though.

Backo spun warming his tyres on the pace lap putting me up to second. Race started and with all the battling behind brian and myself had pulled out a bit of a gap. Brian then disco'd and with backo and simon battling i thought i had a chance to pull out a bit of a lead. It was all going well as i came up to lap two gtcs at the end of the straight. The leading gtc lost it and there was nowhere to go for the other or myself. Damaged the front and back just behind backo and simon. With the front damaged i wasnt quite as quick but could just about keep up with the battle for the lead. Backo was pushing very hard and after quite a few hairy moments eventually ran wide at the left hand banked corner. Si then pulled away a bit only for me to close up as our tyres wore. Not only did my tyres hold up well i was getting good fuel mileage so i ducked into the pits a few laps early to try and jump simon.

Pit stop went well and even with the damage fixed i was in the lead after the pit cycle. Car felt great but i couldnt put any daylight back to simon and if was soon back on my tail. After catching a gtc in a bad place he got close down the straight and i ran a little wide in the corner at the end and he through. I nearly came a cropper and lost a bit of time but was able to catch back up and he then ran a little wide and i was back. As the race neared the end he was putting me under lots of pressure until he ran wide in the final laps. Great race simon was really fun to race so close for so long. Have to say it was a little nerve wracking and the 80 mins seemed like an age!

Congrats to jeff on the gtc win and the other podiums. Thanks to all the gtcs for the lapping help as its tricky round here.         

What does LCP stand for?   I don't know if the router logs data. I think I caught a page in the settings the other night, so I will double check when i get home.    One thing I did notice is the light on the router that highlights connection goes out and takes a couple of minutes to come back on.

Link Control Protocol (http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/L/LCP.html) - it's how the modem and DSLAM (the modem in the exchange) communicate.

It certainly sounds like you'd benefit from bouncing the modem/router just before a race.

Even from the back of the grid, a fun and entertaining race.  I managed to recover from the terror of "Connection Lost" during Qualifying, and reconnect to set at least a 'token' time before the session ended.  The cooler 12*C ambient track temperature made sure many of us were dealing with lower than expected grip levels, and those with greater experience of 'last minute setup tweaks' obviously reaped the benefits.  ;)  Between trading offs with my fellow GTC'ers, and playing 'dodgems' as the hunting packs of GT-1's roared past, it was good fun.  I even had one 'legit' overtake--Prof's Morgan, as he yielded to a pack of GT-1's--by momentarily catching a tow on the coat-tails of the last overtaking GT-1 . . . only to hand the place back through an error, a couple of corners later! :P

My driving apologies are due to:  1) Psuedo - under pressure into Norra (T2) on lap 8, I lost the back-end under braking, and 'collected' you with my spin  :(; and 2) Dave Gymer - didn't mean to scare you lighting up the 'barbie' on my lap 41, sending a dense pall of black smoke up, just as you overtaking me.  (Frankly, I was mystified with that, as my rpms were limited 100's lower than 'top end' [6900], based on my understanding of the Gillet's performance profile.  ???)

no probs....just glad I managed to slow enough in time to avoid a big un that could have damaged both of us badly....as it was no damage done  ;D

Gutted I didn't make this one. My Girl Friends car had its drivers side front spring fail. Many an hour spent awaiting the AA....

Another fun race, especially in the first half. Timed my best lap perfectly to pip Mike to 2nd on the grid and thought I might be able to get Ruskus on the drag down to T2, but there wasn't quite enough time. After that it was more about keeping Mike behind as he was clearly a bit quicker. After 8 laps or so I made a small slip and decided to let Mike by but had to be careful not to let TT through at the same time. We managed this OK, but then TT was right on my tail. We had what seemed like half a lap side by side before he ended up on the inside under braking at the end of the back straight and was past - good racing as always. :thumbup1: Unfortunately for him he then slid off on one of the banked corners. Next in the queue for me though was Mark McClean, who was equally quick. After holding him off for a couple of laps he got by when I let SBG past - I wasn't too worried though as I assumed he was running lighter and so would lose out at the stops. Around this time Mike went wide and dropped back a few seconds, so I was 3rd as the pitstops started. They went smoothly and sure enough I came out in 2nd with a 10 second gap to Mark and another 5 to Mike. Mark was dropping back if anything and although Mike was a bit quicker it seemed that it wasn't going to be enough to catch up, so I could relax, save the car and avoid silly mistakes (which have blighted previous races at Anderstorp for me). Quite happy with 2nd in the end  :)

Congrats to Ruskus on the GTC win and to our Paul on a great win in GT1  :clap: Also to Mike on 3rd in GTC, especially with the +20kg ballast - with a few less errors then I think you would have been pretty close at the end. Thx to the lappers and those lapped - all pretty smooth and polite, although it isn't the easiest track to lap on or let people by. Looking forward to Barcelona now after the tedium of Anderstorp.

When you say "bouncing" do you mean resetting/restarting the router or is there a more technical method behind that?

That was one of the highest points in the race - the overtaking bit, mind you.  :D  I made several errors later which dropped me from 2nd to 5th place, right before Picnic. I had good enough pace, but not the concentration, so I guess I got what I deserved.  :P
Intense racing in the begining, but boring for the last hour.  :(  The car was acting worse than in Sprint, wtf  ???
Grats to all podiums, more so to Rusky in Vertigo, good speed down that monstrous straight.  :o  Every other Vertigo got eaten there, you must have had some spicy mexican food before the race.  ;D
GTs were great.  :)

TT

Had to bail last night - was getting massive stutters just as the leading GT1's came round to lap me - obviously something updating on the computer :(.

I didn't want to cause an incident, and I'd also been called in as reinforcements to try and settle our boy last night aswell ... the missus wasn't happy with the 10 min delay (oops).  Bit gutted really, as I'm not racing much at all at the mo - last night was a bit of a one-off.

Still, the pedals I got of Jonzo worked a treat (mine died 2 weeks ago) - so I can race if I have time now.

I also lost around 0.3 or 0.4 a lap there ;D. I just minimized damage by running 1-1 wing ;D.

Shame my weight didn't get added. About 10 minutes before race I added 10kg, but that didn't stick somehow. Weight hits the Vertigo harder than other cars, so smacking on 40kg is signing a deathwarrant ;D.

I finished with 15L too much fuel, which is also around 10kg :P.

Restarting or power cycling - mine doesn't have a switch so I tend to just whip the power cord out for a few seconds. You could probably reboot it via its web interface but in my case it's quicker to run upstairs and do it the hard(ware) way. ;)

Or 2nd position as it's known to everyone else. ;)  :P

ROFL!  :laugh:

Hell, yea!  :lol:

TT

I don't know why everyone thinks the Vertigo should be rubbish at Anderstorp. All those long constant radius corners are just up its street, even if it loses on the main straight. I'm pretty much the same pace in a Vertigo as the RS, and the RS needs a longer stop and uses its tyres more. As for 40kg being a death warrant, 50 ltrs of fuel(which weights around 40 kg) costs me half a second a lap at most in the Vertigo - about how much I was off the pace last night  :P

Firstly I'd like to say sorry to all those that were behind me on the pre-start lap, my brake pedal jammed down a couple of times and by the time I had it free'd off, the front guys were already nearing the start. I really hope I didn't spoil anyones race.

As to Prof, its racing thats all, you saw the door wide open and went for it (as I would have), its just unfortunate that the GT1 boys came upon at that exact moment. As to ending my race, it was over long before that. I was thinking of ending it anyway, as I think I was more of a risk to the front runners. (was very tired)

Not keen on that track, had a bit of a nightmare of a race. Kept going off into the gravel, the car felt awful.

The only high point was that I had a good pit stop. Plus no connection issues for me this week.

RM