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Practice 1:	20:00	(10 mins)
Qual 2:	20:10	(25 mins)
Race:	20:35	(80 mins)	note: no warmup!

Cars allowed: any GT3 from the UKGTR Skin Pack v2.8.5.0 (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: UKGTR Imola GP 2004 (download as part of the UKGTR Track Pack v1.2 (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3356.msg54519#msg54519))
Race Start Time: 05:00 - dawn race
Pit Stops: You must make a minimum of one pit stops during which you must take on at least 1 litre of fuel and/or change at least two tyres. You cannot take a mandatory stop at the end of the pace lap, or with less than 1 lap to go.

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Laptimes anyone? Taking part in this anyone? lol I really hope numbers don't decrease on Sunday as much as last Tuesday (when I actually could not race :-\)

I've been closing on the lap records, Gillet should be good here

You must think I have time to practise! :laugh:

I've yet to choose a car, so no times from me either.

Only Imola laptimes I can remember are with the Alfa in GTL  ;D

hi pals, is the pitlane open in there?

I mean, can I take part of this one?

For sure - the more the merrier! ;D

hey Cobo  ;)

join Racin24-7 team btw!!!  :P in racing profile  :-*

hey purds/cobo :) good to see a few R247 guys here :)
im racing tonight too.

(purds How I join the r247 team?)

Hi guys!

Yeah, it´s good to see some r247 guys here, how could I change the team thing?  ::)

press LM2 up on the forum menu  ::)

read this....Daves guide to team management:

https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=431.0 (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=431.0)  :D

It´s Done, I´m now part of the team!

(the nelsinho part, of course)  ;D

well that was annoying...was solid in 3rd all race and catching busi by half a sec a lap..... with 15 mins to go. I was a few laps short of fuel.. so I had to do a splash and dash that me pressing return in panic too soon... led me to refull 34 laps worth! and to make matters worse... I changed tires when I didn't want too either!. (DOH)- so I lost 3 places from a silly error of mine. - then was too aggressive on the way out with new tires that I lost it and slammed the wall... game over! but that's racing for ya! :)

Quite pleased I beat the track record tonight with a 152.585 (and poss fastest lap of race)?


Up to that point.. was a great race! good clean racing from everyone!
good drivers here! so thanks for that.. and cee you next sunday!

Hmmmmm.....I used 15 ltr more fuel for the final 20 laps than I did for the first 22 laps  ??? Wasn't going faster, pushing harder or doing anything different really so i have no idea why. Ran out of fuel just at the start of the last lap...in a cumfy 5th too.  :(

Grats Freq, and of course 2nd and 3rd for our two team pseudo drivers.

Sorry to the two Vertigos I bumped on the opening lap - Ade and Cobo I think - found myself passing one on the run down to Rivazza and then lost sight of my braking point. Let loads of people past in pennance and then stopped early hoping to jump Mr Boylan, which worked a treat.

Car never felt right - very cold tyres early on, balance was terrible for the first 25 minutes, started to improve later. Big scrap with Mike Hammer's Elise and Ted's Vertigo but by then I had badly worn tyres and couldn't defend indefinitely. Busi's attempts to lap us weren't helping either - I don't mind letting a Vertigo through but when I'm in a scrap and the lapping car keeps making silly errors and forcing me to go back past it to avoid yielding a place to cars I'm actually racing it wears thin rather quickly. ::) :P

The end couldn't come quickly enough - MB's Elise was closing very fast at the end, with fresher tyres, presumably no engine health problem and probably more fuel too!

Titanic battle with Martin, I began to think we were glued to each other, thanks Martin, enjoyed that alot you made very few mistakes.

Couldn't believe I was the only 911 Porka out there tonight :o  Mark Jonzo where were you, I was hoping you might turn up with a trusty 911 8)

I think I ended up 10th with an almost full grid, pleased with making the top ten in the only Porka probably one of my results with a full grid in the same class. 8)

Odd, but exciting and great fun evening for me!

Started off well in practice, was going relativley quickly by my standards and was confident of a decent Quali position.

Then I quit and rejoined when the server was restarted and got booted as a cheat a few times, which was worrying...'cause by now it was 2015! I reinstalled the Skin/Track packs, to no avail and then rebooted and I managed to get in then - not sure why it started throwing that error at me though, I hadn't changed a thing!

Nevertheless, there was still time in Quali, and I did an alright lap to start 13th I think.

Now, with losing 20 mins of being booted, I didn't have time to work out my race strategy or race setup, so I just reduced the rev limit and put mediums on all round, and filled the tank to the brim. Now this, it turns out - was genius - I was able to pretty much keep pace with those around me, knowing I was probably heavier than them (I think I was running heavier than almost anyone - nobody would be going much longer for sure!). Given this, I was quite happy to just follow and pass when folk made mistakes, I knew I'd manage to pass folk on strategy (ooh, how F1 of me!).

The strategy was working quite well, until I was given a stop/go penalty for cutting the track (I'd ran wide a few times at the bottom of the hill in the right hander before the chicane) - which I took, when I stopped I was given options for other pit stuff, so I hit enter and assumed I'd get a pitstop at the same time (I'm not sure why, but I did!) so I cut my engine to let 'em refuel as soon as the penalty was over - but ofcourse they weren't gonna' fuel me so I lost another 10s trying to restart my engine!

This had ruined my strategy a bit, so I decided to cut my losses and take my pitstop the next lap, and spend the rest of the race chasing - which I did, but I lost time selecting my pit options - I had to change my fuel level 'cause I was pitting about 20/25mins earlier than planned - and lost more trying to restart my engine.

So by now the race was a bit wrecked, and more misery was piled upon my with another stop/go about 10mins from the end!

I had the pace for a 7th/8th place, but alas, it was never gonna happen!

Replay and provisional results posted

LapChart (http://www.granum.plus.com/20080928%20U8LE/index.html)

I was feeling a bit worse for wear due to an evening of BMXing at a skatepark and falling 5ft bashing my wrists and legs. Very aching and very sore so I decided to just run a concervative race. Qualified 18th I think so I knew I was in for a quite night. No such luck. Titanic battle with Dave early on. Worked my way up to 6th as I pitted late to see Dave flying past me whilst I was still in the pits. Came out around 14th and managed to get back up to 11th. Then I noticed Dave was slowing and I was catching him as the minutes counted down. I was driving the arse of the little Lotus and crossed the line about 1.9 seconds behind him. I think the whole race was driven at 110% as i either tried to keep people behind me or try and catch drivers up. Great fun.

Great racing Dave and you did a super job jumping me in the pits  ;D

Picked the Elise because I remembered it came already set up from the factory, no tweaking neccesary  :D
Reduced wing a bit, upped the steering lock, soft fronts, good to go. Lovely. Tuta å köra, as the swedish say. Just honk and drive.

Well it had a bit of trouble over the bumpier bits, giving some issues on the third chicane. Spun twice there, then took it through slowly for the rest of the race.

Spun a few times, had a stop/go, and messed up my pit stop. Other then that, a good race  ;D

A few good battles along the way, all in all a fun race.



Oh that's what happened. I dunno about cumfy though, I had you in my sights  ;) ;D

:laugh:

yeah...you might have caught me.....but I tell you, them Vipers can get VERY wide...passing would have been another matter.  ;) :)

Good quali lap and pole position. Start of the race with way too cold tyres, FreQ got past and I couldn't keep up with him.

Pitted early to change only fronts and have a good balance for most of the 2nd stint. But I rejoined just behind TT who after holding me up for a whole stint at Spa last Sunday, he held me up for several laps today as well lol nice racing mate :) luckily FreQ left the pits JUST behind me with TT still ahead so I was on a critical sandwitch. In the end FreQ used his chance when I was slow away from one corner keeping an eye on TT, so he retook the lead. I tried to keep the pace, temps were a bit hotter so I was a bit faster.

Chase finished when I found several lapped cars fighting each other. FreQ got through well but I had a nightmare passing them. And it wasn't really me making "silly mistakes" but I was actually feeling I had to race against them to get ahead. That made me ran a bit wide on a couple of corners and with their higher power they kept passing me again in the straights. When I finally got passed them the gap to FreQ had increased a lot up to over 10 seconds. Didn't give up and he actually had an issue or something, gap down to 5 seconds.

Pushing too hard specially over the kerbs at the Variante Alta I was given a stop&go. Came into the pits with 2 laps to go, and pressed ESC instead of Enter when the pitstop board appeared, what a stupid way of having to retire from a race. The gap to 3rd was nearly 1 minute so I was in no hurry to serve the penalty and rejoin in 2nd. Owh well championship chances over.

Grats FreQ, I didn't expect you being so fast in such slow circuit, but looks like both 350z and CC were as fast or faster than the Gillet.

Fun race :)

Good result for me but I only got it from other drivers misfortunes rather than fast driving. I tried to keep up with Zak but he was too fast (good going in the Viper mate) I got close to Zak again after my pit stop but he soon lost me again.

I got a stop-go for corner cutting in the last 20 mins and ended up behind RM. We had a close battle all the way to the end which was made all the more intense by Team Radio problems. We had a slight racing incident on the last lap and RM gave me his position at the end because he thought he was responsible, what a diamond geezer  :angel:

I had done at least one suspect defensive move in this battle (sorry mate) so I would not have been bothered anyway but I took about a milli second to decide to take the position when RM slowed a little on the start finish line :whistling:

Another fine evenings entertainment ;D

You were completely sideways into and out of several corners! :P :laugh:

 :laugh:

I know the leaders had a hard time when lapping me too, I had just caught a couple of backmarkers myself and was trying to find a good spot to pass etc just as Freq and Busi caught me  :o....made it 'interesting' to say the least.  ;D

Always great to drive against you, Busi. Like Shark and MarkMc you are stable and don't make flashy moves, bomb diving, etc.  :)  You may have noticed I didn't go for inside lanes in defensive driving. I wanted to keep the outside lane 'cause of my silly setup mistake and not to pick up anyone on braking. I experimented with lower brake cooling as it was cold at the end of quali. Saw it was ok up to the 10'C temps but not open enough if the temps would rise. Guess what happened - I forgot to open it back and started the race with the closed cooling.  >:(  So the car was ok on braking early on but front brakes were starting to overheat after about 20 minutes of the race.  :(  So I was never sure when I'll spin and had to brake much earlier than I should have.  :(

I was setting lap-times of 1.53.7xx with full fuel in training the other day and was appaled with my quali setup - couldn't get enywhere near my former race laptimes.  >:(  So in the end I took my race setup with low fuel to set my poor quali lap, really don't know what got into the car last night.  :( Made a few mistakes in the race, lost some gained some due to mistake of others. Strange - I like Imola but always make mistakes here, even more than in Enna, lol. Well, I usually make only one mistake in Enna.  :D

Was driving alone on 6th place towards the end but gained two more places due to misfortune of others.  :-\  Seems like would be battle for podium if I had the car set as it should be. Grats to MIP.  ;)  And Freq, of course.  8)

Nice to see new faces. I hope your misfortune in the race won't prevent you from comming back.  :)

TT

A really enjoyable race for me. I'd done a fair bit of practice but still thought I would struggle as I seemed very inconsistent. However on the night it all seemed to come together and my pace kept improving throughout.

Had so many tussles I can't remember them all, but thanks to everyone for really good racing. 5th placed is my best finish so far, of course largely due to others' bad luck.

pretty crap for me.....was never quick in the Vertigo and race i was very inconsistent!

Sorry to Pseudo, i drifted wide on the formation lap 3 corners before the end....i was leaning over trying to shut up my mobile...the alarm wudn't ssssh! Had a fun tussle with him, but the Viper pulled away on the straight and i cudn't do much in the corners but close up on him again. Few spinners out there tonight (including me).....saw Truetom pass me, spin....and pass me again!

I need to see why my vertigo was soooo far off the pace, especially since we drove the ukgtr version of the track  :'(

MJ doesn't believe in this series - he's very sensitive about any kind of Porsche rating. :P  Give me comparable cars and trusty drivers and we can race anything.  :)   

TT

Thanks to you too buddy! :)
That was absolutely brilliant!?
What an intense race. I seemed to be marginally quicker than you in the first half of the race and thought I'd 'got ya' !?  ;)
but after we both pitted you came out a few seconds ahead of me and try as I might I could not catch you!?
You were flying!  That is what it is all about, good clean close racing!?

That circuit is awesome too, I can't remember having to work so hard for so long while feeling on the edge the whole time!?
I usually drive a bit conservative in these things but not last night!? I had numerous little moments!  ;D

Must mention kidzer/Dave Milne! you got past me near the end and I had to drive like a mad man to get back past you !
A new PB !? That was tough!

Mind you virtually all my laps were PB's!

Thanks all, really enjoyed it!?


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I just wanted to echo what Martin said. Fantastically tough race on a track that's growing on me quickly.

Really enjoyed my 'start to finish' 80 min battle with API. I think I may have just had the edge over say one lap, but in the end API's consistently fast driving won our little duel. Great racing/effort API.

I have to say that this GT3 Lower Endurance series is definitely my favourite I'm currently racing. Awesome!  :)

I think the GT3 endurance is such a superb series and the format really works. I love the variety with changable weather, dawn races, formation lap, pitstops etc. Just brilliant that a league is brave enough to have all these features. The only thing I would change is to have a more varied grid, so more Porsche's, Lotus's and Vipers and not so many Vertigo's. It was great fun racing JPS1 in the Porka last night. Still, its all brilliant still so a big thumbs up to the organisers.

definitely

i wish i had taken the 911 now too, vertigo seems a bit dull and lifeless in comparison  ::)  :D

I agree with you there folks.  The GT3 series has been the most fun this season.  ;D
 
Was a decent race for me, made a few mistakes and had a couple of moments where I double downshifted going into the chicane. Was slower than i normally had been in practice. but I was able to keep it on the track and not make any major mistakes.

Took a gamble and decided not to take fuel at the stop to get me out the pits quicker. To make sure I had enough fuel I short shifted immediately after exiting the pits with the intention of seeing what my fuel was like with 10/15 mins to go and letting rip.

This was a mistake as it became obvious that I would not be able to open up at all and might run out of fuel.  I was 20 secs in front of TT and decided that I would really! short shift to try and make it.

H@L got a stop go and came out 4 secs behind me which put an end to my fuel saving plans  ;D. I continued to short shift until he got right on my rear then I decided to battle him....fuel tank be dammed!

He got past me on the penultimate lap but was a bit slow out of the first chicane on the last lap and I did a 'Hamilton' going into the hairpin  :o. another great fight there H@l.

I finished with...0.1l of fuel.  whew!

Roll on the next race.  C'mon Team Psuedo we can still take the championship from those smelly fishes  :P......

Ditto to all comments!

Legzy and I just dont have the team resources to spend ages over set ups etc. but I have to say the Vertislow is just dull!

I need lots of loud exciting engine sounds!? I guess I could rename a few sound files to make it sounds like something else but I guess that not in the spirit!  ;D

I thought renaming sound files can cause mismatches online??

Your probably right was only speculating / jokin!  ;)

Changing the sounds doesnt affect online play. In fact many of use use addon sounds for the cars. Thinlane's sounds are definately recommended.

Do you have a link to these sounds and does he have a Lotus sound although I like the stock sound.

I'd suggest you look through the files on Nogrip as they have a few. Not sure if there is one for the Lotus, tend to be for the bigger cars.

Hang on there is thread on here somewhere..

https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3828.0

Its a bit of an old thread though, not sure if all files are still available.

Was a good race for me again. I don't know how I keep winning these or how Busi keeps losing them, I'm usually convinced I'm on course for second until something happens!  :angel:

Qually was fine. Couldn't better my time so was happy with 2nd. Was sooo pleased that unlike Suzuka I didn't have a Viper behind me! My long first gear meant I had to defend off the line instead of attack, but then was OK. Busi made a weird mistake half way round lap 1 (where you looking where you were going?! lol) and I got into the lead and held it for a while. He did his usual quick stop and 2 tyre change and I stayed out. Unfortunately I need fuel and the Z is rubbish round corners, so it's always 4 new tyres for me :(

I thought that as he pitted so early and Imola is so tough to pass on, maybe he'll get caught in traffic. TT saved my bacon ;D

After that it was just lapping and going through traffic. I got lucky passing some peeps in their own battle (this is the time having more power really helps - lapping) and Busi got really caught up in it, gifting me lots of time. But I threw most of that away when lapping Pseudo. Totally my fault as I took my eye off the track and looked at the traffic ahead and totally missed my braking point and spun at the last corner. Bugger!

Only thing to note was 2 or 3 people decided to brake/lift off on the racing line on the exit of a corner to let me by, when I was RIGHT behind them. This isn't smart for 3 reasons:

• You lose more time letting people by out of corners instead of the way in
• Lappers always try to get good, fast exits to draft past on straights
• You are much more likely to be rear-ended ;D

Holding your line and being predictable is the best advice I can give. Blending out of the throttle can help - but midway through a straight, not straight after a corner!

Anyway. Know it was totally not malicious so no biggie. It was still close towards the end of the race until Busi mysteriously pitted....and then even more bizarrely gave up 3 laps from the end?! Escape is the enemy!

I'd love to talk more about other people but I hardly saw anyone else! Maybe TT for around a lap or so, and the Elise's were very fast. If I was doing another GT3, I'd definitely take an Elise! ;D

Cheers peeps

Yes take the Elise, its calling out for you :)

Had to jump ship on this one :( having problems with this old plasma monitor in night races ??? it seems to think its not being used and goes into screen save mode and dims down after about 15 minutes , and I cant find a way to switch it off  so it gets bit  hard to see the track. Ill try running the game in window mode and see if that works.

Sure was RM  :)

We both pushed really hard in the last 2 laps and both made a few mistakes resulting in 3 or 4 position changes in those last 2 laps ;D As soon as one of us got in front, we made a mistake and the other driver would catch up again. :laugh:

Also forgot to say in my last post, I had a good battle with Zak at the start. I managed to hold him off for a few laps and we had some nice side by side moments. :) He soon out braked me in the final chicane and then drove off into the distance.

Looking forward to the next one.

Actually that was a bit hair rasing.. I had the speed and drafted you for that corner. but I was not sure if you would allow me room as you actually had the racing line, so from a 3rd person perspective was a "shut your eyes and pray" moment for me :) - but was delighted naturally to have past with all of our 4 wheels still in tact! :)

I enjoyed the race lots.-just a shame my schoolboy errors cost me a podium!.

 :laugh:

The Z3 seems to be a bit poor under heavy braking so I decided to take the safe option and that chicane is the only place where I had to watch for corner cut warnings. You were much faster than me and it was only a matter of time before you got me. :)