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Title: Endurance Championship Division 2 - Season 1, Round 4, Brno - Sept 4th
Post by: Simon Gymer on August 23, 2005, 09:37:41 AM +0100
Endurance Championship Division 2 - Season 1, Round 4 at Brno

Date: Sunday 4th September

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 (via dual-dice throw and sophisticated weather table ;))

Notes:
(1) Please try to arrive at least 15 minutes prior to qualifying, during Practice 1.
(2) Server Password has been emailed to those registered racers for each championship. Please contact a member of the admin team to get the password if you are registered and have forgotten or not received the password. It will not be given out in the GTR chatroom as that is a public place. The password wont change for the season unless there are security concerns.
(3) See  UKGTR Season 1 Info (http://www.ukgtr.org/lm2-report.php?group=1&content=series103) for general Season 1 info.
(4) Please make sure you are fully aware of the UKGTR Rules (http://www.ukgtr.org/index.php?c=rules)


Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 2 - Season 1, Round 4, Brno - Sept 4th
Post by: silver53 on August 26, 2005, 06:07:55 PM +0100
Hi all will be back for this one ,hope I am not banned but my car seems magnetic at present even though I do my best to keep out of way.bye for now gerald


Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 2 - Season 1, Round 4, Brno - Sept 4th
Post by: [ZiP]Tyf on August 26, 2005, 06:17:02 PM +0100
Weather: Random (via dual-dice throw and sophisticated weather table Wink)

LOL! I hope rain! Yup really! Never felt so good after playing a game for an hour and all than after the Barcelona race or was that Magny-Cours? :) :D

If it rains... 1 Bi-T more on the track for sure :D Thing makes ye work but the fog horn on that boat and the dog's bark at the finish make it worth it :D!

T


Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 2 - Season 1, Round 4, Brno - Sept 4th
Post by: popabawa on August 31, 2005, 12:09:23 PM +0100
Looking forward to this one, despite the low NGT turnout, last couple of races have been great :)

Pops.


Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 2 - Season 1, Round 4, Brno - Sept 4th
Post by: silver53 on September 03, 2005, 09:54:50 PM +0100
Hi All will try to turn up with a NGT . gerald


Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 2 - Season 1, Round 4, Brno - Sept 4th
Post by: Zacari on September 03, 2005, 10:06:43 PM +0100
I never liked this track much before but after some practice it's not too bad!  I only hope there's something approaching a full server as the D1 race last week was eerily quiet.


Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 2 - Season 1, Round 4, Brno - Sept 4th
Post by: Nick Phillips on September 04, 2005, 09:33:28 AM +0100
Certainly plan to be there tonight, although as I am packing up to move house my practice has been very limited.

Cheers


Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 2 - Season 1, Round 4, Brno - Sept 4th
Post by: Jamera on September 04, 2005, 03:30:05 PM +0100
Certainly plan to be there tonight, although as I am packing up to move house my practice has been very limited.

Cheers
9.31pm "Darling have you seen my driving wheel anywhere?"


Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 2 - Season 1, Round 4, Brno - Sept 4th
Post by: Simon Gymer on September 04, 2005, 06:16:02 PM +0100
Practice server is up now if anyone wants to use it.


Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 2 - Season 1, Round 4, Brno - Sept 4th
Post by: rufbtr on September 04, 2005, 07:31:42 PM +0100
i am back from holidays, can i join ? as reserve , pls mail me the password for div 2 session  ?


Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 2 - Season 1, Round 4, Brno - Sept 4th
Post by: Nick Phillips on September 04, 2005, 07:33:48 PM +0100
Certainly plan to be there tonight, although as I am packing up to move house my practice has been very limited.

Cheers
9.31pm "Darling have you seen my driving wheel anywhere?"

Hehe no - that will be packed by me , moved by me, unpacked by me and thats it!!

First wife is having nothing to do with  my second wife ;)


Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 2 - Season 1, Round 4, Brno - Sept 4th
Post by: Simon Gymer on September 04, 2005, 07:54:42 PM +0100
i am back from holidays, can i join ? as reserve , pls mail me the password for div 2 session  ?

From the chart you are a Div 1 fulltime so you can't enter Div 2 as reserve, you can only enter in the G3 championship.

You should have already had the new Endurance password (which is same for both Divs), but if not PM me and I'll send it to you.


Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 2 - Season 1, Round 4, Brno - Sept 4th
Post by: rufbtr on September 04, 2005, 08:00:13 PM +0100
just checked my forum mailbox, i ll be there . G3 right, that would be ?  gt3 cup ?


Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 2 - Season 1, Round 4, Brno - Sept 4th
Post by: Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer on September 04, 2005, 08:04:03 PM +0100
G3 right, that would be ?  gt3 cup ?

Or Elise or Z3M (which is the most popular). Or the G2 Toledo although you won't be entered in the G3 championship.


Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 2 - Season 1, Round 4, Brno - Sept 4th
Post by: popabawa on September 04, 2005, 08:07:55 PM +0100
Damn you rFactor!

I'm really struggling round Brno  :( Doesn't bode well for the race tonight.


Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 2 - Season 1, Round 4, Brno - Sept 4th
Post by: Nick Phillips on September 04, 2005, 10:07:24 PM +0100
Apologies to my Team for leaving so early but with no practice and a decidedly choppy frame rate was not having fun at all.

Dont think I would have finished any higher GT wise if I had run the race - best to be off the track when so little confidence abounds :-\ :-\


Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 2 - Season 1, Round 4, Brno - Sept 4th
Post by: Simon Gymer on September 04, 2005, 11:07:42 PM +0100
Replay and exports here...
http://www.ukgtr.org/replay/Brno%20Endurance%20D2%20040905.zip


Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 2 - Season 1, Round 4, Brno - Sept 4th
Post by: Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer on September 04, 2005, 11:29:36 PM +0100
Another race, another class win. ;D Was amazed to qualify second in class, I'm carp at qualifying and I hardly ever do that well!

Despite another relatively low turnout, I had an outstandingly enjoyable race. Early battles with Popabawa while I struggled with a heavy fuel load and Mike Cooper in the Corvette which he was clearly finding more than a handful.

Had a brown trouser moment when Mike disappeared from my mirrors (and my attention!) and reappeared sideways and completely locked up right next to me as I turned in. :o Don't know how I missed him. Found myself behind him again later on and he very kindly let me past - good job 'cause I knew I'd have my work cut out trying to take the NGT win from [ZiP]Tyf in his much, much faster BiTurbo.

Backmarkers and lappers were all very, very good. Thanks to everyone for their patience and courtesy. Finally saw Tyf in the pits at about 35mins in and knew it would be nip and tuck unless I put in some good laps, so I had to stop trying to look after my medium tyres and just go for it. In the end I don't know how far ahead I was as Aajay in his 550 or 575 only caught and passed me for 6th overall with 2 laps to go.

Had a bit of brain fade on the last lap. Jamera was ahead and I was about to lap him but with about 20s margin I could afford to take my time. Promptly got my braking all wrong after he let me past and was very lucky to (a) not collect him and (b) not get caughtt and passed. Sorry Jam, must've given you a heart attack!

Very pleased to have made it the full distance with only one silly mistake right at the end at a track where I find it hard to remember which right hander is coming up after any given downhill straight! ::) :D


Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 2 - Season 1, Round 4, Brno - Sept 4th
Post by: ginsters sponsored on September 04, 2005, 11:59:59 PM +0100
Congrats to Franky and Greg, awesome pace. And Dave on another class win.

Delighted, and relieved, to trail in behind those two and nab a rather lucky 3rd. Zac, the pace you set on what I presume were
hards was impressive. I did not panic until 10 laps after my pistop thinking you must stop soon. You had me beat fair and square and I will not comment on why you did not. From your pace it is clear I will have to practice no stopper for Donni, if I can manage to put rfactor down that is.

As usual lapping others was always comfortable and safe. Thanks to all. 


Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 2 - Season 1, Round 4, Brno - Sept 4th
Post by: greg130 on September 05, 2005, 12:52:15 AM +0100
Well thats Brno done with, my favorite track, pitty I cant do that sort of pace at the rest of them.

Qual went ok, 2nd place, just a few fractions behind Franky.

Race was a case of following Franky and waiting for a mistake, which I new would never happen.  Got close a few times and perhaps could have tried to overtake but decided it was to risky, didnt want to take us both of, besides 2nd place and 41 points is better than risking all and crashing out.

Big thanks to all the backmarkers, well almost all.  99% of the passes were great but had an incident with with one, not sure whos fault it was and sorry that you eneded up in the gravel.  As a result of the incident I gave myself a drive thro penalty which eneded any chance of overtaking Franky.  For the whole race(until drive thro) we were no more than 3 secs apart so it was a real case of cat and mouse.

As a bonus I managed to set a new ukgtr record for Brno, really pleased with that, dont suppose it will last long mind.

Overall a good race, real pitty about the one contact and my resulting drive thro penalty.
On to Doni we go, now thats one of my worst tracks so things will be a little different there.


Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 2 - Season 1, Round 4, Brno - Sept 4th
Post by: Jamera on September 05, 2005, 12:57:33 AM +0100
SBG, I collected Zac after a spin on very, very worn rear meds, thought my rejoin was clear, it wasn't


Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 2 - Season 1, Round 4, Brno - Sept 4th
Post by: popabawa on September 05, 2005, 08:15:12 AM +0100
Not really my finest performance!

A combination of too much rfactor and generally not getting on too well with Brno meant it was an uphill struggle most of the way.

Had a really good battle with Dave & Gerald for a few laps with a couple of seconds covering us until Gerald fell off the track, I then got a bit caught up with the front runners lapping us and lost touch with Dave, that was effectively pretty much the end of my race!

Pops.


Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 2 - Season 1, Round 4, Brno - Sept 4th
Post by: rufbtr on September 05, 2005, 10:20:24 AM +0100
after some time without GTR, i could do same laps as a reserve in a GT3 Cup, this car is way to slow, and there where no other G3 reserve drivers, so i was racing myself. but hey, i needed the track time to get used again.   I only had one collision with a red 550 or 575,that slipped of the track in a corner and came back on the apex just in front of me, i couldn't avoid that collision anymore, so sorry mate whoever that was.



Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 2 - Season 1, Round 4, Brno - Sept 4th
Post by: Zacari on September 05, 2005, 11:56:55 AM +0100
Well that was eventful, qualified 4th and was waaay off the pace, so I decided to risk a full tank of fuel and medium tyers rather than stopping once.

The first 10 laps or so were great, trying to keep pace with SBG was great fun.  Then I got clattered when coming up to lap people which ruined any chance I had of winning, rejoined 5th but my car was damaged and the tyers were not the same after that, couldn't get within a second of my best time.

Towards the end of the race my tyers were getting very worn, understeering like mad and had some very big moments coming out of the slower corners.  I could see the gap between myself and SBG closing and was about 6 seconds into the penultimate lap, then had the incident mentioned before which I wont comment on here.

The frustration at the end was immeasurable; I'm glad my windows and doors were shut or half the street would've heard me!  I'm slightly amazed I even finished the last lap, it was very very hard not to try and push to catch up but there was no way I could with the car the way it was.  I even got the 'tyers worn' message from the pits on the last lap for good measure!

Grats to SBG anyway, if you'd not pushed until the end I'd have been able to hold 3rd so it's a good example of the 'never say die' attitude paying off  ;)



Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 2 - Season 1, Round 4, Brno - Sept 4th
Post by: mo on September 05, 2005, 02:52:09 PM +0100
Mmmm I had yet another short endurance race.
Was having great fun running in bunch of cars with Zacari,SBG and McClaessan, thinking to myself that its great to have other cars around to race with.
Other races I've been pretty much by myself for the duration.

Anyway I somehow managed to stuff the thing into 1st gear(!!) on entry into turn 3 and ended up backwards into the gravel.
Stuck in the sand with a puncture and race over :-[

Congrats to Franky and Greg130 on mindblowing pace and to SBG for yet another podium finish.


Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 2 - Season 1, Round 4, Brno - Sept 4th
Post by: Matjaz Plotajs on September 05, 2005, 04:39:45 PM +0100
Anyway I somehow managed to stuff the thing into 1st gear(!!) on entry into turn 3 and ended up backwards into the gravel.
Stuck in the sand with a puncture and race over :-[

If you don't use 1st gear and I think Brno is such a track... set it very high just below 2nd gear so you can avoid spining if you accidentally change one gear to low.


Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 2 - Season 1, Round 4, Brno - Sept 4th
Post by: silver53 on September 05, 2005, 07:03:44 PM +0100
Hi All my gear is now working ok and I thought praccy went realy well . In the race I was probably faster than several of the cars in front but found that by being hesitant in trying to pass I lost my rythum and ended up making some really silly errors on cold and worn tyres.I must really learn to put the correct ammount of fuel in as well as I could have gone half the race distance again.It was very enjoyable for a change anyway.ps It sort of phased me to have several cars visible on the screen as I normaly run alone.bye for now gerald


Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 2 - Season 1, Round 4, Brno - Sept 4th
Post by: Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer on September 05, 2005, 08:49:26 PM +0100
ps It sort of phased me to have several cars visible on the screen as I normaly run alone.bye for now gerald

Watched the first few laps from the back of our train of four - it was quite entertaining watching you, Pops, me and Oilseal all dicing. ;D


Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 2 - Season 1, Round 4, Brno - Sept 4th
Post by: mo on September 05, 2005, 09:10:47 PM +0100
If you don't use 1st gear and I think Brno is such a track... set it very high just below 2nd gear so you can avoid spining if you accidentally change one gear to low.

definitely will do so, thanks

Forgot to say in my previous post - not sure who it was but sorry to the Porsche I bumped in qual  :-[ 


Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 2 - Season 1, Round 4, Brno - Sept 4th
Post by: aajay_uk on September 06, 2005, 08:45:21 PM +0100
rufbtr thanks for the apology, although there was no need, it was me that fell off the track in the first place. I went thru a bad spell around that time and had a couple of needless spins, which rather ruined my strategy of one pit stop after 34 mins and meant I fell into the clutches of the N-GT guys and had to fight to finish ahead of them, although to be honest I wasn't on the pace of the other GT runners.

Also apologies to Mike Cooper, hope I didn't push you out of the pits too soon. We must of been sharing the same pit box, as when I pittted behind you you stopped where I was told to stop. Tried to pull up behind you but I think I pushed to hard - (ooo'er missus!)

aajay_uk.