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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 GT1 or GTC from the UKGTR Physics Pack v2.10.0.0 (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3356.msg54519#post_physics).
Weather: Changeable, seeded from real-world conditions.
Track: Suzuka v2.9.0.2 - download from here (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3356.msg54521#post_suzuka).
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 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.

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

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Not raced on this track yet but sure is fun to hotlap the Aston around here :) Wouldn't think the Viper is so good around here but JR's time is impressive and I bet Freq is quicker, the tinker. Be around Friday pm for some pracci. 

The tyrewear of the Viper is massive here on its Pirellis.

Holiday season is here, will be away for a couple of weeks, will miss this and a couple of other races, have fun, see you then :)

Hey guys  :), long time no see.

Clicked on the bm to SROU on an impulse, and got bitten by the racingbug immediately  :D
Thought I'd try to get back to simracing slowly, err, slowly get back to simracing....well, either will do I guess  :P

Think there's room for one more at Suzuka come sunday?

Memory failing me, I checked the rules on joining a race when not signed up from the start.


So would I be a normal reserve? Second reserve? Not allowed at all?

No registration necessary, just get there early to avoid dissapointment Mike. And welcome back :)

Can server settings be changed to dry please? Its slightly moist at the mo  ;) Unless the weather on Sunday........................

I must say, I like this place. Even in the wet there is quite a lot of grip. Had a praccy last night in the wet, ran 2:02's in race trim. Not quite the 1:54's was running before it got wet, but at least I now have a wet set-up. :thumbup2:

Welcome back, Mike. No official reserves here this season, just get on the server and you're set. :)
Had a few laps in the Marcos and this track he loves less than Zhuhai. Even so, I like driving it. Need more time laps. :(

TT

Great, see you on track then  :).

Had some practice laps, and, well, it's just like bicycling. Just a second or two left to get back to last years pace  :P

Love the track, one of my favorites. Especially the first section, before the hairpin.

If it rains though, I can picture myself going wide and spinning in looots of places.

Just fired up the server & a few of us going on if your bored chaps. great circuit this! 8)

Having just done a few laps round here when the server restarted using my Zhuhai setup as a basis, all i can say is BRING IT ON :rockon:

Cant wait, just hope i get to last the distance ::)

Managed to just about scrape a 2:04.9 tonight, but kept messing up the last sector & know I can probably hit a 2:04.0 very soon. Lazlow is already there  ::)

Town party here during the weekend and until Tuesday, but I hope I'll be able to leave the alcohol for a couple of hours and do this race lol

Those trackrecords have got to be beaten :gun_bandana: just did a quali 1:52.2 online and wanna break into the 51's :gun_bandana:

Okay now I'm hoping for rain.... Just kiddin  :D
Pretty sure at least the race time will be replaced. Wonder if something happened to Jeff in the race last year, or if we had less then optimal conditions. The weather report up top says chance of thunderstorms at the moment   :(. I sure hope we don't get those.

Got 1.54's in race trim online yesterday too, though I went off track quite a bit. A single 52 in quali trim.

I noticed the F550 has only 10kg extra weight this year, compared to 20kg last year. I hope it doesn't give too much advantage over other cars.....just a little bit  ;D. It's still the only GT1 I have multiple setups for, so I'm sticking with it, I think.

Just when mere mortals such as myself think we've got something right by getting near the lap record, Aliens :alien: come along and start some nasty experiments on the lap times :taz: Pack it up Busi!!! ;)  :lol:

IIRC, the griplevels were changed for Suzuka to prevent the tyres heating up to much. So times should be faster than laprecords.

My F430 soft tyres were absolutely cooking last night!!! While in the Z4, the soft tyres were still down in the high 70's!  ::)

Says he who's 3 seconds a lap faster than me! :wetfish: :P

jeebers i havent done a single lap here yet, will have to jump on the server some point today.

what sort of pace we seeing so far?

jumping online for a while if anyone fancies joining me

Aaaargh !!  >:(

dont bloody believe it, got discod in qually then the lobby wouldnt let me back into the srouk race at all. Even restarted my pc and tried again but it just wouldnt accept the tick next to the password.  :censored:  stupid rubbish netcode. >:(

Gutted as i love this track and was looking forward to a good race with the GTC boys.  :'(

Got a punt up the trumpet off Bob at the last chicane, must of got some damage coz i went off at T1, lost the will then.

                                                         Cheers Ade

Oh dear...I am sorely in need of some practice....that was terrible.

Great appologies to Ade.... :-[....total lockup aproaching the chicane and I couldnt do anything to avoid spinning you..Hope the damaged I caused wasn't what put you out mate.  :-[....quit myself a couple of laps later as my lack of driving abillity was likely to make me a danger when the GT1's caught up.

Back to the drawing board for me....it's not quite like riding a bike  ::)

Its one thing after another to ruin my races at the mo :'( At least my pc seems fine now.

Got to say driving standards were excellent on the whole :) Brilliant fun coming back up the field. Sorry to Prof as I wasn't gonna try and pass you at T1 but you got the heebey jeebeys as I stormed up an you :'(

Congrats to the winners :) The way it powered away fro me, can't wait to see that beast at Monza TT. You deserve a track were its unstoppable for putting the effort in. 

Discoed with about 15 mins to go :(

That was hard work. I kept having to remind myself to breathe I was concentrating so much - never was one for multitasking.

Was having a bit of a lonely race having lost Smokey around the pitstops after a nice little battle. Was getting lapped by the faster GT1 guys (most of them) and made a couple of silly errors in the process - hope I didn't hold anyone up. Got a bit close to Peter at one point while lapping him, with a faster car on my tail. Don't think I touched, but apologies if I did.

Hope everyone else had a good race :)

Well I made it hard work for myself. Spent too long driving with race fuel in qualifying, confident I would be able to put in a very low 2:03 and failed miserably. Put it on 4th on the small GTC grid. First few laps I got up to second though as my true speed came through and pressured Legzy who was leading. I think he went off at the end of the back straight in the fast left hander and I took the lead. I was running pretty solidly, but Legzy started to catch me as my bad tyre choice saw my softs get shredded. Legzy was all over me and I had to defend hard, but I knew it was only a matter of time. With my completely shredded soft tyres I chose to pit 10 minutes early at 50 minutes and stick on mediums. I added a bit of fuel, which I don't think I needed in the end (better to be safe than sorry though) and fumbled around the keyboard changing the tyres, so all in all the stop could have been at least 5 seconds quicker.

Stopping so early, it was quite a while before I figured out how things had panned out. Lazlow seemed to stop twice though (speeding in the pits?), as he seemed to be leading after the pit stops, only to come in the next lap again. I had 5 seconds on Legzy and for the last 35 minutes I tried to conserve tyres. Strangely I was going faster than I did in qually or on softs, down to 2:03.2 on mediums. Managed to hold it altogether and despite Legzy getting close in the closing laps I carried on for the victory.

Shame about the small GTC field. Not sure the split fields are working out too well in the Endurance events this season. The lower class seems to be badly attended. I was going to run GT1 after all too.

After your comments at the Donnington race last season my tactics when you are behind are to get as far out of the way as possible, even if it means leaving the circuit.  ;D

Last few laps were amazing fun with four GTC cars in a massive battle of their own whilst having to watch for lapping GT1's.

Replay and provisional results posted

LapChart (http://www.granum.plus.com/20090802%20U10UE/index.html)

Nice race :)

Hard work in the Viper and beaten by TT in the Marcos again (not so badly this time though), but fun none the less.

Had a good time trying to pass Goldtop after a spin early on. It is very hard to pass on this circuit. Also had a good chase with Dave and a few others. Did you let me past because you cut the chicane Dave?

Sorry for spinning in front of you TT. I could see you could not avoid me after that. ::)

Sorry Stew for smashing into you after you span.

Not much room for passing the GTCs at Suzuka, I thought we did well considering. :)

That was good fun  8)

Qually was tough getting a clear lap but when i did i kind of surprised myself with time. Didn't expect to be the next best after the Aliens.

Was doin ok at the start almost keeping Mike in reaching distance and Jose behind.  Then Mike made a mistake at the final chicane and i went past. The three of us were very close for quite a few laps but i got myself boxed in with a GTC in a tricky place and lost two places (maybe i should of been more assertive).  Followed Jose for the rest of the first stint almost getting him twice after the hairpin but he defended well. We pitted together and left pretty much the same.  Followed him again for the rest of the race but he always had a buffer of catching cars in the right places or so it seemed. 

Very happy with my pace and 4th as I'm still getting to grips with the 550. 

Lapping was pretty hard tonight but good fun.

I want Busi drug tested lol that pace was insane  :o :o

Grats to podiums.

At the start I rolled up behind ginsters and put my limiter on but my car seemed to be going faster than his.  ???
I had to lift a couple of times as I was starting to draw alongside, just seems a bit strange.
Sorry to Smokey. I moved right just as you moved right and braked to let me passed, glad to see you didn’t hit the wall.

Nothing to do with skill then.  :P

Well done Busi   :thumbup2:

No lol  8)

I really enjoyed the race even if I lapped alone all the time. Just getting my way through the backmarkers who were good fun to lap and who I thank cause letting through at some parts of this track is very tricky :)

Quali: good laptime but felt it could've been a little faster yet, pole position anyway from FreQ who did a brilliant laptime with the Viper at this track 8)

1st stint: push push push push - little mistake - push push push - 10 second advantage at the pitstop time.

Into the pits comes FreQ together with me, looks like he lost a bit of time so I could rejoin nearly 15 seconds ahead of him, even if I had trouble with the pitstop request - freaking mechanic staying there for like 5 seconds before getting the rig in! And I exited the pits with Stewprovo coming right with me into T1. When I saw he wasn't lifting at all I braked hard but he went very wide lol sorry mate if I disturbed you.

2nd stint: pushing hard again but I overcooked the rears all the time and I started doing some mistakes, I think 3 spins in 2 laps ::) luckily I was still 5 seconds in the lead and decided to take it easy, it was 12 seconds at the end of the race :)

Grats podiums and thanks all for another cool race 8)

Oh yes, forgot to say; sorry for bumping you in the pits FreQ ::)

Pit box rite in front of mine and entering the box just as I am leaving mine = Viper paint swap patches. ;D

Well done podiums.  :)

I like driving this car, sbg, even if it's a bit hard to navigate through the corners. Flooring it involves all sorts of correcting and swearing. ;D Though I think I evened it out a bit with the settings.



Is this the measurement of your driving or mine? :P



Lol, I thought if anyone's gonna spin there it would be me... :D

After qualifiying 10th with a pb I thought I didn't have a chance here, so I'm very satisfied with 5th place. Should be 6th, but I got the place from Mike through traffic involvement. Good stuff, Mike, nice racing. I saw you had a hard work, lol, even F550 only followed Marcos while slipstreaming and fell behind otherwise. Hard to prepare conditions to overtake in this situation. Though sbg made it easy to overtake me. Twice. ::)

GTCs were real gents, making way asap. I thought it was gonna be harder to overtake, though power difference made it a bit easier, even if braking was sometimes a bit scary. :D

Grats to podys. 8)

Going away for a few days, comming back for next enduro.  :)

TT

8th was more than I could really hope for after finding myself so far off the pace; things started well with half of the GT1 cars chucking themselves off in the opening laps, but after that they were streaming through like I was in a GTC. Car held up well for 35 minutes on medium fronts and hard rears but at the end of the first stint I was struggling and eventually picked up a cut warning in the final chicane trying not to let Ginsters past, and then ran off and damaged the front in the hairpin trying not to let H@l past.

After the latter I was only a lap or two away from my intended stop anyway so I pitted immediately. The plan had been to take fuel only, but with the damage I decided to take on fresh rubber as well whilst they repaired my splitter. I think that was the correct decision, but unfortunately the extra time lost was the difference between finishing ahead of H@l and behind him. Picked up another cut warning at the final chicane trying to lap some GTCs - just couldn't get the braking right there all race so I had to back off a bit after that.

Last lap was rather "exciting" - as the final car on the lead lap I was under no pressure from behind, but I was coming up to lap four GTCs, two of which were Sharks. In the process of trying to insert myself appropriately to help Prof in particular stay ahead of Lazlow, Picnic ran wide and it turned into chaos for the last few corners. :D

CTD between it clicking over from quali to race!
Could not rejoin.
Had travelled back from Watford early especially for this race!
How frustrated am I  :'(

Sorry mate, all my own doing, was still annoyed with myself for making a strategy mistake again, and trying to push too hard with a damaged rear on the car. I should have just backed off and let you go, but the red mist came down. I'm sorry for that mate.

Right. Haven't raced in a while and it showed. Bigtime. Did some practice in the afternoon and made a semi-agreeable setup.

Quali - no clean lap but who cares, am getting used to spinning off on lap 1 so it's irrelevant anyway.  ;D

Trouble is I've managed to punt Ginsters into the gravel in T1-T2 while performing my standard lap 1. My bad. Of course he went off bigtime so whole grid passed us by while waiting for him to get out of kitty litter. Sigh.

Was fun carving through GTC class later on (guys - GT1s CAN wait for the twisty bits to end in order to pass, no hurry) and trying to catch GT1 class. But... well, let's say it went something like this: gain 2 seconds, gain 2 seconds, do a 2.04 or so lap, gain 2 seconds, gain 2 seconds, 2.05, etc etc.  :stupid:

Loved watching Jose/Gazza duel for P3 in later stages of the race, they were both on seriously sucky tyres IMHO (drove right behind them which was kind of frustrating, my pace was actually faster but blue flag became real PITA so I opted to let them by and watch'em race instead. Gazza would get Jose if race was a bit longer. :) ).

All in all it was a terrible race, at least on paper. Must have made 15 mistakes, chucking it into the gravel trap at last chicane while being on the in-lap to the pits topped it off, but by that time I was laughing at myself so I guess it was alright :D

Still huge fun. Suzuka rocks bigtime. 8)

Edit: did a recount - 21 mistakes (missed apexes not included, of course). Must be a record. ;D

Oh, forgot to add two observations:

Gizmo, I drove behind you in free practice and quali, your car was... how should I put it... pulsating forwards/backwards if you know what I mean. Longitudinal movement of about a meter, perhaps a bit more. Very weird.

Jose's car going faster than Ginsters prior to race start on pit-limiter - confirmed, was right behind and could see Jose closing in on Ginsters. Huh? ??? Fezza must have bigger wheel diameter, that would confuse tachometer.   ;D

I managed to put in loads more practice time then I've been able to most events recently. It's very easy to find time to practice a track like that! Awesome track choice! 8)

Having spent quite some time on the server over the weekend, at one point or another I'd seen most of the other GTC drivers & I was confident of a decent result. But then I shocked myself with my qually PB which was also my 1st ever official lap record  :o :laugh: 8) (later followed by the race lap record too :o ;D)

I was aware Simon was back in forth GTC spot on the grid, but with two Oldie team mates between us, I hoped I'd get enough laps to build up a good cushion before he got through both Lazlow & API. Unfortunately he got past them both on lap three & I watched as he began chipping away at my lead. It didn't take him long as I bottled it on the fast left hander near the end of lap six, I went slightly wide & put a couple of wheels on the grass  ::) & he slipped through  :taz:. Simon then managed a few good laps while his softs were still in peak condition (I guess). But as his tyres went off, my mediums were still doing the business & I was soon back on his tail. My Fezza was quicker through the twistys, but his Morgan had the straight line advantage. That's always going to be a recipe for a difficult time getting past, but I also knew Simon was a smart racer & would not be gifting me the pass any time soon. How right I was. I have to say, the few times I got a chance to have a look if there was a hint of a gap for me.... you closed of any glimmer of hope instantly. To say I was impressed was an understatement!

He pitted quite early & I knew he'd be well drilled on his pit stop too, so i tried to force some quick laps in to jump past. I ended up with very average laps as by this point my tyres were now past their best too. Pitted as planned, it went well but as I came out the pits, a gaggle of cars came flying past & Simon was among them  :taz:. I knew at that point my only hope was that his tyres would go off allowing me to get through near the end.

I chased & chased, getting his lead down to half a second even at one point, but what with lapping cars, my now over-heating oil, water & tyres  ::)... I was having to be a bit careful every third lap to keep them all healthy ;D We got to half way around what turned out to be the second last lap & twigged that I had at absolute best, one more full careful lap of fuel left :o. With over 90 seconds back to the next car, I did the smart thing, eased right back & settled for second. In fairness, I think that even with fuel & another hour of driving, there's no way I was going to get past him. Nice drive Simon.

Well done to all podiums. Gutted for Blunder & MJ, both being on the server in qually but not being able to race. Both are normally good rivals in GTC too  :(

Only two races in, but the Team Championship is shaping up nicely!

He booked his pitstop, tried to get in his stall around a car parked in the stall before his, but no amount of maneuvering would get his crew to carry out his stop. So he had to do another lap & try again. He was gutted as it effectively ended his race for the podium spots.

Well, that went about as I expected, only a little worse. Always the same thing at Suzuka: I love the track, except for the chicane, but I can't stay on it for an entire race. I guess I have a subconscious desire to play in the sand or something.

I haven't fired up GTR since, I dunno, 2008 sometime maybe, but for this race I got in a fair amount of practice. I thought it had payed off rather well, got 7/10 laps in the 53's my last TT practice stint, with full gas. My favorite part of perhaps any track is the first section before the chicane, but come race time, I couldn't nail a single lap like I wanted to, in that section. Always messed it up in one way or another. Drenched in sweat, gripping the steering wheel hard as I could, I guess I needed to relax a bit  :laugh:. I'll work on that.

Still had some good laps, good fun, first following FreQ, then with Gazza and Jose, then with Tom later in the race. That, whatever it was  :laugh:, that Tom was driving, it sure took off when straights opened up. Lovely sound too. Still, did you have it geared properly, as I seemed to catch up in the latter part of the straights? Maybe it was just the slipstream.

Very sorry for the bumps to FreQ and Tom, both in the same spot braking for the chicane. I'm not sure what happened there, I was on the brakes early enough and I had them floored most of the distance. I guess I might have had (too much) power on, even though I didn't mean to.


Grats to podium. Busi has some really fast records now.

Thanks for the apology Jure, tis appreciated :)


I had a quick look at replay to see what happened there and that does seem to be the case, very odd  ??? I was left for dead by 550 in front and yours killed me at start. My MC12 did suffer from overheating very early doors, which I guessed was a result of earlier incident, but I'm wondering if my engine was damaged from start?

does the server race produce a trace log file like our own installs of GTR2 does? These bloody constant discos are getting very frustrating and its getting to the point where i am not going to even bother turning up as im fed up wasting time practising etc to then get dropped out the server.  ::)

So i wondered if the trace file mentions any reasons why or if its finding errors in a certain car etc. The P&G races dont seem to be suffering like this so makes me think its something to do with our car/physics set that we use for the srouk league events. :-\

No probs, I didn't see you leaving until I was right sideways in the box, otherwise I'd have slowed to let you leave. The boxes are soo close together it's really tight to fit in. No damage though to either of us I think.  :angel:


It's easy to panic when you brake a little late and that corner is nasty. I was a little apprehensive when you announced returning because this track is tough and you are fast, but being out of racing for a while means you can be all over the place! In a strange way, it was good because I needed to stay ahead of you but couldn't break away on new tyres, that punt meant I couldn't make the chicane and got a gap so I could focus on lap times instead of you all over me. Try practising on a full fuel load so you're confident with a heavy/slower car. (oh, and the Viper is crap on the brakes!)  :-[


I just spent all of qually hotlapping because I didn't have the confidence of sticking a blinder in towards the end. My best qualy lap was better than I thought, but I was 2 tenths down on my previous best in sector 1 and did a great middle and final sector to go 2 tenths faster on a 52 flat. It could have been very close. :laugh:
In the race I was 0.5 up on the second split on my best lap but ran into the gravel at the 130r, so ended with a 53.9. I don't mind not winning if I know I've done my best, so my only regret is cocking them up. Oh, and spinning entering the pitlane whilst I came in for the stop.

Dunno why I just moaned there coss I really am happy with second, no way was I fast enough to win, so congrats on the pace (52.5 race trim!?). I hope next time I can push you a bit harder.

Cheers all

Wow we really must use that track more!

The GT1s are certainly filling out, only qualifying 12 but was my fastest lap around here. I clearly miscalculated the fuel usage as i was agasped to work out i needed 197L. Couldnt quite beleive it at the time but started with 100L and just couldnt keep with Dave ahead as the the gaps each side grew. Though come 40mins and had to hastily work out what i needed to add to get to the finish which i somehow got right! As i was sat there in the pits Lazlow tried pitting right infront of me and couldnt quite maneover round me so sorry bud!

There were a few bottom-clenching moments lapping the GTC's not to mention some of the faster guys coming through after their incidents, and sorry to Smokey, when i caught you you seemed to be going slowly following Lazlow, who was surprised you hadnt gone past and i was catching at a rate of knots so i tried getting past straight away. I guess i should have waited, didnt think we touched but you went off. Sorry.