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Title: Endurance Championship Division 1 - Season 1, Round 6, Spa - Sep 25th
Post by: Simon Gymer on September 12, 2005, 10:26:47 AM +0100
Endurance Championship Division 1 - Season 1, Round 6 at Spa

Date: Sunday 25th September

Practice 1: 8:00pm (30 mins)
Qual 2: 8:30pm (45 mins)
Warmup: 9:15pm (2 mins)
Race: 9:17pm (90 mins)

PLEASE NOTE - different start time to accomodate the extended session times for the Spa event.

Cars allowed: Any. (Seat Toledo 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 1 - Season 1, Round 6, Spa - Sep 25th
Post by: Simon Gymer on September 12, 2005, 10:27:31 AM +0100
Make sure you eat a Mars bar before you start, you'll need the energy to make it through this real long slog.  :D


Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 1 - Season 1, Round 6, Spa - Sep 25th
Post by: Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer on September 12, 2005, 10:41:50 AM +0100
Edited to save cut and paste blushes. :P


Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 1 - Season 1, Round 6, Spa - Sep 25th
Post by: fozzmeister on September 12, 2005, 11:07:53 AM +0100
Actually isn't the car bit wrong, now we have the G3 championship?


Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 1 - Season 1, Round 6, Spa - Sep 25th
Post by: Simon Gymer on September 22, 2005, 09:34:26 PM +0100
ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've practiced in all conditions for this race in case it rains etc and now I can't do this race due to family commitments!!!!!!!!!

ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 1 - Season 1, Round 6, Spa - Sep 25th
Post by: PaulW on September 22, 2005, 10:08:18 PM +0100
Aaaargh 2. Love this track to bits but pulled my hamstring on holiday last week so sitting down in not a good thing... :'(


Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 1 - Season 1, Round 6, Spa - Sep 25th
Post by: Don on September 23, 2005, 07:13:51 AM +0100
Aaaargh 2. Love this track to bits but pulled my hamstring on holiday last week so sitting down in not a good thing... :'(

And I thought holidays were supposed to be good for you!
Sounds like a nightmare, how do you cope if you can't sit?
Don.


Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 1 - Season 1, Round 6, Spa - Sep 25th
Post by: PaulW on September 23, 2005, 09:34:32 AM +0100
It was mountain biking in the Alps so I kinda knew I'd injure myself at some point sooner or later, I've a long history of it  ;) :'(
Half days with a hot water bottle on my thigh and I'm cool though. I'm hoping I might be alright by Sunday but as it's an extra long race I think it's a bit of a long shot  :)


Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 1 - Season 1, Round 6, Spa - Sep 25th
Post by: Matjaz Plotajs on September 23, 2005, 04:10:54 PM +0100
I'm not able to join before 9 PM... still I should have 15 minutes of qualifying so all is well.  ;)


Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 1 - Season 1, Round 6, Spa - Sep 25th
Post by: picnic on September 25, 2005, 08:10:31 PM +0100
Appologies, not paying attention about earlier start time  :-[

Server up with 20 min practice to bring times back on the official schedule


Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 1 - Season 1, Round 6, Spa - Sep 25th
Post by: silver53 on September 25, 2005, 09:28:29 PM +0100
Hi all was thrown out with miss match porsch g3 could not sort out correct car so pulled out at start when
i realised was in wrong car. still a bit groggy see you around.gerald


Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 1 - Season 1, Round 6, Spa - Sep 25th
Post by: Mark Harrison on September 25, 2005, 10:11:33 PM +0100
Doh!

Race was going fine, until I stuck it into the wall after my pitstop.  All this was after I threw it in the wall at Eau Rouge lap 1, and amazingly got away with it.

Didn't do any practice so didn't expect anything out of it.  Not enjoying racing as much as I did - just burnt out I think :(


Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 1 - Season 1, Round 6, Spa - Sep 25th
Post by: greg130 on September 25, 2005, 10:55:38 PM +0100
Good steady race in the G3 class for me, no spins at all which makes a nice change at Spa.  Must admit its a bit lonely lapping in the G3, wish more of the div 2 guys would show up so we could have a bit of a battle.
Hope I didnt get in the way of the quick guys to much, tried to pull over when I could and let you all by.


Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 1 - Season 1, Round 6, Spa - Sep 25th
Post by: rufbtr on September 25, 2005, 11:01:31 PM +0100
I had a lot of fun, but had wrong pitstop strategy. and a got a stop & go. still finished 7e place. in the last 15 minutes i was gaining fast seconds on the number 6 driver, just needed a extra few laps to go into a fight.  i was getting ready for that, but suddenly end of race.  :) checkerd flag.


Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 1 - Season 1, Round 6, Spa - Sep 25th
Post by: Mike Wrightson on September 25, 2005, 11:40:42 PM +0100
Oh the hell with this!!!!  >:(

I just sucked and sucked, first part was OK, but after a spin I just shot backwards.  Got boxed in with Jamera as Rich was passing me at the same time, tried to slow down enough, but punted Jamera off  :'(

Struggled round with a massively oversteering Saleen until I got to a piststop window, car was better after that but spun off when Jon lapped me, then spun massively at the top of Eau Rouge limped back to the pits with 2 punctures, then quit as I was last GT and had no chance of improving that.

I'm totally hacked off with that race and with the Saleen, and with GT cars in general.  I might try a different car again, but maybe not, I just can't get on terms in the GT's and I'm falling out with them big-time  :'(


Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 1 - Season 1, Round 6, Spa - Sep 25th
Post by: Rich_A on September 25, 2005, 11:42:34 PM +0100
Doh!

Race was going fine, until I stuck it into the wall after my pitstop.  All this was after I threw it in the wall at Eau Rouge lap 1, and amazingly got away with it.

Didn't do any practice so didn't expect anything out of it.  Not enjoying racing as much as I did - just burnt out I think :(

Lol, I now that feelin. I got a bad shoulder atm, bit like Montoya but I battle on.

I was following a Saleen for a long time at first stint, good driving. Trying to find a weakness but different weakness every lap lol - good strategy. Perhaps best place was in final hairpin but I made sort of bad move by blocking you in against a lapping nGT car.. I shouldn't have done that sorry, not like me!

Jon_M won by a mile, 2m11 for race pace ouch - well done 8)


Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 1 - Season 1, Round 6, Spa - Sep 25th
Post by: Rich_A on September 25, 2005, 11:48:15 PM +0100
Oh the hell with this!!!!  >:(

I just sucked and sucked, first part was OK, but after a spin I just shot backwards.  Got boxed in with Jamera as Rich was passing me at the same time, tried to slow down enough, but punted Jamera off  :'(

Struggled round with a massively oversteering Saleen until I got to a piststop window, car was better after that but spun off when Jon lapped me, then spun massively at the top of Eau Rouge limped back to the pits with 2 punctures, then quit as I was last GT and had no chance of improving that.

I'm totally hacked off with that race and with the Saleen, and with GT cars in general.  I might try a different car again, but maybe not, I just can't get on terms in the GT's and I'm falling out with them big-time  :'(

Yes GT cars are all or nothing. Pedals are very important to be totally connected with car and to have total control of FFB in wheel... FFB in wheel and pedal precision are very closely connected, with very precise pedals you become more connected directly to FFB. Those MOMO Racing pedals are aweful.


Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 1 - Season 1, Round 6, Spa - Sep 25th
Post by: fozzmeister on September 25, 2005, 11:54:30 PM +0100
NGT races are tending to be very lonely recently. Again I was in the middle of two other cars, both something like a second a lap quicker/slower than me, if not more. All I could do was lap and lap and lap. Seemed that Locutus was having lots of little moments though so I occasionally kept seeing him about 5 secs up the road. And when he pitted I was 1:30+ seconds infront of him, but by the time I came out of my pit stop, I was surprise 5 seconds behind him. About 3 laps from the end he must have made another mistake and was 3-4 seconds infront of me, and I started pushing to try and keep up, was hemorrhaging about 0.5 seconds a lap but kept pushing and then at the bus stop, on the last lap, Locutos hit Jamera (who appeared to be stationary) and I just out dragged him to La Source as he was recovering for a [TheCraftyButchers] 2nd place!

Wanted to have a beer to celebrate, but found my beer fridge only had lemonade in :-(

Fozzmeister

PS. Come back PaulW, I need some good competition and you always seem to be pretty close to my level


Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 1 - Season 1, Round 6, Spa - Sep 25th
Post by: Jamera on September 25, 2005, 11:59:56 PM +0100
Over shot my braking point, which meant I had to brake very heavily and lost all momentum through bus stop (was lucky to get through it at all), sorry to , oh bugger what was his name, 360 driver anyway


Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 1 - Season 1, Round 6, Spa - Sep 25th
Post by: [ZiP]Tyf on September 26, 2005, 12:18:25 AM +0100
Good race for me, noticed there weren't a lot of people around, so thought I'd join in with a GT car for a change! :D

I was a bit of pace during qualifying, but then again I qualified with my race setup, since I'm not really used to GT cars. :)
First couple of laps people just kep on dropping, so I was surprised to drive in 5th, hehe! Then I think Mark came from behind and was way quicker so I let him past easily :D. At tyres worn message I thought, wow I'm in 4th let's pit ;) :D.

Dropped back to 8th or so and noticed I was gaining on #7 which I thought at that time was Matjaz. Couple of laps and some heavy pushing by me later, it turned out I was right! LOL! He was driving an N-GT car, haha! Well done m8, awesome times :D!
Other people pitted or dropped or wotever ;) and I was in 5th position at the end, about 15 secs or so behind #4. Gave it a decent try but it was in vain :). Managed to finish a GT race, lol, and was only 7 secs behind #4, who turned out to be another Penguin! LOL!
And seeing JonM (congrats m8!) won, I'm not even scoring any Penguin team points! Grrr! ;)

Good stuff overall (only 1 incident for me :)) and on to the Div 2 race! :D

T


Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 1 - Season 1, Round 6, Spa - Sep 25th
Post by: locutos ukgtr on September 26, 2005, 07:07:11 AM +0100
Yeah Fozz, was a good race, tyres died 3 laps from end of 1st stint, back end just kept stepping out, had to drop pace by some 4 secs a lap which put you back in. 2nd stint was much better, but 3 or 4 laps from end came to lap Jamera, was a nightmare finally culminating in what appeared to be a stationary jamera exiting the bus-stop, I'd glanced in my mirror cuz I knew fozz was coming and I looked back theres this car stopped right in the race line. Then to really anoy me, race clock said 6 mins to go, so I thought well no prob, I can get fozz anywhere really, cross the line and race is done...lol oh well, least I finished. Good race guys, GT cars were very good at lapping as well might I add, well done fellas.


Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 1 - Season 1, Round 6, Spa - Sep 25th
Post by: picnic on September 26, 2005, 08:59:25 AM +0100
Replay and provisional results available


Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 1 - Season 1, Round 6, Spa - Sep 25th
Post by: PaulW on September 26, 2005, 09:16:57 AM +0100
PS. Come back PaulW, I need some good competition and you always seem to be pretty close to my level
2:21 at Spa so I would have been pretty competitive if I didn't tart things up. Love the endurance races but they're just too long for my back unfortunately.
I did wonder whether the sprints might be extended slightly for the next season now that we've all got the experience to maybe 40/45 mins? Still a sprint but just with a bit more meat to it.


Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 1 - Season 1, Round 6, Spa - Sep 25th
Post by: silver53 on September 26, 2005, 03:07:14 PM +0100
Hi has anyone any idea why the g3 porsch caused a missmatch and spit me out last eve. I do not think the car has been played with. Wish I had chosen the BMW but ended up with the G2 bi turbo and pulled out at start.gerald


Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 1 - Season 1, Round 6, Spa - Sep 25th
Post by: mo on September 26, 2005, 04:45:55 PM +0100
I used the black G3 Porsche at Doni without problems


Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 1 - Season 1, Round 6, Spa - Sep 25th
Post by: JonM_uk on September 26, 2005, 05:25:59 PM +0100
Had a good qualli and race  ;D 1st in both. I had been playing a little bit of rfactor and this seemed to totally cock my GTR ability up, I just couldn't put a good lap together, it took us an hour or so offline to get back into the groove. Thought I'd do the race on meds which was very good to start with but after about 8 laps on each stint times dropped about 3-4 secs a lap and I was lucky to finish after spinning and hitting the barrier, thought i'd have some damage but didn't ;)  Apart from that the race was a bit lonely and found my concentration wandering at times, probably should've had a mars bar like shark said  :D A good day for ze penguins though, 15 points ahead of those nasty sharks now  ;)


Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 1 - Season 1, Round 6, Spa - Sep 25th
Post by: Simon Gymer on September 26, 2005, 06:16:23 PM +0100
Well done Jon on your win, I'm sure us Sharks can swim back into contention though. Really peeved to not have been able to make it as Spa is always enjoyable.

Was the weather dry?


Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 1 - Season 1, Round 6, Spa - Sep 25th
Post by: JonM_uk on September 26, 2005, 06:48:05 PM +0100
Yep, dry as a bone  ;D
Was greatful for that as I've never gone round in the rain  ;)
Now just gotta practice with those pesky Z3M's for div2 race, can never keep them going in a striaght line. Well except when i'm entering a bend :D


Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 1 - Season 1, Round 6, Spa - Sep 25th
Post by: greg130 on September 26, 2005, 07:25:06 PM +0100
Now just gotta practice with those pesky Z3M's for div2 race, can never keep them going in a striaght line. Well except when i'm entering a bend :D

I know the feeling Jon, tricky little cars to handle especially when braking


Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 1 - Season 1, Round 6, Spa - Sep 25th
Post by: [ZiP]Tyf on September 26, 2005, 08:13:04 PM +0100
My advice: brake pressure at 35% and it will handle nicely under braking!  :-X :-* ;) :D ;D

 ??? :o ::)

 :P

 8)

T


Title: Re: Endurance Championship Division 1 - Season 1, Round 6, Spa - Sep 25th
Post by: Matjaz Plotajs on September 27, 2005, 10:49:15 AM +0100
Tough race for me and my back. Before joining the server I had another 45 minutes race so after I finished with that one I went straight to the qualifying. When I entered the server I had 14 minutes left and then threw away about 5 minutes crashing all over the place. It was really strange but I think I was invisible to other drivers because I joined in the middle od the session... GT guys just kept hitting me in the back like I wasn't there. Finally I managed to have a clean lap to secure a pole position in NGT class.

Race started very interesting. Guys in front of me were fighting for positions and I had to be very carefull not to hit some very slow cars recovering from this battles. While being very carefull Locutus even managed to overtake me but then he spun a couple of laps later so I regained the lead. The rest was not very interesting as I had no competition so I just concentrated to stay on the track while doing some exercises for my back on the long straight after Eau Rouge. That was really funny as I'm using headphones and didn't hear my GF entering the room. She was loughing at me big time as I was doing some strange yoga positions behind the wheel...  :D That was the reason I nearly crashed as my car drove right on the grass and clipped the barrier at about 220 km/h.  :o Thank god 36 laps were reached sooner then 90 minutes so I was spared another 10 minutes of suffering.