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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 v2.10.5.0 (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3356.msg54519#post_physics).
Weather: Changeable, seeded from real-world conditions.
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.
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)

Notes:
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As the season reaches its climax, FreQ needs a good result to avoid Busi snatching the title from him. That's going to be a tall order at Imola if they stick with the current rides, but the manufacturer crown is also going to be determined by the outcome, with Lambo and Dodge neck and neck. Team Shark have an unassailable stranglehold on the team championship, but the Pink Team could still steal the runner up spot from the 24-7 boys.

In GTC, Lazlow is perilously close to slipping back behind Shark, and Prof only needs 3 points to seal 3rd place. The team championship is almost as close, with the Shark's rapidly swimming up behind the Oldies. Morgan have all but wrapped up the manufacturer title, and it'll take a mammoth effort (or a disaster for Shark) for BMW to catch them.

A question: is there a courageous soul to take my place in the Marcos next season?  :tank:  Last race of S10 could be a good multi practice run for it - that is if you don't plan to mess with the league / race pody outcome. ;)

I don't quite understand the maths here - surely I need more than that to stay clear of Legzy and API? Even second place could put me only level with Legzy if he wins. What did I miss?

Only if you agree to take one slightly used MC12 off my hands for S11 ;) Might join you at Imola as I want to stay outta the way of the title contenders.

Couragous? Well yes of course, we all are, didn't u know?  ;D

What u need to search for is insanely courageous and at least a bit of a masochist... driver.

Er... just testing? :-[

Seems like I'm all that. :devil:
Still: in the last few races I finished on just about the same position as I would have with any other car. :)

@sbg: I used MC12 in one of the seasons already. :) Wanna use a new car, say C6R or Spanners DBR9. Just have to get rid of that unspeakable colour. :D
Our Artist Adam is busy with his family growth, so I guess the Legends skin is out of the question. :( Still, the white skins are nice and solid. 8)

Was trying to think what else to drive in GT1 but nothing looks as nice!

 ??? I find there's not enough seasons, or quick enough to try them all. ::)

I have a little dilema. My initial plan for this race was taking the Viper and racing FreQ on equal conditions. If I beat him for victory I would take the championship. But given how slow the Viper could be here... maybe other drivers, i.e. Jon, sbg, Gazza, etc. could beat us and finishing ahead of FreQ wouldn't give me the title.

In conclusion,

FreQ, take the Lambo for this one! :laugh:

It's been a great season whatever the outcome and looks like it will be hard work right to the end.  :)

Don't worry about it. I chose the Viper this season for a challenge. I expected to be fighting you and Jon last season so took the Lister, but ended up getting a little bored when you both weren't around; and this season I took the Viper to enjoy racing others, and typically you're both around now! doh!

I didn't expect to be in contention, much less leading into the final round. I will admit though...this is going to be a tough ask. I'll try my best though.

Finally, it's in my best interests to keep quiet on this, but I think you should check: championship tie breakers at UKGTR are not decided the way you may think (on wins). I'm not saying I agree with the current system, but I don't run the league. You should check the rules beforehand.

Good Luck

Thanks for mentioning that mate, I read that once but didn't even remember it, thinking that only number of victories mattered. Well of course it's an unusual tie break decider but I must admit it's good for sim racing cause it prizes the attendance :) oh well I'll need somebody to help me then, but with Jon being your teammate...

* prepares money bags *

:P

Will the weather be taken from Sunday night (slight chance of rain) or morning-midday forecast (dry) (since race start: 5:00)?

Night - real time.

Does GTR2 know that it is November and therefore dark at 5:00pm?

Race Start Time: 05:00.

You will need to set the alarm clock early for this one and it will start dark.

Good grief!

Is there a patch to put the rumble strips in Braille?

No.

That could lead to some funny situations with those middle-eastern tracks, very hot and night/morning start :P

About four of us arranged to be on the server tonight (8:30pm+) if anybody else wants to drive in company :)

Twelve of us currently on the server  :o :o :o :laugh:

Finaly a brave soul to try The Beast - well done sbg. 8)  Though he did kick my bum right away :'( I'm looking forward to driving against him on Sunday. Unless he chickens out. ;D  Come on boyz, who's next to try it?!  :1eye:

Great to see that number on a pracci night, more than we got for race on Monday  :) With the server full last Sunday, it really bodes well for a great S11 (in your own time Dave ;)) .

To be honest TT, virtually anything is better than the MC12 around here as it simply hates kerbs  :)

What's a good GT1 race pace lap time around here?

1:41 and less

A bit less for us normo's, 42-43 here at best.

Will there be room for a littleun on Sunday?

If so, at what point should I attempt to join?

Should be plenty of room. Best to join as early as you can, especially before qual so other drivers can see you on track.

Couldn't do that :'( Hope you gents had fun.

Congrats to the winners and thanks to usual faces behind the scenes. Pretty poor season for me which was blighted by pc problems and then MC12 grief but, had a few really, really fine races nonetheless. Clean slate for S11 will be nice

Bad end to a bad season for me.

Qualified two places higher than expected (i.e. 3rd from last in GT1), then Matt Rowe sneaked past after I slowed to avoid a car which had gone off ahead. That would've been okay but despite braking early for the final chicane I found myself hurtling towards the back of Matt's car. Locked the rears trying to avoid clouting him and face-planted myself into the barriers. No point pitting that early so I soldiered on, struggling to pass the GTCs and losing time thanks to the damaged front end. Face planted the barriers again lapping Goldtop.

Pitted as early as I could and kept my tyres on. It seemed like the only strategy which might pay off when a few laps later Matt exited the pits right in front of me, but my hopes were rapidly dashed when my rear tyres reached 10 and all my rear grip disappeared. :o

Kept plugging away hoping to at least not finish last but the final straw was just trying to stay out of the way of cars which were lapping me around the pit entry and ending up right in one's way - GSI Bob I think - and collecting him. Quit in shame and frustration. :-[

I don't think I'll touch GT1 again. I just don't seem to be able to make those cars work at all. ???

Well that was bad for me. Poor/bad driving from me from the 1st lap to the last I did.
Qualified well to take pole but come the race I think the lower track temps really made me suffer as I couldn't get the fronts up to temp and had quite bad understeer until the pit stop. The 1st stint I had a nice little fight with Busi but he just clipped my rear end after I half went off track. There really was no need to wait for me to recover mate you should've just blasted on but thanks anyway(especially with the Championship on the line), a true gent 8) After that poor driving saw me spin/ go off track/get cut warnings/brake to late/hit the chicane badly but I had a couple of nice tussles on the way ;D I had another 'cut the engine' message when my engine was already cut at the pitstop. I came out of the pits and got my final cut warning...Back to the pits. A couple of laps later I got my hand caught in my headphone wire and pulled my head around the corner :-[ span off and hit the wall. I couldn't take anymore and pressed 'Esc'  :( Bad night for me.
Hope you all had a good race.

Broke my PB with 0.4 or something, into the 1:48's :o

So I thought it would be a bit more of a comfortable race, but I was wrong :D
Blasted away first few laps but then I hit the sand trap so lost a place to Simon.
Chasing him was alright for a while but finding a point to overtake seemed impossible. Then later I was in the mistake after mistake rhytm again and Lazlow and Jose could pass me.

Thinking while losing all the time, should've practised with race fuel and tyres :-[
Nonetheless I had quick laps cutting some lossed time and laps losing time. Second stint I was getting used to the car, less fuel so an easier drive.
In the end everytime I lost a bit it had to be compensated by well like 5 quick laps so was happy with 3rd position.

Nearing the end of the race I suddenly saw Lazlow behind me, stop&go's I guess. And a little later he was even another 20 secs added behind, bad luck!
I was lucky keeping it at 2 warnings, but it sure makes it an exhausting ride.

Anyway bit different story, same result, sadly not much fighting at all with Simon. You're just too consistant in the Morgan :thumbup1:

Mostly a good race. sorry about the start of the 2nd lap Dave,I was being a cautious as I was close to Spanner's
rear going into the chicane, and he was probably being cautious etc etc. Was having some fun slowly catching Jure
who seemed to have some "erratic" lines  ;D Had passed Spanner somewhere, but he was a bit quicker, so I
reckoned he had more chance of passing Jure than I did, so moved over to let him have a bash.
Some of the traffic was less helpful than normal, came off twice avoiding people.
Ah well, good race. Grats to pody.

Congrats Busi! Nice championship win, despite missing the first round (without that you woulda won it by miles). Well deserved :) I tried my best but it wasn't quite enough this time, but you were the fastest all year.
I've gotta explain to the boss now why I haven't brought home the UE championship - I'm contractually obliged to win it for the Sharks, otherwise I'm out on my ass... if I get sacked, can anyone offer me a home?  :laugh:
Might be in the next season, might take a break...not sure yet.  :whistling:

Finally, thanks Dave and Pete for running this great league, Prof and co for the tedious moderator reports and Simon for working on the team side of things.

Cheers All!  8) 8) 8)

Firstly sorry API. I was much quicker than you through that corner - nearly had you again on the next lap. Thought maybe I was nudged into you at the time although I suspect the replay will show otherwise.

CTD in qually meant I managed to replace a 1:50.xx with a 1:51.xx and lost some places.

Everything was set up for a fantastic finale - two seconds behind Legzy and seven minutes to go but it was not to be as I was nudged by a GT1 and got the dreaded stop/go.

Results are going to be close but I don't deserve much on that effort.

Great season, my best yet - well done to all champions, podiums, racers and admins.

I shall speak to the mods about making their reports more entertaining  :D

Don't even think of going away from TS either - once a Shark.....

Dunno where to start.

Managed a decent enough 1:50.8 or something in qualifying early on, but knew from offline testing there was more in it. Hadn't done below 1:50 in testing, but I knew I it was possible. Somehow I managed one of those banzai laps and I dipped below 1:50 to take 2nd on the grid with only a couple of minutes left. I think that has to be one of my best qualifying performances all season and it made my race tbh. Jimmie in the Spyker was too quick in qually and I knew I wouldn't beat his time, so all I wanted was to get ahead of Lazlow to give me a chance in the championship battle.

Going into the race Lazlow was leading by 2 points and I knew if Lazlow was in the place behind me I would have to win to take the title, because I missed one round due to family activities so level points would see him crowned due to 1 more race attended. Jimmie being in first wasn't ideal therefore, but I was hopeful he would take longer in the pits or make some mistakes like at Magny Cours.

Race got under way and the first few laps were very quiet for a change with the cars spaced nicely out in GTC. However I couldn't really see where I was going very well because each track segment would flash on and off from the car headlights behind. It was so distracting that I just couldn't see where some of the braking points were so I was braking conservatively and not lapping very quick.

Jimmie led for a few laps but then made an error which let me through into the lead and eventually Lazlow too. Battled then commenced between the two championship rivals. As the temperature of the track dropped lower and lower my medium tyres were just dire and I was struggling 2 seconds off the pace I could have been doing. Lazlow was sitting right on my tail as I was clearly holding him up, but he couldn't get close enough to make a passing attempt and I was really unsure what to do at the pit stops. Leave mediums on or switch to soft tyres.

Well I decided to switch to softs as I really wasn't comfortable driving an car on what felt like rain and so I left it 1 or 2 laps later than I would have done to stop for tyres and fuel. After the pits I hammered the car trying to make sure Lazlow didn't jump me in the pits. Unfortunately some of the lappees and GT1s decided otherwise and the lap before Lazlow pitted I lost 4 seconds in one lap so all my hard work had gone to waste. Lazlow came out of the pits 3 seconds ahead and I was very annoyed at losing the lead because of other cars.

So, the red mist came out and I was driving like a demon possessed to catch Lazlow. I think within 3 laps I was right on his tail and with the extra grunt of the Morgan I made minced meat of his puny BMW. >:D

After that it was plain sailing as Lazlow couldn't keep up with my soft tyre shod Morgan and he eventually had to pit twice again afterwards.

Have to say Imola was a really really hard circuit to drive the Morgan at. It's so stiff that it doesn't really make friends with curbs, but at Imola you have to use a lot of curb, so I was really pleased at the result. My offline testing showed I could do 1:50.0 in the BMW Z4 without too much bother, so I really was worried that it could go quite a lot quicker than the Morgan.

Congratulations to Lazlow on a great season, sorry for pipping you at the post. Yet to see the final standings but I'm pretty sure Team Oldie will have just had enough to retain their lead in the GTC team championship, so congratulations on that, a job well done. Hopefully Prof has managed to keep 3rd in the drivers, but I think that one is going to be very tight as I'm not sure on the points everyone got. Either way a great season for Prof, so well done.

In GT1 I hold my hat off to Busi who has done what I've done to Lazlow and pipped the previous leader (FreQ) at the last, so well done on the championship win Busi and hard luck FreQ, but a great season in the challenging Viper.

P.S. Joss you can't quit, you can only be fired at Team Shark, so you're not going anywhere! :P

Replay and provisional results posted

LapChart (http://www.granum.plus.com/20091101%20U10UE/index.html)

Yeah that was an unfortunate incident, when I saw you running slightly offtrack I went for it, when you came back in I had no time to react, shame but I always prefer to wait :)

Apart from that, my race was good fun. I'd had zero practice for this one and came into qualifying still having to work on setup and strategy. My quali time was no good (even my race fastest lap was better ::) ) and started in 5th. Passed Gazza and TT early on and started the pressure on Jon in 2nd. With the incident we were down some places but I made another comeback. After the pitstops I got up to 2nd (starting on 100 lit worked again 8) ) behind Jayblue. But damn he was soo fast! At the time FreQ was 3rd so it was not enough for me to clinch the title, but I saw Gazza was catching him so kept going in 2nd hoping for a crucial overtake which looks like happened :P

Grats Jayblue, as I said your speed and consistancy was really amazing. And well done FreQ, putting the Viper up there consistantly on the podium is not easy. Just one point made it though :)

Grats to Shark as well on the GTC title :)

And thanks of course to all those who help making these racing series possible  :-*

Nice race. :)

I had lots of battles in the first 25 mins and was trying to catch TT in the last 20 mins. Nice 3 way battle at the start with Jure and Spanner. Then had a good fight with nsfast. Jon M got stuck behind me for a while. I did not want to let that place go easily. Toward the end of the race TT took a stop and go and I was ahead (5th place i think) but I got a stop and go and gave the position back to TT. I just could not keep up after that and made a few mistakes. ::)

Sorry for the contact Prof. :(

Great season. I have really enjoyed the Viper. I am sure that it improves the skills overall to use a car like that. I may use it again next season. Well done podiums, FreQ in the Viper. That's good driving in the Viper and I know! ;D Well done TT, getting 3rd overall in the Marcos!!! Incredible!

Thanks for all the work from the organisers and see you all next season.

Team Pseudo are coming back to win this thing next season! :devil:

Couldn't get anywhere near my pb, was half a sec slower in Q2 and whole sec in race. :( Despite that and despite the fact that I had one half spin and several smaller mistakes and a stop&go I'm quite satisfied with 5th place. Never do better in Imola (darn chicane) and I'm especially glad I got to do it in Marcos. Like you said H@l, I'm amazed. Not at my achievements but over the Marcos' potential. I wouldn't be able to score better in any other car in the present championship company and I think I can say that Marcos is a totaly legitimate car to race. I'd be very disapointed if no drivers are taking it in the new season, seems like sbg is my only hope. And I dare call chickens all that are in the same car season after season. :thumbdown: And calling out for new mods. :P

Anyways, third overall in GT1 class, yay! :)  Bad luck, Gazza, you missed one race too many. :P
Grats to League podys in both classes and thanks to organizers and moderators. 8)

Special thanks to all who made driving the Marcos possible and all who contributed in the helping thread https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=6514.0 (how can I hide all this behind one word? :P ) and finaly tweaked the car to make it happen. :)   

 

I put in a lot of pracci for this one and had the Z4 running really nicely - even sussed out that top chicane which had always been a PIA in previous races. A little disappointed with my quali time which was about 1 sec down on my pb, but was caught up in GT1 traffic in my 2 faster laps.

Race went well for the most part. Early on I was ahead of Prof and API but was put under pressure as they reeled me in. I finally succumbed at the last chicane which I misjudged and was collected by Prof; totally my fault and I hope it didn't cause you any damage.

The rest of the race was spent avoiding the GT1s and enjoying the sunrise until I unexpectedly got into a battle with Jose in the TVR. Looked like he was having difficulty at one point and I managed to pass, though he came back at me for a close 5 or 6 laps to keep me awake to the end.

Glad I made the swap to GTC mid season and will be sticking with them assuming of course S11 follows a similar format. Congrats to both champ podies and to the work put in to organise and moderate :thumbup2:

I didn't have the most exciting race as I never got to attack or defend anyone over the whole 80mins (unless you count making sure the gap back to Prof stayed at about 2.5 secs).

It's been a season of two halves for me. In the 1st four races I managed three 3rd places & one 2nd... I started to believe my own hype that I could drive anything (Note for future: Ignore the voices in your head >:D) & so I swapped from the F430 GTC (which is fine, just not as much fun as its GT2 version) to the 997, quickly realised that unless you can left foot brake you're likely to get yourself in trouble pretty quickly in that. So after one race I took the 20% points penalty & swapped to the F360, convinced I could cure the "rear-end coming round randomly" problems... I couldn't ::) & again I took another 20% points penalty & swapped to the Viper... where I've stayed to finish the season. Not entirely sure I deserved to pip Prof to third spot in the Championship, as he seemed to get better as the season went on. I look forward to driving against you next season buddy.

I am more pleased to have contributed to help Team Oldie (Lazlow, API, Blunder & myself) to secure our second UKGTR2 Team title of the season (congrats to team Shark on the other two team titles available). Well done to Simon on the GTC title, we thought Lazlow might have had you there for a few mins. Congrats to Busi too.

Thanks to Dave, Picnic & Prof particularly for all the admin work that I now have some understanding of. :notworthy:

But like Ginsters said, roll on 'Season 11' (in your own time Dave ;))

Hmmm........... Interesting

Was 3seconds off my PB simply because I didn't make a good enough job of the three laps where I was left alone by GT1 space ships at warp factor 9.

Never did see what the visual indication of the speed limiter might be as I was too cautious about running flat out into the pack.  Apologies to the late GT1 entry who was obliged to follow me.

Passed some cars in the gravel but they soon came past again.

Quite like the Z4 and would have enjoyed chasing after Tudor but once the GT1 cars started to lap me I was in totally uncharted territory.  I had no idea who was coming up behind and the difference between the two classes was a case of "Where will he catch me and shall I let him through before that?" to "Bugger, where did he come from?"

Towards the end of the race, my frame rate went weird, bordering on a freeze, which put me into the gravel.  When I dug my way out the problem had cleared.

I appreciate that I have no experience from which to draw on to compare the relative merits of single or mixed class GT racing.  But mixed class racing sucks!  ;D

I have downloaded all the monster files for P&G and will have a look at that.  You do that on a Tuesday, which may save a divorce, but the down side is that I get the impression that setups are like hens teeth. 


Anyway, thanks for letting me play and apologies to anyone who found me in a corner not going fast enough.

Pitty it didn't work out for you.

Though if you hate mixed class racing, P&G might be even more frustrating ;)


On the other hand I saw you were a bit too much giving away room by slowing down. It ruins your own race that way, just pretend they're not there and stick to the racing line. Corner speed is pretty much equal so they'll just fly by the next opportunity.

Nonetheless Imola is pretty difficult to give some room because most straights you go from left to right or right to left following the race line so it's a matter of choice.

The night started off quite frustratingly as i knew i could easily do low 1:40's offline in the Aston but i for whatever reason couldn't hook up the lap. I still looked like starting second or third which was pretty good but then with four minutes left my PC froze - i have built a new rig, maybe that has something to do with it. Had to reset and by the time i rejoined there were only two minutes left. Tried to do a lap but we progressed to next session when i was just entering the final sector! Doh! So i started a very angry last...

At the start Clive didn't close up to the cars infront as they hit the limiter and then didn't release his limiter until the start finish line so i was already a long way behind but at least starting last meant i was able to get upto race temps on the warm up lap by dropping right off the back of everyone then blasting around a few corners. This gave me a big early advantage and i tore past the GTC's on lap one. A lot of you let me go easily - thanks for that. The gap to the leader Freq was 15 seconds after the first two laps but somehow i was setting fastest race laps whilst overtaking people! Had some nice battles along the way but generally applied the "nail them as soon as you arrive behind them" way of overtaking, taking no prisoners. Caught a break with Jon and Busi getting into a tangle and passed them both without a battle. Truetom was a bigger challenge as his pace was great and his car very quick on the straight, it took me a few laps to figure out a way past, eventually if i remember correctly i got him at the final chicane after Gazza made a mistake and held him up a little. Then passed Gazza at Tosa on the inside, one of my favourite overtaking places and headed off after Freq. Despite his good quali pace Freq seemed to be struggling with the Viper in the race and i closed in really quickly, again passing him at Tosa to take the lead. The Aston was absolutely wonderful to drive at Imola, very controllable on the limit and superbly balanced on the kerbs.


After taking the lead i made a few small mistakes but was still able to pull away quite a bit by the time my stop came around. Pitted and thought better of my original fuel only strategy and took tyres too. Left the pits with a 10 second lead which Busi (who know was able to match my pace) closed down a little before i found my feet and got a few quick laps in. After that i progressively pulled away to win by about 20 seconds. It was a great race for me, really good fun. I was very suprised at my early pace and i am still wondering how i was able to made such good time initially against quality opponents like this. Thanks to the organisers for the season and now i look forward to next season with you all. Congrats Busi on the GT1 title and Simon on the GTC crown!

No problems Prof. :) I was maybe a bit too cautious at T2 so I think that it was partly my fault.

Except the incident on the first lap, the race went pretty well. I managed to gain few positions before the pit stop. The pit stop went pretty well as I was able to keep Legzy and Prof behind me. However, I had already got 2 warnings about cutting the track. So only a few laps after the pit stop, I got a stop/go penalty for going wide in T10. Dropped to 6th position but apparently Prof got a one too so I was 5th in the final results.

And the screen didn't freeze during the race! :D
Congratulations winners of the championships. So close Lazlow. :'( I'm very happy about Team Oldie's effort in GTCs teams championship. Go Team Oldie! :punk:

And big thanks for the staff for running the league.  :notworthy:

Bit of a disapointment from me. I should have practised in those light conditions as it threw me completely, just as the race was getting fun. Good scrap early on with Matt, H@L, Jure to name a few there but at one stage i braked stupidly early and H@L and Jure came straight past at full tilt! ::) I was struggling in the first half with the temps, though it was only the air temp that dropped 10 deg but i just couldnt get any temps in the tyres. On reflection i shouldnt have started with meds on the front but normally they just take a while to warm up but the whole first stint was a struggle. Plus i never actually updated the setup from the last time we ran here to lengthen 6th gear so so short shifting alot! I was down to 80% after 20mins! but i'm sure if the temps were a bit higher it would have worked out ok as towards the end it leveled out but it meant i couldnt push as hard as i wanted to.

Thanks to all the those who helped in the running of it this season. Seems most the faster guys were in GT1's so its been a bit of a quiet season in GT1 just trying to run my own race half the time. As much as i love the Aston i'm tempted to 'upgrade' to the 550 next season, never really driven it much.

A good finish to the season for me. My best result in the GT1's.  ;D

Qualifying went smoothly although I was a little bit short of my PB. For once I managed a straightforward start to the race as well. Holding position for the first few laps and building up a gap on the chasing pack. However, my race pace was compromised early on due to a spin. I knew I had done some aero damage but it was not until i pitted that I discovered that the suspension had been damaged as well. The time cost for repairing it was too great so I decided to leave it and carry on. My pace was still ok but not into the 1:43s I was expecting. Still I'll always take 7th with the class of this field.  8)

Congratulations to Busi and Simon on their championship wins. Many thanks to all who put in the time to organise this excellent league.  :thumbup2:

Looking foward to season 11.

Not sure where you get that idea Clive? With no aero to worry about and limited options with arbs, setups are normally quite easy to tune. The important thing is to have a car with a balance that suits your style. You can normally just use the spring rates and / or ARBs to change the balance - I don't do much more than this. People are also quite willing to help out if you need a setup, so it might be worth asking here first. Good luck if you do race though  :)