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Title: UKGTL Season 8 GT Classics Cup - Mugello (GP) - Nov 12
Post by: Legzy on October 27, 2009, 12:35:11 PM +0000
In case you have been hiding under a rock, there are GTL lobby problems. But.... all is not lost!

This is what I did to connect to the server:
1) Download & run this HOSTS HACK (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3358.msg54518#post_hostshack)
2) Start GTL & select to the lobby
3) Register a new lobby account (I suggest the same name but with a blank email & password)
4) Log in with your new account & you should see a list of servers

With that fix, there is no need to touch your host file (unless you've already changed it, then you would need to remove the GTL changes you did). If this fix has not worked for you, then please check out this thread for more info/questions: https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=6869.msg119486#msg119486


All members welcome.

Track: Mugello v1 (download here (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3358.msg54520#post_mugello))
Time of Day Setting: 16:00
Start: Standing

Practice: ~19:15 (60 mins)
Qualifying: 20:15 (15 mins)
Race: 20:30 22 laps (~50 mins)

Cars allowed: Any GTC-65 including the Ferrari 250GT SWB (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3358.msg54518#post_f250swb), Aston Martin DB4 (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3358.msg54518#post_aston_db4), Plymouth (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3358.msg54518#post_plymouth), 1310 Mini Cooper S (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3358.msg54518#post_Mini1310) (but excluding the GT40 and Mclaren M1A)

Server: UKGTL Classic Cup
Password: see above (#post_event_password)

Notes:
(1) It's best if all drivers can make sure they are connected before the Qualifying session as drivers on track during qualifying will not see cars that join after they are on track until they go back to the garage.
(2) Please make sure you are fully aware of the SimRacing.org.uk Rules (https://www.simracing.org.uk/index.php?pid=7).
(3) Driver lists can be found on the championship standings page (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R;group=210;theme=5)
(4) This race will be run using the UKGTL Skin Pack 1.8.0.0 which will need to be installed prior to racing; please get it from the downloads page (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3358.msg54518#msg54518).
(5) The current Lobby connection fix can be downloaded HERE (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3358.msg54518#post_hostshack) & if you're having problems after that, check HERE (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=6869.msg120602#msg120602)



Title: Re: UKGTL Season 8 GT Classics Cup - Mugello (GP) - Nov 12
Post by: Wiltshire Tony on November 08, 2009, 06:10:31 PM +0000
Finding it really difficult choosing a ride for this fantastic circuit. All the cars I've tried have been great fun. Some more suited to the twisty bits, whilst other monster it on that long S/F straight. Be interesting to see what eventualy everyone goes with.
A big  :P to anyone who goes with the Lotus Elan  ;)


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 8 GT Classics Cup - Mugello (GP) - Nov 12
Post by: phspok on November 08, 2009, 11:00:31 PM +0000
Well Tony. I managed a 17 with Elan, then another 17 with TVR, Daytona is a bit slower for me.
I think I would prefer to blow past Elans on the straight, than try to get up the inside of TVRs
in the twisties.


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 8 GT Classics Cup - Mugello (GP) - Nov 12
Post by: Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer on November 08, 2009, 11:04:22 PM +0000
Finding it really difficult choosing a ride for this fantastic circuit.

There is only one sane choice in GTC-65, and 3000 reasons to choose it. You know it makes sense. :P


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 8 GT Classics Cup - Mugello (GP) - Nov 12
Post by: pribeiro on November 09, 2009, 10:55:36 AM +0000

A big  :P to anyone who goes with the Lotus Elan  ;)


I must add - Cobra.  :whistling:


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 8 GT Classics Cup - Mugello (GP) - Nov 12
Post by: phspok on November 09, 2009, 12:47:01 PM +0000
I guess Dave will be driving a Healey then  :whistling:


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 8 GT Classics Cup - Mugello (GP) - Nov 12
Post by: Geoffers on November 10, 2009, 08:54:42 AM +0000
Tried out the Cobra & the 1310 last night, great track.

Cobra was a pain to keep on the track but I managed a best of 2.13.6, Mini was brilliant on the twisties but painfully slow on the straight, 2.15.3 with that. Might give the TVR a go tonight.


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 8 GT Classics Cup - Mugello (GP) - Nov 12
Post by: phspok on November 10, 2009, 10:36:47 AM +0000
Eeek, that's wy too fast Geoffers, please Legzy take away 4 of his tokens. oops wrong series.
I'm struggling to get under 17 with TVR,. I must be driving the wrong layout then.


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 8 GT Classics Cup - Mugello (GP) - Nov 12
Post by: Wiltshire Tony on November 10, 2009, 12:53:01 PM +0000
Having done a whole 22 lap race (offline) I don't think we should be too concerned about these awesome lap times. This track shreads tyres as my Daytona will testify. So these guy's with the initial pace will soon fall into our evil clutches Mha-ha-ha-ha etc  :devil:


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 8 GT Classics Cup - Mugello (GP) - Nov 12
Post by: Legzy on November 10, 2009, 09:37:15 PM +0000
A few gathering on the server


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 8 GT Classics Cup - Mugello (GP) - Nov 12
Post by: Geoffers on November 10, 2009, 11:35:26 PM +0000
Tried the TVR & found it a bit easier to drive than the Cobra, at least I can keep it on the track for more than 2 laps at a time  :D. Best time in TVR 2.14.9.

I think we should have a gentlemans agreement to all drive the Elite  ;D


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 8 GT Classics Cup - Mugello (GP) - Nov 12
Post by: Wiltshire Tony on November 11, 2009, 12:48:01 AM +0000
Popped in online tonight and witnessed the usual suspects ( :alien:'s) doing 2:12's.

Now where's my knitting..........



Title: Re: UKGTL Season 8 GT Classics Cup - Mugello (GP) - Nov 12
Post by: pribeiro on November 11, 2009, 09:24:18 AM +0000
Popped in online tonight and witnessed the usual suspects ( :alien:'s) doing 2:12's.

Now where's my knitting..........



May I ask, in which car?  :)


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 8 GT Classics Cup - Mugello (GP) - Nov 12
Post by: phspok on November 11, 2009, 09:49:27 AM +0000
I guess some  :alien: s must have joined after I left but I managed a mid 12 in the Cobra, I think Ade had got
down to 13s in the Trevor, I had 14s in the Elan. I left the Cobra untouched as whenever I have driven it before
it has always ended in tears, it is probably hideous after 12 laps, but, with some neutering I found it easier to drive
than any of the others, the Elan is truly the devil's work, it handles like a 911 without the turn in. I spun every 3rd
lap in it, and I had tried all different setup combos. Tvr is nice but I was falling asleep waiting for the nose
to realise it was in a corner. I think I managed mid 14s in it.


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 8 GT Classics Cup - Mugello (GP) - Nov 12
Post by: Wiltshire Tony on November 11, 2009, 10:22:37 AM +0000
Popped in online tonight and witnessed the usual suspects ( :alien:'s) doing 2:12's.

Now where's my knitting..........



May I ask, in which car?  :)
Cobra's I believe


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 8 GT Classics Cup - Mugello (GP) - Nov 12
Post by: Legzy on November 11, 2009, 07:15:17 PM +0000
Will be on the server with a few others from 8pm (ish) :)


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 8 GT Classics Cup - Mugello (GP) - Nov 12
Post by: Legzy on November 12, 2009, 10:19:51 AM +0000
I'm quicker in the Elan, but there is no escaping the fact that the F275 is more fun.
So I'll be bringing up the rear tonight. :D


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 8 GT Classics Cup - Mugello (GP) - Nov 12
Post by: mr_oily on November 12, 2009, 12:11:31 PM +0000
2:15's in the Cuda so I think I'll be joining ya son. :)


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 8 GT Classics Cup - Mugello (GP) - Nov 12
Post by: Sandor M on November 12, 2009, 07:47:43 PM +0000
Sorry, have to miss this one due to lack of practice .
Hope you all have a good one tonight.

Sandor


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 8 GT Classics Cup - Mugello (GP) - Nov 12
Post by: Steve Holmes on November 12, 2009, 09:02:37 PM +0000
At this moment I feel like I've just about had it with simracing.  :(

On a rare occasion when I feel like having a go the stoopid PC lets me down with a display driver crash.

Jumped on with no practice and was starting to get quicker, but the end of lap 2 GTL minimises for no apparent reason leaving me sitting in the gravel while I switch back to it.

Then after fighting back a few places it just hangs completely.

I guess I should probably do a full windows reinstall to get some stability back but frankly I just can't be bothered, got enough carp going on without this.

Hope the race went well for everyone else, and congrats to Oily for the champ, nice one mate.  :thumbup1:


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 8 GT Classics Cup - Mugello (GP) - Nov 12
Post by: Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer on November 12, 2009, 09:18:17 PM +0000
At this moment I feel like I've just about had it with simracing.  :(

I know the feeling - instead of spending an hour before the race trying to solve my front tyre temperature problems, I spent it in a frustrating battle to try and understand what the herring's going on with my wheel. Everything was fine until today's iRacing problems, but once I fired up GTL the wheel kept drifting its centre position whenever I left the pits for a second or subsequent time.

Started to make some progress towards the end of qualifying, and left the pits with seconds to spare just to do a final test of the wheel. Guess what. Miles off centre. Bah. Pulled the USB, which of course lost my profile (I map the shifters to keys to avoid double shifts), so Alt-Tabbed out and back to reset it. Started the race with the wheel straight, but the force feedback all wrong. Dropped to the back and could keep up with the back of the pack on that lap, but it spun under braking for T1 on lap 2 so I quit.

Maybe I could find a way to map buttons using Joy2Key that I can use across all sims and junk the profiler. Though that may not help of course.

Not ruddy well impressed in any case. >:(


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 8 GT Classics Cup - Mugello (GP) - Nov 12
Post by: Legzy on November 12, 2009, 10:00:50 PM +0000
Results & Replay in usual places


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 8 GT Classics Cup - Mugello (GP) - Nov 12
Post by: dynosaur on November 13, 2009, 08:19:34 AM +0000
Honestly I was expecting a little less from this race than this. Firstly I was worried about how can I look after the tyres for them to last as long as possible, the other thing was the fuel consumption, had to guess and gladly everything went fine, I managed to hang on to the second place after Lazlow stormed by at the start. I thought I´ll let the time pass and see if Lazlow would go wide at some place, but he drove well but I got lucky in one point to squeeze past from the inside at the trickier part of the track.

Well done Ade & Lazlow. And the rest of the SROUK pack too! Great race!


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 8 GT Classics Cup - Mugello (GP) - Nov 12
Post by: pribeiro on November 13, 2009, 09:30:51 AM +0000
Disgracefull race for me.

Silly car choice for so many laps. My rear tires last only 6 laps (tyre wear at 11)  ;D
Anyway, I was having fun sliding the Vette and in 7th place  :o with Oily and Oilseal?
right behind me. Untill my rear tire wear make me spin in front of them.
It happened really fast, tried to run away from where I was (right in the middle of the track
facing the wrong way) but was too late.  >:( Sorry for ruinning Oily and Oilseal's race.  :-X

Went to the pits to repairs and chance tires. Back on track for more 6 fun laps.
Back to pits to change tires. Back on track for a few more fun laps. That's all.

Corvette is a great car, but my lack of skills to drive it doesn't let me perform a nice driving.
Maybe at LeMans or Monza things would be better... ::)

So, many congratulations to Dynosaur and his win aswell to Ade and Lazlow podium.




Title: Re: UKGTL Season 8 GT Classics Cup - Mugello (GP) - Nov 12
Post by: Legzy on November 13, 2009, 10:35:55 AM +0000
It's great to see twenty drivers on the grid & with a range of ten different cars. Well done chaps.

I had most enjoyable scraps throughout the race with API / Spanner / Geoffers / Andy & Goldie was never too far away either. Good driving by all :thumbup2: & I can only apologise for the length of braking zone my Daytona seemed to need ::). Combine that with rear tyres that were on fire well before half way, I could barely keep the rear end almost in check (much to the amusement of Oily who seemed to enjoy the show from the pits ;)) & I know it caused a couple of moments for a couple of you :whistling:

Well done to Dyno on picking up his 1st win of the season, while just managing to sneak past Shark for forth place driver in the Classic Cup Championship (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=210&scoring=405&theme=4#ch405) final standings, while further demonstrating Prodigy's strength in depth. Once again well done to Oily, Lazlow & Ade for dominating the top three between you across the whole season really. Cadwell was the only race that none of you made the podium, so guess where we'll be next year ;)

Well that, was the conclusion to the Sprint season. Hope you enjoyed it, I know I did. Always a pleasure to drive with you guys. :wub:

Hope to see you all next week for our traditional season finale, the Le Mans Enduro  8) 8) 8)


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 8 GT Classics Cup - Mugello (GP) - Nov 12
Post by: Burtoner on November 13, 2009, 01:11:51 PM +0000
Well I lost connection to the server, got a bloody good start again, just like i did at monza...


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 8 GT Classics Cup - Mugello (GP) - Nov 12
Post by: goldtop on November 13, 2009, 02:37:02 PM +0000
Nice track choice again guys which made for some classic power vs agility racing.

Seemed to be a lot of offs early on (me included) which made it an eventful race with recovering drivers fighting back for lost positions throughout the race. I had some close racing particularly with spanner in the Elan as he tried to find a way past my wide TVR in the twisty sections. He finally got through at T3 with a great move down the inside after I'd left a little too much room and then proceeded to disappear into the distance. Andy got past me into the s/f straight in his Cobra and I just couldn't get back to him. Fronts were getting pretty worn by this time and the mistakes crept in leaving me well adrift by the end of the race.

As I look forward to Le Mans, I can say that I've really enjoyed my first GTL season and hope that it continues to hold its weekly spot here despite the competition from other events. I believe it has held its own, apart from a brief period of PnG dominance in the summer and that it will continue to attract good numbers for next season.

Cheers guys :clap:


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 8 GT Classics Cup - Mugello (GP) - Nov 12
Post by: Phil Gilliland on November 13, 2009, 04:22:13 PM +0000
GTL ... hope that it continues to hold its weekly spot here despite the competition from other events. I believe it has held its own, apart from a brief period of PnG dominance in the summer and that it will continue to attract good numbers for next season.

 :stupid:

Sorry I couldn't take part last night. Family commitments (grrr).


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 8 GT Classics Cup - Mugello (GP) - Nov 12
Post by: Geoffers on November 13, 2009, 10:32:30 PM +0000
Great track to finish the season on, a real challenge in these cars.

Got a great start & was 3rd for the first lap, ran slightly wide at T1 on lap 2 & Ade went past. A few laps later Tinman got his Cobra ahead too but I was comfortable in 5th until I totally confused my braking point for T1 & went straight on into the barrier  ::). Dropped back into a frantic battle with Legzy, Andy & Spanner which lasted the rest of the race. Spanner's nimbler Elan eventually came out on top & I nabbed 8th when both Legzy & Andy went off on the penultimate lap.

Congrats to Dyno, Ade & Lazlow :thumbup1:

And congrats also to Mr Oily on the championship  :clap: :clap: :clap:


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 8 GT Classics Cup - Mugello (GP) - Nov 12
Post by: Burtoner on November 14, 2009, 11:14:24 PM +0000
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_xjEZEJPiI

My start again :) all in HD :)


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 8 GT Classics Cup - Mugello (GP) - Nov 12
Post by: dynosaur on November 16, 2009, 08:02:44 AM +0000
Nice driving Burtoner!  ;D


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 8 GT Classics Cup - Mugello (GP) - Nov 12
Post by: Simon Gymer on November 17, 2009, 02:01:32 PM +0000
Team Shark is recruiting (CLICKY). (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=7116.msg124315#msg124315)