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Endurance Championship Division 1 - Season 1, Round 8 at Oschersleben

Date: Sunday 23rd October

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 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 (https://www.simracing.org.uk/index.php?ind=lm2&group=1) for general Season 1 info.
(4) Please make sure you are fully aware of the UKGTR Rules (https://www.simracing.org.uk/index.php?pid=7)

I should be more competative here than the last endurance race as i know the track better.  However, due to a rediculous work load this week, i haven't had enough time to get a decent set-up.  The stock race set-up feels ok, but i'm worried about whether the tyres will hang on long enough.  Anyone know if a set of mediums will last to the half way point in a Lister (fuel and tyre stop at half way point)?  Note that i'm not the most consitent of drivers and will scrub the tyres occasionally.

I raced the sprint at ochers on meds and will race the enduro with meds  :) Ochers did seem to wear my tyre's faster than other tracks though  :(  But if any car will do it the lister will  ;)

Cool.  That'll save me some time getting the car set up - i won't have to do 30 laps to see how the tyres cope.  Thanks.  I'll go and get practicing.  See you at 8.30.

Lol that's only 30 mins!

I've setup a server for practicing (I need some), anyone is welcome to join (I'll be on in 10-15)

Hopefully if all goes well and smooth I shall be there, after a couple of weeks away from gaming and over a month away from GTR. :o
I've upgraded my PC along with some setup and performance troubles so I'm quite rusty, although having a better frame rate has made a big difference.
Only took 9 laps to get within 2 secs off my PB at Oschers. :o ;D
A race is a different matter though, being unfit etc...  ::) ;)

Hope to see you there..

Tried to join but couldn't make any password to work.  :)

same here

Same Fozz, couldn't join it :(

I'm back in a Viper form now on, I seem to get on with it better than the Saleen.

most wierd, it's usual practice password (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=2929)

Ah my fault, soz guys, using the mobo's network rather than the card which is usual, so got diff internal IP, its sorted now.

can't see it on there now

My apologies to anyone i got in the way of/or span in front of...suffered impossible lag/warping throughout whole of qualy. I tried one lap in the race but it got worse and un-driveable, so i baled out rather than cause accidents.  :-[
Dont know if anyone else was suffering likewise? Not had any problems before. ???
But i do know NTL are sodding about with their broadband systems this weekend so it may have been that :(

Until next time, hope you had a good race.

Brilliant! lost connection with the server 8 mins left of the race. Was enjoying up til then.
Don

Shame Mark, thanks for bailing, very good of you.

I haven't been able to read my NTL email for 3 days, but other than NTL connection has been fine.

I had to bail out from the grid, bloody wire came off the poxy brake pot again, gutted

Had an obismal race, I felt jittery for some reason. Lost the rear tyres coming off a bump, quite a cool spin and slightest of tap on tyre wall and my splitter was gone. Team fixed it but I should have put more fuel in, realized I had to stop again and I was a little annoyed with myself. Decided to push on but ran out of fuel on last lap in 8th. Car felt great though..

There was an incident with two F360. The guy ahead of the two F360 seem to loose it coming off final turn, his car wooshed quickly to inner line where I was trying to follow the second F360 through but he had to slow a little and got a little bump from me .. sorry. I can't predict things like that at those speeds, I slow down always for nGT but i'm not slowing down for mistakes too.

Glad to hear you got some new hardware Craig, maybe give me buzz on msn if you having some probs - would be cool to hear what you got too, I got new x850xt last week very nice card..

Catch you later, Rich[CBFR] :)

The race went well in terms of lag with exception from Doni and Fozzmeister, from who I had some lag, although Doni was by far the worst. My apologies to Fozz for the bump I gave you but I couldn’t avoid it as it was due to lag warp. Your car suddenly disappeared to reaper a moment after already in corner.

About the race it self it went pretty well if weren’t for my close encounter with a pin that made drop from 2nd to 7th. But even worst then that was my pit crew. I pitted in 1st and I took 54,5 secs  :o to change tyres and put 42 litres of fuel (no repairs).
Just for changing the tyres the crew took 33,5 secs  :o after I pressed Enter and another 21 secs after that to refuel 42 litres (yeah I checked the replay and i'm going to put some og the guys out of the team :D)

I had 2 good fights with Blaz and an amazing one with Truetom. I put all the pressure I could on Tom but he handled it very well. However I was losing time behind him and decided to make a fearless overtake. I bet Tom wasn’t expecting for such an aggressive brake and cornering but I had to try it as best I could. It worked flawlessly and I taken 3rd from Tom.

The second fight with Blaz was almost a copy of the fight with Tom, including the overtaking. I chosen the same corner and applied the same heartless manoeuvre to take 4th from Blaz.

Overall a great race if weren’t for the tremendous time lost in pit - between 10 and 15 seconds of what should be the normal pit stop.

Congrats to Jon for a great driving and deserved win.

Enjoyed that back in my Viper ;D

Seems to be one of the few GT's that I can get the most out of and I spent most of my time lapping in 25's and fighting with some of the Listers :)  Through accidents and offs for others, I went from 10th at the start to 6th at the end.  Quite pleased with that, no big mistakes, no spins, no offs, smooth pitstop and very stable setup.

Nice race :D

Replay is up, I'll do the import of results later if no one else does, I had to go out 10 mins ago  :o

Seems to be a problem with the replay, incomplete file.

was wondering afterwards, would that have been the dreaded 1fps bug i have heard you guys mention on occasion in these posts?

Basically about every 15-20 seconds, the whole screen image would slow down/stutter to a ridiculously slow speed and the car would appear to judder along a section of track or warp forward about 20 yards. Are they the symptoms or just online lag ? Not had it before, is there a fast cure when in an online event?...ie should you drop out and come back into qualy?

It made it impossible to keep the car on track and i felt a right plonker in qualy, i couldnt even complete a lap until 13 mins to go. It seemed worse when i had either of two black 550's ? on track at same time. (cant remember names), though it may have just been coincidence. ??? The first warm up race lap it happened nearly all the way round so parked it off pit straight after someone gave me a gentle nudge up the backside ::)

I suffered a bit also, wasn't quiet the 1FPS I have had before but a real slowdown at times, then it would run smoothly again. That might explain my high ping and finally getting booted. weird!
Don.

Lol, yea, you're absolutely right! I was expecting your move on the start/finish straight, where I never left you enough room. Good move! When I saw you up close I chose not to block as it would have been real messy.  ;D You were faster, anyway.

I had also a good duel with cb95amc (had to lok for this one, sorry mate, I can't remember names very well  :) ), I was on your tail and the pressure was visible - you were making mistakes and you came out of the S poorly, partly off the track and the fact that I was ready to pass you on the "Luis Branco straight" was the reason I was in your rear, got a puncture and had to pit and that was, of course, AFTER a regular pit stop. As far as I could see you could continue. Race accident, of course, with a sour taste... There goes my second place...  :'(

Otherwise a good race.

No, it's not the 1 fps bug as that permanently shuts you down to 1 fps and you have to exit the game fully and come back to resolve.

Doesn't sound like it. From your description, I'd say the problem was connection related. Fingers crossed it's a temporary NTL thing as you suggest  :-\

Pops

Had good quali and bad race.
My pace was almost 2 sec slower, took hard  rear tyres cos hight track temp and i coudnt do 123 like my normal fast lap here. Was very frustrating race (was soooooo slow), but didnt do any larger mistake and finnished 5th.

Opps, appears I copied up the Barcelona one again when it failed this morning  :-[

Seems to be giving a Netout error everytime I try and upload at the moment, it has done this before. Last time waiting sorted it but I'll try and copy it here and then up, but obviously that will take a bit longer. Sorry for the delay.

And of course I try once more and the upload worked  ::) Computers, don't you just love them!

Complete replay now available and provisional results imported  :)

Had a decent Qually and a great race  ;D
Started the race in 2nd behind Leuven but with the lister i was able to fill up and go the distance and still had 7 laps of fuel left at the end  ;) In the first half of the race Leuven was alot quicker than us but seemed to be a bit unlucky in the traffic which was enough to keep me within 5 secs of him before I pitted for fresh tyre's. When the race settled down after the pitstop's I had a lead of about 15secs, it got down to about 8 but I think Leuv must've made a small error and dropped back 6-7 secs.Never really troubled after that as my tyre's held up really well  :) Had a few close moments passing traffic. Was left with virtual brown pants when coming up to lap Fozz, I wasn't expecting him to be going so slow and had to brake real hard to avoid contact, must've got to within an inch or so  :o Thanks to back markers for letting us past in the race, I know Ochers isn't the best place for it  8)
Grats to Matjaz for his win ;) And truetom for scoring vital team champ points
The championship is warming up nice. I think 20 points between me and Shark with only 2 races left. And the team championship looks like it could be heading the way of the Penguins if we get another good result at Estoril   ;)
I like the new tyre thingy in the champ table BTW

Hi all was going the full distance with bimmer so put twice as much fuel in  as I needed , was going quite well at back when the graphics went pear shaped . I could see the other cars but my diplay was flashing and stuttering.I pulled off and ctrl alt del to look for another program interfering but could see nothing wrong.Closed task man down and gtr was working again but had lost 2 laps by then so just drove to the finish.See you tomorrow eve gerald

As soon as the lights turned green I knew I had my work cut out, as the wheel had FFB but NO resistence whatsoever.>:(
Surprisingly I kept it on the road and led the race with Luis getting past Jon for second place early on.

For the first part of the race Luis was keeping me honest with a steady 1 second or so gap for quite a few laps until he dissapeared and Jon took over 2nd.
With about a 7 second gap from Jon, I Kept it steady until Jon pitted where I had at least 1 more lap of fuel so I decided to keep going and pit next time around.

When I arrived at turn 3 I wished I had pitted because I hit a Porka who was hovering infront of me just before the turn in.  :'(
Crawled out of the gravel trap knowing my lead had gone to jon I filtered back into 3rd or 4th until others pitted and I ended up second behind by about 10 seconds I think (maybe 14 not sure) surprised it wasnt more given that you didnt change tyres Jon ??? 

Stayed steadyish behind Jon for a few laps and as stated, had quite a hard time with backmarkers, (challenging though :o ;D)
But whilst thinking about where I may have been if I hadnt have hit thae porka I ended up losing concentration and spinning ::)
With a 40+ second gap to 3rd I decided I had no chance of catching Jon who had good pace which I couldnt have cought to be honest...nice :)

Had a few battles with A lister, 575 and a few 360's who were being lapped ??? but had to make some bold moves or I would have never got past :(

On the whole I had no stutters, decent framerate and a pretty good race.  8)