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Practice 1: 20:00 (20 mins)
Qual 2: 20:20 (20 mins)
Race: 20:40 (40 minutes) - note: no warmup!

Cars allowed: Any GT2
Weather: Variable. (More info below...)
Track: St. Petersburg (v1.0.1.3, download HERE (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3356.msg54900#post_stpete))
Race Start Time: 14:00

Tyre wear: Normal
Fuel consumption: Normal
Pit-stops: None.

Server: UKGTR2 Test
Password: see above (#post_event_password)

Virtual Race Weather Forecast - Published 19:30pm on Race night
Race Weather Conditions  (for rough guidence only):
 Weather: Dry with cloud
 On line: Dry
 Off line: Dry
 Ambient: 30.00
 Track: 37.26
 Early Conditions:  Overcast
 Mid Race Conditions:  Rain
 Late Race Conditions:  Dry


Notes:
(1) Please make sure you are fully aware of the UKGTR Rules (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3349.0) - especially the speed limiter starting procedure and the rules about in-game chat messages.
(2) Driver lists can be found on the championship standings page (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R;group=245;theme=3)
(3) You will not be able to join the server without the car physics pack and track (see links above).
(4) Drivers may only change car once in the season without penalty.
(5) Drivers are reminded that they must select ISDN as their bandwidth, otherwise the stability of everyone's connection will be reduced.
(6) Please use the Driver Details (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=profile;sa=driver_info) page to ensure that the league management software has your correct GTR2 'Driving Name' (not necessarily the same as your lobby name).
(7) The server will be set to 26 slots, not 28.

RACE INFO:

1) OK, we're going to have a return of "variable weather" for this race. H@L has kindly put some effort into creating a weather generator that gives us a "race weather forecast". I'll give a few more details in a couple of days.

2) Stay on the black stuff at T1. If you ride the inside kerb at T1, you will knacker your car 50% of the time! Please try it in testing, while learning the track,  so you know what I'm talking about! It's a cracking track other then that kerb, which is basically limiting it to a fun test track only.

This is a tight street circuit right?

Yes. We did one fun race there in the past, I think. :)
If I remember correctly there was a bug with track cutting.

it is a street circuit that has a mix of wide/tight bits. Was recommended to me & I think has a good flow (for a street course).
There is an issue with cutting T1.

I've been on server just to try the track and that T1 kerb. Firstly server is on normal fuel, just in case someone forgot to change it to x2 ;)

I've tried the kerb in the Panoz and there's nothing wrong for me. Are those yellow bits in the kerb that cause problems? I've gone through there even touching the grass and the Panoz doesn't feel anything wrong. Yeah, I guess I'm in a tank 8)

Restarted on x2 although the weather is still dry ATM

Lucky you, I might take that car myself! :laugh:
Basically if you're riding/stradling the kerb you might find you bounce of an "invisible brick". As I said, find it in practice & you'll know where it is.


I have a feeling that with the F1 on earlier, followed by the World Cup final.... we might be struggling for numbers here :-\

Guys, having twigged the conflict with that little soccer tournament going on, in the interest of keeping the race interesting with a likely smaller field, I've made these changes to the race announcement:


I've also updated the weather bit:
The word "Vaguely" is used as a disclaimer ;)
The words "pretty accurate" are there because H@l has kindly factored a small 'randomness' into his software. As we know, the weatherman doesn't get it spot on every time ;)

hi all, what lap times you guys running here? Terry and I are into the 1.10's without playing to much with the setups. so I guess 1.06 or less for aliens??

that being said I'm not confident that I'll be able to finish this race, every practice stint ends in a blaze of fire or wheels ejecting the hubs. Lots of pokey outey bits catching me out. 

Last time we drove here there were 1:04's being done. That's a few years ago, so in the meantime the mod/cars have canged a bit I think, so no clue how representative they are for this race.

Obviously I won't do this race as I do have a national team to cheer on ;)

Since I'm in for the tulips I might also miss this event. :-\

Come on Spain!!!


(Spanish Mrs Legzy)

Nothing can be done against a team with 7 or 8 FC Barcelona players. Iniesta and Xavi together kick some asses 8)

Come on! (forgot to say I'm gonna be watching the final of course :P)

Its certainly a tough track this one.  ::) Just need some rain to make it really interesting.  ;D

I'm also into the 1.10's with the odd 1.09 when I get lucky.  :)

I'm afraid you are gonna be right  :P. We have come this far by shear luck, so we need that again to be able to win :(

Getting 1:10 dead in both F430 & 997

Nice circuit this. :)

The track is nice indeed, couple of good chicanes and linked corners. But those light blue tyre walls are certainly waiting there to kill you :o

its going to rain yes??

It's looking likely that we might see some water during this race.
I'll generate the virtual forecast by 7:30pm tonight.

hi gents is there room for me to join tonight? had a practice and hitting low 1.10's nice little circuit  ;)

best now 1.09.401 getting right into this track  :)

Will see. If the footy is good... ;)
Made some laps, but not in the wet. ::)

Will be plenty of room tonight Ad, look forward to seeing you there.

TT, don't worry if there is a bit of rain, it's just a bit of fun tonight. :)

Sorry guys, I forgot to set a password, so it's just the usual practice session password.
 :-[

 :D
Ok, I don't mind the weather, but can you make the walls a bit softer? :P

Gutted, as it changed from qually to race session, my game hung & that was it. :'(

I really like that circuit. If it was a bird, she wouldn't be stunning... but I'd say she was "quite cute". ;)

p.s. Absolutely shocked that we managed to get 11 on the server tonight! I was convinced (with all the other things going on today) that we'd struggle for even five. Hopefully that's a promising sign for the season ahead. 8)

Interesting race!, somehow managed to qualify 2nd with a pb that came out of nowhere. then for the first 6-8 laps i was trying to fend spanner off and eventually span round and hit the wall, then continued to hit the wall or the invisible brick every 4-5 laps most of them spinning me round again. had a fantastic battle with apex for the last 4 laps (superb driving apex well done) and managed to finish the race in 3rd some how  :o

u too good driving awarness great fight

Replay and provisional results posted

LapChart (http://www.granum.plus.com/20100711%20U13/index.html)

Darn that rain... :P

Looking at the weather file, we should have had race conditions of overcast for the entire race. It seems that this track does not have any clouds in the sky when there should be. :-X

I thought, though it was supposed to rain? Maybe its better to be more obvious with the values and use larger numbers.

That's the random element of the forecast coming into play. The conditions were boarder line light-rain/overcast. I did not want to make the forecast totally accurate. It did 'almost' rain. ;D

If I remember correctly, wunderground said 20% chance of light showers. If the potential of rain is forecast but the randomness of the weather generator decides that it will not rain (like rolling a 10 sided dice and saying 'we have no rain if we roll higher than a 2') then, we will get overcast conditions. That is what should have happened.  :D