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

Cars allowed: Any GT3
Track: UKGTR Adelaide IR 2005 (Long) (v1.2.0.0, download HERE (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3356.msg54521#post_adelaideIR))
Race Start Time: 14:00

Weather: Fixed 20% Rain. (Related to real-world conditions)

Tyre wear: Normal
Fuel consumption: normal
Pit Stops: None

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


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.
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(7) The server will be set to 26 slots, not 28.

Fun little track that shouldn't take you too long to learn & as we seem to be struggling to find an hint of rain in this very dry summer, I've set it to 20% rain (i.e. drizzle)... you can thank TT ;)

Thanks TT. Err... :blink:
Anyways, nice to know that the weather in Adelaide 7 days from now will be a drizzle. ;)
Don't think I races this track much. Only vaguely remember thick and hard walls - the place is like Windsor. ;D

Now that I have a good viper setup and fuel is normal I may give it a shot.

Did some on line prac last night with Craske.
Discovered a "feature" that I had to keep doing it was sooooo funny...
Come out of the pits slowly straight onto the track through the cones, (don;t go down the pit lane) join the track very slowly
and you hear your pit boss say something ... then one of your pit crew will leg it like "The Flash" from behind you, then sprint up
the track and through the left hand wall like it was not there, then back across the track stil carrying his wheel through the right hand wall and into your pit stall. It just doesn't get old  :lol:

This combo doesnt really sound appealling so might not turn up for this one.

Track is rather short and tight for these sort of cars I think, but some good close racing may come of it, the rain is not enough to cause problems, it's just a bit less grippy.

You're a glass half full man then?
I look at it as being a bit more slidey ;D

Tell me you have tried the pit guy with the wheel thing.... :laugh:

I seen it before on another track. Gotta love how quick his legs move.

I'm throwing down the gauntlet 1st... 55.3 so far ;D

54.9  ;D

Can't race tonight...psu has blown up!! :( should be back in action for Tuesday though :)
Have fun.

Replay and provisional results posted

LapChart (http://www.granum.plus.com/20100725%20U13/index.html)

Thought this was going to be the Adelaide road circuit so was a nice surprise when I turned up a few minutes before quali to find it was a speedway  :o

Managed to get a setup before race, but hadn't really worked out the tight left/right section so was in 2 minds whether to stay. Glad I did as it was good fun.

No problems to report as far as test; weather made it interesting and I had the Porsche sliding around nicely on softs.

Congrats to Craske on what I think is his first win here and well done rest of pody and finishers.

Thanks also to Legzy for putting it on and to H@L (I think) who's been working on the weather behind the scenes. Can you do anything about our slightly dull summer we seem to be having at the moment - my hard earned suntan has almost gone :D

Cracking race, even if I have to admit I got too close to Craske while chasing him. Twice. :-[ Sorry. First time I hooked the tyre on a kerb in the chicane and the car just went it's own way and I could't neither swerve or stop. Second time was just eagerness and the time running out. ::) I'm glad you made it to the top, Craske. You never forget the first one. ;)
Grats on the quali time, Pete. And bummer for tyre usage. Can anything be done to fix this? His car wan't really that faster and having to stop got him out of the pody reach. :(
Had  almost 30 worn tyres myself in the end. Car was understeary like hell. Wouldn't be any difference if I took front meds from the start, lol. ::)
Cracking race again, Craske. This track is too narrow, really, to utilize teh advantages of Vertigo in the wet. Couldn't get along on the outside like I did with sbg at Brno in the GTC class. Well might be different in the pure dry. Worse for the Vertislowblow, I'm sure. :D
Cya next. 8)

Had a good entertaining race, shame that more people didn't give it go & it was just the ten of us. I thought it was a very simple little fun track that was easy to learn but challenging to master :)

Nice to see a little rain too in this freakish hot summer we're having 8)

I did enjoy that except for that tyre wear, I had over 1 wear per minute so realised very early on I'd need to stop because I would have ended up with about 55 wear in total in the 40 mins. I suspect you might be able to dial some of that wear out it you're half decent at setting the car up. Sadly I'm not.

Never done a pole lap before, so weird being in front it was about 5 laps in when I realised I hadn't turned on car labels  ;D

Took a couple of laps to work out the layout but being nice and short was easy to get the hang of. Good fun track in the GT3 class. Shame on you who didn't try it  :P

Craske, how much were your tyres worn? I'm still not decided about which car to take, so... :)

Great race....  I was feeling good about this combo, the porsche seemed to be tailor made for this track and I hardly had to change anything set-up wise, practice started and I got a couple of laps in and my game crashed, so quickly fired it back up ran another lap time and I got connection lost.... was starting to doubt my chances of racing by this point, but got back in with enough time to run 1 more timed lap in practice and was amazed to go straight to the top.

Then came qualy and I was keen to get out and run a lap without traffic but this didn't work out as I seemed to catch it all up on my timed lap  :-\ , managed a low 1.54 for my first attempt and was happy that was all I was going to get out of it, then decided to try the medium slicks, came back out and hit a fluky 1.53 on my first timed attempt, which got me pole :D, for about 5 mins until Peter beat it to put me second.

Then came the race and I found myself driving a defensive line from the second we started to the very end of the race, 40 laps with TT nailed to my bumper, I knew he was faster and had we of been a bit further down the field I probably would have given up the position to him. But we wasn't further down the field we were 2nd and 3rd for the first 20 laps and then 1st and 2nd  for the rest, so I wasn't about to make it easy (sorry TT but I really wanted the win). As it was I managed to fend off all of his attacks and keep the place.

TT did smack me a couple of times from behind spinning me off track but both times was kind enough to wait for me  :P .

There was one other incident where TT tried to get between me and the wall at the start of the long straight where we had a little contact, I put this down to a racing incident and as neither of us benefited from it I decided to keep the position.  (Again TT sorry if this was my fault)

As stated by others this was my first UKGTR win and I chuffed as punch with it, specially since I had to work so hard to stop TT from nicking it off me.

Thanks to everyone involved in organising these amazing races, and congrats to
Peter and TT for 2nd and 3rd

I am shocked people didn’t like this combo, seemed to me that these cars suited this track incredibly well.

I stopped looking at tyre wear and decided to turn XD off lol. They were well worn and slidy by the end though.

Would have loved to join, but work continues on my house which takes priority according to the misses.

 :lol:

I thought only mine was like that. ;D