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Practice 1: 20:00 (20 mins)
Qual 2: 20:20 (20 mins)
Race: 20:40 (60 minutes) - note: no warm up!

Cars allowed: Any GT1 from the NEW v2.13.0.0 car pack (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3356.msg54519#post_physics)

Track: Thruxton 2009 v0.81.0.0 (Download HERE (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3356.msg54519#post_thruxton))
Race Start Time: 14:00

Weather: Changeable. (Similer to real-world conditions)
Virtual Race Weather Forecast (for rough guidance only) To be Published ~19:30pm on Race night:
FORECAST is
Weather: Light rain
 Ambient: 16.00
 Track: 14.93
 Early Conditions:  Rain
 Mid Race Conditions:  Light rain
 Late Race Conditions:  Light rain


Tyre wear: Normal
Fuel consumption: x2
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: UKGTR2 Enduro
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=270;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.

am off to Italy next week so did a tad of early praccy. This track is real banzai in a GT1 !  1:08.01 for me though still messing with setups to cope with all the bumps and high kerbed chicanes  :o

I don't remmebr this track - did we race here? Will do some practice. Soon. :)

Only in GTL I beleive.

I can see allot or drag races on this one. Turned a 1:10 in a Lister. You will need a very fast car for this one. The chicane curbs are very high and will take some time to master if you plan on going over them. I can only assume you will break something eventually maybe  :o

got down to 1:07.1 now  :) jeez this place is fast and furious. An enduro here will be knackering as you cant relax for a second as there are no straights !

Wow what a crazy track for GT1's!  :o

The kerbs are huge and really tricky to ride well as they unsettle the car so badly. The back section of the track is make or break as every little mph you scrub off in the corners costs you time. You need to maximize all the track to be quick, which is tough because if you push just a little too hard you go on the grass and loose heaps of time.

Overtaking will be hard here i think making quali and strategy key. Nice to have a different kind of challenge to the norm though.

Yea, I think we're in for something completely different. ;) Not a classic track, really, no classic overtaking opps. I will probably botch the thing a few times. ::)

I got a call today and there is an opening for an AutoX at Road Atlanta on Sunday. From what I understand they are using part of the track. Very Cool  8)

Guess I got to go and spank some more Porsche's with the MINI ;)

I will take some pics  ;D

Got down to a 1:06.7 with race fuel in the Lambo.
Will take some discipline to keep the left rear cool though, even with hard tyres I'm struggling to keep it below 110 degrees.

If it is raining here in the morning, then I will be making the race after all. Got love it  ::)

These cars just dont suit this narrow, boring, short club track, feels very low grip as well. Its not easy, keep messing it up into the complex. Only doing 1.08's.

It sure is tricky!
Have not managed to get under 1:09 yet :(

You need to get the rear stiff enough to have pedal down as much as possible. :)

hello,

something is wrong with download.
if i do download the track i can not install, (my english is to limited to explain).
it is not a normal thing, which i do make with winrar, it is more a a thing which i can open with a notepad or something like this, strange never ever saw this before in a track 116 mb it is around.
in nogrip it is a truxton2009 too, is this exactly same.

is it a other way to download (the other thing where i must register i do not like, i do not like to make to much accounts and then get emails a lot from this companys)

sound like a difficulty track, what i did read.

servus

Try renaming the end of the file name, Remove the [1] and replace it with .exe  then double click and it will auto install.

thanks you for answear,

i will try it.

I'm still debating whether to race as I'm struggling with consistency. Got an okay 1.08 but most of my laps are dead ducks in the c6r.
I did, however, enjoy watching the Ai rolling their cars as they tried to ride the curbs on the last chicance. :)

heh, oh dear, only found out this afternoon when i tried to join the server, that i was running an old version of thruxton that looked and handled completely different to the 09 track  ::) so had to start again setup wise and practise !

Got down to 1:07's race trim though  :)  Challenging track this, hope it doesnt get too messy in the uphill braking zones for the chicanes. People will have to be careful not to rear end others there and use a tad of patience.

Strange. ??? Mine installed no problem.

i am not sure if it is good if i do drive this race.
i did my first 20laps and i am 1.07.xxx in racesetup, but totaly not constant, the track looks so much easy but is so hard to drive,
i do never found the correct raceline and it is always luck if i can get the fast corners good or bad.
i do not understand the weather forecast what he will tell, but i realy realy hope for no rain, 0 laps in rain i did and i am sure i do spin in every lap on this track.
perhaps i had should start practise more early, but i was thinking during week i can not drive this race.
finish this race AND make no accident to other car is main goal for race, doing a podium place is nearly not possible i think.
learning new tracks i do not realy like, no idea what to do with setup in this track?

servus

Tonight's forecast is

Weather: Light rain
 Ambient: 16.00
 Track: 14.93
 Early Conditions:  Rain
 Mid Race Conditions:  Light rain
 Late Race Conditions:  Light rain

Welcome to my world at every race (except for the fast time obviously! ;))

shocking track, I had an off and that lap wasn't counted, meh! ::)

Phew that was an intense hour ! Great race despite the unfortunately low turnout.

Qualied well in 5th? behind the fast guys, even outpipping my illustrious team mate TT  :clown:

Car setup felt reasonably good but wasnt sure how it would handle the rain in the race. Made a few tweaks to soften it slightly and put soft slicks on the front, med slicks rear.

Started well, chasing API for a few laps before we caught a re-emerging lazlow who i chased hard for a few laps but API shot off into the distance.

Spent most of my race chasing or being chased hard by Craske for 3rd and our great duel lasted the entire race with both of us getting past at some point. My stop went well with no problems but Craske just pipped me, emerging just ahead from his stop. Got past him a few laps later  :)
But with only 3 minutes on the clock, in 3rd place, and 3-5 sec lead over him, i got a squirelly back end at the first chicane under braking, car clipped the kerb and up-ended me onto my nose, losing me all my gained time and Craske nipped past as i tried to recover :'(  Gutted as thought id get a very rare GT1 podium finish :taz:

Finished 4th, great duel, tough race. I thought the track was great for these cars and even these conditions..t'is Thruxton after all ! and a dry race would be even better. :)
Well done to Berger, API and craske for the podium. :thumbup1:

Did you travel a lot on the grass before rejoining? Maybe it considered you gained too big an advantage? :-\
Sorry to hear you didn't like it.


I can't remember driving a track like that in GTR2 before, very tricky in a GT1 even in the dry... so a race that only had a short dry period just made it funny! :laugh: Had some good scuffles, mostly with Spanner, but gambled on a two stop strategy & lost :P

Shame about the turn out, I guess between it being a bank holiday weekend & obviously a challenging track/car combination. Hopefully we see a few come back for Okayama in a fortnight 8)

Replay and provisional results posted

LapChart (http://www.granum.plus.com/20100829%20U13UE/index.html)

Sort of fun. Passed after people fell off, then caught and eventually passe APEX after a good tussle, then went into
the fast left before the right up to church, was away from kerb, and I "hit" something, like an invisible parked car  :o
sent me off onto the grass and wasted 10 laps of hard work, not best pleased, carried on, pitted for fuel only
left my meds on, as they would just last. Had a battle at the end with HAL, he would catch through the fast part
then I would hold my own through the tight stuff, he kept falling off so i was getting away with it nicely  :D
The I put a wheel up the left final chicane kerb and spun, dropping ten or more secs, too many laps remaining to
hold him off. Shame about the weather, a bit of rain in the middle is "interesting" almost constant rain is one
to miss for me.

Ah "shocking" lol yeah sorry about the hot reaction.

I liked the track, always nice to have something different, I was just annoyed that the bug caught me like that. I went off coming out of the early slow right-left-right section, TT saw that :P and I wasn't warned about cutting, it's just a bug of the track, intermediate 1 (end of sector 1) line is not wide enough to cover the grass :laugh:

hehe what can I say, should really have finished 4th but thanks to MJ's miss fortune I bagged myself a podium.

Personally I think that car/track combo was alright, and the rain just helped to keep me tyres cool, which in the dry were getting a bit hot.

congrats to every one that finnished and thanks to the guys that make it all happen.

Nice race. :)


Yep, good stuff Matt. :thumbup1:

Nice fights with Matt, TT, Spanner and a few others.

I did make a few mistakes including taking too much curb on a corner that seemed to throw me off into the grass, a long way from the track. I did the same thing 3 times, I should have learnt my lesson after the first time.

I ran soft slicks on the front and medium slicks on the rear, changing all 4 tyres to the same compound at the pit stop. It was not wet enough for inters out there. Great atmosphere though. :)

Well done podiums, see you all next race.

Interesting track. And weather. ;) Had med/hard tyres and I guess I should have made the setup a bit softer as well - tyre wear was a bit high even though the temps were too low. Had one off while chasing Craske, hit the wall and was losing some time afterwards. Came out behind MJ after pitting but could not close the gap down - good pace MJ. 8)

TS is useful. And funny to hear people go off track. :D
Grats pody. Can't wait for next. :)

Guys, try them German mods, it's worthed. :)
https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=7663.0

Watched replay, and my off was caused by the same invisible brick at the trailing kerb edge on the outside of noble that
HAL found more than once.

Really struggled so am glad to see the back of this track. Started at the back :-[ and ended up have some good racing with Matt, H@L and Legzy though.

Cant wait for castle combe, looking forward to Okayama.

The same one got you too? Nasty! It through me really far off the track. :(

TT, do you advertise our races over there?
Even if you don't advertise it openly, feel free to PM certain fair drivers that would fit in well here. You never know, we might gain a few. :)

Maybe put a link to the website in your signature over there?

Will do. Though, I don't appear all that much on the forum, so I'll stick to relying some messages. :)
"=UKGTR=" clan tags might help, though it isn't like this really. :-\ Besides name change in .plr, do I have to do anything else to appear as =UKGTR= Truetom?

Edit: I put this in my sig:
(https://www.simracing.org.uk/images/srou-pops.gif) (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php)

Right, I sent some messages also. Problem is the guys don't appear on the forum with the same name as on track. Found some I judge would be ok. :)

Good man :)