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GT Sprint Cup - Season 2, Round 5 at Donington

Date: Tuesday 20th December

Practice 1: 8:30pm (15 mins)
Qual 2: 8:45pm (28 mins)
Warmup: 9:13pm (2 mins)
Race: 9:15pm (40 mins)

Cars allowed: Any GT car or Corvette or Viper G2. (Seat Toledo is allowed but will not score points.)

Notes:
(1) Full time drivers should arrive during Practice 1 if possible. Reserve Drivers can take spots AFTER 8:40pm (5 mins to go in practice 1) to give Full Timers big enough chance to join.
(2) Server Password has been emailed to those registered racers for the relevant race. 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 Sprint Season 2 Info (https://www.simracing.org.uk/index.php?ind=lm2&group=10) for general Season 2 info.
(4) Please make sure you are fully aware of the UKGTR Rules (https://www.simracing.org.uk/index.php?pid=7)

Is it possible to set the server to GT / Donington?  :)

It'll be down tonight for the GTL race TT.

ok.  :)

GTL fun over, GTR server setup for practicing now if you wish to use it.

Server?

Is there.

I've restarted the server with the correct password now. Bad Simon!  ;)

 :o

Comedy of errors for me, but my back was niggling and the heart wasn't in it tonight. Won't bore you with the details!

Some great times up the front there :)

The Corvette is easy to drive at mediocre pace, but really hard to wring it's neck which I was having to do to keep up with Aagramn in his Lister. Was about 2 secs behind him for 35 mins until finally my rears let go round the bend at the top of the hill and it was a struggle after that to keep the rest of the pack behind me.

Stupid me forgot to open the vent more after qualifying so I was having to short shift most of the time and keep and eye on oil to occasionally rev higher and up my pace.

Was you in a Lambo Paul? someone had was a bit laggy in a Lambo infront of me going in to the Melbourne hairpin, anyone else notice or was it just me?

Hope you're back on form soon PaulW.

Congrats to JonM and Truetom, looked like you guys were having a real good scrap.

Good race for me - started 2nd finished 3rd.
No way of keeping up with Jon and TT so just struggled and wrestled the 550 home.
Nearly had a zillion offs - dont know how I finished but I wont be choosing the 550 next time out at Doni.

Very good race

not for me, did not made 1 singel clean lap. 1 minor mis, so 8th, thx to Leuvens engine, 1 team point

Bravo Jon and Truetom

Congrats Jon, think that puts you top of the league again.

Thought I'd qualified 5th, but Greg & Rich just pipped me at the end with a couple good laps. Had Shark pushing me for nearly all of the race in his Corvette. The gap kept fluctuating from between 1.5 to 2.5 seconds. I didn't make any mistakes though, and was very relieved to make it to the end in 5th.

Unlucky Paul, was hoping for a formation finish !

Great race, really enjoyed myself though i couldnt match the front guys for pace as the race went on. Car setup felt great, quick and stable.
My only error the whole race was when i checked my mirrors for the resurgent Leuven in his spaceship ::)...i just missed my braking zone but no spin and was able to turn in at last seconds and continue without losing too much time.
Had some good close racing with Willier for quite a few laps until he braked late in turn 1 and i nipped past, then it was a bit lonely for a while other than back markers and i had to really concentrate so my mind wouldnt wander off :P

Had a scary moment later on when lapping Gerald for the ?th time and he shot across my bows at the chicane...phew :o Glad i took that slow and wide 8)

Brought it home in either 9th or 10th...not sure if Leuven expired before or after i crossed the line ???

Great fun, and no blinking problems either...whohoo :)

You and me both PW, I can't get it consistent at Doni, I can be semi quick, but I can't do it consistently, most other tracks I its much more defined what I can and can't do.

If you wanna laff, watch me at the start!

Spent the last part of the race trying to catch Willier, which was my only good racing, but it was still error full :-(  I was mostly catching up through not giving a lot to the lapping cars, whereas I think Willier gave too much. got to within a couple of seconds I reckon as we crossed the line. I still had 14L of fuel left, I gotta get this fuel thing sorted one day!

Fozz

Jon didn't allow me too close, so we were just driving, lol!  :D

I was in the lead for 1 second when I braked too late and he let me pass but I was too fast to make it. Good move, it scared me s..tless that we'll both go out. Good race! Too bad for Leuven, could be four fun with Mo!  

That wasn't PW, can't remember who, I was racing that Lambo for a while, quite scary!

Server Replays and Exports available here http://www.ukgtr.org/replay/Donington%20-%20GT%20Sprint%20S2%20201205.zip

Provisional results are up.

What a race! Qualified with a great 1.26.3  ;D
Thought I would be able to conserve tyres and just take it a little easy in the race....Boy was I wrong
Even though I posted the fastest lap Fellow Penguin Truetom was more consistant overall. Everytime I tried to get away he was there crushing what I thought was a hard earned 1.5 sec lead like it was nothing. I felt like a bit of a road block at times but managed to keep Truetom behind us. The closing stages were tense, I got lucky as Truetom seemed to get held up lapping people and that gave us a 3 sec gap with 2 laps to go but my tyres seemed to be melting away at every corner and I really had to start braking earlier and earlier. Sure enough Truetom came storming back and if there would've been 1 more lap I would've been overtaken for sure. What a cracker. And a penguin one two ;D

Wow that's efficient

Good race for me, qualed 5th and finished 4th.
Had a great battle with Rich for thr first 14 laps until he dropped back, think it was a spin.
Nearly caught Mo in the end, another 2 laps might have done it.
Well it was nice at the top of the league while it lasted, grats to Jon for another fine win  :)

Jon - I had a feeling you had some reserve and could have driven away from me. :)

My tires were loosing grip, too and I was struggling with the car at the end. Good the race finished, would have spinned otherwise soon. Hell, I got a puncture in the second doughnut!  ;D

Hail to the Penguins!  8)

Btw, where is the Major Penguin Thief, ehm, Tyf?

Unlucky, but guess who else didnt change the radiator vent, :-[

Well, after a bad qually (for me) I couldnt get anywhere near the 1:26's i did the other day in the Lister ???

Race started and was keeping up with the guys infront for waaaay over seven turns  ::) :P until I noticed Truetom? I think it was, going a little wide into Coppice corner so i tried that little bit too much and ended up in the bunker waving to everyone as they passed me by.  ;D

Got back on track (Pun intended  :P) and clawed back into 6th from 12th or 13th after a few good tusstles only for the engine to give up going through McLean's  >:(

Again I was left waving everyone by on the straight between Coppice and the Esses.   :'(

Well done Jon, and Truetom in 2nd I think as it was close one at the end wasnt it?

Just cracked open a bottle of Finkbeiner ,which i am just in the mood for ;D

As I'm typing this leaning over my MOMO it is smelling worse than the other day, so it looks like I'll be using a Gamepad next race if the motor goes.  ;) ;D
Just as I was tempting myself with the idea of some BRD Speed7's For Xmas

I think that was me.  Discovered after the race that my girlfriend had helpfully started up some torrents on the laptop downstairs without telling me and ate up my connection  ::) !

Sorry for any scares!

 :)

About 1 second, but I think Jon was just teasing me all along, lol.  ::)

I had used up all reserves with about 10 laps to go  ???
Tried to go agian but there was just nothing left.
0.78 was time gap between us, just glad race ended when it did  ;)

I seen this on ZIP

Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 9:23 am    Post subject: Olla  

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I'm still alive peeps, just no inet for the moment. It's all taking a lot longer than expected! Grrr! No clue as to when or where or how, lol, but I'll be back! :^D

Tweets,

T

So Looks like our leader should be back at some point but who knows when  ;)

BTW thanks for the big kiss at the end of the race Fozz, I know where to come for my pork sausages now  ;)

Great race, glad to finish - even 8th is worth shouting about in a field like this!! You had a spin at the start Leuv after being a tiny dot on my horizon for 15 mins... was dissapointed to see that but it put me into fifth which was as high as I got!!

Was following Greg, gaining then loosing like a yoyo very good.. very nice to see. Not much point in attacking to begin with as it only slows both parties down.. but I started getting close until I freaked out on the downshifts and then spun downhill into hairpin.

Grats Jon, could sense the epic battle going on a few thousand meters away haha, great stuff.  :D

Hey Greg was that one of Archeo's cars or were you in one of the regular GTR cars? Cause on my screen it was one of Archeo's white standalone's.. it's got HP sponsors!! Nice to see it being driven but very odd.

It's cause Archeo uses number 21 so my problem np.

Well when I was picking my car, I was testing the Lambo and the 550 around Barca, my fave track, and was marginally quicker in the 550 and enjoyed it more. Now I the the Lambo out around Doni, post race and am about 1.1 seconds off my qualify pace on my second lap in default race trim. Take the fuel out, put softs on 0.4 up on my qualify on the second lap :o .

Think I'll be Lambo'ing it up from now on, I need to confidence boost after doing poorly in all the sprints so far, not taking GTL seriously (I'm stuck at that god awful Elan stuff) and sucking in those fun races and only being a part time rF man with the GRC (and doing poorly).  :-[

Next race is Oschers I think, should suit the Lambo a little more than the 550 anyway.

Fozz

Lambo's great, Fozz. Much better than SAleen I was using last season!  ;D

No I was using the standard 21 car Rich, I've pretty much given up on addon skins, slows the game down to much for me. 
I'm guessing you have Archeo's cars installed ? If thats the case then your comp probably decided to load his skin over my car.
Iv'e noticed if you add a skin with the same number/details as the original then you will see the new cars whilst everyone else will see the old cars.

Yea nice car but I don't want my GTR cars disappearing, will get rid of it for sure.

Hi Guys what dissaster . I had 1fps some weired stuff I do not understand with gears changing down 2 or 3 at a time , stuck in a gravel trap and could swear that an invisible car hit me at least twice. What was with the lamb'os I would swear there were about 10 of them frightened me to death jumping back and forth. Sorry if I caused you a problem, I did not have any trouble off line and faster to I think.bye for now gerald

There was a major laggy lambo, someone already owned up.