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Title: UKGTR Season 14 Upper Endurance (GT500) - Nürburgring (GP) - Jun 26
Post by: H@L9000 on June 19, 2011, 10:53:39 PM +0100
All members welcome

Practice 1: 20:00 (20 mins)
Qual 2:       20:20 (20 mins) - note: Limited lap qual - Only the first 2 flying laps count. (It's part of the Mod)
Race:          20:40 (60 minutes) - note: no warm up!

Cars allowed: Any car from SuperGT Mod v3.0 - Available to download from here (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SQG3QEAT) - We will also be using the UKGTR GT500 skin pack v2.14.0.1. Available HERE  (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3356.msg54519#post_sgt500)

Track: Nürburgring (GP) v2.0.0.0 (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3356.msg54521#post_nurburgring)
Race Start Time: 14:00

Weather: Dry.
Tyre wear: x2
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: simracing.org.uk UE
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.








Title: Re: UKGTR Season 14 Upper Endurance (GT500) - Nürburgring (GP) - Jun 26
Post by: Legzy on June 25, 2011, 09:40:28 PM +0100
Knocking on the door of 1:48's race pace, but not quite done it yet.


Title: Re: UKGTR Season 14 Upper Endurance (GT500) - Nürburgring (GP) - Jun 26
Post by: H@L9000 on June 25, 2011, 10:12:03 PM +0100
High 47s for me so far. :)


Title: Re: UKGTR Season 14 Upper Endurance (GT500) - Nürburgring (GP) - Jun 26
Post by: spanner on June 25, 2011, 11:21:43 PM +0100
Was doing low 1.48's on friday night.


Title: Re: UKGTR Season 14 Upper Endurance (GT500) - Nürburgring (GP) - Jun 26
Post by: H@L9000 on June 26, 2011, 10:21:46 PM +0100
Results and replay in the usual places


Title: Re: UKGTR Season 14 Upper Endurance (GT500) - Nürburgring (GP) - Jun 26
Post by: Jamera on June 27, 2011, 04:34:53 PM +0100
Lol, judging by the post race posts it must have been a really uneventful race for everyone!!!!!!!  ;D


Title: Re: UKGTR Season 14 Upper Endurance (GT500) - Nürburgring (GP) - Jun 26
Post by: Truetom on June 27, 2011, 09:30:24 PM +0100
Well, a lot has been said about GTR2, I remember writing looong posts about races. :-\ All I can say now it was one of the more enjoyable races I had. Not just 'cause I was fairly high at the end but 'cause I had close racing all of the race. Good stuff. :)


Title: Re: UKGTR Season 14 Upper Endurance (GT500) - Nürburgring (GP) - Jun 26
Post by: Legzy on June 27, 2011, 10:41:32 PM +0100
Very enjoyable till the pitstops. Non-stop action in fact, but a tame 2nd half by comparison.
Was fiddling with buttons on the pace lap & switched view to the next car :o, tried to pull off to the side (& hit a wall ::)) while I got back to my car :-[
So started at the back & worked up to a jammy 4th in the end, with 0.01L as I crossed the line just meters ahead of an unlucky damaged Spanner ;D


Title: Re: UKGTR Season 14 Upper Endurance (GT500) - Nürburgring (GP) - Jun 26
Post by: nsfast on June 27, 2011, 10:46:15 PM +0100
Strange race last night.  ??? I only put in a few laps practice as it had been a very busy weekend and made a late decision to join in. I'm not sure if I've ever finished a race here before.  :o

I was expecting a nice gentle race behind the front runners, so was really suprised to be up on the front row at the start.  :o I assume the Supra must have been a good car on this track. I was lucky at the start to make the most of a mistake by H@l at T1 and benefited from some further incidents behind to get off to a great start.

I'm not used to leading a race by a decent margin at the end of lap one   ;D but seemed to have the pace to extend the lead further whilst the battles took place behind. It was a lonely race for me...although its always nice to make the most of a rare opportunity for a win.  ;D

Congrats to TT and H@L (nice recovery drive  :)). Looked like there was some good battles during the race.


Title: Re: UKGTR Season 14 Upper Endurance (GT500) - Nürburgring (GP) - Jun 26
Post by: H@L9000 on June 28, 2011, 02:44:36 PM +0100
There seems to be some problems with the replay file, I will see if I can sort it.

Immense race.

I was using the hard tyres and it took a while for them to warm up. I got done by several drivers in the first 2 corners and then I caused an incident on the 3rd corner and I was down the field a bit after that. I had an incredibly hard time making a move of anyone. I was faster over all but never on the straights against most drivers that I caught during my recovery. I really could have done with some DRS. ;D

Most difficult to pass were SRW, Matt Rowe and TT who were all defending very well.

I was on TT for the last few laps and decided to take a risk on the last lap as I had a 17 second gap behind. I managed to get the power down way to early coming out of a slow corner side by side with TT, I span then hit the wall and lost a wheel and I was actually very lucky to get 3rd after that.

I was pretty gutted to not be able to make good use of my pace and get 1st but, I had great fun and a real challenge trying to make a come back so the event was rather enjoyable. I had some excellent close racing and saw lots of action for most of the race.

Good stuff. 8)