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Title: UKGTL Season 11 3 Make Challenge - Montreal - Sep 12
Post by: Wiltshire Tony on June 28, 2011, 08:23:05 PM +0100
All members welcome.

Grid/server capacity: 28

Practice: ~19:20 (60 mins)
Qualifying: 20:20 (20 mins)
Race: 20:40 (20 laps = ~40mins)

Track: Montreal Download this (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3358.msg81636#post_montreal)

Cars allowed: Alfa Romeo GTA, Ford Mustang, Lotus Cortina

This race will use the UKGTL Skin Pack 1.8.0.0 (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3358.msg54518#msg54518).

Time of Day Setting: 10:00
Start: STANDING
Tyre wear: Normal
Fuel consumption: Normal

Server: simracing.org.uk WPC
Password: see above (#post_event_password)

Notes:
(1) It's best if all drivers can make sure they are connected before the Qualifying session as drivers on track during qualifying will not see cars that join after they are on track until they go back to the garage.
(2) Please make sure you are fully aware of the SimRacing.org.uk Rules.
(3) The AI control should be turned off so that you have control of the car at all times, including pitting. Your player file should therefore read
Autopit="0"
Force Autopit Off="1" // Forces autopit always off
No AI Control="1" // AI never has control over car
If you still finding pitting problematic, experience tells us that its less to do with positioning and more to do with approach speed. A slow approach to pit crew chief has proved most reliable.
(4) Driver lists can be found on the Championship standings page (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=319&theme=5)

Special Notes: None


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 11 3 Make Challenge - Montreal - Sep 12
Post by: Den on August 17, 2011, 07:37:56 PM +0100
 I'm looking forward to this.  ;D


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 11 3 Make Challenge - Montreal - Sep 12
Post by: Wiltshire Tony on August 17, 2011, 08:25:47 PM +0100
Not tried it yet, in fact I'm not sure I remember ever racing here before. Instinct is telling me that it's a Mustang track.


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 11 3 Make Challenge - Montreal - Sep 12
Post by: Den on August 17, 2011, 08:28:08 PM +0100
I've no idea. I don't do many North American tracks in general. I'm about to try a GTR2 Suzuki Swift race there though and try it out.


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 11 3 Make Challenge - Montreal - Sep 12
Post by: Den on August 26, 2011, 06:40:29 PM +0100
Damn. I just realised now I found a place where I actually like racing, I may not be able to! Kids are out of school 3:10, race is at 3:40 my time and this year one is going to a different school so I HAVE to get the littler two each day. BUGGER! Worse part is, another 10 minutes or so would be doable. lol.


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 11 3 Make Challenge - Montreal - Sep 12
Post by: BillThomas on September 10, 2011, 12:11:09 PM +0100
Not tried it yet, in fact I'm not sure I remember ever racing here before. Instinct is telling me that it's a Mustang track.

Back off travels, so will race here. What sort of times are folks getting with Mustang?  After about an hour of learn track and playing around with setup I'm in the 2:10 bracket - hope to get down a bit more when I learn which corners I can go over kerbs without getting warnings.  ::)


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 11 3 Make Challenge - Montreal - Sep 12
Post by: Pelle_B on September 10, 2011, 09:13:31 PM +0100
I think you should expect to see times around the 2 minutes clean...regardless of car brand on this course. Mustang unfortunately have a tire wear problem, I think...as I was with Ferrari 512S very quickly  :o
...& Happy Birthday Bill  ;)


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 11 3 Make Challenge - Montreal - Sep 12
Post by: Den on September 10, 2011, 09:18:21 PM +0100
YES YES!! Happy Birthday Bill!!!!!!


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 11 3 Make Challenge - Montreal - Sep 12
Post by: BillThomas on September 11, 2011, 10:40:35 AM +0100
Thank's Pelle_B and Den.  ;D OK Pelle_B plan B faithful Alfa.  ::)


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 11 3 Make Challenge - Montreal - Sep 12
Post by: BillThomas on September 11, 2011, 11:14:03 AM +0100
After 20 mins driving, the Alfa is a couple of secs faster than the Mustang - thanks Pelle_B.  :thumbup1: Due to limited time to practice before race was just going with Mustang.   ::)


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 11 3 Make Challenge - Montreal - Sep 12
Post by: Wiltshire Tony on September 11, 2011, 12:34:40 PM +0100
Hope you had a nice holiday Bill, happy Birthday and I'll probably be taking the Alfa too.


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 11 3 Make Challenge - Montreal - Sep 12
Post by: Pelle_B on September 11, 2011, 12:55:33 PM +0100
Alfa is perhaps the best choice here, the Mustang is fun & a little faster on the straight...but if it is to run fun & fast cornering, it costs tires  :(
I have chosen Alfa for today's race (mostly to relax a bit after the experience with the Ferrari 512S) but are still not happy...is not yet under 2min  :-\


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 11 3 Make Challenge - Montreal - Sep 12
Post by: Wiltshire Tony on September 11, 2011, 05:58:49 PM +0100
After testing each car I still cannot decide which car to take. All within 4 tenths of a second.


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 11 3 Make Challenge - Montreal - Sep 12
Post by: Den on September 11, 2011, 06:12:52 PM +0100
 Myself, I'm a Cortina fan, almost every time. haha. Since I can't make the race, I think I'll fire up GTL today and do some AI races here. And good luck Gentlemen, have fun!!


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 11 3 Make Challenge - Montreal - Sep 12
Post by: BillThomas on September 11, 2011, 08:10:14 PM +0100
Hope you had a nice holiday Bill, happy Birthday and I'll probably be taking the Alfa too.

Yes nice holiday and good birthday thanks.  ;D


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 11 3 Make Challenge - Montreal - Sep 12
Post by: SpecialKS on September 11, 2011, 08:18:13 PM +0100
After some first laps here 2.06.7 in the Alfa, 2.07.8 in the Mustang and only around 2.15 in the Tina which seems to be not competitive for my style of driving at this track due to onesided braking which I'm unable to expel.

Belated happy Birthday to you Bill and all the best!

See you on track tomorrow  ;)


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 11 3 Make Challenge - Montreal - Sep 12
Post by: goldtop on September 12, 2011, 07:00:26 PM +0100
Can't make this one, HF chaps.

Good to see you back Bill  :thumbup1:


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 11 3 Make Challenge - Montreal - Sep 12
Post by: BillThomas on September 12, 2011, 07:54:43 PM +0100
After some first laps here 2.06.7 in the Alfa, 2.07.8 in the Mustang and only around 2.15 in the Tina which seems to be not competitive for my style of driving at this track due to onesided braking which I'm unable to expel.

Belated happy Birthday to you Bill and all the best!

See you on track tomorrow  ;)

Thanks SpecialKS.


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 11 3 Make Challenge - Montreal - Sep 12
Post by: Wiltshire Tony on September 12, 2011, 10:14:36 PM +0100
OK, so tonight we experienced the same problems that we had at Watkins Glen, a fortnight ago. Hence the replay and results are stuffed.

Can everyone post here what car they drove and all info they can provide about finishing positions please.

Sorry for the unsatisfactory timings but honestly we are scratching our heads here but we will be investigating asap.


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 11 3 Make Challenge - Montreal - Sep 12
Post by: Wiltshire Tony on September 12, 2011, 10:15:53 PM +0100
WT - Mustang - No idea where I finished


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 11 3 Make Challenge - Montreal - Sep 12
Post by: Syd Drake on September 12, 2011, 10:34:10 PM +0100
I  watched the replay and I think I might have the finishing order.
1. Pelle (red Alfa)
2. Navin (white Alfa) +22s
3. Ade (b/w Alfa) +49s
4. Eifelblitz (blue Alfa) +1m37s
5. Syd (red Alfa) +2m10s
6. Henry (yellow Cortina) +2m17s
7. Oliver (b/w Alfa) +1 lap
8. Bill (b/w Alfa) + 1 lap
9. W Tony (white Mustang) +1 lap


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 11 3 Make Challenge - Montreal - Sep 12
Post by: Pelle_B on September 12, 2011, 10:57:46 PM +0100
1. Pelle (red Alfa)
2. Navin (white Alfa) +22s
3. Ade (b/w Cortina) +49s
4 ?. Eifelblitz (blue Alfa) + 1 lap
5. Syd (red Alfa) +2m10s
6. Henry (yellow Cortina) +2m17s
7. Oliver (b/w Alfa) +1 lap
8. Bill (b/w Alfa) + 1 lap
9. W Tony (white Mustang) +1 lap
A few corrections from my replay  :)


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 11 3 Make Challenge - Montreal - Sep 12
Post by: Syd Drake on September 12, 2011, 11:00:39 PM +0100
Could be. I wasn't sure about Eifelblitz, he was either  almost a lap down to me, or slightly ahead of me. I went for ahead. He could also be 8th, he was behind Bill on the track. I put W Tony in last cause he was, I think the only one to pit.
Henry crashed into me going to the finish line on the last lap, lost 15 seconds there.


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 11 3 Make Challenge - Montreal - Sep 12
Post by: Wiltshire Tony on September 12, 2011, 11:06:40 PM +0100
Thanks guys. So Eifelblitz finished after 6th place somewhere?


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 11 3 Make Challenge - Montreal - Sep 12
Post by: Syd Drake on September 12, 2011, 11:09:26 PM +0100
I edited my previous post while you were posting Tony. Could be 8th then.


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 11 3 Make Challenge - Montreal - Sep 12
Post by: Pelle_B on September 12, 2011, 11:21:24 PM +0100
One thing is certain, Team GTLDK took the 1st and 2nd place again  ;D
Sry KS I noticed the error with your 4th place, but to be fair  :)
Henry crashed into me going to the finish line on the last lap, lost 15 seconds there.
I don't think that Henry is entirely agreeing on that matter  :laugh:


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 11 3 Make Challenge - Montreal - Sep 12
Post by: Syd Drake on September 12, 2011, 11:35:25 PM +0100
Well I watched the replay, and he was faster through the last turn, and instead of getting by me, or easing off if he couldn't move to the side in time, he went right at my car and pushed at my rear left end crashing us both.


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 11 3 Make Challenge - Montreal - Sep 12
Post by: Pelle_B on September 13, 2011, 03:14:23 AM +0100
Now I've seen the replay once more...with new result  ;D Forgive me if this is completely wrong.
Quote
1. Pelle (red Alfa)
2. Navin (white Alfa) +22s
3. Ade (b/w Cortina) +49s
4. Syd (red Alfa) +2m10s
5. Henry (yellow Cortina) +2m17s
6. Bill (b/w Alfa) + 1 lap
7. W Tony (white Mustang) +1 lap
8. Eifelblitz (blue Alfa) + 1 lap
9. Oliver (b/w Alfa) +1 lap
@Syd Drake: I will not comment more on this, a dispute between you & Henry...but had Henry's car not suffered bumps behind from earlier in the race  ;)


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 11 3 Make Challenge - Montreal - Sep 12
Post by: SpecialKS on September 13, 2011, 06:38:24 AM +0100
One thing is 100% sure: I definitely finished in last place -
as usual and I drove the blue Alfa ;-).
Had no time to practice due to internet connection problems.
As I could not test the setup given me by Pelle (Thank you!)
I decided to stay with my slightly modified base setup.
At last at least internet connection was stable during the race but I was unable
to keep the pace as I made some stupid mistakes and had a slight crash
with Henry (sorry for that). Anyhow I could improve my best lap to 1.04.9 which
was the thing to concentrate on when driving way back behind the field.



Title: Re: UKGTL Season 11 3 Make Challenge - Montreal - Sep 12
Post by: BillThomas on September 13, 2011, 11:08:44 AM +0100
I drove a KerbCrawlers Alfa.  All I know is I didn't see Eifelblitz (blue Alfa) or Ade (KerbCrawlers Cortina).  Tony and I had a little tussle early on. Tony was ahead of me until his pit stop so I finished ahead of him.  Apologies Henry hadn't seen you earlier in race and didn't know if you'd had problems at rear of grid or not.  Saw your ident catching me but as you took a while to catch me I assumed we were racing for position - hence I was trying to stay ahead of you and we had a slight nudge.

Other than that I enjoyed the night, new PBs in practice and the race according to my Xd but who knows it showed me second for ages despite a hand full of cars having pasted me.


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 11 3 Make Challenge - Montreal - Sep 12
Post by: Syd Drake on September 13, 2011, 11:57:02 AM +0100
1. Pelle (red Alfa)
2. Navin (white Alfa) +22s
3. Ade (b/w Cortina) +49s
4. Syd (red Alfa) +2m10s
5. Henry (yellow Cortina) +2m17s
6. Oliver (b/w Alfa) +1 lap
7. Bill (b/w Alfa) + 1 lap
8. W Tony (white Mustang) +1 lap
9. Eifelblitz (blue Alfa) + 1 lap
 I think this is the finishing order now. I know Oliver wasn't last as I was fighting him for position until a few laps to go, and then he finished behind as the top car a lap down.


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 11 3 Make Challenge - Montreal - Sep 12
Post by: Wiltshire Tony on September 13, 2011, 12:55:22 PM +0100
1. Pelle (red Alfa)
2. Navin (white Alfa) +22s
3. Ade (b/w Cortina) +49s
4. Syd (red Alfa) +2m10s
5. Henry (yellow Cortina) +2m17s
6. Oliver (b/w Alfa) +1 lap
7. Bill (b/w Alfa) + 1 lap
8. W Tony (white Mustang) +1 lap
9. Eifelblitz (blue Alfa) + 1 lap
 I think this is the finishing order now. I know Oliver wasn't last as I was fighting him for position until a few laps to go, and then he finished behind as the top car a lap down.

Thanks Syd, nice effort. If everyones in agreement I'll try to get the results updated to suit tonight.


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 11 3 Make Challenge - Montreal - Sep 12
Post by: Pelle_B on September 13, 2011, 06:01:25 PM +0100
Also thank you from me Syd Drake, now it looks more correct...I was very tired when I saw the replay last time, early morning.

The 3 Make Challenge, a day we probably will not forget...but one thing is certain, Team GTLDK 1-2  :thumbup2:
It was fun to start further down the field, but it destroyed in the race. I knew before T1, Ade was in front of me...but all you others, I had no idea.  ??? On my XD was KS with 'DNF' & NRJ - I thought we were fighting for first place in the whole race again, but no - here were NRJ down to 7 place. My choice was to run my own race with all the problems.  ;)
Another thing that was scary, them I should go with a lap...how would they know whether I was ahead or behind ? I chose not to use lights, but just drive past.
How I lost concentration completely, now I meet KS?? (DNF)...while I watch XD again, I lose the car & smash a headlight  ;D
Thank you all for being on the server - so we got a funny race regardless of all problems  :D
It has certainly not been fun for Tony to sit with all these problems, but we know you do your best  :thumbup1:
 


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 11 3 Make Challenge - Montreal - Sep 12
Post by: BillThomas on September 13, 2011, 06:17:43 PM +0100
Was Oliver racing with a Ja##### ident and driving kerb crawlers Alfa, he past me early on and then passed Tony. Lost sight of him after that.


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 11 3 Make Challenge - Montreal - Sep 12
Post by: Pelle_B on September 13, 2011, 11:40:57 PM +0100
Detective Henry has done this in GTLDK, Thx...& completely without error  ;D
Montreal - Result http://members.chello.at/222920///GTL/2011.9.12_21.40_GTLegends_Montreal/index.html (http://members.chello.at/222920///GTL/2011.9.12_21.40_GTLegends_Montreal/index.html)

Result from our discussion Internet connection problems. Got new line today (VDSL2 & new router) connection has been running without falling out all day, after 5 years unstable it seems my problems are gone, YEAH


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 11 3 Make Challenge - Montreal - Sep 12
Post by: Wiltshire Tony on September 13, 2011, 11:47:00 PM +0100
Well done Henry and hope your ISP problems are a thing of the past Pelle.


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 11 3 Make Challenge - Montreal - Sep 12
Post by: Navin R Johnson on September 14, 2011, 04:36:13 AM +0100
First off I wasn't able to see the replay as I have mine disabled in game and the replay download from here is as screwy as the race itself. When looking at the replay from here it only shows Ade,Bill and Oliver in their correct cars. The rest show they are in the #44 Chevron. Like the results show. And when the race actually starts all the #44 cars go straight to the pit garage. As far as the race goes not much to say other then I had one of my worst starts in a long time. Totally got sacked. I think I was in second to last place after the first 2 corners. Was able to get some quick passes and by lap 2 was in 3rd with only Ade and Pelle in front. Ade did a valiant job fighting with the Tina but here was no match for the Alfa's power. I knew Pelle would be out of reach as he had everyone covered by a second or more so I just cruised on from that point to another 2nd place :). Congrats to Pelle who once again was untouchable. Also to Ade for sticking with his "Tina" and a solid 3rd place. And hey Tony, if you need any more help testing the server just let me know ;) Cheers


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 11 3 Make Challenge - Montreal - Sep 12
Post by: Wiltshire Tony on September 14, 2011, 09:02:44 AM +0100
Thanks Navin.


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 11 3 Make Challenge - Montreal - Sep 12
Post by: Pelle_B on September 15, 2011, 07:02:22 AM +0100
Tony, if you need any more help testing the server just let me know ;) Cheers
The same obviously applies to me  ;) (PM in GTLDK)


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 11 3 Make Challenge - Montreal - Sep 12
Post by: Wiltshire Tony on September 15, 2011, 08:40:46 AM +0100
Thanks Pelle, much appreciated.