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Title: UKGTR Season 14 Upper Endurance (GT500) - Road America (Full) - Jul 10
Post by: H@L9000 on June 30, 2011, 12:11:12 AM +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: Road America v1.0.1.0 (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3356.msg54521#post_roadamerica)
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) - Road America (Full) - Jul 10
Post by: lazlow on June 30, 2011, 08:15:35 AM +0100
Awesome :drool:


Title: Re: UKGTR Season 14 Upper Endurance (GT500) - Road America (Full) - Jul 10
Post by: spanner on July 08, 2011, 10:33:50 PM +0100
So only a few laps but doing 2.03's round here. Sure i could knock some more off though.


Title: Re: UKGTR Season 14 Upper Endurance (GT500) - Road America (Full) - Jul 10
Post by: H@L9000 on July 09, 2011, 11:25:36 PM +0100
I am in the low 2.02s at the moment, however, I am not sure I will be back in time for the race. :(

I will certainly be trying to get back before the end of qauly.


Title: Re: UKGTR Season 14 Upper Endurance (GT500) - Road America (Full) - Jul 10
Post by: spanner on July 10, 2011, 08:50:48 PM +0100
Ok, i left it late to join the grid, typed GLA, but didnt switch the screen back to see the timer, pressed drive then realised i could jump back out again to improve my engine heralth but couldnt see on my screen any timer counting down. Thought i'd be ok as i didnt think it was near the two min mark but clearly i was wrong!


Title: Re: UKGTR Season 14 Upper Endurance (GT500) - Road America (Full) - Jul 10
Post by: SRW on July 10, 2011, 09:59:51 PM +0100
i really like road america, it is a nice flowing track, but i only managed about 15 laps practice yesterday with default setup, ran out of time to practise today so just had a quick look at the motec data and made a few changes befores loggin on with about 10 mins of qually left, needless to say my setup was crap, understeering into corners and oversteering out of them, so just really used the race as practise at RA for next time we race here


Title: Re: UKGTR Season 14 Upper Endurance (GT500) - Road America (Full) - Jul 10
Post by: Truetom on July 11, 2011, 07:04:44 AM +0100
Road America is ever an enjoyable race in any class. Too bad Spanner, you'd make an interesting mix in the cue as there was a bunch of us with similar laptimes. :-\
Quali has to be done in one chunk, I saw. Made one notsofast lap, pressed Esc but the next attempt wasn't timed, so my laptime was slow. Even so, the quali on a long track like this and with the field so small doesn't mean a thing, random grid would be just as good. ;)
Had some close laps with Legzy and Apex but managed not to fall of track and made a decent gap of a few seconds to the back and mainteined a few seconds behind Apex on 2nd. Pitting went well for a change, gained about 20 sec on Apex - what were you doing there? Came out of pits on 2nd place and stayed there to the end. Lazlow was ... somewhere ahead. :D


Title: Re: UKGTR Season 14 Upper Endurance (GT500) - Road America (Full) - Jul 10
Post by: lazlow on July 11, 2011, 08:32:34 AM +0100
Yea not much action for me in the race, I'm sure I would of had a harder time if a few more people had turned up :( Great track to hot lap round though. Congrats to everyone that finished.


Title: Re: UKGTR Season 14 Upper Endurance (GT500) - Road America (Full) - Jul 10
Post by: Legzy on July 11, 2011, 08:43:59 AM +0100
What's happened to all the drivers? First half of the season, we were getting 11-13 every race... Now we're at 6-7 & lonely for the majority of the race. :(

Good cars, good track, I'm not sure what was wrong?


Title: Re: UKGTR Season 14 Upper Endurance (GT500) - Road America (Full) - Jul 10
Post by: phspok on July 11, 2011, 01:02:24 PM +0100
I would have been there but I am working down in some backwater called "Swindon" this week  ;D
and was cruisin down the M40 last night ( I am staying in Sandhurst and commuting)


Title: Re: UKGTR Season 14 Upper Endurance (GT500) - Road America (Full) - Jul 10
Post by: purdie on July 11, 2011, 04:00:26 PM +0100
my internet was slow on iR and slow on this so had to call it a night.... then i found my PS3 doing an update which explained it  ::)


Title: Re: UKGTR Season 14 Upper Endurance (GT500) - Road America (Full) - Jul 10
Post by: Jamera on July 11, 2011, 05:50:51 PM +0100
Sorry guys, really wanted to make this one, but had the kids over and we went to Chessington for the day. By the time I got them home then back over here it was gone nine. Pity as was able to hit 2:03's quite comfortably in race trim during praccy


Title: Re: UKGTR Season 14 Upper Endurance (GT500) - Road America (Full) - Jul 10
Post by: lazlow on July 11, 2011, 06:13:00 PM +0100
Anyone doing the results....not that I want to see my name at the top of the list ;D


Title: Re: UKGTR Season 14 Upper Endurance (GT500) - Road America (Full) - Jul 10
Post by: spanner on July 11, 2011, 06:44:22 PM +0100
Just to apease Lazlows ego i can do it later on, if i get near my pc and assuming no one else will do it.


Title: Re: UKGTR Season 14 Upper Endurance (GT500) - Road America (Full) - Jul 10
Post by: APEXTECHUSA on July 11, 2011, 11:27:32 PM +0100
Road America is ever an enjoyable race in any class. Too bad Spanner, you'd make an interesting mix in the cue as there was a bunch of us with similar laptimes. :-\
Quali has to be done in one chunk, I saw. Made one notsofast lap, pressed Esc but the next attempt wasn't timed, so my laptime was slow. Even so, the quali on a long track like this and with the field so small doesn't mean a thing, random grid would be just as good. ;)
Had some close laps with Legzy and Apex but managed not to fall of track and made a decent gap of a few seconds to the back and mainteined a few seconds behind Apex on 2nd. Pitting went well for a change, gained about 20 sec on Apex - what were you doing there? Came out of pits on 2nd place and stayed there to the end. Lazlow was ... somewhere ahead. :D
yea i tried to cut my engine off maually goofed it up lost 20 secs i will leave it on automatic from now on lol but it was my best race here by far sorry to my teamate nsfast i felt like mark webber and he was vettle great racing to everyone see you guys next week


Title: Re: UKGTR Season 14 Upper Endurance (GT500) - Road America (Full) - Jul 10
Post by: H@L9000 on July 12, 2011, 09:59:38 PM +0100
Results and replay in the usual places


Title: Re: UKGTR Season 14 Upper Endurance (GT500) - Road America (Full) - Jul 10
Post by: H@L9000 on July 12, 2011, 10:01:56 PM +0100
I could not get back in time for the race, I had a family outing that I could not get out of.

Well gutted, practising the car/track combo was great fun.

Lucky for me I had set the scoring to drop one result from the 8 races. However, I am not too good at Silverstone. ::)


Title: Re: UKGTR Season 14 Upper Endurance (GT500) - Road America (Full) - Jul 10
Post by: H@L9000 on July 12, 2011, 10:02:39 PM +0100
It looks like we were a bit unlucky to have so many drivers not able to make it on the same day. :(


Title: Re: UKGTR Season 14 Upper Endurance (GT500) - Road America (Full) - Jul 10
Post by: nsfast on July 12, 2011, 10:51:26 PM +0100
sorry to my teamate nsfast i felt like mark webber and he was vettle

No problem Apex, it made for a good battle in the second half of the race. With a little help from our mate Berger it's looking good for the Supersonic's this season.  ;D

Lucky for me I had set the scoring to drop one result from the 8 races.  ::)

Not so good for me. ;)  I'm going to need a good result and a good turnout to have any chance of retained the top spot in the last race.