UKGPL Season 22 (2011-2012) Porsche - East London - Nov 25

[Roberto Teso]

Hi,
I also read race info well and sure to remeber that server 1 pass was write pete and server 2 dud, immediatly post to my teammate race data, doing a copy/paste, perhaps, maybe my finger act like crazy? I dunno.

So if my fault, pardon me, my teammate have no fault, my blame.

Race was bad, starting I lose a lot of time to recover my team from wrong server, find password, and after that server 1 fail itself.
A lot of traffic during qualify, best lap 1" slower than best, too on the left at t1 and I spin far away, fallen in 19th place, fight to (a lot) become 8th, then collector succumb and race is close to me.
Very bad network yesterdey, apart first qualify session, that fail, even second and race was infested by a lot of "smash", cars appear and disappear, very difficult to understand ther real position, especially when doing overtaking.

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[NickyIckx]

Had some fps problems with the GT mod, and had to run at really low res to get it to run smoothly. As a result I couldn't use the mirrors and prib at the same time

hi happyal ,

pitty , would be nice to solve .

if you like to , we can try to sort it out .( better in other thread .. )
in my case I had to switch to openGL , as well had to change to an old ATI display driver and instead of CCC ,Adam Rays ati try tool only is running on my PC....... :Dtime stealing journey, tell ya .
even if the hardware seems to be overkill to GPL , result could be worse , as long software dont fit to old GPL .
 ;)if it should be a videocard prob : I do have 3 older ATI cards , I would give away for shipping cost only.
if any else is interested , plz pm . (1800XTX ,1900XTX, 1950XTX all 512MB and of course PCIe )

[Cookie]

Sorry David for this misunderstanding of the PW
To me it was clear that I have to join server1 with the PW "dud"...

After the server crash I had lost my 6th position in Quali, In the shortened practice I couldn't do a real fast one, so I was 12th...

Had a good start with this little contact in T1 with Marco who just touched me and went off.
Following Ronnie, Nicky and Arf, they constantly pulled a little away and when they were doing mistakes I gained a place.
Midst the race I had this great battle with Arf, with its highlight in lap 14 when we had this blocked T1 exit and I decided to better take the gras-line to not being hit.
Arf showed as a great gentlemen and let me the lead in this hairy situation! THANK YOU
The other battle was with Max in the last 7 laps who could drive a little faster, but with a defending Cookie in front, it was not easy to pass.
Max succeeded in lap 34 when I ran wide as I had done a misgear in Cox's Corner but with all my adrenaline I succeeded to get it back in the hairpin, taking the inner line with the space Max has left. THANK YOU!
The last lap I had a little tow of Jason and so I finished in a lucky 5th place
Gratulations to the podium!

Great win by Sergio! Great team Shadow success 1st, 5th and 9th!
This was the idea of this Porsche team cup to have such different drivers in a team

CU at Sepang 

[blito]

Good result for Team Shadows this time round - Sergio was the class of the field in server one.. Axel with a good result in 5th and myself a solid 9th..
I was barely able to drive the car last night owing to fatigue! I could barely feel my legs and was struggling to turn my wheel! I was worn out after a 7 hour train ride home yesterday afternoon and only got home in time to grab some food, boot up the PC and jump straight into the server. With zero prep time for East London I had to run my Surfers setup, adding an extra clutch and lengthening the gearing to make to car feel right.. and it worked..... and I was just pleased to make the finish and get the points for my team

[NickyIckx]

My fault... it wont get any better until you kick me out of team...

 :)bullocks , I would prefer we should do  practise together and share setups etc.

( and maybe an good idea  been asked twice by my teammates , if I tightned the screws of my screen-plug   ) .

[clouds]

Thank you guys for your words.
I've dedicated a respectable amount of time to prepare this race and all has gone very well. I've been always in controll of my car except perhaps just once that I almost went out of track at the esses but I recovered well and then all has gone well untill the finish line.
I've been just a little bit surprised about the qualify time because I had a 1:23.4 BC and also a 1:23.89 of PB but I was not able to repeat these lap times, anyway, no problems lapping backmarkers (they fortunately sometimes watch in the rear view mirror   ) indeed...no problems at all.
I thought Roberto Teso, Mark Barresi and Ron-C should be easily an immediate threat but I don't know why they were not in my mirror from the beginning as well. Pribluda told me I was taking distance from them almost since the 3rd lap.
I think it is a very good result of our Team Shadows and this should bring us a little bit forward in the general Teams Standing.
Thanks to my Teammates, your job has been fine. Only a little question to Jason, why didn't you say to me that you needed a setup ?

See you all at Sepang and...watch your six...I could be there !  

[blito]

Thanks to my Teammates, your job has been fine. Only a little question to Jason, why didn't you say to me that you needed a setup ?

'Cos I'm an awkward bugger and I'm determined to find out for myself what makes these cars work! I think I've about found it with the Porsche now

[clouds]

Thanks to my Teammates, your job has been fine. Only a little question to Jason, why didn't you say to me that you needed a setup ?

'Cos I'm an awkward bugger and I'm determined to find out for myself what makes these cars work! I think I've about found it with the Porsche now

Oh yeah...I'm so too but, since you had not the time to set you car properly, so you should at least...ask for a hand !

[EvilClive]

A great result for team Hiki Waza with all 3 cars making it to the finish.  Joe did very well to keep things together to make it to the flag, after a few spectacular moves on the grass!!!

For myself, wow!! what a race!!!

I was not expecting to be good in quallly around here, as my PB was some 2 secs of what I had seen Juha get on the practice server. But I was hoping to pick up some places through the race and maybe score some good points. So, I was astonished when I made a couple of minor changes to my setup during qually and found a whole second with a much more predicatable car.

I'm not sure what happened at the start, because I had only qualified 2nd but the pole guy did not appear on the grid??
My setup had a very high 1st gear and that allowed Alex to pass me on the run down to T1. This track is notorious for crashes as T1 AND T2 in the early laps and I was like a Meerkat on speed looking in my mirrors and at Prib trying to work out where the nearest cars were. Exiting T1 on cold tyres I was quicker that Alex and took the chance to outbrake him into T2 and regain the lead position. It definitely felt safer with a clear track in front and just the car behind to worry about 
I tried to build a gap in the early laps, but when we all have equal cars and the drivers are as good as those competing in this series that is not easy.  Alex held me to about a 1 second lead and Sven was close in 3rd. On some laps I would squeeze another few tenths , but a slight error would allow Alex and Sven to close up again. Alex was generally faster through T1 but I seemed to be able to brake later for T2.

Even though I could not get away from Alex and Sven I felt that I could defend my position quite comfortably if i had to, so I settled into a steady pace expecting the real battle to begin in the last 10 laps.

Everything was going fine until we caught the backmarkers and tried to lap someone at the final turn... I will have to look at the replay to see who it was, but that car seemed intent on racing us and not allowing a safe pass? I thought that he had deliberately run wide around the outside of the final corner to allow our 3 car train to take the inside line onto the straight, but imagine my surprise when I get thumped by a Porsche coming straight across the track from my left.
Alex and Sven managed to avoid my spinning car, but by the time I had recovered I was some 7-8 secs behind and a few of the cars that we had already lapped had got between me and them. I was lucky that there was no damage to my car although I felt any chance of catching Alex and Sven was slim.  There was a definite red mist in the air for the rest of the race as i slowly ( very slowly!) closed the gap until I was about 2 secs behind with maybe 5 laps to go.  I am not sure, but i think Sven suffered at the hands of the same driver that hit me and cartwheeled out of the race. That left Alex in the lead with only a few laps to go.
I had to get onto his tail quickly if I was going to have a chance to challenge for 1st place. Between these Porsches, around this track, passing opportunities are rare and i had to hope for a small mistake to give me an opening. So I threw in 2 laps right on the limit, figuring that as long as I did not totally wreck the car in a crash I had time to recover and still finish 2nd.....maybe 
I think Alex made a small mistake coming on to the main straight and I got an excellent drive out of the same corner. The slipstream eased me closer and I got right onto his tailpipes out of T1...now or never with 2 laps still to go.
I used my extra momentum to get alongside for the braking into T2 and made the pass. Now I would have to defend for the final lap and a half against Alex, who is a very fast driver. That was the longest lap and a half ever!! and I knew that Alex would make a move somewhere. He tried it at the final corner but I was just able to hold my line and get a good drive off the corner in the drag race for the flag.

That was a very exciting race and great fun, so thanks to everyone.
Grats to Alex and Raonni for the podium and hard luck Sven who deserved better after a long hard race.

[clouds]

Yes Clive, it is true, your race has been pretty much interesting than my one and most of all the last 10 laps have been very struggling untill the last meter. Spectacular !
Compliments for your cold blood and to the other 2 pilots on the podium !

[Pedro vd Berg]

and I was like a Meerkat on speed

Again a great race.

Unlucky to been taken out by Raoni in the chicane 1e lap, better you reenter the track with more awareness of other drivers next time.
I lost 8 places and could have been killed, Luckely I diddent and had a great time catching up again.

Later in the race Pierre spins just before me in that same chicane (No Problem Pierre apology accepted And please stay with us!
Its fun to do, and we need all kind of experience drivers. That way its more fun.)

The last 5 laps I was on the tail's off Dave and Mattia but could not pass.
One time I had passed Dave, but Mattia was lagging and was gone, suddenly he appeared again.
I thought Dave was just driving safe to avoid a collision with Mattia, so I let him pass me back again to make it more fair.

Great Fun!! Great track!
Thanks all.
Congratulations Clive, Alex and Raoni.

Sorry for you Teamy's Sven and Roberto, better luck next time.

Greetings Pedro.

[NewBlood]

Overall a good race for me. Im not a master of the porsche, so I try and string consistent laps now. Congratulations to Clive, very well raced! Lucky i didnt ruin BOTH our races with that crazy spin! I span because as I tried to let the leaders pass, I went onto the grass.  Unlucky sven, it's a shame you crashed out. Sorry Raoni, we had a close call when you were lapping me! I had great battles with Screwcutter and Stefano but otherwise a quiet race. Thanks for a fun race all 

[Rainier]

The last 5 laps I was on the tail's off Dave and Mattia but could not pass.
One time I had passed Dave, but Mattia was lagging and was gone, suddenly he appeared again.
I thought Dave was just driving safe to avoid a collision with Mattia, so I let him pass me back again to make it more fair.

Thank you, Pedro !

Yes Mattia was lagging, sometimes it was on the left, then on the right of the track, sometimes he completely disappeared from my screen ... so it was not easy to pass him  
Moreover, it did no driving error !

[BadBlood]

M. Rainier - as far as I could see the password at the top of the page was 'dud' and the password in the next box down was 'pete'. Was that the same for you? It should have been. That meant that the password for Server 1 was 'dud' and for Server 2 'pete'. It should have been clear but maybe we can make the passwords Password1 and Password2 so that they are different but it is clear which server they apply to. I'll chat to Geoff.

[Ron-C]

I had a good, though quiet race, if you call chasing & trying to pressure Mark into a mistake a quiet race I didn't actually pass anyone on the track though. L1 Roberto went off in T1, a few laps later Piero managed to do the same thing, they were the only 2 places I gained. I did have one go at getting past Mark on L18 in T3, which didn't work, I touched his car slightly & I slid wide, with Mark continuing on.  Chasing him down again, we caught some backmarkers on L22, which we were both trying to get past on the last corner when I tap Mark accidentally, oopps, I let him pass & off we go again, until a little mistake from me 2L from finish gave Mark some breathing room. Happy to be on the podium, with Natan 4th & Hendy 7th on the other server, a good result for NVRacing

I thought Roberto Teso, Mark Barresi and Ron-C should be easily an immediate threat but I don't know why they were not in my mirror from the beginning as well. Pribluda told me I was taking distance from them almost since the 3rd lap.

  From my point of view, you were untouchable Sergio, I was not going to get anywhere near your times