UKGPL Season 22 (2011-2012) Porsche - Zeltweg (Österreichring) - Feb 17

[NickyIckx]

  I am absolutely clueless ...what to do to enjoy these PSC ?

did practise the whole day , PB 1-50-25 and worked out an very comfortable race setup .
well , P5 till server kicked me out . rejoin , but server almost forgot my practise time .
Is that the server (ukgpl_3) we payed for ?
ok second short run . P6 by luck . All went fine during first lap . one lap later hunting PvB for P4.
Then pribluda shows a car in front that is gonna to be lapped . easy situation I thought as it it was downhill 2nd straight . But somehow that driver managed to chrashed his car wrong way round on these straight .
got fragmented into atomic pieces .

Hardly can remember a PSC race I crossed the finish line .
Say no more pro rules arent good to make precious freetime enjoyable.

[blito]

Almost a good race from me there.
I took the honour of slowest qualifier on server one, only the timeless Badblood starting from behind me. We all seemed to be nice and careful at the start and we quickly settled into our races. For me this meant battling with BB for the honour of not being last and great fun it was! Sadly it didn't last long with BB rattling the barrier quite hard in the final turn of lap 7 or 8 - I wonder if there was some lag contact between us as I felt nothing? The rest of the race was a steady cruise for the points and I picked up many places from the misfortune of others but with just 3 laps to go had some misfortune of my own... a brief  lapse of concentration and a wheel was on the grass and the resulting tank-slapper left me stranded the wrong side of the armco!
You know in all my GPL career, I don't think I have ever managed to finish a race at Zeltweg!

[Phil Thornton]

Is that the server (ukgpl_3) we payed for ?

No it is T7_2.  UKGPL_3 is provided free by our Chief Mod, Badblood.

Say no more pro rules arent good to make precious freetime enjoyable.

It is the down side of Pro rules.  Limited shift-R is an alternative.

[BadBlood]

I am very sorry that you got chucked off Nicky. You will see you appear in the results twice The server is a 'proper' HP server and the connection is a business class ADSL connection so it should be solid enough for most racing but it isn't fully commercial. I have discoed off T7 though and that IS commercial! Sometimes stuff happens... not that that is much consolation.

As for the idiot that punted you off. I'll tell him off - it was Mini (my son Joseph) and he is very sorry. He was having frame rate issues

The problems people had may have been down to the fact that I was on T7 but all the traffic goes through my one router...

To the race...

As Jason said we had some fun battling over last. I think there must have been lag because I was going wide to let Jase have some racing room but I had passed the outside apex and suddenly KABOOM. I was over the armco and facing the wrong way. Which was a shame 'cos we were having fun as Jason had waited for me after my first spin.

I span a couple more times but was clocking 1:56-1:59 which is slow but steady. In front of me people just kept falling off. I saw Ronnie's exhaust pop as he lapped me and I passed a stricken Blito with 3 to go which was lucky as I was two laps down... kept it on the black stuff to bring it home in sixth and I have to say it was probably my best drive - slow but steady and I looked after the car.

Very pleased even if I didn't blow anyone away... Thanks to Mark for subbing and wd on 4th.

BTW Anyone know who Gio was driving for - if, as I suspect, it was Team Coyote, I will have to amend their seasons results to create an Admin team.

Let me know!

[Geoff65]

BTW Anyone know who Gio was driving for - if, as I suspect, it was Team Coyote, I will have to amend their seasons results to create an Admin team.

Let me know!

It is I believe Coyote he was subbing for Paul.

[MagicArsouille]

  sorry guys , I find the neutral at the  point break down the hill ......  and it was fatal long spinn finishing in the rail ...lost 2 weels .....  :'(   

 ....my FPS was not very good .... sometimes down to 22-fps ....!  well , 2 nd on the grid .... good start....but in the last double left before the line , I see a very nice little flower ..... and decide to pick it up for my girl friend ..... ... 4 drivers passed me during this time ..... I come back on track , but 2 laps later I make mistake .....( my shifter getting hold ! .... )...

 bravo to the winner and podium ..... and those who seen the flagman 

 hope to see you all in Pacirace .... where I try to be better  than yesterday  ....( it's don't look too difficult

[Pedro vd Berg]

  ...what to do to enjoy these PSC ?

. one lap later hunting PvB for P4.

 that driver managed to crashed his car wrong way round on these straight .
got fragmented into atomic pieces .

Feel sorry for you Nicky, but I was having fun until you crashed.
Lucky me because you were faster then me.
Also Fulvio was faster, and I was afraid to lose a place.
Afther the race I was completely empty so apologise for not chatting afthere-wards.

Congratulations "Teamy" Axel
and thanks all for racing!

Cu at Pacific Raceway.
Greetings Pedro.

[Caracciola]

After a crash at lap 2  , i go back on Fulvio then Dave. Great battle at 3 for half of the race . I overtake them, then Fulvio behind me until the end of the race. Tricky ! 

[BadBlood]

Can anyone else give me some feedback on frame rates - Mini was going as low as 11! Strange 'cos I was on T7 and it was fine so the connection was solid...

[Ron-C]

Paul,
Frame rate's were fine at my end, solid 36 all night. ( aren't they more the user's machine related ?? ). Other than the mass disco during qualifying, on lap 10 there was a huge spike on the meter's & so much lag, that I dropped back from Alex when he disappeared a couple of times. It cleared up after 30 sec's or so, the server was fine for the rest of the race.

Cheers,

Ron.

[fpolicardi]

Same happened to me Paul.
Great battle with Maxim and Dave for almost all the race after my spin on lap 1.
Sorry Dave for the touch, at last turn, you seemed rebounding on the rail and I had a little warp. Later I had again a warp at last turn and Maxim went by.
Ciao

Paul,
Frame rate's were fine at my end, solid 36 all night. ( aren't they more the user's machine related ?? ). Other than the mass disco during qualifying, on lap 10 there was a huge spike on the meter's & so much lag, that I dropped back from Alex when he disappeared a couple of times. It cleared up after 30 sec's or so, the server was fine for the rest of the race.

Cheers,

Ron.

[1967driver]

Perfect FPS for me, both in quali than in race, also if i have reduced viewing distance on track at 500 m following an old suggestion by Ginetto (in various parts of the track, this value is set over 1 km and this can be cause of disco or screen freeze).

[Cookie]

Perfect FPS for me, both in quali than in race, also if i have reduced viewing distance on track at 500 m following an old suggestion by Ginetto (in various parts of the track, this value is set over 1 km and this can be cause of disco or screen freeze).

Yes Alex! Same here...
The only bad warping car was Arf's, who disappeared  after some laps.

My race was great fun as long as it lasted. I had a great battle with Phil and Marco for about 20 laps,
unfortunately Phil had his moment and than I was trying too hard to get rid of Marco the next lap, so I did a big braking mistake in lap 23.
Had learned over the distance that my braking into Bosch was too early...
This last time it was too late and I spun into the armco backwards what damaged my engine.

Cu at Pacific

Axel

[Arf Arf Arf]

The only bad warping car was Arf's, who disappeared  after some laps.

Ironic this, as I was trying a wired connection for a change. Apart from the last PSC at the Ring, I am usually wireless. I had problems with this track in practice races - I was warping when I ran a session (warping on your own connection - is that normal???), so I am very suspicious about the track rather than anything else.

Paul, I'm afraid I didn't notice my frame rate, but everything looked fine when the screen wasn't freezing. I even managed some close racing for a bit. I managed a very satisfying pass at the fast T1....until the pit board message the next lap suggested it was Phil.....might have been less aggressive if I'd realised it was my team mate 

[BadBlood]

Thanks for the feedback guys. It is really odd that Mini had bad framerates - the server is only about twenty yards away from him