Ross Neilson
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« on: March 02, 2012, 10:15:59 PM +0000 » |
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Scenic upstate New York welcomes us for round seven of the Privateers Trophy at Watkins Glen. Martin Hunt took a fine win last time out at Brands Hatch, swelling the group of title contenders. This well-known venue is sure to produce a hard fought battle for points. Race list | iGOR | Server | UKGPL_T72 | IP address | 62.149.202.168 | Date | 04-03-2012 | Race time | Race starts at 21:30 UK time | Qualifying time | Between 30 and 60 minutes, starting no later than 21:00 UK time | Track | Watkins Glen | Mod | 67 | Damage model | INT | Race length | 45 laps | Replay | Available here |
Reserve drivers please note; you must leave the server with 35 minutes of qualifying left, for a total of 5 minutes, to allow full timers to join. The red zone will be fully moderated for lap 1 only. For this event the red zone will be from the start line to the exit of turn 4 (The Loop). Other moderation will be on reported incidents only. The chassis token system is explained on the Privateers standings page. Please ensure you choose a chassis that is within your budget, which can be seen by hovering the mouse over your points total in the standings.
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blito
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« Reply #1 on: March 04, 2012, 10:17:11 AM +0000 » |
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Lets hope I remember to put enough fuel in the car this time round.................
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« Reply #2 on: March 04, 2012, 05:08:24 PM +0000 » |
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Lets hope I remember to put enough fuel in the car this time round.................
Paint FUEL on the inside of your goggles....you'll remember.....
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www.clark-hillracing.com"Racing is life.....anything that happens before or after, is just waiting" Steve McQueen from "Le Mans" GPL Rank +15.145 29/3/2012
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« Reply #3 on: March 04, 2012, 07:51:48 PM +0000 » |
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Nice dose of the manflue here so if I do race will be trailing along slowly at the back
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« Reply #4 on: March 04, 2012, 08:44:38 PM +0000 » |
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Nice dose of the manflue here so if I do race will be trailing along slowly at the back Same as usual then
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« Reply #5 on: March 04, 2012, 09:03:54 PM +0000 » |
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Oh your so cruel :'( :'( :'(
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Sassafrassarassum Rick Rastardly!
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« Reply #6 on: March 04, 2012, 09:49:09 PM +0000 » |
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Terrible - really looking forward to this but got mixed up with GPGs... Had to use UKGPL3 and then Mini and I couldn't join together. Mini gave up as he was feeling a bit rough. So I had 10 seconds to qualify Then my screen was set to 640x480 so I was driving in a letterbox and I had inherited some crappy setup that threw me left at the Big Bend - six laps, didn't stay on once. P'ed off.
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blito
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« Reply #7 on: March 04, 2012, 10:07:28 PM +0000 » |
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Well, I had plenty of fuel but ran out of buttocks instead. Honestly guys - do you not think these races are just too long? I mean, after 30 mins of qual ( which is my only chance to work on setups thanks to family commitments)I can only really manage 30 mins of racing... I deliberately threw my car off the track with 19 to go as I was at the end of my endurance..... My arse cheeks are numb!!!!
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« Reply #8 on: March 04, 2012, 10:56:07 PM +0000 » |
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It was a nice race with very close racing all long the time ! I am a little bit disappointed with my final 4th position, I think I could have won or at least finished 2nd but I had 2 major incidents with backmarkers.
The 1st one occured at the beginning of lap 19 when Nigel Smith spun in front of me and then came back on the track, at this time I was 4th chasing Skymole since 10 or more laps. I lost 11 seconds and 2 drivers overtook me (Ross and Geoff) Of course, that was not the fault of Nigel, just bad luck !
The 2nd incident occured at lap 30, I was 3rd chasing Ross, when Billy Nobrake slowed down to let me pass, but he was first going to the left of the track so I try to overtake him at the right ...but suddenly he goes to the right and we collided. Billy's car was definitively out, I am sorry for that but it was big misunderstanding between us. I lost 18 seconds and 3 drivers overtook me!
That's racing !
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Le silence éternel de ces espaces infinis m'effraie
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« Reply #9 on: March 04, 2012, 11:06:02 PM +0000 » |
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What a horrible place, to drive a race! It should all be dug up, and turned from a racing complex, into a housing complex!
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« Reply #10 on: March 04, 2012, 11:10:11 PM +0000 » |
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It was a nice race with very close racing all long the time ! I am a little bit disappointed with my final 4th position, I think I could have won or at least finished 2nd but I had 2 major incidents with backmarkers
No! No! No! I am the one who could have won Just needed to qualify 10 places higher and spread a few tacks in strategic places
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Phil Thornton
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« Reply #11 on: March 04, 2012, 11:31:33 PM +0000 » |
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No! No! No! I should have won LOL Qualified 4th, watched Fabio crash at the Loop on lap 1, got past Geoff for second place and inherited the lead when Sky lost it at Big Bend. Held the lead for nearly 40 laps (despite spinning after avoiding a recovering back marker - no harm done these things happen) when I ran out of fuel with less than 2 laps to go. Had to do a S&G but just managed to hang on to second place. On the plus side I had a solid 36 FPS the whole race (and qually). Down side is I normally use Prib to estimate my fuel consumption. So without Prib I had to guess. Used the fuel load I had for the last round at Brands and added a couple more gallons just to be safe. Wasn't safe enough Well done Ross on yet another win. Qually was very close and joking apart anybody in the top 6 or 7 could have won. All that was needed was to keep out of trouble
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« Reply #12 on: March 04, 2012, 11:57:15 PM +0000 » |
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Work on setups? Multiple?! Obviously GPL is real, but sounds like some people can take this *far* too seriously Granted, maybe need a second/another setup for when it's snowing - but otherwise I wouldn't have thought the track/conditions change much round here from one race to another...? [although I guess that adjustments could be required depending which racing-socks are used...] Although having said that, I will qualify that with obviously I don't know know what I'm doing/talking about! [But even at my level, a virtual poke in the eye to anyone that dares call it a game!]. Anyway, I will say that even I actually tried a minor adjustment for this round! It could be all bunkum, but I swear that tyre pressure adjustment could have just helped... although, it could have been the fact that after using the spare car after a mini-pileup down at the loop on lap1, I was driving a little more cautiously everywhere. For all the good it did me in the end... I still ended up stuck in that magnetic haybale down at the loop. Ho hum, looks like I just forgot to steer/or just forgot fullstop! And so there end the race at the 3rd circuit that I have actually spent some time round. Another mystery track next, eek - you guys sure pick'em. And that one has a lot of corners by the look of it! But from a newbie point of view, as ever, still a pleasure to turn out for some good/clean (I think!) action. So thanks all. Cheers, Dave.
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« Reply #13 on: March 05, 2012, 12:41:54 AM +0000 » |
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A very poor performance. Many moons ago I did a PB of 1.06.4 in the Lotus. In practice I couldn't get anywhere near that & tonight I couldn't even find a 1.07. Also discovered that the Lotus is too fragile for my style of driving at Watkins. Had been fairly consistent until lap 25 I overcooked the tyres & the engine. Took my 1 reset & spent the next couple of laps finding some grip whilst letting people past. Then disaster on the exit to the esses, was aiming to keep right to allow Dave Rainier past but didn't realise I'd drifted a bit. Dave quite correctly took the inside line as I edged back. Very sorry about that. What with me driving like a muppet, Fabio setting the pace but taking an early bath & the me indavertently blocking off Dave it was a rather bad day for the team. Think I'll stick with the Brabham next time out.
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Leading from the back at Black Night Racing
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Ross Neilson
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« Reply #14 on: March 05, 2012, 10:00:13 AM +0000 » |
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I wasn't sure I would even make this one as it was my son's Christening and we got home quite late. Joined the server with about twenty minutes left and despite posting what I thought was a decent time, found myself down in seventh. As Phil said it was very tight (always is at The Glen) but well done to Sky on taking another pole, this time in the Wazamobile which isn't the easiest to drive. Fabio and Dave had problems early on allowing me into fifth but I was back in seventh soon afterwards when I made an error of my own. In the first half of the race almost everyone made a mistake of some sort so I told myself to just run some consistent laps and see where that took me. As it turned out, it took me all the way into second as people fell off left, right and centre. I had a couple of near misses with backmarkers and on another day it could have been me hitting them instead of Dave Rainier. As we entered the final third of the race I noticed the gap to Phil, which was twenty seconds earlier in the race, had come down to ten and I seemed to be picking up around half a second lap as I was in a pretty good rhythm at that point. As it turns out Phil must have been trying to save fuel. My plan was to keep the pressure on but not do anything daft as I needed points after a bad result at Brands. Sadly the anticipated battle never came as Phil ran dry and let me in for a somewhat hollow win. I can honestly say Phil I was genuinely gutted when you pulled over as an exciting finish was in prospect. I think my son George must bring me luck, on the day he was born I had a similar lucky win at Lakeside. Perhaps he should be my mascot strapped to the front of the BT24
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