UKPnG Season 7 Antipodean GT Challenge - Adelaide - Nov 15 ****P&G V3*****

[Clive Loynes]

I'm sure that the debate on car physics will run and run but don't you just love the way that the marshals mooch about on the replays?

[phspok]

RE: MJ's query about car choices.

Depends on the series, for this one it's however many cars I can find in the available test time with similar laps times
Based on some theme.

I prefer to run cars that might have actually run together hysterically, but will run anything reasonable
to get matched cars. I like to have at least 3 cars, one will usually be a slightly slower but easier to drive option
Being new to V3 (as everyone is) and with limited test time, I settled on just 2 interesting cars which seem well matched
(at least in my hands) for this event. The Escort is slightly faster but harder to do a consistant lap time
I have limited it to the '71 escort because the '72 ones are quite a bit faster, and will leave the Alfa for dead.

I will do one more season finale for this series, after that when Tony's series all end, there will be a period of fun races
with different tracks/cars/themes until new series will start sometime early next year.
Any suggestions for actual track/car combos gratefully received.

Future series will probably be similar to ones we have done before, where there will be a wide choice of cars, and people
run whatever they like, possibly with some "Legzy Dollars" or handicap theme for one or another series.

[Mark J]

Sounds like you need goldtop and his magic car comparison chart 

[phspok]

OOh yes please Mr Johnson  
I have tried using the Pils GTL hot lap charts, but they don't always work for PG

[Mark J]

its all in here allegedly 

With the amount of drivers regularly racing on the GC public server, the "Statistics" tab now provides good data for matching up cars. Could take a lot of the leg work out of putting series together.

http://78.46.95.57:8081/status/GCPnGV3PUB

[Mark J]

I've got a sneaky feeling the porsche 2.5T may fit in with the Alfa and escort  it seemed pretty evenly matched with them in a GC race this eve at anderstorp, though would need a quick test at Adelaide.

[Clive Loynes]

I've got a sneaky feeling the porsche 2.5T may fit in with the Alfa and escort  it seemed pretty evenly matched with them in a GC race this eve at anderstorp, though would need a quick test at Adelaide.

Don't you start as well!

We have enough changes to rules and reg on the fly as it is!

[Mark J]

I've got a sneaky feeling the porsche 2.5T may fit in with the Alfa and escort  it seemed pretty evenly matched with them in a GC race this eve at anderstorp, though would need a quick test at Adelaide.

Don't you start as well!

We have enough changes to rules and reg on the fly as it is!

Good point, I'll get my coat, as you were gentlemen 

[phspok]

 Gotta love MJ, any opportunity to shove a Porch in somewhere
Actually will be good for future events if one or more of the pigs could run with
other cars, it was almost impossible to run them in a mix in PG2 as they were either much
faster or much slower than anything else.

[Hotkeys]

Gotta love MJ, any opportunity to shove a Porch in somewhere

If you so desire, I will be very happy to test any track for Alfa laptimes in the future Matt. And if you want a fast drivers laptimes for the Alfas, I can probably persuade John W or our italian friend Manteos to lend a hand  

Stig

[Mark J]

A porch or a Porsche matt? 

My reasons were genuine as matt said he normally runs 3 cars in this series and from what I saw in the gc server, the 2.5T was pretty even on pace with the alfas and assume therefore the escorts too.
For my own amusement and fact finding I will run the 3 together as a test at Adelaide. Even if we don't use it here, could be handy for future reference.

[Manteos]

Gotta love MJ, any opportunity to shove a Porch in somewhere

If you so desire, I will be very happy to test any track for Alfa laptimes in the future Matt. And if you want a fast drivers laptimes for the Alfas, I can probably persuade John W or our italian friend Manteos to lend a hand 

Stig

No matter for me if you need some laptimes with some cars. Unfortunately, it will be quite difficult to join your champ races, if you're going to race on Thursday. We have a VDA champ on alternate weeks on Thursday, so I will probably be able to attend your race on free (alternate) Thursdays.

However, if you need some tests, just ask

Cu

[Manteos]

Err... Just noticed this is a free thursday 

I'll give a shout to some VDA mates, if they want to join the race 

This evening I'll try both the cars, than I'll tell you the results

Cu

P.S. It's just a stupid question, and take it as it is. Could be the chance of a delayed start for the race? Even 5/10 minutes could be crucial for me, cause I have a football match from 8 to 9 p.m (local time), and I've just the time to come back home, sit on my chair without having a shower and push on the throttle. I know... it would be a law "ad personam", a kind of Berlusconi's way of governing (tipical italian disease) Do not insult me please 
If it won't be possible, I will try to push as harder as i can with my Alfa 147 diesel before the race, with an 80% of probability to be on time for the race

[phspok]

I don't mind starting a few minutes later if it means a bigger grid.
If anyone objects please shout up, otherwise I will start the race at least 5 mins later.

p.s
If anyone wants to try some cars at Melbourne and post times, that would be extremely helpful
Perhaps the different porka times and anything that is comparable? Thanks to MJ for the Alfa/Porka info.

[Manteos]

I don't mind starting a few minutes later if it means a bigger grid.
If anyone objects please shout up, otherwise I will start the race at least 5 mins later.

p.s
If anyone wants to try some cars at Melbourne and post times, that would be extremely helpful
Perhaps the different porka times and anything that is comparable? Thanks to MJ for the Alfa/Porka info.

Thank you Matt

I just tried Alfa 2000 GTAm and Escort at adelaide '88, and they're separeted by about 1/1.5 second in my test. I tested both the cars with race fuel in quali 2 session for 20 mins. these are the best lap:

1.47.4 with escort '71 (but i was very close to the 46 high)

1.48.5 with the Alfa 2000 GTAm ( I should be able to go down a bit (approx 0.5 sec.)

Cu