UKGTL Season 13 GT Cup '77 - Zolder - May 20

[Legzy]

I can't see the server, list "simracing.org GTC"

If I try to join that, it says "bad password" with both the normal race/practice passwords

CAPS-LOCK 

[Wiltshire Tony]

  Disco 

[BillThomas]

Sorry for quiting  so quickly but I just completely "lost it",   I just couldn't stay on the track and with 2 track cut warnings and losing time on each off it was only matter of time for stop n go.    So decided not to prolong agony but leave you all to enjoy.  

Bad luck Tony.

[Legzy]

After losing Bill then Tony, we were down to a two car race by about lap 5 (GT was already 30secs up the road despite hanging round at the back for the first 3 laps)... so motivation was getting lower.
Eventually got my 3rd cut track & it was all the excuse I needed to exit. Sorry chaps, but wasn't interested in doing another 30 mins with only one other car to race see (when I left, my fastest lap was more than 2 secs quicker, so sadly we weren't really racing, just occupying similar places on track between me falling off).

Do 5/6 car grids warrant 40 minute races?
I would think 90% of the close quarters action is over in the first 5-10 minutes, then we're just waiting to see who'll get a disco or have to repair their car (i.e. a shorter race would feel like a busier race).
Sorry if it sounds like a moan, I just don't understand

[Wiltshire Tony]

I'm just sick off getting disco's 

[goldtop]

Discotime  

Didn't expect to make this one, so no pracci plus the fact that Zolder is a bit of a bogey track for me meant I hadn't a clue what car to choose. Saw Legzy join in a 911 so defaulted to that for a safe bet, only to find he'd changed to a stang. Result....much too quick to have any kind of a race  

Anything we can do about these discos Tony?.....they are getting just too frequent in GTL these days to the point that I expect it to happen each race  

Edit: In fairness Legzy, we do generally have busier grids than this (I'm guessing around 10 is average?) but they do seem to have dropped off very recently.....holiday time?

[Wiltshire Tony]

We could try the Simbin server and see if that's any better?

[Wiltshire Tony]

Replay and results now posted.

Congrats Postal on your inaugural win. If you fill in location in your profile we can put a flag next to your name in the results table.

[Legzy]

Congrats Postal , hopefully you'll get to enjoy a bit more fighting in your next race

[Wiltshire Tony]

We were missing a few regulars last night, Mike, Kurt, Syd, Matt spring to mind, and Quicksilver John was with us earlier in the evening?

I chose the Boss as I hate this track and didn't want to waste a "good" car on this round. But to my suprise the Shelby beast felt really good at this circuit and I was cracking in some respectable times. Had some tasty scraps with Postal but the dreaded "Lost Connection" message appeared before GT had a chance to join in.

I'll pop over to Simbin and see how were fixed for running in their lobby. Then we can decide if it's worth the faff to proceed. No timescale at present for this.

[Syd Drake]

I was out cycling last evening and got bit by a stray dog. After a quick trip to the emergency room, and a tetanus shot, I wasn't in the mood for racing. Luckily it's not too bad, as I was moving fast it only managed to graze me, not quite get the teeth in. So I got something like a claw mark on my left calf. Should be back in action by next week.

[Wiltshire Tony]

When I retire I'm going to write a book called "Simracing and similar excuses".

Syd you and your dog will definitely be in it. 

[goldtop]

I was out cycling last evening and got bit by a stray dog. After a quick trip to the emergency room, and a tetanus shot, I wasn't in the mood for racing. Luckily it's not too bad, as I was moving fast it only managed to graze me, not quite get the teeth in. So I got something like a claw mark on my left calf. Should be back in action by next week.

I hope you bit him back 

I once got attacked by a goose when I was on my bike  Nasty little things and best avoided if you ask me.

[quicksilver384]

We were missing a few regulars last night, Mike, Kurt, Syd, Matt spring to mind, and Quicksilver John was with us earlier in the evening?

Yeh sorry guys lost connection during practice so decided to hell with it and went to bed. Will be here for Empoli.

[Stefan aka Postal]

Thanks! It was quite lonely out there to be honest.. I was anticipating a race long scrap with Tony and his very loud Stang, but that wasn’t to be. (sorry Tony for the little tap after you passed me, your switchback after T1 was more abrupt then I expected. My bad)
I wanted to see if I could do the distance with my setup, so I decided to march on to the finish. It looked like there was no measure on the speed of a 911?!.. The GTAm with a better setup and driver could do a 1.50sec maybe, but that will still be much slower then the 1.47 Goldtop posted. Well, hopefully a bigger grid next race. (maybe the races can be run in two manches if attendance is low?)

p.s. I have a problem loading the replay. It CTD’s, both my in game replay and the downloaded one from this site. Can anyone confirm if theirs work?