UKGTL Season 13 British Saloon Car Championship - Oulton Park - Mar 4

[Wiltshire Tony]

In offline praccy I had discovered that I could do equal times in the Mini and the Cortina but I was two secs faster in the Mustang. That, I found suprising as I felt I had less control over the V8 beasty but decided to take it for the race nonetheless.
I managed to achieve 3rd in qually and after a good start, passed Syd to claim second. But next lap Syd caught me napping and flew by me and disapeared into the distance, keen I imagine to catch the mecurial Goldtop who was already out of sight.
This left me with a healthy lead over next man Mark and I started to dream of third place on the podium and a good nights work well done. It was not to be. I noticed that the gap between Mark and I was shortening and that he had Jules for company. And it wasn't long before Mark's mini was clattering off my Mustangs bodywork as we battled for position with Jules holding a watching brief.  After I made a bad mistake at Lodge and went off this released Mark and Jules and I was unable to keep up with them.

Great fun guys and we re-visit this circuit at the end of the season  

[Geoffers]

The GTL minis do not give the same happy feeling!  "Which reminds me can some one PM me a link to Geoffers mini set up.....Please"     How ever I tinkered with this one a little before the race and during quali and managed to get a little more on the pace....But it still needs some work....GEOFFERS where are you? 

I've only driven the RealGTL Mini once before at Castle Combe last year. I'll dig out the setup if you want it Mark. As Tony said the setup I provided was for the KAD Mini, very different beast.

Basically with the GTL Mini you want the front quite soft & the rear quite hard so it slides a bit into corners, then use the brake bias to balance it. I usually run somewhere about 72/28 but it varies circuit to circuit. You need to get it so its just starting to breakaway to help turn-in, too much means you lose time correcting the slide, too little & it ploughs straight on, bit like most of the cars I guess but a bit more critical on the Mini. Set front toe about -0.8 to reduce power understeer, less on fast tracks so as not to scrub off too much straight line speed. Rear toe usually 0.

[goldtop]

Well I tried the tina and stang and found them to be very similar, but then set about practising and developing the stang as I didn't fancy being out-dragged if I took the tina. Right decision for the result, but meant a pretty dull race for me. Still enjoyable as Oulton is one of my favourite tracks and somewhere I always seem to do well at. An d the first win ever for me in a tank  

Glad to see others had such a good race and well done Jules for managing a very mature drive for 2nd spot, particularly as he hadn't done much practice for this  

Well done to all.

[M Cinderby]

The GTL minis do not give the same happy feeling!  "Which reminds me can some one PM me a link to Geoffers mini set up.....Please"     How ever I tinkered with this one a little before the race and during quali and managed to get a little more on the pace....But it still needs some work....GEOFFERS where are you? 

I've only driven the RealGTL Mini once before at Castle Combe last year. I'll dig out the setup if you want it Mark. As Tony said the setup I provided was for the KAD Mini, very different beast.

Basically with the GTL Mini you want the front quite soft & the rear quite hard so it slides a bit into corners, then use the brake bias to balance it. I usually run somewhere about 72/28 but it varies circuit to circuit. You need to get it so its just starting to breakaway to help turn-in, too much means you lose time correcting the slide, too little & it ploughs straight on, bit like most of the cars I guess but a bit more critical on the Mini. Set front toe about -0.8 to reduce power understeer, less on fast tracks so as not to scrub off too much straight line speed. Rear toe usually 0.

Many thanks