UKPnG Season 8 Grand Touring Championship - Portimão - Jan 24

[Alex vV]

What a difference a tail makes..

Was planning to take the ducktailed 2.8 RSR out for a spin but in my less talented hands it proved to be quite a challenge to keep the car on track. Tested the Whaletailed 3.0 RSR and this is a much more stable platform.

Looking forward to this - although still missing 10 seconds 

No worries mate, I'm doing the same laptimes.
Could become a nice Beemer vs Porka battle for last position 

[SpecialKS]

could improve into the Schnitzer BMW to slightly beow 2 minutes yesterday
but even the harder front tyres will be down after some laps.

[Legzy]

Left the race early due to boredom .
Got sick of driving laps on my own since lap two, so just after half way I waited for Matt. Sadly by the end of the following lap he was 2 secs ahead & I'd wasted my time yet further & hit Esc.
I found this combination truly uninspiring to practise with & abysmal to race with. Still, at least they looked & sounded pretty


p.s. Sorry to the car I cut in-front of on lap 1(?), but the little game of gentleman's "no, after you" was probably the race highlight for me :'(

[Mark J]

That was a simply awesome race  Loved it from start to 'almost' finish.

Qually was a great battle and kept improving my time to place in 5th or 6th? Happy with that with strong opposition on the grid. 

Race was epic, had a fantastic battle with Goldtop in the opening 10 mins and then a superb fight with TGC for lap after lap, both of us swapping places and trying to close on Geoffers.  I was absolutely loving the close quarters racing with a pair of RSR's 
Didnt put a wheel wrong until lap 18 of 19  when side by side through Turn1 and the cars rear broke away putting me into a slow long spin. This dropped me from 5th to 6th  and then allowed Stig and GT to close up the 7 sec gap and stig scampered past.
I fought him closely for the next lap and sadly whilst glued to his rear bumper through the penultimate corner i tapped his rear and he went onto the grass  i got off the throttle and let GT shoot past but as it was last lap i then speeded up and carried on as Stig hit esc  I was gutted to have that, but nothing i could do mid apex in a downhill corner in an RSR!
Needless to say i went from 5th to 7th in one lap 

But it was a corking race! Congrats all round 

[phspok]

Results and Replay posted

Good race, I don't get on with that Capri, became very difficult to stay on the track towards the end.
Sorry for the tap JPV, I went in too fast as you were following somebody.

p.s The server replay is messed up somehow, so I stuck my own replay in the zip.

Couldn't find a driver entry for TGC Please could you do the registration for the forum. Thanks,

[Jukka Karppinen]

Hello guys (first post here)!
Fantastic race with Clive, 19 laps pure close racing 
Sorry about that mistake at braking 

[Clive Loynes]

Left the race early due to boredom .

Probably too fast for oldies!  

Had a great race with Jukka from start to finish and he just pipped me to the post.  Nearly lost out to Geoffers as well, who had caught us because Jukka waited whilst I climbed out of the gravel after a slight nudge.

Perhaps I did have the right car after all.  Obviously I wasn't ever going to catch John but even on race rubber I think that the Capri had the edge on the RSR.

Looking forward to the next round.

Grats John and Jukka and thanks to Jukka for some good fun.

[goldtop]

Well that was interesting. Had a decent quali but my race pace was a bit off probably because I'd gone a bit extreme on my setup. By mid race I was falling back and struggling to find any grip even though tyres seemed ok on xd 

Had a nice battle with MJ early on and would have had a good battle with Stig if that Schnitzer hadn't been so damn quick down the straights  Seems the RSR is always going to be the underdog in these races unless you're from John's planet 

[DragonGaru]

Hi guys! (first post here, just like Jukka)

@phspok - i'm TGC on the track. (I have this bad habit of having one alias on forums and other on the race track. Gonna change that soon)

Well, what to say? i simply loved it! Tough and CLEAN race today. Thank you all.

I was racing at home this time, being Portuguese, so i felt really comfy going round Portimao and i could just swear i could hear the crowd roaring when I was passing the main straight. 

I would like, once more, to thank MJ for the opportunity given, and for the awesome battle with the RSRs.

I WANT MORE!

One more word, this time to JohnW - these places are still to be confirmed for the 2013 F1 season:

McLaren – TRD (test and reserve drivers)
Lotus – TRD
Mercedes – TRD
Force India – car nº 14 (Paul di Resta?)
Force India – car nº 15
Force India – TRD
Williams – TRD
Toro Rosso – TRD
Caterham – car nº 21
Caterham – TRD
Marussia – car nº 22
Marussia - TRD


Cheers!

[johnw]

Nice combo, even hotlapping was enjoyable round here in the RSR - there always seems to be more time to be had in this car. Made a good start and, crucially, stayed ahead of Jukka for the first few laps until Clive kept him busy. I'd spent quite a bit of time fiddling with setups to try and get the Porsche to feel like it used to in v2.1. This version doesn't feel anywhere as planted as the old one, but I think I might be alone on that opinion..

Welcome Jukka & GragonGaru, glad to see you had fun

One more word, this time to JohnW - these places are still to be confirmed for the 2013 F1 season:

Thanks for the compliment, but there's far faster than me around! Wait until the italian contingent turn up...

[phspok]

I have made TGC = DragonGaru in the database, I will redo the results later so (hopefully)
he will get points in the Championship.

Yeah, where are you Matteo? you guys light the place up when you come out to play 

[Geoffers]

This version doesn't feel anywhere as planted as the old one, but I think I might be alone on that opinion..

No I agree John, this one is more tail happy. I had briefly worked on a setup in testing which seemed quite good, but in practice it felt different & I kept spinning on corner entry. So had to make some adjustments for qually but was still 0.5s slower than I'd managed in testing.

Race went well, got a good start & drew level with Jukka on the run to T1 but the BMW & Clive's Capri just had that bit extra before the corner to get in front. Couldn't stay with them in the early stages & a half-spin on lap 4 nearly dropped me into the clutches of the battle for 5th. Had a lonely few laps until Jukka & Clive had a moment & allowed me to catch up. Last 3-4 laps was really frantic, almost got into 3rd place a couple of times but the extra power of the BMW & Ford kept Jukka & Clive ahead. Happy with 4th though 

Congrats to the podium  , cya all next week.

[Clive Loynes]

Yeah, where are you Matteo? you guys light the place up when you come out to play  

He is still minus a steering wheel but hopes to join us again soon.

I made a hopeless start last night and whilst I had great fun I feel that it let John have too easy a time of it.  

John had provided the SBRC faithful with a 1:53.5 TT lap to chase and doing just that I had clocked up a 1:53.3 before packing the Capri into the transporter and heading to the server.  Sadly I couldn't find another in qually and when I messed up the start that was it!

Jukka and I kept each other busy for the next 19 laps and John had a quiet life.  I expect that he was light on his tyres also although by the amount of smoke that he was laying down in the early laps he shouldn't have had any rubber left at all!

Brands might be more to the liking of the 911 jockeys so I don't expect to get within striking distance there either!

But it was really great to have some decent cars to race! Don't listen to Legzy, he's past it.  

[Alex vV]

Unofficial LapChart

A bit off the pace on this circuit I guess. Still have not figured out how to go through the first fast blind uphill section 
Shame you quit Jules, could have had a nice fight. Eifel and JPV were out of my league.
Oh well..

 

[Clive Loynes]

Thanks Alex,

Obviously John's tyres didn't go off enough to give anyone much hope.