UKPnG Season 8 Sports Car Series - Rouen - Apr 4

[goldtop]

Had a few laps last night in the Porsche and it's a wonderful drive here. Still a bit of work to do on setup and technique as it keeps trying to kill me at T1   I managed to get down to mid 2:12s in race trim but haven't tried light fuel and softs yet.

I don't mind self handicapping as long as I can still choose a car I like. It's no secret that I enjoy pork, so that's what I'll be driving tonight even though it appears to be the strongest car (for a change  ). If I think it's a bit quick I might take hard tyres for the race, but will have to see who turns up in what  

My biggest worry is losing connection which is getting far too common for me recently.

[Manteos]

Yesterday I tried a bit even with the Pantera, and I must admit that is a great fun to drive it here. My best lap in race trim was a 2.12.7, with the chance to go down 2 or 3 tenths. With the 275 Speciale I'm stucked at 2.13.8, but I'm really close to the limit in almost every corner. I will see what people will drive tonight and their laptimes when I'll jump into the server to say the last word on my choice.

"My biggest worry is losing connection which is getting far too common for me recently."

It's not just you I guess. I'm experiencing a lot of discos on your server. My line fall after 3-4 mins approximately every time I join your server. Did you shut down and restarted all your GTR2 servers, included the GTR2 and the P&G enduro? It often happened to me when I launch a server that I have to shut down all the servers in the GTR2 lobby before to restart a single server. So it would be better that when you re-start a server, before you shut down all the other, and than restart all the server. It was a common issue on our VDA servers in lobby. By the moment we adopted this solution we solved this problem.
Is it only me having this connection issue on the P&G server? It's strange, cause usually during the race day my connection works pretty well when you have only the P&G server in lobby.

I hope to come back in time for the race. I don't want to miss it!

See you

[phspok]

On Race night only the server for that race is ever started, all others are shutdown.
After each race the admin will restart his and the other practice servers in no
particular order.


Tonight I will shutdown all the practice servers as usual and then start only the P&G3 race server
That is our normal procedure.

I have seen a few people discoing from our servers during
non race practice. Nik was one who one evening could not stay connected for more than
a few minutes, so I started a dedicated server at my house, and he and a few others joined
and had no problem at all. Was a bit disturbing, but recently he seems to be able to
stay connected )as you say) for the race itself. There are a few people who seem to suffer
with discos. I occasionally get dropped when someone else joins but is very rare, and I can't
remember being dropped from a race, yet GT, CLive and others do.

May be the way our server routes to different people, but GT and Clive are in UK as the server
also appears to be.

p.s
The Enduro practice server is mine not the SROUK one.

[Clive Loynes]

As for me, I seem to have lost it completely.  Was doing low 2:13s at the start of the week and now 2:15 is all I can muster.

Lol, it must be contagious Clive, 'cause I was doing low 2.12s on low fuel last week, but now I can hardly manage a full lap without making a major mistake . Doing steady 2.16s for a full race will probably get you near or even up on the podium tonight 


Stig

LOL

T1 on your TT lap looked like a 1 in 50 attempts event.  I still can't match it!

[phspok]

Sisu

[SpecialKS]

You guys are so incredible fast ...

I'll take the RSR too, because it's the one which looks like I can handle 
reasonably but couldn't get faster than 2:24 yesterday.

So GPL could be the factor for improving my skills?
Bought it last week at ebay for 1 € from curiosity.... we'll see.

CU later

[Legzy]

So family-in-laws over visiting tonight, I've battle with the Mrs to be "aloud" to drive & drivers ahead stuff up T1. I slow down beyond belief but can't do anything to avoid what is fairly light contact really. Get going again but steering is bent & I'm off at the next right hander despite a cautious approach. So race over after spending a few hours practicing last night & another hour build up tonight.

Really glad I stood my ground & argued my case to drive tonight.

[Nik]

Im so sorry for everyone involved in T1 accident, my left rear went on the grass and i lost the back frex hit me and chain reaction after, im so sorry guys nothing I could do

[SpecialKS]

Glad that I choose the Capri which I totally forgot in the lineup - six seconds faster
than in the RSR yesterday and still room left.
Great fun - as long as it lasted. Nice battle with Tony and Matt. Some contacts with
Tony - then I lost the car and crashed into the barrier - finito!
Quite sure that I hadn't finished because I was on soft tyres which already began
to fade.

cu next time

[Wiltshire Tony]

Glad that I choose the Capri which I totally forgot in the lineup - six seconds faster
than in the RSR yesterday and still room left.
Great fun - as long as it lasted. Nice battle with Tony and Matt. Some contacts with
Tony - then I lost the car and crashed into the barrier - finito!
Quite sure that I hadn't finished because I was on soft tyres which already began
to fade.

cu next time

Sorry for the contact at the corner after the fast straight. Hope it wasn't that, that stuffed your car?

[Clive Loynes]

Sisu

T1 still has me spooked.  

Had a good start and gradually faded.

Swapped accidents with Geoffers for a while and finished 6th.  I think.

Ahead of Simon anyway.  

Grats to John, Tudor and Niels.

[SpecialKS]

Glad that I choose the Capri which I totally forgot in the lineup - six seconds faster
than in the RSR yesterday and still room left.
Great fun - as long as it lasted. Nice battle with Tony and Matt. Some contacts with
Tony - then I lost the car and crashed into the barrier - finito!
Quite sure that I hadn't finished because I was on soft tyres which already began
to fade.

cu next time

Sorry for the contact at the corner after the fast straight. Hope it wasn't that, that stuffed your car?

No problem mate - just one short moment off   my fault

[phspok]

Results and Replay Posted

[NPP]

this race once again proves what may be called 'Grosjean's Law' - those who manage to keep out of lap 1 incidents will have a good race. Sorry for those who got caught up simply by being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

My race was the reverse of last week's - I had a good start, got past Animal Ed who stalled on the grid and then everybody tiptoed around the first lap with no incidents I could see. Then things settled down, I got caught by Manteos and drove around in 5th. Moved up to 4th and eventually 3rd when people in front of me fell off and tried to chase down Goldtop which proved impossible in the end and I had to focus on defending from Animal Ed. In the end, I brought it home in 3rd and was really pleased that I didn't make any major mistake, and could keep Goldtop in sight for the entire race. I didn't expect that, with my best time prior to practice today a 2.16.

I think I may have benefited from the gamble I took on a tall first gear and long gearing overall, and from medium tyres - previously, I always raced on hards!

Congrats JohnW and Goldtop!

[goldtop]

A frustrating race in the end for me. Took hard tyres to try to lessen the car advantage over John, but then struggled all race with front end grip and balance. After John passed me on the back straight on lap 1 there was nothing I could do to close the gap, so ended up with a bit of a boring drive until I was almost caught by Manteos and we had a close couple of laps. You very nearly had me off going into T1 there mate   Anyway no harm done.

Congrats to John for the win