UKPnG Season 9 Knock Out Sports Car Cup - Imola - May 22

[Mark J]

Clive you sound like a sulky old woman  bet your still in top 4 like most races!

Hope there is a good spread of cars tonight but as nobody has posted a time except me (to generate interest/create a target) who knows?!
Mind you with 2x tyre wear my times are probably irrelevant as the tyre performance window is much shorter  :'(

[EvilClive]

Never mind which car or tyres to use!!!  as of last night ( when I thought I might do some offline practice for this)  PnG refuses to start!! not even the splash screen with the Alfa!!

Won't have time to look into this until about 7:45 this evening........so maybe I will see you on track 

[Clive Loynes]

Clive you sound like a sulky old woman  bet your still in top 4 like most races!

Hope there is a good spread of cars tonight but as nobody has posted a time except me (to generate interest/create a target) who knows?!
Mind you with 2x tyre wear my times are probably irrelevant as the tyre performance window is much shorter  :'(

LOL

 

I've told you that I'm four seconds slower than you, what more do you want?  That was on race fuel and in P1 session.

This track just winds me up because people go clattering over the curbs and grass and then claim to be trying to keep to the tarmac but "that the circuit just seems more correct if you used half of Italy"!

Bah!  Humbug!

[Mark J]

Well they do seem to encourage it at Imola a tad more than other tracks with the green baize turn exit borders but nowt wrong with two wheels off the black stuff anyway 

I watched the FIA WEC round there last weekend and everybody was making full use of the kerbs and borders without penalty.

Anyone tried the 906's here? Thought they'd be quickest tbh, I just love driving the RSR's

[frex]

I just love driving the RSR's

Me too..

The additional chicane at Tamburello does help it, but I was still 2 secs slower than the GT40 Mk2s in a quick race against the AI yesterday evening. There weren't any 906s, but I would have thought they would be quicker as well. Hope anyway that the 911 is the not the quickest/most popular car here cos I would hate to see it dropped for the next round!

[Geoffers]

Anyone tried the 906's here? Thought they'd be quickest tbh, I just love driving the RSR's

Tried the 906/8 last night, a car I never get on with, but after several attempts at completing just one lap I seemed to hit on a setup which made it much more driveable & got down to 2.04s with it. Still not confident of completing the race without going off but I'm going to give it a go.

[Doni Yourth]

Depending on how my day goes, I might be able to file a late entry to this round.  We'll see...

[FullMetalGasket]

Well they do seem to encourage it at Imola a tad more than other tracks with the green baize turn exit borders but nowt wrong with two wheels off the black stuff anyway 

I could scan the MSA's revised track boundaries leaflet if you like, in the UK at least rules are getting much stricter!

Oh, and I'm in tonight. Far to good a car/track combo to miss out on!

[Mogget]

I think I will be taking part in tonight's race. It's about time I made my return on Thursday nights, although I don't know what I will be driving yet...

[Walter Conn]

Good race, but if I were to do it over, I would have chosen a faster car and a softer tire. On the bright side, I was able to finish the race, and I had a good time driving the track. Good enough. 

[Mark J]

Well that didn't go as planned!  .  Turned up on the server to find my setup was nearly 3 secs a lap slower with the 2x wear  so spent all of praccy time trying to tweak it down to a 2:07.9

Qualied 6th but got pounced all over off the line, which proved to be a disaster as guys 2-3 secs a lap slower here got in front of me    then to compound the misery, my teamie braked like a granny up at the hilltop chicane on lap 1 and nearly caught me out but meant I got whacked up the backside by Jarda taking all 3 of us off.  :'(
I then had a great fun but very frustrating 9 laps behind Matts GT40 which was very fast on the straights but holding me up at every corner complex.
It took until lap 10 to finally get a clear lap and a sub 2:10 laptime which meant the front 6 guys had amassed a nice 20second cushion at only mid distance  my race was run really.
My tyres were still in good nick so I pressed on until lap 15 and had a nice clean pitstop (hurrah!)
Had a late problem behind Jardas car as he had some lag and I finally clipped him in a slow corner so sorry for that but nothing I could do with his car warping.
I finally caught up with Clive in 6th with 1 lap to go and reeled him in relentlessly but he just had enough Tarmac to finish 0.5 ahead.

I really thought I was on for a top 5 finish tonight but the early events conspired against me, but thoroughly enjoyed the race and good to see a variety of cars in action 

[Doni Yourth]

Furious that I was apparently disco'd just prior to the race start. 

This happened the other day when I was lining up for a Gamer's PnG event.

In both cases, the kids had just got home from school and logged on to the NET.  They won't be doing THAT again anytime soon.

From Mark's description, it sounded like I missed a slam-bang affair.  Just my kinda race! 

[Clive Loynes]

Well I have just had a quick look at the opening laps of the replay and would say that the best thing we could do is just scrub the race as the first four cars home were certainly making good use of the curbs.  Some to a greater extent than others.

It just isn't a suitable track for UKPnG rules.

[Geoffers]

Well that went a lot better than I expected!     Seems the 906/8 was the class of the field.

Had a small gap over Tim for the fiirst few laps until he made a mistake & dropped to 3s behind & then managed to keep the gap to between 3 & 5s until Tim made his stop. Planned my stop on lap 20 & I seemed to have plenty in hand for an unhurried stop until I spun at the final chicane with 3 laps left  
Lost about 15s due to that & was doubtful I had enough gap to retain the lead, but a quick splash of fuel got me back out with plenty of time to spare, so just took it easy on the last lap so as not to make any more silly mistakes.

Congrats Tim & teammate Frex on the podium.   Looks like the 906/8 is out for the next race.  

[Mogget]

First, apologies for my semi rant at the end of the race. I was frustrated that I had been kept in the pits for a lot longer than I should have been, and it prevented a possible scrap with Frex in the second half of the race.

Secondly, with respect to Clive's comment......it is difficult on this track to avoid using various kerbs at certain locations around the track. If two wheels are kept on the tarmac, and (in my opinion) use of any trackside grass is avoided, then I don't see a problem. Having said that, I know for a fact that I probably overstepped the mark at certain times, but this was not deliberate. The Daytona was quite a tricky drive around this track, and sometimes I got the approach to a corner slightly wrong, or (in the case of one particular corner) I had the Sun shining directly into my eyes!

A decent start catapulted me into 3rd place behind Geoffers and Tim. I tried hard to stay in touch with them, but those Porsches were just too quick for me. I had hauled my ass away from the chasing pack, so it was a lonely race after that until my pitstop. Frex was catching me towards the end of this first stint, and we entered the pits at the same time. Unfortunately, my pitstop problems (they filled the fuel tank when I didn't ask for it) resulted in me sitting there for ages. I had to change the tyres aswell, so by the time I left the pits, Frex was probably halfway around the next lap!

That effectively killed off any chance of a battle for me in the second half of the race. I caught and passed several drivers that may (or may not) have pitted at that stage, and that moved me up to P4, but Frex was over 40 seconds ahead of me by then, so I just reeled off the remaining laps in silence.

Sorry to hear about your disconnection, Donnie. I saw that you had left just before the start of the race, and I was gutted for you