Endurance Championship - Season 2, Round 1, Barcelona - Feb 19

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Gutted to view all these technical pains  :'(. Its all very reminiscent of season 1 so not sure if car pack is to blame.

Pretty happy, now, with terrible quali. It left me in a Legend sandwich for beginning of race and I had a great battle with Mark and Don. Good to get revenge on you Mark, your turn next  . Enjoyed a nice dice with Jam as well.

Thx to all the GT boys, who were all very patient.

It may be a little hollow, without JM and TT, but I will crow while I can about the KC 1/2. I was watching your back, from at least a minute behind, mo  .

[whitham69]

sry Jamera that was me, looked like you were running wide to me, but pulled it back, i  tryed to turn  onto  the inside  curb and lift of the throttle. i managed to get from 1/4 way up the inside to just clipping your rear bumper, i still knocked you off   my fault

[Jamera]

sry Jamera that was me, looked like you were running wide to me, but pulled it back, i  tryed to turn  onto  the inside  curb and lift of the throttle. i managed to get from 1/4 way up the inside to just clipping your rear bumper, i still knocked you off   my fault

No worries mate, as I said racing incident and such i will not be reporting it 

[Rich_A]

Good result for me, shame I spun it with 10 mins to go - thankfully no one around and then it was easy enough to hold for 2nd place.

Some quite aggressive driving, spose it takes a couple of races to get used to the different classes again. Great stuff, really enjoyed it except for being robbed by you GTNDC guys didn't enjoy that at all - I often get caught off guard like that. 

I am very patient with nGT as in the long run patience pays, even sometimes I give nGT a few turns and make pass with good exit speed onto long straight - quite a skill having the foresight to make correct judgement.

[D Boyd]

yeah I tried to be patient too, in fact Jon was able to bring back almost 4 seconds as I got into traffic. I honestly think I had the most trouble when guys were "trying" to be nice and thus slowed on entering a corner. I feel really bad that this caused me to do a bit of bumping which I pride myself on NEVER doing. 

In the future for the nGt guys, though I do really appreciate the thought, I have found it is best to just hold your line and your speed and let us use our power to get by. This prevents sudden moves that put us in places un-expected. The only "help" that is usually "helpfull" without risk is just a slight lift on a straight as you see we have started to come around, or before the next corner if we have not put much distance on you by then. The only thing worse than having someone in your way in front is haveing them punt you in the next corner after you have made the pass on them. 

Now as for my race, It was mine to win and I pretty much threw it away. Qualed 3rd becuase traffice didnt allow me to get a clean lap, sombody in a lambo spun across the straight as they exited the pits and I hit them so hard I think I need dental work . Anyway, I had almost no warmup so I thought I would just take it easy and get into a rythum. Rich may say I caught him by surprise but it sure looked like you just let me by m8, either way, was time to run down Jon. Took me couple laps to take the 3 seconds out of him then another lap or so of filling his mirrors when he caught some curb at Wurth which allowed me to get along side and take him in Campsa. Was putting about a second a lap on him till the traffic hit when like I said he got back to within a second. One of the porkas that I was lapping for the 2nd time had gone off in Sabadell and as I went to pass on the inside in Europcar he lost it again and came around right in my path. Big collision sending me around and off into the gardrail  . Jon came by and I was only about 6 seconds down, but the car was trashed after the hit, and I was giving up about 10kpm on the straight, had a hard time even getting by the 360's  . Well thought I still had a pretty good shot of staying in reach and holding off Rich and desided to pit a bit early to avoid traffic. This I did but promptly got a stop/go which cost me about another 45 seconds and putting me out in 8th it seems. I knew a couple still had to pit and just tried to bring it home clean. Best I could do was 41's instead of my normal 39's so it was hard to make ground. Someone must have pit late cause with about 5 to go I suddenly went from 4th to 3rd and Rich was in sight. Car was just too bad and tires too worn with early pit to reel him in though but I was happy to claw my way back to the podium after such a miserable race.
grats to all and thanks to the admins and all the work, I was really surprised to even get in on this 1st race. I am curious to know how many tried to get in and were unable?

Anyway, hope to see you next week

D

[Haiku]

Your overflow, four in all graced my server for a rather fun race.  I'm not sure why but I think they were intimidated with my lotus  driving skillz so they all took the Elise so I could give them some driving lessons.  It was a pretty good race and I took it easy on them,  spinning out the lotus once per lap to keep it close for them and then let them win when I lagged out with 3 minutes left in the race.

I put the replay up on your ftp server.

So if you need a place for your wayward drivers next week, just let me know.

[enz13_gt]

struggled in q to get a clean lap,race didnt get any better,got punted going into 1st bend,minor aero so decided to keep to arranged stop and just settled into race,managed to pull back to 7th and was catching but ran out of time

[popabawa]

Really enjoyed the race, skins were great and the 80min race was a real challenge (in a good way )

My worst performance in a long time though

Managed a PB in qualifying to grab NGT 2nd (about a minute behind Mo  ) but it all went downhill after that 

Jakob did a great job cleanly and fairly putting the pressure on during the first lap, I was too busy watching him in my rear view when I missed a gear change and left the track (a stupid rookie mistake that I thought I'd left well behind me  ). Re-joined towards the rear. Got punted off by a GT. Listened too closely to my pit crew to brake for the end of start/finish straight and went into the wall then managed to turn off my pit limiter after my pit-stop and got a stop / go penalty.

Onwards & upwards. I will do better next week (repeat 100 times).

Grats to Mo for another scintillating performance. And to SBG and Jakob completing the NGT podium. Nice work guys.

Obligatory rant: FFS, what is so difficult to understand about NO CHAT DURING QUALIFYING?

[Rich_A]

I thought quali was quite bad - saw some speeding on pitlane again and very little consideration exiting pit. For exiting pit I always exit slowly and then use look behind for traffic.. next time i'm going to take note of any speeding and report it and anyone else that notices it should do like wise. If you use look behind you can easily see when there is no traffic at all, even if this means having to completely stop then fine but usually cruising at very low speeds is ok for finding a decent gap - places like Spa and Donnington might require a complete stop.

I use look behind and also look left right for funny angles. Look left, right works for look behind np but not good idea while racing only for returning after an off.

When qualifying you won't get any room at all from those on a hotlap, and exiting pit tyres and brakes are cold and you're about 5 seconds slower than normal. So please don't 'race' out of pit!! Exiting pit in race is different of course.. but still a little caution never goes a miss.

Oh and grats to you Jon Chadwick - car looks great and you were very smooth, I have good connection to you.

[Jakob_Schmidt]

Yes, I agree that a bit more etiquette during both qual and practice would be nice.
 In practice, there was a lot of chatting. Sure, it's allowed, but it's still distracting, so it would be nice if it was kept to a minium.
In qual, there was some chatting going on too, which is obviously a no-no.

Jakob

[Rich_A]

I disable it in .plr under multiplayer settings

Allow Chat In Car="0"

[Jakob_Schmidt]

I disable it in .plr under multiplayer settings

Allow Chat In Car="0"

Yes, but then you might miss out on admin, pit out, etc messages. For practice, it only takes a little discipline and consideration for others. It's not a difficult thing to do.

Jakob

[Rich_A]

Rich may say I caught him by surprise but it sure looked like you just let me by m8, either way, was time to run down Jon.

My starts have never been too quick and over half a lap or so you can really tell if someone has momentum or not so I didn't want to risk an incident. I did run a little wide on a couple of turns though and then you zoomed by on inside of Banc De Sabadell. I maybe could have cut you off into next turn but bit risky - didn't really have genuine race pace either so third not so bad. I just about kept pace with you and Jon though for a good few laps and then things got confusing as race wore on. CeeJay.. you made nice pass too at exact same corner, something iffy going on there with my car!!  

[mclaessen]

The race at Haiku's server indeed was fun. Never thought the Elise coulb be that much fun. Seems like GTR has yet another 'feature': the 5 fps bug. With 18 minutes race time left my game started to stutter. Got a few spins because I wasn't able to judge my speed because of the stuttering. But apart from that it was a very nice race  

Reminder for all those who raced yesterday:

Please send your incident reports to me before wednesday 9pm. That will give you +/- 70 hours to check the replay. Everything sent in after that will not be included in the final moderator's report.

Please also include the server replay time (not the time from your own replay as it differs from the server replay time) as well as the racing name of the ones involved. This will make my task a lot easier.

As I hear some complaints about the practise/quali session I would like to ask you all to send them as well.

Thank you for your cooperation

[mo]

Congrats to Jon on the win and also to SBG on a great drive through the field, completing a Crawlers front row finish in NGT.
Sad to hear about some people's technical woes, always frustrating and even more so with everyone looking forward to racing in the team colours.

The skins looked great, especially on the replay, and it definitely adds to the whole team championship atmosphere. Hopefully there wont be as many tech issues at Magny.

The race itself was fairly quiet for me. I took a chance of non-stopping but it was tight in the end for fuel.
The pit crew were calling me for both tyres and fuel by the end. Even still the tyres felt good though and I was able to put in some 1'48s over the final few laps.
It was the longest race I've ever done and without a stop it really gave some idea what it must be like in real life driving for an hour and half non-stop, solitary confinement almost!

Only scare I had was a trip into the gravel trap at Repsol after a mix up with a lapping car, but I only sustained light damage luckily.

I had no stutters during any of the sessions, so hopefully the re-install of GTR and the carpack did the trick........seems ok so far.