UKGTL Season 15 American V8s - Lime Rock - Feb 16

[55steve55]

Thanks for the info and will check out the .plr location later.

BTW have you tried to join our online track yet?

Yes and it all runs smoothly this end. Just the problem with the pitlane so it will be a no-stop race for me (there, giving away tactics before the race has begun!). I did find my .plr file but have not yet found the right program to open it and make those amendments you suggested earlier. Something for me to work on.

[55steve55]

Welcome Steve.
 Provided that you put enough fuel in, and don't sustain any damage during the race you won't have to do a pitstop. Avoiding pitstops is essential for me as my pitcrew are most unreliable and my race has ended whilst sitting in pitlane in about 90% of my visits there!!  If you want advice on pitstops.....do NOT ask me  lol!!


I only took a look at Lime Rock in GTL last night, thinking that I knew this track from GPL and so did not need to worry too much. I now understand Erling's comments!!!  

This GTL version has about 50% of the width of tarmac found in GPL. I think that there will be a few paint samples exchanged and maybe even a few door handles??  

Thanks for the "advice" Clive. The problems I have with my .plr file means I will have to put in 40+ lapsworth of fuel on this one. Like you though, I've  always tried to avoid stop strategies unless racing on the longest of tracks.

Although I've downloaded quite a few tracks over the years, Lime Rock isn't one of them, so I've had to do a "crash" course the last few evenings to get to know its ways. Regarding the width, I was wondering which version was the more accurate but the narrow track will concentrate the mind, hopefully.

[Wiltshire Tony]

Steve, use any text editor e.g. Windows Notepad, Windows Wordpad, Windows Office etc etc. If you have Windows installed you already have Notepad.

[SpecialKS]

A bit disappointing one for me - unable to match times from free practice.
Ran out of fuel around lap 32 and got 2 s & g penalties   but i really
like this track.

Good to see some new faces 

[Pelle_B]

Lime Rock V8 Report

[Wiltshire Tony]

Cheers Pelle  

Replay and results now posted.

Could marcfvs please fill in the drivers details in their profile.

[phspok]

A fine race  for me
made up for my rubbish drive at Laguna.
I made a poor start but made a cheeky zoom up the inside of Erling into T1, managed to not cause a traffic jam
didn't feel any contact, but had to go up the grass to not trade paint, but it stuck, so off we went
Marc went wobbly after a bit and I nipped past, was sort of hangin on to Pelle's coat tails from a distance when he went off on the
last turn, then he did it again when he caught me up, after that with his pit stop i was concentrating on keeping
Erling and Marc at bay to the finish.

[misnoimis]

I enjoyed the race. Some interesting racing in the lower half of the field early on. Then I got separated from the guys in front by two recovering fast drivers and once gaped didn't have the pace to catch up. The race got very lonely for me and so became a bit of a cruise. The only other cars I saw were when I got lapped or lapped other drivers. I still managed to wreck the tyres.

I nearly made a faux pas on the last bend of the last lap when trying to be accommodating and let a driver past who had caught and seemed to want to lap me. I put a wheel off the track and ended up spinning into the Armco giving the driver behind a scare I'm sure and nearly taking him out. Sorry about that. So my previously unmarked car is now booked into the body shop.

Grats to winner and podiums.

[Wiltshire Tony]

Like to know what happened to Postal. And why Roger couldn't join the server?

Hope all the new drivers had a good evening. Great to have you all with us. Please join us again.

[Erling G-P]

This was an enjoyable race on a great track.  Nice to see some new drivers and to have a large grid. 

Thought 3rd was home in quali, so cursed when Matt bested my time.  Cursed again when I saw Clive right behind me; knew he would jump me at the start, and sure enough, the wily b... did so, relegating me to 5Th..     He was courteous enough to hand me back 4th a couple of laps later, when he spun in the hairpin - and delayed my pursuer too, so much obliged Mr Evil 

Tried hard to stay with the lead group, and at the same time slowly worked up a gap to cars behind me.  Borrowed 3rd briefly when Pelle went off. He was soon back, passing me at the end of the straight.  Borrowed 3rd again, when he fell off in exactly the same place some laps later    Knew it was more permanent this time, when I saw a pit message from him soon after.

Chased after Marc in 2nd, but made it harder for myself when I went wide in the hairpin, losing some 5 secs.  Later inherited 2nd, when he fell off in the same place as Pelle (what is it with that corner..  ).  Couldn't catch Matt up front, but naturally very chuffed with 2nd, given the company.

Thanks to those I lapped for helping me past; traffic was a real issue on this narrow track, if you happened to catch people at the wrong place.

Grats to Matt, Marc and all who finished.  Happy to see Bill complete another race - hopefully he will soon have confidence in his PC restored.

Cheers,
Erling

[55steve55]

Like to know what happened to Postal. And why Roger couldn't join the server?

Hope all the new drivers had a good evening. Great to have you all with us. Please join us again.

Will certainly be at Mallory next week.

For family reasons its been a while since I was racing online. I was one of the "more sober?" drivers back in 2008 on Pelle's RDD server for a few years. Plenty of offline racing since then, but it comes a poor second to the buzz online gives you.

BTW, I think the match stats, spread sheets etc are fantastic. I wasn't expecting any of that when I joined.

[Wiltshire Tony]

Just a quick heads up to those who don't have an utility called XD installed. Get it!

It will provide on-screen fuel usage, tyre wear, race position and other fun stuff. Easy to install and modify to suit your requirements.

Find it here http://www.vitumo.de/

[Wiltshire Tony]

The next race in this series is at Sebring which will provide a huge contrast to the narrow, twisty Lime Rock circuit. We'll get to see how fast these brutes will go on those long straights and also be reminded of how poor the brakes are when you reach the end of those straights 

[phspok]

Erling mentioned lapped drivers... It's not worth incident reports
But, I assume it was a question of not knowing whether the guy trying to pass was
for position or not, but I was pretty severely blocked more than once while trying
to lap Huggy. For anyone who has trouble working out whether you are being lapped
or passed perhaps watch the top right list of race order and the gaps it shows
If someone has just zoomed up behind you and the next place back from you
is 10 secs, then it's not him, it's one of the leaders  

Ta.

[Wiltshire Tony]

Don't think you get to see the race order unless you have XD installed, so there's another good reason for getting it before the next race.

EDIT: All though your pitboard will give you relative times at least once a lap.