UKGTL Season 15 Fifties Endurance - Schottenring - Oct 26

[roguk]

Grrr cat jumped onto the ffffing keyboard end of my race.

Great sense of speed going past the pits in the Jag.

[Wiltshire Tony]

Results and replay now posted, well done all finishers!

Remember to vote if you want to see this track in next season's series.

[chmichel]

Its was fun Race, first time I drive on this track, very little practice on the same race day, should find more time to Practice, had a good start and passed Geoffers then we raced the whole 10 laps together it was fair and square we did some mistakes here and there but it was fun !!

Best result for me this year 4th, the Aston was very good since I didn't have any Prancing horse to ride !!

Hope to see u all in the next race and Thanks Tony for organizing the races


Have a good week gents

[Wiltshire Tony]

That was great fun I thought. Took it really easy to start with and had some early battles with Kurt and Roger. Kurt had an incident and dropped back and Roger sped off into the distance. Later on I had a good chase with Clive who was recovering from an accident (I think his car was damaged?) and for several laps we were either chasing each other or side by side. We both pitted together around end of lap 5. I had new tyres and fuel and left the pits before Clive (maybe having damage repaired?). Passed the stricken Roger after his "cat meets keyboard" episode but could not close on Bob. Watched Clive get ever closer to me until on the penultimate lap he was in my mirrors and closing hard. I made a mistake on the twisties just before the start/finish line and my car turned over and took ages to right itself allowing Clive to pass and build up a good lead. Settled down to a lonely last lap but happy to have finished. Like this track now that I feel I have learned it and glad it wasn't a night time race in hindsight.

[phspok]

Well that was fun.   I had done some practice on my faster system, and the frame rate was 70-80 ish
so was not happy when I had to do this race on my ancient core2Duo box, which was showing 42 FPS in the pits  
The car had been handling really well on the faster tyres but I decided to try the Vintage as they seemed to wear
a lot slower, 1st practice lap last night had been all over the place and had to neuter the setup for max rear grip
to get round the track at all. Wasted ages in the pits fiddling with my arrow keys that were not mapped as expected
so just took the defaults and filled up with fuel and changed all tyres using the same vintage ones, Even though they were all green and only 1/4 worn
the rear was becoming out of control in the fast sections, so swapping the tyres was probably a good idea anyway.
Had one major spin and some damage while distracted reading Roger's cat's messages   but car was still handling
fine so off we went. Start went well, could have passed Clive off the line, but there was not enough room for a safe pass, so sat behind
and caught and lost him in the various sections as I was faster in some places and he in others
it looked like his setup was more front grippy than my safe full hard front, full soft rear setup, and he kindly demonstrated
this by getting sideways into a wall of the little town   I guess he took damage as he never got close after that.
managed to keep MC and Geoff far enough behind, and was pulling away a bit up to the finish.
I was faster in the Aston, but less likely to finish so went with the nice little Ferri, don't think I could have matched Erling's
pace anyway, so 2nd was as good as I was likely to get so am well pleased with the result.  

[Erling G-P]

Really enjoyed this track; great choice Tony 

Had learnt it with the 250 TR months ago, but forgotten it all, so started over with the Jag.  It was surprisingly nice to drive here, but when I found myself to be quite a lot quicker in the Aston, the temptation was too great..

Much impressed by the 250 TR qual-times by Clive & Matt; certainly much quicker than I was in that car - and quick enough to give me problems in the Aston, if I screwed up just a little.  Start went well and I retained the lead (in reality, it was probably just Clive & Matt holding back, letting me hold the position..  )

Had Clive in my mirror for the first half of L1, but when he slipped from view, the race went very lonely indeed.  Only other car I saw for the rest of the race was Hayman, who had obviously been delayed from some incidents.  Thus mostly an exercise in maintaining concentration and focus, and not the most exciting race for me, but stats-wise I couldn't ask for more in a race.  Was on vintage tyres, as they last longer, so I didn't have to change them during my pit stop.

Commiserations to those that met with untimely exits; Bill, Kurt, Roger, Hayman, and grats to Matt, Geoffers and all who finished.

Cheers,
Erling

[Geoffers]

Hooray, I actually managed to finish one of these Enduros. 

Took the Ferrari 250 (actually never tried anything else) as it is fairly easy to drive & went with the CR48 tyres.

Got a good start but lifted off a bit as it looked like Matt & Clive were going to have a coming together, they didn't & Chmichel nipped past into T1. Followed him for a couple of laps as I found it nearly impossible to pass on this track unless the car in front made a mistake. This seemed to happen quite a lot to the two of us & we swapped places on numerous occasions as first one went off & then the other. On one occasion I travelled most of the start finish 'straight' upside-down! 
The CR48 tyres were losing grip after 3-4 laps so I pitted at the end of lap 5, refuelled & changed tyres. After the stops were over I was just behind Chmichel again & we continued our make a mistake - swap places scenario. Starting the last lap I was in front with a 5s gap so concentrated really hard on not pushing too hard & making a mistake rather than outright pace. This paid off & I was happy with 3rd at the flag.

Congrats to Erling & Matt  & thanks to Chmichel for an entertaining race. 

[SpecialKS]

Results


Lasted longer than expected but first mistake knocked me out 

[Wiltshire Tony]

Thank you for the results Kurt