UKGTL Season 15 Fifties Sprints - Monza - Aug 10

[Wiltshire Tony]

Thoroughly enjoyed watching the battle between Geoffers (Aston Martin) and Roger (D-Type Jag), great driving guys and very fair.

[hayman3131]

Hi

good event on old track with great cars and great drivers.
At start several cars passed me, i could not here merc´s engine because of screaming Astons and Jag´s. I had some very exciting and hard fighting laps with my teammate flash. door to door at highspeed in long righthander, worked great, we both know us well. after those laps, flash was 4 secs behind me then, I slowed down a little to make it safe. gap to roguk and geoffers was 7 secs. no chance to get them, i thought, so make it save to end. but the gap was getting smaller from lap to lap, 1 sec per lap....................oh, maybe maybe? not enough laps, at S/F in last lap 1 still was 1 second behing roguk and geoffers.
grats to my teammate Hyzer too. great job mate, hat´s off!

thxs guys for great and fair driving, thxs tony for setting in up

greets hayman

[Erling G-P]

Based on my experience at Grenzlandring, I figured the D-Type should be quick here, but as I'm out of those, I had to pick something else.  With 3 Merc drives left, and early testing showing it to be a little faster than the Aston, it seemed the natural choice.  It's been highly praised, but I have a hard time warming to it.  There's no aural stimulation whatsoever from it, so find it extremely dull to drive.  Wish someone would produce a sound mod for it.. 

Did my first sub-45 lap in qual landing me 2nd on the grid.  Couldn't touch Ati's pole time, but with the first 3 cars abreast at this Monza version, it didn't really matter.

Can't complain about the result, but the race itself was probably the most boring yet this season.  Geoffers got ahead of me at the start, but I clawed back 2nd going into Parabolica on L1.  Slowly built a gap down to Roger and Geoffers, while up front, Ati was pulling away.  Had a visual on him for the first half, but eventually he slipped from view. 2nd half very lonely indeed then.  On the penultimate lap, when approaching Parabolica, I saw a (long) lingering smoke trail and then a dustcloud.  Could it be.. ?   Yep, a quick activation of driver tags revealed it to be Ati.  Nearly stuffed it myself in the excitement over this possible chance to pass him..    He recovered too fast however, and didn't repeat the error next lap, so I had to settle for 2nd.

Grats to Ati and Roger for the other two podiums, and commiserations to those that fell out.  As usual thanks to Tony for the organisation.

Cheers,
Erling

[Geoffers]

Managed to get a little bit of practice in for this race, but only tried the Aston.

Qualified 4th & got a decent start & moved into 2nd place. Erling passed me on the run to the Parabolica on the first lap & he & Ati proceeded to disappear into the distance. Was a little surprised that the Aston was well outpaced at the top end, did other Aston drivers find this or was my setup rubbish for top speed? Anyway Rog caught up with me after a few laps & we had a great battle for the rest of the race, close several times, but very fair  Hayman caught up with us near the end but never quite got close enough to mount a challenge & Rog just had enough pace to pip me for 3rd at the flag. Great fun. 

Congats to Ati, Erling & Rog. 

[SpecialKS]

Results


Lousy start for me - after that a sole race at the back of the pack. Anyway - some more race experience.

[Wiltshire Tony]

Results

Great job, thanks Kurt 

[Wiltshire Tony]

Geoffers' Aston Martin tries to go around Roguk's Jaguar at Curva Parabolica

[Geoffers]

Geoffers' Aston Martin tries to go around Roguk's Jaguar at Curva Parabolica

Didn't work though!  

[EvilClive]

Grats to Ati , Erling and Rog on the podium and all finishers.

Interesting to read Geoffers comments about the Aston. I was intending to use the Merc and had clocked what would have been some competitive lap times in offline practice. But for some reason the server decided that it did not like me driving a SL300 LM55, and I tried every option for that car!!

So, I opted for the Aston Martin although I had not done a single lap in it and had no setup to drag in that suited Monza. As a result I had a car that was only fast enough to compete with the midfield if I was right on the limit, and it threatened to throw me into the scenery on the exit of every corner if I so much as breathed on the gas. Something that happened several times during tha race  . Top speed was OK and I could keep pace with the Mercs ( just about) on the straights, but my setup lost me too much ground through the corners.

Anyone got an answer to the "car not on server" message re the Merc? I need to start using this car or it will be all that I have left?!!

[Wiltshire Tony]

Can you describe your folder structure starting at GameData please and ending at SL_LM55.

[hayman3131]

hi

in teams GTC-65 you should have folder Mercedes 300SL. this has 3 sub-folders, 455, 456 and SL_LM55.
If not this way, try new download.

greets hayman

Grats to Ati , Erling and Rog on the podium and all finishers.

Interesting to read Geoffers comments about the Aston. I was intending to use the Merc and had clocked what would have been some competitive lap times in offline practice. But for some reason the server decided that it did not like me driving a SL300 LM55, and I tried every option for that car!!

So, I opted for the Aston Martin although I had not done a single lap in it and had no setup to drag in that suited Monza. As a result I had a car that was only fast enough to compete with the midfield if I was right on the limit, and it threatened to throw me into the scenery on the exit of every corner if I so much as breathed on the gas. Something that happened several times during tha race  . Top speed was OK and I could keep pace with the Mercs ( just about) on the straights, but my setup lost me too much ground through the corners.

Anyone got an answer to the "car not on server" message re the Merc? I need to start using this car or it will be all that I have left?!!

[roguk]

Hi   tried the Aston and found with my settings could not get the top speed of the Jag here at Monza. Had great close race with Geoffers and only just pipped him at the finish.

Grats to ATi7 on win
Grats to Erling on 2nd

[misnoimis]

I got back home too late again for this one. A pity because my practice times in the Merc would have put me about mid field so I may have had some fun.

I will miss next Monday’s race as I will be watching my local football club on TV with some friends. I may also miss the one at Spa which I was really looking forward to as I will be playing in a seniors golf competition down in the west country, subject to my golfing partners injured wrist recovering.

It seems that Monday night racing always clashes with another event these days. It shouldn’t be a problem after October. I think I will be getting withdrawal symptoms if I keep missing races. The Monday night GTL series is the one I enjoy most so hope to get back to racing soon.

[Wiltshire Tony]

The Monday night GTL series is the one I enjoy most so hope to get back to racing soon.

That's great to hear 

Hope to see you soon.

[EvilClive]

Thanks for the response guys.....

D:\GT Legends\GameData\Teams\LM55\Mercedes 300SL      is the path to my 300 SL folder and I have 3 subfolders like Hayman listed, plus other stuff like .svm files and MERCEDES 300sl.cas/hdc/sp/grb etc.

The car is certainly available offline and when I'm sure that I tried it on he practice server previously. Maybe I should do a fresh download of the LM55 cars?