UKGTL Season 15 Fifties Sprints - Paramount Ranch - Oct 19

[Erling G-P]

Nice track, but check your fuel consumption guys - this appears to be one of those tracks where the car will do less laps than shown on the setup screen, at least for my chosen ride.

Don't tell Clive 

Too late Erling!, although it won't help me. I'm taking a couple of weeks holiday in darkest Wales where men are men.. and the sheep are terrified. So i won't be bothering you guys on Monday night. Probably sitting in front of a log fire with a drink...or two 

Have fun guys, I'll be back next week.

Well then do enjoy the sh.. err your holiday! 

Cheers,
Erling

[hayman3131]

edit: no band reharsal  so: race then with you guys 


Hi

I cant make this race, band rehearsal changed to monday..................
1:32.2xx PB in Austin, damn...........

have fun all

greets hayman

[roguk]

Just downloaded Paramount Ranch and when went to GTL select track it was in black print and would not load, have had this happen with several tracks.

If track name grey or black and will not load go to your locations folder then track name folder, open the .gdb file with notepad and delete the line (access level= number) then save, track will then load and work perfect.

[Wiltshire Tony]

Results and replay now posted.

Remember if you want to race this track again next season you need to vote for it here

[hayman3131]

Hi

great event! Thxs Tony for setting up!
For me it started bad. Quali 5 I think, but in Lap 1 Phill Gilland gave me a tap, I went into gras. Phil said sorry, but no waiting and go behind. Hmmm?
So I found myself on last place then.
Had to push hard to get thru the crowd. Some exellent laps with Roguk, finally found a point to pass him.
Geoffers then spun, I could pass and then was chased by him, oioioi ! Then I spun, Geoffers passed me, he chased me, real good fun........
I got him, maybe little mistake from geoffers? Phil in front of me. Ok, one more lap, I would have catched him. Easier way would have been, if Phil would have let me pass. (due to only sorry  )
In the end 4th, more then I expected.

Thxs for great and fair fun, guys.

Greets hayman

[SpecialKS]

Another "not my day" for me.

Nice links to the history of the real track:

http://thechicaneblog.com/2010/01/18/lost-track-paramount-ranch/

http://www.tamsoldracecarsite.net/ParamountRanchHome.html

[Wiltshire Tony]

Nice find Kurt, thanks for the links

[Erling G-P]

At times it can be a sobering experience to find out just how much you suck.  Today was one of those times.. 

Big improvement of my pb, when I did my first sub-33 laps online today, but still laughably far off the pace.  For once got a decent start and didn't lose places.  Gained one on L1 when Hayman went off.

Tried hard to stay with Matt & Phil over the early laps, while building a 4-sec gap to Tony behind.  Alarmed to see the gap suddenly drop to 2.5 secs. Had Tony gained a second wind ?  Checking a lap later solved the mystery: it was Hayman making his way through the field. Doing the check broke my concentration, and I did a stupid downshift mistake at T1.  Dropped into 1st and promptly spun off.  At least it made Hayman's job easy.

Unfortunately, my gap to Tony & Roger had all but disappeared when I went off.  As we neared the halfway point, my tyres were pretty much gone. Went wide and off at the lava rock, letting Tony past.  Tried hard to hang on to him, and put him under pressure. While doing this, Roger was sneaking up behind me in his stealthy (red) Healey. Hadn't noticed his car in my tiny mirror, and couldn't hear the quiet Healey over the glorious howl of the Aston's engine. Thus rather shocked when I looked behind me and found his car to pretty much fill the entire screen..   

Managed to keep him behind for a number of laps.  With my worsening tyres, Tony was inching away. Knew I was doomed when I put my outside rear wheel on the gravel in the double left-hander after the viaduct. No amount of opposite lock could catch the ensuing slide, and so Roger was past too.

With a few laps left, I caught a glimpse of Matt's car up ahead, but any hope of a fight to the finish evaporated, when I went off again at the double left-hander.

Thus finished 9th.  Grats to the podium and all ahead of me.  Jose has taken a big bite out of my Championship lead, so hope I can do a little better in the remaining two races 

Liked the track until about halfways, when a bad graphics stutter set in.  Never had this when practicing alone, so perhaps caused by other cars being within the field of view, but occluded by the track and/or objects.  Anyone else have this problem ?

Cheers,
Erling

[BillThomas]

Off the pace as usual, set new PB in qualifying -1.5 sec and improved it a number of times in the race.  Amused myself, between moving over for overtakers, trying to improve my PB. Glad to see Erling had tyre wear l thought it was just me; the last few laps I didn't know which end would let go first.   Had a couple of real tank-slappers out of last turn and went up that big stone, right on the apex. Tried to avoid reversing onto the track let number of cars go by before reversing onto the track and getting away again!  

No graphics problems for me Erling.

Tony, not able to vote for this track.

[senyorlobo]

I was incredibly fast with Healy. I did not expect to go so well. Although the was perfectly suited to the small Healy.

The start was very good. Ati and Geoffers were fighting several times and got a good gap. Aftere that a bit boring but happy for the win. I like the track a lot. I did not know him.

Don't  worry about the championship, friend. Very possibly can not run the last race so... impossible for me.

Grats pod and all finishers!

Cheers!

[Wiltshire Tony]

Tony, not able to vote for this track.

Odd. If you have already voted before you have to redo the voting. Maybe wait until the end of the season and vote then? (after clearing your previous selections).

[Geoffers]

Good fun as always, really liked this track.

Had a good battle with Ati for the first few laps until I had my first spin. Had another a little later & compounded it by stalling & then giving it too much throttle & going around in circles before regaining the track. This let Phil & Hayman go past, but I regained 4th when Hayman had a moment & started gaining on Phil. The last 3-4 laps were really tricky as the tyres seemed to have no grip left & I was powerless to hold off Hayman when he caught me, so finished 5th.

Congrats to the podium, cya all next week. 

[senyorlobo]

Results

Cheers!

[Wiltshire Tony]

Results

Cheers!

Thank you Jose 

[SpecialKS]

Results

Cheers!

Thank you Jose 

+1 ! 


How can you guys that fast in AH ? My pb was between 1:39 ans 1:40 
Does anybody have a good setup for me for practicing with the AH100