GT Sprint Cup - Season 2, Round 10, Monza - Mar 21

[Simon Gymer]

Firstly and most importantly, massive congratulations to Greg for his win tonight and also for taking the championship!!!!!!!!!!

I had the worst race ever in my entire life. F575 was a very very very very bad choice. It had no rear end grip at all, would just spin decelerating or accelerating, I was completely hopeless in it. Very sorry to Jamera who I tried to overtake and failed miserable at, didn't make contact but made both of us go off. Utterly useless, was only my nature of never quitting that made me stay as it was so dismal i could barely get the car round the track. By the looks of it Tyf was having the same problem as me in the F575 cause I kept seeing him from time to time as we both cocked up a lot.

Very surprised I wasn't lapped, must have spun so many times. No low speed grip at all that car, awful, awful awful.

 

[[ZiP]Tyf]

Ok for starters, congrats Greg on win and champs!

For 2nds I was gonna say that, before u can have ur ballz cut off... U first need them!
Meaning Shark and me both had the ballz to pick a 'weird' car, F 575 GTC in this case. But I honestly think u lot can call us both eunuchs from now on, loool! 

I've never seen Shark spin so many times in 1 race, not even in a wet endurance one, haha! And mine had so much understeer that I was turning into Lesbos #2 when I wasn't even finished driving through Lesbos #1, ffs!

3rds, Shame that JonM couldn't make it, but seeing Ze Gregg won this race and a bunch of others this season, it's well deserved imo!

Roll on season #3, although my 2 fav cars will prolly be driven by some1 else Think I'll go for stuff that I can handle in the future

Tx for the races so far peeps!



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[Mark J]

B'ah...what a crap end to the season

Made up a couple of places on first few laps only to get rear ended at high speed, sending me spinning backwards across the first chicane for about 400 yards   and just to top off my annoyance (I) get given a stop and go straight after !!? ...presumably because my car went spinning across all the apexes from the shunt

Just to add the final insult to injury, i perform my stop and go, pull out the pitbox with the rev limiter on, leave the pit straight only to be told i got another stop and go for speeding in the pitlane ...wtf ?

Rejoined about 1 lap down...race over. Was so p*ssed off after all that, my concentration just went and i rethit the escape key.
Pants, missed out on the chance to have a good scrap with some peeps. :'(

[Aagramn]

Many congratulations to Greg on winning the race and the S2 championship.  

Had a horrible, horrible race. Qualified 4th with a new PB, and was matching the front runners for pace over the first few laps. Then I spun it out of the first chicane, and everything went downhill from there. Spent the rest of the race spinning off every few laps. Seems like most of the field were having similar problems. I need to check the replay over a couple incidents, hope I didn't get in people's way too much when recovering.  

On the plus side, it's been an excellent championship. The standard of racing has been very good, I look forward to racing with you all in S3.   Think I might give Monza a miss next time though, or maybe take a Corvette.  

[picnic]

Well done to everyone, especially Greg

Replay and provisional final standings are available

[Rich_A]

Grats to you Greg for winning drivers and Monza.

My goal was to finish ahead of you Mo and I thought you might have held on longer to third but then I thnk you spun into T1, I figured controllers issues like nGT sprint last week!! Think I could have battled for the win if I hadn't spun it round at Della Roggia - what a horrible turn that is!! Anyhow, think I can find some good pace at Monza. 

[greg130]

First of all thanks to everyone for making it almost fun to be moderator    An excellent standard of driving by all throughout the season.

Secondly thanks for all the grats guys, I never expected to win the championship but believe me I'm delighted.

Thirdly grats to the ZIP team on the team championship (if my maths are correct)

Onto the race, started well and took my chance when Flybri ran slightly wide on lap 2 or 3 allowing me to take 1st.  After that it was just a case of maintaining the pace and putting those consistant laps in.  There was never any room for error with no more than a 7 sec gap to the following guys.  I cant believe how nervous I was at the start, unbelievable, lol.
To cap off an excellent evening Flybri finished 3rd to secure our 2nd place in the team championship.

Anyway its been a great season racing with you guys, looking forward to season 3.

[Zacari]

Big congrats to Greg for the title, doing it in style winning the last race!

Had a good quali, almost broke my pb and started 5th.  Gutted for LEUV going LD on the formation lap, stonking quali lap for pole 
Started steadily but had too much rear wing AND too short gearing so I had to be mighty through the tight stuff and under braking to keep up with the front-runners.  Good battles with Rich and Fly but couldn't keep up with Gregs pace without my tyers melting!  First GTR race in a while so very happy with 2nd 

Think I'm going to try a different car for S3, far too many F550's around these days!

[JonM_uk]

Grats Greg, well done mate Looks like Tyf didn't carry out our team orders mind
NUMBER ONE BABY!!!!!

[mo]

Congrats to Greg on the championship - and finishing in style too

My goal was to finish ahead of you Mo and I thought you might have held on longer to third but then I thnk you spun into T1, I figured controllers issues like nGT sprint last week!!

 
No I've no controller issues that I can blame, just no control over the 550 on low wing. I lost it trying to go around the outside of Zacari into T1, no low speed grip and once it happens once the the tyres are fecked so I had about 5 spins in the end.
Congrats on the 3rd spot Rich, sorry I couldn't race you for it.

 Spent the rest of the race spinning off every few laps. Seems like most of the field were having similar problems. I need to check the replay over a couple incidents, hope I didn't get in people's way too much when recovering. 

No complaints from me,  our contact was hilarious - both of us rejoining after spins and in each other's blind spots followed by a comical tussle to get onto the tarmac and get the power down ...great stuff.

Raced with my lights on again, there's no way of telling from the cockpit of the 550  soz for the distraction.

Thanks for the racing throughout the season and look forward to S3...........

[Rich_A]

I finished 5th behind Tom in end actually. Had spin soon after your spin then another quite brutal spin when I was following Zacari. If anyone wants some praccy this week look out for CBFR server - usually v1.5. I'll be on it in evenings for praccy.

[[ZiP]Tyf]

Grats Greg, well done mate Looks like Tyf didn't carry out our team orders mind
NUMBER ONE BABY!!!!!

ROFL! Soz m8! Forgot to check my txt msgs, email, fax, for PMS and couldn't hear phone cause of listening to my F575GTC LUVVVerly engine noises!
I had actually planned to take out gregg when he was going to lap me, saying it was a racing incident etc... But he forgot to do so... Pfffh!
Had a blast seeing a Shark fly by me only to be fighting the kittens in the litter of the next corner though! Haha!



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[LEUVEN]

 :'( I'm still pretty gutted after yesterday as I've been reasonably lucky with simbin gtr recently, For some reason on the pace lap it decided to go black and then the usual "GTR has encountered problems........etc, etc.." Being the last race of the season I was just that little bit more excited about racing 

Nevermind, theres always next time.

Look forward to season 3, then gtr2

Thanks and well done to all involved, on both the drivers and mods side.

[Scott Carpenter]

I'm still having problems getting my computer fixed, think I fried it's brain last season. Jon Chad
and me get lagg since that car colour pack went on, but I'll try to get my computer fixed soon
so I can have a bash at sprint races maybe. Cheers Dave  later 

[Simon Gymer]

Not sure how a car pack could give lag? Could give you lower fps in theory but that's not lag. Probably just coincidence.

My system was giving me slow fps online after he 1.5 patch release which it had never done before (and I've never installed v1.5). But a new PC cleared all that. I'm still worried that we are not using v1.5 of GTR and that could be causing some problems, but that is not really based on fact and the missing v1.5 server options is not something we want to deal with. If we can just hold out till GTR2 then the v1.5 decision is irrelevant anyway.

More likely lag is a change in networking between your PC, the server and/or Simbin's lobby somehow, but gawd knows. 

Hope to see ya in the Sprint races!