Endurance Championship - Season 2, Round 4, Brno - Mar 12

[ginsters sponsored]

I forgot to mention how much I enjoyed racing with Gerald and Jam, before I went off again  . Chasing them for a couple of laps, I could see they were having a real battle and I couldn't wait to join them. Glad to see that their "illustrious" leader clearly gives no team orders .

[Mark J]

I was surprised at the amount of finishers too   The few wet races i've been in before generally sees half the field disapear before race end. My car felt very stable under braking and a bit of extra coast and power helped tame the spinning wheels on acceleration out the turns too, so i was hoping to pick up a few places from other peoples misfortunes but it just didnt turn out like that ....typical.
Good race, the rain makes it quite mentally demanding to keep it clean for that long, and as usual i was sweating like a piggy and felt like i had shin splints in my left leg from all the braking.

[enz13_gt]

still struggling with plr settings,but was running 1.57's n8's in prac so thought i would be ok for race,then it feckin rained and rained and rained,could'nt string a lap together in the wet,so happy to finish q with all the ngt's behind me,race was the same always little errors that cost time,spent most of the race thinking they must be on slicks,but stayed out until the wets gave up,pitted changed to soft slicks and set off,should have just pressed esc,span before start /fin  straight and got beached,then got puncture then threw com thru window ,just to let you know counting backwards from 10 to 1 does not help congrats to class winners and well done everyone who finished

[Jamera]

I really should read the weather reports before racing 

Practised long and hard, got the setup right, was consistantly lapping 2:05's in praccy, arrived in race, pigging raining!!!!!!

Quickly threw together a wet setup and had a lousy qually. Race started and soon settled into a rhythm near the back of the field. Had an absolutley brilliant battle with Gerald ( where do you get your wet pace from??) and also with Pops, held him off for ages til I pitted. That was my biggest mistake, pulled in briefly lost controls by the time i got them sorted I was way down again. Truth be known I think if I'd of had enough fuel I could have done a non-stopper. Anyway just lost too much time to Pops and couldn't make it up. All in all though a very solid race for me, no spins, just a couple of twitches really and by far my best wet performance. Congrats to all finishers, well done

[popabawa]

Had an absolutley brilliant battle with Gerald ( where do you get your wet pace from??) and also with Pops, held him off for ages til I pitted.

That was a super battle Jam. I was kinda disappointed when you pitted, I was really enjoying it... only 'kinda' though, don't think I'd have got past you otherwise!

[silver53]

Hi Guys Jam i  was always good in the wet. Have won real races and also made a pigs ear of things by thinking I was only just in the lead when I was miles in front pushed to hard and threw a race win away. It was good fun and sorry to the porsche that thought  they could outbrake me in the wet it just aint gonna happen as its the only place I am quick. I have a lead foot cos all the real race cars I drove had much moore grip than power. As an example the GAA Ford Powered skoda would be braking when I changed into 4th. He just used to dissapear down the next straight however. Grats to all for excellent driving last evo.gerald

[Mark J]

Blimey, that was a veritable paragraph from the man of few words    Glad you had a good race Gerald and Jam.

[[ZiP]Tyf]

I forgot to mention how much I enjoyed racing with Gerald and Jam, before I went off again  . Chasing them for a couple of laps, I could see they were having a real battle and I couldn't wait to join them. Glad to see that their "illustrious" leader clearly gives no team orders .

Only 1 team order m8, which I make well known by flashing my lights when driving behind any other ZiP in a race! Even though I'm usually a lap or 2 behind, haha! GET OUT OF MY WAY! Awwwwwwwwwwwwkkk!



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[Truetom]

 

 

[Krueger]

I was really looking forward to this race , since it's one of those tracks what suits for F575 imo.  Wet weather made things a bit dificult thou , but i had a somekind of wet race setup and only made some minor adjustments to it.   Qualifying was exciting and top 4 was very close , i was pretty pleased for my time and 3rd place on the grid.

Early parts of the race was really exciting and i felt pretty confident following my team mates in close approximity , coz the rain equalized things alot and it made it all very intresting.  Mo was chasing our trio in striking distance too and race couldnt have been much more exciting at that time.

Then CJ and Darin had a collision in T3 and i literally drove under Darins flying Ferrari , man that was scary...     .  CJ decided to wait him and so i got the lead , followed by Mo in close distance.  Managed to pull a small gap but then we hit the trafic and gap went down again.  After few laps there was again car infront and when i was driving behind Mark through T5-T7 , there was a unfortunate misunderstanding where Mark was slowing down to give me some room to overtake outside in T7 and same time i had decided to follow him on the inside line and do the overtake after T7 . Didnt have time to brake and our cars collided , resulting Mark to spin off the track.  Bad luck there  ,but not much i could do to prevent it , sorry anyway for the lost time.

 Amazingly Mo had some problems with T6 at excact same moment and the gap actually went bigger between us.  About 2 laps later i started to have some tire problems and went off in T5 (1st of the numerous off's there  ) , Mo got past me and Claus had done amazing recovery from early problems , running allready behind me now.  Half a lap later i had another big slide and lost the 2nd place there for CJ , tried to hang on there and then Mo went off in the excact same spot were i did (T5) , so i got the 2nd place back.

 Lap after that it was pitstop time for me  , took some fuel and fresh set of soft wets again . Even thou i knew i could have some troubles again in later state of the stint with soft wets on rear,hard wets would have been a jump to the unknown and that was a risk i didnt wanna try.   Tried to push really hard on fresh set of tires and to my surprise i saw Mo still in pits when i went past there , lap later i saw Nakano driving in 2nd place in front of me , moving quite slowly and had to back off some , then tried to get inside in T7 , but took it too tight and car bouched from the curbs  , tapping slightly Nakano's car , but in these conditions it was all what it take and he spinned off.  Allready apologied for that , but i say it again... Very sorry about that , should have waited a bit longer before trying to make a move , my mistake.   Decided to wait and let him overtake me back coz it was clearly my mistake , after about 30-35 seconds Nakano got his car out of the grass/graveltrap and we could continue our race again.

Then we continued our battle and overtook him again , only to gave it back a lap or two later in T5 for a change   , again some close fighting and this time i managed to keep in front of him after yet another ovetake.  Mo had built a nice gap while we had our come together with Nakano and it was looking impossible to catch him anymore , tried to push few laps  anyway , to see if the gap would start to shrink and it did , quite fast too.  Then it was again time to have some tireproblems and time was running out , did my best but car was slipping and sliding very badly and again in T5 i was on trouble , had a nasty 4wheel slide and Mo got slightly away again.  2 or 3 laps to go and gap was looking too big to catch Mo anymore , but then he had an off in last part of the track and i got the 2nd place for present.   Tough luck there Mo , i think the 2nd place would have been yours otherwise...Amazing run if you didnt change your tires at all.

So , that was my Brno race , not really what i was hoping for , result is ok , but driving was messy and tire problems at later state of the stint made it very dificult. Speed was there but consistency was missing...  :|

Thanks for the race again , allways intresting to do some wet racing and most of the time it was good fun anyway  .

Congratulations for Claus (GT) and Shark (nGT) for wins , well done all survivors too  .

Cya in track...

[[ZiP]Tyf]

I just read all that! And I didn't even race! LOL!

Shame I missed it, even with my snail pace I would have stood a chance

T

[Rich_A]

Soft tyre only last 20 - 30 mins or so.. hard's last forever but no grip. I'lll have to check out intermediates me tinks.

[Simon Gymer]

I'lll have to check out intermediates me tinks.

They're no good for full rain or monsoon conditions, you'll never get the power down.