UKAC Season 1 ETCC - Hockenheim - Nov 11th

[Mark J]

Really Enjoyed that despite having my third round on the trot with nobody to race!  I seem to be too quick for the rest of the pack but not fast enough to trouble the front four so I spend the whole race in between  .
At least this time I kept within visual range of the 3 cars ahead all having a good battle. but didn't see anyone behind me from about lap 2 onwards  i was a bit shocked to see nearest laptime was 3 seconds slower  tardy lot 

Good turnout considering a couple of regulars were missing, though disappointed to still not attract any new racers from NG or Kunos. But thanks to all who attended and raced to the end, hope there were good battles. 

Well done to alien Jeff  and the podium. 

Bob, not sure what's happened for you, will watch the replay and get your correct position adjusted.

[Mark J]

Just watched the replay, Bob finished right behind Spanner and in front of Frex (nice close racing you 3 had)
so can the powers that be change the standings and put Bob 7th?

Big thanks to Pete again tonight for setting up the server and posting the results and to Erik for the replay.  

[Stefan aka Postal]

Ahhh just gutted i missed that one. Was looking forward to race here. Lesson learned not to touch any update buttons before setting up a race session.

[picnic]

Just watched the replay, Bob finished right behind Spanner and in front of Frex (nice close racing you 3 had)
so can the powers that be change the standings and put Bob 7th?

Not sure how to do that or even if I can, I'll have a word with Dave. Interesting that both Dave's importer and the AC Log Parser lost Bob for a lap. I'll try and check my replay tonight to see if anything funny was happening around the end of lap 5. Bob had a very long lap 5 according to the lap charts.

[Bob]

 ;   Checked replay and can't see anything untoward apart from Frex on my back bumper most of the lap. It was from lap five I had the blue flag come up so it must be a hiccup with the game. it's not important, it didn't spoil an excellent race.

[Jester]

;  Checked replay and can't see anything untoward apart from Frex on my back bumper most of the lap. It was from lap five I had the blue flag come up so it must be a hiccup with the game. it's not important, it didn't spoil an excellent race.

I think I know what happened. You went a bit wide in lap 5 and went on the grass and with that I think you just missed a timing sector, hence a miscount for a lap and considered a lap down. It's a problem with some tracks that they have the timing sectors too close to the track and not set further in the field or against barriers.

Off topic, it looks like the time of the site is wrong too 

[picnic]

I think I know what happened. You went a bit wide in lap 5 and went on the grass and with that I think you just missed a timing sector

I did wonder if that was the problem, thanks for checking

[Mark J]

Good to see a couple of new (old) faces joining the action last night.  We were missing Postal, Shark and Sutol so knocking on the door of 15 cars  Just surprised that a popular car and decent tracks combined with promoting it elsewhere still doesn't pull in more racers 
I often see Brit racers in other AC forums races but we don't seem to pull any new guys here. I was in a 25 car grid GT3 race Sunday night and it was epic with someone to race for a whole hour, so a real shame we can't get those numbers here.

[picnic]

Race results amended and championship standings updated. Hopefully it'll go wrong again soon so I don't forget how to do this and have to annoy Gizmo  His LM2 stuff is all encompassing when you look deeply in to it 

[ChrisR]

personally i HATE the group A and the DTM, the standard E30 is my prefered car out of all the E30's.

[spanner]

Really good fun that, with Bob and Frex but you've got me worried now. Being that you got passed me then dropped back even behind Bob, so did you think i was too defensive? I tried to drive to a line that i thought allowed the two of us through, but having not driven it before i might have misjudged it so sorry for that.

[Mark J]

it looked a good 3 way fight in the replay for most of the race  

In hindsight I should have closed the points scoring up for this series   the points from 5th onwards suck a bit. Lesson learnt for next time, is my first series after all  

shot from last night:-


The Italian parkland of Imola beckons in two weeks time    Might have to raise your ride heights and dampers for those imposing kerbs  

[frex]

Really good fun that, with Bob and Frex but you've got me worried now. Being that you got passed me then dropped back even behind Bob, so did you think i was too defensive? I tried to drive to a line that i thought allowed the two of us through, but having not driven it before i might have misjudged it so sorry for that.

No not at all, no problem with your driving and no apology necessary. When I passed you we traded some paint and I thought I had pushed you wide. Actually it wasn't too bad, but I wasn't happy at the time so let you back through. I hadn't meant to let Bob through as well but with the next corner coming up fast it was tricky getting back online without getting in his way, so it was safer to just drop in behind him.

Anyway none of that matters, it was great fun all the way, really enjoyed it. Thanks to you both, and congrats podium.

[Jeffrey]

First time using dropbpx, but here is my setup:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/jry0s69rn3kzp9i/BMW%20M3%20Gr%20A.ini?dl=0

[Stefan aka Postal]

Thanks Jeffrey. It gives us not so alien drivers a good base into understanding car setups. Will certainly give it a whirl