Endurance Championship - Season 2, Round 7, Anderstorp - Apr 9

[popabawa]

Wow. That was a hell of a race.

Qualified in 2nd with virtually nothing between me, Shark and SBG.

Spent the first half of the race just about managing to stay with Shark until he clipped the kerb and I squeeezed through. Then spent a horrible 10 mnutes or so with him glued to my tail with me praying not to make a mistake.

Thankfully I had a smooth pitstop and expected to see Shark sneak out ahead of me but the stupid game ruined that by screwing up Shark's pit-stop

I was about 18s up on Shark when I seemed to hit the worst traffic of the race and saw my lead coming down by more than 1s per lap until it was about 8s. Then Shark just disappeared and I saw him in the pits. Unlucky Shark, I think you would have had me but I'm not that disappointed I didn't get to find out  

I thought I was cruising to the NGT win when on the last lap I ran into the aftermath of an acident ahead of me and lost my splitter and got a puncture, then got moored on a kerb unable to move, I hit 'escape' in utter dispair but I think the game placed me 1st anyway as I'd lapped the other NGT's. Fingers crossed!  

Well done to Don on his 2nd place, an NGTL 1-2, that's not going to happen again soon!  

[EDIT] Well, the results are uploaded and it looks like Don won it and I was 2nd.

[picnic]

Replay and provisional results are up

Appolgies for the mess starting the server, now I wonder which window I typed that password into  Obviously the wrong one!

[Don]

I was truly gifted 2nd NGt with Shark and SBG retirements. I was a lap down to their pace and never would of had a chance to threaten for a top spot, but luck was my Lady tonight and I will take it(almost) anyway I can get it.

Great drive from Pops and a long over due 1st.
(ps, an apology to jon for not moving over sooner, sry)

[Simon Gymer]

I was about 18s up on Shark when I seemed to hit the worst traffic of the race and saw my lead coming down by more than 1s per lap until it was about 8s. Then Shark just disappeared and I saw him in the pits. Unlucky Shark, I think you would have had me but I'm not that disappointed I didn't get to find out 

Not sure. Wasn't going to be easy to overtake as we were very evenly matched. I was more miffed that we didn't get to battle it out more than losing out on a potential win.

I thought I was cruising to the NGT win when on the last lap I ran into the aftermath of an acident ahead of me and lost my splitter and got a puncture, then got moored on a kerb unable to move, I hit 'escape' in utter dispair but I think the game placed me 1st anyway as I'd lapped the other NGT's. Fingers crossed! 

Well done to Don on his 2nd place, an NGTL 1-2, that's not going to happen again soon! 

[EDIT] Well, the results are uploaded and it looks like Don won it and I was 2nd.

I decided to watch you till the end. Couldn't believe it when you ploughed into a big accident. However, I saw that CJ had already finished and i was dieing to type into the chat window "you can press ESC and still win Pops" as you were a lap ahead of anyone else from the timings. Don't think Don did win it, might be something wrong with the timings from the exports as I'm fairly sure Don was a lap behind, but might be wrong. Certainly he was an extra + lap on the timings in the monitor, but that might have been cause CJ had gone past him an extra time but not you, but that would mean that he had to have finished a lap behind you. Oh not sure, pretty sure you won Pops. Need to closely look at the results as you were still listed at the top of the NGT finishers in the monitor even after Don had finished.

[Simon Gymer]

After going to the controller screen and seeing about 5% brake on and max braking at less than 100% I may need new pedals I hope the controller thing isn't some sort of Team Shark curse!

Me too!

Perhaps it's the gods telling us to buy Speed7 pedals to get the advantage back from all those peeps that have them and have caught up. 

[Zacari]

 

Me too!

Perhaps it's the gods telling us to buy Speed7 pedals to get the advantage back from all those peeps that have them and have caught up.

Mmmm maybe I should listen!

[Truetom]

Np Nick, though I was surprised you went in the inside as I left plenty of room on the outside - I saw you were faster in a mosler, so I didn't wanna hold you back. Well...

Anyway, made a mess outta race, spinned 3 times I think before the pitstop. Even managed to put Jon out (not a happy Penguin day   ) for a second but luckily he managed to climb outta sand and race on. After pitstop Bernie had 43 seconds lead but I think he went non-stop (Bernie?) and was losing 2 seconds per lap which I was able to use to clamber ahead of him two laps before end. Sorry Bernie, you should have pitted (right Mark?   ).

I was lapped a lot of times by GTs (and once by NGT Shark which I clumsily botched, sorry. I just now see a big difference between lapping GTs and NGTs - not used to be lapped by NGT). I think I was lapped by Spacefox more times than by Claus. It seemed every time Spacefox lapped me he went into the sand - and I don't think it was my fault.  
My point is, I really lost a load of time by having to let GTs by. 2, 3 or more seconds per lap. Really ruins a direct duel (or it makes it more exciting, depends on the personal view I guess). Ah, the joy of dynamic racing.
I was very surprised to have a third place, totaly undeserved - too bad Shark and SBG.
Grats to Don and/or Popabawa   and, of course, Mr. Claus  

[Nick Phillips]

Yeah fair point Truetom, but guess a lack of experience made me go that way.

[Simon Gymer]

Has anyone tried the replacement Logitech Formula Force GP wheel/pedals?
http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/products/details/GB/EN,CRID=2217,CONTENTID=11066
(Logitech Formula Force EX)

Has a lot more buttons than the old one and it's still dirt cheap. The pedals on the old one didn't have anything like enough travel in them to make them really good for precise pedal controller, don't know which pedals they are using for the new one.

The old wheel still to this day is working for me (and I've had it for a very long time, although for the past couple of years as a backup). It doesn't have quite as much lock as the Momo, but it's pretty smooth, very small, ok force feedback (again not as good as Momo) and still feels solid. No creaking and clunking like the Momo has.

[whitham69]

Well that was awful for me. choose to run the lambo which i used allot in the past lol. Had a small spill of track on first lap caught up with the pop/shark battle and was a little nervous about overtaking them both. Did it show guys . Got past in the end and manage to drop the gap to the next car from 37sec to 15 then got beached on the kerb for what felt like a week, nearly quit but just managed to get it back on track using 6th gear flat out, then had tyre warning at next corner. Had to do the next 15 with shagged tyres until I emptied the tank enough to do a one stopper. was in 16th catching the NGT slowly until I hit SBG on turn one sry mate . had to do a drive through and had to try to pass the NGT cars again. Got caught up in 2 incident which caused a 3 car pill up, by that point all I could was laugh and hope the timer would reach zero.

For those that won well done. 

[JonM_uk]

Great drive from Pops and a long over due 1st.
(ps, an apology to jon for not moving over sooner, sry)

Hey Don,
 No worries mate, I don't think you should've moved over before anyway. I just got the the car in the wrong place and lost control so was my own fault
Big Apologies to Bernie Lomax mind. I got confused on lapping and thought Bernie was going to move one way but didn't. Sorry Bernie
Damn work's calling now. Full report on my many spins to follow. Grats to Don and CJ on Victory!!!

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Well, the results are uploaded and it looks like Don won it and I was 2nd.

Because Don finished the full race time and Pops didn't, GTR didn't record a finishing time for the latter, only a number of laps complete, so Don ends up ranked ahead. It's not the first time it's happened but I think it is the first time it's happened in a class win situation.

[popabawa]

Well, the results are uploaded and it looks like Don won it and I was 2nd.

Because Don finished the full race time and Pops didn't, GTR didn't record a finishing time for the latter, only a number of laps complete, so Don ends up ranked ahead. It's not the first time it's happened but I think it is the first time it's happened in a class win situation.

Can the result be reviewed Dave? I can see what's happened but it doesn't seem right.

I'd completed 50 laps and was on my 51st when I crashed. Don unlapped himself to complete his 50th lap but that still means I was half a lap ahead when the race finished and I'd already completed my 50th lap ahead of Don.

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Can the result be reviewed Dave? I can see what's happened but it doesn't seem right.

The problem I have is that the positions as stored in the exports aren't reliable (if somebody drops out before the end the position recorded is their position at the time, not the final position), so I have to use the number of laps complete and race time and work the positions out from them. I could manually enter the final race time by extrapolating it from the replay but I'm loathe to go down that route because once manual intervention slips into the process we introduce a big grey area.

I know it must seem harsh but the results have to be measured in a consistent way - and finishing races is what endurance racing is about.

[popabawa]

OK, cheers Dave.