UKAC Season 2 Blancpain Sprint - Endurance round - Spa - Aug 24

[Georg Siebert]

The overtakes were cleaner now, however still lost combined 19 seconds.
Pace was good, need to work on pitstops & consistency now.
A complete driver makes no mistakes.
Cheers everyone,
see you at the Ring.

[picnic]

Good close fight for points for 6th to 10th too with Pete (what happened to you mid race last night?) dropping valuable points at Spa.

Lost the will after losing it trying to pass Spanner, sadly we had contact while I was out of control and it damaged my car. I elected to take an early pitstop but couldn't change the setting once in the pits so no damage was repaired. Driving while trying to use the mouse to reconfigure the app resulted in another huge chunk of lost time so I simply gave up. Out of the points, minutes behind anyone else and it was simply too hot.

[Maikel K.]

Who could've guessed, finished 3rd again 

Qualli went well. Just managed to get 3rd back from Mark J. in the last second. Had a good start and managed to get past Nsfw on the inside, but I knew he had better pace so it wouldn't last that long. Had trouble getting into my pace the first few laps, saw George spin out and I was first all of a sudden.
Had Nsfw right behind me and we went side by side for a few corners, but he eventually got by. Had a spin or 2 after that and then I was chasing Gary for 4th.
After the pitstops I rejoined right in front of George, thought I let him by easy on my frozen tyres
Was still chasing Gary after that who had a good pace, unfortanely he also had some minor mistakes and I managed to overtake him. Pace was alot better the 2nd stint.

Not a bad result after all 

[PaulMcCloud]

I'd actually love to see a replay if anyone has the file.... I have one Gary but won't be able to upload while tonight after work.

Had a whale of a time last night, even encountered a couple of cars after my pit stop!
Was in a Bentley sandwich for most of the first stint, it's so scary seeing one of those bearing down on you in the rear view mirror  lol
Got a PB in Quali so happy with that, looking forward to the next meet now, thanks to all involved, had a really good night 

[nfsw55]

That was a really good race for me, finally another race win
I had a very good race setup, even managed to do a 2:17.9 during the practise session on mediums. The soft tires overheated so fast during my qualifying lap so I was slower with them than with medium tires ( with a better tire management the soft tires should have been faster though) , but nevertheless managed to start from P2 on the grid.
Lost one place to Maikel at the start because he was on the inside line for turn 1, didn't want to risk a damaged car early in the race so the first laps were a bit careful.
In lap three Georg spun out at the front and the battle between Maikel and myself started. We had some good fights, going side by side into the busstop chicane and several other turns. But all went well without any contact and I was able to overtake him in turn 1. Soon after that Maikel also spun behind me and I had a comfortable gap tp Gary in P2.
Soon the pitstops came up and I came in after lap 12. When everybody pitted I noticed that I gained some more valuable seconds during the pitstops.
The last laps were quite relaxed as I had nearly a 20 seconds gap to P2, but still concentrated on my driving to avoid any stupid mistakes.
Sadly only 12 drivers for the big Spa event, maybe it was too hot for some
Still hoping for a bigger grid at the Nürburgring, looking forward to it.

[Georg Siebert]

A bit more determination to defend your track position, Maikel ,)

nsfw, lower soft tyre pressures by 1 psi in order to keep them in their optimal temperature range.

replay for everyone



http://www.file-upload.net/download-11880415/ukac_spa_gt3_online_race_25_gs.rar.html

[Mark J]

Thanks Georg and nice screen shot 

A costly capitulation last night then Pete  I saw your spinning car as I was battling Michaels Nissan and we both luckily dived either side and avoided you. Surprised you picked up much damage from a side by side?

[picnic]

Massive understeer I'm afraid. The lambo seems to suffer this as a trait normally so maybe damage just exacerbates this. I wouldn't pick this car again when we run another championship using these.

[garyjpaterson]

Thanks Goerg. Can't wait to see the replay, just downloading now. Might make a short highlights reel video if I have time... might be centred around me though  I'll show off the front row seat view I had of NFS and Maikel fighting it out

Just want to say that I was well aware you (and Maikel) were much faster than me and that I was well out of position, and wanted to let you guys passed without delay for me or you. I didn't really do it properly though   The first time you passed me was OK, I braked deep into the last chicane, the second time (after the pitstop) wasn't so clean. The problem I was having was you both were getting very close to me in the bits where you can't pass, then at the end of the long straights I found you weren't as close!   I can't properly remember, but someone passed me into Bruxxelles when I went wide, I think I could have defended, but decided against it.

Anyway I did enjoy that one, hoping the next will be as fun.

[nfsw55]

Some pictures from yesterday:






Also posted them over at the AC forum

[picnic]

Nice - thanks for sharing

[Mark J]

Nice arty shots nsfw  . Do you mind if I copy paste onto the Kunos thread? Bit of marketing  it's a never ending job! As I found out throughout this season 

[spanner]

cool  nice pictures

Was going really well until Pete tried to pass

Somehow managed to keep ahead of the growing train behind of Shark, Mark, Picnic and Linus but was pushing too hard and slowly got reeled in. Was interesting, but watching my mirrors too much! Couldnt work out why the Nissan and Bently hardnt breezed by. Shark came by but then seemed to be slow everywhere letting Picnic get on my tail who got a past into first right-left aft the straight (sorry, useless at corner names) but then got a bit of a tank slapper as you were heading right but on the LH side of the track. You slowed so much in doing this I tried to go to the right of you, more to miss you than try and re-pass. So it probably wasnt a big hit, but its been noticable in my lack of pace during the races, normally with some damage to the front so was cautious and decided to pit and repair the damage. Wasnt expecting it to take quite as long, thy could have had a countdown to make it more obvious!

Ended up right at the back but then couldnt even gain on SRW ahead though it was hard ot work out the exact time gaps as my app was constantly varying. still enjoyeable tojust lap on my own though.

[spanner]

Lol that first corner! Oh thats Gary in the Merc ahead, didnt he say he wanted a clean race with no contact? Panics, this is going to be tight! phew.... lol

[nfsw55]

Nice arty shots nsfw  . Do you mind if I copy paste onto the Kunos thread? Bit of marketing   it's a never ending job! As I found out throughout this season  

Already done this few hours ago