UKAC Season 2 Porsche Cup - Spa - Mar 15

[Baikal]

Who will take me into his team next championship?
Just look at me- i am extremely fast and experienced  
But need some kisses from fortune and lubricate some joints of the body  
Love Spa !
PS. Did you guys see the Brit Floyd group live concert  2013 in Red Rocks Amp?
This guy are genius, so, Pink Floyd will alive forever!
Love Pink Floyd !
PS . Sorry guys for PF offtop but "Sheep"  rithm from 77's is dictating on me now 

[Maikel K.]

The car is pretty tricky around the track here, it needs some damper settings 

And hopefully we'll get through the infamous first corner unscathed aswell 

Love Pink Floyd !
PS . Sorry guys for PF offtop but "Sheep"  rithm from 77's is dictating on me now 

I was just listening to the same album ( probably one of PF's best ) 
Favorite song on there for me is Pigs 

[Mark J]

I'm really peeved I could not break into the 22's  :'( I tried various aero and Arb settings but none made any difference. The one lap I was a 9/10ths up and the bloody downshift protector screwed up the last chicane...grrr.
An hours practise netted a whole 1/10th improvement on my pb 

Still, I do enjoy driving fast pork around Spa 

[Baikal]

Mark, try to up 1 click in front ride height. It brings some more roll for conner exits. Try to use a slightly negative toe on rear tyres. 
Maikel and nfsw55 is just a simple crazy ! I'll try to put they alone  on track in they's final battle 
But not others! 

[Bob]

  Hope there is others in the 25's or I'm in for a very lonely outing.

[Nick Atsidakos]

Hi guys, sadly I can't race in Spa and it's one of my fav tracks. Thank you for letting me race in the end of the Cup season. Have a nice race today.

[Thomas Blackett]

Congrats Maikel! A well deserved championship!

[Maikel K.]

Great championship this been. These cars are definitely in my top 3 now 

Quite an uneventful race for me. Had a good start, shame nfsw dropped down abit at the start/T1, would have been a nice fight. Saw that there were some close battles going on behind me, so I just went on trying to beat my pb. Then this combo started to grow on me all of a sudden. The last few laps the rear was starting to loose grip and I was drifting ever so slightly into the corners, that actually felt pretty good. 

Gratz to nfsw and Thomas aswell on getting 2nd and 3rd in the championship. Seems to have been a close fight 

[Mark J]

Big congratulations to Maikel on winning this fantastic championship  

Also to Nfsw and Thomas in a very close fight for 2nd and 3rd  

What a great race to finish the series too, really enjoyed that race long fight and chase with Sharky   and Chris earlier.
Thought we might both get Michael too with the momentum we had, but alas my rears started to give up the ghost on lap 14 with a couple of scary oversteer moments.
All that effort for just 7th  . Brilliant fun though.

Many thanks to all that raced and supported this series, hope you enjoyed the racing as much as I did.  

[Linus27]

Congrats Maikel, well deserved  

That was a very tough race indeed and probably one of my least favourite for being fairly uneventful.  My objective for this series was finishing 6th in the drivers championship and 3rd in the team championship. For this race I needed to beat FMG by 1 point to secure 3rd in the team championship, beat him by 4 points I think to get 5th in the drivers, not get a terrible result so Mark jumps back ahead of me to claim 6th and stay close to Alexey in case he gets a podium and knocks us all down a place. Qualified a half decent 6th and made an ok start. Had a little battle with Thomas on the run down to Eau Rouge but he was braver than me and stayed ahead. Then had a few laps trying to hold NFSW back but he got ahead also. FMG was behind and I was able to slowly pull away a bit each lap. Most of the race I was on my own but about 4 laps to go, Simon was on me and I was doing just enough to hold him back. My car was horrible at this point and so nervous on turn in and on the last lap, I got a wobble and Simon nipped past. I tried to fight back but I had nothing left and with Mark behind, FMG further back and Alexey only two places ahead, it was objective achieved.

Amazing racing, amazing championship, can we do another please??

Thanks to Mark for organising and all your hard work and for everyone else involved in helping run this amazing league 

[Thomas Blackett]

A lack of pace again this eve, ended up 3rd chasing Alexey, had a go but couldn't get in done, a couple of laps and errors later I was behind nfsw, his car started a warp around again so it was more a case of guess where the car is going to be next instead of racing. Very annoying tbh. Missed my braking at the last corner and he was gone, 3rd was handed to me when Alexey was sat in the middle of track stationary? Not sure how or why?? All in all it has been great fun racing you guys this season and a big shout out to Mark and UK Simracing for hosting. I am sure they would appreciate a donation if you haven't already. See you on track again soon.

[Simon Gymer]

That was a fantastic race, helped by me being useless in qualifying, having to come back to where I probably could have started and avoiding any crashes on lap 1.

Virtually no practice again and assumed previous setup would just work. It didn't. Was hopeless in qually, the car felt like it was on ice at the back and unable to push without falling off. I did what you should never do (but I had to) and made some big changes to the setup just before the start of the race with no testing at all making guesses as to how to fix it. I must have been on clever juice because they simply worked. Car was stable but I was also able to play with it and I felt confident right through to the end. My fastest lap was 2 from the end I think so no tyre performance drop off for me!

So starting from 8th I settled in and was immediately getting held up by Chris and Mark (mostly Chris, sorry mate ). Mark and I both pressed him and when Mark eventually got past I was through at the same time too. After pushing Mark for a while I eventually got past him and went as quickly as I could to catch FMG and Michael. To my surprise caught FMG fairly quickly and he obliged by making a mistake and making it easy to pass. Thought Michael was too far away to get before the end of the race and pushing a bit too hard I was losing some time with minor mistakes, but just managed to sneak past with 1 lap to go when he made an error nearly losing the back end in the middle fast bit.

Have to say I was on the absolute edge for the entire race tonight pushing as hard as I possibly could and it felt awesome!

Well done to Maikel for the win and championship, well deserved and also to my team for the team title. Go Sharks!

These cars have been a revelation to me as I never thought a Porsche could be so much fun. I really think this might be in the top 3 cars of all sim-racing for me (and I've been doing it for a long time), I absolutely love them, perfectly balanced between easy and hard with the ability for great racing too.

Would be great if there was a Ferrari to race against with these to spice up the grid a little, but I don't suppose there is, is there? Porsche vs Ferrari. Epic.

[Baikal]

Thanks for the race guys!
Congratulation to Maikel- you are winner and absolutely fast racer!
Congrats to nfsw55 and Thomas!
This race was very important for me- i've tryed to up my champ table position.  
Q 3rd and  then a sucess ( lucky) race start for me ( look - i was in Neutral gear in 1-st turn!   but ok )
Stayed in 2nd pos till 12 laps, defending from Thomas and nfsw55. Aaand ... 1 small braking mistake in Pouhon turn takes me to spin.  Lost my 2-nd pos to 4th. Lost podium, lost champ positioning   Then approached to Thomas again but it was too late.  

I am happy that joined to UKAC community. There are a good old school and proper pilots here. My only problem is that i racing in 4 AM at deep night here . Sometimes is tooo hard to wakeup from bed this time   :'(
Thanks all guys what i seen in races! Battles was fun, interesting and sportish! Cup car brings a very good race emotions!  
Great thanks to Mark, Pete and Jeff for organisation, support, and server service! All of it was in high level and friendly athmosfere! Stay same condition!  
I hope i will join UKAC again for new champs and fun. Will check news! Mark, please, PM me your steam account name to joing me as a friend. Mine is baikal67. Welcome!

My 1st lap and race highlights.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8jAGOXEIYc
 Best wishes guys!  
    

[Baikal]

... 3rd was handed to me when Alexey was sat in the middle of track stationary? Not sure how or why??

When , Tom? May be it was only ones and all was correct.   We all had a rooms here ( 2nd or 3rd lap 10 turn approach as i remember?)  
And yes- i defends my dreamed podium!  

[Thomas Blackett]

It was when as I now know you spun at Pouhon, handing me undeserved podium. Greatfully accepted!