UKGTL Season 18 Lawrence Clemo Memorial Trophy - Le Mans - May 14

[SpecialKS]

Love this version of the track - even in these cars 
One short moment of carelessness led to an off at "Virage Porsche" in lap two.
I think I lost my front splitter and slightly damaged suspension and/or stearing but could go on without loosing much pace
but with some strange behaviour especially in right-hand bends. Sorry Bill for the bumper caused by that strange behaviour!
Due to the missing splitter I had some funny jumps at the jumping hill just before Mulsanne.
Unfortunately I could not manage a backwards roll like Peter Dumbreck did back in 1999 
Get used to the damaged car more and more and felt lucky to finish.

Thanks again for organizing!r

The bump slowed me but luckily caused no damage to affect handling. In fact I set a number of PBs. On Saturday on my first out lap I had a number of bumps/rubs along the Armco and at the hump before the first gear right hander the car nose lifted and the car flew ( I thought it would do a backflip) but it made a tail first landing and I managed to brake and get around the corner.

I seem to remember a Merc (?) flew of the track and luckily landed the right way up in the trees. Obviously an aerodynamics problem and the track was modified to slow the cars down. Remember a motoring enthusiast Cheif Constable (Northampton ?) turned a blind eye to Le Mans cars doing early morning flat out runs on the M1 prior to race.

More, more high speed tracks Tony - the 10 km Monza track with its banking should be fun!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e21ZjwZGjiQ

[BillThomas]

More, more high speed tracks Tony - the 10 km Monza track with its banking should be fun!

You only have to ask Bill. The next Fifties Enduro is at Monza (June 4th) but not the banked layout. I can change it if I get enough positive feedback.

Next week is a Le Mans cars race at Monza 60s which has the high speed banking! Porsche 917 LH should be handful there. 

[BillThomas]

More, more high speed tracks Tony - the 10 km Monza track with its banking should be fun!

You only have to ask Bill. The next Fifties Enduro is at Monza (June 4th) but not the banked layout. I can change it if I get enough positive feedback.

Next week is a Le Mans cars race at Monza 60s which has the high speed banking! Porsche 917 LH should be handful there. 

Whoops, wrong again, mixed up versions of Monza, must be more careful! 

[Erling G-P]

@ Erling, you see that's my big problem. I can design races but there based on the times that I can do. In my world it would have been a much closer finish between the classes but I couldn't simulate what mad danish aliens could do.
With so many leaving, so early in the race, it turned into bit of a yawn fest I'm afraid. Glad Erling liked it though as it was a comment about these cars being a blast on a decent track that nudged me into creating this event so not all bad.
@ Clive, hope you enjoyed my fireball in qualy. No fault of yours; I mistook the turn where I crashed as being a slight right hander and not the tight right hander 

Thanks to everyone who turned out 

I'm thinking of running a series in Season 20 with maybe a slower Div (one with a few more skins preferably) using some classic '79 circuits (non-Hermann).

Could have been closer Tony, depending on car choice of various drivers.  My Div 2 times were quite slow compared to Geoffers; my best being a 3:47.7.  On my full race simulations, my Div 1 average laptime including the pitstops, was 5 secs faster than my average Div 2 time. Ziu would probably have been faster still in a Div 2 car, so could potentially have been very close.

Any form of these cars will be welcome in my book, especially on fast tracks with flowing, high speed curves.