NGT Sprint - S3 R2 - Magny Cours - 9th May

[Simon Gymer]

Last minute decision to try the Mosler rather than my trusty F360, had just managed a 1:39.9 in off-line practice so was quite pleased and ready.

Times in qualifying were great, well done chaps. Didn't get near my 1:39 and ended up 7th? on the grid.

Had some good battles and then with 5 minutes or so to go I got the rear locked up and round she went. After that another couple of spins and decided to coast it home to make sure there weren't anymore mishaps finishing 7th. Good job as I only had vapour in the tank at the end. The Mosler fuel consumption far more than it said in the garage and that was with a fair bit spare in the first place.

One scarey moment when Paul's car froze in front of me and Emmo and we had to swerve round it in the last chicane then he reappeared half a lap later further up the road. 

Congrats to CJ, Ruskus and Paul for the top 3 and thanks for the excellent racing everyone.

[Mark J]

Fantastic race !

Was well chuffed with qually, got a much better PB of 1:41.01 but still only qualied 9th behind all the aliens and the crafty bugger Truetom....you did me yet again in qualy, ya swine you    This is becoming a real regular feature between you and i !

I had a great race !  Finished 6th behind the aliens and to make it better, i beat Sharky boy! ...hehe, saw him spin late on in the race and i nipped by him on the inside into spoon?, he tried to come back at me and span again...muhaha

Spent the whole race dicing first with RSM BIg G, then he lost it in the final chicane and by having to avoid hitting his car, RSM Grinsom sneaked past. Then spent a while dicing with the pair of them until  Big G fell away from us and i then spent the whole race chasing RSMGrinsom's bumper, always within 1-2 seconds of him for lap after lap....great racing right to the end, where i finished just behind him.
The fast bugger didnt make any errors,except the odd tyre lock up at the first hairpin. Great racing.

Had great race pace throughout and was very pleased with 6th considering the other contenders on the track.

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Replay and provisional results available.

Had an interesting race basically following Jam, never more that about 5 secs between us but often 0.5   Trouble was he was just a fraction quicker than me and made no real mistake. We caught Greg up with 3 or 4 laps to go but he held it together enough that we all remained in position to the end.

Great pace up front.

Was a little surprised the server wasn't fuller, we could have accomodated the grid on the old server! There were 14 slots free

[Aagramn]

Had an OK race in the end. Qualified quite well with a new PB but my race pace was lacking. My Mosler was very twitchy over the fast chicanes which didn't give me any confidence. Clipped an invisible bollard early on which lost me a couple places. Made a couple mistakes and had a long trip into the gravel at Adelaide, leaving me back in 18th. Decided to stick with it, and was pretty consistant for the rest of the race. Was pleased to finish 14th and grab the final point.

Excellent pace at the front of the grid again. Good win by CJ, was amazed how early in the race you caught and lapped me.

[Jeffrey]

Did a PB in qually of 1:38.8xx. But ofcourse, Claus had to ruin it again and take pole .
Immediatly in race I noticed that Claus was gonna be way faster. But my race-pace was awefull. Yesterday I did constant 1:39's/1:40's, but now I was only in the 41's  42's .
I was slower than the guy infront, but faster than the one behind, so the same thing happenend as in Barca. I was between two groups, making it another booooooooooooooring race.
In lap 4 I just had to do it...knock out the posts in the last chicane. Because I couldn't see them, which made it extremely tricky to go through that chicane. Si I decided to cut it a bit to see if they were still there, and...yes. Damaged my aerondynamics a bit, but atleast now I knew they were gone.
Happy with being 2nd.
Grats to Claus

One thing that just seized to amaze me is that how many backmarkers spin infront of me. Don't get me wrong, not pissed, but it's just odd. This race another 5 or 6 people that I lap spin infront. This is pretty tricky because I have to make an evasive (sp?) manouvre. I also have problems seeing because of the smoke, and I lose concetration because of an unexpected manouvre. Just glad it didn't cause any problems yet.

[Jeffrey]

UNOFFICIAL LAPCHART

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UNOFFICIAL LAPCHART

That's rather nice - Ta

[Adam Parle]

Yep, although my laps don't make for the best reading 

I don't know how you guys get the laptimes you do - bit more practice and experience that me I guess!

[BigG]

But check mine, all good until the end and then its more like a mountain made for skiing! :'(

[Adam Parle]

 

[Truetom]

Battled for 6th place for about 3 laps, then my front left wheel decided to go separate way - I cut a bit too much chicane. Pitted, came out one before last. Quit. Well done winner and others in front, awesome times. I made pb at 1.40.6xx and I was only 8th ! 

Well done Mark, you proved to be more consistant than me in the race. My quali time was mere 0,4 seconds faster, I think, so we're fairly equal for some time now. Nice.    Who leads in punting off the track? 

[popabawa]

I was blown away by the pace in qualifying. The pace in this NGT series is amazing 

Started in 12th, grabbed a couple of places, then lost them back (and a few more) almost immediately missing my braking point. I worked hard for a few laps to get back on terms with Mark@GP who then span coming out of the final chicane. I had nowhere to go but the wall which resulted in a broken splitter, I decided it was too dangerous to try for an entire lap back to the pits so I retired.

Thanks for the lap charts Ruskus, they are great! You can never have too many stats

[Paul968]

Well pleased to get 3rd at a track I've never got on with before. Like others I couldn't get a good qual lap but was happy with 5th. Made up a place when Matjas hit the bollards at the last chicane and held up Emmo, and then another 2 corners later when Matjas speared off the road. Then spent several laps fending off Emmo, who was dynamite down the straight but not quite so good round the back. In the end he totally outbraked himself into the hairpin, I had to stay wide to avoid being taken out but managed to get round OK. Then had Shark behind, who as usual was plugging away with those annoyingly consistent fast laps. When he eventually went off it was Emmo again but quite a few seconds back, and I held on for 3rd - very satisfying  Ruskas ahead was just too fast for me to worry about and Ceejay was on a different planet - well done to those two.

Brno next, which is much more my cup of tea. Can't wait 

Paul

[Adam Parle]

One thing that just seized to amaze me is that how many backmarkers spin infront of me. Don't get me wrong, not pissed, but it's just odd. This race another 5 or 6 people that I lap spin infront. This is pretty tricky because I have to make an evasive (sp?) manouvre. I also have problems seeing because of the smoke, and I lose concetration because of an unexpected manouvre. Just glad it didn't cause any problems yet.

I think I may be one of the offending spinners .... can't remember clearly, if it was me it was at T1 late in the race (penulltimate lap??), but I'm pretty sure I was well out of the way before you got there.  I have spun infront of the leaders on a couple of occasions - been watching my mirrors to help make sure I don't make a nuisance of myself .... and lose concentration and spin because of it  .  Oh the shame of it all.

[Mark J]

That Lapchart analyzer is great, cheers Ruskus.