NGT Sprint - S3 R3 - Brno - 23rd May

[Simon Gymer]

Well pleased with my nights work. Qualified 6th i think with as fast as i could go time (2:02.0). Unbelievably CJ was 2 seconds faster than that! Awesome qualifying from everyone. Really starting like this Mosler, it's so smooth to drive, never bobbles around badly or feels like it's going to lose it all the time, really well composed. Don't even have to rev it that hard to get it to go fast, the monster torque is great.

First few laps in the race, very routine, single file sort of stuff. Decided not to warm tyres on the parade lap, just brakes and went for a tyre conservation policy of driving smoothly and within myself. Well I had Greg and RS on my tail for company and after sitting not far behind for quite a long time Greg decided to put on the move. Very good pass mate, brilliant on the brakes. Bugger that I thought, gonna have to speed up now, can't be having people overtaking me!  Did that and sat on Gregs arse for a while until he made a little mistake up to the final turns and I passed on the outside of the last turn. After that I put the pedal to the metal and pulled out a couple of secondsl gap to now RS who had taken Gregs place (what happend to you Greg?). Just held it at a safe couple of seconds for the next 15 minutes till the end and finished on the podium. 

Mosler is monsterously thirsty, but had done my maths right and finished with plenty to spare unlike Magny-Cours.

Well done to CJ and Andy ahead of me, very fast indeed.

[greg130]

Good fun all round and what an intense first 10 laps.
Started in 7th, followed Shark around for 9 laps or so till I got bored of looking at his car (hehe, as if), managed to nip past him and started to pull away slightly.  Suddenly found myself in 3rd for all of 4 secs until it all got to much for me and I promptly blew it, lol.
Ended up 6th after Ruskus kindly blew his engine on the last corner.  

[jan duijs]

Nice race .good win Claus.I had alot of disapperihg cars at the start,and a voice that told me blueflag.Sorry i clipped you Aagramn but you were gone and back in a sec,you can also see that in the replay,did not even try to pass you there.Anyway hope you understand and see you all next race.

Jan

[Adam Parle]

I never really got started on this one ... came late so missed practice (and not really had much time to practice offline this week), had to change a nappy during qualy so only got a bad lap in, and selected the wrong setup for the race, cooked the tyres and then had to go help feed my new son.

It doesn't get any better than this folks.

May have to drop to part time in NGT I think if tonight is anything to go by, practice is going to be an issue, but I'll have a think.

[Mark J]

That was tough and competitive !

Couldnt get near my PB in qually, despite using the same setup that was very consistent in practise last night Only managed to qualify a measly 15th and was quite disapointed.

Race went much better, managed to overtake a few cars ahead of me in the early laps and then got past the odd spinner to find myself upto 7th? at one point and closing on the Truetom/'another' battle. Then got distracted by a recovering Ruskus after his spin and dropped away a couple of secs. Then Ruskus sneaked up the inside of me on turn 2 left hander and i couldnt see him in my blind spot so stayed wide and he went through nice and clean.
Then kept reasonable  station with him for quite a few laps until we caught Mo who had spun. Mo then span a while later whilst ruskus disapeared away from me. Then had a really long boring spell with nobody near me and a car that was struggling for grip.
Then 3 minutes from the end when i was about 7-8 secs behind the guys in front, i had a horrible 1fps type stuttering spell that made the car completely un-drivable and i had to crawl around the back of the circuit until it went away (had that in last couple of races...was wondering if its the new server or cos i have installed a couple of addon tracks ) It cost me about 10-15 seconds which is a shame as i may have been able to nab 6th place off Greg? at the end when he had a late spin (i presume?).
Brought it home 7th, so reasonably happy considering the pace up front. My race setup sucked towards the end.

Unbelievable pace up the front..top driving, dont know how you manage a 2:00 lap time

[whitham69]

Congrat to CJ on the win. That was great race the first 15 min were intense, cooled off a bit for me in the middle, then the last 15  min was pressure all they from another sharkie, Got to count myself lucky i finished were I did.

[Minton]

Great race. couldnt believe the times in quali and Qualified 16th with a pb .   Had some great battles all Race with Jamera and Rich A.  The first 5 or 6 six laps was mega with Jamera and Jonzo , couldnt match Jonzo's pace but had a awesome battle with Jamera for about 7 laps after Jonzo had pulled away.  Jamera seemed to be overdriving his Ferrari a bit which made the dice even better , I thiink his tyres gave up the ghost and he spun leaving Rich A to sit on my tail for about 10 laps!!   Sure he could have passed me and cleared off but didnt for some reason. Set up was the best ive had, the tyres stayed consistant till the end.
Well pleased with 8th at the end , grats to Claus, i cant believe how fast you are mate what planet you from again?

Cheers!

[RS]

Well I had a good race for me, no mistakes, just couldn't catch Shark, I think he may of been taking it easy by the end but I just couldn't get any more out of the tyres. I was a bit confused at the start when someone came racing pass the rest of the grid, it really made me laugh... I was like you cheeky bugger !! Totally lost my concentration for a bit.....

Best position for me so far, had great fun for first half or so of the race with Shark and Greg, it's a bugger that corner if you touch, thankfully not my fault, it was a shame coz it would have been close especially as Trutom had closed up on us....

Looking forward to the next race back in the UK....

RS

[picnic]

Ok no server replay  Sorry, seems that I forgot to change the location ReplaySaver was looking after the Admin rights fiasco last week  :'(

Provisional Results are available though. If people have a client replay please let Mo know, but don't email it to him unless asked to.

Sorry again

[Rich_A]

One spin, too much acceleration over that bump exiting T3. Good race and new card running gr8, grats to CJ for your win.

Was great behind you Dan, your livery makes car look fast. I didn't have straight line speed to get passed on exit so always goner be tricky.

[stnasky]

i lost connection during race

Enjoyed it up to that point.

Mark.

[Jeffrey]

Unofficial Lapchart

[RS]

Link is not working Jeff.....

[Truetom]

Before the race I was trying to make a good setup. I had one that seemed fast at the time (considering quali times, unbefu..inglivable), made a pb 2.02.1xx with it, but it melted softs literaly in one lap and when I put meds on it was slow... 

At last came to a compromise but I didn't have time to try it as a race setup. So I had to gamble and try to preserve tyres as much as I could. Qualified 10th and couldn't believe the times I was seeing - 2.00.xxx! WTF! I knew I could never reach that so I settled with it and was trying race setup in the second part of quali.

Btw, bad luck Jon, you would have made 2nd or 3rd quali time if not for disco. 

Anyway, as they say, the race has a life of its own and I knew if I was consistant close to (my) top possible level I had a chance to go up a ladder. And I did. Slowly came to 7th, closed on a group Greg, Shark and RS, I waited for something to happen. Then Greg went off, and I staying with RS as Shark went a bit faster. I expected your tyres will melt, RS, you were locking them in every corner for 10 minutes. But seems like they held. How?  Is this a Porsche glitch or what? I feel I'd be off in F360 if I let it do this. Somehow doesn't seem right. Then 5 minutes to go my tyres went and my lap times went 2, 3 seconds down, temps went up to 120. In the back Greg was holding Ruskus which saved my 5th place (thank you Greg  ). When Ruskus finaly came past he closed the 3 second gap in 1 lap. Was holding him for one lap but it was a matter of time. Then before a climb he gave up, or so I thought - never saw your engine smoke, R. I thought you didn't wanna risk taking us both off in the last corner. Well, I came 5th and considering the company around I'm satisfied. 

P.S. I thought you're gonna eat me for breakfast Mark J. You were much faster than me in a training the day before. Well, maybe in in Donington.   

[Minton]

I didn't have straight line speed to get passed on exit so always goner be tricky.

Fairplay Rich .