UKGTL Season 19 Lawrence Clemo Memorial Trophy - Grenzlandring - May 8

[Erling G-P]

That was a bit flat; big lead with 2 laps to go, when I got DQ'ed for ignoring S/G I never realized I got, same as Geoffers 

[Dominick]

Comedy of errors starting at the pistop where I overshot my spot and had to reverse to find it. Must've left in too much of a hurry because I got a S&G. Got another one while serving the S&G.... And to top it I saw Coyote getting a DQ and thought the best thing I could do was to stare at his car in the last corner. You guessed it: plonk, dead.
Grats to Roger & Bob!
 
By the way, who is Lawrence Clemo? Couldn't find anything online.

[Wiltshire Tony]

Results and replay now posted.

Sorry to the guy's who had unfathomable DQ's  We have used this track before and never had such problems, so I'm puzzled.

[Wiltshire Tony]

By the way, who is Lawrence Clemo? Couldn't find anything online.

Lawrence Clemo was a sim-racing enthusiast who enjoyed mixing it up at the tail end of the pack. He was a popular guy who would do caricatures of drivers if they sent him a photo.
He succumbed to his cancer in May 2010, so since then we run a race every year in his memory.

https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=7854.msg139217#msg139217

https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=7609.msg136663#msg136663

[Wiltshire Tony]

Got track downloaded this time, but all the cars are new to me, not to mention the extra time I need learning RWD machinery, so I will skip this one.
However there's hope that I will show up on some Wednesday.

Have a good one guys.

Be good to have you join us. FYI next week is American muscle cars from 60's & 70's https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=15272.msg278258#msg278258 and the week after we have our KAD Mini series https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=15238.msg278115#msg278115

[Wiltshire Tony]

The Maserati default settings do not have a working pit limiter as some discovered last night. There is a fix (which I forgot about).

In the file's Maserati450S_45.hdc and Maserati450S_57.hdc find the section headed [Engine] and change the line Speedlimiter=0 to Speedlimiter=1.

[EvilClive]

Good to see a decent grid for Laurie's memory, he was a truly nice guy in the simracing world.

Sorry to have left the action so early  maybe if I had hung around a little longer I might have sampled some champagne??? But given how intransigent the Maserati was about turning left ( turning right seemed to come naturally to my car!!! ) that was never going to happen. lol

Grats to those who did survive this speedbowl and saw the flag.

FWIW I had rarely driven the 4.5 Masser before ( opting for the big brother whenever I had the option ) and expected it to be a little more benign around this track.  But to be honest, the 5.7 litre version seems like a pussy cat compared to what I was wrestling with last night  ........or maybe it's me

[Dominick]

By the way, who is Lawrence Clemo? Couldn't find anything online.

Lawrence Clemo was a sim-racing enthusiast who enjoyed mixing it up at the tail end of the pack. He was a popular guy who would do caricatures of drivers if they sent him a photo.
He succumbed to his cancer in May 2010, so since then we run a race every year in his memory.

https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=7854.msg139217#msg139217

https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=7609.msg136663#msg136663

Oh dear, I had assumed it was some British real world racing driver from days bygone. I read some posts and it seemed like a real nice chap. Kudos for maintaining the memory for almost a decade now.

FWIW I had rarely driven the 4.5 Masser before ( opting for the big brother whenever I had the option ) and expected it to be a little more benign around this track.  But to be honest, the 5.7 litre version seems like a pussy cat compared to what I was wrestling with last night  ........or maybe it's me

It's not just you. Could. Not. Get. That. Biaaatch. To. Turn. In. The 5.7 is -for lack of a better word- easier.

[Erling G-P]

FWIW I had rarely driven the 4.5 Masser before ( opting for the big brother whenever I had the option ) and expected it to be a little more benign around this track.  But to be honest, the 5.7 litre version seems like a pussy cat compared to what I was wrestling with last night  ........or maybe it's me

No, not just you (and Dom); I've always found its big brother easier to drive, ironically.  Haven't tried it here - it's probably no better at turning left, but its straight line speed might be enough to make up for it.

[SpecialKS]

Result

   (Result chart by Autosimanalyzer differs a bit to Tony's data due to it's handling of the DQs)

Every lucky streak finds an end sometime and also every streak of bad luck, Clive    

What a weird end of this event   . Commiserations Erling and Geoffers but also to all who had to quit early.

Had a PB of 2:07.1 before joining the event and was totally surprised that a simple use of the tyre option changing to Dunlop_Vintage
would give me about 5 seconds.
So it was a very satisfying qualy, finishing in fourth place on the grid. After my usual bad start I was able to climb back to fourth.
But this track obviously requires a little bit more of attention as usual and just a short moment of inattentiveness lead to a completely
destroyed suspension and an early bath.

CU next week and thanks for organizing this event to all involved.

BTW - grats Roger and Bob for winning/finishing the race!