UKAC Season 14 Alfa GTA Historics Series Round 2 - Donington Park - Jan 30

[Jeffrey]

Not enjoying these cars at all, will skip the rest of the season.

[Fabri Fibra]

Absolutely unlucky races for me.
I had hig ping. In race after few laps I was hit (it could also be my fault, no idea) and it created a "carambola" that also involved Max and Matteo, innocent. The nice thing is that after a few seconds my game is crashed. Race finished.

Race 2. The ping returns to be normal. Just after the start I remember not having loaded the fuel for the race. I make a pit stop and finish last.

Well.

[picnic]

Not enjoying these cars at all, will skip the rest of the season.

I'm glad you tried them long enough to share a setup. I used your Cadwell Park one again tonight and got a 5th in race 1. Could have been 4th but Alexey wouldn'd leave me alone. We had an epic battle for the last half of the race, at least, and I lost count of the number of times we swapped places. And thanks for waiting when I got a naff exit from the chicane and you tapped my back. Racing incident and I wouldn't have blamed you for carrying on.

Made a pigs ear of race 2 while running 5th again. I thought the car was going to tip, Russ Swift would have been proud of how long I had it up on 2 wheels!

I almost gave up with these during initial practice for the 1st round. Something clicked and I wasn't slowest by 2 secs and I've been enjoying them somewhat ever since 

[Baikal]

Congrats FMG and Matteo for wins, podiums for sweet biscuit!  
O'main gosh what  a races it was yesterday night!  
Great battles with overall pilots at start, MarkJ,  Pete in 1st race ( it was 2 lions battle through a whole of race, chandging positions, chasing and face to face fights, Fabri , which was rising  to sky, like a holy bird, right in front of me, crazy car movement (i've slip away from curb , lost rear and restoring well but fatal for Matteo in last turn exit). Sorry for it Matt, but i was done all correct here, done full contersteering and save myself . Ask AC Alfa for: What things this great car doing in track sometimes  

In 2nd race i see very big amount of lag from Kai, IMHO it was not a inet connect but may be too slow PC for sucess racing, please fix this problem, Kai, if it exist, for save our next lives.
Your warp in 2nd race, when you stopped in last chicane, was ruined my race completely- i've lost front tyre and can't drive a car anymore.      

1st race full onboard:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foYgvVFZYoI

2nd race warp crash onboard:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY7f07nwb5U

Alfa GTA at DonNat crazy lines:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlkQs7nvu1s

This races going to my memory . Thanks guys for ! Only you still making it possible- to continue to race with this bath half filled with water   May be another one race, may be...  

PS This 2 days i've made a brake mod for my G27, using rubber build in internal spring. It feels more like you pressing ( not moving) the brake pedal. It's more better in race, more intuitive, but need good force calibration and traning for best results. I hope  it will be more better in final:)  

[Mark J]

look forward to checking those vids out  

@ Jeff, you should have stuck around for the racing, its way more fun than practise/hotlapping in these cars.

That was some amazing racing last night, enjoyed (mostly) both races for different reasons.

Qualified 6th i think after getting a new PB (finally!) and it was quite a fight to achieve as i swapped times with about 5 other drivers thoughout qually  
Race 1, wow, it was intense action from the start, sometimes 3 abreast down the straight or through a corner with other cars just in front or behind    Any loss of momentum or sideways moment and you would be swamped left and right by several cars, i think i physically breathed in on more than one occasion through Craners  
I went from 6th to 3rd, and almost every position between 3rd and 10th throughout the race due to the action. I wasnt best pleased later on when someone did a late Stuka-dive down the inside at the chicane which bounced me off the circuit and i lost several places  
I then clawed my way back upto 7th and was just closing on 6th when i had another stupid oversteer entry at T1   which put me back into sight of Stefan and Matteo further back. I tried to keep it neat for a couple more laps but the car was oversteering at almost every corner by then with worn rear tyres and then stupidly i thought the race had finished and slowed wide to T1 only to see the white message 'leader on last lap' flash up, but by then Stefan and Matteo had zipped up and past...what a plonker  so despite a 3 car photo finish over the line, i finished 9th instead of 7th  

Race 2, reverse grid put me 2nd place   but i had made a couple of essential tweaks to my car based on race 1. It was night and day different. I set off after rapid Matteo and stayed with him for about 10minutes setting continuous low 1:25's    But then a scruffy T1 entry dropped me 1.6 secs back and he was gone. I continued banging in low 25's with new pb's but could see the white ghost of FMG closing inexorably on me. He caught me with 3 mins remaining but i was determined to put up a fight for 2nd place. We had a couple of great laps dicing and swapping places until he suckered me into a tight line at the chicance (i lost sight at the last moment as i had to watch the chicane entry and didnt want to spoil the race with a late contact!) and this allowed him to blast past un-opposed down the s/f straight  
So i finished a fine (but slightly disapointing!) 3rd  

Great fun, the races were a real hoot, especially wacky race no.1  

[kaifos]

Congrats FMG and Matteo for wins, podiums for sweet biscuit!  
O'main gosh what  a races it was yesterday night!  
Great battles with overall pilots at start, MarkJ,  Pete in 1st race ( it was 2 lions battle through a whole of race, chandging positions, chasing and face to face fights, Fabri , which was rising  to sky, like a holy bird, right in front of me, crazy car movement (i've slip away from curb , lost rear and restoring well but fatal for Matteo in last turn exit). Sorry for it Matt, but i was done all correct here, done full contersteering and save myself . Ask AC Alfa for: What things this great car doing in track sometimes  

In 2nd race i see very big amount of lag from Kai, IMHO it was not a inet connect but may be too slow PC for sucess racing, please fix this problem, Kai, if it exist, for save our next lives.
Your warp in 2nd race, when you stopped in last chicane, was ruined my race completely- i've lost front tyre and can't drive a car anymore.      

1st race full onboard:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foYgvVFZYoI

2nd race warp crash onboard:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY7f07nwb5U

Alfa GTA at DonNat crazy lines:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlkQs7nvu1s

This races going to my memory . Thanks guys for ! Only you still making it possible- to continue to race with this bath half filled with water   May be another one race, may be...  

PS This 2 days i've made a brake mod for my G27, using rubber build in internal spring. It feels more like you pressing ( not moving) the brake pedal. It's more better in race, more intuitive, but need good force calibration and traning for best results. I hope  it will be more better in final:)  

Sorry Alexey, looks like my ISP was having a bad time last night which caused that rubberbanding on server side, I didn't notice it during the race at all and looking at the video it doesn't seem to be constant.
Not normal behaviour so I'll check into it, and sorry for the tire again 

Looks like my Shader Patch setup has some sort of bug and few cars had bright lights on during the race, bit distracting.

[Sutol]

Something weird happened last night. Both races I ran out of fuel. My fuel usage was 1.7l/lap in qually. Race 1 filled for 14 laps. Race 2 filled for 20 laps. While racing I noted that my fuel usage was down to 1l/lap, which still doesn't account for race 2.

[Manteos]

Sorry for it Matt, but i was done all correct here, done full contersteering and save myself . Ask AC Alfa for: What things this great car doing in track sometimes  

I was not complaining for that crash, but for the Turn 1 when I was on the outside and you crashed on my car as I wasn't there. It's not the first time you do these manouvres carelessly of the other dirvers on track. And I've had enough of your behaviour on track.

See you

[FullMetalGasket]

Race 1 was epic for the 1st 2 laps until Matteo was taken out, I held out for him regaining 2nd so I could slow and re-commence battle but sadly he never made it.
So I spent the race trying for a new PB and failing.

Race 2 was massive fun, although negotiating Kai's heavily warping car on the opening lap was almost frightening
From then on it was just a race to get as far up the field as fast as I could - short of a mistake I knew Matteo would be uncatchable, but really wanted the highest finish I could for in case I needed it later in the series.
I had epic fun fighting back up through the field, right up until the point I took Copse slightly too early behind Goldtop and nearly rolled the car after clipping the inside kerb - I think it was only a small miracle that I missed the back of his car when I had to suddenly turn left to save it
On a similar note I think it may have been GT that I inadvertently turned across in T1 while trying to do an undercut on the car ahead, I thought I had enough room behind to slow and make that move. Luckily we both survived but sorry anyway.

The final battle with MJ was good fun, I got through twice only to make a small mistake and give him a chance to get back alongside
Eventually I played on the fact I knew he'd be driving in his Rift so just hid from his mirrors on the approach to the chicanes
For the 2nd race running I improved on my PB in race 2 just after clearing the field, obviously damage helps these cars go faster!

Something weird happened last night. Both races I ran out of fuel. My fuel usage was 1.7l/lap in qually. Race 1 filled for 14 laps. Race 2 filled for 20 laps. While racing I noted that my fuel usage was down to 1l/lap, which still doesn't account for race 2.

Are you sure you didn't alter the fuel at the end of Race 1 and then load the setup again (having not saved it earlier) for race 2?
I've done that before after a qualifying run, when I accidentally over-wrote my Race setup with the qually one.
I was very quick for the 1st 10 minutes of the race and then ran out of tires and had to pit for fuel. Was pretty much last as a result

[Baikal]

Sorry for it Matt, but i was done all correct here, done full contersteering and save myself . Ask AC Alfa for: What things this great car doing in track sometimes  

I was not complaining for that crash, but for the Turn 1 when I was on the outside and you crashed on my car as I wasn't there. It's not the first time you do these manouvres carelessly of the other dirvers on track. And I've had enough of your behaviour on track.

See you

It this turn i,ve bring too much speed in, it's my bad, aggree. Was too tight for 3-wide cars here. In mid turn this car is not manageable for my non drift style, and i had no other way than exit the corner as soon as possible in target to be stalbilized,not to spin and not make fatal cars crash, which is incoming from rear. And you in final ( not i am ) comes to my rear bamper , to be honest   With not fatal force. But i repeat, this was a my bad initially. And it is not reason to insult me, calling vodka drinker and so on on chat and here. If you have bad attitude to me- report an every accidents with me. But not insult.
MarkJ was wise here and passed all of us ( too aggressive fighters). It's cool.

PS. Here is a small video of this accident. I've, deep drunk vodka, fully ruined your game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FhLvZ0GN38
 

[Baikal]

Sorry Alexey, looks like my ISP was having a bad time last night which caused that rubberbanding on server side, I didn't notice it during the race at all and looking at the video it doesn't seem to be constant.
Not normal behaviour so I'll check into it, and sorry for the tire again 

Looks like my Shader Patch setup has some sort of bug and few cars had bright lights on during the race, bit distracting.

No problem mate, just take a look on your system one more time 

[Manteos]

Sorry for it Matt, but i was done all correct here, done full contersteering and save myself . Ask AC Alfa for: What things this great car doing in track sometimes  

I was not complaining for that crash, but for the Turn 1 when I was on the outside and you crashed on my car as I wasn't there. It's not the first time you do these manouvres carelessly of the other dirvers on track. And I've had enough of your behaviour on track.

See you

It this turn i,ve bring too much speed in, it's my bad, aggree. Was too tight for 3-wide cars here. In mid turn this car is not manageable for my non drift style, and i had no other way than exit the corner as soon as possible in target to be stalbilized,not to spin and not make fatal cars crash, which is incoming from rear. And you in final ( not i am ) comes to my rear bamper , to be honest   With not fatal force. But i repeat, this was a my bad initially. And it is not reason to insult me, calling vodka drinker and so on on chat and here. If you have bad attitude to me- report an every accidents with me. But not insult.
MarkJ was wise here and passed all of us ( too aggressive fighters). It's cool.

PS. Here is a small video of this accident. I've, deep drunk vodka, fully ruined your game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FhLvZ0GN38
 

It's cool when you respect the other drivers on track not invading their space. I come to your rear bumper only in your land of dreams mate you cut the road to me because you opened the throttle too early.

Every time you say something about the accidents in which you are involved you clearly demonstrates that you understand NOTHING about a fair behaviour on track. You would have gone off the road anyway because you pushed on the throttle too early. How can I avoid a contact when we were three cars side by side and you decide to take all the track as the other drivers weren't there?
What that video from the moon would prove for you? Me hitting you? Are you really saying that mate?

[Manteos]

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gaah2kbmpvd33u8/ks_alfa_romeo_gta%40doningtonpark-national_20190130224554?dl=0

My Replay

[Baikal]

Every time you say something about the accidents in which you are involved you clearly demonstrates that you understand NOTHING about a fair behaviour on track.

So, i recommend you to stay away from me in races, no words to add   Better let you know - i will never leave a free space for you. ( sarcastic ) If you still not understand things i've said earlier- read from beginning.
Yes. i am not racing god, but you    

[Mark J]

okay boys, keep your racing spat to pm's rather than a slanging match in the race thread. Incidents happen and if you want someone punished for one then you should report it via the incident report so that a couple of us can review it independantly.
There was a fair bit of paint swapping, in a good way, but i also saw (and experienced) a couple of rougher whacks, but these cars can be a handful in the corners.

Did anyone download a replay they can share?