GT Sprint - S3 R4 - Donington Park - 30th May

[Simon Gymer]

Looks like Shark is the only one who enjoys, and is going to be really fast, around Donni. Digging yourself a bloody big hole matey  .

Well it's quite a challenge this circuit. Very different from the rest too, so that's good in my book.
Don't think I'll be anywhere near the front though, not hugely fast at Donington.

Glad to see its not in enduro S3. Some nice tracks instead   

Well it's on standby in case any of the addon tracks don't work out.

[Truetom]

Glad to see its not in enduro S3. Some nice tracks instead   

Personaly I would rather kick Anderstorp and keep Donington. 

But ok, changes are welcome. 

TT

[ginsters sponsored]

Never want to do that track again  . Kept going despite 3 ridiculous slow speed spins(noticed once I span at 15mph  ). Then told race had finished only to get DNF. A waste of bloody time.

If I am placed in front of Jan, can he be put in front of me? Sorry for hairpin punt but I did let you back through, but not sure if you got the place.

Tyf can you turn down the red arrows effect. Bloody impossible to follow you 

[Jeffrey]

My first GT, and what a great one.

Qualified in 5th I think, behind Greg130. We had a great battle for about 20-25 minutes. Me being up his bumper most of the time. But then at the Melbourne hairpin it went wrong. I braked, but all of a sudden when I was at a slow speed, my wheels locked and I had 2 choices: hope I don't take Greg130 out, or shift back so I do a 180 and stand still at once. Knowing that Greg is leading the champ I kinda went for the 2nd choice.

After that I had to fight back up the grid. I won some spaces by error and I was chacing Rich_A. As woth Greg, I was faster in The Esses so I was planning a move in the Melbourne hairpin. But I then noticed that the first spin was not an incident. It is the stupid low speed grip level that makes overtaking at that point impossible. Luckily I was the only one to spin and Rich could continue without a problem (from what I could see, sorry if it wasn't). Finished in 5th after a great race. Hope the NGT will be just a good.

[Mark J]

I'd rather kick Anders too....bores the t*ts off me.  


Phew, that was a lot of effort for little reward    

Qually was tough, got demoted to 10th in dying seconds  

Race started completely the wrong way when i got rear ended quite hard (ooh-er ) on the warm up lap (no problem FB..it happens), luckily only half span and SBG kindly let me back through.
Car had great pace and good grip in early part of race and managed to get myself upto about 7th/8th when someone up front dislodged a cone at the chicane and lucky 'ol me drove over it spinning my car sideways. I was precariously perched on the racing line so had to sit there and let about 9 cars go by  :'(
Then had the proverbial bit between my teeth and started chasing bods down with a vengeance, dispatching them one by one until i caught up with jamera in about 11th place...then the poxy car span at low speed in that shite hairpin bend. This happened 3 times in race and probably cost me a top 7 finish as the car was absolutely flying other than that git of a corner
Had a ding dong back and forth with a couple of guys, re-losing my places each time the car infuriating lost it at that corner. Eventually came home 10th after a couple of people had late mis-fortunes.

ps..I think SBG should be given the 10th or 11th place, the moderators can decide. I think its unfair if the game told him it was the last lap and so he didnt continue. Otherwise he wasted an hour racing.

[ginsters sponsored]

ps..I think SBG should be given the 10th or 11th place, the moderators can decide. I think its unfair if the game told him it was the last lap and so he didnt continue. Otherwise he wasted an hour racing.

And I'll never get it back mate  . This has been sorted before (Pops had a similar thing) so I am placed where it said. Happy with that, but I should not be placed in front of Jan.

[JonM_uk]

Steady race. Just nicked pole with seconds to spare from TT then the race was good for me. TT was battling early on and I was able to pull out a 4 sec gap. Then something happened to TT and I had an 8 sec gap which stayed till the end of the race. Nice steady drive by greg behind us, couldn't pull out anymore of a gap but luckily the gap wasn't coming down too fast.
Nice race all

[Minton]

Good race , First few laps was mega with the first 8 cars close together.  Spun at the loop and lost alot of time and Fly-Bri caught me up but managed to stay ahead of him till the end.
I agree the Melbourne loop is cack and spoils the flow but i love the rest of the track, the National circuit with the Goddards chicane is much better . Grats to Jon on the win.
Cheers

[Zacari]

That was a nightmare!  It took from the start of practice 1 to 5 mins before the end of quali just to log in, must have reset my PC 6 or 7 times too.  Managed only 1 flying lap and got a mid-27s to be 7th for the race.

No sign of my race setup atall so had to make one up from Silverstone, but I had little grip coming out of corners, and not enough front a-r bar.  First half of the race was ok, I could keep pace with the front-runners and was looking most laps at an excellent tussle ahead.  Lap 6 or so I had a good drive out of the chicane and attempted a move on Rich into the hairpin... instantly locked the front brakes and had a helluva job to try and avoid an accident, managed to spy a gap in the cars ahead and shot through it.  Hope I didn't give anyone too much of a heart-attack!  Checked to let Rich back passed but no-one else (sorry boss... didn't think you were that close! ) and successfully managed a move into the hairpin a lap or so later.

After that I was on the back of the Greg/Ruskus/Paul battle, struggling for grip a bit but nothing major until I moved the brake balance forward to try and dial-out some under-braking oversteer.  Turn 1 and the front just slid, then snapped oversteer and I slid into the gravel losing a couple of places.  After that the car was far too unstable to push hard, got within a second of Rich again but into T1 again I went off under braking and destroyed the back of the car, lost my rear wing & (worse) a puncture.  Took 3 laps to get out, but after the trouble I'd had getting on the server I was not going to give up!  Kept out of everyone's way of course and trundled in 17th.  Quite annoying after setting the second-fastest time in the race but without a stable setup it was too much to keep up.

I'm also a fan of the national layout, keeps the flow much better and gives a proper under-braking overtaking spot into the final chicane.

[Jeffrey]

Hope I didn't give anyone too much of a heart-attack!

You shot right infront of me. I was just like pomptidomtidom through the hairpin, when all of a sudden...VROEM....a fellow Shark shoots infront of me. I was like , where id he come from, but I wasn't shocked, nor did I lose concentration. It was just, wel....surprising

[[ZiP]Tyf]

Tyf can you turn down the red arrows effect. Bloody impossible to follow you 

Uuh, I'm not following u now though m8!? Neither is JonM who's with me on ts2, hehe! What u mean red arrows?



T

[greg130]

Just managed to put in a decent qual lap with seconds to spare at the end of qual which saw me start in 4th place.
Then had a great battle for over half of the race with Ruskus, thanks for not taking me out bud when you spun.

Managed to finish in 2nd, well chuffed.

[ginsters sponsored]

Tyf can you turn down the red arrows effect. Bloody impossible to follow you 

Uuh, I'm not following u now though m8!? Neither is JonM who's with me on ts2, hehe! What u mean red arrows?



T

You were leaving a huge smoke trail on the last lap, twas impossible to see anything when Jan and I came up behind you. Couldn't stop laughing as he swerved all over the place trying to find the track . Your car was doing it in pracci for a bit as well, damaged I guess and I wasn't being to serious mate.

[picnic]

Replay and provisional results now available

[stnasky]

I'm also a fan of the national layout, keeps the flow much better and gives a proper under-braking overtaking spot into the final chicane.

Same here, I wouldnt mind a race or two at Donington National