NGT Sprint - S3 R5 - Anderstorp - 27th June

[RS]

I am not looking forward to the second corner here at Anders, could be a short race for many  :'(

RS

[Jeffrey]

I am not looking forward to the second corner here at Anders, could be a short race for many  :'(

RS

I won't get that far, I think there will be black smoke coming out of the back of my car again at that point....yes, already in lap 1

[RS]

ROTF..... I would not put that past you !!!   You do still hold the record for the 'Blow your Escort up here' server we ran one night in GTL with autoclutch off and you managed to blow it up before you made it past the S/F line........... Now that was impressive !!!   

[Jeffrey]

ROTF..... I would not put that past you !!!   You do still hold the record for the 'Blow your Escort up here' server we ran one night in GTL with autoclutch off and you managed to blow it up before you made it past the S/F line........... Now that was impressive !!!   

HAHAHAHA, thinking about that makes me ROFL. Time scaled failures in an Escort race. Red light.....going for green in 3...2....1....GO.....BOEM!!!!

[Adam Parle]

Arse - got my connection back and connected just before warmup, no sound when in the car - then CTD and couldn't rejoin.

Hope you guys have a good race.

[whitham69]

Pretty gutted with that i missed thelap record by .3 sec and in the last 5 min my lap time showed --.--.-- so i thought the race was over and quit out.

congrats to the winner real fast pace up the front.

[picnic]

Catalog of errors for me, ended up beached on the kerb and quit out as a safe rejoin seemed unlikely 

Amazing pace by everyone again 

[Jeffrey]

Woohoo, i survived  .

Rich, Mo and I had a "train" in the first half of the race, not that close, but fun enough to watch. After Mo went off, I did everything to keep my car alive. For half of the race O was lifting off with upshifts, very late with downshifts and just let the brakes do the work and letting go off the throttle at the end of the straight just to prevent reaching maximum revs. Man was I driving like a granny like that

Happy with 3rd, I expected to be further down because I can't find my way around this track. I tend to attack the banked corners too fast, but this time I was braking very early and trying to do it smoothly.

[popabawa]

Great, great race for me, qualified in 8th and finished 6th.

Awesome pace in qually and the race  

Hats off to Greg for a great drive who frustrated me for the last 20 mins or so, I was willing you to make a mistake

Any race where I can still see Mo at the end of the race must be considered a great success  

[[RSms]Andy]

Awfull.......
Rich A was taking it wasy into turn 2. I locked up my cold brakes and went off.
Re-joined in 18th place.
Sorry Flyboy.... My fault. Saw you were going slow into the corner. Went for insode line. Carrying a little to much speed. On the apex speed was scrubbed off. But because of marbles you couldn't go high. Then we touched sorry again.
After that everything going well till power came out of the back of my wheel.

[greg130]

Good fun and hard work at the same time.
Just had enough to keep Pops behind me, good drive mate  , lol.
Bad luck to mark who must have had an off and rejoined behind me, giving me back 5th place.

[Pedro[PL]]

First of all - let me say, that it is amazing what progress some of the guys made during my prolonged absence since beginning of Season 2. Last time I drove with you it was a piece of cake to qualify within top 5. Now - I was really glad with my 12th. This will give me some motivation to practice now I have a reasonable Internet connection again!

About the race:

Qualified 12th, finished 12th - nothing interesting here, move along...

At T1 i locked my brakes (like a real newbie should! ),  let everybody drive past me, and rest of the race was just a steady drive back to my qualifying position. I do not yet feel comfortable with the car and sim. Considering this, I was glad with my persistent and quite clean driving. Of course there were some wheel lockups but nothing really dangerous.

Some great fight with Jamera, Picnic and some other guys (well... I do not remember your nicks yet!). There were two contact situations, first of them was probably 50% my fault - sorry for that.

Anyway - it was a great race for me. Interesting from start to finish. Just can't wait for next Tuesday!

[picnic]

Replay and Provisional Results available

[mo]

Thanks Picnic.

Wow what a great race, amazing times in qual and lots of close racing on track
I qualled in 4th and finished in 4th and had a great race with Ruskus and Rich for the podium spots.
Rich's pace was amazing - constant 1'31 laps for the first half of the race. I could just about keep up, setting PBs as I went and trying to keep the tyres cool at the same time!
Eventually Ruskus fell back a bit and I was wondering whether Rich's tyres or mine would go first, as that was my only hope of getting past.
In fact just as I was thinking about it a 360 rejoined in front of me  and going off line I went off in the banked left hander and got beeched in the sand. I cooked the tyres getting out and from then on it was tyre warnings from the pits and driving like a granny like Ruskus
Think I rejoined in 6th, managed to get a spot back from Greg on the main straight using the extra grunt in the Porsche. Then bad luck for Mark as he had the dreaded gt3 low speed wobble in the final turn and lost a bunch of places promoting me to 4th, where I had started.
Managed to score my first points for the team this season too so all in all a good result.

Good to see Pedro back too - look forward to racing you again

[Jeffrey]

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