UKGTL mid-range 65 at Zolder - 22nd June

[Jeffrey]

How does that score ladder work?

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

How does that score ladder work?

It's explained in the rules, and the car ratings are published under the Scoring link on the standings, but basically don't worry about it.

[Madd-RIP]

Seems as though I'm in the minority then, and due to it being on a Thursday and at the set times, I'll only be able to drive 1 in 3 races, absolutely gutted, I'm not going to really feature at all in the ladder, like I said gutted.

[will16v]

Hopefully make this one - not sure if i could race if the start times were brought forward really.

Tha later the better for me...

[popabawa]

Amazing times there Ruskus, can't get anywhere near 'em

I'm looking forward to this, Zolder is a nice track.

[Simon Gymer]

Amazing times there Ruskus, can't get anywhere near 'em

Yeah, No idea how he gets those times. I'm 4 seconds off those.

I'm looking forward to this, Zolder is a nice track.

Can't say I'm a fan, the track needs a bit more width, it feels like a rally course rather than a proper circuit.

[Simon Gymer]

What a waste of time.

Constant track reloads.
Disconnection.
Only 2 laps in qualifying.
Dissapearing cars.
Cut track warnings for genuine driving mistakes and running off track and losing time.
2 stop go penalites.

Guessing my car caused some confusion at the start. Sorry, but everyone dissapeared just before the final chicane and I got hit before that (i'm guessing my car dissapeared and you didn't know I was there). People weren't on the rev limiter yet and I had no idea where you were so I sort of went slowish down the left side of the track and then people appeared again and I had somehow moved up to 7th from 12th-ish So i dropped back on the left as we passed the line down to 12th not wanting to have gained any advantage wondering if I was about to be disco'd, but no it carried on. Wasn't sure people could actually see me during the race at the start, but soon realised they could. I was getting P23 on my board yet was in P12. All very wierd.

[OSiriS]

Ya it was me who hit you , you were ghosting all race

[Simon Gymer]

Ya it was me who hit you , you were ghosting all race

I figured once the massive dissapearing act had been and gone and I knew people could see me that I was ok, but obviously my car was a bit dodgy. Sorry about that, if I'd know it was warping/ghosting that badly I would have disconnected.

Internet in my area obviously not happy today i guess.

[JohnnyDee]

Yeah, Shark, isn't SIMBIN wonderful!??!  I want to write them a letter of complaint explaining how GTL users have been abandoned and how I cannot justify spending money on GTR2 until they FIX GTL!!  I paid full price for an unfinished game with big problems that they gave up on.  Very disappointing.

I was behind you a few times in the race when you lagged; surprizing, but didn't take me out or anything.  Then one time I caught up to you at the chicane -- not sure if you had a problem, but I was on normal pace -- and then locked my rears before I hit you, but no damage.

My board showed you in the correct pos'n, but I've seen that bug before.  If your client misses an update at race start then the displayed position can be totally hosed for the whole race.  Really sucks.

Sorry for the (semi-)OT rant, lol!

     -=> J <=-

[Aagramn]

Good race for me. Took the 914 as it gave me the best chance of finishing, easy car to drive. Was suprised to find myself 3rd on the grid, although I had a quicker car than a lot of drivers. Pero & Ruskus were in a different class to me and quickly pulled away, while I steadily pulled away from the rest of the pack. Without any traffic to worry about I was able to lap very consistatly in the low 1:51s. Bit of a lonely race, but dead chuffed to bring it home in 3rd after some poor recent races.

The start on the limiter worked very well. Will be interesting to see how my 3rd place in the 914 translates into ranking points on the ladder.

Sorry to hear about the problems Shark.  

[Jeffrey]

Before this race I did a quick practice lap and managed a 48. So I was pleasantly sursprised to do a 1:46.8 in qually, which is a WC looking at GTLrank

From my point of view the pace lap was good, the field was close at the end. Dunno if I should of, but I just typed limiter on when I did, so nobody would be caught by surprise (when and where).

As expected I had some good tussles with Peter again. After a few laps I made a small mistake at the first chicane and he overtook me. After that it was impossible to overtake him back. Getting close was one thing, overtaking the next.
There were lot's of new guys in this race, which is very good. But sometimes gave a bit of unexpected situations. Also the start from Assasino was amazing , an Elan out accelerating a Cobra...lol

My tyres were completely fried at the end of the race. They were already gone in lap 9, but the last 3 laps were awefull. I spun in lap 19 and trying to do a 180 with a burnout was impossible because of the lack of grip. Trying to drive in a straight line was a duty on it's own.

Good race.

P.S. Anybody have some FTP space for me to host videos on ?

[Simon Gymer]

Yeah, Shark, isn't SIMBIN wonderful!??!

Blimey! are the developers of GTL. Simbin had nothing to do with it, they are just the name on the box.

To be fair, it's a pretty good game, but there are some also some glaring bugs. The corner cutting code is just abysmal and really spoiling things from time to time. The rest, well the internet is the internet, no game can cope really. It does a pretty good job on the whole and when most people in a race are ok, enjoying it and having fun that's the main thing.


Well done on the podiums Teamies!!!

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Strange sort of race for me, both good fun and enormously frustrating at the same time.

Couldn't find a comfortable setup for the hairy-chested TVR during practice and qually; mostly okay under power but unpredictable under braking. Made a last moment setup tweak just before the race, breaking one of my own golden rules but it worked and the car was much better in the race.

Once again we had people chatting merrily away in qualifying. Stop it!

I'll have to watch the start again - I ended up putting the limiter on with quite a bit gap to the car ahead because it wasn't at all clear whether he had put his on or not. Was also surprised to see the person in front not "go go go" until actually reaching the start line but maybe it just did take that long for the wave of 'goingness' to propagate down the snake.

The race was a bit odd really. With the improved setup the TVR was fairly consistent and very, very quick in a straight line, and I could fend off the advances of the slower Elan drivers but not really make any impression on them. Made one big mistake trying to pass a 914 and slid off at T1, a couple of half spins, and was never in any danger of climbing up the order, but was having quite good fun powersliding (and on occaision full-on drifting) the beast. With about 3 to go I missed my braking point for the Gilles Villeneuve chicane, and after that the tyres were shot.

[picnic]

Replay available but I'm struggling to import the results.

Can Phill Kerins please let me have your forum nickname.