UKGTL Season 20 Memorial Trophy - Interlagos - May 13

[Geoffers]

I think all incidents considered reckless should be reported to Tony.

There is an incident reporting system which should be used, a moderator, not Tony, will then review it & make a decision on any penalty & advice. When I first raced at UKGTL this was widely used, not really to apportion blame, although penalties were handed out, but more to make drivers better & more careful. The last few years the use of the reporting system seems almost to have fallen into disuse, maybe because we have become better drivers, but also I suspect that people don't really want the hassle of using it. So maybe we should get back in the habit of using the system for any incidents that occur to learn from our mistakes.

[phspok]

I had a great time once we decided to race for real. Had some fun getting in Geoffers way for a few laps, then ran well until the stop
Much the same thing happened as last time we ran stops. Got a pit lane speeding S/G much as Geoff, in the pits I decided to take
just fronts as the rears seemed fine. Came out of the pits and the car was unraceable. The back end was on ice, so poddled round
slowly and took the S/G for speeding, then crawled round again to take rears, which made very little difference, the car was still
without any rear grip, lost the will to live so quit out as I was now a minute and a half behind Fulvio.

[Erling G-P]

First of all I hope Bob will reconsider and continue racing with us - don't let an angry moment spoil it, if you otherwise enjoy the racing.  When lapping or being lapped, it's easy to misinterpret the other driver's intentions, so mistakes are bound to happen.

Really wanted to drive the Porsche, as it's such an iconic car, but for me it was the slowest, had the highest tyre wear, and was the most difficult to drive.  Got quicker in the Beemer with some setup tweaks and practice, but still almost a second faster in the Ford, which was also the easiest to drive, and had the least tyre wear.  Thus went with it, although it was the most boring and predictable choice, after using its more powerful big brother; the '81 car in our series a couple of years ago.

First start went well, with me grabbing the lead, albeit with Dimitar in hot pursuit.  With each successive restart, I ended up in less and less favorable positions, in 2nd behind Dimitar. In the final one. Geoffers behind me on L1 was soon replaced with Hristo, who didn't take long to get past. Missed my braking point as it was hidden by his car and went off track, fortunately without losing more places. Dan's Porsche loomed in my mirrors the following laps, but he gradually dropped back.  Stretched the gap to 22 seconds, at which point it stabilized - or dropped, if I made a less than stellar lap.

Suspected it was Geoffers chasing me. If he skipped a tyre change, he would close the gap right up, so considered skipping it myself, but didn't dare. As it was, the threat never materialized after our stops; understandable considering the two S/G he received.

A lonely race for me indeed, as Hristo suggests.  Grats to him on 2nd and Dimitar on the win.

Andy & Matt; If you change tyres, you might as well change all 4 - tests I did in the past, showed there's no time saved by only changing one axle.

[fpolicardi]

Bob don't leave, I need someone to race with 

I tested all the cars a couple of laps the evening before and found only the Ford driveable for a long race even if I had set the best time with the Porker after have found that trying to put in 5th didn't work 
Anyway started with 70 litres without any clues about tires wearing. Luckily the roulette put me on the back of the grid for all the starts so I could learn the car without been pressed by faster drivers. Had a nice slow  battle with Bob, Dominick and Andy getting the lead of back pack till the pit required, but entered in the pit at the very last moment after the left bend and couldn't slow enough in time so a penalty would have beeen in place. Did a lot of manouvre to find the right spot and decided to not change tires. The penalty was on and the following lap entered the pit to serve it with the maximum attention to not speed up, but again lost a lot of time to have the pit table shown so with two pits lost all the chance to race again with the backpack and rounded alone in angry with myself for my careless 

[Wiltshire Tony]

I am hoping to compile a small list of driver's favourite tracks. The most popular are highly likely to appear in a future series.

It would help me enormously if you could take 5 mins to list your most favourite circuits.

Please reply here https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=19941.msg364281#msg364281

[SpecialKS]

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[Wiltshire Tony]

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Thanks Kurt