UKGTL Season 20 Sir Stirling Moss OBE Tribute Race - Goodwood - Apr 15

[phspok]

So. I have downloaded and unzipped both gamedata zips, I can load both cars off line, but I get car not present on server if I try
to join with any of them?

I only have 3 Astons as DB4, and lot including some double entried in the DBR4GT folder
And, I have lots of duplicates in the 250 SWB directory

I will install into a different GTL copy

[Hristo Itchov]

I think something is wrong with the server or some people's games. I was driving in practice, but then when dan, matta and olo joined, I couldn't do anything in the menu - the game just kept trying to load up their cars. It was also showing them using the wrong car. I restarted the game and rejoined, but the issue persists.

[fpolicardi]

So. I have downloaded and unzipped both gamedata zips, I can load both cars off line, but I get car not present on server if I try
to join with any of them?

I only have 3 Astons as DB4, and lot including some double entried in the DBR4GT folder
And, I have lots of duplicates in the 250 SWB directory

I will install into a different GTL copy

I have tried last night picking the cars with 0 cost. There are cars with the same # but cost different in both cars.

[Dominick]

In the immortal words of RookieDaz: Bugger....

Grats to podium and finishers whomever you are.

RIP Stirling

[Geoffers]

Game froze just approaching half distance. Had it happen a couple of times the other day when practicing. Hope its not Covid 19 related!

Grats to the podium.

[Bob M.]

Big Sorry Tony.  I gave you the inside, thought thats what you would want.............You can have my points and place.  Again sorry

Bob M.

[Wiltshire Tony]

Big Sorry Tony.  I gave you the inside, thought thats what you would want.............You can have my points and place.  Again sorry

Bob M.

No worries Bob, racing incident in my book. I would of continued but when I hit the wall, I lost a wheel and couldn't continue.

[roguk]

Hi had some good racing with Dan, but also shared pit marker with him had to wait a few seconds until he left.

Grats to Hristo on win

Grats to Podium

[misnoimis]

I’m sorry about my early demise and having to leave the game. I haven’t used GTL for some time and only set it up again a couple of weeks ago. About half way through qually I remembered that I usually drank water during a long race while I was in the pits refuelling, so left and got a pint mug of water placing it temporally on my small table top adapted to hold my G27 wheel and shifter. There were 8 minutes of qually left so I decided to go outside and get a breath of fresh air. I came back with a couple of minutes to spare, got comfortable and started the race. I guess I was concentrating on the start. I noticed the mug as I started and reached out to put it safely on my desk but knocked it over instead. Obviously can’t multitask. The back of my desk has a lot of electrical equipment and gang plugs etc., all soaked.

It’s amazing how far a pint of water will go. I realised I had to leave the game quickly and turn everything off before things started to flash and sizzle as water and electrics don’t mix well.

What made it worse was that I had spent half the day getting GTL to work after one of my Hard Drives had failed. I’ll spare you the details.
 
I had hoped to file a race report, instead I thought I better explain why I left the race. I have had better days. I will have to pay my tribute to Stirling off-line now.

However although I didn’t witness the race Congratulations to the winner and podium places. 

[Hristo Itchov]

Ignore my previous complaints, it turns out I just... didn't install the Aston and that was causing my problems  

Olo was too fast in the Aston, but I was happy with my lap in the Ferrari, which was good enough for 2nd. Had a decent start this time and both of us pulled away from the rest. I could follow him close in some places, but I was losing a few tenths in the slower corners, so Olo was gradually pulling away.

Then I had the first of my 3 offs in the penultimate corner, the double apex right before the last chicane. I guess I understimated how difficult it is for the car to brake and turn there with so much fuel. That dropped me behind Matt and Fulvio. Overtook Fulvio on the s/f straight the next lap, then closed in on Matt. The second off happened just 2 laps after the first, when Matt lost it in the same spot and I follow suit behind, dropping again down to 4th. Dimitar overtook Fulvio in front of me and I did the same a corner later, then chased down Dimitar for another lap, before passing him for 2nd.

Olo must have had an off or something too, because the gap was suddenly down to around 10 seconds, and then as the fuel went down I was surprised to actually be catching him up. Even recorded the fastest lap (at that time). The gap was just down to about 5 seconds, when Eiffel lost it while I was lapping him and sent me into the air. Fortunately landed straight and continued immediately, but lost 2 seconds. Still managed to close up to within 4 seconds or so before both myself and Olo entered into the pits on lap 21 or 22.

I decided to just fuel up and not change tyres at all, even though my front left was at about 50% resources by then. This allowed me to exit the pits in front of Olo, but once he was out on the track, the gap of 17 seconds started going down very fast. Then I had my 3rd off at the same corner as before, but luckily managed to keep 2 tyres on the tarmac and not lose more than a few seconds. That was crucial though, because I realized there's no chance to keep Olo behind until the end of the race.

Then to my surprise the gap increased by about 8 seconds, then a few laps later, by 10 more. This gave me the opportunity to look after my front left tyre and just nurse the car home. It was still a very close call though! As I crossed the line, the FL tyre was almost gone completely and my fuel gauge was in the red.   You can see on this screenshot taken after the finish https://ibb.co/2Wn4Grp

Grats all who managed to complete the distance and RIP Sir Stirling Moss.

[Wiltshire Tony]

Results and replay now posted.

A big thank you to everyone who helped UKGTL respect the memory of the great Stirling Moss. RIP.

[Dimitar Dulichki]

Well not the best racing day i wanted.

At the qualy i set my new fastest lap on this track but it was only for the 5th position.

At the start i maded some mistakes and gone down to 8th. After that - some good laps and climbing up to the second place. Hristo overtaked me quickli but i was solid at the podium postion and gaining some seconds to Fulvio and Clive. Unfortunately after that mistakes hapened. And at the box i put 69 litters instead of the 79 planned - just unconcentrational mistake i guess... and 2 laps before the finish the car just started coughing.

But it was a nice and fun race. Grats to Hristo and the podium guys and sorry to Clive for the late braking. I realy missed that one.

BTW i've recorded the Qualy and the race. You can check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4leJXzM_DpU

[Wiltshire Tony]

BTW i've recorded the Qualy and the race. You can check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4leJXzM_DpU

Great video Dimitri (but it wasn't a league race) 

What software do you use to make the video? And how do you get XD to show the leaders name in a different colour?

[Dimitar Dulichki]

Thanks Tony! I hope to record or stream live the next events too.

I am using OBS Studio. I am not sure how the colors thing is done but i think it only shows in purple the holder of the fastest lap in the race. I think is sometthing in the xd.ini file. I can send it to you.

[fpolicardi]

BTW i've recorded the Qualy and the race. You can check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4leJXzM_DpU

Nice video, even if not the best for my privacy 
I noted that you and Hristo had shorter gear than me and so you were really faster on the straight. Anyway this was one of my best race ever without big mistake and good strategy without change tires. Final with Olo, that was gaining on me after an off, was thrilling cause at 2 lap to go I had a right margin to keep it at bay till the end, but when we came to St.Mary there was an off from a backmarker ahead of me that made me lost momentum and about 1 sec. on Olo that on last lap was right on my neck. Luckily he spun at last double apex turn and couldn't attack me on the final chicane and run to s/f line. 
Ciao