UKGTR Endurance Masters - Valencia GP - Nov 5

[DynoDaz]

Did anyone else experience jerky wheel movement down the pit lane?

[Mark J]

Yes. There's no warm-up like there was in GTR. Silly boy

but i got no drivers showing as 'on track' until they all went blue on the 00 time    Is the no-warm up something we (UKGTR) have invoked or is that just what the game does now? I dont get how i didnt suffer it in the TPG race (at Valencia) the other night.

Either way i'm a dingus for missing it. I'm gonna ask the missus to slap me round the face a few times with a large herring....i  deserve it.

[picnic]

GTR2 has a 2 minute countdown to the start of the race, because this is plenty of time to check the race setup it was felt there was no need to have a 2 minute warmup and then to sit on the grid for 2 mins while everyone fannies around before joining. If you look at the race announcements there is no warmup now listed in the session list unlike last season.

[pribeiro]

I forgot the corvette boy well done !!!!!!

[Minton]

Was having a great battle with Minton, Bernie and Popabawa for the first 40 mins until I decided to pit

Yeah good racing Daz!!

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Nick gently let me past, eventhough we were fighting for position .

Much as I would love to fight you for position, my only chance would be if you were in an NGT I think

No point holding a team mate up though.

You aren't teammates in the race, Junior boy...

[Jeffrey]

Unofficial Lapchart

[LEUVEN]

Qually went well, didn't manage to match my pb and was just pipped by Truetom.

Race was absolutely fantastic and very hard at the beggining as I was attaking TT and constantly trying to find a way past not just for position but to try and shake off Minton(Dan?) who was all over the back of me.
It was great driving but It would have been very difficult keeping that up for 80 minutes.
Had a couple offs and some contact which saw me near the rear of the grid, but after my pitstop (which I messed up as they put in another 26 Gallons of fuel in after using only about 10Gallons in 45mins.) I came out a few seconds behind Pribero and persued with the chase, eventually catching and having a good battle with but not passing as you held on just enough in the twisties so you could burn me off on the straights(which seemed to been the case with everyone), untill in the end the engine just decided it had had enough of Valencia and chucked the towel in.

Well, that was probably my first and last appearance in the Vertigo of Doom but it was a very enjoyable race in the end.

I was hoping it wouldn't come to this but I may have to give the Vertigo the same fate too TBH Even though I would like to do a full season with it. :'(
I have to drive the **** out of it and push it beyond its limits just to compete but for 40-80 minutes even with the extra 70KG taken off it's too much of a risk especially for others who get into problems with me durng a race as I don't want that.

I was questioning my car choice in the first couple of laps as various Porsche's whizzed past me down the straight but my tactic of just being consistent (which I definitely wasn't in the RSR) and coming in very late for the briefest of pitstops seemed to work OK and I'm well chuffed with my 4th place, not that far behind Bernie and Minton.

Yeah, the amount of times in the past two races that I have pushed like hell all through the lap and got a great run out of the last corner only to be blown away be EVERYONE.
You did well to finish where you did Pops, and I'm racing more for the enjoyment than the win, but I can't consentrate on consistency as I end up thinking about stuff, going too slow etc so I have to push to keep consentration .

So I think that'll be the last time I clean the dead flies/bugs off the back window of the Vertigo for a while whilst I consentrate on a different car and spend some time practicing.

THE END. 

PS congrats on the Wins Jon and Truetom, and CeeJay too in the Chevy, sounds great with that V8 sound pack installed 

[Minton]

Thanks for the lapchart Ruskus, always interesting.

[Truetom]

Good win for the Pengu... errr, Team Shark and Legends Racing. 

Found a compromise setup which surprisingly enabled me NGT pole with Leuven and Minton close. I dare to say the Vertigo was good choice for fun but a bad one to compete for the win.     Alien Leuven in his Vertigo was quicker everywhere but on the s/f line and I decided its best to keep him busy. So I didn't drive on the limit but just fast enough to let Leuven and Minton have a constant duel and I stayed safely in front. Was watching replay - good duel guys, very nice driving.     When Leuven and Minton put eachother out (  )  Bernie Lomax took the chase - was feeling like a deer running from the woolves for a while.    Managed to stay in front and used lapping GTs to increase the gap. Afterwards to the end I was racing alone and just kept the gap big enough. Don't know how, but after pitting I had the next car 40 sec behind.      Had to make one lap extra but I had enough fuel for 15 min more driving.

With Pops and PaulW 4th and 5th Legends Racing  have a nice amount of points. When we teach MJ to press the red button we will do even better.     

Good win for JonM and big thanks to GTs for the patience - Valencia doesn't allow lapping at every moment. 

TT 

[Minton]

Don't know how, but after pitting I had the next car 40 sec behind.   

I went of about 4 times TT which left me that far behind after the pitstops..Was driving the car way to hard.

[Nick Phillips]

Nick gently let me past, eventhough we were fighting for position .

Much as I would love to fight you for position, my only chance would be if you were in an NGT I think

No point holding a team mate up though.

You aren't teammates in the race, Junior boy...

Sorry thats the multi team working Nascar driver coming out in me
Promise to make it more difficult next time and possibly dump in the gravel due to my lack of control

[Radius]

Sounds like it was a good race, got stuck in Ireland and got home @ 10pm

congratulations to winners

[Madd-RIP]

Thanks for the lapchart Ruskus, always interesting.

Or incredibly embarrassing 

[fozzmeister]

GTR2 has a 2 minute countdown to the start of the race, because this is plenty of time to check the race setup it was felt there was no need to have a 2 minute warmup and then to sit on the grid for 2 mins while everyone fannies around before joining. If you look at the race announcements there is no warmup now listed in the session list unlike last season.

warmup is good for bog stop, plz re-instate.