UKGTR Endurance Masters - Brno - Nov 19

[Bernie Lomax]

As the other guys have said great battle between Jonzo, Popobawa and Pribero early doors.
Tyres on the Bi-turbo didn't last very long to say the least!

[Radius]

Was a pleasure racing u guys...saleen didnt like softs so had to go with meds all round...lost allot of time in pits was a bit confused with the fuel calculation it showed me. Eventually it added 8 laps extra taht i ddint need 

grats to all finishers and thanks to NGT guys doing there utmost to be polite while battling each other hard...was good to watch 

enduro is such a blast

[Matjaz Plotajs]

My First race with F360 GTC. I must say I like the car although it sounds scary when it goes over 9000 RPM  . In the first stint I had to push to stay in front of Leuven who was following closely behind. In the last couple of laps before pitting I managed to open a gap of about 6 seconds so there I went to the pits for the first time in GTR2. Of course I forgot to turn off my engine and lost about 6 seconds there and I also realized it would have been better to start with full tank of fuel and only change tyres. I was sure Leuven will profit on this 2 mistakes from me but I just couldn't tell wheather he managed to overtake me or not so I assumed he was in front of me as I was 20 seconds behind someone. I was pushing 110% to close the gap and than I saw this guy in front is to quick to be the NGT car. So when I finally realized I'm the leader of my class I then try to focus on my fuel consumption. F360GTC is a rather funny car with no Motec information so I had no idea how much time is left. 1 lap before finish I got a call from the pits to go in next time and refuel but at the same time I had no idea wheather this is the last lap in the race or not. So comming out of the last corner and having only 1 liter of fuel I decided to go over the line and luckily the race was over otherwise I would have run out of fuel. That would have been disaster as I had a huge lead and could easily afford pitting.

Nice racing from all guys and also I had no problem with warping only one time when suddenly there was a GT car behind me trying to lap me. I always check my mirrors to see if someone is approaching and this time it was all quiet and the next second I had 2 GT cars in my rear mirror so I guess that was a small warp or something. 

[Martin Steinmetz]

Mixed bag for me, obviously I'm happy with the result, i think 2nd place was the best one could achieve in the Viper, but i was never able to do the times i was pulling in practice although it was a good bit hotter in qualy and race. Decided to go for meds/hards which might have been a bit too conservative and screwed the balance of the car in the later parts of each stint, but i didn't dare to go for meds/meds in the 2nd stint. :-/

Still an enjoyable race, a nice little fight with Ruskus and a 2nd place, pity two of my teammates didn't even finish the pacelap.

[JonM_uk]

Nice racing from all guys and also I had no problem with warping only one time when suddenly there was a GT car behind me trying to lap me. I always check my mirrors to see if someone is approaching and this time it was all quiet and the next second I had 2 GT cars in my rear mirror so I guess that was a small warp or something. 

I think that was me Matjaz. At first there was a frozen ghost of your car on the track, then you were up ahead by about 4secs(not totally sure this was you but I'll check replay later) and all of a sudden you appeared right in front of me. Dunno if it was you or me that had the warp/lag though. Didn't see any changes in the gap to the next car timer but It looks like  a few ppl had little probs so Prolly best to check the replay and see what was happening to others at same point.

[Jeffrey]

Unofficial Lapchart

[popabawa]

Thanks Ruskus

[Jeffrey]

Thanks Ruskus

No prob. I'm working on a video now and you are starring in it for the Masters part

[popabawa]

Great! I love to watch myself get overtaken!

[Jeffrey]

VIDEO

Here is a 7,5 minute video from the race. Both Masters and Academy are in it. This way you get to have a peak at what happened in the other server

It's 60mb.

Filefront

Google Video         

P.S The video keeps running for black after the footage for 10s, I forgot to remove that . You can just close it, there won't be any bloopers at the end

[LEUVEN]

After the sprint race on tuesday I tweaked my setup and it felt pretty good and I was able to just about keep in touch with Matjaz, for <20mins or so but then the tyres just seemed to gradually lose a lot of grip and I had to fight the car, so I decided to try and hold on best I could and then pit a lap early.
Forgetting to tell my team to get off their backsides and bring out the tyres a lap early, I ended up losing quite a bit of time aswell as any chance I might have had of keeping in touch with even a podium, nevermind Matjaz.
Tried to look after the tyres a bit but it seemed to make the fronts worse so I decided to push but to no avail as the grip declined and I ended up with a pungture and a barrier for a front splitter/bumper.
I did have a couple of occasions when Matjaz was stationary half way round a corner but was luckily not when I was close enough for it to have any effect.
congrats to winners, podiums and the rest as it was well deserved, especially in a viper too Martin 

Also, sorry Mad Ripp. I will take myself outside for a public flogging.

[JonM_uk]

Nice vid Ruskus. Some nice footage Nice music also

[Martin Steinmetz]

yeah....very nice, that NGT-battle looked awesome :-)

next time I'll wait for the Google video link, took more than an hour to get it off filefront :-/

[Radius]

arghhhh i hate filefront 

troublesome d/l but seems to be going slowly now.......

[Jeffrey]

Oh sorry. I chose Filefront as it doesn't have a stupid counter. I normally have good speeds there (300kb/s). Next time I'll use megaupload again, or do you suggest a better one? I know some have problems with Rapidshare.