UKGTR Endurance Academy - Spa 2003 - Dec 3

[Jamera]

swap to the more reliable Lambo

That's not a phrase you hear every day!

Puts on best Spurs fan's voice "Trust me" compared to that bloody, poxy F*&^%"G '04 one it is!!! 

[EdamSpeed]

I'm hoping to make this one (assuming my current lobby problem is fixed), but I shall also be testing a CRX at Cadwell, so it rather depends on how late that finishes and how quickly I can get home!

Well, lobby problems notwithstanding, I made it back in time. CRX had some problems (dodgy starter motor, battery flat towards end of day, mysterious oil leak, and warped discs / brake judder that almost made my hands bleed), so not an entirely successful day, capped off by me spinning the damn thing at the Gooseneck and wiping the rear bumper off on the tyrewall

It's only cosmetic damage really. Worst is that one of the tailgate clips will have to be repaired, and a new bumper reinforcement/mounting strip is needed, as well as a right-hand light cluster - but the owner has those spare. The worst part is the disappointment of a 6-year record of not bending other people's cars has come to an end, and at a track day too. Feck.

Marshal at the tyrewall needed a new pair of pants

Drive home was interesting though. 3 and a half hour journey that I did in slightly less than 3 hours. I left at about 4:30 and made it back for about 7:20. I'd like to thank the good  people of Grimsby for getting the hell out of my way, and apologies for that purple blur that drove past so fast

Disappointed I couldn't connect to the race though, after all that effort

[silver53]

What a carry on . B car was jumping all over in praccy so kept out way as much as poss. Thought start at back with no one joining, connection will be better. Some hopes wet my self on pace lap as screen froze then the server dropped my connection at the start.Re Edam Speed you were no tryin hardenough with your shunt at the goose neck:- comming over the brow of the hill see a car sideways across track,the car is light jump on brakes.miss target car then its anybodys guess were you end up. I have even had the front suspension collapse going into park,that was exciting I can tell you.It may be a bit better sitting higher in a saloon car but entering the Gooseneck in a low GT car is a bit of a leap of faith. Wish I still had money and youth to do it.cheers gerald

[ossie]

Had a bit of a mare, came off early on and needed to go to the pits for repairs. Left pits in last position and pushed for a while and passed a load of ngt's.  Pushed too hard at stages and made a few slips. Was closely behind Jamera for a while( a lap down) and tried to unlap myself but struggled to pass.  As we came accross a couple of ngt's, thought Jamera was taking advantage of a gap left by  an ngt and accelerated and Jamera hesitated and braked and I tapped his rear causing him to slide.(Very sorry). Felt really awful at that point and continued for a while but lost confidence.  That damn escape key. I took a little spin and hit the bloody thing and as soon as I had done so regretted it straight away as I was gaining back positions. Will will will finish next race.

Dabbled a bit with a new video editing program, file size was huge but managed to compress it enough to download. What are your a opinions are they getting better?

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=5824058225758366847

[Jeffrey]

What software are you using Ossie?

I like the amount of action you capture, from overtaking, to offs to blowing up engines. That's is alot of effort to do, so big thumbs on that one.

What I didn't like so much, were there accelerated footage (fast forwarded?), the music (not my taste ), the quite long intro and the effects. All these things are just my opinion, so not critism as you can make your movie however you want!

But again I enjoyed watching it alot, it's interesting the whole 6 minutes. So keep making them (if you want ofcourse )!!!

[popabawa]

Ossie, another great job of capturing the action, it's really entertaining stuff! 

I have to agree with Ruskus on the intro. though it was a bit long.

I also loved the subtitles, it's always good to see who's involved in the action

[Jeffrey]

I also loved the subtitles, it's always good to see who's involved in the action

Yup, agreed. That was great, forgot all about those . Now with some Monty Python humour and we've got a classic

[Minton]

Great stuff Ossie.

[Radius]

Nice vid Ossie, agree on length into and music (not my taste...but i do feel more that it didnt fit into the scene/mood of the vid)

Great story telling thou..made it much more interesting to watch!

lol who took the wrong pit entry in the ferrari hahaha

btw...didnt you upload the file for download?...the google vid quality is horrendous...please use megaupload and not filefront(real slow transfers!!!)

[Chunky]

cool vid Ossie enjoyed it a lot

Is it possible to get a higher res version

[ossie]

Nice vid Ossie, agree on length into and music (not my taste...but i do feel more that it didnt fit into the scene/mood of the vid)

Great story telling thou..made it much more interesting to watch!

lol who took the wrong pit entry in the ferrari hahaha

btw...didnt you upload the file for download?...the google vid quality is horrendous...please use megaupload and not filefront(real slow transfers!!!)

Will do tomorrow for both academy and master vids. got to go to work now time to pick madd up!!!

[Adam Parle]

Hmm, just like to point out my "off" was 1fps related, rather than me driving like a muppet!  Shame my overtake on Picnic didn't show up too well, both of us were hanging the tail out on that one....

Would have been really good if it was a little bit clearer! 

[Mojo]

Great video Ossie!! But I'm missing my 360 degree spin at 1387 

[Joss]

Nice video Ossie - must take ages to find all those scenes, cut them all in, splice music and text over it....looks fun though.

I think I'd speak for everyone here when I say we'd rather see a big file thats good quality than not - does the race and video much more justice and so what if it takes longer to dl .

And the speedup thing works in places but I think the whole video is overkill. Personaly, I like house/trance/dance style music with racing games 

[LEUVEN]

Nice video Ossie - must take ages to find all those scenes, cut them all in, splice music and text over it....looks fun though.

Yeah maybe if people can remember any action from the races, we could PM the video makers the times they happened to save them time?