UKGTR NGT Sprint Masters - Donington GP - Jan 9

[Paul968]

Doing NGT endurance on Sunday definitely paid off for me with a very consistent race pace. Couldn't match my offline 1.30 for qual but was pleased to get 3rd on the grid nonetheless. The first lap was rather unusual to say the least - Claus was holding me up for a change! I wish I could say that this continued, but as expected he eased away, chasing Ruskus, while I  slowly increased the gap back to Jan in 4th. This summed up the whole race really - the gaps in front and behind grew and grew until neither was likely to be overcome. In the end I finished with a healthy 20 sec lead, and although the Aliens ahead tripped up to give me a glimmer of hope in the last few laps, it wasn't to be. Overall, nice to get the podium but a shame to miss out on some of the fun further back.

Congrats to Ruskus & Claus - a different league as usual.

[Mark J]

Was it just me or did anyone else see Ruskus's car frozen a few laps into the race that caused a bit of mayhem for the rest of the field?

Yep, i saw that too, frightened the beejeebers out of me  when flying down through craners with a pack of cars. It was a frozen shark car alright. Only happened on one lap though.

Unlike Paul968, i wish it had been the sprint before the endurance, as my improved setup would have been more useful over the long distance race, and the endurance championship means more to me than the sprints now that there are more aliens present than a series of X-files

[Jeffrey]

Was it just me or did anyone else see Ruskus's car frozen a few laps into the race that caused a bit of mayhem for the rest of the field? That's 2 Sprint races in a row that's happened as his car was frozen on the last corner at Zhuhai for a couple of laps in the GT Sprint. I wonder if we have a technical issue somewhere? What connection setting you using Jeff? Did you have a big stutters at the start? Maybe it was when the second server went to race session?

What, again . I have it on ISDN. I can't understand why, as I have a very fast connection, which is always stable for me .

I don't have any stutters. But at Zhuhai I was in the lead when it happened, and now as well. Might be due to other server I have no idea. Maybe start the servers at the same time, so any problems might occure during warm-up lap and not first racelap.

[Simon Gymer]

What, again . I have it on ISDN. I can't understand why, as I have a very fast connection, which is always stable for me .

I don't have any stutters. But at Zhuhai I was in the lead when it happened, and now as well. Might be due to other server I have no idea. Maybe start the servers at the same time, so any problems might occure during warm-up lap and not first racelap.

Not sure about the second server theory as the GT Sprint only had one didn't it? Or did an overflow one get started for Zhuhai?

Gawd knows, but it was you both races and both times early on and both times when you were leading. Probably another unfixable bug in the code I guess. Just bringing it up in case there is something we can do to fix it as you can imagine meeting stationary cars on the track is not good for the rest of the field. 

[CeeJay]

Great race, as thought Ruskus ran away in the start on his soft front, I had to wait a few laps before I got enough heat in my mediums to really start pushing so I had to focus more on Paul behind in his Porsche in the opening stage

Midway I caught Ruskus as his tires started to drop off, but was next to impossible to do much about the GT3 with its acceleration out of corners, the 360 seems a bit more slidy and I had problems many places where it would slightly powerslide, even in 3rd gear corners if I put the hammer down too hard. I had spotted he was struggling with understeer in Old Hairpin and Coppice and lost speed there, so one lap I got close to him down Craner and just followed him closely till Coppice and managed to get up on the outside to the Esses but was a bit optimistic and I went in a bit deep and got wide again on the exit, that was the only chance I got. But good racing nevertheless, Jeffrey didn't crack, excellent drive there 

[picnic]

Not sure about the second server theory as the GT Sprint only had one didn't it? Or did an overflow one get started for Zhuhai?

Even if I did start a reserve I don't think anyone has ever joined, certainly it has never gone to race on the overflow so I expect some other issue.

[Radius]

Not sure about the second server theory as the GT Sprint only had one didn't it? Or did an overflow one get started for Zhuhai?

Even if I did start a reserve I don't think anyone has ever joined, certainly it has never gone to race on the overflow so I expect some other issue.

There was a moment with around 3 laps to go or so where cars dissapeared and warped/froze for like 3 secs and the placings were all jumbled...my team mates were howling on Teamspeak about this but it was restored to normal shortly after.

[Simon Gymer]

There was a moment with around 3 laps to go or so where cars dissapeared and warped/froze for like 3 secs and the placings were all jumbled...my team mates were howling on Teamspeak about this but it was restored to normal shortly after.

That's probably the first server writing the race replay. 

[popabawa]

One thing I forgot to mention was that I was getting green flag messages for the first lap and a half (but not on the parade lap), just like at the Laguna Seca fun race. Damn annoying.

[Jimmie]

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What, again . I have it on ISDN. I can't understand why, as I have a very fast connection, which is always stable for me .

I don't have any stutters. But at Zhuhai I was in the lead when it happened, and now as well. Might be due to other server I have no idea. Maybe start the servers at the same time, so any problems might occure during warm-up lap and not first racelap.

I could see your car the first few laps, so had no problem with freezing cars on track

[Simon Gymer]

One thing I forgot to mention was that I was getting green flag messages for the first lap and a half (but not on the parade lap), just like at the Laguna Seca fun race. Damn annoying.

LOL, I got blue flags for practically the whole first half of the race. I'm sure it was some Legends Racing paid officials telling me to move over for the LR cars. 

[Pedro[PL]]

One thing I forgot to mention was that I was getting green flag messages for the first lap and a half (but not on the parade lap), just like at the Laguna Seca fun race. Damn annoying.

Me too. Flags appeared out of nowhere all the time.

[LEUVEN]

I seen Ruskus' frozen car twice, once at the Craner Curves and once just before going into the Foggarty Esses,
Maybe it's because he is so fast he keeps leaving the Team Shark skin behind. 

[Simon Gymer]

By the way, if you want to see how to enter the pits in style watch my car on the replay at 2094 seconds. I think it was my best move of the race. 

[Radius]

Skills Shark!! RESPECT!!!