This series will involve pit stops. If your new to GTL this could be a valuable read https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=11812.msg212761#msg212761

The BMW is a thirsty beast. With the rev limit set at 9000 you will be a good match for the Alfa and will be able to reach the pits at half race distance.
If you choose to raise the rev limit be aware that you may have to do two pit stops per race.

I think that we owe you 4 points. It's an unforeseen bug in the scoring apparatus. I will try to establish if a fix can be found and report back. It may take a few days though.

WOW!

One of the best drivings in my life.

I decide to go with Toyota just like the colleagues. Because with BMW it was going to be a lonely race. So I start my first laps during qualy and during the whole Q I drove with full tank. So I knew I have a chance to beat all of the Corollas.

At the start someone my a bad start and kill my momentum. After that there were so many dive bombs and contacts... What was that? But I survived but 11 seconds behind Daz after 2 laps. 

I was behind Ziu for 6-7 laps and we had a nice chase. I had to wait for a mistake as these cars particularly don't have slip stream. He went to the pit pretty early though. And that gave me a clean circuit in 5th.

After that something happend with Dan, Clive had trouble as well. And I had a chance for a podium here. But I wanted to be the fastest Corolla...

I change the strategy here. I had full tank and could've gone for around 30 laps but I decide to change the tires at half way. And because I had a fuel for 10-12 more laps, I needed a quick refueling of just around 8 laps.

After that I start chasing Daz. He made few mistakes and I knew I had a chance. After he finally pitted I was 4 seconds behind. Before the end the gap was down to 2 and I was in a delirium of the coming battle. But it wasn't meant to be. He went to the pit again and I was now in second.

BUT!

Clive was around 10 seconds now behind, 10 laps to go, 1 second faster per lap and with more power on the straights. It was GAME ON! I drove these 10 laps like in a qualifying at around 120% of the car's potential, drifting like hell.

At the end I was about to have a hearth attack. Clive was cutting the final corners of the final lap like a man, and I have no idea how he didn't spin there.  And hopefully I saw the chequered flag at the end, with Clive just 5 tents behind...

What a race!

Grats to Matt on commanding victory and to Clive on the amazing chase and podium. Sympathies for Geoff, he had trouble at the start but was quick and Daz, and Ziu.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIZcR6XzHJ8

Sorry, I resumed my choir practice and I can't race on wednesday for a while.

Grats to Matt and Dimitar and of course all finishers.

I was also considering the Corolla when I did a quick try out of the cars during Wednesday afternoon.  It was definitely the easiest car to drive and after only a few laps I was around 1:38 on full race fuel. There was obvious room for improvement, both in setup and ( mostly) my driving, so maybe a 1:36 was available. I tried the insane Cosworth and loved all of that power, but that love was not shared by the tyres which melted away at an alarming rate!! A couple of laps in the BMW showed that any setup that I had was in severe need of some development work, so I dragged the Alfa out of the garage and slapped the Monza setup on it.
Quicker that the Corolla, but a couple of secs slower than the Sierra. No more time during the afternoon, so a final decision to be made pre qualifying in the evening.
Ignoring the BMW I tried the other 3 and was almost seduced by the Sierra, but the tyre wear was scary. After a couple of tweaks to the Alpha setup it became much kinder on it's tyres without losing any pace, so it was a 50/50 choice between Corolla and Alfa.
At  the last moment I opted for the Alfa and was a little saddened to see that only Kurt was in the same class of car  
A grid of Toyota hardware with a two Sierras and a couple of Alfas.
My setup had a very high 1st gear and I was mugged at the start by a swarm of Corollas and Kurt. I was able to use the extra grunt of the Alfa to pick off the Corollas and eventually got myself on to Kurt's tail pipe, but getting past was a real problem. It was far too early in the race to risk any demon braking so I tried to apply pressure and wait for an error.
After several laps Kurt went wide at T1 and I was free to consider chasing Matt in his Sierra, but I quickly abandoned any idea of glory when my front left tyre turned red!! If second was the best that I could achieve, then that was not so bad  

I was playing safe with tyre wear and had decided to do 2 stints of 20 laps so that I could replace tyres at half distance and refuel...simples! A bolt on certainty for 2nd spot  .

Gave the "slowing to pits" message , hit the speed limiter at the correct place. cruised up to my pit man ( I had practised the position for this race ). up popped the pit board, Front tyres "yes"...Rear tyres "yes",  "Enter"......Oh Sh*t I forgot to add fuel??!!!. By sheer good fortune I still had 1.6 laps worth of fumes in the tank to complete another lap and stop AGAIN for some gas.
That cost me a bucket load of time and I was now midfield with cars that had already completed their stops ahead of me. Matt was way ahead and barring any accidents a certain winner, Daz was second and would have to make a stop but he had a huge time advantage. DD was 3rd and a quick calculation was that I had to slice more than a second a lap off his pace to even catch him.
During that chase Daz came unstuck with his refuelling woes and I passed a couple of cars to be sitting in 3rd with 10 laps to go and DD 10 secs ahead.
Quite how I kept the Alfa mostly on the tarmac with a totally ruined front left tyre, bouncing over kerbs and catching snap oversteers I do not know. The Alfa is probably not the sweetest handling car but it must be tough to take the abuse that I gave it in my attempt to catch Dimitar. Just one more lap and I think I might have stolen MY second place back, but credit to DD he made no mistakes and squeezed just enough pace out of his car to get to the flag ahead of me.  HUGE FUN !!!!!  

Quite happy with my 4th place after ruining any chance I had of winning the Toyota class in the first couple of laps, although I could not of matched DD's pace anyway.

The first couple of laps were a disaster. The first few corners of lap 1 I just seemed to be in the wrong place at every one & quickly got shuffled back to last place. On lap 2 I spun the car into the barriers after catching too much kerb at T5 so was already over 30s behind class leader Daz. Proceeded to lap at Daz's pace for several laps & eventually caught & passed Tony & Erling. Approaching half distance the tyres started to go off & although I had planned to go to lap 30 before pitting, I decided that maybe a stop at half distance & new tyres would be a good idea. This seemed to pay off as shortly after my stop I easily closed up on then leader Daz who was a lap ahead.

When Daz pitted I then set my sights on Ziu who was around 10s ahead but lapping slower than me. Shortly after Daz too was not far ahead after his two stops & I gained two places in as many laps when they both pretty well let me past. There was no chance of catching anyone else though, so pretty happy with 4th after those terrible first couple of laps.

Congrats to Matt, DD & Clive on the podium.  

Thanks Kurt