UKGTR Season 5 GT1 Sprint - Anderstorp (GP) - Mar 27

[linco24]

About 10 minutes to go and I caught Colin in his F550. Now there was me thinking F575 was going to be a good match for the F550 down the straight, but boy does that 550 fly. I was running quite low rear wing (for me) of 7 to give me some edge for overtaking people down the straight, but all it did in Colin's slipstream was keep me in it. Wow, what a motor . He tried to hold me off for a bit but after getting the best tow I'd managed from him I outbroke him into T2 and never looked back to take 7th place, a climb of 10 places.

Yeah and and strange thing is I was running an 8 wing and 2 on splitter. The 550 is a power house and I dont think I have it set-up right the twisties, especially for turn-in. Simon, my exit from T1 was poor and for a second I thought you wouldn't pass but I heard you get on the brakes just after me so the corner was going to be yours. Good stuff!

Colin

[Paul Cowan]

Well I was pleased to get 3rd in quali, but was a bit ticked off with the amount of leaving and rejoining going on.
Not saying I could have gone faster but it was a little distracting.

I seemed to loose a second of pace with the server full, I had been pracing on it over the last two days with up to 12 drivers on, but once qual started I took a big hit in FPS, damn P4 chip. 

Race wise it was a good blast. Ruskus and Zacari were faster than me so I tried to settle for a quick pace to keep third, but Leuven wasn't having any of that.

We had a good battle, he got ahead and I was clawing back time slowly when he had a near off, so I managed to slip past. I got a tyre warning on the last lap after a patchy race of over driving.

Pleased to finish a race at SROU and Dave I'll PM you about name change m8.

[Kerr]

I'm on night shift tonight and using my mobile phone for this.  i have not had a chance to view replay yet. I had a number of instances tonight of cars standing still. Only once in race but a few during other sessions. I did not have the same problems as sunday though. The game was back running smoothly. It seems strange that these problems were not there for me before. Sorry it's all one paragraph as i cant work out how to get a new line on this phone

[Zacari]

That was as good as I could've hoped for!  Before tonight my best time was in the high 25's, took over a second off my PB in quali.  Jeff was just too good, consistently around half a second a lap faster.  Started in 2nd.

Race start was fine though I was a little slow dropping the hammer.  After a few close laps with no25 in 3rd, I managed to get into a rhythm and slowly pulled into a lonely 2nd which I held until the flag.  Great to have a team shark/TS junior 1-2 though hopefully at Silverstone I can give Jeff more of a race

Shame about the server issues though

[Simon Gymer]

May I suggest everyone checks again that they have ISDN selected for the connection speed within the game. The server used to cope well with 2 grids of 26 cars except when doing transision changes between sessions and saving replays, now it seemingly can't cope with a single server of 26 cars  The only real change on the server is the car pack but I can't see how this makes a big difference as the server does not display any gfx.

Don't think that's true unfortunately. We did have stationary cars etc even on 26 in the GT Sprint last season as I remember Jeff's car freezing a few times at Zhuhai specifically and I know it happened elsewhere too.

I wonder if some research can find us anything useful on RSC that we don't already know to see if there are settings on the datarate and net settings that would help us here on the server side too.

[Fred Joseph]

Despite the fact that some disconnected and weren't able to race, I was pleased with my race.
Second to last on the grid, I knew that my Viper wasn't that competitive here, and it's not everything on the car's fault.. it's my hüber skillz that have to come back from a long time ago when I was young 

I had a great time with Anthony fighting for the last place.. I was pleased that I didn't do any errors until the leaders came back on me.. Then I made some little n00b errors, looking more into my rear view mirrors than my line.. I think I did good not to move into the way of the faster cars.. but made some slight mistakes trying to make some space.. I still need to train for that.

And after that I'll be in search of some speed.. if some of you have some spare for me 

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

I think I lapped both Anthony and Fred, both were very accomodating. I was rather hoping to box Chong in behind Ant but couldn't quite make that pay. 

[Fred Joseph]

if anyone want me to block someone for next race shout me a pm (that was working very well back in my N2003 days      )

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

BTW, I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Paul968's new, more generous Sprint scoring system...

[linco24]

Yes, I noticed but just never responded in any fashion 

I now have a generous 18 points!

[Jure]

Right

Had a semisuccessful quali, second off my pace, but no matter.

Warm up lap was a bit weird (we should go back to "engage pit-lane limiter" two turns before S/F straight) since lots of us had to brake with pit-limiter on (invitation for broken plastic)...

Race started well, gained 5 places and was wondering what the hell is going on at the back straight (blue flag - move over message, 5 laps or so in a row  Funny enough, but it only happened if one of Team Shark MC12 came relatively close out of T1, otherwise no. I went "Que?" like Manuel from Faulty towers  ).
Lost control while comming onto penultimate left corner (before the bridge) with two (2) stationary cars, white/green one and a... blue one, I think  They've appeared just as I was comming to my braking point so you can imagine how that went. Happened 3-4 laps in a row, then the bug changed its form into "I'll let you see those cars until you come up close just to make them go away again". Very weird. Also, I'm pretty sure that wasn't the case for all of us since at least two cars in my mirrors stayed on their racing line (racing line=location of those stationary cars  ) while I was trying to avoid stuff that wasn't there. Or was it? 

While exiting the same corner (comming into last righthander) I was, brainfart I guess, checking mirrors to see if those bug-cars are still there and missed the entry. Spin-o-rama  and, of course, it all went downhill from then on. Pitty, we were racing like crazed maniacs, but very gentlemen like. Cool stuff, thx.

Caught up a black lambo (thought he was one of the front runners that messed up a corner since he just recovered from a major offtrack excursion), came in behind him, we've raced for 3-4 corners, then he moved offline to let me by. Since I was in "must draft to get him" mode, i went offline to and smashed right into him due to his lift off. Turns out he was a back marker.  My fault, admins, check for penalties, please (on my behalf, not his).

Lost a good part of front end bodywork and was sitting duck till the end.

Still, fun stuff, can't wait for endurance race. 

P.S. Another info that might help resolve server problems. Myself and (I suspect) many other drivers were kicked out of practice server due to "possible cheat" thingie. After rejoining, all was well (seen plenty of drivers with same problem yesterday afternoon/evening).

P.S. P.S. It seems like we've lost lots of cars in a single lap (didn't check lapchart, just a feeling, I know at a certain point of the race there were "xy left the game" messages one after another) due to discos or something like that. IMHO it was (online flying sim hosting experience talking now) either due to their software autoupdates or a problem with ISP. Perhaps all those that got disco should post their ISP names (if they're all using same ISP, then it's clear what happened).

[Jeffrey]

Unofficial Lapchart

[Adam Parle]

Nice One Ruskus - much better than the older stuff.

[Jeffrey]

Nice One Ruskus - much better than the older stuff.

Thanks, credits go to the maker Alexzz. I use this one now for a while, but there are some handy new feature, like a direct link to the replay in the lapchart (Summary bottom left) and also the logs.