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

[linco24]

Great race, really pleased with my 8th place. Qualified 9th with a decent 1.25.1. Got a decent start and was surrounded by the Racing 24-7 boys! Great racing lads. Chased Picnic at the start in that cracking lookin Shark Maser and then just steadily got taken by the faster folks. Got a nudge by Backo into the last turn and that was that really. Simon then caught me up and it wasn't long before he passed. Nice move mate. From then on in I just kept a steady pace and made sure my tyres lasted. Overloaded on fuel though, has about 20l to spare 

All in all really great racing by everyone. Roll on GT2!

Colin

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Was in from practice and then kicked during quali, was that to make place for full time racers ?? 

No, just bad luck. We think the server is struggling with 26 and may have to drop to 24.

[ChOnG]

Good race all, had a good few fights in there and was panicing towards end with Dave right behind me, kept on locking a wheel but corrected quickly enough so to not lose a place.

Was worried on the first lap seeing my brother flying upside down in the air tho. LOL

[Mark J]

wondered what the hell happened there Kerr, i checked my mirror for a split second to see who was chasing me out of the corner, then as soon as i looked forward again, there was a spray of kevlar and you appeared about 200 metres behind me, even though i was nowhere near you on the straight   weirdest warp i've seen.

New item to add to my mental checklist at race start...Check the bloody temperature outside !!    It was 30 degrees...in Sweden

Within a few laps my tyres were showing 217kpa   so knew i was going to be in for a tougher race than normal. I just hoped everyone else had been likewise caught out.
I was trying to push but also preserve the tires, even early on. Shark was keeping a watching brief close behind for quite a few laps and i sensed he could tell i was struggling with one particular corner, that horrible off camber left 90 degree turn before the bridge (turn 6). Dont know why but my car refused to turn in there and i lost time to him every time as i tried to avoid that slippery bastard kerb on the outside. Eventually i touched it and like the true predator he is, Shark darted up the inside for the brief 10th of a second i had to lift. Nice move ya bugger  
He was the only one to get past me all race (i think) but once he was past i couldnt stay with him.
Got past a few others on my way to the end and with about 5 mins to go i wanted to try and keep the tyres on the car and ease off, but my teamie TT decided to attack a bit (must get that team radio fixed ) and i had to push a bit harder than i wanted with a front left showing 29 wear rate
But we brought it home a reasonable 9th and 10th for the Legends Maseratis    (though judging by his qually pace, TT had a top 5 finish in him)
Nice clean racing all round and thanks to the backmarkers who behaved perfectly.  

[Buckie]

To the persons i hit coming back on to the track on 3rd/4th lap i think, i apologise i had some major issues concerning cars just appearing in front of me out of thin air.

Rather than babble on i frap'd the said event. :'(

http://v5-gaming.com/magic.avi

Has anyone got any ideas to what couldve caused this. I have max visible cars set to 28 btw.

Cheers.

[Simon Gymer]

Yeah some dodgy GTR2 issues there and discos not good. Even at 26 the game just doesn't seem to cope. As usual when it went down to 24 it seemed fine. I hope we don't have to drop to 24 max as that's just poop. If the game can't handle it why do they allow it. Bah.

Anyway..

I have not really driven GT cars in anger fully properly with a bit of practice (ok it was only 30 minutes before but it's more practice than I've done for months) since GTR1 and I'd forgotten how much faster they are and how much more you have to concentrate so hard to keep consistent. Not bad time in qually, 0.5 off my TimeTrial time but to be expected, unfortunately only good enough for 17th or 18th on the grid just in-front of the yank tank of Gizmo.

Warmup lap was a bit odd having to brake coming to the line with the limiter on, but I suspect some of that was down to the apparent car jitters from having 26 cars. First few laps was a game of dodge the stationary cars. I drove right through Colin's Team Shark Junior F550 at one point, thankfully without damage. Bizarre. Anyway after that strange behaviour went away I settled into what I do best, drive consistently for lap after lap in the race, keeping tyres managed and saving the engine. I really am not a qualifying person, I do everything for a good race. Got a couple of people into T2, quite a few places from people's offs and another into one of the corners near the end. 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.

I really quite enjoyed being back in GT cars and look forward to slipping into the next Sprint race too if there is space.

Well done to the podium, a nice start for the Team Shark group with both Junior and Senior in the top 2. That's going to be an interesting little battle in the Team Shark group as we try and out-do each other this season.

[cej]

Thanks for the race all. Qualified waaay back on the grid, but a couple of people went off the track and I got a couple of positions.

Had some good fights ,but one of those last minute changes I tend to do really messed things up. Dunno why I thought it was a good idea ,but I opted for brake duct of 2 and my brakes never got above 350 degress    Oh well,lesson learned for the endurance race  Keep duct at 1 .

Thought I had Dave under control and at a reasonable distance,until I messed things up and all of a sudden he was in my mirrors and flew by me    Managed to keep it under control and not crash into the barrier,but it was close..Damn brakes 

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Narrowly avoided running into Shark during the start when he suddenly slowed for a moment as we crossed the line. Not sure what that was about - might've been an element of warp.

Then got caught out by somebody's frozen car (maybe Adam, bad luck mate) and hit Buckie who as a result I couldn't see rejoining from the entry to Hansen and slipped a few places to 22nd, luckily not doing much front end damage.

After that it was mostly picking up places as people disco'd or went off, and gradually easing up onto the back of cej and Chong who were having a great scrap ahead. Dunno whether it was my pressure or his own but cej eventually spun out of Hansen which left me free to try and pressure Chong into a mistake (I was never going to squeek past the 550 under power!) but it never came and I had to settle for a creditable 15th in my first proper championship GT race.

Tyres held up well and fuel was pretty much spot on (finished with about 9 litres) but I've got an awful lot to learn about setting the Corvette up and then getting the most out of it. More worrying was getting spanked by Picnic in the MC12!

To the persons i hit coming back on to the track on 3rd/4th lap i think, i apologise i had some major issues concerning cars just appearing in front of me out of thin air.

No problem - there was a stuck car so clearly there was something icky going on. Might wanna rejoin a bit slower next time mind.

[picnic]

Replay and Provisional Results

[Buckie]

No problem - there was a stuck car so clearly there was something icky going on. Might wanna rejoin a bit slower next time mind.

If you check the avi i uploaded you can see that to me the track looked clear. The oncoming cars magically appeared out of thin air. Otherwise i wouldve waited until the traffic had passed.

[jan duijs]

To the persons i hit coming back on to the track on 3rd/4th lap i think, i apologise i had some major issues concerning cars just appearing in front of me out of thin air

No problem,you flew over my car i had a scuffmark on my front window,impressive in replay too

Jan

[ChOnG]

Oh and my bad start was coz i pressed the wrong button on my steering wheel for speed limiter LOL.

[picnic]

After a couple of seasons staying clear of GTs this was my first race in anger for some while. Picked the MC12 as it looks great especially with Shark's paint job. Trouble was I a bit inconsistent. I must appolgies to both Beholder and Mo for cock ups, sorry chaps.

There are some seriously nice looking cars out there and some skillful drivers. I had no problems with cars warping badly or disappearing, just everything happening too quickly 

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.

[Adam Parle]

Adam me too and I am on BT. First problems since I moved house 3 weeks ago. Lost it first about 7:55pm and then again at end of qually. Guess they are having a few problems. Sorry to hear of your troubles too.

Where abouts in the country are you?  I'm in Banbury, and there's nothing mentioned on the BT site.  Not that that doesn't mean they've gone and buggered things up.....

[cej]

After that it was mostly picking up places as people disco'd or went off, and gradually easing up onto the back of cej and Chong who were having a great scrap ahead. Dunno whether it was my pressure or his own but cej eventually spun out of Hansen which left me free to try and pressure Chong into a mistake (I was never going to squeek past the 550 under power!) but it never came and I had to settle for a creditable 15th in my first proper championship GT race.

I was focusing on cathing up with Chong thinking you were well behind me. All of a sudden you were way to close for my liking and struggling with my brakes frustration set in, got on the throttle way to early and lost it    Was some good racing though