UKGTR Season 5 Endurance Clubmen - Silverstone (GP) - Apr 15

[Adam Parle]

Although got ask wtf was going on in warm-up lap? Going 110 to keep up

It was a little quick!

Don't know what it was like at the back, but I can imagine the concertina effect was playing merry hell with those guys.

[will16v]

Sorry for the big contact as well will. Just couldn't avoid you.

no probs ginsters - i think i was trying to let someone past, and lost it on the kerb.

just post me some sausage rolls 

[Kerr]

Enjoyed that plenty of good battles in the race with various drivers. Backo seemed to be having it easy and was too quick for me. No idea what happened to him though?

Had Dirk right up my backside but could hold him off. Got caught out with a back marker again. I made a move to go inside him and allow him the racing line, but he slowed and moved into my path. No contact but I had to lift right off for a few seconds and Dirk made the most and passed. Still having difficulty with understanding how to approach back markers as very few act the same

Picnic was putting me under great pressure and I think was caught up with a few cars that had crashed. There was a few cars across the track and I went for a space and I guess Picnic never manged the same. Up to then it was very close, even at the pit stop where I just got out ahead. Lost a few seconds in pits having repairs carried out again with another rear ender!

I had a bit of luck at pitstop. I entered the pit only to find Gerard in my pit bay. Luckily he moved the very second I arrived. Nice timing! Not the first time I have been caught out by this but at least I never lost time on this occasion.

After pit stops I found myself behind Jure. He pitted very late and with low fuel intake managed to jump me. Nice tactics there. His car was struggling for grip and I managed to pass him on cold tyres.

Built up a few seconds lead and was happy to ease off the revs a little and pace myself.

Good race everyone, unlucky Picnic as was a good battle going on.

[Mark J]

what a nightmare that race turned out to be 

After being away on my hols for a week i completely missed the posts about the circuit change (to this rF one) and spent 40 mins before the race practising on the wrong version of silverstone  which i only discovered when i tried to join the race in the lobby 

Then found the new version a whole lot tighter than the Simbin one and struggled throughout qually trying to relearn the tracks bite points.
Lap 2 of the race i had a full speed double 360 into the barriers getting heavy body damage and a rear puncture right on the s/f straight so had to crawl a full lap with 3 wheels 
Spent rest of race lapping on my own and lapping the GT2/GTC class cars, who all got out of the way nicely. I wanted to thank people but both my headlights were smashed ! 
I finally got myself upto 6th place, pitted for my standard stop and the stupid game gave me a stop and go despite it being on auto-pit ...dropped to 9th and didnt even catch Pops and Adam in their little vertigos in my 50 pence shaped Masserati....oh the shame 
Well done to the points winners, i'm slipping out the back exit to Silverstone.

[Adam Parle]

......didnt even catch Pops and Adam in their little vertigos in my 50 pence shaped Masserati....oh the shame 

 

[Oliver Bateson]

Well done to the winners and finishers. Another frustrating race for me. Qualy I had major FPS probs, so apologies to anyone who I got in the way of. Anyway, managed to get in one good lap (I made sure I connected using ISDN).

Strangely there were no FPS problems in the race!?! However....after some good scraps at the back where I made it upto about 14th, I then messed it up and damaged the car. The pit stop seemed to take ages with the old 'Sit tight ' message being a tad worrying. Then I get a stop go penalty on exit, even tho I used the limiter?? And worse of all I decide to pit on the next lap but the back flag doesn't go away on exit, so I carry on till I get a pit message telling me to pit for my stop/go,.. so I do, thinking this will fix it. But the black flag still doesn't go away and on the next lap I get a DQ for ignoring the stop/go   By that time id wasted minutes on pit stops anyway but it would have been nice to let me finish given the effort put in to practice and racing.

GTR seems to have cost me a few places again this week . Oh well, Im determined not to give up...

[SMichaels]

fantstic race, really close at the end

[ossie]

Frustrated, couldn't get anywhere near my PB of 142.3 in qually.  Locked up on warmup lap and veered towards rumble strip after cars in front decided to to come to near standstill after accelerating away. Rejoined in 16th I think and tried to push like hell to catch GT1's back up.  Should have known better on cold med fronts and hard rears as the car had hardly any traction.  Tried to take a beemer on the inside on turn one hit yet another slippery rumble strip and got spat out onto the grass. 

Will have to remove my escape key for next race as I have a tendancy to reach for it nearly every time out of frustration.  Grats to Podiums of each class will see you all again soon.

[Munkez]

Strangest Thing!!!

Moving on from practice 2 on to qualifying the time just hung! didn't progress, clicked on cars on track and they were just juddering?
Clicked leave event and the server wasn't showing in the lobby? only 4 passworded servers were....... none you you guys were showing on line either........ bizarre
waited till 8.55pm when the race started with no joy...... gutted :'(

Ive just checked and i still only see a hand full of servers online? anyone any idea...........

munk

[Don]

That was one great race!
I was dead lucky to avoid a few spinners early on and then I settled into a rhythm that I was able to keep up for the rest of the race. Didn't have any epic battles but manged to keep it neat and tidy and happy to have kept it error free this time.
Pitted for tyres only but knew that Pops and Adam were on a stop/go pit stop strategy only so knew I had no chance of making any time up on them in the pits Those Vertigo's seem to be in a class of their own on these twisty tracks!..and not needing to change tyres or take on fuel makes them an even more viable bet. But hats off to those guys they drove one super consistent race to make it another Vertigo 1,2,3.

Good job by the GT's. Looked like you guys were having great battles.
I did have to laugh when Marks Masser seemed to be more beaten up each time he came past me.
Grats to the winners and podiums, great race.

[picnic]

Ive just checked and i still only see a hand full of servers online? anyone any idea...........

It's not a lobby/backup lobby thing is it. Our Practice server should be there^*, can you see it now?

^*I have no idea which lobby it launches into as Simbin didn't see that was important on the dedi server!

[Don]

..and make sure you have the game set to simulation mode

[picnic]

What a fun qually, finally got into the 1:41 bracket (just) but 0.037 off pole was only good enough for 3rd. Trouble is, like the sprint race, my setup doesn't really last that long so I was disappointed when Dirk got me on cold tyres at the start. Backo out front seemed to be able to pull away from us and after half a dozen laps Kerr seemed to lose some grip and Dirk gave him a hard time, and I caught them up. Jure also managed to close the gap to me.

Then we came across the slower cars, brilliant job chaps. I think we were lucky often with where we caught you but on several occasions I saw people going beyond the call of duty. Towards the end of the first stint I was really struggling with rear end grip, ended up following Kerr into the pits. Being the last pit box it was really hard to get out, I wasn't sure I could get out before Kerr so I let him go rather than cause an accident. Then the chase resumed.

I lost a couple of seconds to him behind a GT1 we were lapping but then it all went wrong. I got caught out by the big accident mentioned earlier. Thought I had a run through but as I was passing all the wreckage a BMW suddenly appeared broadside across the track in fron of me. Could miss it and lost most of the front left of the car. Funny bit is pit crew telling me I've lost a wheel expect some understeer!

After the rubbish performance in the sprint race I drove much better this time. Congrats to all the podiums

[Munkez]

..and make sure you have the game set to simulation mode

Cheers for the tip!

Checked this morning and sure enough its on novice mode  i dont understand, how, why, when and where??? I was on the server at the time this happened...........
Was really looking forward to Silverstone, got the practice time down to 1.51.2xx, thought i was in with a good chance, it wasnt to be.

Munk

[Jure]

Right.

Had a not-so-cool quali, but no matter, my race strategy was 100L on medium medium + 16 laps on soft/medium in 2nd stint. Running rear wing 11, btw.

Race started well, I could keep pace with lead group  (P2-P4, BACKO instantly dissappeared into the distance, as expected) while avoiding trouble and conserving tyres (fronts being a bit underinflated to cope with pressure/temps in 2nd stint on fresh soft fronts). Tactics worked perfectly (I even let BACKO by after his spin since it was obvious it would be contraproductive to block him, was much faster then I thus we would both lose time, same goes for Sam passing me some 4-5 laps before my pits although I let him by just to see him go into the pits, we both lost a second or two due to it, but no matter.  ).

Last two laps prior to pit stop ruined my chances for race victory, caught a group of 4-5 NGT cars involved into some serious racing, all of them acting like a bunch of Asian giant hornets on acid  , so I went about passing them VERY carefully, thus blowing some 8-10 seconds in two laps.

Made a fast pit stop and came out in the lead, right in front of Kerr's screaming Lambo. Being sitting duck on stone cold tyres I let him by, figuring I can catch him once tyres get up to temp. Big mistake. Matching his pace was no problem, catching him was another matter. 

Had two "moments" with highly enthusiastic but a bit overanxious Sam and finished in 2nd.

Not bad, could be better with some practice.

P.S. I've noticed (prior to race start, i.e. start of practice 1) practice server being on warmup, 2 players in game, couldn't join for some 20 mins. Is that normal?