UKGTL Season 2 (GTC-76 Cup) - Silverstone GP - May 10

[will16v]

I should be there tonight in the 911 - as long as i get out of this hole/work in time + the mrs wants me to cook tonight - chinese takeaway out of the foil and into to the pan before she gets in then 

[Splintheter]

send some of that chinese my way, Im hungry 

[MortenS]

Looks like a great track, but unfortunately I won't show up. I've done some practice, but I just can't get my ride set up to finish more than one lap. Partly because I'm not familiar with the track, and partly because I've got very little experience with this type of racing

[picnic]

Damn stupid game decided to fail to finish loading the cars, kept cycling between Will and Shark I decided to gice the race a go even tho I couldn't get to the garage to change the fuel but found that Will's car was invisible to me. Just a name tag running round. I decided that I had better not ruin his race so quit.

[Simon Gymer]

That was an extremely unenjoyable race. After about lap 5 I was spinning every other lap, then every lap until the last few laps where I was spinning twice every lap. In the end I got so pissed off with a completely undriveable car in a very lonely race that I quit with half a lap to go after my second spin in the first half of the lap.

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Started to settle into a rhythm after about half the race, was starting to put a little pressure on Jonzo and then locked the rears under braking and spun off. Proceeded to get 3 'cut' warnings for running wide and losing loads of time, served that and then spun again. Decided that being plum last with an understeering car in a field of just 9 wasn't worth the effort and quit to go watch Roman's Empire instead of taping it.

The track was much too long for these cars. I'm not that keen on the '76 cars anyway. I still enjoy the '65 cars in both classes but these just aren't doing it for me any more.

[Adam Parle]

Bit of an uneventful race - other than watching Bernie spin infront of or behind me.  Slowing brought my lap times down as I got more used to the Beamer, finally cracking 2:00 on my penultimate lap.  Just as well the leader came through ahead of Bernie - I double downshifter which resulted in a spin and then span again on the final corner seeing whether I could actually get the Beamer into a stable drift ... which I couldn't.

Not really much else to report, had a decent battle at the start but that was about it.  After Kyalami, this time the 76ers were a bit of a disspointment.

[Mark J]

I thought that was a cracking race.  

A very close fought qually duel right to the wire, with praise going to Simon for his last seconds great time to leap frog up into the top 5, pushing me down to 6th..ya bugger  

Race was a corking fight from the word go, mainly with the two capris of Pribeiro and Assassino. It was great fun dicing through becketts and elsewhere with the 3 of us trading places on several occasions. At about lap 11 after i had got between the two of them again, i was running so close behind PRib that i put a tad too much wheel on the apex curve and it was enough to send me into a quick spin  . Then had Dave G close up on me from the resultant loss of 9 seconds and he kept a close watching brief a couple of seconds back no doubt hoping for me to make an error. But i kept it clean and sounds like he had an off, allowing me to scamper back after the two capris again.
First got by Assassino after he had an off and then started to catch simon and Prib ahead. Shark then had an off in his feisty Pant-tearer, followed by me about a few corners later whilst watching him in my mirrors.
Did about 2 more laps then Shark went off again, and of course, whilst watching him piroette? on the grass, i braked late ..and yes you guessed it, span again  . I'm sure he has a device fitted that makes my car go off in close proximity to him
But i got by him for the final time when he had more trouble whilst fighting assasino and i got back upto 5th place and hard on Assass' tail.
Got by him up woodcote on the inside with 2 laps to go. He got back by me with the capri power on the straights on the last lap and on the final turn at woodcote again, i got up the inside once more and beat him to the finish line for a great 4th place  

Once again, the track and car combo was fantastic. Felt so atmospheric, especially after being there at the weekend for the FIA GT race. I really wish we could attract more punters. I cant stop staring at the other cars on the warm up lap, they look so damn cool  
Congrats to the top 3, great clean racing all round.

[Simon Gymer]

Any help gaining new recruits is welcome Mark.
If the turnouts don't improve this will be the last season of UKGTL I suspect.

[Simon Gymer]

Provisional results, updated standings and replay available.

[Adam Parle]

Any help gaining new recruits is welcome Mark.
If the turnouts don't improve this will be the last season of UKGTL I suspect.

That'd be a real shame - I really enjoy them.  Sadly real life is forcing me to re-jig my priorities so at present I'm looking at hanging up my GTL boots.  I'll be about every now and then for a race I'm sure though - assuming GTL's still running.

[Mark J]

I've tried a couple of times Simon, i posted over at No-grip when i was doing some GTL races there and also a couple of times on RSC to no avail.  :'(
Weird as sometimes i flick onto the m/p lobby and there will be a big grid of racers (20+) in one race or so, so the interest must still be about. 

Be gutted to lose it.

[pribeiro]

Really sad with the number of drivers tonight
Was a nice race, with not much history, good fair driving all.


Cheers


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[baracus250gt]

Pretty cool race! I just managed to get in during qualifying after getting back late. Never driven the 906 here before (or the other cars for that matter, so played it safe with the sure handling the 906 gives me) and managed to fluke a setup (Hockenheim one with no changes was dandy!) and get some good laps straight away going 3rd then 2nd. Huge gaps between us so I knew I couldnt improve really.

Tried to stay with Stu for first few laps but had to drive like a madman to even keep within sniffing distance of him - but couldnt keep it up for long so decided to lay off a bit and just not get any warnings. In fact I got 2 by the end of the race but they were justified as I started loosing concentration with nothing to chase

Sorry about the tap just before the start line Stu, not sure what happened but seemed you went under the rev limiter speed, as I had to come off the gas, got confused and pressed the limiter button again (switching it off!) too soon. I got it back on again b4 we crossed the line tho!

I really hope we can keep the grid sizes up - sure we had like 15 or 16 last time??

[MortenS]

It's okay racing GTL, but I'm way too slow for you guys