UKGTR Season 5 GT2/GTC Sprint - Oschersleben (GP) - Jun 26

[Nevski]

To say that race was manic would be a huge understatement 

I think I was trying a bit too hard in qually, and kept getting the car a bit too much out of shape in the final sector, which relegated me from 0.2s faster than Paul after sector 2, to 0.2s slower over the line. Great pole time anyway though Paul, especially with you being away from racing about a month.

I took med/med for the race and cautiously overfuelled the car to 66 litres. Whether it was this or just me being overcautious early in the race I don't know, but I was swamped by GT2 cars in the early laps, and dropped from about 12th on the grid to as low as 17th place at one point after a minor off track excursion. Fortunately for me, several other guys had offs and retirements which promoted me back into the top 12 or so, and by midrace I managed to find a bit more pace and started reeling back Simon and Paul.

I didn't really expect to get back past those two GTC cars on such a tight track with 15 minutes left on the clock, but as I closed on Simon it became clear his tyres were finished and after a few laps an opportunity came which allowed me to squeeze a pass down the inside going into the final corner. Paul was a few seconds up the road but a slight mistake allowed me to close right up to the back of his Mosler within a couple of laps. Then, almost immediately his engine let go, which was quite a shock when viewed at 100 mph from 3 feet behind his rear bumper 

Unlucky on the engine failure Paul, you must have been really ragging that redline    Congrats to Ruskus on the GT2 win, and thanks to everyone  I had a good battle with tonight.

[picnic]

Replay and provisional results and standings

[ginsters sponsored]

Hate that track, Enna is king . However the wooden tub makes at least fun to go around.

Nice starting battle with a pink TVR . He was a fair bit faster but, being nice and steady, there was no way past. Shame you fell off, as it was fair but hard stuff. Great fun. Then i felt madd's cold, clammy breath for the rest of the race. Shame we couldn't get it on with shatted tyres at the end, but relieved to take home the wooden trophy tonight

Just one moan, Backo please use your limiter button in the pitlane during quali . I had to avoid you twice, its rather impolite and unnecessary.

[picnic]

However the wooden tub makes at least fun to go around.

Must be all in the setup. The Morgan was just no fun for me. Just understeered it's way round, no real change of direction with lift off or power unless I was really silly on the throttle, and even with silly steering input and booting it I still couldn't get any tyre temperature. Don't usually do this but drove it into the pits and quit 

[Jeffrey]

Must be all in the setup. The Morgan was just no fun for me. Just understeered it's way round, no real change of direction with lift off or power unless I was really silly on the throttle, and even with silly steering input and booting it I still couldn't get any tyre temperature. Don't usually do this but drove it into the pits and quit 

Try very low coast <40 and low power and preload at 2.

[Jeffrey]

Unofficial Lapchart

[Reign Man]

Nice starting battle with a pink TVR . He was a fair bit faster but, being nice and steady, there was no way past. Shame you fell off, as it was fair but hard stuff. Great fun. Then i felt madd's cold, clammy breath for the rest of the race. Shame we couldn't get it on with shatted tyres at the end, but relieved to take home the wooden trophy tonight

Hehe. I had some fun trying to find my way past but, it's just a shame I messed it up. I'm still not comfortable on the brakes and I just overdid it in turn one.

I got back on the road and started to catch the 4 car train again but it looked like it fell apart with offs and whatnot. I was behind Madd when I was punted off into the gravel by a GT2 in the quick double left hander. 

After that I didn't have the pace I had at the start until the last few laps, was near Darren a few times but he was having a worse race than me and quit I think.

I have no idea how to set up the car with the wheel (not that i was any good setting up with the stick!), I need to get some major practice time in.

Hope to see Madd in the Masters Enduro as our pace was very close.

Reign Man

[Jeffrey]

I've changed my wheelsettings lately. A mix of the settings the really fast guys (Huttu, Ehngström, MaxD) use.

Here are my windows G25 settings:

Degrees of rotation: 400 degrees
Overall effects strength: 111% (apperently over 100% gives something extra without getting stronger or something )
Spring effects: 0%
Damper effects: 0%
NO center spring enabled

Ingame settings

Steering: 50%
Throttle: 40%
Brake: 35%
Clutch 50%

No deadzones

Specialized effects: G25
Effects: Low
FF strength: 66%

Hope this helps. The rest is all done to practice

[Reign Man]

Thanks ruskus. I'll give that a try when I finish work tomorrow.

[Truetom]

Qualified 13th with at least half a second slower than my pb.    Had close racing or chasing cars in front all the race, very intense. 
Started behind Paul968 who overslept the start. Should have pushed there, as his defensive driving in his Mosler was driving me nuts.  Kept pushing trying to force him into a mistake. Finaly after some laps caught him, braked late inside and succeded to go by, albeit with a touch.    Will watch replay and decide about reporting myself. 
Tonight my racing was against the "P" guys: Paul968, Pablo, Pribeiro, Purdie (still sweating  ) and finaly Paul Richards.     After some intense close racing I  was able to pass all but Paul Richards. Too bad Pablo made a mistake, I really wanted to try RSR against F360. 
I didn't know Paul Richards is such a stubborn guy - he utterly refused to make any mistake for all of the last 15 minutes. Have to get another beer, one wasn't enough.     Good driving, boys! 

Too bad for other Legends. Saw MJ was all over Paul968 and JonM was all over MJ.     Must've been interesting while it lasted. 
Saw Darren making sandcastles and then quit. More luck next time, Legends! 

TT 
 

[Reign Man]

Couldn't wait...gave those settings a quick blast.

Not sure about the degrees of rotation but the in game brake settings helped with braking alot. not sure what the spring and Damper wheel settings changed. I felt no difference. Though those ff settings seem a bit week to me.


...off to bed, will test more tomorrow.

[Jeffrey]

Couldn't wait...gave those settings a quick blast.

Not sure about the degrees of rotation but the in game brake settings helped with braking alot. not sure what the spring and Damper wheel settings changed. I felt no difference. Though those ff settings seem a bit week to me.


...off to bed, will test more tomorrow.

With 400 degrees of rotation, I use 21-23 degrees steering lock.

FF settings are your own preference, you can up the 66% up to 100% if you want. But you'll need to hire Schwartzenegger 

[BACKO]

Hate that track, Enna is king . However the wooden tub makes at least fun to go around.

Nice starting battle with a pink TVR . He was a fair bit faster but, being nice and steady, there was no way past. Shame you fell off, as it was fair but hard stuff. Great fun. Then i felt madd's cold, clammy breath for the rest of the race. Shame we couldn't get it on with shatted tyres at the end, but relieved to take home the wooden trophy tonight

Just one moan, Backo please use your limiter button in the pitlane during quali . I had to avoid you twice, its rather impolite and unnecessary.

I'm sorry,next time I'll use limiter every time!!!What's amazing race  for me was!!!Whole race I've been pushed by McClean so was for me very hard race.I did some mistake also my setting wasn't  good and my tyres after 25 min of race started loose grip.We had really nice overtaking but I finally  kept 4th position!!!I really enjoyed this race so far!!!!! ;DSiya soon on track!

[purdie]

After some intense close racing I  was able to pass all but Paul Richards.....I didn't know Paul Richards is such a stubborn guy - he utterly refused to make any mistake for all of the last 15 minutes.

hahaha, tell me about! Sat a few car lengths from his rear bumper for the first 25mins and no mistakes! same with me tho, until the last 15mins, doh! 

[Mark J]

an eve to forget, i probably shouldnt have even attempted to race. I didnt get home until 8 mins of qually left, dived in anyway. Only got chance to do two clean laps but without warm up/praccy only qualied a lowly 16th, about 1.5 secs off my PB   
Race started surprisingly well considering lack of track time. I harried and passed about 4-5 cars and soon found myself behind the TT/Paul968 fight for 10th place. 
I also had a hard charging recovering JonM chasing me whilst i was squaring up Pauls Mosler for a pass, the only place seeming possible being the s/f straight. I duly set myself up for it after a lap or two following, but as i put the power down exiting the corner on the s/f straight to get a draft on Pauls car, the car understeered me into a spin and i went right around onto the grass.
Rejoined a few places down, sped around to the esses, caught a kerb, had a huge power spin  without hitting anything, but rejoined in a lowly 17th place.
Was making no headway as guests had arrived that the missus was duly entertaining and all concentration had gone knowing they were downstairs so i quit out.
Without the distractions, the car had a top 10 finish in it but i was way too un-focused to capitalise....knew i should have sat it out but the racing bug got the better of me. Damn guests turning up on race night...dont they know !!!