UKGTR Season 5 GT1 Sprint - Imola - Jul 17

[Carl Hart]

Looking forward to this one 

[Adam Parle]

Lol Adam on signature thingy 

 

Sadly I'm not going to be making it - the little man's already puked all over me once this evening .... he's not a well little chap.  Although I could make the start of the race, the chances of not having to dash upstairs are slim.

Good luck you Legend types .... make it a fitting finale to the season.

[Simon Gymer]

 

Trying all this time and you still can't reel us in!

[Adam Parle]

 

Trying all this time and you still can't reel us in!

I'm sorry ..... I think I just got a big bite!!!! 

What can I say ..... wouldn't want things to get dull round here eh!

[Mark J]

what a complete shambles of a race that turned out for me  :'(

Suffered that infernal 'track feels completely different to all my hours of setup for it' syndrome this eve.

Offline i had done 1:42.9 qually and late 43 race but i couldnt get anywhere near that tonight. The car felt like a pile of crap with no grip in all the corners i had done a hundred times today   I'd even used bloody motec on it to find some extra tenths. what a waste of time.

didnt enjoy that at all, found it really frustrating.

Congrats to the winners.  

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

43s! What wouldn't I give to be in the 43s!

No setup time at all, car had good traction but front brakes were overheating and tyres were never really warm enough. Great scrap for a couple of laps keeping Paul Richards behind, and then Picnic. Dunno what happened to the next two cars up the road but I was nowhere near them at the start of the last lap, then reeling them in hand over fist towards the flag. Maybe the lapped car?

I need to do some serious testing before the weekend if I'm going to be anything but a moving chicane in the Clubmen Endurance!

[psuedo]

I'm very suprised to have made the end of that race.

Qualified near the back as usual but felt reasonably confident that I could hold position barring major cockups.
First lap..major cockup... and at a corner I have not got wrong all the way through practice  

It put me to the back but only by 6 seconds or so so I started chasing...was making tiny amounts of progress when I noticed a bright red flashing light, somewhere in the region of my engine temp gauge...this was on the third or fourth lap!
I had forgotten to alter the rad opening after qualy, so I backed right off and tried to just keep running for as long as possible.

I think I managed to keep out of everyones way ok...didn't hear any swearing anyway

Had one dodgy moment with a lead car trying to overtake me through the chicane but we both managed to avoid any incident so no props here.

ooops nearly forgot.....well done podium...a good job done by all...and very well done Gazza...POINTS FOR TEAM PSEUDO. :-)

[Simon Gymer]

No idea how I managed 4th. I really don't feel comfortable at Imola, always completely on the edge and that stupid chicane after Aqua Minerale needs disposing of, it's bloomin' painful. Glad to be doing the next race in a slower class. I was on the back foot nearly the entire race trying to keep ahead of the guy behind, but I guess that's why we have the slogan on the rear bumper!! 

Well done Backo, Jeff and Zacari (Lister again! Nice1)

[Gazza49er]

Oh my god that was bl**dy awesome lol, finally showed that i can run well with you guys and more importantly show you guys that i can!  Qualified 5th which i was gobsmacked by and even wasnt the best time i have done, so was just a matter of keeping my nerve in the race which i did for about 10 laps when i made small error and slipped to 6th, even so i was still in touch with the 5th place car (cant remember who it was) and had a good few laps on his bumper and one out braking move down the hill but couldnt quite pull it off (great racing though) then had Purdie i think on my ass for a while but managed to keep him behind untill 1 more silly error which let 2 by so was down to 8th. Kept plugging away at a good pace and was never more than 2-3 seconds off the 2 infront then someone blew up and suddenly i was back to 6th. Was hanging on a bit at the end, someone was catching me fast but held on for a great 6th place.

Im am soooo chuffed with this!!

Thanks to everyone in this league, its the best thing ive done finding it and hats off to everyone involved.

Congrats to the podium.

ps. im still shaking lol.

[picnic]

Replay but incorrect provisional results and standings 

Help Dave, I've followed the instructions but made Zacari 8th and not 3rd :'(

[Jeffrey]

The end of GT1 season 5, and a big success for Team Shark  .

Qually went quite well, in my last lap I was 0.4 up and I might have gotten pole, but I messed up at Revazza. But as showed, I couldn't keep up with Backo anyway in race  .

I started on meds allround as I suspected the fronts to wear out quickly (wear was 3 in just 1 qually lap  ). And the tires lasted fine, it's just that they never got to perfect temps and stayed around 77-80 degrees. I was hoping for my tires to outlast Backo's, but the gap was too big near the end.

Had some position changes with Bara at the beginning which was fun, but the only happened due to errors. That is the downside of this trac, almost impossible to overtake.

Again well done Zacari in the Lister. That gives me good hope as I'll be using the Lister at beracing.be against unballasted cars  .

In the end very pleased with 2nd here, as the Viper is awefull at Imola, no place to stretch it's legs.

Grats Backo on a good show tonight 

[Jeffrey]

Unofficial Lapchart

[psuedo]

and very well done Gazza...POINTS FOR TEAM PSEUDO. :-)

and having said that it appears for some reason that Gazza49er isn't scoring any team points?

[Jeffrey]

Welcome Prof and Seban, don't think I've seen you here before.

Also grats to Team Pshycho for the points

[Prof]

Cheers Ruskus

First league race - have raced a few between season friendlies in the past.

Just switched from joystick to wheel this week so steep learning curve!

Prof