UKGTR Season 5 Endurance Clubmen - Imola - Jul 22

[Adam Parle]

Only complaint is one paticular backmarker..not naming names, but it seems in his rule book, blue flag means, reduce speed and do everything possible to hold the faster car up, and maybe cause an accident. 

Seen better driving in public servers...not impressed

Perhaps you should raise a report - and PM the driver in question, they are more than likely unaware of having caused a problem.  There are always 2 sides to a story - PM'ing can clear the air and clear up confusion/misunderstandings.

[psuedo]

And of course you have to bear in mind that the endurance clubmen is primarily for new and inexperienced drivers to learn the ropes and gain the required experience. So not all the folk on track are experienced enough yet and make errors and bad judgements, especially when put under pressure by more experienced drivers.

[Truetom]

Well said, Psuedo. Also, I had all sorts of flags and lights showing stationary prior to disco, but never saw any car near or even heard the sounds. 
Gawd knows what was going on around me. 

TT

[Roadrunner]

Suppose ya right psuedo, might let him off this time

[Adam Parle]

Suppose ya right psuedo, might let him off this time

I'd still PM the driver in question - you can't learn what you're doing wrong if nobody tells you you're doing wrong!

[Truetom]

I remember when I joined here it was a standard that each and every "situation" was followed by pm exchange - even if there was not a touch. I still try to keep that level and I must say the other day when there was a touch between me and Paul968 at Oschers we exchanged views of the event long before the moderator made his decission. And I knew, regardless of mods decission, that whatever the outcome was, there were no issues between me and Paul968. This is way more important to me than one point I get if moderator makes me right. That way I can get another duel with Paul968 without one of us thinking about revenge. 
If it wasn't for this then (before my Legends time) me and MJ would be mounting machineguns for every race. 

TT

[purdie]

well Legend guys would remember how to use a machine gun from their WW2 days! 

mwhahahaahha   

 

[Adam Parle]

Aye - that taught us all we need to know about being in dogfight - and that translates to the track as well ...... generaly if you take the wings of the guy in front of you, you can't go far wrong .

[R. Midderhoff]

Hi all,

this was a very good race for my experience. My setup had to much wings on the back and was too hard, so i had much problems when getting on Curbs. And no really time to optimize it. But for that the car droves well, with a little bit too much understeer.

In the first stint i had a great fight with Dave but he made nearly no mistake and i couldn't got past him as he droves away on the straights. I was exhausted after that, and there the series of mistakes began.

After the stop i was a coule of seconds behind dave and wanted to get him again. First i thought that i could get nerer but then i got a "stop and go" becuse off cutting while lapping some slower cars. Then i got a second "stop and go" because of to much speed in the pits, and a third one that i didn't understand. I got on the gravel while driving the fast right corner to the downhill part of the track. Then i couldn't do anything and slided over the track after the following left corner. Therefore i got the third "stop and go" :'(.  So the result was not a little bit poor :-(. But that is racing, mistakes are the worst things you can do as a race driver.

Grats to the Podium and to all who finished it was a great Race!

[Paul968]

well Legend guys would remember how to use a machine gun from their WW2 days!   

Reading this, for some reason I couldn't help thinking about Walter Mitty

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'Haven't you done the hoovering yet Adam?',snapped his wife. 'Just doing it now dear', he replied, pressing the big yellow starter button on the Dyson. As the motor fired into life and he tracked back and forth across the room, he couldn't help thinking how much the sound reminded him of a racing fuel pump...

...Parle's Vertigo blasted out of Rivazza, ignored the left into Variante Bassa and dived straight into the pits. Braking with surgical precision, he knew had 38 seconds lead over Van Ruskus, and his mind whirled as he trundled down the pitlane with the speed limiter chattering away - ta-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa. Hitting the marks perfectly, the crew jammed the refuelling rig into place and Parle took a long drag from the crew chief's Marlboro. 'Forget the tyre change, I'm still breaking the lap record even after 30 laps' - everyone knew that nobody drove as smoothly as Parle. 'By the way, I think there's a problem with the left rear damper bypass valve - I'm losing three tenths every lap due to bipolar oscillations, but I'll just have to drive round it'. Just as he finished speaking, the pit crew finally pulled off the refuelling hose. Mashing the throttle, he lit up the rears and surged out of the box in a cloud of tyre smoke. The mechanics let out a huge cheer as he disappeared down the pitlane - if anyone could beat the ruthlessly efficient Dutch ace, it was Parle!

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with apologies to James Thurber, writer of the best short story ever 

If you've never read the original, it is here:

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Cafe/6821/thurber.html

[Truetom]

Very good, Paul. 

Be afraid, Rusky. Be very afraid. 

TT

[Adam Parle]

 

Very good .... sadly the only bit that ring any bells is the hoovering ..... 

[Jeffrey]

Grats on the win Adam 

[Adam Parle]

Cheers Ruskus (and others that have said the same  ).  The final result is very flattering though - with slightly more luck Pops would have been level if not ahead going into Imola - and that would have made for a hell of a race.

Mustn't forget SBG though - another cracking show of Vertigo piloting.  Next season should be fun.

[tarec]

You have date for next seasson?