UKGTL Season 3 GT Classics Cup - Knockhill - Aug 16

[Zacari]

That was a blast, 3rd in quali and 2nd at the line- in the Lotus too

I made my life difficult in quali by getting DQ'd while in 2nd whilst practicing starts behind the pits   I left and came back in again and managed to get 3rd (with a faster time than before, so it wasn't all bad )

The start was great, managed to get the jump on Backo in the Alfa and was in 2nd into T1.  Coming up to the hairpin and I took the inside line very early, broke as late as was needed and kept 2nd easily, looked behind me as I exited the corner and it looked like carnage but gave me a handy 2-3 second gap.

After that excitement, Baracus was steadily about 0.5s a lap faster, and I was just about holding the gap back to Madd in 3rd- and that was pretty much how it was to the flag never much time to relax

Backmarkers were really good, especially given the nature of the track.  Not sure what happened in the last corner of lap 36, but there was no harm done

Great win Baracus, and go TS Junoir!

Couple of nice little battles with phil....but he kept forgetting to turn at turn 1 so I managed to pull away.

That gave me a heart attack, I was coming up to lap you and was just thinking.. "aah how cute, 2 mini's chasing each-others tails", when one of them flung itself into the tyres and back onto the track apologies for the light contact but thankfully everything seemed ok afterwards

[Paul968]

I hope you all had a huge fun
As for me:
Im affraid, i will be out for inderteminate days   
I am typing from my daughter´s PC, because my is rebooting as a mad one :?
Yes, some times it loads the Windows, but after 2 minutes it begins to reboot.
But most of the times, it reboots when the scroll windows settings begin to load.
I already changed the graphic card, the memory units and i even put a powerfull wind
maker to cool the PC. Didnt work   
What could it be???
Any help?

Cheers

In my experience, the power supply would be a serious contender. I've had several let go over the years, and the nice thing is that they are cheap to change.

[Phil Gilliland]

That gave me a heart attack, I was coming up to lap you and was just thinking.. "aah how cute, 2 mini's chasing each-others tails", when one of them flung itself into the tyres and back onto the track

Ah yes, the blue Cortina. I remember thinking sh!t, I've landed on of the leaders, wonder how many points I'll get on my licence for that?! 

apologies for the light contact but thankfully everything seemed ok afterwards
 

There wasn't much you could do about it as I pirouetted over the track - sorry about that.

Phil Gilliland

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

I got a couple of warnings so had to be very careful in 2nd half of race, particularly at T1 - where I was very nervous and didnt feel comfortable at all... but the more you think about it the worse it is!! When I just drove it without worrying it was OK again!

I found I was much quicker through T1/T2 if I broke way earlier than was possible, even as early as the marker board before the tyre marks, and then floated it through instead of trying to force it.

Had a momentary lapse of skill when I passed Dave - a few wobbly moments with himn catching me back up - sorry if I slowed you down m8   Seems you got past Si anyway

I lost just .2s letting you by - I think I made some time back up by drafting you on the two straights.

[madmac]

Thanks all, great race as usual. See you all next week.

[BACKO]

I'm really sad :(I've been looking forward for Knockhill,after nice qualification  (2 position) I believe  for nice race!I did lots mistakes and I got penalty Stop and go ,but was my first GTL race with penalty stop and go and I expected  game tells me when I have to go in pit for stop and go (like in GTR2),but didn't happend and I got DSQ ::)GAME OVER !!! >:(But next time I'll know.
Congratulation to top 3!!!!

[psuedo]

HE HE.....just watched replay....you should have a look at the state of my mini.... after the triple salko on the first lap.....my mum will kill me....thats her car  how it survived to the end of the race is anybody's guess.

Must say sorry to Tom Cooper if I held you up or caused you any damage when you hit me...I saw the car behind you and realised I would have loads of room to rejoin befor it got there.....unfortunately though I didn't see your big black and yellow cortina !!!

Unlucky Backo....I should have mentioned to you that the cut warnings in GTL are a lot more severe than in GTR2...It dont let you get away with much.

[TinMan]

.Must say sorry to Tom Cooper if I held you up or caused you any damage when you hit me...
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No problem - I had a disco later on,anyway

TC

[Simon Gymer]

HE HE.....just watched replay....you should have a look at the state of my mini.... after the triple salko on the first lap.....my mum will kill me....thats her car   how it survived to the end of the race is anybody's guess.

Ah man, that was spectacular. Only in a game could that happen. I was just watching lap one on the replay and saw your Mini do it's amazing acrobatics in the background, had to go and view that a few times. Sorry.

Unlucky Backo....I should have mentioned to you that the cut warnings in GTL are a lot more severe than in GTR2...It dont let you get away with much.

Oddly I got a stop and go after only 2 warnings. Once for running wide accidentally out the chicane, fair enough I guess although I lost time and then another on the inside of I think it was the first corner, which was quite stupid of me as I just basically completely cocked up the line and got it wrong. Normally it gives you 3 warnings before an SnG but only got two that I remember. Oh well. A bit annoying as I'd just started dicing with Adam only to have to pit to get my penalty.

A fantastic turnout for the first race of the season. I will try and get next week's race organised as soon as I can. Unfortunately I'm away on "holiday" for next week's race so Picnic will be your server starter for the race. Be nice to him!

[Adam Parle]

Oddly I got a stop and go after only 2 warnings. Once for running wide accidentally out the chicane, fair enough I guess although I lost time and then another on the inside of I think it was the first corner, which was quite stupid of me as I just basically completely cocked up the line and got it wrong. Normally it gives you 3 warnings before an SnG but only got two that I remember. Oh well. A bit annoying as I'd just started dicing with Adam only to have to pit to get my penalty.

Yeah - was surprised to see you...though my spin and some blatent and quite rightly punished short cuts by yourself were clearly the reason for that .  Shame really as it was started to get quite interesting.

[psuedo]

talking about next week,   Where do I download the track...I cant find it in the normal spot

[Adam Parle]

http://www.nogripracing.com/details.php?filenr=2627

I'm guessing this is the one.

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

I should have mentioned to you that the cut warnings in GTL are a lot more severe than in GTR2...It dont let you get away with much.

Bizarrely for once everyone else got nobbled by it and I didn't! After all the times in Season 2 when I got got I was obviously due some karmic help!

[Simon Gymer]

talking about next week,   Where do I download the track...I cant find it in the normal spot

I haven't made it available yet. Monaco 79 is the provisional track, but I need to do basic testing on it first, which I will do tonight and then post next week's race afterwards.

[pribeiro]

I hope you all had a huge fun
As for me:
Im affraid, i will be out for inderteminate days   
I am typing from my daughter´s PC, because my is rebooting as a mad one :?
Yes, some times it loads the Windows, but after 2 minutes it begins to reboot.
But most of the times, it reboots when the scroll windows settings begin to load.
I already changed the graphic card, the memory units and i even put a powerfull wind
maker to cool the PC. Didnt work 
What could it be???
Any help?

Cheers

Sounds like a virus mate!

Have you tried without the network lead in?

Theres a free program called Hijack This - that you can run and it will tell yu what programs are running and/or crashing...might be worth a go to try to find out what process is causing it.

EDIT: Try this link: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Popup-Ad-Spyware-Blockers/HijackThis.shtml

Then again that might not be good enough a program - last time I used it i'm sure it did ALL processes, not just spyware stuff as it seems to be now :/

U tried "Windows Safe Mode"?

Yes Baracus, i tried to start with Windows safe mode, but the problem mantains.
Thanks for your help