UKGTR Skin Pack 2.6 test - Imola - Aug 28

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

All members welcome.

Practice 1	20:00	(45 mins)
Qualifying 1	20:45	(15 mins)
Race	21:00	(40 mins)

Cars allowed: Any car from the UKGTR Skin Pack v2.6.0.0 (see download link below)
Weather: Dry
Track: UKGTR Imola GP 2004 (see download link below)
Race Time of Day Setting 17:00
Start type: rolling start

Server: UKGTR skins 2.6
Password: see above

Notes:
(1) Please make sure you are fully aware of the UKGTR Rules - especially the speed limiter starting procedure and the rules about in-game chat messages.
(2) The event is open to all registered forum users.
(3) You will not be able to join the server without the skin and ballast pack and the appropriate track - available from the downloads pages.
(4) Drivers are reminded that they must select ISDN as their bandwidth, otherwise the stability of everyone's connection will be reduced.

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

The new skin pack is available here.

I'll post details for this event tomorrow when I've woken up again.

[Kerr]

Either way I'm going to miss this one as backshift. The rumour of Spa appeals to me greatly.

I will just practice myself to check things seem ok at my end.

No doubt as usual everything will be fine and I'm raring to go come Sunday

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Details now posted. Note the early evening start time.

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

BTW, I've taken all the success ballast off the server now (except for one - not saying who but he's much too quick ).

[psuedo]

what? Mine? 

by the way.....is Imola Really in Hungary?

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

by the way.....is Imola Really in Hungary?

Yes, they moved it with the help of a very large spade and an airship, didn't you know?

[Zacari]

Afraid I wont be able to make it tonight, I tore my hamstring on Saturday quite badly and the doc's told me to rest it as much as possible.  I raced sunday but tbh it hurt like hell afterwards hope the test goes well

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Mmmm ham... er... I mean get well soon!

[will16v]

Don't think i can make this one im afraid, but good luck to all entering, and enjoy.

[Adam Parle]

What a load of rubbish.  Phone went on T1 and the wife didn't seem to want to pick it up....so I left the circuit hung up the (cordless) phone and threw said phone into the next room .... which led to me getting a load of grief from the wife and totally spoiling my concentration.  One more stuid error vaporised any desire to carry on.  Not exactly good preparation for this season....

Hope you guys had a better time of it.

[purdie]

i had a carp one too!!!

pedals playing up, wondered why car was swerving under braking and went to recalibrate the pedals and throttle never dropped below 50%  so had to quit halve way through quali  :'(

black racing momo seemed bullet proof up till now......but i have been putting of the G25 purchase! 

hope the race went well 

[BACKO]

I'm furious
Everthing went  perfect practice,qualification then start race.I started make litle gap about 4,5 sec for second Pribeiro but then time 960 came fatality  error from another driver ,I've been overtake him ,then we went in last chicane before finish and I don't know what he did ( maybe he wanted overtake me back )and he hit me back of car and I've been spin.Lost first position and concentration ,I started pushing harder,but with lots mistakes which costs me 2X STOP AND GO  .I've been looking forward for this track(one of my favorits)!!!

[Edited to remove name of driver. Nearly edited the whole bit out but... How many times?! We do not discuss responsibility for incidents in public!]

[Mark J]

had a bad time in the Modena. Need to do more testing but it seems to suck compared to rest of the GTC field, well here at Imola anyway. If any other Fezza pilot gets the chance, it would be nice to see what you think of it now its been altered Please post any lap times in race and qually spec.
I can do 49's and 50's in the 360GTC here so dont think it was bad driving on my part...though always a possibility   If the car is that bad then i have to do a re-think for the GTC endurance.
I did notice after that i had picked a Yokohoma shod model...is it a pants tyre?  Would the Pirelli shod version be much quicker?
The only other car i could battle with was Wills RS, so seems like the modena and RS may be too heavy now.

hmmm...and that re-juvenated Nissan is a little 'frisky' in its lap times.

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

That was pretty good for my first outing in the Michelin-shod 350Z. Qualified much better than I expected - 2 seconds better! - and was running strongly in the race until John caught me back up and I stupidly lost track of where he, I and the coming corner were with the low sun in the sky. Spat myself off the road and lost about 3 places from 10th.

Gradually eeked my way back up onto Picnic's rear and finally got the mistake I needed to pass, only to run wide a few times in Aqua Minerale and earn a stop and go.

Came out of the stop right next to Reign Man's TVR and had a great scrap over the last lap or two. Big confusion at Variante Alta with PRibeiro lapping us - I totally missed my braking point and had to take to the grass to avoid running into RM. Tucked back in behind him and tried to force a mistake which I didn't think I'd get, but he finally cracked in the second half of the Variante Bassa and I outdragged him by about a car length to the line!

I think the Michelin's wear slightly faster than the Dunlops did but definitely have more grip, and supply it more consistently. It won't cure the Z's understeer in long corners but it definitely will make it more competetive.

And no, MJ, I didn't put a Porsche engine in it.

Everyone knows the Z has a Renault engine.