UKGTR Season 6 Upper Endurance - Valencia (GP) - Sep 2

[Simon Gymer]

In the past I have felt obliged to let the faster cars through, no matter where I am on the track, but last night I decided that I would try not to do anything that would upset my race too much (Im in a competetion as well) whilst allowing cars to pass safely. At this moment I was chasing Pseudo so didnt want to upset my rhythm on a bend, tho did slow a little for the passing cars. Not too sure what happened but I got a tap from Shark which didnt really do me any harm at all, so all was well.

Quite right too Rob. You are under no obligation to let the fast cars through in situations like that. In that situation last night I thought about going for it but backed out of it not wanting to do anything silly. Unfortunately TrueTom was so close behind he found it impossible to not knock me into your rear. That'll teach him to tailgate. 

[Truetom]

Lol yea, I was a bit too close. But not close enough for other than sniff your smelly unhealty exhaust. 
 

TT

[Simon Gymer]

Also: warm-up time table showed some 4, maaaaaybe 5 drivers posting a lap time, not more and I'm pretty sure there were more of us out there, right?

Nope, there were only 6 in total for all of warm-up.

I personally felt no need to use the warmup session to do anything but cool down before the race. Next race it will be needed to ensure ballasts are correct at the server end.

[Jeffrey]

I personally felt no need to use the warmup session to do anything but cool down before the race. Next race it will be needed to ensure ballasts are correct at the server end.

Does that mean qualification is without the succes ballast or that you guys check if everybody has the correct amount of ballast?

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Does that mean qualification is without the succes ballast or that you guys check if everybody has the correct amount of ballast?

No, and yes.

[Jure]

Kerr, did you install the latest version of GoogleEarth? Check task manager for GoogleUpdaterService.exe, perhaps it's the one to be blamed for network issues (I kill it before racing).

Newest firmware on your router/modem would be a good idea too.

Hope it helps.

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Here's the first semi-official output from the ballast process, which will be used (with any updated driver names) for the Monza Upper Endurance race.

Code:

Adam Parle
-20.0
BACKO
-20.0
Brian Kerr
-20.0
Claus Juel
35.0
Dan Minton
-20.0
Darren
-20.0
Dave Gymer
5.0
Filipe Marques
-20.0
Gazza49er
-20.0
Joao Abreu
15.0
John
-20.0
Madd-RIP
-20.0
Mark Jonzo
-20.0
mo
-20.0
Paul Richards
10.0
Paul968
25.0
popabawa
-5.0
PRibeiro
-20.0
Psuedo
-20.0
Reign Man
-20.0
Rob B
-20.0
Simon Gymer
-10.0
sponsored by ginsters
-10.0
Truetom
-20.0
Zacari
25.0
[R24-7]Jure
-20.0

I think that anyone who changes class will have to carry their ballast over, which will mostly hit (successful drivers) or help (unsuccessful ones) those moving from GT1 to slower classes. But hopefully that won't happen much and I think is a price worth paying to keep the system simple.

[Simon Gymer]

Is there something wrong with those calculations? 3rd to 4th is 20kg. +10kg to -10kg. Not that I'm complaining but I was expecting to be on 0kg.

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Is there something wrong with those calculations? 3rd to 4th is 20kg. +10kg to -10kg. Not that I'm complaining but I was expecting to be on 0kg.

It works pretty much the same as the FIA GT, but with smaller numbers.

[Paul968]

There is a subtle difference though (as far as I can see). In the FIA rules you obviously can't add negative ballast, so in effect this means that we all started on +20kg. This will accentuate the gap at the start of the season, which after this race will be +55kg fastest to slowest (in GT1) compared to +35kg if we were running FIA rules. Not saying it matters a lot, but it is different.