UKGTL Season 3 GT Classics Cup - Crystal Palace - Sep 6

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

I won't make this either, for the same reason as Shark. Hadn't done any practice as usual but I know the track from my GPL days.

[Kerr]

I might be there, but not 100% yet. I've never even looked at the track yet, just downloaded it.

[PeterRST]

Looks like I can't join without the skin pack. But the download link doesn't work anymore...  :'(

[madmac]

Can't get omn the server. Just gets to Zacari and keeps trying to reload him.

[Zacari]

It locked up my entire PC at the end of practice, had to pull the power to get it back.  Now I can't even get on the server

Still couldn't get on, glad I didn't get any practice in beforehand.  Shame for the championship though

[psuedo]

Nice circuit.....except for the BLACK HOLES...everywhere....one excursion onto the grass and that was it . race over as I got abducted.

Shame people cant make these tracks work properly before they release them.

Enjoyed what I got though..couple of good battles a place swaps. early bath again though  :'(

Grats to winner and podium

[John Kingham]

That was hilarious!  Lurid slides, crashes, flips, KLM flashing me past when we were fighting for position (I tried to slow down but you just slowed more and I couldn't flash you as I didn't have any lights!) 

I think it was Will in the other Mustang and we seemed to be having some kind of who can slide the most without crashing - too often - competition. 

Great fun.  Sorry if I got in anyones way in qually where I was initially 5 seconds off the pace until I found my brain.  Then in the race when I parked it up on the armco, then later in the race when I parked in on it's door 

Grats to anyone who can make it to the finish line...

[Adam Parle]

Too many stupid errors.
Too little fuel.
Stop and go penalty.



I'm really quite annoyed at myself, should have been top 7.

DOH!  Just realised what I did.  I was faster in qually with a full load of fuel - and I had it fuelled for the race .... but in a bid to qually ahead on MJ I emptied some fuel out .... and never put it back in.

Feel free to call me a complete tit (that's the bird - before anyone censors this ).

[will16v]

Yes John - that was fun  managed to get some momentum going and got down to 14th i think, and then the frontrunner's came flying through, so i thought i would slow down to let them though.
One glance too many in the rear view mirror and i had missed my braking point on the long strait (just before the double chicane & pits), and wheels went onto the grass - shaved the barrier, and for some reason spun me so i was facing the barrier - weird - everytime i went near a barrier, it seemed to suck me in and spit me out 
Anyway - sorry to Dan, after my spin, i think we ended up colliding - you had no where to go and i was stationary facing the wrong way - hope i didn't ruin it for you too much.
Bit annoyed though cos after all that, i feel i should have finished higher up, but no practice, no set-up = 

Good fun sliding the Mustang about though - the new sound pack from No-Grip makes it sound so much better 

[Mr.BMW]

AWESOME RACE!!!!

I weaseled my way into 10th off the start, and was keeping pace with a group of about 5ish. I passed a white Cortina, and was gaining on a red Alfa, made my way around the Alfa, and we were in a nice little battle untill the second last turn, and I got bumped into the barrier! That spun me but luckily I recovered in time to get back into 11th, made two BONE HEADED mistakes and dropped to 13th, stayed there for a few laps then I had a great battle with a red alfa for 12th. Sorry I spun you you were slowing to much into that downhill turn, and i kissed your rear end, causing you to spin. I was really enjoying our battle, and I'm angry that I ruined it.

I ended up finishing in 11th somehow, and I was pretty much on my own there, 10th was 28 seconds in front, and 12th was about 12 seconds back. For the last quarter of the race I was hoping somone in front of me would spin out so I could have a last push for a higher spot, unfortunatley, they were consistent

One of my best GTL races so far, tons of fun. Nice Job to the top finishers, I don't know how you can maintain those speeds!!!!!

[Kerr]

I noticed a few black holes too Psuedo.

I started race 9th or 10th right in the thick of it. The car ahead made a poor start and I could not go anywhere and was swapped and lost a few positons.

Halfway around first lap got a nudge, thought I could control it, but the nudge turned into a big push and I was off into barrier and lights gone, which was not very helpful.

Had a couple of close battles during the race. At that time I seemed to be a good bit quicker than the car ahead. I did my best to hold back for a safe gap, but some of the defending was over the top in my opinion. Very distracting the car ahead moving all over the place.

Both drivers were defending too strongly and even when I was alongside or partially along side, one nearly put me into pit wall the other on the grass on back straight.

I let myself get wound up, concentration went and I ended up making stupid mistakes.

The other thing I've not been liking about GTL, many people leave the pits without even checking behind them.

A fun track on the whole though. Not sure if it's wise to use with the bottomless holes around it. Also I found most nudges on the barrier resulted in a big roll.

Well done all, especially Baracus. You have some pace in this game

[psuedo]

DOH!  Just realised what I did.  I was faster in qually with a full load of fuel - and I had it fuelled for the race .... but in a bid to qually ahead on MJ I emptied some fuel out .... and never put it back in.

Easy done with the acute shortage of time before race....I went out with 4 Ltr in once....2nd lap pits.

1 slight complaint about tonight...the pit lane limiter is supposed to be used for ALL sessions. That is in the rules....The behaviour of some folk tonight was terrible. I got clobbered and turned round facing the wrong way at the begining of qualifying.....and I hadn't even got in my car yet! still in the parking lot. and again I had people zooming past in the pit lane during qualifying...No respect shown and not within the 'gentlemanly atmosphere' associated with racing here.

[Minton]

Anyway - sorry to Dan, after my spin, i think we ended up colliding - you had no where to go and i was stationary facing the wrong way - hope i didn't ruin it for you too much.

No probs mate,  Had a good race loved the track but made too many mistakes.  Need to start practicing a bit more lost a bit of pace .
Grats too podium.

[Jeffrey]

Man that was fun again. The Mustang was wonderful here and it was prefectly balanced for dritfs  .

Was happy with my qually between all those Alfa's ( ). Good thing somebody said standing start, as I never had one in GTL IIRC in this league. The power of the Stang was very usefull here as I went from 4th to 1st after T1 . Bara was still all over me as I had to be carefull with 85L of fuel, enough for 2 Alfa's . And if you think that was too much for the race...it wasn't

Bara was driving away from me and I saw MJ behind me and I remembered the classic race at Cadwell (where my slowing down caused Simon to overtake MJ in the last lap  ).
For 37 laps me and MJ were within 1s from eachother at s/f. He was flying towards me in the corners, but the Tank blew away at the straights.
At one point MJ overtook me in the last corner, just to get blown away at the s/f straight  . That's why I could afford to leave some gap on the inside  .
With 2 laps to go MJ got spun around and the battle was over  :'(. I then had Steve behind me and I think it was the first time I had him behind me. So when he was close I think my drifts surprised me and there was soem small contact, that just increased my slide and smile  .

Great race again for me...YANKTANKS forverer

Grats Bara

[Mr.BMW]

Give us your unnofficial lapchart Ruskus! I've been missing those