UKGTR Season 6 Upper Endurance - Monza (GP) - Sep 16

[Paul968]

Dave, that is ridiculous - I raced in GTC in the first race when I was still showing as FT. That post was well out of date, as is shown by your comment of the 5th sept -

Okay - I don't suppose I can persuade you to run in GT1 in Upper Endurance, as those numbers are slightly light by the looks of it?

. You wouldn't put that if I was already doing GT1? You also know I've been trying to get you to help me do GTC in a different car.

[Paul968]

Update - the request that you quote was superceded by this one:

No Thanks - not keen on racing vipers in a cup car. You had better put me in lower GT2 and upper GTC. 

https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3448.msg56338#msg56338

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

All sorted now I hope.

[Paul968]

Thx Dave 

[Joss]

FreQ - when you say it's refusing to run at all, what do you mean?

It could just be the disc protection system is playing up.  It's a known problem when you upgrade to version 1100 and occurs on both Vista and XP.

The no-cd exe fixes the problem.

Hope this helps. 

Ahh, maybe that's it....
It just constantly loops on the GFX settings splash screen and refuses to boot the game. I wondered why I'd run it before and now it was suddenly not working....I'll be on my old pc tonight whatever. Would be nice to try it though.

I've ordered another hard drive to put an XP install on it so I have the option to switch between Vista + XP easily.

[Simon Gymer]

Thanks chaps, I'll try those OC settings at some point, see if my system can manage them and what difference they make if any.

[Mr.BMW]

27/28

Server is full

Darn

[Filipe Marques]

The server was down and 5 min later full..,  maybe next one, have fun,

[Kerr]

Another disaster due to same problems as last upper endurance.

Everything was fine when I practiced earlier on, using the practice server.

Everything was fine in practice 1 and 2. The start of qualification was fine too.

Then I noticed that some peoples lap times were not recorded by I was a 1.52.4 in 5th, Simon was 2nd with 1.53.0 CJ was 3rd with 2.02odd and Zacari 4th with no logged time.

Cars began to lag in parts. Not sure if I nudged you or not Simon going into turn 1, sorry if I did.

Then game went really wonky and connection lost.

Tried to get back on and by that time the server had already gone to warm up, must have just missed it.

I don't get what is wrong. That is the second upper endurance event that the exact same has happened. I have raced a few other races, GT1 sprint, GT2 enduro 911 cup fun race etc and no problems.

Two upper endurance events gone two bizarre second half qualification episodes.

It may be coincidence but last time Zacari did not even appear on my timing list at Estoril and today it would not log his times.

I'm really cheesed off as was looking forward to it and it's annoying to plan your Sunday night for racing for this to happen again.

Any idea what my problem is with upper endurance only?

[DynoDaz]

When will my bad luck end in this championship?

At Valencia my race was ended when I hit a spun GT1 car.  The same happened again.  :'(

Heading around Parabolica I could see lots of smoke and some stationary cars which had spun.  I narrowly missed a couple of cars and thought I was out of danger.  But no, hiding the other side of some smoke was EdamSpeed (I think).  Sorry mate, I just couldn't avoid you.  Like Valencia the Morgan shattered into a thousand splinters.  RACE OVER!

Shame, I was having a great battle with John (great driving mate) and was running 3rd in class, slowly catching 2nd.  :'( 

[Adam Parle]

Small mistakes led to stop & go's led to me losing interest led to me hitting a wall.

Annoyed after what was a decent qually.

[Madd-RIP]

Engine went bang, just as I was pitting, bugger 

[pribeiro]

After a 3rd GTC qualifing place i was quite happy 
SBG and Madd-RIP went away a bit (2-3 secs) in front, so i thought i better
spare my tires and engine untill 2nd stint 
Just before my pit stop i got 2 scary moments:
First, a car i was about to lap, spun just in front and i had to go wide to gravel
to avoid him, wasnt bad (lost only 3-4 secs) 
Second, a car i was about to lap, spun in front in the midlle of last chicane,
this time to avoid him i had to brake hard, and i lost the rear, so i spun also (lost 8-9 secs) 
But the real lost for me was when, only 8 minutes to end, and when i was in 1st of GTC
10 seconds in front of 2nd, my engine blow  :'(
Damn Italian engines 
I ask, can i assemble a TVR(Rover) engine to my Modena?  ofcourse not 
Was a great fun race guys, thanks all.
Congrats to winners 
Cheers

[Jeffrey]

Did a PB in qually and was very happy with that. Eventhough some big competitors had big weight penalties. That's the only downside of those penalties, you feel it's unfair when the weight is ineven.

Simon's Viper was behind me and I was afraid he was just gonna wizz past, but his topspeed (188mph) wasn't much higher than my Lister's (187,5mph) .
I could slowly drive off as Simon and CJ were battling.

All went pretty well and was on schedule with fuel and tires, so I thought I coukd win alot in the pits. But my first gear was so long that I stalled it driving off  .

Well done to FreQ for going from last till 5th and Paul 968 for the GTC win and Simon for doing great in the Viper.

[Simon Gymer]

Then I noticed that some peoples lap times were not recorded by I was a 1.52.4 in 5th, Simon was 2nd with 1.53.0 CJ was 3rd with 2.02odd and Zacari 4th with no logged time.

Cars began to lag in parts. Not sure if I nudged you or not Simon going into turn 1, sorry if I did.

I don't think you were actually there Brian cause I didn't see you at all during the race. I think the server may have lost you or you may have lost the server, but I don't remember you even on the grid.

I had one of my best results at Monza, getting a 2nd position in the Viper. I'm really not a Monza fan, never have been, never will be. Firstly low down-force doesn't suit me and secondly I think it's a really crap track for racing at. Lucky for me the Viper is quite a beast in a straight line so I was able to run 2-4 wing instead of 1-3 or even less and still have same top speed as the other cars (Listers).

Qualifying 2nd was just unbelievable as I do not have the pace of quite a few of the drivers in the division, but happy to take it none the less. I'm sure my -10kg negative-success ballast helped and the Viper being good on the straights.

After I kept CJ and Zacari at bay for the first 20 minutes I pulled a nice gap till the pit stops and then just carried on from there. Jeff was too quick for me and I saw no other GT1s for racing with so it was just a case of heart in the mouth overtaking GTC cars where the speed difference is quite immense at Monza. I think I became accustomed to the overtaking after about half the race and it just seemed a little easier, especially when you're not worrying about losing time to people behind.

Congrats to Jeff on his win to make it a Team Shark 1-2! Well done to Gizmo too on third in class in GTC, good team result with Picnic in 5th and finally a special mention to Joss for 5th when he started at the back and crossed the finish line at the end of the race with exactly NO fuel.