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

[Mark J]

had my late race ruined by a stop and go for one ferkin cut corner - how is that right? I was in a good battle with John and Picnic on track and that totally buggered my last third of race  , no previous warnings as i hadnt cut any corners all race until that one occasion whilst in fierce battle with Johns morgan, then it just said 'severe warning, stop and go'  

Really sorry to pops and darren early on when i had big spins at T1    i got such a ridiculous toe off of Adams morgan that the bloody car just wouldnt stop when i hit the brakes, despite frantic pumping of the pedal
it happened again a few laps later, after drafting picnics morgan...i saw pops turning in up ahead and literally threw my car off the track to avoid him, but still span across his bows... without contact thankfully  

I dont get on with this track even though i enjoy racing on it. There always seems to be an incident or two that ruins my race overall.
Think i finished 16th overall, no idea where in class, but it wasnt great despite seeming to be faster on track than many of the GTC cars that finished ahead of me

Congrats to the podium boys  

ps..what happened to the success ballast? I was still showing as +30kg in the timing screen  

[ginsters sponsored]

Bad break PR, think you had it wrapped up. You prolly didn't need to refuel so would have jumped me in pits.

Still, I can be dafter than you. I think I chucked it away with a pit lane speeding s/g. Had a 11 second lead when I came to pit so, with plenty of time to spare, decided to hit limiter well before lane but just forgot all about braking and was tootling happily through pits at 70mph till I realised . Absolute Moron. Couldn't really drive much better and enjoyed that a lot, especially little cameo with Daves nissan.

GT1 boys were far better this time, despite the fact I was a right numpty a couple of times. Sorry Edam and PaulR.

Congrats to Ruskus and Paul on fine wins .  

[Simon Gymer]

ps..what happened to the success ballast? I was still showing as +30kg in the timing screen 

The +30kg is just the car ballast, driver ballast is shown on the sector screen not the timing screen.

[popabawa]

Well, I guess 4th is OK for the first trip out in a new car but I didn't drive very well and managed to ferk up my pit-stop, re-fuelling when I didn't need to. I had "number of pit-stops" set to zero so I guess it defaults to filling the tank to the brim  I was being so careful to change the tyres correctly (bit of a a novelty after a season in the Vertigo) that I didn't notice the fuel. Idiot. I think I would have pipped Dave for the final podium place

Great driving by the GT1's, apologies to Jeff for our little misunderstanding, I was sticking to the racing line but you'd already committed, I should have noticed

[Kerr]

I never made the race again Simon.  

The exact same thing happened at Estoril for upper endurance. During qualifying my timing screen goes mental. It does not record peoples times, laps completed and put the grid in the wrong order too.

I can't remember you at Estoril but that night everything went berserk too. It was showing a GTC car driven by Dan Minton second on my screen against GT1 cars! It turned out Zacari was second in qualification but his name did not even appear on my screen. Zacari was somehow Dan on my screen as I could see how the events of qualification took place. Dan was first for ages on my screen only for CJ to pip him late on in session. Yet it turned out Zacari was first for ages, then CJ pipped him.

There was a full field but according to my game 21 at Estoril. I did have a full field tonight.

Every practice session is fine, practice for hours on practice server is fine, come real qualification things go mental and no reason for it.

I've taken part in numerous races since Estoril upper endurance no problems, but tonight it's all gone wrong again.

I can't for the life of me understand what the hell is going on.

It's highly frustrating as nothing stands out to be wrong. I sort my plans out to make time for racing, turn up and it all goes wrong and wastes my night.

[pribeiro]

I´m sorry to hear that Ginsters  
Just for curiosity. I started race with:
77 Lt / 31 Laps / 0.55 mnts.
when i went to my pit stop i add:
51 Lt / 20 Laps / 0.35 mnts.

This time the full tank only could do ~72 minutes, so i decided to start with less
fuel than usual  

[psuedo]

Good race. Enjoyed that although not too much excitement for me down in my usual spot

I am so glad I didn't take the vertigo  ...I was 5 laps down in the 360....wouldn't like to guess how many it would have been in that .

Started ok...did a pb in qually which was just enough to put me in front of Freq in a GT1 kept him behind for nearly a full second at the start but managed to sneak past RB with a Hamilton the first chicane . Held my own between 1 and 2 seconds down on a few cars infront for 5 or 6 laps till I did my usual early error and dropped back to about 12 seconds. That was about as close as I got to anyone for the rest of the race...just seemed to be going backwards 2 secs down on my 'normal' lap times

Appologies to the person (sorry didn't catch who it was) I baulked in the parabolica. I saw you approaching rapidly and tried to stay left to let you through but lost my back end and slid straight accross you. Hope it didn't cost you much.

Excellent overtaking from all the GT1's (and most of the GTC's ) when lapping...couldn't find fault anywhere.

grats to winners and podiums....see you all tomorrow in the Viper CC.

[EdamSpeed]

Very 'eventful' race for me that one!

Was going reasonably well for a while (except I was getting a lot of 'blue flag' warnings despite no one behind me), and I'd made a few places up to 8th. Mo and Backo had a coming together somehow at the Parabolica, and Backo looked to be spinning to the infield, so I went to the right, and met him coming up The result was a big puncture and body damage.  Really sorry Backo, I tried to avoid you, but couldn't see which way you were going.

Then, with me stuck in the middle of the track, it happened again with Darren, who couldn't see me to avoid the collision. *smack* again.. Darren's Morgan is destroyed (sorry mate) and I end up limping to the pits, sure my race was over.

Got the car repaired and back under way. Buggered up my strategy too, so had to make 2 stops. Got back on pace - Jure and Claus were too fast for me, so couldn't make up any places. Had little moment while passing Ginsters. I think that was partially my fault as I was slow (because I gave you room on the apex, and my tyres were off).

At some point I also made a very dumb move on Mark Jonzo. I'm really sorry mate - I was trying to be 'clever' - taking a wide line into Lesmo 1 and overtake you on the inside, only I badly miscalculated my speed versus yours and I biffed you. Very very sorry Glad you didn't spin!

Reasonably happy with my finishing slot, although would have been higher if not for getting caught up in other people's accidents. I really need to learn to slow down more for spinners!

[Paul968]

Quick question Pops - why did you change your tyres? There were only 15-20 minutes or so left, so fresh tyres would have needed to give you at least 2 seconds a lap (not very likely at Monza).

[popabawa]

Quick question Pops - why did you change your tyres? There were only 15-20 minutes or so left, so fresh tyres would have needed to give you at least 2 seconds a lap (not very likely at Monza).

They were pretty shot and I'm hopeless on worn tyres

I decided to play it safe and bring it home for some points as we were struggling as a team.

[picnic]

Results above, replay here and you will find the provisional standings here

[picnic]

Sorry for the delayed start, there was an issue with GTR2 Manager. Thanks to Dave for sorting out and getting the show on the road.

Think I need to do some setup work, I was getting eaten up on the long straights. A couple of times I got a good tow from Pop's 350z only to pull out and drop back Still made for some excitement until I made some errors and was no longer receiving the benefit from the hole in the air Pops was leaving.

Ran fairly consistently but made a silly error overssteering out of Lesmo 2 and the brush with the Armco signaled a crawl back to the pits with a front right puncture. Can't have been much damage as the pitsop, including fuel and tyres was 31 secs.

Man test was to see if the PC ran ok after the strange crash in the display drivers at Valencia and that seemed successful. Roll on next Sunday

[Truetom]

Qualified 6th. Overtook Paul Richards and after a fearsome battle CJ and Zacari managed to get me in front of them.    Shark and Rusky were too fast for me, but I'm happy with my undeserved 3rd place.    Seems like a birthday present. Thanks guys! 

TT

[Jeffrey]

Unofficial Lapchart

[Zacari]

My engine went bang which was a shame, I tend to go well here!

Quali was fine in 4th with the ballast.  In the race I got some damage from CJ when he spun in T1 trying to pass Shark, then had a brief battle with Shark which was great   I lost touch in traffic though including one off and I got a big wiggle on a couple of laps later pushing too hard and went down to 5th; 4th once CJ pitted.  Was chasing down TT quite happily knowing I wouldn't be pitting until about 30 mins left, unfortunately the engine waved a large white flag over the s/f line at half-distance

Grats on both podiums, and to Joss for battling through to 5th from the back!