UKGTR Season 6 Upper Endurance - Adria - Sep 30

[Madd-RIP]

  Well looks like I'm dead in the water here, 1.15.7 my pb, looks like this track may be my 'Oulton', can't seem to get on with it at all.

[popabawa]

Well looks like I'm dead in the water here, 1.15.7 my pb, looks like this track may be my 'Oulton', can't seem to get on with it at all.

I don't think you'll be too far off the pace Madd.

Looks like Paul is (once again) in a league of his own in the GTC's. 1:16.1 is my PB.

[DynoDaz]

Sorry guys but I can't make this one, honest. 

Have fun!

[Paul Richards]

BTW, could everyone please practice the pit entry before the race as it's a tad tricky, doubly so if your garage turns out to be near the start of the pit lane. Don't want any spinners on the entry road!

Can anyone confirm exactly where the start of the pit lane speed limit is? Is it at the lights just as you exit the track or round the twisty corners at the start of the garage section? Thats from memory so lights may be wrong place etc.. 

[Jure]

Good question. I suspect it's the white line just prior to first pit lane box, tried it few times in a mock up race yesterday, didn't get any penalty if driving too fast up to the point of that white line (not that there's much to gain prior to that, 1st gear stuff anyway  )

BTW, at first I hated this track, now I find it.. rhytmical and that's a plus.

Passing traffic should be OK, except in last (3rd) sector.

But I still think the architect who designed it is obviously highly qualified to design electric go-kart indoor tracks. 

Right. Now for a suggestion: would you gents kindly flash lights when comming out of the pits to let other drivers know you're rejoining S/F straight?

[Adam Parle]

I was late getting back from Leicester so I'm missing this too ..... not a great start for the season for me at all.

[psuedo]

That micky mouse track is absolutely useless for mixed class racing IMO.

Spent 76 minutes simply trying to avoid other cars..either lapping, spinning or discoing....no fun at all tonight...may even give the next few a miss....wait for a good circuit.

Grats to winners and podiums

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Bummer, Adam. You missed a corker - all the nay-sayers who didn't think the track would work can stick it up their exhaust pipes, I had an absolute corker, despite getting hit from behind twice and finishing off the podium. Early on I raced in a train of 5 cars, and then a thrilling last 10 minutes battling PRibeiro and Popabawa.

Bring on the next two Adria races!

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

That micky mouse track is absolutely useless for mixed class racing IMO.

I think you've missed the point - there's meant to be constant traffic. I love these shorter circuits, a real test of nerve, situational awareness and multiclass experience.

[Gazza49er]

I DONT BELIEVE IT!!!!!  Was having a blinding race, good qualy (5th) was holding 6th comfortably for first stint, made pit stop and came out 10th? dunno what happened there but then caught Truetom and Jure and was having a battle royale for 5 or 6 six laps. Jure spun out and truetom got me in traffic so was in a good 8th with 20 mins to go and with no warning my engine heath just started plumating with every gear change and died........******

Thats 2 races i was on for good points and somethings gone wrong.

Ah well at least people can see im getting on the pace at races now just gotta finnish them.

Congrats to winners.

[Simon Gymer]

The track wasn't as bad as I thought it would be for mixed class racing in terms of being dangerous. Lappees had to be very generous which they were all, thank you very much, but you must have been losing bucket loads of time, was the biggest issue.

Thought this race was going to be a disaster for me, especially after qually where I was two seconds off the pace and finding it hard to wrestle the Viper around this piddling little go-kart track. Race was very smooth and I managed to pass Mo, then sat behind Paul Richards for ages and ages before he had a tangle with a 350Z. After pit stops I had gained 2 places and managed to have enough speed to just keep Brian far enough away as he chased me down in the closing stages to get a bizarre 5th position. Consistancy once again king. 

A couple of oddities about the track. Firstly the sunlight. What was with the sun flare being there the whole race? Also very odd engine health stuff. I opened vent fully for race and still my engine started on only 88%. So I basically took very good care of it for the whole race to make sure it didn't drop too far. Revving only into the red when I need a bit of extra speed.

Overall, I enjoyed racing at that track about as much as having my eyes poked out with a blunt spoon. Italy only has two decent circuits, Misano and Imola and quite frankly I prefer Enna to this place.

Well done to Carl and the other podium places in GT1 and also to Madd-Rip and the other podiums places in GTC class. All the GTC boys were fabulous tonight and I had another very clean race. 

[Mark J]

jeesh...i dont like that track  

Qual was getting better each time i went around, getting upto 1:16.5 (3rd?) then got disco'd out    Re-joined with lost times and grabbed a 17.01 to put myself ahead of pops and DG.

Race started disastrously when i got all fingers and thumbs and dropped the car into neutral instead of releasing the pit limiter on the s/f straight  DG and Pops duly shot right past.  :'(
Then had a cracking fight with Pops, Pribeiro and DG for about half an hour all of us trading places and some fun side by side stuff.
Unfortunately then the GT1's started coming around and whilst chasing Prib hard i let a GT1 through at that nasty kink corner where he then hit the anchors hard to avoid rear ending PR and i went into a spin slamming my own brakes on to miss him  :'( and Pops got back past  
Was still enjoying the race up until i pitted....then i came out about 40 seconds behind the next car and a whole lap down to Paul968 and Prib  ...i was not a happy bunny, even though i guessed early on that Pops and DG were running fuel to the end of the race, i didnt expect to lose that much time to all other GTC cars  :'(
Kinda lost interest then as no way of making up 40 seconds here with 35 mins to go and spent rest of race diving out the way of lapping GT1's.
Had a comedy moment when i got past Prib who was a lap in front but was pitting so he kindly flashed me to stay in front whilst i flashed him back to say 'no after you!'...what PR prob didnt realise was i getting blue flag final warnings unless i let him past !   Thankfully he dropped right back and i sped off before the stewards felt my coller  
Well done to Podium guys and good driving by the GT1 boys...that must have been a mare to avoid us GTC's having our own battles on this tight track  

[ginsters sponsored]

Surprisingly, I quite enjoyed the track .

Nice quali (new pb for a night race ) and all looked set for a ding dong battle with Paul and RIP. That was until some kind soul decided to spin a bit, slide up the inside a lot and barge us off track, thankfully only the once, in his GT1 car. That put an end to any fun and I cruised around 20 sec behind lead battle and 20 ahead of Pops behind me. Real shame

I only had the one problem being lapped and gotta say GT1 boys were great considering the difficulties . Congrats to RIP, Paul and Carl.

[Kerr]

Yet again 3rd time in a row come qualifying session of upper endurance my connection goes mental. I was sitting 4th at the time and on a quicker lap by a few tenths. A few minutes to go and again I lost connection. This is more than a coincidence, but what is wrong baffles me.

Managed to get back in with a couple of minutes qualifying left. Had a couple of laps and made a big mistake on one, and lost control trying way too hard on the other. I started last!

Did not know how to approach the start with all the GTC cars ahead. I thought since we are racing for position I'm entitled to "overtake" and not look for easy place to lap.

I got past a few cars and was taken back a bit with a lot of door banging. Came through to find Jure in the Lambo had decided to join me at the back. Did a sneaky move when he went one side of a GTC car and I jumped them both on the other.

Managed to climb up to 6th place from last and was catching Simon for 5th. Would have needed a few more laps to get close but getting past is impossible unless he was to make mistake.

Had a few laps chasing TT and a few more him chasing me, other than that nothing of note to report.

Can't say driving 80 minutes on the track has made me feel any different, it's horrible to drive, horrible to lap/overtake and that pit lane is an accident waiting to happen.

[popabawa]

Disaster for me at the start, my DFP decided to die in the first practice session, no FF at all. I tried rebooting and everything you'd expect but no luck. I thought I might as well try it with no FF and it was OK, then it came back for a lap in qually, I grabbed 4th on the grid only to get disconnected! Grrr....

It was an exciting race but a pretty poor drive by me, Dave & Pribiero were all over me at the end and I'm just happy I just held on for 4th with no Force Feedback.

Plenty of contact but that was inevitable really, glad to see the back of Adria forever if that's how it works out!