UKGTR Season 6 Lower Sprint - Adria - Oct 2

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

oh for f*cks sake..what happened to the poxy warmup ? 
you keep sodding around with session times

Sorry - it was against my better judgement to do anything at such late notice. I did say at the start of the season that the warmups were only until we were confident with the ballast system.

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Well that just takes the biscuit, taken out from someone who was absolutely nowhere near a pass and made the car virtually undriveable, ffs I'm getting sick of writing reports.

Some people seem to attract trouble - I'm not suggesting that you're necessarily doing anything wrong but if you're attracting incidents somehow perhaps there's something in your approach or driving style which is different to others and makes you more vulnerable to certain kinds of incidents?

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Awesome race for me - couldn't quite stay with Shark early on but made up for it with a great battle with Adam's M3, which should've slipped by when I had a slide coming out of the final turn, but I used a Jedi mind trick on him to make him go straight off in turn 1.

[Madd-RIP]

Some people seem to attract trouble - I'm not suggesting that you're necessarily doing anything wrong but if you're attracting incidents somehow perhaps there's something in your approach or driving style which is different to others and makes you more vulnerable to certain kinds of incidents?

So braking for a hairpin at the black marks is attracting trouble? thanks for that Dave, it DOESN'T help when you cast aspersions like that

[picnic]

Replay available, provisional results above and league standings here

Worst results file for a long time too, 5 or more drivers with up to 3 or 4 sets of data  

[Kerr]

Thought I was on for pole only to watch mark steal it on the very last second of qualifying.   I thought Mark had fallen asleep at the start as he forgot to go. After a close lap or two, mark ran wide allowing me the chance to make a pass. I could not put the power down in fear of running him off the track and this allowed him to keep inside line for next bend. Had to leave mark room and it also allowed backo the get past. I was keeping up ok but my tyres went off very early. Started snapping all the time and i made a number of mistakes. Paul richards caught me and put me under massive pressure lap after lap. Was fighting with paul and the car and did so until the last lap. Too much power too soon and got a big wobble and could only watch paul sail past. Well done mark and backo on class wins. Great race paul! I'm glad i'm losing some wait as i can only think that 25kg was a bit much for me on such a tight track

[Jeffrey]

Unofficial Lapchart

[Jeffrey]

I'm glad i'm losing some wait as i can only think that 25kg was a bit much for me on such a tight track

You think that's much . Try 50% weight more and less power

[Kerr]

Must be tough at the top ruskus!

[Kerr]

I was going to brave soft fronts, thankfully I never. The medium rear tyres were way past their best and the front right was shot too. The front left was still fine. I never noticed tyre wear being an issue in practice earlier. Not sure how much was down to the 25kg or the higher temperature.

[Simon Gymer]

oh for f*cks sake..what happened to the poxy warmup ? 

you keep sodding around with session times

Some sort of Team Shark conspiracy no doubt.
(Or perhaps it was in the race announcement)

[Zacari]

TBH losing the warm-up annoyed the hell out of me, doing a 40 min race with a full bladder and trying to hang onto the TVR is not the nicest feeling in the world

Changes to the race timing like that 90 mins before the start of the event is really not necessary imo.

[Mark J]

No sharky...not this time mate 

I think its crazy to not have warmups, not everyone has the luxury of hours of testing and practise for each track. I often dont even get home until just before 1st practise and so often the warmup is the only time i might get to do a quick lap with race fuel etc onboard and quickly check my tyre temps etc with a flying lap. Not only that but its often handy to quickly do any 'real life' stuff whether it be grabbing a glass of water or going to the khazi ! on enduro nights
We're getting less and less practise session time and now no warmup either 

Oh well i got an unexpected evening of playing with the P&G mod and had some driftastic fun around Brands...fantastic!, probably more fun than i would have had at Adria anyway. You guys really ought to give it a proper go but anyway, off topic.

[Kerr]

Sorry for opening a can of worms for you Dave. However it was discussed prior to the start of season and was always said to be a temporary measure and would be removed once ballast system had been proven. Fair enough from a selfish point of view I don't want to see warm up sessions as it makes me late for work when I'm nightshift. If you guys really feel the need for them please feel free to put them back in, but it will rule me out I'm afraid. I don't want special treatment but I'm sure for the sake of 5 mins it's not going to kill anyone

[psuedo]

Wasn't sure if I was going to turn up for this....not being the circuits greatest fan and all but I quite enjoyed last nights races here so I thought what the hay.

nearly decided to quit during qually though....4 times I got baulked when on a quick lap...and not at the silly pit exit either but stuck with it and had to settle for a lap 1.4 seconds off my pb.  Just a reminder to some folk...the rules here actually count during qually too .

Race started ok, was holding my own and have a good battle with Eddie Mayer...some good close stuff with us both making little errors to let the other through....untill I tagged him in the hairpin....Sorry Eddie.
I new I was quicker than you through there and tried to cut in to your inside to get a run up the straight but just caught the curb on the apex which bounced me into you. Madd was close behind and nearly got tangled in it but I pulled over to let him through whilst I waited for Eddie....Unfortunately though I took off again after the wrong car and ended up just cruising round for a lap waiting for Eddie to pass. He did...right in the middle of a ruck of front runners and by the time I got chance to rejoin and get back to speed I was 12 secs behind him   Just desserts comes to mind.

Chased him down again though and was only 1/10th behind coming into the last corner with about 15 seconds left on the clock...great I thought, probably just make another lap to give me a chance at him....then spun before I hit the line as the leader went past to finish the race.

I reckon tonight's and last nights races here were a lot better than the enduro...whilst the track isn't actually growing on me.....I reckon I could live with it.  

Grats to class winners and podiums. And of course our Backo for a fine GTC win.