UKGTR Season 6 Lower Endurance - Adria - Oct 7

[psuedo]

had a few good battles but spent most of my time playing catch up after losing a bit of time whilst being lapped..that Viper grunt left no option but to lift off alot to allow the front runners through coz of the shortness of the straights. Was lapping ok, very few errors (for me) and was never too far behind whichever car was infront....and when I did drop back a bit seemed to make the time up again quite quickly.

Thought I was in for taking a place though just after the pit stop. Had been chasing Dan Minton down for a good few laps and managed to get ahead when he ran off at the 'chicane'. I had to pit on the following lap though as the tyres were ever so slightly worn . I think Dan pitted 2 laps after me and exited the pit lane as I passed the s/f line. Then on cold tyres he ran wide into turn 2 and I thought 'nows my chance' only to have a lapping car try a really late and utterly unneccessary pass on the apex from miles back that could easily have put us both out the race . ended up 12 secs behind Dan then with little hope of making it up.

The vast majority of lapping cars were fantastic...waited for the flash from me and showed a lot of patience..excellent. There were (apart from the above) a couple that tried very late darts to the apex of the corner, especially at turn 1 and a little contact was made, but no harm done fortunately.

All in all not too bad...still don't like the track much...it was better with single makes on mondat night, so maybe the sprint on tuesday will be good.

Grats to winners and podiums...and Backo  well done mate.

[Prof]

I was never going to compete with the GTC aliens for raw speed so tried to go the whole race on one set of tyres and the briefest of stops. Wear was far greater than off-line practice, grip was far less and things got really hairy towards the end. (Sorry Dave). 80 minutes hard work to make up one whole place on qualification - really glad to see the finish flag.

Sorry to any faster cars I held up. I think I got it right most of the time especially when you chose to overtake on the straights!

[Truetom]

Qualified 9th - just couldn't get a good lap in and 2 CTDs didn't help. 
Had a great tussle with Paul968, very fast in his RS.    Finished 5th, 4th in class. 
Was counting on Backo to slow Robert down in the last minutes, but he didn't. Backo, drive faster next time.  

This track is very hard for lapping, for both parties.    Majority of the drivers were great, letting me through so quickly I was sometimes embarased, I felt like a predator comming on a school of prey, scattering them.    No need to that, guys, just be sensible, hold the line, ease off and we won the day.   
In one particular case I had a feeling there was some old account being settled as the blocking was going on for some time, certainly more than any (even strached) sensible time necessary to let the lapping car by even on a twisty track as this. Will watch the replay and act accordingly. 

Was great to see MJ brake his oath to Porsche... 


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[will16v]

Gotta say sorry to Prof as made contact with you on at least two occasions - one of them causing you to spin - sorry again 

Not a good race for me, as was having some framerate issues again, so braking points etc were all out of sync.
Later found out that all my graphics card settings had been reset, should be ok for the next round.
Congrats to all who ran here tonight - not a great fan of this track myself though.

[Paul968]

Another intense and hard fought race. Backo was always going to be out of reach with -20kg of ballast, so it was nice to get 2nd on the GTC grid. Initially I had an easy time of it as Simon slowly edged away and I got a little gap those behind. Then TT closed in and we had yet another good scrap, with my RS always better on the power and TT with the edge on the brakes. During our battle we were unfortunately held up for over a lap by a backmarker in the same class  , and the time lost came back to haunt me later on. TT was a real gent though for not taking advantage of the situation  In the end he took advantage of my good nature  with a slightly ambitious move into T1 before he pitted the next lap. After that I had Zacari on fresh tyres putting the pressure on, and I was looking for a way to let him by when I made a mistake and ran wide in the last corner. He was alongside on the outside into T1 and I didn't contest the pass.  I pitted just for new tyres and came out as a big gaggle of cars approached, so I had to slowly ease out onto the track. As I got up to speed Ruskus came flying past, and I knew from experience I was going to struggle to get the place back on such a twisty track. I caught him up after a few laps and then spent the rest of the race up his gearbox. I've said before that there is nowhere to pass with an equal car and so it was to prove - plenty of close moments but Jeff could always take a defensive line and leave me nowhere to go. I had a last big effort on the final lap and was very close after the middle hairpin, but a Viper had a spin in the middle of the right kink ahead, and seeing the danger I nudged Jeff across the grass through the gap (that's my story and I'm sticking to it!  ) ). 3rd in class isn't too bad, but I made very few driving mistakes, had good pace all race and think with a bit more luck I would have had 2nd.

Congrats to Simon, Backo and SBG for the class wins & thx to those who helped me past.

[Jeffrey]

I had a last big effort on the final lap and was very close after the middle hairpin, but a Viper had a spin in the middle of the right kink ahead, and seeing the danger I nudged Jeff across the grass through the gap (that's my story and I'm sticking to it!  ) ).

Lol. In that case, THANKS 

[Prof]

Gotta say sorry to Prof as made contact with you on at least two occasions - one of them causing you to spin - sorry again 

No problem Will16v, I was never going to be competitive here. Relieved just to finish.