UKGTL Season 3 GT Classics Cup - Zandvoort (1967) - Oct 11

[Jeffrey]

Unofficial Lapchart

Grats Bara on the race win and championship

[Madd-RIP]

Well  a pb in quali by half a second was good but just not good enough, made a poor start and Assassino got past then got nudged in hairpin, tut tut Steve!  :'(

So I thought Jesus! Its like Groundhog Day! and began a very enjoyable fight back, only to spin the car when Ossie went off (panicked  ) and had to start all over again! 

Basically just got the hammer down and went from virtually last to 5th again, a few more laps and I could have caught Backo up I think but still, no matter.

For me this series has seen some of the closest and hardest driving I have had the pleasure to enjoy, its finally clicked for me and some of the tracks have been brilliant, so congrats to Simon for an excellent season and hopefully a lot more of them.

Grats to the podium, special Congratulations to Baracus and GS, well done.

And I'm very sorry to hear of your terrible news Simon and family, may she RIP.

[Alex vV]

Sorry to hear that a great season finale had to end with such terrible news.

I want to thank you all for the great racing. It was fun for me to finally find a way to do some clean racing instead of people barging into each other all the time. Furthermore I hope that a wasn't too much in anyone's way since my races usually are at the back of the grid.
I must admit that I -when watching races on TV - actually look how drivers deal with being lapped..

Anyway, I hope that there is another season because I really enjoyed this league... and to score my first championship points on a home track really tops it off.
 

[baracus250gt]

Very sorry to hear your sad news Simon

Doesn't feel right chatting about our "hobby" with real-life matters like that rearing their ugly head...

...but here goes.

I played it safe with the 906 thinking the last thing I needed today was another engine failure. That and the fact I couldn't be at all consistent in the PantScarer. (and I don't drive Ford's out of principle).

Track seems far too bumpy for it and I thought if I could be consistent it would be better than being fast and falling off!

I was pretty determinded to not let my mind wander today... I was seriously feeling the pressure from Jeffster's late charge in the season so really focussed on not making mistakes today. In the end it didn't matter as I saw him leave at some point in the race

Then I just went for it but thought I was going to run out of gas - my mental arithmetic is cruddy so actually I had nothing to worry about but I spent the middle of the race short-shifting which caused me to spin and get stuck on a kurb (change of rhythm threw me not just the short-shifting). Eventualy it rolled down the kerb and back to the road, but I was facing across the track and didn't see Bernie as he flew past to take the lead and I touched his car a bit, sorry about that!!

Was gutted with my mistake but collected myself again and realised at this point I DID have enough petrol so I went for it again and to my surprise managed to get into the lead again (from 4th) in 3 laps I think

My heart was racing so much   A real adrenalin race. What a great race for the last of the season!!

Thanks for your virtual 'champers' guys... it's been really a great season

Huge thanks to Simon (and Dave) for organising the events for us all.... muchios gracias

Now... how do I start that Poll for P&G next season ;P

P.S. Nicely done Bernie on that fine 2nd    I sense a new threat for next season

[madmac]

Hi

Sorry for your loss Simon.


Managed to get some practice in and ended up in the 911. This is a car I don't usually like but was great fun on this circuit. Started 18th, was up to 12th by lap 4 then got hit from behind in the second corner where nobody in their right mind should be trying to overtake. By another 911 as well! The car didn't handle properly after that and I came off towards the end of the track, smashed the front of the car and it became undrivable. So an afternoon completely wasted because somebody didn't have the patience or common sense to wait for a proper overtaking opportunity.

It wouldn't be so bad if they had the decency to apologise. I am seriously thinking of giving up racing these faster cars. It seems there are far too many people who can put a quick lap in now and again in them but are not capable of setting them up to be consistent and because of this keep ruining others races.

[Mark J]

Report his ass !

I've noticed a little bit of crazy driving creeping back into the races now that attendances have gone up. Still a few with that win at all costs or impatience mentality 
Keep it gentlemanly for the classics gents !

Talking of gents, big congrats to Baracus on his well deserved championship, he was dominant this season, well done mate!   

And big thankyou to Simon for using some excellent add-on tracks, they have boosted the series superbly. Its a breath of fresh air to compete on some of the classic tracks around the world rather than the over-used stock circuits.

[Wiltshire Tony]

Something that struck me the most between driving with you guys and MARA is that your pitting out discipline is a bit "sketchy". I've been overtaken whilst pitting out, often witnessed pit lane speeding and have had drivers declare that they are "pitting out", leave the pit lane, then plant themselves in the middle of the track with fast qualifying cars rapidly approaching

[Mark J]

yeah i noticed pitlane discipline has gone down the swanny too. It used to be strict, perhaps the moderators need to start dishing out some virtual slaps to a few inconsiderate drivers.

Who is the moderator for this series anyway? ...strike great vengeance upon thee 

[Simon Gymer]

We've also been noticing some problems with add on tracks recently and last night was particulary bad for it. As you came out of the pits the other cars would appear out of nowhere. This happened in GTR2 at Adria too. When this happens it makes being pit out safety even more of an issue. Other than not using addon circuits there's not much we can do about the cars appearing out of thin air problems. Just have to be wary of the fact that cars are coming out of thin air at the fastest bit of the circuit and trying to stay offline is the only way to try and avoid anything untoward.

If you have been overtaken by drivers speeding in the pit lane then please do report it. One stern warning is usually all it takes from a moderator to correct the behaviour. Even though qualifying sessions are not recorded by the replay system these sort of incidents especially should be reported.

[Mark J]

i didnt notice any cars 'appearing' last night Simon 

Do you mean other cars in their pitslots or cars coming down the straight?
Either way people should be using 'pit etiquette' anyway and only pulling out on track when clear and/or staying to the pit-side of the track until upto race speed.
I also had the odd lap ruined by people trying to race me when i'm on a flyer and they had just emerged from the pits last night...grrr.
Pull over and flash flyers through !  Though last night was a tricky track to move aside, i had to take to the dunes a couple of times to let flyers through

[Madd-RIP]

I did notice cars just  'appearing' when coming out of the pits last night, luckily I always stayed to the right or otherwise it could have been messy. 

[Simon Gymer]

Cars coming down the main straight at full speed would appear about 50 yards from where you were pulling out. The only choice was to drive on the inside and hope you didn't get in anyone's way cause your entry speed to T1 was a lot lower than theres. Same thing happened at Adria. Jeff had the same problem (confirmed over TeamSpeak) and we had quite a few Team Shark guys say the same thing at Adria too.

[Simon Gymer]

A fun race has been scheduled tomorrow to test GTL running on the new server.
https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3681.msg60559#new