UKGTL Season 4 GT Classics Cup - Road Atlanta - Dec 13

[Steve Holmes]

Sorry so many have had a bad race, it seems to be the luck of the draw where you are.  I had a great one, battling with Pribeiro, Keith, Dan and then Syd. 

Glad you enjoyed that Dan, I was a little concerned you might be getting annoyed by being held up, and I certainly saw you lose ground when you had to lift in a corner due to my slow lumbering apex speed.  It was good fun, I almost felt guilty at breezing past on the straight, you were so much quicker round the rest of the track!  That 3-abreast into T1 was hairy (lap 7 or 8 maybe?) , Dan Keith and I were side by side down the start-line, I was on the inside but it was going to end in tears if I claimed the corner so I slammed on the anchors and tucked in behind, seemed the safest thing to do!   

I was lucky not to roll later when the T3 kerb lifted me up onto 2 wheels, Dan got through and stayed through after that.  I was very easy on the tires in the middle part of the race, so the latter part of the race I had far more traction than the GT350s around me, did lead to me nudging Keith (very sorry) a few times entering corners, but fortunately not unsettling his car much and not taking advantage.  Respect to Keith for never making a mistake, great consistent driving, I had a couple of small overlaps but nothing I could really take advantage of due to your good driving.   

Finally lost concentration following Keith into T3 and braked too late, had a horrible moment when I thought I was going to collect him, but he zoomed across my front, thankfully, but I  ran wide and lost a place to Syd.  Pretty soon after, with more grip, I was able to drive round the outside of him on the main straight over the hump and get the place back. Little bump as we turned in but no major problem there.   

Love the 350, a massive lump of V8 goodness.   

[Syd Drake]

Is there a secret to how to load a replay? I can't load my own replay, or the server replay. I just get a CTD during loading. And this isn't the first time. I can load normally my offline replays.

Might be a missmatch with one of the skins

Can I fix it somehow? I obviously don't get any mismatches when joining the races.

[Simon Gymer]

then i was after another shelby, simon gymer. he spun off, probably lack of tires.

I could blame it on the tyres, but I'm afraid it was more a lack of skill.

I really had a diabolical qualifying session. I think I only managed 2 laps in the whole of practice and qualifying without spinning as I was trying to find some sort of driveable setup for the yank tank.

Started 15th and with my usual fast start (clutch control) and always good on the lights anyway (when I'm concentrating) I gained 5 places on lap 1! After that it was a case of working out how to drive with my last minute major setup tweaks to try and make the car remotely drivable. They seem to have worked mostly (big increase in castor, steering lock and moving the brake balance further back) as the car felt more nimble than it was (relatively speaking of course. not sure you can call a tank nimble).

After about 75% of the race I was really starting to struggle to control the thing again for some reason. When the leaders came round I threw it onto the grass so as not to hold them up through the twisties. I was thankful I was going to do one less lap, but then Jeff, who was leading at the time, went into self-destruct as his desk exploded, knocked him off his chair and ripped his wheel off his desk.  That made me unlap myself and despite my useless efforts to get lapped again by Mike just before the line on the last lap, I misjudged where the line was and I already started another lap before he could lap me. This meant I had to trundle round another lap on my own in a hideous car.

I dunno why I put myself through the pain of the yank tanks. I always end up hating them. They're great if all I want to do is drive sideways, but this is a race and you can't do that and so they become not fun and horrible to drive.

Well done to Mike on the win and unlucky Jeff on your exploding desk.

[BillThomas]

Looks like I've got my ISP sorted now - unless anyone has any complaints about me lagging.  Had my usual race from the back of the grid, had battles with Tibernius and Alex early in the race.  Thanks Alex for not taking advantage of me going off line to let leaders through, it's a pleasure to race you as you always drive cleanly and give a guy room. 

Somewhere early on the guy in front had a moment and I saw him, this extra incentive gave me a new PB but he eventually pulled ahead out of sight again.  After that it was a lonely drive to the finish, except for one eye in the mirror and move off line to allow lappers through.

An enjoyable race. 

Bill

[Minton]

Andy Pearl

 

 

 

Sorry .lol

[Alex vV]

No accidents, apart from one between me and AVV, he took the inside line when my car was infront, and I forgot to leave enough room, I only remembered he was there when I hit him.

Hi Tib,

that was not your fault. I tried to outbreak you, decided that it wouldn't work and tried to steer and lift the clutch... and that't a good combination to spin your car. I tried to steer away but I couldn't help hitting you.. sorry!
I thought that was a pit beacuae Bill and us had a good fight!

see you next year!

[Alex vV]

Looks like I've got my ISP sorted now - unless anyone has any complaints about me lagging.  Had my usual race from the back of the grid, had battles with Tibernius and Alex early in the race.  Thanks Alex for not taking advantage of me going off line to let leaders through, it's a pleasure to race you as you always drive cleanly and give a guy room. 

Bill, the pleasure was all mine! Unfortunately I ran out of talent whilst outbreaking The Tib 
Enjoyed our battle very much and hopefully we can have some more next year (between letting the leaders go through  )

[Syd Drake]

How do you appeal a moderators ruling?

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

How do you appeal a moderators ruling?

PM a moderator - it's in the rules.