UKGTR Season 6 Upper Endurance - Hockenheim (GP) - Nov 11

[Madd-RIP]

got a good lap in quali...eventually and then had a nice fight with that pesky SBG, Darren and Paul, only for me to throw it off by being greedy on the throttle  and then locking up into the hairpin. 
Kind of lost my rhythm for a while in the first stint but then slowly got back into it.
started making inroads into deficit after pitstop but then the race seemed to finish early, may have been able to snatch a place of Picnic. But never mind, a good race. 

[Jeffrey]

Thank God my 70 laps of practice were not in vain....Hang on, that will be somebody elses story 

Was happy to have 3rd for a while in qually. At one point me and Brian had EXACTLY the same qually time, but lap later he improved and I got 4th.

Race was uneventfull for me. CJ made a few very small mistakes at the beginning but not enough for me to benefit from, as he was quicker on average (although fastest racelap was very close ). After a while Brian spun and I got 3rd, and basically that's where I stayed.

Went for soft fronts for the last stint and they were pretty good.

Grats FreQ and Paul for winning. Good luck trying to drive with 809341230402 kg of ballast Paul .

Sorrt Psuedo for the little tap when I lapped you, still not used to right hand drive cars and on my left is a huuuge blindspot as I have the camere close to the wheel (grannystyle )

[picnic]

Replay and provisional results available from the links etc. above

[Kerr]

A mixed bag for me.

Started third after pipping Ruskus in the last few seconds of qualifying. Made a good start and got a run on CJ out of first bend. Showed my nose and CJ ran a little wide on cool tyres and brakes and that allowed me to slip through.

I was easing away from CJ and Ruskus and could only watch Freq ease away from me. After a number of laps I could see CJ beginning to find his feet and catch up a bit. The gap was fluctuating over the lap but I felt I had enough in the tank at that point.

Made a stupid mistake out of turn 1. In a drift I thought I could floor in to pull me out of it. The car snapped and I was lucky not to hit the barrier any harder than what I did.

Followed a few seconds behind CJ and Ruskus and was matching their pace very well, except I kept catching backmarkers at really tough points and losing ground on the pair.

CJ upped the pace a bit and moved away. Come pit stop I was only 5 seconds behind Rusks, then after pit was 30 seconds down!! Thought I made a pretty good stop so how I lost so much time confuses me. Little fuel, no tyres Ruskus?

Freq also gained a bit on me and CJ jumped Freq by some margin too. From what I saw a 20 second swing. That lister is so fast and also gains too much time in the pits.

Ended up in no mans land for second part of the race and had nobody for company.

Well done Freq on a great win, well done Paul to on class win

[DynoDaz]

Qualified in 3rd (in class) and finished 3rd (in class)....

I started the race well and was soon all over Madd-RIPP in 2nd.  For the first 15 minutes there was less than 1 second separating the top 3, with Paul just behind.  Madd and me swapped places a couple of times (great move at the hairpin Madd  ) before he spun, giving me 2nd place...

Paul then decided to give he a hard time for the next 20 minutes before I pitted just behind SBG in 1st.  Amazingly I left the pits before SBG but after a few laps I realised Paul had also pitted and had gained his usual 10 seconds over me in the pits. How, I just changed tyres??? 

The next 40 minutes was constant pressure with SBG all over my rear (oo-er).  Great driving mate.   We changed places a couple of times and swapped number plates (sorry) but once I heard the tyre worn warning, it was only a matter of time before he got past.

Well done mate you deserved at least 2nd place....


Congrats to Paul and Freq....


P.S. I would also like to thank PRiberio for letting me past after SBG and I had a paint swapping session.  Very sporting of you, thank you!

[Kerr]

Also I noticed the race finished early.

I had 1.55 left on time which would have resulted in 2 more laps. My fuel usage was higher that I thought. I ran a little further before pitting to allow for this. I had just enough fuel for 2 more laps. Wonder if everyone else did?

It did say 48 laps on my GTRpd2 which is exactly how far we went. So I guess we made distance limit before time?

I noticed it caught out Psuedo who could have probably finished without a splash and dash

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Quite enjoyed that. I've had a cold all weekend so I was dosed up to the eyeballs on Lemsip, Red Bull and Mentholyptus. Wasn't totally au fait with the balance of the car in qually but made some setup tweaks to give me a nice stable consistent car. For some reason I was getting the occaisional short pause - I suspect that upgrading my copy of AVG from Anti-Virus to Internet Security has caused a problem.

The plan was to run on mediums until they hit wear 20 and then pit for softs. Unbeknownst to me, Picnic and PRiberio behind were planning a little surprise for me and did stop and gos, coming out ahead with less than 15 minutes to go. Worse still, my pit stop went wrong with me overshooting the box, and then failing to switch to softs and getting fresh mediums instead.

So I had about 10 minutes to make up 7 seconds to the cars ahead, and my only advantage was fresher tyres. About half that time was made up with some sort of wierd mistake from 3 of the 4 cars ahead; I slipped up the inside of Picnic between the last two corners when he ran wide, then tried to do the same to Pribeiro but ran in too hot and half spun him. Managed to tap him straight again but then had to wait for a few seconds to allow him past, luckily not allowing Picnic by at the same time.

Managed to make a legitimate pass stick into the Mobilkurve but if only I'd managed to get softs in my stop I'd have had another second a lap in hand and would probably have been ahead of those two after their stops and with a real shot at a podium place.

[ginsters sponsored]

Its good to be back racing. Especially when its as good as that

First 10 or so laps struggled to hold off the flying Madd. Some good stuff between us but the little extra grunt of the 911 really saved me. A nice starter that

Built a nice 7 second lead over Darren, I think, up to pitstop with some nice consistent driving. Then pretty peeved (as much as I get about a game anyways) when Darren and Paul jumped me in the pits with a very naughty full tank strategy. I don't want even want to hear about it . Pumped up, a little, managed to gradually grind down Darren's lead and when he had an off I was right behind him with 11 minutes to go. Great stuff trying to think of a way past with some good defence coming my way. Still looking for a way past when I rear ended him going into to T2 sorry mate( you were a lot slower there than I expected there) Then let him back through and still couldn't find a way pass until I had a better run onto long straight which forced him to the inside where there was no grip. Great stuff

Gotta give a special mention to PR. He was a little behind Darren and I when we came together and caught us when I waited for him. But instead of shooting on through, which would have been fair enough, PR waited till both Darren and I rejoined. Top drawer

Grats to Freq and our Paul for good wins. And thanks to GT1 boys who were excellent.    

[psuedo]

Another good race  

First 40 mins I was doing pretty well, driving fairly consistently chasing MJ and Madd 2.5 secs ahead and keeping a close eye on Dave and Picnic about 1 sec behind. I caught MJ at the hairpin, it looked like he had had a little incident there, and just got past before braking for the tight left hander, but Early braking in the fezza must have caught him out a bit and we had a slight coming together. I couldn't hold it and spun letting Dave and Picnic through  . Got going about 8 secs adrift and that's about how it stayed till pits.

On my own for the second half but still managed to stay fairly consistent....must have been all the practice in the WET I'd done today  , and didn't fall off once  

 No props JR, I expected a little buffeting on that track from 'the big boys'....on the whole the overtaking was superb tonight...a couple showed a little impatience at times but nothing to write home about.

Grats to winners and podiums....(unless they are Kerbies  )

[Jeffrey]

Unofficial Lapchart

[Madd-RIP]

  Just noticed in the results, I managed to get back to within 9 seconds of SBG, gutted about making those errors now, I could have been on the podium  :'(

[Jeffrey]

Come pit stop I was only 5 seconds behind Rusks, then after pit was 30 seconds down!! Thought I made a pretty good stop so how I lost so much time confuses me. Little fuel, no tyres Ruskus?

I made a stop with 30 minutes to go and gad around 15L left and upped it to 65, so I only added 50L. Did change tires allround, went from m/m to s/m.

But ask CJ how he does it, as he won alot more on all of us 

[Jure]

Qualied poorly, but no matter, was sure my race pace would be even worse. 

Although finishing last in GT1 I can't remember when I had that much fun as per pure racing goes. Simon and I had an epic battle throughout the race , including two passes by "mistake" due to his early braking when I had to squeeze by... unintentionally, so I felt it's his right to regain his place back cause it was simply not properly done, ha! Loved it, thx mate and sorry for the scare. 
Anyway, Simon got the best of me in 2nd stint after some backmarkers confusion and once he pulled away there was nothing I could do, was simply way too slow on the straights (wing 12.... argh) plus had a major need for shortshifting with engine on 99-100 C in later stages (that's with shortshift).

Cruise mode for last 15 laps due to  "oops, forgot to change radiator from quali"


Great race on a not so great race track (man they've porked it, I still miss the old one).

[Jeffrey]

... a not so great race track (man they've porked it, I still miss the old one).

Amen. They have a tendency these days to f... tracks up with chicanes and other dumb stuff.

[psuedo]

I noticed it caught out Psuedo who could have probably finished without a splash and dash

Quite true....I had enough fuel for 1/2 a lap with around 3 mins to go so had no option but to pit in. I only realised what had happened when I left the pits and had to weave my way between all the Wrecked and dohnut-ing GT1 cars  and go finish the lap.