UKGTR Season 6 Lower Sprint - Hockenheim (GP) - Nov 13

[Kerr]

What a disaster again. I'm getting sick of this over the last few weeks. Another disco.

I was sitting 2nd during qualifying only to see Purdie dissapear from 3rd. Then Baracus also went AWOL leaving me on pole. Purdie sneaked back in and landed 2nd on the grid.

From the 20mins I was racing Purdie was hot on my tail, really close racing. He could pull me in under the brakes into the hairpin and also out of. I must have set 1st gear too high.

Seemed to be 0,3 sec between us at the line every lap. Then heading up to disco I managed for the first time to get the gap to over a second and could stop worrying about being outbraked.

In the middle of the stadium the noise of Purdies car disappeared. I was not sure it was an off, but no after next corner "connection lost". How angry am I?

Was having a fantastic race with Purdie and can only hope my car did not interfere with you or anybody else.

I'm off to work now and will check the result after.

[pribeiro]

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Congrats to winners. 
Nice fight Dave 

Cheers

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Not a great race for me, started okay but witnessed some madness ahead early on - reports to be filed. Couldn't hold PRibeiro off early on as I was protecting my tyres a bit but after the madness found myself ahead of him and just about able to hold off a challenge. This track really highlights the big differences in strengths between the front engined cars and the 911 - the former brake earlier but carry more speed into the corners.

After Paul's collection by Shark I eventually caught him and was looking for a way by but got caught out under braking for turn 2 and spun him. Sorry Paul, totally my fault. Two or three cars passed us as I waited for him to rejoin. Got back on his tail and forced my way up the inside into turn 1 with two laps to go but got a cut warning and had to allow him back past, couldn't get close enough on the final lap but did pick up a place from PRibeiro who was off in the last few corners.

Not a classic but sweaty palm stuff if nothing else.

[Jeffrey]

Shame Brian, really sucks. I drove right through you but luckily for me I survived 

Was very happy with my qualification, as there was a 80kg difference between me and most other GTC cars. Paul drove off from the start and I had Simon and Madd to worry about. It was a matter of time before Simon overtook me, and he did, outbraking me at the hairpin. Few times later Madd did the same. I felt like a lamb to the slaughter, being outbraked, outaccelerated and outturned  . However, I could hold on to Madd, with a gap of 0.7s.
That stayed that way almost the whole race. However, in the end the gap increased.
Still content with 2nd in class, and thank god 60kg is maximum....right...please....

Grats Purdie on your win 

[picnic]

Replay and provisional results are available

[Jeffrey]

Unofficial Lapchart

[Jeffrey]

Replay and provisional results are available

What happened to you Pete?

[Kerr]

Quite a few discos tonight. My connection has been very poor the last few weeks. I'm going to have to phone my indian friends at sky again. It drops connection on a regular basis now then seconds later ok. Don't know what I can do if anything?      My car felt pretty good for a very quickly thrown together set up. It's a shame that baracus lost out on his pole position, but I was curious why his car was so light as he is leading championship. It would have been nice for a 3 car battle, but purdie gave me more than enough to worry about. Great race and good win. Unlucky too baracus.

[picnic]

What happened to you Pete?

No ability, crashed, broke the car couldn't be bother to wait while the pit crew fixed it :'(

[baracus250gt]

Seems like you are having as much luck as me recently Brian

After a PC lockup last week, this week my throttle suddenly wouldn't go more than 60% on! Its odd how it happened coz it was literally just after I went wide at T2 in Q (on my own) and when I got it back on track I had no full throttle! I thought at first it was a simulated problem with my car (maybe knocked something off on the kerb) but my PD was also showing it not going fully up!

This was with 3 minutes to go!

I suppose I was lucky to reboot and replug my controllers and rejoin in time - so I could have had worse luck

In the race I drove too aggressively which not only wore my tyres out too soon but made me make quite a few little mistakes and a couple of bigger ones. Still it was fun overtaking some cars. I think a lot of people felt sorry for me because there was not much fighting I had to do

Until I came to Stewprovo that is!! We had a right good battle for a few laps until he lost the back end in T2. Good scrap

Fingers crossed nobody had stupid hardware problems next time!!

[Madd-RIP]

Was having a fantastic race with Purdie and can only hope my car did not interfere with you or anybody else.

Actually you scared the C*** out of me, only just missed you as you can never tell if a disco'd car will spit you off the track  
Did some tweaking to the setup today and it worked wonders with the feel of the car, much more progressive and more easy to drive as a result, giving me almost 0.5 second a lap better times without needing to overdrive the car.....too much, so was very happy with my quali.

As for the Race, those Morgans are just bonkers on the straights, I got right up behind the rear wing of Shark and he just drove off into the distance, nearly outbraked hm into the hairpin but couldn't really make it stick. After a while he started hassling Jeff and eventually got past and eventually I managed to creep up on Jeff too, we had a fantastic scrap with me trying all ways to get past, I eventually squeezed him out at the hairpin and got past but I just could not shake him, so the gap stayed at about 0.6s for ages, then we came around T1 to be presented with a lot of smoke and Paul and Shark stationary in the racing line, both Jeff and I just avoided them.

And tbh apart from Bara scaring us both witless   that's how we finished. Brilliant fun.
Grats  to Purdie btw  

[baracus250gt]

It's a shame that baracus lost out on his pole position, but I was curious why his car was so light as he is leading championship.

Yes that is weird - I am sure I read somewhere (can't find it now) that I had +25kg for this race but the results above show -10kg. Maybe I am getting confused with a different class?

[Truetom]

Was having a fantastic race with Purdie and can only hope my car did not interfere with you or anybody else.

It did - it was exactly in my racing line and while trying to avoid it I got into a sand trap.    Online racing, can't be helped. 

Was watching close racing between RR and MJ, was sure MJ's gonna pass, but he decided differently.    When he went off I also lost my concentration, and soon after Paul went by.    Well, he would pass anyway, he was way too fast to hold.   

Good job MJ for 5th and Darren for 3rd in class.    Too bad Adam wasn't here. 

TT

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Yes that is weird - I am sure I read somewhere (can't find it now) that I had +25kg for this race but the results above show -10kg. Maybe I am getting confused with a different class?

It shows your name in red which indicates that you joined under a different name from what it was expecting - which is shown in the ballast list just before the race after the ballast file has been generated. I didn't note what you had in the game - given that you ended up starting from the back and didn't finish it's not really important.

I'm still getting annoying pauses whilst playing - I've reinstalled AVG on my games box without the new anti-spyware component (I don't really use that box for web surfing so it should be okay) so we'll see if that improves things.

Oh, and I got cramp in my left foot a few laps before the end which made life interesting...

[Mark J]

Had a cracking race this evening.  

Qualied 4th in a tough top end of the grid.

Race was mainly a superb half hour long bumper to bumper battle with Roadrunners BMW for 3rd and then 2nd place, several times getting side by side and really enjoying a tough fight
As the race wore on i could see his car getting more and more out of shape with me throwing everything but the kitchen sink at him to get past, but despite him running wide a few times, he just didnt make a mistake big enough to allow me through. I was keeping a wary eye on the fezzas of TT and PRichards a few secs back too.
Eventually on lap 19? of 24 whilst still pressurising Roadrunner for 2nd place i bloody double down-shifted at out of the last corner and the car instantly snapped around on me allowing TT and PR through.
I chased like a madman back after them and was taking time out of TT for the last 5 laps but despite closing back down to a couple of seconds, the race finished with me a disapointed 5th. :'(
Should have been a podium tonight and think i may have pressured RR into an error with a few more laps remaining to grab 2nd, as his tyres seemed to be going off.  

Oh well, a good team result with 4th and 5th but could have been sweeter  

Congrats to Purdie for a fine win   and unlucky to Bara and Brian with their Disco Stu moments