Endurance Championship Division 2 - Season 1, Round 1, Barcelona - July 24

[Aagramn]

Results are up here:

http://www.ukgtr.org/lm2-report.php?group=10102&event=6

[Mike Wrightson]

Help a noobie out here, would that have been possible? My soft wets still felt pretty good when I
pitted but is this only possible in wet conditions? I know I should spend more time rehearsing but
fun race tomorrow looks a better bet than practicing on my lonesome.

The max fuel load on the Viper is ony 55mins at Barcelona, but in the wet, I went right through with quite a bit of fuel to spare at the end, so I wouldn;t be surprised to find that most GT's could do a non-stop 1hr wet race.  Soft wets won't last it though

[fozzmeister]

My soft wets still felt pretty good when I pitted but is this only possible in wet conditions?

I don't imagine soft wets will last very long in the dry.   

Soft dry tires can last for an hour depending on car and care. I did 45 at magny in dry (fun race) with no problems, I think I could have easily gone for 1hr. Also at Barcelona I was doing 1hr practice runs but that was touch and go.

You _really_ need a planted setup tho, and probably more rear wing that you would usually run.

Fozzmeyster

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

What do you lot mean by hard and soft wets? there are intermediates, normal wets and monsoons, and they differ mostly in tread, not compound.

[Tazman]

The tyre options I get in the game are as follows

Soft Dry
Medium Dry
Hard Dry
Intermediate
Hard Wet
Soft Wet

Taz

[Simon Gymer]

What do you lot mean by hard and soft wets? there are intermediates, normal wets and monsoons, and they differ mostly in tread, not compound.

That's cause you are running the German version with english translation Gizmo. They are not named the same in the full english version.

[Jamera]

What do you lot mean by hard and soft wets? there are intermediates, normal wets and monsoons, and they differ mostly in tread, not compound.

That's cause you are running the German version with english translation Gizmo. They are not named the same in the full english version.

Lol that explains alot, I was getting very confused reading other posts about wets and refering to monsoons

[popabawa]

Couple of other observations from last night;

There was some low-level chat during Q's and the race, it wasn't a big deal but I find it really offputting and it is against the rules. Sorry to be picky about that.

There was some patient and super-courteous driving from the GT drivers (from an overtaking my NGT perspective) Brilliant stuff.

Pops.

[ginsters sponsored]

There was some patient and super-courteous driving from the GT drivers (from an overtaking my NGT perspective)

I think that worked both ways. Knowing you would let us through when you could made it easy to be patient.
It also made it very predictable. 

Only one minor gripe. One or two, in their haste to let us through, tended to jump to one side and proved far less predictable (in fact it frightened the crap out of me). Simply sticking to normal line makes it far easier to overtake in safe manner. 

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

There was some low-level chat during Q's and the race, it wasn't a big deal but I find it really offputting and it is against the rules. Sorry to be picky about that.

Yeah, you're not wrong. I think in future I'm just going to turn chat off as I've yet to see a useful message, even PI/PO (and especially not "Bob McBob: WARNING! Bob McBob exiting pits now so stay out of the way or else!!!" or equivalent instead of "pit out" ) and I suggest everyone do the same. Then spectators (ie. those who've crashed out) can chat amongst themselves and the rest of us can concentrate on racing.

[[ZiP]Tyf]

There was some low-level chat during Q's and the race, it wasn't a big deal but I find it really offputting and it is against the rules. Sorry to be picky about that.

Yeah, you're not wrong. I think in future I'm just going to turn chat off as I've yet to see a useful message, even PI/PO (and especially not "Bob McBob: WARNING! Bob McBob exiting pits now so stay out of the way or else!!!" or equivalent instead of "pit out" ) and I suggest everyone do the same. Then spectators (ie. those who've crashed out) can chat amongst themselves and the rest of us can concentrate on racing.

Lmao @ the bob stuff, I noticed that too. Chatting annoys me too, I never use any pit messages. Maybe on some tracks the' pit in' is usefull, because that driver will have to slam on the brakes to enter, else I don't see the point.
The chatting of spectators I'm not sure about, because I sometimes even hear 'clicking sounds' of people chatting in the lobby, which is really distracting.

As for the overtaking yesterday, I just waited for the right spot and then had to drop of the gas a little as well, lol, to let GT's pass by, because the Bi-T has some awesome grip out of the corners. Went smooth almost all the time really. Only a couple of 550's managed to really out-accelerate me in the wet, hehe.

T

[mo]

just a quick hello from a newbie  -  this was my first online race ever and I really enjoyed it although couldn't keep my focus for the full hour in the wet.
Need some more practice and setup work.
Qualified in 6th to my amazement but it all went downhill from there, maybe due to tyre choice of 'hard wets'?

anyway hope I didn't get in the way too much..

Mo.

[as-here]

thanks all enjoyable race, had a poor qual but ran well in the race running 10 in a ngt car untill 1fps bug struck with 20 mins to go.

[silver53]

Hi All I know I am not that great online but I did race for real. Intermeadiates are usually just a cut slick and no a full wet at all . I had no idea what tyres to run strategy or anything but really enjoyed it as the old puter only blanked once insted of every corner.bye for now gerald. ps there are some ramblings and pics of me at www.geraldwgonline.com

[Vekiq]

Hi

And i Suffered 1 fps bug

Bugger, hope it did not affect anybody