NGT Sprint Cup - Season 1, Round 3, Enna - July 26

[Paul968]

Just send a replay for now then

Paul

[Glide]

Managed a 1.40.138 in the Morgan...in 9th lap.

Not sure I'll be able to make it on time for Tuesday...Continue training for now 

[Mike Wrightson]

Hmm, tried the Monza-spec wings, 2nd lap on race fuel and mediums was 1:40.5 but I keep throwing it off the road, not good

[popabawa]

Finally managed to get below 1:41 (1:40.9 dead), then did the next two laps under 1:41 as well 

Odd (but nice) how something just 'clicks' sometimes in this game.

Pops.

[fozzmeister]

Odd (but nice) how something just 'clicks' sometimes in this game.

Quite often im racing along, off in lala land and oh shit, missed brake point craaaaaaaaaaaaaap, oh hang on i got round the corner, that was nice... hmm i'll try that again :-)

[Jamera]

Odd (but nice) how something just 'clicks' sometimes in this game.

Quite often im racing along, off in lala land and oh shit, missed brake point craaaaaaaaaaaaaap, oh hang on i got round the corner, that was nice... hmm i'll try that again :-)

Lol, quite often do that myself, plenty of time to reflect though as I try in vain to get out of the kitty litter 

[Simon Gymer]

Ok I have to say I think we will need to review the classification of the Porsche BiTurbo at the end of the season.
I just tried it in anger at Enna and was 2 seconds faster than any other NGT time I have (1:36.5).
As I suspected from the first two races the BiTurbo is faster down the straights than the other NGTs.

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1    SimBin Benchmark    01:32.976    
2    Fabrizio Hernandez    01:33.989    
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4    Patrik Gårdewall    01:34.460    

^ Best times of N-GT cars on Enna on GTRank. You just drove an awesome time m8 with the Bi-T. Which makes u 4th with this car on that track by the way. I don't think a lot of us on here will be able to do that and I'm sure noone here will take advantage of this info either .

It is however quite a lot faster on the straights though. I noticed that in a fun race on Oschersleben already, but it's also very hard to handle and eats tyres. Unlike the Seat for instance this car will not dominate the field if it's driven against N-GT cars.

T

[PaulW]

I guess the thing is, you could get a small boost with it on fast tracks like Enna (Monza etc) but then opt to use a more nimble car for Estoril. So if you work the system you would have an advantage over someone that stuck to the same car for each race. Hmmm. It is a handful though and maybe that is enough penalty any time you use it to negate teh pace overall?

[Simon Gymer]

We'll see I guess. I think my thoughts were basically as you say that it's so hard to drive that would be disadvantage enough and I didn't think it was any faster than the other NGTs down the straight (which has proved slightly wrong). Probably have to wait to see how it is over all the different kinds of tracks before deciding, it's certainly no Seat with a clear advantage.

So far I think we've only had Bernie Lomax and maybe another driving it in championship races and he's has driven it very competitively in the NGT Sprints for some good racing so nothing too much to worry about at the moment.

I would take it at Enna myself with the straight line speed advantage but I loathe it too much to actually drive it for more than 10 minutes. 

[popabawa]

So far I think we've only had Bernie Lomax and maybe another driving it in championship races and he's has driven it very competitively in the NGT Sprints for some good racing so nothing too much to worry about at the moment.

Agreed. Unless a lot of drivers start taking it, then no problem I guess.

My feeling is that the only guys capable of getting the best out of it are the guys who would have beaten me anyway! 

Pops.

[popabawa]

Time-wise, managed a 1:40.000 dead last night. Very happy with that 

It also (finally!) took my GTRank to single figures! Wahoo!

Anyhoo, still struggling with my race set-up, averaging 1:44-1:45. On other tracks, the difference between my best laps and my race laps has been about 2:00-2:50s so I'm a liitle concerned this is a MUCH bigger gap.

Anyone else experiencing this at Enna?

Pops.

[Simon Gymer]

This is normal at Enna because in qual you take HUGE risks through the tyre chicanes and much less in the race and you can gain so much time by flying at dangerous speeds through the tyres you can have a large gap in your qual and race times.

I've now managed to go down into the 1:37s with the 360 in qual, no idea what my race times will be as not done any race practice.(7 seconds off GT times.)

[popabawa]

Thanks Shark, that makes perfect sense 

It'll be interesting to see how people approach Q's tonight, with only 15 mins to qualify, those risks through the tyres become even bigger 

Also how to approach the race as one mistake will very easily trash the car here.

(I'll be at the back with maximum wing  )

 

[Bernie Lomax]

The Bi Turbo def has an advantage in a straight line due to it's horsepower advantage over other NGT's. I tend to agree with the comments above tho that on the majority of circuits due to it's extra weight and it's tendency to not go around corners very well it doesn't give a substantial advantage. I've used it in both NGT sprint races to date but don't think I would have been significantly faster or slower in a 360 or GT3. I know one other driver used a Bi - Turbo at Magny and was lapped by the leaders so....