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

[Aagramn]

Qualified on a race setup, and was cruising around happily in about 11th about half way through the race. Was being very patient waiting for the cars in front to make a mistake. Spun on the exit to T3, could have carried on but decided my car was in a dangerous position with traffic coming up fast, and exited. Oh well, got a bit of practise in for tomorrow anyway.

[Paul968]

One word - FRUSTRATED!

Couldn't get near my offline times because of the choppy frame rate, but was keeping Bernie honest in 4th. Then Fozz got a bit of a run onto the long straight but not enough to get by. He then missed his braking point and locked everything up. I saw him coming, realised that if I turned in I'd be collected and so stayed out of the way on the left, taking to the gravel. He missed the corner too but ended up in front. I hoped he would give the place back but that didn't happen, so while I was seething about the injustice of it I missed my braking point and nudged him off at T1. He took the to the exit road and reappeared ahead again. By this point I was in totally the wrong frame of mind, lost another place to Paul and then hit Mike Cooper who slowed far more than I expected for the 2nd chicane. This was the worst place for frame rate and I couldn't avoid - sorry Mike. I gave up at that point.

I'm starting to quetsion whether I can race online with my current hardware. Funds are tight so unless I can think of a cheap upgrade I may have to sit things out till I afford to get something faster.

Paul

[PaulW]

Man, feel for you Rob.

Shagged that one up a bit! Qualified OK but a couple of seconds off my best- just kept closing in on traffic and having to slow up. That's the game though I guess 

Had a solid race and just behind Bernie in 4th with only 5 mins to go when I slide into the tyres, not sure why, wasn't pushing super hard but just swapped ends. Span in slow motion and was thinking "please don't be terminal... please don't be terminal" but the rear wheel punctured unfortunately. If you want a laugh, watch me trying to get out of the sand there, spinning round and round

Bit gutted because I had a chance of a top 3 at Enna, but thems teh breaks. Bring on the next one 

[popabawa]

Holy crud that was hard work....

Amazed to Q 10th with what I thought was a poor time.

Up to 9th but it soon became apparent that just about everyone behind me was faster and queuing up to pass me  Held JM-Racing and Mike Wrightson off for a while but it was in vain, stupidly clipped a kerb and (I think) severely hampered Mike Wrightson, if that's the case, really sorry Mike

Tootled round on my own, picking up placed as I passed the dead cars.

Made an absolute pig's-ear of letting Matj past at the end, god that was awful, didn't stay on the racing line. Pathetic. So sorry Matj  :'( My concentration was completely shot by that point

6TH! Can I get a WhooHooo! 

Pops.

[Simon Gymer]

Server replay and exports uploaded to website as usual.

[Rob Bywater "Kerb Crawlers"]

Well in my frustration and annoyance i`ve just emailed the CEO of Simbin asking, very politely, if there are any plans to correct these bugs.

Dont know if it`ll have any effect but felt I had to do somert!!

Cheers

Rob

[Jamera]

Well again I had a better race, however stupid, stupid mistakes cost me 3-4 places AGAIN!!! If I can be consistant and stay on the track I feel there is a good chance of scoring points.....

[malonejames]

Not a bad race here the only black spot being when i knocked pops off at the final chicane due to my impatiance to get by him. Sorry mate. Feel free to boot me off the road next week! 

Rest of the race was spent dodging the spinning/crashing cars and ended up 4th. I really don't know how that happened but long may it continue! 

[[ZiP]Tyf]

Had a weird problem when I joined the server for the first time. Missing textures and all, restarted the game and then had a ctd, lol. Rebooted pc and it worked, phew! Only 3 mins to go in quali 1 though. Had to take default fast setup and managed a nice 1:41:xxx which had me in 11th. Started the race nice and gently as did most I noticed. Couple of peeps spun out or had 1fps and with me being in the faster car (Bi-T) I actually managed to overtake peeps! Woohoo (cheer with me Pops ).
Then as I was closing in on Fozz, he spun in the 2nd to last turn and I lost it just a little as well, hehe. No real damage... I thought, lol. 'Just' a puncture... In the sand trap just past the pit entrance, rofl!

Took me 40+ secs to get the car on the track again! AAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh! LOL! 
Then I had to limp back to the pit over the full length of the track, managed to avoid everyone, got out of the pit, but only had 1-2 laps to go. Managed a nice 14th in the end AND a 3rd fastest laptime! Woohoo (cheering with Pops again ).

I suggest we do a rematch, because I wanna know where I would have ended up, seeing I managed to miss all the tyrewalls!

T

[popabawa]

Not a bad race here the only black spot being when i knocked pops off at the final chicane due to my impatiance to get by him. Sorry mate. Feel free to boot me off the road next week!

Now there's a challenge!  

[Simon Gymer]

Feel for you lad. Best we can do is try and work around the ingame bugs.

Thankfully since my full uninstall and reinstall of GTR and fiddle with settings I haven't had it again (4 races so far) and Enna is one of the worst places for 1 fps. In case you wanna try it my settings are now:
1) Reinstalled GTR from scratch with no add-ons at all.
2) Put 1.4 patch on.
3) Created a new player in game with GTR 1.4 and copied old Career.blt over the new one.
4) Everything on highest setting in video settings in game except:
  a) Other Car Detail - High
  b) Special Effects - Medium
  c) Track Draw Distance - Far
  d) Number of cars draw - 24
  e) Level of detail bias - 100%
5) Number of sounds - 16
6) Turned all replay settings OFF.
7) In car chat OFF.

It's running at 1280x1024 with 4x AA and am using NGO ATI drivers (based on 5.7 catalyst). To be honest even with the settings (above) down like Special Effects to Medium the graphics don't look any worse to me than before when i had everything on max.

[Simon Gymer]

Would love to know why Bernie Lomax pitted on last lap and didn't just cross the line to take 3rd, instead dropping 2 places whilst in the pits? Were you not sure that would be the last lap?

[popabawa]

Failed to mention before that I also completely failed to hold Tyf off and he passed me with a nice manouver to my extreme annoyance  .

Nice one Tyf!

[malonejames]

Would love to know why Bernie Lomax pitted on last lap and didn't just cross the line to take 3rd, instead dropping 2 places whilst in the pits? Were you not sure that would be the last lap?

Sssssh don't tell him! He might do it again next week!  

[[ZiP]Tyf]

Thanks Popa. I just had the faster car m8.
Bernie uses the same by the way, it's a Lambo in disguise! Maybe that's why he pitted earlier to avoid the marshalls noticing it! 

T