UKGTR Season 6 Upper Sprint - Sugo (Classic) - Dec 4

[Jeffrey]

Sorry to interept the intermezzo  .

I'll miss this one due to a birthday.

[John]

1st and foremost I'd like to apologies to sbg for the 2 incidents.
The 1st one you took me by surprise by how much you slowed.
I take it traction was a problem.
And the 2nd i thought I'd try and make a stab at it as you lost speed coming off the grass,but decided i wasn't going to make it and slammed on the brakes.But i reacted to late.
Big apologies.
Made another mistake towards the end of the race and lost speed,Gazza was closed right up on me,i tried to let him passed,but due to a serious loss of speed,i couldn't get out of the way quick enough.
Sorry mate.
Decided to press escape as i felt i didn't deserve to finish.
Grats to roadrunner.

[Roadrunner]

Quite suprised about that...pace wasnt owt spectacular in GT2 races, so i thought it`d be more of the same here.. pole was a suprise, but then knew i was pretty handy on cold tyres, so had to make a break for it in first 2-3 laps, then hope for the best after that, but i still managed to pull away by a little or more every lap  ..Spun with 10 mins left, but had enough of a cushion not to worry to much, but it took last outta me tyres, so just cruised on home 

[Simon Gymer]

Well done RR, great race pace.

I thought I was going to qualify on the front row despite the little bit of ballast, but with a few minutes to go I rapidly dropped down to 5th. Still not too shabby and still hope of a podium. First couple of laps was basically all about pressurising Gazza. It didn't take me long to get by, but I'd already lost 4 seconds to the guys ins 2nd and 3rd (SBG and John). I set about catching them and looked like I could getting it down to 1 second, but then they started to pull away and I thought that was that. Gap then went back up to 4 seconds as I had some untidy laps and then followed by some tidy laps I caught them up again, about 1.5 seconds behind. Then just as they came onto the back straight there was an incident and in the tyre smoke I sneaked by on the left and never looked back. RR was already 12 seconds up the road and still pulling away so I just drove my own race to the end. Had some trouble near the end with what seemed like a dodgy phase of the tyres, but they then seemed to stablise and I just had a big enough gap to finish about 4 seconds ahead of team mate FreQ to make it a good team result.

[psuedo]

Yeahayyyyy....I actually got to finish a race at Sugo...

Very enjoyable that....can't understand why it's so poorly attended....some great racing.

Managed to sneak a few tenths on a final flying lap in qually and pinched a couple of places with a pb.  

Start didn't go too well, the car ahead of me never pulled off the grid and I had already moved up behind him so was stuck untill the poor fella hit the quit buttun .....Thanks to the cars that let me get back into qually spot....especially MJ who did it twice after I forgot to brake for the hairpin before the chicane   whilst checking I had passed him the first time.

first or second flying lap in the race proper saw someone a couple of cars ahead make an error in the two lefts before the final...whilst trying to avoid everyone slowing a bit I didn't see MJ come up my outside till I heard a dull thud and we were both facing the wrong way. This put us last and second last respectively so more or less the whole race was spent chasing from the back.
MJ got away, 10 secs or so after I clipped a curb in the chicane, so spend 30 mins on my own but slowly closing the gap.
About 5 or 6 laps to go I managed to latch onto the back of Baracus, Jan and MJ....MJ must have just passed them though as he soon started pulling away. Battled for a couple of laps till Jan made a mistake through the chicane and Baracus passed him...I tried too but Jan closed the door smartly...(by the way...can I have my front wing back Jan   )...I got him next lap though as he got a bit sideways in the right hander before the back straight
I didn't expect to catch Bara though...a couple of seconds ahead, but he must have been struggling badly with tyres as I managed to catch and pressure him for a couple of laps. He obligingly put it sideways too so I managed to get passed with just 2 laps to go.

Totaly enjoyable race. Cheers all.

Grats to winner and podium.

[ginsters sponsored]

Well the result should have been better but still had some fun

Sorry for flitting in and outta quali. Initially, after 1 lap I was thrown into an acid trip and the screen went all fractal . It was like the mid 90's again . Really odd as graphics card was running at 50c but I think I have a problem with a GT1 skin as it only happens in the GT1 sprint races. Glad to get in a half decent lap and wouldn't have caught RR up front anyways.

Race was going great and enjoyed battling John for first 20 minutes. Thanks for the apologies and realise you didn't mean to do it  . However, you've gotta have some sympathy when I say that I ain't happy. I would take it as read that someone of your pace could follow someone prepared to defend without such incidents. Hopefully I can get on your pace again and my faith can be restored. Still I'll try and remember the first 20 which was immense fun, thank you .

So should have been better but at least I've found a car I'm more competitive with now. Battling those Listers made it feel like GTR1 all over again, aaaagh the good old days .

Congrats to RoadRunner who was pretty much untouchable

[picnic]

Replay and provisional results now available

[Joss]

Very good race RR

Really pleased with this race, partly because I wasn't expecting a (lucky) podium, but also because I didn't make any mistakes!
The last time I finished a race without leaving the track was the Hockenheim Endurance...quite a few races ago.
So I was concentrating heavily on staying smooth and keeping the tyres cool instead of outright pace, almost just to restore some confidence after a few bad races where I think I've been overdriving. For a long time I thought that 5th place was my natural pace, until I got lucky with the SBG and John incident's, otherwise I wouldn't have had a look-in.

Whilst my pace was slower than the sprint, I felt it was much more consistant, much smoother, and faster on the whole. I'm happy after a race after almost a month.

Oh, and well done Simon too. 

[John]

Thanks sbg,i to found the racing good fun.
Your a very good defensive driver,i couldn't get past at all.
That lister can certainly brake late.
I must admit its been one of the best races Ive had for a while.

[Kerr]

My opinion has shifted a bit about this track. I hated it for a while then over the last couple of races I've really connected with it.    Other than the disco at upper endurance I got to grips with both gt1 and gt2 class last tuesday.     If football was not on tonight I would have been here. Sad to have missed it as my endurance pace with full fuel was good enough for a strong finish.    Well done all and see you on track soon.         

[purdie]

grats Roadrunner! never a slouch in anything it seems! 

...well i struggled to wrestle the Saleen round the track and then got disco'd half-way thru  the first lap half-way thru a tank slapper! 


  <-- and I wud have definitely been better off on this 

[Tibernius]

Very enjoyable that....can't understand why it's so poorly attended....some great racing.

I might be able to make the Zhuhai race if you need an idiot at the back of the grid...
I've done a few laps with the Lambo, so I almost know how to control it.

[Jure]

half of the spring in my throttle broke some 30 mins prior to practice 1, managed to fix it so it (kind of) worked again, but... 3-4 mins too late, you guys were already in the race. 

oh well, at least santa knows what i need for xmas 

[John]

I might be able to make the Zhuhai race if you need an idiot at the back of the grid...
I've done a few laps with the Lambo, so I almost know how to control it.

I think i can speak for everyone here when i say almost isnt good enough.
Keep practicing until you CAN control it!
There are Alot of good sim racers on here,and i think they'll be a little upset if you ruin there race due to lack of control.

[Tibernius]

I might be able to make the Zhuhai race if you need an idiot at the back of the grid...
I've done a few laps with the Lambo, so I almost know how to control it.

I think i can speak for everyone here when i say almost isnt good enough.
Keep practicing until you CAN control it!
There are Alot of good sim racers on here,and i think they'll be a little upset if you ruin there race due to lack of control.

I know, that's why I've stopped entering the GTR2 races.
I was just telling Psuedo that there will be more drivers next season. (well, one more)