UKGTR Season 7 Lower Endurance - Silverstone (GP) - Jan 20

[Madd-RIP]

Well that went all wrong, lapses in concentration pretty much cost me a whole lap to SBG....the shame of it, I hope this isn't a sign of things to come for me!  :'( .
I decided to finish just for team points, was cruising in the end with no hope of catching anyone.

Congrats to both podiums.

[JonM_uk]

Had a good race but I hadn't had eaten enough for tea and cus of the old diabetes had to make a pitstop for food 13mins later all was well but was 8 laps down. Was a good race till then.
Grats SBG and Freq. Nice race all

[Minton]

Tough tough race...got pole with a pb . Managed to get away from Paul at the start and got into a rythem, had few seconds in hand when i made my pitstop . When i left the pits i knew i shouldnt have changed my tires ,this left me behind sbg and paul968 and we were all doing similar laptimes so there was no way to catch up.
grats to SBG and Ferq on the wins and Paul for a great drive with 40kg on board.

[Simon Gymer]

I was only 2.5 seconds a lap slower than the drivers I normally race, so I definitely should have taken some ballast. What was I thinking not taking ballast, silly me. My race would have been so much better with 40kg extra ballast. 

That was a dull race for me. Viper CCs aren't really any fun to race with unfortunately as if they are roughly the same speed as you, you can't overtake and they can and that's all there is to it. Given that the Z3M is way way off the 911 Cup pace there are none of them to race either. My only hope is a better setup and more Z3M drivers otherwise this could be a long old season.

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

That was fun in patches and hard work. Knew I was never going to touch the 811s but had a good opening stint despite Robert cheekily nipping through whilst I was letting some GT2 cars past.

Managed to pull away a little from Picnic and Shark behind but there wasn't much in it and I figured after the stop Shark would be long gone as I needed both tyres and a nearly 30 seconds of refuelling - not to mention my hard rears and medium fronts only really lasting for 35 minutes. It must've been just before my stop that I had drawn up to the back of Madd-RIP and whilst trying to put him under pressure he lost it on his own in Abbey and, broadside across the track I was unable to avoid him and my Viper picked up some light front end damage whilst his 811 barrel-rolled into the sky!

Pit crew signalled me in only to find JR in my box! Luckily he was just leaving so I only lost a few seconds but that allowed Picnic to close right up and I had to work hard to ensure I didn't mess up and allow him past whilst I got my tyres warmed up again. Pulled away a little and found myself closing up on Shark who was starting to struggle. Eventually managed to get alongside when he ran wide out of Priory and we ran side by side through Brooklands and Luffield. Unfortunately, in trying to stay right behind me through Copse he spun off and I was left to make my lonely way to the finish.

Not sure what was going on with the disco's/crashes in practice and qualifying, seemed okay in the race but Stewprovo's early bath probably brought the server back down to 28 runners anyway.

[pribeiro]

I was only 2.5 seconds a lap slower than the drivers I normally race, so I definitely should have taken some ballast. What was I thinking not taking ballast, silly me. My race would have been so much better with 40kg extra ballast. 

That was a dull race for me. Viper CCs aren't really any fun to race with unfortunately as if they are roughly the same speed as you, you can't overtake and they can and that's all there is to it. Given that the Z3M is way way off the 911 Cup pace there are none of them to race either. My only hope is a better setup and more Z3M drivers otherwise this could be a long old season.

I know your feeling....believe me 

[Kerr]

Had next to no practice for this one after being away down south all weekend.

My game completely froze twice in practice session and i got only a few practice laps in. Then in qualifying the very same again. It always happened when someone joined or left the session.

Watched Freq do what he did last season when he took the BMW out. He always seems to be further down the grid until last minute and comes up with pole with great times.

My race set up was hopeless. Felt really soft and wobbly at the back end. It really seemed like the 5 minute job it was.

Was keeping Backo behind for most of the first stint. Managed to catch up Pablo and make a move on him.

I think Pablo spun as I passed, but I'm sure we had no contact and I played no part in it. I will check on replay.

Managed to hold off Backo for lap after lap, just about being quick enough when it mattered. Caught up some backmarkers and was worried about the impact they might have.

Pulled out to pass one and "bang" I was fling across the track over the gravel and into the wall. It must have cost me 20 seconds or so.

Returned to track to find the car was handling even worse. Obviously rear aero damage.

In the next couple of laps Backo and Zacari made there way passed and I decided I needed to pit early and change strategy.

I managed to jump Pablo and Backo at the pit stops but Zacari was a mile up the road after pits and his car was much quicker than he had been in the first half of the race.

I had no chance of catching up and was happy to settle for 4th in the circumstances.

Well done SBG on class win.

Well done Freq on the win. Even better for TSJ now. Would have been a great result for the team if Jon had kept going. Not sure what happened to him but obviously something went wrong

[Jeffrey]

WHAT A RACE!!!!

That annoying Fri...Fro...FreQ took pole in the last minute by 0.7s  .

In the first stint he was slowly driving away with a maximum gap of around 4s. And I had Jon behind me for 10 laps or so. They were all making fun of my big a$$. Bloody (get it ) red Sharks  .
Joss Stone went in a few laps after me, so at the time he was in I had to do a very good lap. Unfortunatly, I had Pribeiro infront of me, also in the Seat. He was 2s a lap slower but it was for position and I just couldn't find a way past.
So when we actually just...and I mean JUST came out infront of that awefull looking red BMW of Joss, I was surprised, as I lost so much in that lap. Now he had to follow two lardy arses .
Pribeiro stayed out for a few more laps, and Joss and me were realy struggly to get past or even try to avoid rearending PR. I lost momentum as I had to brake hard so Joss overtook me. Later that went vice versa and we were infront again.
Later PR let us through and the battle continued. And when we lapped him, he blew up in our faces lol. Couldn't see anything anymore and I was worried that it was the same fate for my Seat as well
With 2 laps to go FreQ opened attack after attack on me and he overtook me in the next to last corner. But I used the Seat's power on the s/f straight and got alongside before T1.
He did the same attack in the last lap, and 2 laps before the finish he overtook me  :'(.

That was one awesome race we had and I'm glad we weren't on (different) weight 

Grats SBG on the GT3 win, and with pain in my heart I have to say the same thing to FreQ. But in his case, I don't mean it

[Jeffrey]

Watched Freq do what he did last season when he took the BMW out. He always seems to be further down the grid until last minute and comes up with pole with great times.

That stinker does racepace first and only goes out for qually last few minutes. Cocky guy

[picnic]

Replay and Provisional Results are available (just look above )

[Joss]

Dead, seriously. Dear god that was good!

[Jeffrey]

Unofficial Lapchart

[Jeffrey]

I was only 2.5 seconds a lap slower than the drivers I normally race, so I definitely should have taken some ballast. What was I thinking not taking ballast, silly me. My race would have been so much better with 40kg extra ballast. 

That was a dull race for me. Viper CCs aren't really any fun to race with unfortunately as if they are roughly the same speed as you, you can't overtake and they can and that's all there is to it. Given that the Z3M is way way off the 911 Cup pace there are none of them to race either. My only hope is a better setup and more Z3M drivers otherwise this could be a long old season.

Why don't you join GT2. I need help from another TS driver as I'm alone now 

[Kerr]

I was only 2.5 seconds a lap slower than the drivers I normally race, so I definitely should have taken some ballast. What was I thinking not taking ballast, silly me. My race would have been so much better with 40kg extra ballast. 

That was a dull race for me. Viper CCs aren't really any fun to race with unfortunately as if they are roughly the same speed as you, you can't overtake and they can and that's all there is to it. Given that the Z3M is way way off the 911 Cup pace there are none of them to race either. My only hope is a better setup and more Z3M drivers otherwise this could be a long old season.

Why don't you join GT2. I need help from another TS driver as I'm alone now 

I noticed that tonight.

Although I like the fact Freq is in the real team now, if Zacari and Jon turn up you guys have no chance

[ginsters sponsored]

Funny that JR clearly had a whale of time minus ballast whilst, I'm guessing, our Paul had a blast with plenty Maybe this volunteering system might work given time?

Real duel with Paul in quali but just couldn't pip him. Congrats to Dan for a great quali lap . Race start was tricky with GT2 cars passing up through field, I presume they were discoed in quail. But, after things had settled down, the quali positions remained but with a healthy gap to Matt. That left me free to pester Paul as much as I could although I couldn't get right on his tail. Luckily for me, he slipped up just before our pit box and I held a 2 second lead when I left pits. What followed was 10 of the hardest laps I've done here . I was way outta my confort zone pushing like mad to keep the gap to Paul but he was relentless. Terminator style. Daren't look at the clock but when I did it was only 6 mins to go and I knew I had done enough. But thanks for little slip that meant I could relax a little to finish Paul

The win was a bonus as I expected Dan to be way ahead. Clearly changing just tyres, which I did, was quicker than taking on fuel?

Thanks to Paul for taking the ballast and providing us with some quality entertainment. And I guess I learnt that Dan, Matt and I are pretty evenly matched (considering Matt was carrying the extra weight tonight) so I would be all for us using the same ballast and hope that Paul would continue to carry his spuds just for fun

I understand what your saying Shark, but us 811 boys were evenly matched and I don't think we should ballast ourselves to be competitive with the Bimmer. Paul would have had to carry at least a 150kg Over the course of the season I'm sure the Viper will be at least a match for the 811, seeing Dave/Bob were bang on our pace in S6. I think its shaping up well (if your not in the Z3 )