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
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I never said you should SBG. I was hoping for more Z3Ms and for me to be better in it than I was.
I certainly don't expect the faster drivers to put on ballast so that slower drivers can catch up. Faster drivers and cars deserve to be there 100%. The only reason to add ballast is to make your race more fun so unless you didn't have fun don't change your ballast.
The race started out close and I slowly eased away from Jeff and Jon. I think
I owe an apology to Picnic when lapping him. I thought you were letting me through buddy....but on viewing the replay I should have stayed behind you through those first fast bends. The Viper's just as fast as the M3 on the straight so without a lift off it's difficult to power past....bugger
I hope I didn't mess up your race, but won't mind a mod wrapping my wrists for that one.
Cheating Junior members.
First race and he's already into the ways of the dark side.
The boy learns fast!
Why don't you join GT2. I need help from another TS driver as I'm alone now
I must admit, something has gone wrong with the team division.
I was not expecting all the Junior drivers to be driving GT2 this season so it was a surprise to see 4 fast Junior drivers all in that class. Perhaps one or 2 of them could drop down to GT3 to add to the team competition there?
As far as the Beemer is concerned, everybody knows it is at a disadvantage, so I don't really understand why it doesn't get less weight (or a power hike). Having said that, Robert wasn't that far off the pace in it, so maybe it doesn't suit your style Simon? (it does need ragging a bit).
Rob was still off the pace by 1.7 seconds in qualifying, although impressive in the race and my hat goes off to him. Yes it could probably do with some more car ballast off, but as I said I knew it wasn't competitive before I started. It would be nice to see it balanced a bit more in the mid-season refresh, but I'd like to see how it does against the other cars at slower tracks first too.
I did end up throwing it about, but in the end I found smoothness made my laps better as usual and throwing it around just caused the tyres to shred. I also never know what wing to run at Silverstone. I ended up with 2 and 7 which I'm sure was too much.
It's fine. I knew it was way off the pace before I chose so I'm not complaining it was slower than the 911 as I knew it would be hence (hence MY choice to not take ballast).
I'm looking for the challenge to see what I can do with it. I need 2 or 3 races to nail the setup as I really didn't have it sorted under braking especially which was really compromising my ability to race it. I think in retrospect I should have practiced first to get a setup sorted, but hoped with it being the first race I could get away with no practice and no setup.
Unfortunately last night the track contributed to the Z3M being very uncompetitive for me, so I hope it will be better at slower circuits as Silverstone is a power circuit and I was unprepared.
I was surprised by how much tyre wear the Z3M used actually. It was pretty good on fuel (I didn't need to add any fuel when I changed my tyres), but I did need 2 sets of mediums to get to the end.
Nobody took the Vertigo, so we don't know if the torque thingy works.
Might this be a better way to speed up slower cars than have more weight on faster? That RSR felt really blah, blah after R2P race. Or did we discuss this before? I don't remember, really.
Vertigo is GTC not GT2.