Race 07 Season 1 - Oschersleben (GP) - Feb 12

[Simon Gymer]

Well that was quite an amusing side from the seriousness of GTR2. Qualified 6th or something of that order and promptly went into 4th with a stellar start in Race 1. Then got 3rd with Dan Minton falling off and then 50% of the race lonely and a bit dull if it weren't for the ability to make the car fun by using more right foot.

Second race was more fun at the start with lots of people, but that soon pettered out and when I passed Jeff who was hating how his car felt it was VERY lonely for the remainder of the race and I took my second 3rd position of the night.

God knows what it was talking about with the fuel as my light didn't come on at all. I also felt the races were a wee bit too long for having 2 of them. I think 15 laps would have been better, but heck there you go.

Have to say thank god I had a setup from our previous test race at Anderstorp cause the Simbin one sucked. I could barely drive the car on the Simbin setup. Those Caterhams are good fun BUT ONLY because you can make them do fun things with your right foot, everything else about them screams understeer, so I'm pretty sure my setup stiffens the rear a lot and softens the front a lot.

[popabawa]

I just don't get these cars, I just suck at them! I actually had a fair bit of practice for this race.

Amazed to qual in 3rd for R1 but my usual incompetence  with standing starts dropped me 3-4 places;D All was going well though until I span and took Dan out with me, sorry Dan, I just completely lost control

Race 2 was a nightmare in the first few laps, I had 2 massive freezes which lost me a ton of time, I hope no-one suffered as a result

I had a fantastic scrap with Tinman after that. That was great driving, apologies for the couple of bits of contact, that was my inexperience with the cars.

[Simon Gymer]

HERE's my setup if anyone wants to have a go with it.

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Well, after it came back up, as I was shutting it down again it wanted to install some updates so I reckon Automatic Updates popped something up during the race and that's what probably did me in.

Whilst I was trying to fix it I noticed some unrecognised devices in the Hardware Manager - the mobo install disk went into a flap when I installed the chipset drivers first time around so I download them (same version as on the disk) and they went in without touching the sides so *touch wood* it should all be okay in future.

Pity 'cause despite not really having good steering feel I'd made up three places when it crashed, one off the grid and two who threw themselves off the road.

[EdamSpeed]

Meh. That was a bit of a chore really. Had the same problems as everyone else with the Simbin setups - terminal understeer after a few laps.

I don't really get Oschers - never have done really, and the Cats are still a bit of a hit-and-miss affair for me. Sometimes I can be quick, but it's almost down to luck!

Thanks to Don for organising the races, but I think they need to be a little shorter next time - I went a lap down after a stop/go in race 2 and totally lost the will to live

Had some good tussles with various people - Ade, Mr. BA, Pops and a few others. Can't remember them all, but they were fun while they lasted (and before inconsistency spat me off the track!)

[Joss]

Yaha, agree with most here that the races could be a little shorter - if they were 10 laps Bara might have taken the second race! Share the honours around a bit.

Saying that....first double! 

Jeff had the same problems as many, with the standard simbin setup. In the middle of the corner it was just a little slower and pushing wide, very fast none-the-less. 
TBH I was quite lucky, I just took my Anders setup as that's what I do. Make one setup, then use it for the next track and change it, so I only use the defualt setup once per car. It was still understeery but bit in a little better.

R1 was great with Jeff, really close and good defending for ages
R2 was once again with Bara and for a while I wondered how I could get past as he was fast everywhere, but then he went off and gifted it to me    Boring after that 

Didn't expect 1 win let alone 2. Don't worry, I'll be back to being crap in the Rad's next time. Well done Simon on the double third and hope you sort out your beast of a PC Dave....very odd indeed  . Apparently 8800gt's are a bit marginal on heating sometimes due to being single-slot coolers, maybe that's it? 

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Apparently 8800gt's are a bit marginal on heating sometimes due to being single-slot coolers, maybe that's it? 

It was stone cold when I put my finger on it. Sims really don't push these cards very hard at all. I'm pretty sure it was the Windows Update which did me in.

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Results now imported.

[TinMan]

I had a fantastic scrap with Tinman after that. That was great driving, apologies for the couple of bits of contact, that was my inexperience with the cars.

I really enjoyed the tussle,Pops. On at least one of those occasions the light contact was my fault. No harm done,though, and it kept up the interest level. Off to test with Simon's setup now, it cannot be any worse than mine (or Simbin's)

TC

[Minton]

This game is a bit strange ..dont know if its how im setting the car up or if its coz im over driving the car but i always find that the car comes in very quick then about 2 laps later it goes off and feels crap.     There was no way i could have kept Simon behind me and threw it off trying then done the old Cole Trickle move when Pops spun in front of me but he ended up being right in front of me!!  But no probs mate maybe i should have braked.
Hadnt played this game for a couple of months and i dont think i will be again ...dosent give know where near the amount of enjoyment and satisfaction as GTR and legends.
Grats to podium.
Cheers

[Mr_B.A.Baracus]

Apparently 8800gt's are a bit marginal on heating sometimes due to being single-slot coolers, maybe that's it? 

It was stone cold when I put my finger on it. Sims really don't push these cards very hard at all. I'm pretty sure it was the Windows Update which did me in.

Thats weird, my 8800GTX starts melting once I've been playing Race a while, unless I turn on the chasis fan. Although, I suppose it could be the CPU/System temp that's doing it, I've never really checked, all I know is my system just shuts down if I forget to turn the chasis fans up!

Had fun last night, just used the standard setup and didn't really have any problems, but then I'm never as fast as fast folk here anyway. A couple of incidents i think with Pops, I think two were my fault so I'll let him away with the one that wasn't!

[Don]

I had fun at the back of the field once again and thought the Cats made for good racing 
Thanks to everyone that showed up.
I'll take the point about shortening the races slightly and knock 5 or so minutes off of each event.