UKGTR Season 7 GTC Sprint - Zolder - Mar 18

[Kerr]

I'm back frantically trying to install everything in time, maybe just maybe.......

[Andy Eves]

Sorry to the guys behind, Evert, Dave maybe... but what can you do when you get spun around. Hit escape before any one else got caught up.

Not happy, really like that track. good luck, have a good one.

[ginsters sponsored]

This ones better than Massa. Our cat fell from monitor onto keyboard and all hell broke loose Think I got off track ok.

Having some fun with Darren up to then. Tiger II now swims with the fishes. Hope you had fun.

[Kerr]

Came back late and managed to fork and knife my PC and game together frantically downloading patches, skins, track and controller drivers etc.

I had never driven the track before and with a new install on the computer I had no set ups, no PD my controller set up was miles away from what is should be, including forgetting to select single axis!

I could not get to grips with the game/track/car with everything as it was. I will need to spend time to configure things to my liking.

I was way off pace in qualifying starting way down.

Paul968 seemed a bit slow off the mark and I managed to get alongside him through the first series of corners but Paul won out at the end.

On lap two or three we came around bend to see 3 cars involved in an accident.

I had nowhere to go and tried to slam the brakes on, left foot and nothing happened. That will be the combined axis setting.

Made mistake after mistake and was not enjoying myself at all. After another semi spin I felt the need to give up.

Only problem I could see with track as I was given a blue flag at the last chicane every lap.

I was watching the server early doors and would have made space for someone else if needed.

With no PD I could not see all the race information. I guess this one is set to laps rather than time. If not enjoy the next 23.5 hours.

[psuedo]

Waste of time that was.  

All through praccy and qually, car was feeling ok....never once spun off anywhere...pretty stable really.
Then race starts and I'm losing the back end in every turn....and it was the same setup. quit out through loss of heart, frustration and dissapointment....oh, and so I couldnt spoil anyone's race.

Appologies to Popabowa I thnk it was, got cought behind me into the first spin at T1....sorry buddy, nowt I could do....seemed like I had swapped cars with a Falcon from Thursdays race here.  

Grats winner and podiums

[Mark J]

oh dear oh dear, i remember now why i hate turning up at the fierce srouk races with no practise or setup sorted   

Had a rubbish race. Sneaked a pB in qually which put me in a semi respectable 12th only to throw it away on lap 2 when some re-joining porker forced me wide and had to brake off line for that horrible downhill chicane and i ended up very deep in the gravel, luckily not collecting anyone...dropped to a lousy 21st   :'(

Fought my way back upto 12th enjoying a good little battle with JPV and Dave G along the way but the car was handling like a bag of shite under braking..i had forgotten to increase my coast diff with my hasty cobbled setup.
Got mugged with 1 lap to go by Evert to add insult to injury as my car kept locking up and semi spinning everytime i hit the anchors now that the tyres were worn to 17   
Finished a crappy 13th, my worse race in ages.

Seemed a topsy turvy grid tonight with people like Madd, Kerr and Paul down around 10th-ish

Congrats to TT and fellow team-mates and well done pody guys. 

[David M]

That was...fun, for the most part.

Made a cock up of the start, stalled on the pace lap - hence me and the 3 behind me having to tear round for half a lap to catch up with the rest!

Did well working up to 13th with everyone spinning, was able to keep pace with Dave G and co for a few laps, and after that my front tyres (softs, bad idea) started to lose grip and there was understeer at every corner, so I fell back through the field.

Ended up having a coming together with ade into T2, racing incident I think - I never saw him and turned in, but I dont think he was fully alongside  - but no worries either way.

After that, I kept within ~4s of Ade until the front runners came to lap me, fell to ~10s behind after I left them by, hoping to follow them past him when they came to lap him, but a series of errors meant I fell back and had to give way to more lapping cars (one of whom got a bit sideways into a corner I think and we hit side to side!), and ended up cruising to the end.

Good fun though!

[Paul Richards]

that was tough going. Went for med meds so just started with the idea of staying towards the front and looking after the tyres and attack in the last 15 mins. Baracus was past first and I was being pressed hard by Zacari right from the off. Had to go defensive once I think. With all the battling the front 5 of us were very close. Bara had a spin but ended up facing forward so he didn't lose too much time. Think TT did the same too. Bara then came on strong at the end as we all closed up again. On the last lap TT in second place slid a bit too much in the middle chicane and I had to anchor on to not hit him. Then gave it too much throttle pulling back away from nearly a stand still and got a big slide. Bara took advantage and was back up to third. Congrats to Backo on the win and cheers to TT, Bara and Zacari for a great race.  

[Truetom]

Yes Paul, I'm sorry for that.    Made too many mistakes tonight, one of them being while I was leading and I let Backo through. The tyres lost their grip and just couldn't hold. Cracking pace, I'm spent. 

Thanks for close racing, and grats to Legends, good show with no practice. 

TT

[Paul Richards]

No need to apologise TT it was great fun!

[Zacari]

Did a job on that one, wasn't planning on running but decided to try and get a few points despite not downloading the track until 8pm.

Qualified close-ish to the front, and basically followed people round until the finish for 5th.  Not much to the race, I had a massively oversteery car if I pushed under braking so I was having to be pretty careful (I'm sure Bara got a good view of the side of my car into T1 when the rear end let go!).

Grats to Backo for the win, looked like there were some good battles ahead of me from where I was

[Paul968]

Wasn't expecting to race tonight but joined at the last minute to take my mind off real world stuff, so had no practice or setup and to make matters worse still had the default 40kgs of ballast (is there a way to default to use the last ballast amount in that series Dave?).

Started mid-field but forgot to drop to 1st gear, allowing Brian alongside off the start. Had a fun few corners until the straight when I came out just in front. I managed to hold him off until the incident made him drop back, after which I was in no-mans land. I needed to follow someone to get the lines but on my own I was helpless. The rest was a totally inconsistent mess, but at least I know the track in GTR now. Congrats to  Backo on the win.

[picnic]

Replay and Provisional Results available

Were there any issues tonight with connections? People being dropped or anything? That was the most messed up result export I've seen in ages 

[Madd-RIP]

I did have a ctd and rejoined with 20 seconds left, but at least I had a fun race!
Started from last and finished 9th, and I enjoyed the scraps along the way, I didn't even make contact with anyone!! 
My car ended up with 63% engine health, so I guess I really ragged it!! 

Grats to podium too.

[BACKO]

Thx guys,
I'm really happy,amazing qualification and  superb race!!!I didn't expected that ,but I love Zolder so much.
I was so lucky  finished with any fuel in the tank  ,I thought  , I didn't finished this race in last lap.
Well done guys and thx for nice race!Congrat. to podium!!!

P>S> Directors,how can I change country flag in race result,I'd like to have flag of SLOVAKIA  there if is possible pls,many thx for change.