UKGTR Season 7 Super Endurance - Suzuka (GP) - Apr 5

[Simon Gymer]

Yeah it was a bit scarey behind you Reign Man as your car was quite laggy.

Grid position was my downfall. I got stuck behind slower cars in the first stint and by the time I got past them by pitting one lap early (by mistake) I was already down 22 seconds on Jeff. Made no impact in the second stint after having a couple of minor trips to the gravel, but come the third stint and I was flying. Managed to get the gap down from 23 seconds to 5 seconds, but alas it wasn't quite enough and I only had enough fuel for less than a lap anyway so glad Jeff crossed the line just after the time expired otherwise it would have been a splash and dash for me.

Loved the circuit to drive. It suited the Lambo perfectly, but it's impossible to overtake, especially when people drive in the middle of the road to prevent you going by you simple have to sit there when you're not given enough tarmac to get by.

Thanks to all the guys that turned up. I shall see what else I can do to increase the turnout for next time.

Well done to Jeff on the win in what must have been a horrible car for Suzuka and TT for his third in that most horrid coloured of Listers. Whoever thought blue with yellow wheels was a good idea needs their head checking.

[Truetom]

After my second pitstop I was in 5th when my connection went bad for some reason and I got disconnected. Not pleased at all.

You were warping a bit before that RM so it wasn't totally unexpected.

Right, I was scared the stat car's gonna appear before me. Wanted to overtake quickly but I couldn't.    Real hard first stint, position changes were mostly due to making mistakes. Apart from Rusky I think we all made at least one.     Was pleased with the car performance (apart from being too slow at acceleration), especially with fuel usage. I had 100/100/55 l stints, though I could easily take only 45 at the last stop. But it would not gain me anything, except maybe a bit bigger gap to 4th.    Hard circuit, narrow. I'm not sure the real one is so very narrow. 

TT

[psuedo]

Unlucky RM....good run till then too...for a newbie at the track  

That was very hard.

I haven't managed a lot of praccy for this one...(and I need loads) so I was learning as I went along.

First stint went ok...held my own-ish without too many errors.
Had a few lapses of concentration in the second stint, but fortunately never in a dangerous area
And couldnt get any more than 40 deg into my front tyres in the last stint...didnt notice the temp had dropped from 27 deg at the begining to 12 deg in third stint, so came back out with med/med.....sort of just gave up trying to get anywhere and just held on to the end.

Grats everyone for finishing

Well done Gazza49er and [email protected] race lads

Grats to winner and podiums.....

See ya for the next one.

[Simon Gymer]

I had 100/100/55 l stints, though I could easily take only 45 at the last stop. But it would not gain me anything, except maybe a bit bigger gap to 4th. 

Bloomin' heck. I had to do 100/100/100 again in the Lambo. It really is cutting it close to do 2 hours and 10. You have to stop as late as possible in both pit stops to get to the end without the need for a third stop.

I've been playing Suzuka a lot all week on GT5 Prologue and it feels a bit wider in that but not much so I guess it really is a reasonably narrow circuit. The GT5 one is better than the GTR2 one, but then the GTR2 one is made by amatuers and the GT5 one is made by professionals with a lot of budget to make it good.

[Truetom]

Well done to Jeff on the win in what must have been a horrible car for Suzuka and TT for his third in that most horrid coloured of Listers. Whoever thought blue with yellow wheels was a good idea needs their head checking.

Adam was too busy to make me a proper skin, but I surely agree - the color combo is dreadful. 
I made a mistake when Sharky boy chased me purely cause the track is so narrow I didn't want to be seen as blocking. So I was watching back for his move and forgot to brake.    After that I chose not to look back at all. 

Grats to Rusky and Shark, but also to all who made it to the end.    Surely more people would help contribute to make this events even better. 

TT

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

ps. Thanks to whoever did the results before I had a chance to.

[H@L9000]

I really enjoyed that race, I qualified well and had many good battles. It was very hard for me but I got it to the end 

I did make a few mistakes including a 100/100/100/65 pit strategy in my setup when it should have been 100/100/65. I made the last stop and got 100L of fuel and realised my mistake. I had set 3 stops when i knew it was 2 My setup has been like this since Wednesday and I still did not notice.

especially when people drive in the middle of the road to prevent you going by you simple have to sit there when you're not given enough tarmac to get by.

I think I may have done that a bit, sorry mate, not intentional blocking by me. I had a low wing and was all over the track and when we were all bunched up it got a bit much for my poor little brain. There was one moment at the chicane after 130R, i was recovering from a mistake and chose the right hand side of the track. The first few went passed ok but then others were closer than i thought and i ended up blocking the line into the chicane. I think there were no taps but if i had been a bit more on the ball i would have chosen the left side. Sorry for the newbie moves, any advice that anyone has for me in relation to todays race will be considered constructive criticism

Thanks for a fun and well organised race, until next time

[H@L9000]

I forgot to say well done podium and Psuedo team 

[Reign Man]

I'm really sorry guys, I try not to take part if my connection is bad. If any of you notice that it is you should tell me at the first opportunity, either in praccy/qually or during a pitstop if thats allowed, and I will leave. 

[Truetom]

Nah, it might settle ok and then you'd be outta race. 

TT

[sooty1977]

Well i enjoyed my 1st race with you guys and after a bit of practice midweek and making my own setup from scratch which i am normally terrible at i was hoping to be at least be able to compete at some kind of level.
PB offline was a 1:53:842 so when i got the 1:54:369 in quala i knew i really could not improve on 7th as TT in the other lister put in a lap that was close to my overall Pb.
Race started really well not had that much fun for a good while as it was really nip and tuck for the first several laps but i did nearly end up TT`s ass at the final chicane so had to swerve to avoid a noobs error but got on with it caught the little pack back up.
All in all tho a good race but with just one to many errors in the end and the biggest one being my complete cock up off having to make a 3rd and very long pit stop 

[Truetom]

Race started really well not had that much fun for a good while as it was really nip and tuck for the first several laps but i did nearly end up TT`s ass at the final chicane so had to swerve to avoid a noobs error but got on with it caught the little pack back up.

Saw you closing in   Great move into the gravel or we would both be further down the ladder I think.    A good show-up, Sooty, looking forward to some more scrap with ya'll. 

TT

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Drat. Was having a really good opening stint, apart from a wierd one at the final chicane where I seemed slow compared to the cars in front, broke at the normal place just before the big sign, and ran smack into the back of the car in front.

Ah, having seen the replay I now know what happened - Hal dipped a wheel off coming out of 130R and in struggling to regain control he slowed RM and Gazza behind down. I was far enough back that I hadn't seen what was going on and just broke at the normal place, avoiding RM but running into the back of Gazza. I knew something kooky must've happened.

[Mike Hammer]

If I was to write an essay about this race, I'd use the title: "The irresistible siren call of the gravel traps".

Couldn't get fronts up to temp, so the car was understeering a bit more then in offline praccy. That long double lefthander I talked about earlier, that I said I could keep the throttle pinned throughout.....well, in race I ended up in the wall three times there.

Pit stop was horrible, but it didn't matter at that point anymore. Was tailing H@L at one point, looking forward to a pressure duel, but, it was over very soon when I did one of my visits to the wall at aforementioned place.

linescom was a bit unpredictable during the warm up lap, and I spun swerving away from him. You then slowed down and let the field through taking last place behind me. I appreciate the gesture, I do, but it's really not neccessary. I should just have had a bigger gap at that point of the track.

More practice is what I should have had, maybe I'd have stayed on the track more then.

[H@L9000]

I have had a look at the replay and i dont know what i was taliking about in my last post with the 130R moment.

After the mistake i made at 130R early on I held the right hand line into the following chicane so that i would not be blocking the braking zone but the cars behind all took the right side to defend their line so i ended up preventing anyone from getting past. That was not my intention, Gazza, RM and Dave should have all gone passed as i was recovering from a mistake. If I had kept to left it would have been ok. Sorry guys, this caused a bit of a mess.

Nice battels with Simon, Gazza, TT and RM : ) I did a nice move on Gazza at 130R, excellent job making sure there was room Gazza. RM later got me at 130R after i chickened out entering 130R side by side with him : )

Slowly but surely i am improving my race craft.