NGT Sprint Cup - Season 1, Round 6, Spa - Aug 16th

[PaulW]

It isn't that clever Protospecs
Did you join for the race and then hit escape for fuel or something?
Or move the car before the MOTEC display starts the race time counter?

[fozzmeister]

I was gonna drive my first race tonight with UKGTR ,but when the race started i found myself disqualified???
No message, nothing..the only reason i can think of is the accident i had on the very first lap in the game: (qualifiyng)
A sort of mix between causin it and beeing involved in. I held up a faster car, but he drove like "evaporate or die"
Some times it takes 1 to 1'5 sec to get out of someones way,especially when u nearly lost control of youre car ( cold tyres )
 Is that  all it takes to get DQ?

Nope can't be anything to do with it. As for the driving, Qualify is sometimes like that, I'm ashamed to say I've done it once to someone at Enna (not a champ race Dave... please no more penalty points  ). I take it you pressed start? if you hit it on zero do you start from teh pit lane (this is what the ADC guide says) , if so any movement causes a DQ. I think if you move before the lights go green you get a stop and go so it aint that.

We like everybody else are using the giant bug that passes as a game. Sorry your race was ruined but hope to see you again. I raced with you at Anders a few days before you joined and you were pretty OK.

Oh Proto, no chat in races, don't bother me but others it does, it'll probably get overlooked as first race / only on warmup / you took notice when made aware. (We get penalties here for naughty stuff  )

Fozzmeister

[ProtoSpecs]

It isn't that clever Protospecs
Did you join for the race and then hit escape for fuel or something?
Or move the car before the MOTEC display starts the race time counter?

No!! I never touced a thing! the warm up was over and after that  i was never able to join ,thats why i asumed someone disqualified me...

[ProtoSpecs]

Good, nice to hear.., ,about the bugs...: the original f1 2002 GTR mod had far less bugs (if any!) then the finished product... silly..,some folk need need to patch this thing rather sooner then later....are there any attempts made that u guys know of? like u guys i look at the motec racetimer for the start,i try to tell that to people when i host, but theres always a few missing the point...but not ur car.....another race wasted......

[Woodee]

Sorry to Woodee for giving you no where to go.

It's happened every race so far....so I should be getting used to it by now

[mo]

Had a good race - only made one mistake spinning at the Bus stop, and didn't get in anyones way (I think / hope?)
Running in 6th for most of laps behind Rufbtr but eventually had to pit for new splitter after smash - 112 second pit stop i mean wtf i chose no tyres or fuel!

Anyway when i came out of the pits all kinds of stuff going on like my cockpit view changing as if someone pushing [Insert]
and brake markers coming and going.
Was like someone was pushing buttons on my keyboard -  slightly distracting
Hopefully its just the batteries on the way out in the keyboard.

Anyway i finished 17th or some carp like that in the end but had huge fun and finally managed to keep tyres below boiling point

[Matjaz Plotajs]

Couldn't make a single clean lap in qualifying but I still somehow managed to start from second position. Start was OK... I didn't want to get to close to Paul through the Eau Rouge because that would cause my car to understeer. Instead I just tried to have a fast exit and that enabled me to get into his sleepstream. Did a fake attempt to pass Paul which caused him to brake a bit to late so he had to cut the corner over the grass. Paul was fair enough to rejoin the track outside the line so I managed to overtake him. He then fought back and after my small mistake in the fast left corner before the bus stop managed to get really close to me. I had one look to many in my rear mirror, locked the brakes and went a bit wide in the bus stop chicane, clipped the wall and was sure Paul was going to grab the lead from me but then realized he had a spin. The rest of the race I was slowly moving away from Shark and had a very scary moment when Ginsters spun in front of me in the last lap. I decided to go right and noticed he is moving to the right as well (which was correct) so I rapidly lift off the throttle and turned left... anyone who ever drove the Porsche knows it doesn't like this kind of maneuvers so it became very nervous and I had to do an acrobatic stuff with my wheel to catch it from spinning.

Happy for my win and for my team mate Mike who finished in 3rd !

[fozzmeister]

Good, nice to hear.., ,about the bugs...: the original f1 2002 GTR mod had far less bugs (if any!) then the finished product... silly..,some folk need need to patch this thing rather sooner then later....are there any attempts made that u guys know of? like u guys i look at the motec racetimer for the start,i try to tell that to people when i host, but theres always a few missing the point...but not ur car.....another race wasted......

It's looking highly doubtful for further patches. I think it's abandonware, but that's OK coz i've abandonsimbin so at least its two way :-) Stick with it (and us), we're quite well set up and the racing is good here.

[ginsters sponsored]

Phew, Matj just viewed the replay and perhaps you were more frightened than me at that moment . All i tried to do was get off track as soon as I could and am glad it turned out to be the right thing.

[popabawa]

A big "Well Done" to PaulW for his 4th place, very well done and totally deserved mate 

Super racing tonight, Spa is so stressful, I was a sweaty mess at the end of it! Happy to say I had a tottally incident free race.

Once again, nerves / tension got the better of me in qualifying and I was down in 12th. Very disappointed with that.

I did have a little moment in qualifying, on one lap, coming through Bus Stop, I found Truetom parked right in the middle! In no way am I blaming Truetom, it must have been an artifact / glitch but it was really odd.

Picked up a couple of places on lap 1 as Tyf and Ginsters went off, managed to pull away from Fozz so I was just left to chase JM-Racing.

Saw Paul968 go off and wasn't looking forward to defending my place there but Eau Rouge saved me. Picked up another place (Mo I think) and suddenly found JM-Racing right in front of me. JM, you were quick for me, I couldn't make an impression.

RUF-BTR looked like his tyres were shot when I picked up 7th place, which is where I finished.

Mr Consistent, that's me, last 3 races; 8th, 8th, 7th!

Pops.

[Don]

Hi Guys as you may or may not know I am a vehicle technician by profession and a part time tutor in that subject . ABS I had great faith in ABS until on Jan the 1st this year, I had to brake hard on sheet ice on a motorway in scotland as there was a muliple shunt in front of me at around midnight doing about 30mph in a blizzard my lovely vectra did not respond to kadence or any other braking and wrote itself off on the back of a merc sprinter van. At the time of impact I think it picked up speed. I work closely with the police vehicle examiners and the theory with pre 2000 cars is that if all wheels lock it just gives up for a split second taking the option of braking at all from the driver. I think we all know the sound of skidding on ice it sort of whistles , well I can tell you all I knew we were in trouble as there was eirey silence. I now through economic hard ship drive an old carlton and have much more faith in the brakes. It completely sh**t me up and I only did about 50 on the return journey in a hired car. I no longer have any faith in fancy braking. see you all tonight.gerald

Hi Just thought I would chip in here.
Driving here in Finland we have snow and ice on the roads for 7 months of the year and I have found the ABS system to be very good, of course we use( snow/ice tyres that are studded) and allow us to stop relatively safely. Before I had the ABS system it was a case of pumping the brakes to try and stop, and you couldn't always tell if the wheels are locing or not, but with the ABS it's a lot easier. Traction control is also useful when trying to time your entry at a junction or trying to  pull away from the lights, not to mention 4wd.
I don't think any normal summer tyres are going to allow you any kind of emergency stop (30mph) on  ice, with or without ABS, and yes it will feel like you are picking up speed. Scary shit I know.
Don.