UKGTR Season 8 Lower Endurance (GT3) - Valencia (GP) - Aug 10

[Busi]

I'm on the low-mid 37's on race trim by now, that should do it I hope

[Reign Man]

Not had a chance to have a go around here yet, but i will be having a praccy later on tonight

[Jon Marjanen]

One question: Are the event start times GMT or UK time? I don't remember if they are currently the same or not.

[spanner]

Jon, the times are UK times. We are in British Summer Time so we are GMT+1 err.. I think.

[Jon Marjanen]

Thanks!

[API]

Legzy, I'm really sorry about the hit that happened just before the race start!  . It was totally my fault. I decided to give myself a drive-through penalty. Then I accidentally pushed the esc key and that was the end of my race  . Sorry Legzy!

[pribeiro]

Very very carefull, to win some places in the early laps, i got 3 or 4 places like that
then, i was hit again................
I hope you all had fun.
Cheers

[Mr.BMW]

Had an ok start, me and Legzy had a comming together that was morso my fault for an aggressive attack on Legzy. He was kind enough to wait up and let me pass!

Played the Catch-Up game for about 12 laps, and caught up to the battle for 23-20th and got a couple of places in there. Then on lap 16ish, I hit the last turn before home straight a little to hot and ended up in the sand. I forgot how much these cars hate that stuff compared to their GTL counterparts.

Anyway, dropped ALLLL the way to last after all the fighting I did to gain some spots, and I was also 30 seconds behind. Tyres were feeling it after that spin and I had to fight with it for the next 3 laps till my schedued pit. Came out of the pits 48 seconds behind, and figured I will just race around as I won't be able to compete again in the UKGT leauge for another month or so. Lap 33 and I hit the sand in the same place again, and just wasn't in the mood to get out.

I don't think i'll ever get the hang of these cars!

[Minton]

Not a very good race for me. Qually was very quick but managed to get 7th with a pb.  Got past a couple of people in the first few laps and had TT for company but i started to over drive the car and caught the curb at T2 and spun and dropped down to 12.  Had a little scrap  Micheal in the elise but kept making mistakes.
Decided to take my stop about 3/4 through decided to double stint the tyres and no fuel which paid of as i was up to 8th with SBG right behind ,had a good battle for 5 or 6 laps but then my ran out of fuel with 5 mins to go .  Made a stop but could not get the pit selection screen to pop up  so went back out and ran out fuel. 

Grtas to podium

Cheers.

[psuedo]

Yuk.

That was 80 mins of shear hell.

The Viper is pretty hard work round here at the best of times....but the track temperatures were far too much for the tyres. had to go with hards all round and they were running at 100 deg plus after the first 3 or four laps.....and it just got hotter and hotter and hotter.

Ah well...Zhuhai next....usually cold there  

Grats to Busi on the team win....and grats to the podiums.

[ginsters sponsored]

What a mixed bag

Brilliant first half of race. No real deffence against the Vertigo (hopefully a Bimmer track will be here soon ) but had an excellent battle with both pink bimmers. I led into pits where the ruddy uber efficient crew decided to fill up me tank, damn it I lost 30 seconds to those on my pace. Had nothing to do except try to lap Vertigos which was nigh on impossible as well, despite them helping out nicely. Then an ace finish with Dan to round things off. I almost went for that pass in T1, but turned all mousey half way through

Gotta say ta Pseudo for moving over. I had already pitted and knew you hadn't hence the flash.

Congrats to the podium and RM who took bimmer honours I believe

  

[Busi]

There was some sort of problem with my timing, I suddenly was shown 1st then 10th then back to 1st. I think many drivers weren't shown the blue flags so it was a bit more risky tonight.

Nice fight with FreQ who pushes that Nissan over its limits, luckily my pace got a bit better and the 2nd stint was easier ahead of him.

Finally an official victory grats to rest of podium

[H@L9000]

Awesome race again, one of the best so far for me until the last lap when I ran out of fuel. I was in 7th place. :'(

I had great fun chasing SBG and Reign Man who got me in the pits. Me an RM where in viewing distance of each other for the entire race but only swapped places once

Gutted to run out of fuel, I stopped on the last corner.

[Ted]

Firstly, really sorry to whoever it was that I hit just before the start. Not sure what happened, everyone seemed to close up really quick. I hope it didn't cause any damage  

After that I had a great race, really consistent lap times and some good battles with Prof and Spanner at various points. Fantastic chase at the end with Spanner - great driving mate  

Happy to accept any penalty if the incident at the beginning was my fault. Need to check the replay...

Ted

[Jon Marjanen]

I had a great race I think. I had a bit of a slow start as I didn't really know what to look for since I'm not used to this format but it was okay. I was pretty much on the pace with everyone around me but at the same time everyone around me seemed to just go a lot quicker on the straights. Even if I was in the slipstream those pink BMWs just kept pulling away on the straights, but I was pretty quick in the twisty parts.

Early in the race I had a fight with Carl Hart which ended in contact. That was completely my fault. You made a good pass into T2 but I was able to get on the inside right next to you and by the time we got to T3 I couldn't see you anymore. It's no excuse though I should have left you more room. I'm really sorry about that. I hope your car wasn't damaged.

Apart from that I had two moments in the last turn... I spun once and I think may have lost a place to one of the pink BMWs. Then later in the race I half spun but managed to catch it.

I had a great race. I was running 9th or 8th for most of the beginning, then people started pitting and I was 2nd. 30 seconds behind the leader and I still had 20L of fuel left. In the end I think my first stint was too long because the 3rd guy who had already pitted was able to catch me and pass me for 2nd. I pitted soon after, but I forgot to put on softs and went out with mediums again. The car was good in the first stint but a lot better in the second. I was catching up to the guy in front of me, another BMW, and got to within a second but ran out of time in the end.

I had a lot of fun and I'm looking forward to the next one. Thanks everyone!