UKGTR Season 8 Upper Sprint (GT1) - Spa (2004-6) - Sep 16

[Mark J]

No doubt the mysterious Shark gravitational device sitting in Truetom's boot will make our cars race each other at some point, so I look forward to that as usual.

No doubt its a similar device in my car that makes me run wide or fall off the track when your car appears in my mirrors  ..i hate that when that happens 

...though your mechanic somehow got the poles reversed last time out at Barcelona     (not that it stopped you beating me, but i blame Everts slow ass in front for that  )

[Simon Gymer]

No doubt its a similar device in my car that makes me run wide or fall off the track when your car appears in my mirrors  ..i hate that when that happens 

LOL. Hardly surprise that the sight of these gives you a big fright though...

[Jeffrey]

You have a very bad dentist Simon

[psuedo]

Nahhh....that blood is just something left over from dinner. 

Was that photo taken of you as you were going through Eau Rouge?.....EEEEEK

[Truetom]

No doubt the mysterious Shark gravitational device sitting in Truetom's boot will make our cars race each other at some point, so I look forward to that as usual.

GT1s and particularly Saleen don't really do what i want, so you might want to keep some distance if you're behind me.    You might even consider letting me by if you're in front of me - just to be on the safe side.     Joke aside, I'm also looking forward to our usual duel, I just hope I can react better than in Dubai.   

[Prof]

I expect I'll be tooling round the back in my underpowered Lambo... At least I'll look cool.

However near the back you are Dave, odds are I'll be nearer. Finding the Lambo fun round here but no hopes of any serious finishing place.

[Gazza49er]

Bugger forgot im out 2nite with the liverpool guys for the champion's league game.

[spanner]

I'll be running tonight, assuming the PC/ connection doesnt fall over again.

My usual setup for the Lister just didnt seem to be working until i found a GH setup, however i can only just get under 2.16, assuming i get through Eau Rouge!

[D_Nichols]

Sorry JPS for the tap. You slowed alot more than I expected you too and I ran out of room to slow things down myself.   

Managed to put myself out of the race with a replay of my opening lap, putting myself off the track at Eau Rouge, only the 2nd time I ended upside down. After the first off I manage to make up the 10 seconds I had lost within two laps and soon was having some great racing with JPS and Evert. However, once again its not my night.

Still love the track and had a blast throwing the F550 about. 

[Truetom]

I mean, really...    5th in quali (was 0,5 sec faster in one lap, but...), someone lagged on the pace lap, braked, hit, spun, hit, lost front and rear splitter at 50 km/h   , had to pit in the first lap   . Came out 50 seconds behind everybody, got to 6 seconds gap and promptly lost connection.  

Good that I bought a lottery ticket today.  

TT

[Minton]

Tyres fell to pieces after lap 8...Strange as i was running  full wings and hard rear and med front, you live and learn er ..nothing.  

Grats to podium


 

[Jeffrey]

Sorry I lagged, never had that before and don't know what caused it  :'(.

[Busi]

What a shame about the warm up lap problem, suddenly Jeff's car froze and I couldn't avoid it, crashing, offtrack and rejoining 4th. No matter who's connection was or if it was the server, but we (me and TT I guess) were just unlucky with that

Didn't give up though and tried to take the two places back. Firstly passed sbg into La Source but couldn't get enough slipstream to attack madd-rip. Made a mistake in Les Combes and was back to 5th, but passed sbg again, then Brian made a mistake at Pouhon (I couldn't believe it, Brian making a mistake?? lol) and finally managed to outbrake madd-rip into Les Combes (not without having problems to keep the place after that  ). In the last laps I took a look at my gap with Jeff and it kept increasing so I guess I could have not even challenged him at the beginning. Pretty amazing great race, thanks all.

[Kerr]

I put practice in earlier and knew fine well I was in serious trouble. My car was handling like a dog and I could not do anything with it.

Serious thoughts were given to dump the 575 as I've not really been liking it, and returning to the tried and tested lambo.

The best I could manage was high 2.11s in the qualifying which I was not happy with and that left me in 7th on the grid.

The formation lap was a disaster. First Dan ran off the track and gifted me a position, then Jeff's car froze in the middle of the track and collected TT and his car was badly damaged.

At the start of the race I managed to follow Busi and pass SBG. I gave chase as best as I could but could do nothing but watch Busi edge away.

Busi had a little spin and that was me ahead of him too.

Soon I was making yet more mistakes fighting my ill handling car and that allowed Busi to get ahead of me again.

For the next while I was left on my own before getting close to madd-ripp for a few laps.

Suddenly my car lost all grip and SBG was right on my tail attempting to pass. Just managed to hold him off.

I did not enjoy that one bit as the car was so horrible to drive. All things considered I'm happy with 4th,

Grats Jeff, Busi and Madd

[Madd-RIP]

Sorry I lagged, never had that before and don't know what caused it  :'(.

The guilty party........25 second penalty!! It did catch me out tbh, I went through your car and I did slide a bit but I was luckier than TT.

 I tried to harass you for a bit but to no avail and tbh a pb in quali meant I was driving my Ass off to keep the pace.

Busi and myself had a good scrap for many laps, with an amazing replay moment going down to Eau Rouge and at the end of the Kessel straight...twice! He eventually got me though, way better under braking and cornering so just tried to keep 3rd spot.

Brian also gave me a lot of pressure but I just managed to hold him off, Damn the Lister is a wheeze to drive!

Chuffed to bits to have got 3rd!