UKGTL Season 6 GT Classics Cup - Mallory Park (Full) - Oct 16

[Blunder]

Set off again but was only really racing the lapped cars, and I was having no fun at all so I stopped.

Dave, I was gutted! I was behind you at that stage and was driving as fast as I could to catch you!
Then you just dissappear half way down the straight! Not often i get to race with the old master! 

[Blunder]

Well what's the point of standing starts then if everyone is just going to creep off the line 2 seconds after the start? You might as well go back to rolling starts and have some heat in tyres and brakes.

If you can give me some tips on starting faster I will gladly use them!

[Blunder]

Good relatively clean race. 1 incident submitted.
Slow pace but PB in the race!

Really enjoyed that one!
Track may be narrow etc. but variety is the spice of life!
keep the challenges coming!

Grats to the aliens/podium! ( especially to Steve! Sorry, sorry! )

[Wiltshire Tony]

And Martin.    I was cursing at the time, the two laps behind you trying to lap you cost me the small cushion I'd built up over Dan, had him right on my tailpipe for the final few laps instead of being able to drive smoothly to the end.  I must admit to madly flashing my lights which I wouldn't normally do, bad manners.     But no harm done in the end.

In the light of day, my team mate Legzy informs me that I have to set something up to tell me I am being lapped!? I have just blissfully been relying on looking back! Rookie mistake after 2 years of racing! Guess I'm just not used to being lapped!

I get a blue light appear somewhere on my cockpit dials to warn me that I'm about to be lapped. It's always been there, never had to set it up? Maybe you don't race in "cockpit" view.

[Alex vV]

And Martin.    I was cursing at the time, the two laps behind you trying to lap you cost me the small cushion I'd built up over Dan, had him right on my tailpipe for the final few laps instead of being able to drive smoothly to the end.  I must admit to madly flashing my lights which I wouldn't normally do, bad manners.     But no harm done in the end.

In the light of day, my team mate Legzy informs me that I have to set something up to tell me I am being lapped!? I have just blissfully been relying on looking back! Rookie mistake after 2 years of racing! Guess I'm just not used to being lapped!

I get a blue light appear somewhere on my cockpit dials to warn me that I'm about to be lapped. It's always been there, never had to set it up? Maybe you don't race in "cockpit" view.

You're sure about this? Never have seen it while I'll get lapped very often....

.. perhaps I thought it was the fuel indicator 

[Legzy]

In the light of day, my team mate Legzy informs me that I have to set something up to tell me I am being lapped!? I have just blissfully been relying on looking back! Rookie mistake after 2 years of racing! Guess I'm just not used to being lapped!

I get a blue light appear somewhere on my cockpit dials to warn me that I'm about to be lapped. It's always been there, never had to set it up? Maybe you don't race in "cockpit" view.

I agree Tony, no need to set anything up. I guess you can turn it off (Martin?), but by default I think we all get a little blue light if we're about to be lapped don't we? I know I see it regularly.

[Legzy]

You're sure about this? Never have seen it while I'll get lapped very often....
.. perhaps I thought it was the fuel indicator 

I drive with the HUD enabled...(Sorry everyone )... is that why I see the blue light? (as well as me being slow obviously)

[Blunder]

In the light of day, my team mate Legzy informs me that I have to set something up to tell me I am being lapped!? I have just blissfully been relying on looking back! Rookie mistake after 2 years of racing! Guess I'm just not used to being lapped!

I get a blue light appear somewhere on my cockpit dials to warn me that I'm about to be lapped. It's always been there, never had to set it up? Maybe you don't race in "cockpit" view.

I agree Tony, no need to set anything up. I guess you can turn it off (Martin?), but by default I think we all get a little blue light if we're about to be lapped don't we? I know I see it regularly.

Never seem a blue light but obviously need one desperately! ( Did I say sorry again Steve!  )

[psuedo]

If you can give me some tips on starting faster I will gladly use them!

Use the start countdown...dont rely on seeing the lights change
Practice.
Practice.
Practice.
Practice.

and then:

Practice some more. 

[Blunder]

What lights! 

I'm never close enough to see them! I just use the 3....2....1...Go method!
Autoclutch very slowly engages and I spin down the track as usual!

That not the best method then!? 

[psuedo]

 

With auto clutch...I tend to keep the revs at about 3/4 max then engage first as soon as you see the green hear 'GO' then ease back slightly on the revs untill the rears are biting properly before accelerating normally after that.

[pribeiro]

With auto clutch...I tend to keep the revs at about 3/4 max then engage first as soon as you see the green hear 'GO' then ease back slightly on the revs untill the rears are biting properly before accelerating normally after that.

Exactly what i do, only difference is that i wait for the green lights, to keep the things more close to SIM as possible 

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Dave, I was gutted! I was behind you at that stage and was driving as fast as I could to catch you!
Then you just dissappear half way down the straight! Not often i get to race with the old master! 

Oi! Less of the "old" or people will think I'm in the wrong team!

My starting technique is very simple.

"3"
dial up start revs
"2"
clench buttocks
"1"
fingers hover over upshift paddle
*mentally reach 0, slight pause to avoid a jump start*
select first gear and jump past three or four Astons and Fezzas

The "Go" comes up anywhere between 0 and 3 seconds later. I ignore it.

I really shouldn't have joined last night. I did about 10 minutes practice to learn the track, and I was completely bushwacked.

[Legzy]

This is the one handed start technique as recommended by 6 week old Junior Legzy. It leaves the other hand free to do her hair (as demonstrated) or to send 'hand gestures' to drivers that wont let you lap them 

[Blunder]

Notice the cool T shirt that friends of ours did for her!