UKGTR Season 8 Lower Endurance (GT3) - Brands Hatch (GP) - Oct 12

[Linus27]

I think its under options and under advanced.

[picnic]

Don't worry about pit in / out messages. Most people don't seem to use them.

[Paul968]

Another thing to remember Clive - turn on the driver labels (they appear as the driver name above the car) - it is tab on my system. This is very useful at pitstop time as it lets you see cars in the pits and coming out of the pits when they would normally be hidden. I know it is slightly unrealistic but then simracing is a major compromise on real life so this seems fair enough to me.

[psuedo]

HUH.

Ran a little wide into T1, 2 cars passed me so I accelerated after them but overdid it a little and ever so gently kissed a wall.....puncture and stuck in the quicksand.....interest lost.

Hope everyone has a better one.

[Joss]

Disastrous race. I'm getting really fed up with GTR2 being so ******** unstable. Why put the effort in when half the time it makes no difference? When this season's done, I'm taking a break.

Whatever 

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Awesome battles with Evert, Michael Boylan, Pete and even FreQ for a short time - took a big gamble starting on softs which looked like it was a really bad move towards the end of the first stint but with the skies darkening, track temperatures falling and eventually a hint of water in the air, and despite a huge spin on the run down to Stirling's Bend early on, somehow I managed to pinch 4th with just a few laps to go for by far and away my best result of the season, and what might turn out to be an important handful of points for the team.

If only it had been a Super Endurance!

[Ted]

Poor race for me, with at least a couple of unforced errors putting me in the wall twice.

However, still ended with a fine chase to the line trying to catch JPS. He drove consistently though and I couldn't catch fast enough. Great driving  

[Minton]

Another good race. Had a good qually but knew the vertigo's would be very quick .  Busi and TT started to pull a gap at the start but started to hold each other up and i closed the gap. Managed to get in front for a bout 500 metres going down towards Hawthorns with a bit more grunt from the Baemer but locked the rear wheels and TT and Busi went back through.
This left me about in 3rd about 4 secs behind Tt. Traffic was coming up so thought i would stop to get some clear air. This seemed to work or TT had a bad stop and managed to get passed Tt when he pitted. Had a 8 sec gap but knew TT would close the gap on fresh tyres which he did with 2 laps to go . Then on the last lap going towards Druids i made my only real mistake of the race and TT went though (might have got me anyway) but still a bit miffed with the mistake.

Not sure who i hit towards the end but your car was invvisible.

Grats to Busi on the win.

[picnic]

Replay and provisional results posted

LapChart

[Linus27]

Well. That was fun. Made a good start and settled in behind Psuedo. Decided to just sit on his tail and try and keep with him which seemed to be working. After everyone pitted in front of me I found myself in 1st. My tyres were great and I really did not know if I should change them or not. Twenty mins to go and the dark clouds came in and had to pit and decided not to change tyres in case the rain came and just add fuel instead. Managed to get out in 3rd ahead of TrueTom but I knew I was a sitting duck as my tyres were half dead and he passed easily. Then Dave and Evert caught me up and again, I could not really defend too much. I was praying for rain as I love it and so does my Lotus but alas it did not come. I ended up finishing 6th which is where I started. So not to bad but I had really hoped my strategy would pay me better. Not sure how Dave does it but he always gets me in the pitstops. I bet he could start last and he would still jump me in the pits. 

[Busi]

Cool race!

Didn't expect TT to set such a fast laptime in quali, so started 3rd behind him and FreQ. In the first lap I made contact with FreQ, I don't know if you noticed me mate but I could not go more on the inside, sorry anyway

The battle with TT during the first stint was great, a lot of side by side action that allowed Dan Minton to close on us. A shame that a slight touch put him some seconds behind again.

I took the lead and increased the gap to TT a little. I changed tyres, but he didn't (at least in his first pitstop ) but I still was ahead. Then he pitted again so I had an easy 2nd stint. I love the track so I kept my concentration even if I ran a bit wide several times by trying to push hard and set some fast laps

Looks like FreQ had frustrating problems, I wish I had not pressed ESC in Imola, I would be on for the title now :'(

[H@L9000]

My connection has been playing up all weekend. :'(

I was really looking forward to this race as well.

[Legzy]

Considering I didn't spend a single lap in true competition with anyone after about lap 5, I still rather enjoyed it... just trying to constantly break down my own fastest lap times. Set a PB in qualifying & then managed to break that a few times during the race, eventually by nearly half a second.

Shame about your spin picnic. As I came around the corner at full tilt & saw you'd done a 180, I tried to react but had nowhere to go. We both got moving on the grass straight away again so I guess the contact hadn't done too much damage. I managed to get away with not repairing anything, as car was still handling OK.

[JPS]

However, still ended with a fine chase to the line trying to catch JPS. He drove consistently though and I couldn't catch fast enough. Great driving  

Thanks Ted, it was touch and go on that last lap only just got across the line before you, had to really keep it wired together, once your pressure began to bear down on me towards the end, my front tyres were down to the fabric

When I said there are a number of corners here that just wait for you to make a mistake...well i had my mistake on lap 2 I think, dropped me to towards the back of the grid, hard fight up to 8th my best result so far great battles with Spanner and Ted along the way

[psuedo]

Wouldn't worry about team points too much Dave.....

Busi has deserted us  :'( for R24/7.....I went out early and Ted was our only other runner tonight  ...so the grand total of 3 team points means we are 14 points behind with only 1 race left.

I'm sure you can coax a couple of extra aliens in to the last race to help ensure your victory.