UKGTR Season 8 Lower Endurance (GT3) - Road America (Full) - Oct 26

[Linus27]

It cant emilate snow I'm afraid.  ...But you could always hang some cotton wool buds off your hat. 

 

[picnic]

Damn the unreliable technology called ADSL. Again it reset and unsurprisingly. Over the last 6 weeks or so I've noticed my sync speed as been slowly increasing form my normal 4.2-4.4 to over 6Mbps. Put my line attenuation/noise figures in to online checks and they reckon I'd get mid 3Mbps. Why has it taken it upon itself to keep increasing. I used to get connections last 2 or more weeks, lucky to get 12 hours now  At least I have the season break to sort that out.

Annoyingly against all the odds the race was going ok too. Running 4th, although no idea how the tyre changing would pan out. Wasn't expecting to do too well as I've had an annoying headache all day, the track was wet which guarantees that I'll have a comedy moment or two, Hey ho. Well done to all the winners and thanks to everyone who's regularly turned out and raced.

[Blunder]

Changing to WET tyres at the pit stop by mistake! was not the best idea 
Curse, curse, curse.
Times were going backward after that!
Slip sliding everywhere! in the dry!

Gutted!

M.

[JPS]

Great Race for me, without incident, unlike my last race, really enjoyed the tricky conditions ,

War of attrition out there.

Pleased with 11th (I think), under the circumstances.

[Ken Murray]

I was well pleased to be running quite competitively in my first ever endurance event. Qualifying was nothing startling but in the race I guess the little Streiff thing is easy on wets in the dry (i did choose hard just in case). Anyway by hanging on until fairly late to take my stop I think was actually running 4th at one point!! At the stop I changed to soft slicks (took a bit of fiddling with the keys due to my unfamiliarity and my crew chief was shouting for me to hurry and make a decision!!). Then re-joined about 11th or 12th but after all the pitstops unravelled and some went off I was running 8th and having a good battle with the two Daves. Then with what turned out to be about 3 laps to go the bloody motor blew, and as far as I could see the oil and engine temps where normal. I had been red lining it though, is that not a good idea??

[Linus27]

I was having a great race, running in 5th I think until I accidently pressed either the + key or the - key on the back straight before my last pitstop by mistake which changed my view to somebody elses car. I then had to cycle through all the cars until I found my car, crashed into a wall. Got going again but I lost so much time that I lost about 5 places. Finished in 10th in the end.

Apart from that, the race was great especially the wet start. Just wished it had stayed wet

Oh well, great season and thanks to all the organisers and drivers. I sure did have fun.

[spanner]

I'd be lethal if i planned ahead

Once i saw it was raining i thought i'd take the viper having felt quite happy with it early in practise. But i had no idea on fuel consumption and guessed a bit wrong.

With the wets on the rear getting into the red i tried taking it easy and it seemed to work and knew it wasnt going to dry out too quickly. Pitted just after halfway, stuck slicks on and come out with the battle for around 4th but they clearly hadn't pitted as they were holding me up! Once Prof pitted i managed to go 2 secs quicker! But sadly i should have put more fuel in as i had to stop for 15L extra and then was one lap too short.

I gather the Viper wasn't quite so fun around the other tracks then

[picnic]

Replay and provisional results posted

LapChart

[Ted]

Man, that was fun 

Managed to get my first set of tyres to the half way stage and then change to slicks with the drying track. Then my pace improved a load and I caught DG who appeared to generously let me past 

However after that I couldn't increase the gap above about 3-5 seconds and in the last few laps with sweaty palms developing and the risk of nosebleed from being as high as 5th, a few small errors crept in and then one big error allowing him back past along with Dave M.

I thought I would have to settling for 7th, but on the final corner I sneaked back to 6th when Dave M ran wide.

Great stuff and really pleased with the position.

Congrats to the championship winners and thanks for all the fantastic organisation  and great driving this season. 

[psuedo]

Good rave..thats what its all about having changable weather imo.  

Big mistake taking hard wets at the start....they were at 120 deg on the first flying lap ...so I pitted on lap 3 and took medium slicks all round.

First half a dozen laps were a bit dodgy but it was improving all the time and I was able to claw my way back up to p9....had to pit again though...but left it as late as possible and just 45 ltr of fuel and a set of softs all round. That did the trick and I was lapping at a reasonable pace after that. Rejoined in 13th but made a couple of passes on track and a couple more through pit stops to get back to 9th again...pretty pleased with that, though if I had made the right tyre choice initially I would have been a fair bit higher I reckon.  

Grats to Freq...champion and winner.
and to all drivers....this has been a good season for GT3....next one will be even better.  

[spanner]

Why is Blunder's Viper shown on dunlops? Arent they all on Michelins?

I guess me running out of fuel on the last lap doesnt mean i keep 12th then

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Bad luck, Pete. I forgot to reboot my router before the race but luckily my connection held okay.

Apologies to TT - I had no intention of looking for a pass into T1, but found myself flying up the inside of you. Still not sure how I even made the corner!

Managed to get my first set of tyres to the half way stage and then change to slicks with the drying track. Then my pace improved a load and I caught DG who appeared to generously let me past 

There was no 'letting' about it - after I could no longer cool my hard wets by running off line I pitted for medium slicks, but with hindsight that was a mistake and I should've taken soft wets. Struggled to get any heat in them, and having lost three places early in the race with a silly off when I just couldn't see the braking marks, I slid off numerous times, and was getting swallowed up by the Vertigos in the second half of the lap. I couldn't get the car safely through the Kink without a stab on the brakes and the Gillets could just come flying past as a result.

Thought I was going to have to settle to 7th with 2 laps to go but Ted looked like he was suddenly struggling, which allowed me past, and then David ran off giving me 5th back again, and I managed to make my car wide enough (and hit enough apexes) during the final lap to keep the place.

I think that's Nissan's first manufacturer's crown in UKGTR, thanks almost entirely to FreQ, not me, and Team Shark's zillionth team title. Congrats to FreQ on the drivers crown too.

[psuedo]

Why is Blunder's Viper shown on dunlops? Arent they all on Michelins?

I've just checked and it is on michelins....just need altering in the database....prolly because its not been used since the change.

[H@L9000]

Oh dear

I should have done well but made many mistakes including putting wet tyres back on when I needed drys. Once I was up and running, this happend:



2612 in the replay, enjoy

Thanks for a great seasons racing and well done to race/championship podiums. 2nd for Team Pseudo

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Why is Blunder's Viper shown on dunlops? Arent they all on Michelins?

I've just checked and it is on michelins....just need altering in the database....prolly because its not been used since the change.

An error? In the results? I think not...