UKGTR Season 8 Pre-season 9 - GT1 @ Oschersleben (GP) - Dec 14

[Reign Man]

Not looking like I can take part.  Net connection is really bad! 

[spanner]

After good time in qually which kept me smilling through it all, i tried gambling on softs to start off and once the rain came i was laughing. Well, untill it got so wet i couldnt touch the pedal without spinning. Even after fitting hard wets i could barely accelerate and was getting no fun out of it so after the umpteen spin i quit.

[Jeffrey]

Awesome race!!!

Thought it might be fun not to qually and start at the back. Would have been impossible to catch Busi on pole, but he dropped (disco?) and also had to start from the back.
Completely to my surpsise it started to rain at the end of lap 1 and I didn't have any praccy in those conditions.
It slowly started to become very wet, and around lap 10 I had to pit for wets. Last lap on slicks was awesome

Opted for soft wets which was the right choice, as they were perfect. It slowly started to dry to some point and my softs started to overheat, but they still gave me good grip.
With 30 minutes to go my calculations showed me I'd just run out of fuel before the finish, and my tyres were already at 22 after 30 minutes on those wets, so I needed new rubber as well.

Pitted with 25 minutes to go and did a small splash of fuel, which wasn't necessary in hindsight. Hal had overtaken me at that point with 14s lead. With fresh rubber I could close the gap and have a nice battle with him in those slippery conditions.

Great race with super conditions

[H@L9000]

Yep, another great race

Lots of fun, I had no answer for Ruskus. I only pitted once, put soft wets on (which worked fine) and he still beat me by 30 seconds or more after making 2 pit stops.

Maybe I went too long on the slicks. Anyway, thanks all, lapping was very hard but, I think we got through it OK

[lazlow]

That was really tough.....I don't think I blinked my eyes all the way through that race  
I am a little confused though how we ended up driving in the wet, because on the weather report it said it was "Mostly Cloudy"
This said I am learning (slowly) how to handle the cars in wet, and today was a HUGE learning curve!!

ps. I'll get you next time Legzy!!

[psuedo]

I hate this time of year  ...another wet race...they're damn hard work  

Qually went ok in the dry...a pb put me 4th behind 2 teamies and some legend or other  

Was holding my own ok in the first few laps with medium slicks all round till I overcooked the throttle coming out of the last corner and ended up facing the wrong way dow the straight with a flat left front tyre. Cost me plenty limping all the way back round. Stuck hard wets on and they worked great after a while...at first the fronts were a little cold but as the rain eased a little they came good.
Fought my way back up to 7th and was lapping in decent times when I realised I hadn't put any fuel in on my stop, so had to do a splash n dash with 12 mins to go...That cost me a couple of spots...but then Jan ran dry on the last lap and I picked 1 back up.

Enjoyable race...even though I dont really like the place.

Grats all.

[phspok]

Chortle
I spent the first 20 laps trying to decide if it was wet or not..
tried soft wets, hard wets, intermediates, even asked for snow tyres
but got medium slicks. gave up half way as I was becoming a hazard
I got no rain on my screen, apart from the grip levels, how do you know
it's raining? I thought I remembered drops on screen? Perhaps that
was Race2007

[psuedo]

What view do you use....only really see it from cockpit view. 

[Legzy]

My lack of practice shone through here, I'd have been OK if it had stayed dry... but the moment it started raining (i.e. lap two) I was in trouble.

Smashed my car to bits just before I was about to do my 1st pit stop, repaired everything 
Hard wets were running too cold for me, but did what I could & I guess was all right... till I did another wall 
Only minor damage to repair this time, but changed to soft wets.... which I spent the rest of the race trying to keep cool 

Keeping an eye on the clock as I knew Lazlow was catching me with every lap. Just crossed the line with one sec in hand as I think he struggled when he tried to force a move at the last two corners... next time buddy 

Note - Just spotted how good a spread of cars it was (with a slight lean to C6R's), job well done to the guys that do the balancing

[jan duijs]

love the wet,car was great,pitstops were horrible as ever lost tons of time and ended up in the grass without fuel on the last lap......
Sorry for the tap Napo ( brave to drive the Viper..kudos for that )

Jan

[phspok]

I only know cockpit view, anything else was considered to be not cricket in GPL leagues.
makes it an arcade game if you use top down view anyways.  

[psuedo]

hmmm..you should see the rain then...I do!  maybe something in your settings?

[JPS]

Great race and conditions

Hadn't turned a wheel in the wet in the GT40, on the job training, wrong tyre choice cost me dearly until my last pit stop with about 30 minutes to go, after which I could push hard, secured a 10th/11th which I am reasonably pleased with.

..tough race by any standard

Congrats podium

[phspok]

Ok, I'll experiment. Only got the thing running earlier today (thanks to Ruskus)
so had no time to mess, or practice. I'll be more on it at Donny on Tues I expect.

[psuedo]

EXPECT RAIN lol