UKGTR Season 9 Upper Sprint (GT1) - Spa (2003) - Jan 27

[Reign Man]

hmmn..

I've always found that increasing power increases wheelspin.  You dont want faster transfer of power (Torque) to the wheels in damp/ wet conditions...

...Heeelllooo tyre wall 

of course...I could be wrong as i'm not a gear head, but it works for me

RM

[Joss]

I don't know what a diff is. So it stays on default 

[H@L9000]

I was a bit lucky with the tyre choice as I thought that we would need wets until I accidentally did a lap in Qualy with drys. As it turned out the drys offered more grip.

I had been playing around with the setup in qauly and reloaded my dry setup, put the wing up to 8 from 6, lowered the power in the diff by one setting and increased the coast in the diff by one setting. I then went out on track forgetting to change my medium slicks to wets.

At first I thought, these changes are really working. When I got back to the garage I realised what I had done. Judging by the temps that the tyres reached, I worked out that a soft front/medium rear combination should be best.

If I had not have tried the dry tyres by mistake in qualy then I would have been on wets tyres for the race as well

I think that wet tyres are not needed unless you are really struggling on drys. 10 seconds slower a lap or tyres going under 50C.

[Truetom]

HOWEVER, the most important thing I change is my driving! It is after all the same car and the same track.

Driver with less mistakes gains positions. 

[Busi]

Normally I don't do anything though cause I'm busy having a pee in the 2 minutes before the race.

LOL speaking for quite a few here I guess

[Busi]

While we wait for next Sunday's race announcement, I gotta say something must be wrong here. We've been in the server for a while with J. Wahlby and more and it's clear that the DBR9 GTC car is not ok.

Z4 - 1:38.6
F430 - 1:39.5
Gillet - 1:40.0
Spyker - 1:40.0
DBR9 - 1:43.8

All laptimes are with a first attempt of race setup, same fuel for all, and around 8-10 laps of practice. Jorgen spent much more lapping in the DBR9 and could only manage a mid 43 too, so it's just way too slow for even attempting to battle with any of the other GTC cars.

[phspok]

Appologies to Lazlow for the bump into la Source, I braked what seemed very early, yet still ran into the back
with what appeared from my car to be just a tap, yet it bumped you round, and got you stuck against the inner wall
  This was Legzy's police road block.

Was doing ok after that as several fell off, then i got ambitious somewhere, and wnet into a wall big style
some guy on the radio said I mightr expect "some understeer" lol, was like on 3 wheels, that was why I was
unstable and leaking 10secs a lap.