UKGTR Season 9 Lower Sprint (GT2) - Spa (2003) - Feb 3

[H@L9000]

Might be some difficulties for thous that choose the wrong tires to get over the crest... 

 

[Mark J]

it would be a downhill slalom in a 911 once it got halfway up and began sliding back down again ! 

[Minton]

Hope not it's like on the Pict... Grin Might be some difficulties for thous that choose the wrong tires to get over the crest...  blink

How about a little snowboarding down Eau Rouge 

[Gazza49er]

     :'(

Bugger!!

Was looking forward to this, but in qually i was getting no timings on other cars just mine so had no idea where i was, people were missing in the positions too. Come the race i tried to join grid and my car was launched into the air crashing to earth somewhere lol. I guess i should of realised something was up bit earlier and maybe tried to rejoin   

Hope it didnt cause any problems for the rest of you.

[Truetom]

Bad luck, Gazza. 

YAY for MJ!    Good win, my man, something to celebrate. 
With 1st and 3rd for Legends it's a good start of the Championship. 

Big sorry to Smokey, who I used as a brake. Couldn't stop, I hope you didn't sustain any damage. 

Bad luck for JPS and Purds and good fight with Shark, as usual. 

TT

[Busi]

Sorry for leaving just as I crossed the line guys, but my graphics card was messing up once again. We were into the last lap and suddenly the sky turned into some grey/black colors, part of the asphalt was red at some parts and I was lucky I could see the car ahead of me. Here is a screenshot I took just before leaving the game to prove it (click on it)


If somebody knows what is the exact problem please tell me what to do.

Now my race: I tried once again the three types of tyres, this time looks like slicks were not quite as fast as inters, so I went for inters in both quali and race. Although I guess hard wets would've been better for quali.

Start of the race and I passed TT into Les Combes, two corners later I make a mistake and I pass him again next lap lol then he and Evert both pass me but they collide and I'm 2nd behind teammate Purdie. I tried to follow him without giving him too much pressure as he had asked on the radio, but then I made a stupid mistake running wide in Rivage and lost 2nd to M Jonzo who was catching Purd. Then, once again, Purdie crashed the car in Eau Rouge LOL really unlucky mate you were keeping it nicely until that moment.

I tried to follow Mark but he was too fast for me, dunno if he was on inters like me (slicks?), and TT was also catching behind (slicks again? lol). Then graphics card messed up on last lap as I said but I could keep going to take 2nd. Grats Mark nice one

[purdie]

Grats MJ  

Just managed to get pole in the last couple of minutes, sorry for the slow pace lap but with the rain and Spa being fast i wanted to avoid any eratic speed changes .

I took the start carefully and was super cautious in the first couple of laps, tyres felt good and I was maintaining a gap with Busi and TT both on my tail. After 30 mins both guys dropped away.......Busi was quick! but understeered off at Rivage  . My rear tyres were consistently 115 degrees even though I had hard wets on all round.

Out of no where came a flying Mark Jonzo  ..... I was somehow keeping him behind even though he was clearly quicker. The tyres were still hot and the car was getting twitchier!   I then made a mistake into Eau Rouge which resulted on a wide exit into the pit lights/wall  

Was good fun and 997 is great! I just think I over-pressured the rears  

ps. unlucky gazza   buggy GTR2

[picnic]

Replay and provisional results posted

LapChart

[spanner]

Well that was fun

You'll have to excuse me for that 3 wide stuff on the first lap, I wouldnt say i'd cured the wet handling of the car and it still has a bit of a death weave at high speed so i was struggling trying to keep to a line. Nerve-wracking tho Took me a few laps to work out the speed through eau-rouge as i'm sure the weather in the race was completely different to the other sessions. Dived inside a seat(Picnic?) into la-source, sorry if i surprised you as you ended up broadside across the track.

It was getting a bit lonely for a while with a big gap behind and infront, but some shenanigans ahead brought Evert closer and i slowly managed to close up with him being faster down the straight but i could make the time up in the corners and noticed his tyres must have been getting worse. At one stage he lost in in Les Combs and i managed to get ahead but slowing had unsettled the car too much and i couldnt control it. Last few laps were close though, ready to pounce if he made any more mistakes. Though Jose coming up behind me on the last lap to unlap himself into the bus stop put me off from doing anything, It was the last lap Jose. Brilliant race Evert


Ended up taking intermediates on the rear and med wets on the front, was going to go with soft wets but the temps were rising higher than we'd seen them.

[JPS]

Great win MJ  I watched most of your race from the monitor in the pits after I retired until the last couple of laps, Ace Drive

Nice podium TT  Great start for the Legends Team 

My 997 GT2 car was a utter pig to drive in the wet   the damn thing was just wondering left to right all over the track...in the end I retired before I took somebody out after just 'wondering' off the track a few times.

360 for my next GT2 drive I think

[Smokey]

 No proplem turetom. Just went into the grass a little. Last lap anyway. First time to race in the rain. Hope I was able to stay out of everybodys way. We had a bad ice storm here. No power or heat for five days. Missed races last week. Was fun, looking forward to more racing.

[Blunder]

Any admins tuned in!?

GTL Practice server on wrong track!  

[Blunder]

Tis ok now thanks

[Truetom]

Ah, yes, I was also experimenting with tyres and this time I was fastest with wets. Could have taken softs, but I guess they'd be overheating. 

Grats on 2nd place, Busi. How much wing did you have? You were fast on straights and through Eau Rouge. Shark always gained 1 second through Eau Rouge. Now I don't know if I had the car set wrong or is it just about daring to go fast. 

TT

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Frustrating race that; took the only tyre choice possible, soft wet fronts and hard wet rears. Had a bit of an overheating problem but was just about driving around it. Gallardo seems pretty quick up through Eau Rouge compared to most but there's also a bit of a flat spot near the top of the revs which I hadn't noticed before. Most odd.

Some good battles along the way, in particular with Blunder who eventually drove his 430 right round the outside of me!

With a few laps to go I managed to get into 10th despite a few minor offs (and one big one when I ran wide in Pouhon) but then ran off yet again on the last lap and let two cars back past.