UKGTL Season 7 - Zeltweg (Österreichring) - Mar 12

[Sandor M]

After missing the last 2 races I was glad to be back on the track .
Instead of going for my regular Porsche choice I decided to go out and have some fun in the Pantera.

The race was a bit lonely after the first 2 laps with no battles at all for me. The only problems i kept having was the first chicane.
Or I braked way too early or I hit the curbs and spun my car.  Normally not a big issue if you are driving for last positions but this time the frontrunners where coming by. 
Just had my spin in the first chicane and managed to get my car going into the right direction when I saw Madd-Rip coming up to me.
I decided to stay on the right side of the track but somehow got my car in another spin full to the left where Madd-Rip was.
 I hit his car but thankfully he survived my manouvre and went on winning the race.

The only other memorable thing was coming up to lap Sandor, who just after the chicane had a tank slapper and spun directly in front of me, I slammed on and just managed to squeeze past enough so he hit the side of my car...phew! 

  Glad you made it.

After that I was a bit distracted and hit the barriers 10 secs later. Ruined my car so the handling was gone . Luckily the race was almost over and i managed to keep my position.

Although a bit lonely, it was quite eventful to keep the lump of Detroit metal on the tarmac.... and I'm going to print and frame the UKGTL Lap Records  

[Syd Drake]

I turned the starting countdown on for the first time just before joining the server. So I jumped the start . Apparently you're supposed to wait for the go, not just go after 1. Anyway, I jumped, and then pulled over to let everyone pass. Now, I expected a black flag, but there was no message on the screen. So I didn't stop and got dq-ed on lap 3. I never got any kind of a message that I needed to stop in the pits. Is there some option I may have turned off, or some other reason I'm not getting any warning messages? I got dq-ed in the previous race as well, and never got any warnings either.

[pribeiro]

Qualified 12th.
Good fight with Samb, several trading positions for half an hour.
At the chicane of doom, as we were braking side by side, i thought we would do it
side by side aswell, so, i kept my left side, but you suddenly moved through the usual
line and to avoid you i had to break hard, passed over the curbs, tried to stay with you
and pushed to hard the throtle while i was exiting the curbs, lost it and spun. 
Excellent track choice Mr. SBG.  However, fast tracks Panteras rules, maybe only the green Corvette match it. Or my BMW...

Good fun, enjoyed very much.
Hats off to the red Corvette and GT40 drivers. 

Congrats to podium. 

Cheers

[Geoffers]

  I finally finished a race in season 7.

Got a good start & was 5th into the chicane. Nearly nicked 4th from team boss SBG   when I got a much better drive out of the chicane, but the Panty power just got him ahead by T2. Then ran 5th for several laps until Dan crashed spectacularly in front of me (10/10), promoting me to 4th.

By this time Mr Oily was starting to hunt me down   & was soon on my tail. We had a bit of an outbraking battle into the chicane, I held on to the place but bounced over the kerbs a bit & forgot to short-shift to 3rd as I normally did mid-chicane, so when I accelerated in 2nd the back came round & I spun into the barriers, grrrrr!

Rejoined in 9th just behind Blunder, upto 8th when Dynosaur spun off & after 3 or 4 laps of trying, I eventually got past Blunder into the chicane with a bit of a block pass, sorry if it was a bit hard Martin! So came in 7th & very relieved to eventually finish a race.

Congrats to Matt, SBG & Rui.

Cya all at Nurby.

[TinMan]

Sorry Tinman, in hindsight I should have quit 

It's the track to blame really. At that point there's nowhere to go to avoid a collision. You just enter the 'roundabout' hell for leather and 'bam' it's all over.

TC

[Blunder]

Rejoined in 9th just behind Blunder, upto 8th when Dynosaur spun off & after 3 or 4 laps of trying, I eventually got past Blunder into the chicane with a bit of a block pass, sorry if it was a bit hard Martin!

Dont apologise buddy! Good fair racing! Great fun!
Good race for me! Qualied down the field but a bump from someone behind sent me on the grass on the righthand side into turn 1 at the start. Eventually bounced back onto the track in 12th !! Cool !! Thanks to whoever that was!

Had great battles all the way through but unfortunately had to conceed to Dyno halfway round the last lap!
Shame!
Pleased with 9th! Struggled to get on pace this week! and I did put some practice in!
May be it's better if I don't!  

Thanks all especially, sbg, a really top choice of cars and track! Awesome!

M.

 

[Blunder]

Oh, better say thanks to my Team mate, Legzy..... ( I think ! )

He has kindly created me a GTL car set up guide!
Basically as my memory is appauling!
he now uses this as an excuse NOT to help me with any set up's as it is helping me learn! 

It's a give a man a fish / teach a man to fish type of thing! 

So Thanks Legzy !  I  think ! 

[Legzy]

Race build up was spoilt for me again as yet again my G25 would not work online (despite being fine in online practice through the week). Recreating my drivers profile got me round it for the pre-race practice server, but then had to recreate it again before joining the proper race server  / 

Made a solid start from 18th on the grid. Enjoyed clinging onto Tinman's rear bumper for the 1st 3 laps before he waved me by & with Tony in close proximity too. Then I found myself with a sizeable gap upto Ade ahead & back to the next car behind for most of the race.

But my wishes were answered with four laps to go as something (might have been the kerbs ) slowed Ade down to within striking distance. Got past to get myself into 10th, only to blow it at the fast T2 right-hander & I span up the slight bank on the inside. Ade managed to get past no probs. I was then wedged on the inside of a fast bend, without a great view of any possible oncoming traffic. picked my moment, but with the car seemingly still half wedged on the grass bank it was not a straight forward rejoin & Ross came round fast & between us we managed to have contact (Sorry Ross my fault buddy) & then Tony suffered too as we were recovering. Let them both past down the start of the back straight, so was down three places now  :'(

Chased & got past Tony, but despite being close for the last couple of laps I couldn't find a way past Ross. Well done for holding me off.

Simply a great track/car combo here SBG & I'm chuffed because I didn't run with my default 906 .

Meanwhile, Blunder seems to be leading the Team Oldie Charge up the table (7th overall). Concerning times! 

[dynosaur]

Rejoined in 9th just behind Blunder, upto 8th when Dynosaur spun off & after 3 or 4 laps of trying, I eventually got past Blunder into the chicane with a bit of a block pass, sorry if it was a bit hard Martin!

Dont apologise buddy! Good fair racing! Great fun!
Good race for me! Qualied down the field but a bump from someone behind sent me on the grass on the righthand side into turn 1 at the start. Eventually bounced back onto the track in 12th !! Cool !! Thanks to whoever that was!

Had great battles all the way through but unfortunately had to conceed to Dyno halfway round the last lap!
Shame!
Pleased with 9th! Struggled to get on pace this week! and I did put some practice in!
May be it's better if I don't!  

Thanks all especially, sbg, a really top choice of cars and track! Awesome!

M.

 

Language barrier here, so is the "conceed to me" a negative thing or something else? Did I do something I should apologize for? 

[Wiltshire Tony]

Dyno, Conceed = Give in to

[BillThomas]

Great fun that one - even if it was my team mate I ended up racing.  Thanks for being the gentleman there Legzy - I tried to avoid your spin, but just decided to pass on the wrong side.  Sorry to Tony for getting caught up in the aftermath!

Cheers, Ross.

You guys gave me one great OMG moment I crested that rise flat in 4th to find one car discoing to the left, one stationary on the right and one dawdling down the middle of the track just managed to squeeze through without hitting anything.  Having got by you all seemed to have the red mist as you each had a number of offs but I think it was Tony who came off worse each time eventually he dropped back and lost another position.

Early on I had a chase after Alex and was catching him fast, setting my fastest lap.  As usual my car decided I was getting too confident and got away from me and went into Disco Mode.  I doesn't matter which car, which track just as I'm lining up to have a go at passing someone it decides to show me whose Boss and flicks off into the kitty litter or onto the grass and proceeds to do doughnuts around one front wheel, completely ignoring my inputs.  After 10 to 15 secs it slowly foxtrots up to the track and lets me take control again.  (That's what if feels like - take that you cocky moron.)

Alex was about 20 secs ahead of my by the starting line and it more or less stayed that way for the rest of the race.  Overtakers kept me honest and amused.

Bill

[Legzy]

Sorry Bill, forgot you got tangled up in our scrapping also. Thanks for doing what you could to enable us to continue (I wish there was a 'hats off' smiley I could use )

[dynosaur]

Dyno, Conceed = Give in to

ok, thanks Tony! Not a day goes by without learning something new! 

[ross.mcw]

but with the car seemingly still half wedged on the grass bank it was not a straight forward rejoin & Ross came round fast & between us we managed to have contact (Sorry Ross my fault buddy) & then Tony suffered too as we were recovering. Let them both past down the start of the back straight, so was down three places now  :'(

Chased & got past Tony, but despite being close for the last couple of laps I couldn't find a way past Ross. Well done for holding me off.

Not a problem at all Legzy and I can't help feeling that I should have been able to avoid you, but your car was like a magnet   I think I'd damaged something after that as the handling on my car seemed to go a bit whacky so I'm glad that we only had the one lap to go otherwise you'd have got past me again.

Cheers, Ross.

[Wiltshire Tony]

Bill, I was getting sick of the sight off you 

I couldn't flash thanks to you as my lights were busted (don't know how that could have happened  )

Ross/Legzy You guy's made it a truly memorable race