UKGTR Season 9 Lower Sprint (GT2) - Road America (Full) - Mar 17

[JPS]

Congrats TT           Great Result nice one for the Legends Team TT

Yes I was right the 666    Bi Turbo handled with understeer at all the dangerous places not recommended at RA   finished a respectable 15th after some great battles with Prof, Gizmo, Spanner, Smokey, Picnic, but to name a few

Really enjoyed that, had a black screen and CTD in Quali for the information of the SROU Engineers.

[Napo]

Good qual, terrible race!

I was a little bit overcautious at the start then on the 2nd lap last corner I geared up instead of down and got too close to the side of the track and got me in the gravel. Gravel was very difficult to get out of. After that I tried to make some ground and came up to Jose and passed him on the inside of t1 but to my surprise came back at me at t2. I caught up to him at t3 only to see him loose it in front of me. I was hoping to sneak in on the inside but that never happened and I ran into him and damaged my car pretty badly, possibly damaging his car. Sorry about that m8, probaly ruined both our races. Stupid move on my part

Getting back to the pits was fun, fixed it up and just drove around to the finish.

Congrats to TT, Purdie, and Gazza for the podium.

thanks for having me.

[lazlow]

Had a great race with Carl and Gazza.....first I was ahead of Carl; closing in on Gazza, when I ran wide and put it on the grass...letting Carl get past me....then Carl put it on the grass....letting me back through....then I ran wide again 

Finished the race with a very fast Evert pushing me all the way .....and just managing to hold on to 5th place at the end
Good racing all!!

Just for the record I had one CTD during Quali.

[Prof]

Sorry for the accidental block JPS whilst trying to avoid the smoke trail being left by NSFast. Thats the first time I have seen smoke like that with my new computer system and it's so much nicer than on my old 'low detail' one (and much harder to see through).  

The BMW was not happy at this track and nothing I did could get rid of the understeer. A case of laps when full of fuel being just as fast as qually. My profile tells me I have done 2:08 there in the past - nowhere close today.

The different performance of various cars and inevitable accidents meant I was racing others throughout the race. Lots of fun, fair racing guys, thank you.  

Well done to the podium.

[picnic]

Replay and provisional results posted

LapChart

[lazlow]

Oh I forgot to say......a good solid performance for Team Oldie tonight...finishing 5th, 7th and 10th.
Well done guys!!

[picnic]

Bugger - same problems tonight as I've been seeing with P&G.  When I try and connect, it loads up the same number of drivers in the same order each time before pausing for a moment and then CTD'ing.  Tricky to count them, but it was after approx. 15 drivers - tonight it was always when Gazza was loading, but I think that was just down to the order and not Gazza in particular.

I used to get this when I had a Matrox TripleHead2Go and a very large screen resolution, 3840x1024. Only happened online though.

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

A CTD in practice and I saw loads of others with the same, so that rules out TeamSpeak as expected. Next is third party track, then addon cars, then skins I guess?

We've already had events at standard tracks (Dubai for instance) so that only leaves cars, skins, and server/network.

[Josè Arrogantio]

I was hoping to sneak in on the inside but that never happened and I ran into him and damaged my car pretty badly, possibly damaging his car. Sorry about that m8, probaly ruined both our races. Stupid move on my part

Dont think it was a stupid move, never easy to tell what side to go.
I dont think you got damage from hitting me, it was the 997 that ran in to the back of you.

[Napo]

I was hoping to sneak in on the inside but that never happened and I ran into him and damaged my car pretty badly, possibly damaging his car. Sorry about that m8, probaly ruined both our races. Stupid move on my part

Dont think it was a stupid move, never easy to tell what side to go.
I dont think you got damage from hitting me, it was the 997 that ran in to the back of you.

oh that makes sense now, my rear was all over the place, I thought it was just me but I did wonder why I had no rear end grip.

[Roadrunner]

Well..certainly not my happiest hunting ground this place...had 0 laps praccy in the M3..qualied unsuprisingly quite low down...got as far as t5 an a few rejoined cars left me know where to run..couldnt stop once on the grass...next stop spanner (sorry m8)...made up a few places an with 10 mins or so to go ran wide through the kink got back on and stayed left knowing i was beat..but following car decided to try n go through me rather than round. decided enough was enough a few laps later...roll on wherever`s next

[Mark J]

Had a good race with Jonzo in parts in that race. I gave him the old Sharkey bum wiggle at one point, proving that I still have some moves left in my old age.

Glad I didn't see that 

It wasnt pretty i can assure you 

B'ah that didnt go quite to plan. Thought i was on for a decent crack at a top 5 this eve for some reason  Was doing regular 2:07s in race trim and 2:06's in qual trim only a couple of hours before tonights race, but then tonight the car felt bloody awful 
I had traumatic understeer in the slow corners with nice doses of dramatic oversteer in other corners !

I lost all confidence in the car during qually when it threw me off sideways mid corner a couple of times. I did some emergency tweaking and managed a lowly 11th? on grid 
Race was a constant sandwich between Legzy ahead and Simons sinister presence behind. Every time i pulled a gap on simon to try and catch Legz i would have a moment/wobble and Shark would be back attacking me. It certainly kept me on my toes the whole race !
We swapped places a couple of times down the s/f straight in the race and eventually simon got by me with about 7 mins to go and although i closed up a few times he kept my 8th place and i followed home a disapointed 9th. It was a good race long battle on similar pace, shame i never got close enough to put Legz under some pressure.
Grip levels and handling felt so different this eve it was like i used a completely different setup....back to the race engineer for this track

Well done to TT for a fine win and the fellow pody guys. 

[Gazza49er]

That was really hard work tonight. 

I guess the temps were alot higher than in the practice i was doing on the server last night but i was a second off the times i was doing   Low 2.08's tonight but last night was doing low 2.07's very consistently. Not sure what to do to the car when the temps are higher except adjust tyre pressure.


Start was ok and i managed to get passed the guy in 4th on the long straight (sorry cant remember who it was). The top 3 were clearing off and it became obvious the 2 behind me were gunna be right with me the whole race. Fortunately everytime one of them got close to me they would go wide and drop back again allowing the other one to have a go at me 

They were much quicker than me through the corners and on braking but i just had enough straight line speed to get a little gap before the turns. Had to just try and not make any mistakes but C Hart finally got me at the right hander down the hill before the bridge but managed to stay with him all down the finish straight gaining in the slip stream, he defended the inside but i had alot of speed and took the normal line and retook him round the outside of turn 1    (best move ive ever done!!)

Managed to hold on for the last 6 or so minutes for a hard earned 3rd.

Grats TT and Purdie

Great racing C Hart very close and fair  thats why i love this league!

I was struggling with my wheel i bit tonight, every so often the wheel would twitch and go out of line. At one point i was driving with the wheel at 2 o'clock to go straight.

[Truetom]

AHA! This is a proper track - it has hills and valleys, sand, trees, bridges and both corners. 

Had a CTD in P1 and a full freeze (had to restart PC) in Q2. Came back just in time to make another fast lap to give me 3rd place in Q2. I practiced with 3 wing and was a bit quicker but was defo on the edge the whole time, so I put wing to 4 and it worked. 
A great quali laptime, Napo!    Was impressed and I was a bit worried - two seconds per lap is a huge leap to bridge. So I decided to stay close to Purds and go for 2nd. Managed to stay more or less close to both and after I saw Napo wasn't that quicker in race spec I concentrated on stability and consistency. After Napo made his mistake I was lucky - Purdie was making small mistakes that enabled me to stay close, even if he was quicker in his good laps. We exchanged places three times - once when he went off, when he made a move on a downhill straight (good move, didn't really count on you staying on track with such a late braking) and when he went off, again.    Decided I will not be surprised again, though I saw you were trying. A lot.     Were you on softs?
Expected a higher place from MJ, considering his former achievements in LS. Also, his practice laptimes were on par with mine. Well, I guess it was a bad day for Porsche. 
I admire JPS for trying in his "car". 
Well done pody. 

TT 

[ross.mcw]

Bugger - same problems tonight as I've been seeing with P&G.  When I try and connect, it loads up the same number of drivers in the same order each time before pausing for a moment and then CTD'ing.  Tricky to count them, but it was after approx. 15 drivers - tonight it was always when Gazza was loading, but I think that was just down to the order and not Gazza in particular.

I used to get this when I had a Matrox TripleHead2Go and a very large screen resolution, 3840x1024. Only happened online though.

Okay, that's not good news then as that's exactly what I'm using.  Mine's the analogue version at the moment, was yours?  Did you ever figure out a fix?  It seems like it only CTDs when joining when there's more than x drivers, if I'm already joined it doesn't seem to be a problem.

Anyone here successfully using SoftTH with three screens?  That would require a new mother board and gfx card mind you....

Cheers, Ross.