UKGTR Season 9 - Monza (Junior) - Mar 31

[Legzy]

I can't join the server.
I enter the password, click the tick & nothing happens. again & again. restarted, same problem.  :'(

Run the car and skins installers again to make sure they're both in properly.

Cheers Dave. I tried that & no luck. Gutted, I was well up for a rare chance to race in my favourite Vertislow tonight :'(

[nsfast]

Going into this race I knew the chicane would catch me out...so I tried to play safe and slow with it..which worked for a while...but finally it got me   

Sorry to JPS and Dave G, I think you may have caught my spin.

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Sorry to Prof for accidently brake checking him in the chicane - I still haven't quite reprogrammed my brain to remember that the middle pedal is now teamspeak and the left pedal is now the brake.

Sorry to JPS and Dave G, I think you may have caught my spin.

It was bound to happen sooner or later - in fact I'm amazed we had so many cars make it to the end!

I put a nice big dent in the back of JPS's Porka - but then finished him off a few laps later when he and a Viper (Smokey? Spanner?) held each other up coming onto the back straight and I took both of them, but must've clipped JPS or squeezed him into the VCC because he ended up face planting the barriers on the right. Mea culpa!

So... CTDs? There was a big rash of cars leaving near the end of qually, what was that about?

[phspok]

Sound familiar Legz? is what I had, and someone else a week or two ago as well.
You weren't in pre race prac so the server didn't already know you.
I had a good time, got a 51.1 in pre race, couldn't match in in real qual, so took 6th.
Messy first few, got passed by a couple, Jose went like the wind then fell off,
and after that we had some door handle stuff for several, he was a bit quicker
particularly in the chicane, but I would mess up, then he would etc.
neither blocked, was cool.

[Wiltshire Tony]

Still time to vote for this circuit............

https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=5976.0

[picnic]

I quit twice, once in practice cos I forgot to select the Team Shark skin  and then I had an issue I've never seen before in Qual. The other cars all disappeared while I was out on track but I was still getting chat messages. Dave and Freq told me I was stuck in the chicane at the time. Back in the garage I could select other cars on the track but they were all stalled for me but the timer was changing reflecting thier lap time I assume.

So I quit and rejoined. Nothing else strange to report other than an unusually high finishing position 

[Prof]

Sorry to Prof for accidently brake checking him in the chicane - I still haven't quite reprogrammed my brain to remember that the middle pedal is now teamspeak and the left pedal is now the brake.

So... CTDs? There was a big rash of cars leaving near the end of qually, what was that about?

No problem Dave - just managed to squeeze past and then took Lazlow out at the end of the straight meaning I was last once I had waited for him. Sorry again Lazlow.

I left towards the end to answer the phone - quit entirely by my own choice. I would have been in the top ten in qually otherwise.

[Josè Arrogantio]

So... CTDs? There was a big rash of cars leaving near the end of qually, what was that about?

Had a CTD at the start of qualifying.
Good race, had a couple of spins when I changed down to 1st by mistake 

Didn’t have any CTDs before I installed PnG. Had 2 CTDs in the 3 events I’ve done since.
Probably just is coincidence but thought I might mention it. 

[Truetom]

No CTD. 
Chicane of Doom got me as well. Was close to Steve but was never able to pass, lol. Good ol' Vert, outdragged by everything and everybody on every straight piece of track. 

TT

[Gazza49er]

That was fun. 

Literally just did 15 mins offline praccy before the race so was chuffed with 3rd on the grid.  Followed Jose for a bit until he was slow out of final chicane and got passed. Started trading lap times with Freq but could never quite get close. Was fun watching him slide his car round corners.  Did the last lap and a half at about 10mph as i got the fuel wrong but had enough gap to get 2nd.

No ctd's for me but i did lose connection at end of practise, i knew something was up when the other cars looked like they were going sideways round the corners and not turning.

[Legzy]

No CTD. 

As UKGTR's favourite CTD'r, did you do anything different? (i.e remove a program)

[Napo]

I still haven't quite reprogrammed my brain to remember that the middle pedal is now teamspeak and the left pedal is now the brake.

lol that's nuts, what happens when there's a track where you constantly have to use the pedals.

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

I still haven't quite reprogrammed my brain to remember that the middle pedal is now teamspeak and the left pedal is now the brake.

lol that's nuts, what happens when there's a track where you constantly have to use the pedals.

Then I'm too busy to talk!

[Blunder]

Lol ! Morning guys,

No CTD's for me but I have never had one! ever, ever!
Had to rebuild my machine from scratch a month or so back so may be that cleaned my registry etc. !?
and all previous installs.

Felt like a ballerina last night!  Loaded up a previous Linus set up for the Elise and was flying!
Unfortunately it is very switchy and very sensitive to brake bias with fuel load as far as I could tell?
Anyway thats my excuse for about 4 360's with 2 and half twist, triple sulko styly!? 

I think I bumped a few people but nothing major ( I hope ! )
It was a fun race so modified my approach slightly!

Ended up having lots of mini battles with Lazlow at the back!
Excellent fun! 3-3 was it buddy!? Shall we call it a draw!? 

Wow, that was fun!

M.

[Linus27]

I had an interesting race. No CTD for me but I have also never had one so good news there.

Having not driven GTR since the last G3 race it all felt a little weird. I thought I would be ok but upon driving out of the pits for the first time, I spun 180 degrees. Where has all the grip gone?? Then taking to the track I found even less grip. Took me a few laps to get back into it but it finally clicked. Managed to qualify 14th so not that bad. Race time and everything was going well. In fact I was flying. Had a great battle with JPS in his Porka. I could pull up right to his bumper into the braking zones and through the corners but down the straights he would pull away. Really great fun. I managed to work my way up to 8th and decided to pit for fuel and tyres. This was my first mistake. I soon realised that nobody else was going to pit. Then, I forgot what keys I had set to restart the engine. Once I finally managed it, I came out from 8th to 4 laps down. So I just set out to try and make some places up and finally finished 12th.

Really enjoyed it and no problems for me with CTD.