UKGTL Season 8 GT Classics Cup - Round 1 - Lakeside, AUSTRALIA - Jun 18th

[Tibernius]

Umm. How did my Falcon cause your game to not work??/

Weren't you in the 1310 Mini at one point in practice?

[phspok]

TRue, for one lap. then came back imediately with Falcon, but that was in pre race practice, not
the real one.

[psuedo]

Well that was .....interesting.

race 1 was going reasonably well....apart from the fat arrrrrr....rear end of a falcon in my view all the time  

Dont know what happened in the second race....bad start with way too much wheel spin caused a bit of havoc behind (sorry chaps) but eventually got away and was around 8th/9th. But that only lasted till the end of lap 1.....it looked like someone decided to pit but changed his mind at the last moment and ran straight into me when swerving back out of the pit lane entrance   so got going again dead last.
made it back up to 9th by the end....good workout for my first race for a while.

Good stuff chaps.

[baracus250gt]

it looked like someone decided to pit but changed his mind at the last moment and ran straight into me when swerving back out of the pit lane entrance  

ah... That wasn't quite the situation but it was me! I got side swiped on the exit of the previous bend which sent my wallowy corolla of onto the grass but I was totally new to the handling and it just wouldn't straighten up! ( was my 1st go in the car!) I should have tried and cut into the pits but that wasn't on my mind at the time I was just trying to regain control!! Really sorry bud!

Shame about the first race tho! Was having an almighty duel with Oily!! That was some of the best racing I've had at all! Great introduction back to GTL - thanks!

But man that Toybota is slow!

[psuedo]

  np mate.....it was just a shock lol.

[Wiltshire Tony]

Replay(s) and results now available.

Replay zip contains both race replays

Race replay is the file named Lakeside_090618_2033.vcr

Fun race replay is the file named Lakeside_090618_2113.vcr

[Wiltshire Tony]

What a mess.
Had a good race going, classic battle with Phil untill I overcooked it in the 2nd to last, ot going again
and people started dropping, then "next track"

2nd race... err what gives?

Started 3rd onthe grid, coolest, set off quite well behind Ade who's foot appeared to fall of the pedals
as he slowed, (or my KERS cut in) lifted but tapped him, somehow ended up falling off in my attempts to
avoid. Got going again at the back, err thanks for that. Caught Tony , then onto the straight, Tony goes left
I go right, folowing Legzy who for some bizzare reason almost come to a stop!!!!!!!!! Brakes parachutes
anchow...nope, I smack him up the bum. get going, catch and pass Tony after his weaving from side to
side, Legzy comes steaming up behind pushes my rear quarter round and spins me off... ok ok I get the
message I'm outta here  

I think it was me that span you around, and I apologise for that. I waited as you recovered then you accelerated into Legzy as he passed by on your left.

[baracus250gt]

So are these the 'official' results? Or is that the quali timesheet? I could have sworn I was infront of Oily when it went to Next Race.

[Wiltshire Tony]

So are these the 'official' results? Or is that the quali timesheet? I could have sworn I was infront of Oily when it went to Next Race.

Having just watched the replay myself it does seem that the results are spurious. Please consider them un-official until such time as we can work out if I've done something wrong or the data is corrupted somehow.

[Ade]

Yeah!! does look a bit weird, I was running in 4th behind Lazlow when cars started disappearing and reappearing  then i went off a T1 worrying about the frozen headlights on the track (didn't see any cars just the track lit up by headlights)  only saw Geoffers go past  as  I rejoined , then team speak started breaking up and i lost connection :'(

[Legzy]

Caught Tony , then onto the straight, Tony goes left
I go right, folowing Legzy who for some bizzare reason almost come to a stop!!!!!!!!! Brakes parachutes
anchow...nope, I smack him up the bum. get going, catch and pass Tony after his weaving from side to
side, Legzy comes steaming up behind pushes my rear quarter round and spins me off... ok ok I get the
message I'm outta here  

That's is all total haddock phspok & I look forward to you PM'ing me when you've watched the replay.

Please everyone, don't come on the forum after a race & start criticising other drivers for things you 'think' happened in the race. Check the replay, then log an incident report if one is needed. Alternately, if you know you did something stupid, PM an apology to the person who's race you might have spoilt.

The incident report system is there to help everyone improve, not have a go at people.

[Legzy]

First, sorry to everyone on the right hand lane of the grid behind me.... ... My Mrs distracted me at just the wrong time & in a panic to change gears & hit the accelerator... I think I actually found reverse... eventually 
Then I got going & just rolled round a bit till everyone had past me & so I was dead last. Please feel free to report me, it was pathetic/disappointing on my part.

I then had a blast of a race, working my way up from 24th to the 8th that I finally finished.... (20ish laps early sadly).

Race two was good as well, but I made too many silly little errors & again found my self finishing at the very back before finishing about 6th.

I have to say that this track is a real find Tony, well done mate. Definitely a new contender for my top 10 enjoyable tracks.

See you in Estoril next Thursday, hopefully with a few less server problems  .

[Ade]

Started 3rd onthe grid, coolest, set off quite well behind Ade who's foot appeared to fall of the pedals
as he slowed, (or my KERS cut in) lifted but tapped him, somehow ended up falling off in my attempts to
avoid. Got going again at the back, err thanks for that.

      No need to thank me after the tizwas with the first race and the rush to get back on server when i saw there was another race i had pressed my pit limiter by accident when i pressed the button for the name tags , sorry about that.

    

Qualifying was pathetic as I never got a clean lap and gave up.

Few laps into the race everyone disappeared. I just kept motoring and eventually you all came back. Race was just starting to get interesting when everyone disappeared and this time it stayed that way and I lost connection.

So in other words an utter bloody farce and complete waste of time.

Me too, display driver froze partway down the pit straight.  Dunno why I bother.

Glad I didn't waste a second doing any practice for this.

I think some of you should think before posting on the forums (far too eager to slag it all off)
The organisers here work long and hard to make our hobby so much fun, you make it sound like its too much like hard work to drag yourselves on the server once a week for a race (its supposed to be fun)   get over yourselves.

(counts to ten)haaaaa that's better!
Any how had a blast tonight, nice track,good company, good racing running in 4th in the first race trying to keep on Lazlows tail up until the server problem (first i thought it was my connection after the mess up i had at the P&G race at Oulton park and was ready to go and kick Richard Branson's face in) so think yourself lucky Branson

Race 2 was brill trying to catch Geoffers in his Mini after my pike up at the start with the pit limiter on   chased him down until the very last lap and got by coming out of T1 (sorry if i squeezed you a bit hard there Geoffers   but it was my only chance) fine driving by the Mini maestro

                               Thanks everyone and Legzy and Tony for making it all happen

                                                           Cheers Ade




 

[Phil Gilliland]

 


By the way, did anybody else notice the XD timings went haywire a few laps into the first race? When I've seen this before it's always been a sure sign that the server is about to go blue tits up, as indeed it did last night.

[Ade]

Same for me Phil.