UKGTR Season 9 Summer Challenge (GT3) - Edmonton - Jun 28

[lazlow]

Picnic, where would we be without you We salute you!!

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Oh wow, thanks Picnic, I luv you man!

[picnic]

TeamSpeak back up as well on IP 81.19.209.165

If you used one of Dave's names it may take a day or two to update because of the way DNS works.

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Grr. once again the game/ pc froze. With a minute or so to the end of qually and managed some feat to get ahead of Legzy, I was just looking at the setup page when i heard clicking noises on the headset and the cursor stopped moving. Twice now as well

[Reign Man]

Apologies to Lazlow and Pete who I made contact with.
GTR Froze and the textures went all funny so i pulled into the pits and quit.

Was having a fun race up until that point

oh well.  hope everyone else has a good race 

[H@L9000]

Was going great until I crashed.

Nice little tussle with Fish Tale and then what was shaping up to be an epic chase with JPS.

I could not get passed. I was not quick enough in the rite places. It was fun trying though, nice one JPS. I hit a rather heavily solidified tyre barrier on the right hand side of the S/F straight on lap 15 ending the fun. Such a shame.

Enjoy the race all.

[Truetom]

Had a wobble and hit the wall, lost splitter and left front had a puncture. Tried to get to the pits but the car swerved into the ground obstacle and died. 

[Fish Tail]

Was enjoying it until the rain came! That'll teach me not to do any wet practise, FPS dropped quite low too which didn't help.

Not really how I planned to loose my racing cherry, but a good learning experience.

To all of those who lapped me (that'll be everyone then!) I tried to get out of the way quickly and safely, and I hope I didn't hold you up.

Congrats to all.

I'm off to sort out an upgrade!

[lazlow]

Wow that Viper is crazy in the wet!!

I had the rear wing set to 2 which was ok in the dry, but not in the wet 
Oh well...well done to the podies, and all that finished.

See you next time

Laz

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Glad I took my rear wing down to 1 now; got a bit lucky that the rain came at just the right time for my pit stop, but the longer it continued the more I needed to slide the back of the car around a lot to keep the rears warm.

Legzy was a bit unlucky to stop before the clouds became dark enough to make rain inevitable. If it had stayed dry I doubt I'd have managed to keep ahead of him. As it was, my Dunlops worked so well in the wet I ended up with a full lap in hand over him.

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Had a wobble and hit the wall, lost splitter and left front had a puncture. Tried to get to the pits but the car swerved into the ground obstacle and died. 

That scared the herring out of me - I could see you were slow into that right hander but then you just stopped dead on that big curb thing and I nearly ran smack into the back of you!

[psuedo]

Enjoyed that one  

That should be the standard vertigo test track....it's made for it.

PB for pole by nearly half a second  

Race went mostly to plan. I had a moment just as the sky went black though and let Gazza through then struggled round for maybe a lap too many on slicks in the wet and ended up 9 secs behind him after the stop. Soon caught him though, I was lapping 2 or 3 secs a lap quicker on soft wets. I lost it again at the double righthander near the end of the lap with a double downshift spinning me round and Gazza got through again  .....but once again I soon caught him and he didn't put up a fight realising I was quite a bit faster.

Grats everyone, a difficult track in the wet but the racing was good as usual.

[picnic]

Replay and provisional results posted

LapChart

Lack of server testing meant I didn't spot the game was running a different PLR file to the normal one so no date / time stamped replays. The race one was overwritten. Sorry folks. Will be sorted for the next event.

[Truetom]

Well done, GazzerChamp.    My premature race ending also ended my dreams of winning the Summer Challenge.    Well, it's all my fault. 

TT

P.S. Psuedo, well done for the comeback win. 

[Gazza49er]

I actually like that track    I think it takes some skill to be quick and keep it off the walls.

The race was similar to Brands as i knew Bob was a bit quicker in the Vertigo so just tried to be smooth and consistant and stay away from the walls. Thought it was going to be a really close battle with TT and Lazlow but seems they both had some troubles.

 Rain came just on my pitstop window so was lucky there but i think i chose the wrong tyres as my hard wets never got above 40 degrees which meant i didnt have much grip but just tried to keep it on the road, Picnic was catching me with 20 mins to go and i thought he would be right on me at the end but the last 10 mins he seemed to slip back giving me some breathing space and a good second.

Grats Bob and Picnic.

Well done Fish Tail for almost finishing lol your first race and you get rain    Looked like you were doing fine though and i know your system was probably struggling with the conditions.