UKGPL Season 17 (2009) Inter League - Watkins Glen (GP) - EOLC - Jul 12

[JamesRye]

I'd like to be a reserve and therefore only race if no one else is available. 
This way there is a bit less pressure to finish cos I am still a bit inconsistent and liable to have a tonking incident at some point  . I've got the speed in qualy but not so much in the races proper. Also, I seem unable to excercise enough judgement and dont lift off enough. Its a bit too much flat out or out for me I'm afraid (though I'm getting better).

Jim

[Doni Yourth]

Cooper...errr, Coventry...it is, H!   

TY.

[Doni Yourth]

I got some times down today.  First time ever in the Cooper at The Glen from what my records show.

I'll be putting in quite a few laps in Q to get a handle on how my steering is affected by VROC again.  Seems I need a lot of laps to get used to the phenom.

[Turkey Machine]

Pass on this one. No connection suitable for it.

[FullMetalGasket]

I've made it back intime 
Will get started on some sort of shakedown practice type lark. I'm knackered and hope it won't show in the race 

[Hristo Itchov]

I hope you people realize the start is 1 hour earlier than usual. We're waiting... And what's the password btw? And why didn't Eolc know where to come, I found them in the #eolc room.

[Samb]

Buggar! Sorry guys! Simply drifted wide at The Loop on lap 1 and before I know it I'm in the wall with a wheel missing.  :'(

Hope the rest of you guys get a decent result.

[Hristo Itchov]

Buggar! Sorry guys! Simply drifted wide at The Loop on lap 1 and before I know it I'm in the wall with a wheel missing.  :'(

Hope the rest of you guys get a decent result.

Not really. With you out and Lorenzo not racing we had nobody to challenge the top spots. I was running 5th after your off and could've probably kept it, but after waiting 20 minutes for Lorenzo there was barely enough time to post a qualifying lap and there was no time to test my race setup. It turned out to be a pretty bad setup and so I went off early on, it took me ages to get out of the grass slope.

After that I passed some people and eventually moved up to 7th while closing in on 6th place, but another off and then having to cruise to save fuel almost lost me that position. Doni was our only other finisher.

[fpolicardi]

I had an Alison setup that I had already used in a GP long race time ago but I think I picked the unlucky Cooper this time. Engine popped on Loop exit while I was accelerating in 3rd at 7000 rpm after a few laps when I was behind John, it said Collector. I had a ring in qualy when engine popped at the first press of throttle in the pit. Before to leave the server I saw that also John had a smoking engine.
It would have been better I had gone to see a concert.
Luckily later I had a good race with iRacing Radicals.

Ciao

[EvilClive]

Grats to EOLC for a crushing win    Looks like we were just not

I was stuffed when the direct IP address did not work and I had to enter server via Vroc.

So once again I was fighting the steering gremlins, which this time not only operated like a switch, but refused to apply any opposite lock if the tail stepped out. The best it would do was return the steering to straight ahead??!!! I spent 30 mins after the race altering various parameters to find out what the h*** is wrong but with no success.
As a result, at best I was at least a second a lap down on my race pace and at worst, whenever the tail slipped out there was no way of applying any correction and the ass continued in a gentle arc until it met the scenery or completed a 360 spin. 

I survived a couple of these spins but eventually the contacts with the hard stuff bent something and despite surviving to see John limping in his Brab and Fulvio quit, a final off at Big Bend removed a wheel and it was all over.

Thanks to EOLC for the race and server. Next time perhaps we will be better prepared and at least put up some resistance.

[FullMetalGasket]

Extreme tiredness + GPL = concentration fail 

I was knackered and despite and very good start to proceedings simply missed my braking point and shot into the crowd at the Loop - had been steady climbing up the leader board and posibly even slowly gaining on H.....



Condolences to the familys of the spectators I ran over