UKPnG Season 1 Clubmans - Road Atlanta - Aug 11

[IvAlAx]

I am sorry with jose Arrogantio to hit your car, but the car in front of you have problem. I try to brake but i hit your car...after that i lost my splitter and the car was very hard to drive..i am sorry with other driver that i have created problem but trust me the car was very hard to drive..and i wait to enter the pit, sorry for that..
My race finish here...1min in box and i restart but the last place was mine !!

Congrats to everybody

[Mark J]

That was brilliant fun, i intend to slurp Guiness before every race from now on   It must calm my pre race nerves as i banged in a PB in practise within 3 laps, by nearly a second   and then set a string of laps faster than i had gone all week  

Was gunning for pole position but my last gasp laps got thwarted by traffic and only bagged 3rd, but was still chuffed.  

Very very pleased with my win (as you can imagine ) had a superb race with Ayrton from start to finish. We raced within 0.2-2 secs for the first 17 laps and it took a lot of concentration   then on lap 17/18 i got a little too much oversteer in a corner, caught it but allowed Ayrton to pull out a 3-4 second lead. It stayed that way for about 5 laps or so until we caught traffic and i managed to close the gap right down as his tyres started to go off a little. It was very close again for final few laps with a few side by side moments and great clean racing.
It almost went very pear shaped with about 2 laps to go when naughty lapped Mr Icarus seemed to race the pair of us rather than filtering us through and it so nearly ended in tears with both myself and Ayrton getting contacts from his 911    thankfully we all made it to the end without losing positions and i grabbed my birthday win...whoohoo

Unlucky to Matt and few others with techie issues, crappy netcode.

and thanks for all letting me win on my birthday in my beloved RSR    

[Paul968]

An early bath for me too I'm afraid. The start was mad as I was completely confused by Matt driving backwards through the grid, passing me just before the green light (which I missed as a result). Lost a few places but made a couple back in the first few corners (although I touched a 911 on my inside that I didn't know was there - sorry). Then it was all rather frenetic, with my IROC slow in some places but quick in others, but all the quick places I got bottled up behind guys in quicker cars so had to slow down. This gave the quick guys behind an even better run, so more places went. Luckily a few ahead fell off, so I was still in around 9th and in a huge gaggle of cars when we came down the hill in the esses to find Matt stranded on the racing line. I only saw him very late as the cars ahead parted and had no chance to avoid a mightly wallop - engine dead, game over  

Shame really as the racing was very close and looked like it was going to stay that way. Can't say I enjoyed the IROC there as it hates the multiple changes of direction, but you can't expect a car to like every track. On to Daytona (do we have to?    )

[Gavino Pintus]

Fantastic pole position for me. It's the best thing for me.

The race was perfect but the tyre's wire forbid me to take the lead until the finish of the race.

Congratulations for the podium and for Mark. His race was simply perfect

Thanks all for the entertainment.
See you to the next race.

[Simon Gymer]

After "struggling" in practice (aka spinnng over all the hill crests, even that one on the back straight!) I had to give up with the 906 and dropped into the day-glow green 911 RSR 3.0 at the end of practice. Still didn't like the way it drove, but at least I could keep it on the track, so that was all I cared about. Learnt the car in qually and then straight to race.

Managed to qualify 10th somehow. Track knowledge helped I guess, but I've barely driven PnG and hate the Porsches with a vengeance . However, race started well as I was up to 5th after T1 as some people were caught napping at the lights and some had problems being put on the grid badly by the game . Was soon up to 3rd as Legzy made contact with the then 3rd place. Manteos then challenged me for 3rd, but after I worked out how to drive the 911 "ish" I managed to maintain the gap for the most part, nearer the end pulling out a bigger gap for some reason.

No idea what tyres I chose, forgot you could even choose LOL. Whatever the defaults are is what I had. Was 20 wear on the front left at the end which is great, despite smoking into most of the corners.

3rd and 5th for Team Shark, hoorah! Go Gizmo!

Well done on the in win Jonzo, or do you want to own up to letting Mr Schumacher be you this week?

The force feedback was a bit wierd at that track, it was really jumpy so I turned it down for the race to make life easier. Obviously did the trick as I didn't go off once.

[Madd-RIP]

I had to try and drive to the back as the game plonked me facing the armco in the first few rows, the timer had also gone squiffy as it showed there was still  44 seconds before the start, obviously you could see me and at least I got off the front of the grid before the start. 

[Tibernius]

I had to try and drive to the back as the game plonked me facing the armco in the first few rows, the timer had also gone squiffy as it showed there was still  44 seconds before the start, obviously you could see me and at least I got off the front of the grid before the start. 

I had the same issue at Imola in GTR2. I can't remember what caused it though.

[goldtop]

Not my best race.

Some crazy stuff at the start; I thought for a minute some wreckers had gatecrashed the party, but it was enough to put me right off step for the first lap or so.

Almost had a coming together with API as I locked up going into the awkward downhill turn 10 and skewed across the track. Fortunately I think he saw me and managed to avoid me.

Race was summed up for me when I ran wide to let Legzy through thinking he was lapping me whin it was for position.

Big grats to Mark for a win on his birthday.  

[Simon Gymer]

I had the same issue at Imola in GTR2. I can't remember what caused it though.

The game starts plonking people badly on the grid when it reaches the game slot limit. Reducing slots by 1-4 can help alleviate this problem.

[Wiltshire Tony]

But the .GDB file states a limit of 48 cars. 

[Paul968]

Yes, congratulations Mark  Amazing how you do it at your age 

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Woo! 5th! Totally unexpected!

(although I touched a 911 on my inside that I didn't know was there - sorry)

That was me I think - was trying to leave room after that crazy start as I couldn't be sure you knew I was there. It was only a light touch I think, my car felt good all race, in fact my tyres seemed to hold up very well compared to most, helped I'm sure by me trying very hard not to lock the wheels up under braking too often.

I've never ever been able to drive any 911 in any sim before - not in GTR 1 or 2, nor GTL, nor the PCCs in rFactor - so I was really surprised by how well the car suits my driving style. I think it may be the cross-ply tyres - very much more forgiving than modern radials. At least, I assume the old 911s are on cross-plies. Anyhoo, after a few laps I was able to pull away from the pack behind, and whilst I couldn't make any impression on the cars ahead, I was never under any pressure, and had only one minor spinless off, not a bad performance given that I'd never driven the car before yesterday.

The game starts plonking people badly on the grid when it reaches the game slot limit. Reducing slots by 1-4 can help alleviate this problem.

It's usually a symptom of the network struggling - if somebody has a bad connection they can experience it even with a smaller grid. A bigger grid just puts more stress on everyone's connections.

That's assuming the slots are correctly assigned in the .TRK file - an off-line test with 28 cars will show up any problems.

[picnic]

Replay and provisional results posted

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Nice to see everyone let MJ win on his birthday

[Mark J]

Replay and provisional results posted
Nice to see everyone let MJ win on his birthday

yes they even let me set the race lap record all on my own 

i was doubly shocked to see Simon and Dave in 911's !  Miracles will never cease 

[Jos Verstappen]

that's a nice present you got there mark

my race: had a blistering start went from 15th to about 6th, was trying to keep tiberius off my back, then he spinned

then I spinned and knocked off the front which let me race half the race with understeer

still managed 8th place!