UKPnG Season 1 Clubmans - Road Atlanta - Aug 11

[Tim Robey]

Hmmm, a disappointing race but I knew it was going to be a struggle around here.

Somehow I managed to break into the 1:29's on my qually lap at the end when I fueled up for the race. Wasn't expecting that 

I made a pig's ear of the start, I was distracted by Matt's 911 reverse grid driving and missed the green light, and everyone behind me stormed past 

I spend most of the race racing TT & API's 914s but every so often I would get out of shape on the last hump allowing a few guys to pass by.

At least I don't have to race here again in a while 

Congrats on your birthday win MJ 

[Madd-RIP]

Such a shame I got mucked about, I was in 7th too, double rats....

[Truetom]

Grats MJ and pody.

Since I'm rubbish in these cars I'll race the next race in the car of my own choice (within set cars), when I see the target laptimes. 

[pribeiro]

Head and heart not in it tonight so quit out early. Hope you all had a good'un.

I hope everything is fine Tony.

[pribeiro]

0 practice laps before the event.
6 and a half laps practice during practice session
4 practice laps during qualifying session.

Qualified at 25th.
Took advantage on the weird start and by lap 3 or 4 was in 16th. On the uphill fast chicanes
I was hit hard and spun losing 5 places. Lost all the possibility to aim to a top 10 finish.
undoubtedly, the 914 is easy to drive but lack of power under acceleration and top speed.
I believe that in a track without so many sections which power was needed, the 914
could fight for a top 3 place. Or in the hundred laps practice boys hands.
Nice (unfortunately short) battle with Madd. And a huge fight between me and Blunder
at the begining of the race for a few laps and after a short break (after my incident),
a nice and totally fair fight for some laps near the end of the race.

Congrats on your win Mark, well done!
Congrats to podium and to all finishers.
Well done to Tibernius for being the first 906 and to API for being the first 914.

Cheers

[icarus17]

Great fun race..
I had a good start that fired my car in 3rd position, but after first laps I've made some big mistakes and my position fall to 21st and I begun the climb to 9th end position
probably without these errors my end position was better than 9th, but I'm pleased at all.
I'm sorry and apologise for a collision from rear I've made to a 914 owner (at this moment I forget his name and I've no time to see replay  ) and the least I could do was to slow and return him the position..
I'm sorry specially for Mark Jonzo, winner of the race, because in the last laps I'm not warned by a blue flag and I not let him to pass me easy.. sorry again
Thanks and see you in the next race..
Bye

[pribeiro]

I'm sorry and apologise for a collision from rear I've made to a 914 owner (at this moment I forget his name and I've no time to see replay  ) and the least I could do was to slow and return him the position..
 

 

[mr_oily]

Well done and happy birthday Jonzo - yes you just need a drink habit clearly and you'll be dangerous on track LOL.

Just a quick one Legz/ WT - had commitments last night or would have been there with bells on. No reflection on your car/ track choice - I know how you're sensitive about these things

[Blunder]

Looking forward to the token system.
Driving in the slowest car, doing PB's and still only qualifying 20th was no fun!
Lack luster dull race!

 

[Manteos]

No much thing to say about that race...
Started from 11th position I took advantage at the start with my holy manual clutch, and gained 5 position til the first corner. Then I started a good fight against Tibs & Simon Gymer, I managed to pass Tibs and then i tried to overtake Simon, but after some 6-7 laps his pace becomes better than mine, and i lost 3-4 tenth every lap. The gap was never over the 4 seconds and when he did a little mistake I tried the last assault, with poor result. In last 6-7 laps i had to give up cause my tyres said STOP pushing ... riding on canvas it's not my speciality... I was happy to obtain a great 4th place against the monstrous RSR 3.0, and collect another great result for VDA team!!!

Grats to MJ for his birthday victory

Grats to Ayrton for his 3rd podium in 3 races, that allow him to be on top of the Leaderboard

Grats to Simon for your constant pace!

Grats to all finishers in this difficult race

See you in Daytona

[Mcfids]

I decided to race in the end - thanks to Ade for the 914 setup - and while I was dog slow I could at least keep it on the track

Started at the back but after the obligatory PnG chaotic start, I made up a few places. Pretty unspectacular from then on and after about 10mins it became clear I wasn't going to trouble the scorers in any shape or form and gave up. I'm just not compatible with these Porsches

After that I enjoyed watching the battle up front with MJ - a good win and well done to the podium and finishers.

     

[Mark J]

lol Oily, what do you mean 'need' a drinking habit ?!....had one for years mate   But i can honestly only assume it calmed me a bit for last nights race as i didnt seem to suffer the usual pre race tension and feel too tightly wound up. It certainly helped my laptimes  

Must admit i was expecting an onslaught by our Italian contingent as every session i had seen them running in, indicated they would lock out the top 6, what happened guys? Your race night pace didnt match up to all your previous lap times  ..apart from Ayrtons  

ps...can we have a linky to Daytona road course please? and an early hint at what cars we can use? Not got much interest in driving anything other than the P&G mod lately.

[Wiltshire Tony]

Head and heart not in it tonight so quit out early. Hope you all had a good'un.

I hope everything is fine Tony.

Today, yes. Last night I bought home my work in my head and I should have been shooting vampires rather than Motor Racing.
Thanks for asking Mate

[Legzy]

ps...can we have a linky to Daytona road course please? and an early hint at what cars we can use? Not got much interest in driving anything other than the P&G mod lately.

I'll sort out a Daytona Race thread tomorrow hopefully. In the meantime, knock yourselves out on the track Here (24h track)
Cars... Have a practice in what ever you want MJ (that's faster then an Abarth Gr5).

[Wiltshire Tony]

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.

Just did an offline 28 car test and everything was fine