UKGTR Season 10 Lotus Cup - Brands Hatch (Indy) - Aug 4

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

All members welcome - no registration required.

Practice 1:	20:15	(10 mins)
Qual 2:	20:25	(20 mins)
Race:	20:45	(40 minutes)	note: no warmup

Cars allowed: any Lotus from the UKGTR Physics Pack v2.10.0.0.
Weather: Fixed, seeded from real-world conditions at the start of the event (note to server starter - set changeability to zero).
Track: UKGTR Brands Hatch 2005 Indy (v1.0.1.0)
Race Start Time: 14:00.
Pit Stops: No mandatory pit stop is required.

Server: UKGTR Lotus
Password: see above

Notes:
(1) Please make sure you are fully aware of the UKGTR Rules - especially the speed limiter starting procedure and the rules about in-game chat messages.
(2) Standings and schedule can be found on the championship standings page
(3) You will not be able to join the server without the car pack and track (see links above).
(4) Drivers are reminded that they must select ISDN as their bandwidth, otherwise the stability of everyone's connection will be reduced.
(5) Please use the Driver Details page to ensure that the league management software has your correct GTR2 'Driving Name' (not necessarily the same as your lobby name).

[Truetom]

Holiday... 

[goldtop]

50+ laps of the Indy circuit

I'm feeling giddy already

[Mark J]

anyone else had trouble joining this track in the lobby?

I get 'cannot join, track not installed'...but it is and was last version we used.  Is it because the Indy layout is a sub directory of Brands 2005 ?

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

I get 'cannot join, track not installed'...but it is and was last version we used.   Is it because the Indy layout is a sub directory of Brands 2005 ?

Both UKGTR tracks versions are subdirectories, and I'm pretty sure we've used both before too.

EDIT: at least two people have obviously been on there tonight (judging by the server chat log)...

[Colin Paxton]

Works for me, just done a few laps and knocked nearly 2 seconds off my (slow) lap-time

Hope to race later!

[goldtop]

No problems with the server or track here (except for getting the Exige through Clearways quickly). Best time so far 47.6 with race fuel which I'm guessing is well off pace. Still, lots of potential for people dropping it so I'm planning on a nice steady drive.

[Mark J]

i'll be there, assuming i can get in the race 

47's for me in the handful of praccy laps i did offline in the Elise.

[Legzy]

As we started the pace lap, my car suddenly veered left & accelerated towards the wall. I tried pressing "i" in-case I'd somehow activated any AI driver... but no change. Once I'd hit the wall, I seemed to regain about 50% of control, but then it went again & found another wall. Pressed esc & race over 

[Colin Paxton]

Hi Legzy, I was behind you and wondered what was happening! I waited to see if you could recover and then had to chase after the rest.
Sorry for being a mobile chicane - that was my first GTR online race for ages and it is much harder than rFactor. Good fun all the same

[Mark J]

unlucky Legz...obviously too powerful for you  

Had a decent race, if not that exciting. The lotus and Brands make a good combination but i find the little norfolk terriers evil little buggers over kerbs and corner exits. Had 3 seperate spins, 1 at clearways, 1 at druids exit and 1 at graham hill that all cost me places, dropping me from 3rd or 4th at one point down to 7th eventually !
Grabbed a place back late on when Matt span to finish 6th.

Not stumbled on a decent setup for these feisty go-karts yet. The Elise seems to be increasingly outclassed by the exige in these races now that drivers have got some use out of them.
And why oh why arent we using standing starts for these Lotus races?   That start was crying out for it at Brands with Paddock Hill bend beckoning.
Thought the racing would be closer tbh with this track/car combo but the cars all seemed pretty well spread out  

Congrats to Jose and Micheal up front  

[goldtop]

Disco....again

Noticed Tibs disappear behind me coming through Clarke and the gap times going crazy, so ran off at Paddock and pressed esc. Nice race up until then; had some good battles with Tibs and Ade and only had one noobie spin coming out of Druids.

Bad luck Legzy, that's a very strange one

[picnic]

Replay and provisional results posted

LapChart

[goldtop]

Just a quick HU.

Noticed that Brands is missing from the overall championship charts.

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

As we started the pace lap, my car suddenly veered left & accelerated towards the wall.

And why oh why arent we using standing starts for these Lotus races?  That start was crying out for it at Brands with Paddock Hill bend beckoning.

I think Legzy's 'incident' summed that up quite well - I've seen people do that in real life at Brands too!
Banked track + standing start + rear wheel drive = debris

Not stumbled on a decent setup for these feisty go-karts yet. The Elise seems to be increasingly outclassed by the exige in these races now that drivers have got some use out of them.

I would expect that - in fact I'm surprised the Exige isn't further ahead. I managed to tune most of the snap oversteer out of the setup, but not enough and every time I started to press on it would catch me out again, not helped later in the race by worn rears and an overheating front left. Must've spun off even more than MJ and threw away 3rd and then 4th in the process.

Noticed that Brands is missing from the overall championship charts.

It's there in the championship standings.