UKGTR Season 10 Lower Endurance - Monza (GP) - Aug 9

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

That went from promising to frightening and ended up bemusing.

Seemed to have a reasonable car in practice and qually but come the race I was badly off the pace for the first 15 minutes and was getting passed left, right and centre. Picked up two cut warnings at the second chicane early on from turning in too early and after that I had to be soooo careful and couldn't afford to take any risks.

Was on mediums and planned not to change them when I stopped. About 30 minutes in the car unexpectedly ran wide in Parabolica, touched the grass and spun, losing 10 seconds or so. Pitted immediately to top up the fuel and recover my composure. Things seemed to be working out okay and I gained a lot of time over other stoppers, but I never had anything like the pace required to compete with them and after all the stops I was way back from everyone but Prof.

Even without the previous spin and another very similar one in Curva Grande I was never going to finish any further up and in no way deserved the extra spot Picnic's late splash and dash problem yielded.

Really disappointed with my pace here, both poor and, worse still, inconsistent.

[Simon Gymer]

No practice, but that's normal. Managed 5th in qualifying despite the F430 feeling pretty slow in a straight line. I was running 2-4 wing cause I find I can do faster laps with more wing than less here and I can certainly run consistently with more wing. Was a disadvantage in the race when people are overtaking, or you are trying to overtake.

Night-time would have been ok, except that my whole car body flashed as did my mirrors and the bodies of other cars whenever headlights were a certain distance to me. This made the opening few laps so hard as it was so hard to see anything, especially in the mirrors. It was horribly distracting, but eventually as the pack spaced out it became easier.

I got 2 cut warnings, but they were both fair and I certainly became less aggresive at the 2nd chicane after the second one for fear of stop and go.

Very pleased with 3rd for the 2nd race in a row.

Well done to Jon on the win, great pace up front and well done to Jose for chasing me down after I jumped you in the pits. Shame about Ginsters problems as he looked miles faster than everyone else in qually too.

GT3 field was very small again. Is it worth having a championship with so few in it?

[H@L9000]

4th 5th and 6th For Team Psuedo in GT2 and 4th in GT3. Well done team.

Gazza maintains the championship lead (just about). 

Nice job Jorgen in a very difficult race as it was your first for a while.

I am now going to go all Barachello and say that I am upset with the team Psuedo pit crew as they clearly gave me 1L of fuel to little so that Gazza could maintain his lead in the championship. It was just too well calculated to be luck.

[Gazza49er]

The dark was nice but was giving me some weird graphics at times, the textures would go at certain points of the track and the rear mirror was pretty much useless as all i could see in it was a reflection of my own car.

Qually was terrible, couldn't get a clean lap.

The start of the race was mad, as 4 or 5 cars all fighting for the same place, good fun but pretty squeaky bum aswell. Everyone seemed to be quicker than me down the straights as a couple of times i got a good run on Legzy but pulled out the slipstream and he would edge away.

Was up to 4th just before the stop but a little wiggle in the second chicane gave me a stop & go 
Decided to do my pitstop before the stop & go and came back out in 13 or 14. Drove much better second stint and got back up to 5th from others troubles and then poor h@l ran out of fuel on last corner gave me 4th. Quite happy in the end but dont like getting places from others problems.

Those lights on the 997 are very good arnt they! When Mark was behind me my whole screen went yellow totally over powered mine lol.

Grats podiums.

[Mike Hammer]

My quali lap didn't even register? I hate PC's and GTR2.

Cyu next week  

 

Sounds like an addiction, almost  


Lest I forget, Grats to APi and Lazlow. GT2 podium also.

[Truetom]

Take F430 TT it handles like a dream

I drove it last season, so... So many new cars to try, seems a shame to drive only one - even if it is the best of the pack.

Edit: might take the Panoz, nobody seems to like it.

[lazlow]

GT3 field was very small again. Is it worth having a championship with so few in it?

I love this championship 

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

My quali lap didn't even register? I hate PC's and GTR2.

I've poked it in by hand - it wouldn't be right to let a new class record vanish like that.

Was up to 4th just before the stop but a little wiggle in the second chicane gave me a stop & go 

You cannot get a stop and go from "a little wiggle" unless you're already sailing dangerously close to the track limits. I know some of you always feel aggrieved about getting S&Gs here but before we changed the track people were regularly driving completely off the track at all three chicanes and getting away with it.

And MJ, at least you didn't get disco'd this time.

[ginsters sponsored]

Did you try my Lambo setup TT? Felt ok to me but I like the MC12

I've poked it in by hand - it wouldn't be right to let a new class record vanish like that.

Ta, thats one positive from last night It should take me through another bout of pc testing.

[Jure]

Disco disco disco!

AAaarghhh.

I got at least 5 discos in afternoon practice, so did most of other drivers on the server at the time. Is it possible it has something to do with the track itself or something?  

[Gazza49er]

You cannot get a stop and go from "a little wiggle" unless you're already sailing dangerously close to the track limits. I know some of you always feel aggrieved about getting S&Gs here but before we changed the track people were regularly driving completely off the track at all three chicanes and getting away with it.

Wasnt complaining Dave, i agree with the cut warnings, was trying to explain that i caught the first kerb of the second chicane wrong and it unstabled my car and i slid and then had to go across the second kerb.

[Simon Gymer]

Edit: might take the Panoz, nobody seems to like it.

Panoz is not bad actually TT. I tried it along with a lot of the cars at Imola and the lap times were pretty decent indeed. It's also pretty soft and forgiving, so not one of those skittish type cars.

[Gazza49er]

The Panoz is good, i drove it last season and won a few races in it.

[phspok]

Steady race for me, can't remember falling off anywhere without assistance from lapping cars
Had no S&Gs in the race at all, and I was gradually abusing the kerbs out of Ascari more and more
only place I got a S&G was in prac into della rogia which seemed a bit keen.
Tyres held up well, probly could have got away with not changing them all at stop time
Biggest prob for me was trying to let the GT2s through, they were a lot quicker through
the corners, but some were slower on the straights, I had to keep driving almost
off the road to make it easy "come on WILL YOU get past PLEASE before I fall off!!!!!"
Jumped in the car at prac and dialed in a quick safe setup, probably could have gone a bit
quicker with time. Was struggling to see dark part of tarmac for braking points
got a bit tense once or twice when I braked at the wrong marker board, both one too early
and one too late.. eeeek

[Truetom]

Did you try my Lambo setup TT? Felt ok to me but I like the MC12

Tried it, but it's undrivable for me. Just couldn't keep the back still. Any sustained braking turned the car, any bump also turned the car. Chicanes made it nasty every time and there are 3 - multiply by 41 laps...    Oh, I had only two spins in the chicanes, so in average it's not so bad.

Was the same in Estoril, could never handle that chicane either, lost loads of time there. Thought when I actualy managed to set up Marcos...