UKGTR Season 10 Upper Endurance - Hockenheim (GP) - Aug 16

[JPS]

Could not connect to server.....the message I got a couple of minutes ago?? anybody else suffering in trying to get on the server?

[JonM_uk]

There's a lobby fix for GTR2. Top left of the page under News: server status

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Back 5 minutes too late to nip in. :'(

[goldtop]

Another disco for me 7 or 8 laps in

Sorry for the tap coming out of Mercedes Jorgen, I braked but obviously not enough. Got collected by Smokey; hope I didn't cause too much damage.

Remainder of race spent catching the GTC guys, but heart wasn't really in it tonight.

[ginsters sponsored]

Sorry to Jose and Hol for start. I honestly didn't touch anything and my pit limiter turned off. Confused the hell outta me and sorry it lost both, mostly Hol, time. That peed me off and set me well on my way :'(

At least my pc lasted but I honestly didn't enjoy muscling the MC12 around that awfull track. Thx to GTC gents for doing the business  Congrats to all the runners and riders.

[JPS]

Thanks JonM.

Fun race however felt a bit rusty after holiday.

A quick sorry to MattRowe, I was tapped from behind myself (I think by Blunder, correct me if Iam wrong Blunder) which then forced me to hit you MattRowe, only honourable thing to do then was to wait for you, a couple of bends along, however ended up letting Blunder through as well who was right behind you

Anyway good fun...the two non skinned Porsches Legzy/Purdie seem to produce alot of judder/lagg everytime I got behind you..for your/engineers info only.

[Stewprovo]

Well, my  pit crew did it to me again!!! I came in, and had to que behind someones red lambo for 15-20 secs. Did'nt help I'd already got 145 secs of rear suspension damage from getting tapped earlier that they did'nt fix either. Sham cause I was running 4th, 1-2 secs behind SBG for the first 20 mins, only to then have damage cause a loss of about 2 secs per lap. then pit mess up, came out in 10th!!!!! Congrats to podium, heart goes out to teamies SBG & Goldtop for your woes. Bring back the Tuesday sprints so I don't have to pit anymore!!

[H@L9000]

Nice race tonight.

No worries SBG, I was wondering what was going on. Luckily a few drivers gave me safe enough room to rejoin so I only lost 2 places. (I know I should have waited but it seemed that I could join safely).

I had many great battles tonight, SBG, JohnM, TT, Busi, Stew and a few others. Mainly Jose. Had an epic fight with Jose for most of the race. We even came out of the pits in the same position as before we went in.

I really wanted the fight to end with an overtake but, eventually I lost concentration and turned into Jose. Sorry bud. :'(
In so doing, I also lost 3rd place but Jose was the faster driver.

Well done podiums.

Well done Jorgen, keeping team Psuedo in the points with the absence of the #1 driver.

[Jorgen Wahlby]

Another disco for me 7 or 8 laps in

Sorry for the tap coming out of Mercedes Jorgen, I braked but obviously not enough. Got collected by Smokey; hope I didn't cause too much damage.

Remainder of race spent catching the GTC guys, but heart wasn't really in it tonight.

No problem.  I saw what was going down so I was prepared for it.

[picnic]

Replay and provisional results posted

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[JonM_uk]

I found the race tough going TBH. It's the first time I've ran in the Saleen and the car is a dream to start with but as the tyres wear the back end just got more and more twitchy and in the first stint I span a good few times but just backed off a little for the 2nd when the tyres started going.....That didn't stop me running out of fuel mind In the first stint I had 2 contacts, 1 with Busi. Dunno if I was at fault TBH very hard to call. The 2nd contact was with Stewprovo, I was having a look down his inside and totally missed my braking point, luckily he stayed on and didn't lose to much time EDIT: Look like you did, sorry. I think I'll try another car next race.
Good race all. Grats Joss and unlucky Busi
Cya soon JonM

[Busi]

Crazy one! I feel I could've won, but I couldn't do anything in the key moments with such top speed difference from FreQ.

Started on pole but FreQ's rocket flew past me at the backstraight, could do nothing but try to get stuck behind. Jose went ver deep into the hairpin in the following lap and I spun trying to get a fast exit from there chaos back to 8th I think.

Started a comeback in which I had some difficulties getting past Stewprovo (nice one mate! ). Oh and a very very hot moment including myself, H@L, TT and a backmarker, all together into the hairpin, I was last before the corner, first exiting it so I was soon up to 3rd, then 2nd when Jon had some sort of problem maybe with goldtop's frozen car?

Kept pushing and was getting closer and closer to FreQ, both of us with very worn tyres (I was on hard rears, undriveable ), but he spun and I took the lead before pitting.

Still in the lead after the pits but only 1 second ahead. FreQ did some very fast first laps and I fell asleep, when I woke up he was behind me in the backstraight - doh! flew past again lol

Very nice battle from then on, I didn't know what to do to get past! Tried all sorts of racing lines but the Viper was too fast in any straight... then I got the stop&go from 3 warnings at the exit of T1... thank god I could rejoin in 2nd.

Grats FreQ and Purdie

[Prof]

About my favourite race ever. I had a race-long battle with API and we were almost identically matched even in the pit stop. There was barely a second between us for the whole race and only lapping GT1s caused any real change in the gap which reached 3s at one point.
Fantastic race and well done API and the podiums!

Disappointing fuel economy from the BMW which needed the best part of 140l of fuel when others could go the whole race without refueling. It's not as if it has the highest top speed.

[Legzy]

Pleased to get this one out the way & basically stole the 3rd step on the podium from Prof  .

Decided to take advantage of my seasonal one car swap allowance at this race. GTC F430 just seems to suffer overheating tyres more then other cars (in testing) & lacks 'oomph' on the straights, so had a go with the Porka (to show AWOL MJ how it's done ). Knew I didn't have the pace on this track to compete lap by lap (didn't fancy many laps practice here) with the fastest GTC chaps, so loaded up the fuel & hoped the tyres would last till the end.

Purdie was last to pit (except me) giving me a false 1st GTC slot (but he wasn't to know ) & I guess you were pushing all you could after your stop to close up the gap? While I was in front, I was kind of hoping for a late rain storm, so we'd all have to change tyres... but it wasn't to be & i pitted for a drop of fuel & popped out the pits about 5 secs ahead of Prof & API's battle. I think that between them fighting & the lapping cars, I just about got away with my badly suffering tyres.

Simon missing tonight & it being Purdie's first race has meant my '3rd' here is enough to sit me at the top of the GTC table... for the next two weeks at least

Legzy

p.s. had a small coming together with someone at the hairpin, not quite sure if it was Goldtop who I'd flashed through & he'd had a problem pulling away, or if it was a car I guess trying to follow him through?    Not sure who that was, but if it was my fault (please let me know) on either of you, sorry. If it was your fault... I look forward to an apology    

[Paul968]

Decided to take advantage of my seasonal one car swap allowance at this race. GTC F430 just seems to suffer overheating tyres more then other cars (in testing) & lacks 'oomph' on the straights, so had a go with the Porka (to show AWOL MJ how it's done Wink).

You do realize that this means you have to stick with the Porker or suffer a points penalty?