UKGTR Season 10 Upper Endurance - Road America (Full) - Sep 20

[Jure]

Sigh.

Jon, your setup... worked, kind of (i.e. can do a lap without visiting kitty litter ). Thx.

Above mentioned times are still... depressing.

[Truetom]

Btw, do we have the Algarve track? Looks great and really technical.

[spanner]

Think i've only seen it for rFactor.


Struggling a bit round here, difficulty stopping the car and end up locking up and losing the front into the corners Managed a 2.02 eventually with 40-50L in it but with full tanks i'm a few secs off.

[Legzy]

I can't see the server in the lobby. Can anybody else?

[Prof]

I can't see the server in the lobby. Can anybody else?

Nor me. I'll give Picnic a call.

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Something very odd going on on the box - hopefully the server is now up, but I've had to shut all the others down to get there...

[Mark J]

hope the GT1 racing is as fierce as it was in the Algarve round of the FIA GT today  did you see it? great last lap

[Legzy]

Piece of advice, don't drive the F360 Modena.

Carp qually session, carp race. Ended up on my hood in the middle of the track with Race leader JonM bearing down on me.... pressed esc to not ruin his race too (& put an end to my misery  :'( )

Championship over for me now (though it would have been hard to beat Jim in his Z4 anyway, well done mate ).

[Jimmie]

Epic race!

At first I was in doubt if I would join the race cause I was still learning the track (around 20 laps of practise), but decided to have a go and just go for a steady pace fueled up with 100L.

Had a little battle with TrueTom in the beginning then I lost him a while for a bit, then later I passed 3 guys in an accident/off-moment.
TT was chasing me later on and I dived into the pit at lap 20. The lap before pitting, I was adjusting the amount of fuel cause I saw that I had 25L of fuel left, so adjusted the amount of fuel to be fueled up to 75L.
Totally forgetting that I still had to finish this lap (and thus miscalculated my fuel amount).

After pitting I gained 2 places and was chasing Gazza49er. After a couple of laps I came to a sad conclusion that I didn't have enough fuel in
Had to save around 6L... oops
Anyway I went hypermyling and saw that TT and SBG (I think) weren't gaining any time on me (they were even losing a bit ~15 sec behind), they were obviously fighting for position so I was in a good position now hehe

Though with around 6 or 7 laps to go TT won the fight and suddenly was closing the gap with 1,5 sec a lap. Couldn't do anything about it, so just shortshifted on and was going to take the loss. With 2 laps to go I saw I wasn't going to make it (2L short) so had to drove really slowly so JonM would lap me and I could finish the race

ps: sorry for some backmarkers that I wasn't overtaking with the expected speed you guys had in mind (lead to some awkward situations )

[Simon Gymer]

Was going to try some new cars with the car pack changes, but ended up having no time at all. Turned up at the end of practice and had to take the Morgan again as something familiar. Took my Suzuka setup and took more wing off (2-5) and after a few qually laps made some other important changes.

I know the track quite well, but I didn't exactly know how to drive this version. Where could be fast in the corner, when to turn in, where to brake etc. Setup was ok everywhere except the carossel and the kink where the Morgan showed it's big weakness (no front end grip). You end up having to drive the car in a certain way to use the nice rear end grip.

I think I qualified 3rd in GTC with a 2:12.something? On lap 1 though I got a great run on API in his Mosler and was up into 2nd and away. Medium tyres and fuel tank of fuel (only 85litres now :'() saw me doing race pace same as qualifying, maybe a little quicker on the odd lap. Slowly pulled away from the guys behind whilst Lazlow shot off into the distance in the BMW.

Lap times were consistent even on worn rubber so at half distance I decided to switch strategy and come in with only 20 minutes left. Did that and was in the pits with about 18 minutes to go, switched to soft tyres and put enough fuel in to get to the end + 1 lap. The softs and lower fuel were amazing. The car was so much faster I dropped into the 2:10s for the first time and then into the 2:09s, showing how fast I could have gone in qually had I done any practice.

Unfortunately it wasn't enough to beat Lazlow as he was still quicker than me and when I came out of the pits 15 seconds behind him I knew it was game over really. I didn't really have any GTCs to race the whole race and it was so hard keeping concentration even on the straights where my car had a tendancy to wander around a bit. Overall a pretty dull race then, but a happily accepted 2nd place behind the deserved winner Lazlow and Prof behind me picking up a podium place meaning a 2, 3 for the team in GTC.

Had some scarey moments as GT1s passed me in some very scarey and unexpected places, like the carossel, the kink and the evil 4th gear right hander half way round the track. Still no contact and it gave me some excitement in the race whenever I got lapped by one of the GT1s. As always the total opposite of pleasure to see TrueToms butt ugly Marcos lap me, but it only happend twice I think so I didn't have to stare it for too long.

[JonM_uk]

Good race for me. Qually went well and then the race was just a matter of keeping a decent pace going through the race. Looked like some great battles behind at the start but that helped give me a nice gap early on. Car handled great. Nice race all, well done podiums

[H@L9000]

Great race, love that track.

I had TT closing down on me in the first flying lap, but I managed to hold him off.

I had a good fight with Busi after he made a mistake that allowed me to pass. However, I lost control at one point and was about to spin when Busi saved me. LOL. Cheers mate. I hope you had no damage from that, sorry if so. I was fine.

I had a good fight with SBG for a while as well. He was faster overall but I drove as defensively as I could in an attempt to maintain track position. I seemed to gain a good few seconds over him in the pit stop. Not sure how that happened?

Well done podiums.

[Mark J]

another dismal showing for me. I had the pace for a top 10 finish but everytime i got further up the grid, i then had an off and lost valuable chunks of seconds each time. Happened about 4 or 5 times   But fortunately others around me seemed to be suffering the same and the gap stayed relatively marginal for first half of race.

Stayed out longer on first stint than others thinking i would gain some time but when i emerged from my own stop i found myself 45 seconds behind the cars in front ...what the?   Decided to retire as nobody to race with such a ridiculous gap. How the hell did i lose so much time pitting? i cant believe you guys only swapped tyres or just put fuel in etc to make up time. I was stationary for 70 secs for full fuel and new boots. Seemed to take for ever to put 42mins worth of fuel in.

Great track but can be very frustrating in some of the tighter corners.

Congrats to winners.

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Can't believe I got 9th there no pace in qually, made a last minute change to run lowest wing both ends, improved my qually time a load but it turned out to be a big mistake as I kept running off in the fast corners, doubly so once the front left reach wear 10.

Made up about 4 places in the pit stops thanks to a very slick stop but knew some would be catching me fast in the second half.

White knuckle ending with Spanner homing in on me like a radioactive cruise missile during the last 10 minutes!

Very good driving from the GTCs, perhaps too generous at times. Sorry about sucking you off into the gravel API.

[API]

Good race.

Qualifying session went well. I set my new PB and achieved the second place in the grid. Awesome lap Lazlow! The race was going well until my screen got frozen for about 20(?) secs. After that I had to switch to the desktop to get the textures work right. So I lost about 30 secs in that incident. Sorry if someone did hit to my frozen car! After that I just tried to drive as fast as I could and gain few positions if possible. I climbed as high as 4th position which was a big surprise for me!

Well done Lazlow and Jon. Go Team Oldie!  

Very good driving from the GTCs, perhaps too generous at times. Sorry about sucking you off into the gravel API.

No problem Dave.