UKGTR Season 10 Lower Endurance - Zhuhai - Oct 11

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Is the server back up? Its getting near my bedtime 

[spanner]

Shall be on later for a bit of praccy around this horrible track :'(

[ad1980]

hi all, if poss i would like to join you on sundays race if theres space,

i did do 1 race last season on silverstone and loved every minute off it but i moved away 2 weeks after that and have only just got back on line ( things go  a bit slow in the north of scotland  )

hope there is space cheers

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[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Hi Adam, there'll be space more likely than not. The GT3s have been a bit sparse as of late so if you choose that class you should have a good shot at top 5.

[Jimmie]

So GT2+GTC for next season?




Am I the only one liking Zhuhai? It's easy to learn, bit too much straights between corners (making it better for GT1), lots of slipstream opportunities though
On the other hand its too flat and boring, but it's good fun nailing corners like this for good exit speeds.

[Truetom]

I like it as well. Rain's comming too ... 

[Stewprovo]

I'm another fan of this track. But I would say that as I had one of my best ever results with a 4th in GT1 last time we were here.

[Mark J]

Zhuhais another yawn fest of a track imo...which should mean i have another cracking race like Anderstorp 

but there is not much to get excited about this place, flat as a billboard, point and squirt. ...and we use Mosport as a non-champ filler race 
Its saving grace is plenty of overtaking opportunities in the braking zones and corner exits.

[Jimmie]

I guess the records are going to be broken, low-mid 1:33 as pole?

[Jure]

Surrender all your setup settings please. 

Wing on what, 6-7?

Race pace mid 35s?

This track is just a chinese copy of A1 Ring. Boring in principle, but fun to blast around. 

[Truetom]

Yes to all.

[Craske]

I won't be running with you guys tonight, Thanks for all the help setting up and hopefully I'll be able to do next weeks race.

Hope you all have fun.

[jpv]

Sorry gsi bob, apparently I still can't race.  Didn't feel like continuing after ruining your race.

[Stewprovo]

All I can say is' Sack the flaming pit crew...all of them!!!!!!!' Yet again team KC pit crew ignore my request for fuel...TWICE! So ended up with 3 pit stops, 13th, and extremely P off!!!!! Gratz to all, see you next week.

[Mark J]

i'm gonna start with a complaint    if we are going to use variable weather (which i am a fan of) can we at least make sure it flipping rains when it says its going to rain for the next 3 days on the weather forecast! I wasted 2 hours today practising for a wet race here and compromised my enduro setup for it, only to have a completely dry race  ..and i dont normally get that sort of spare time....grrr.

Rant over  

First half hour of race was fantastic in a brilliant duel for 9th with L Galluzzi? in a shark Modena. I was all over him in most of the braking zones but he kept leaving me for dead on the straights and we had a great duel with Spanner keeping a steady pace a few secs behind. But then guttingly, Galluzzi disco'd right in front of me.   What a shame as that looked like a race long battle on the cards. I lost a bit of concentration after that let down and spanner closed up. But then he pitted really early and i was left on my own with a 9 sec gap to Jimmie in 8th ahead. I took off a couple of secs but i got a bit bored on my own and took too much kerb in that fast left hander and got spat into the armco. Splitter gone and front damage...got called in by pits half hour earlier than planned stop. Bugger  :'(
Threw a load of fuel in to get me to end of race and got repaired, losing 69 seconds and dropped to back of field from 9th :'(
It was a lonely race from then on with only GTCs for company and finally finished 11th. One more lap and would have been 10th as Jimmie ran out of fuel in front of me and i think even TT did too ? but JM was too fast as usual and finished a lap ahead !
Well done Jon   Great drive by Legzy as well from back of the grid to finish in top 10