UKGTR Season 10 Lower Endurance - Zhuhai - Oct 11

[Jimmie]

Well... had a reasonable qualy and was happy with place 6.

After race start I had to get into it a bit with almost a full tank, but those pesky 430 and 997's which corner like on rails were already eager waiting for an opportunity, luckily the 360 has more power so I could hold out for a while.

After a couple of laps I saw my engine temp slightly overheating and saw the engine health dropping down 5% a lap... Oops I tested it offline but the track temp was much lower.
So was shortshifting and took the loss with Jose and TT passing me.
Luckily the temperature dropped 2 degrees during race which brought the engine temperatuer just within the limits, bit later on the temperature went back again (heat up) so I was in trouble again.. But then the dark clouds came and the temperature dropped -3 degrees. Finally I could race again, though had to short shift now and then and release throttle end of straight since I was running too much revs there.

Since I lost so many time for me being stupid, I thought I'll fill up as less as possible to make some time up, but I miscalculated and in the end and I was hoping the race would end 3 or 4 laps early.
It didn't.. so last lap I was 1L short of making the finish and parked it in the grass..

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Sooooo frustrated with myself.

I fully expected to be tooling round at the back like a spare nut, so when I found myself not far off the mid-pack in GT3 during qually I felt a bit more confident that I could have a good race.

Started well and to my surprise, Prof and API failed to zoom off into the distance. Kept pace with them until they had a "fog of war" incident as the GT2 hoardes lapped us and I snook past. Clouds were gathering and rain looked imminent, so when Prof pitted I stayed out, hoping to stretch my fuel and tyres until either the heavens opened, or the skies lightened again.

I saw the tyre wear click over 10, but the balance was okay as both ends were wearing the same. Of course, I still needed to be on my guard as the grip level dropped, especially as it could start sprinkling rain at any moment. So why did I drop a wheel off on the outside of turn 1 - where I'd been very careful all race - causing my car to turn sharp right, faceplant me into the barrier, and then send me down the armco until I smacked straight into part of the wall which jutted out.

My crew chief came on the radio. "You've got some front end damage. You might have some understeer."

Thanks, but I think my mysteriously absent front right wheel will cause more than understeer. Game over, just when it was starting to get interesting. :'(

[JonM_uk]

Another god race for me. Qualified 3rd with about the fastest time I could do so was happy. In the race SBG and H@L seemed to have a bit more pace than me but as the laps went on I got by H@L after a small mistake I think, then I followed SBG for many laps, some I would close up and on others he would pull away but the gap always remained under 2s. Then in traffic SBG got a little tied up so I took advantage which probably was the only way I was going to overtake him TBH. I managed to squeeze down the inside of him and then couldn't pull away. Just a roll reversal of before. We had another little dice when I came across gsi bob's car who seemed to be lagging. Was only for a short time I think but it was enough for me to back off a little and I didn't need to give SBG an invitation, he was through. I was lucky that it was a short run down to the next corner and the F430 is great on the brakes so I just went for the inside and it was like it was on rails. The next few corners were a bit scrappy but then It was a case of holding out for the rain...When would it come? I was just gonna come in whenever SBG did but came in a lap after. When I came out I was 5s up on SBG and I thought the +1s/-1s thing would start again but to my surprise he just kinda fell back. It was just a cruise to the line then
Great racing all and thanks loads to the guys being lapped. I know it must be hard when the cars overtaking haven't really got much more speed than yourselves
Unlucky TT. A new record I think as well as the most GTR races that's the closest I think I've seen anyone come to the finishing line after running out of fuel

[ginsters sponsored]

Tough break Stew, saw you running really well as well

Brilliant first 50 mins with Jon   Lapping the GT3's nose tail had me beaming from ear to ear. They were brilliant as the rather wheezy Lambo could only really breeze through on the corners, especially nfast who could have, fairly, made it very tricky for us. Ta. Jon eventually got past after I got held up and I returned the favour little later but he was back in front for pitstop. Can't really blame the crew (muppets anyways) as I somehow managed to fill my tank up again after flapping trying to turn damage off.

Lost Jon but then had Hol for company till end. Pretty comfortably held him off by 0.05 at the end Good stuff.

Can't hope wondering if it would have been even more fun the Panoz though Jon  

[Jimmie]

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  

I was suprised that after your stop you were suddenly miles away
And second time in a row I want to save some precious weight but just came up short lol. I did expect the race to end earlier but 1 lap wasn't enough
Lost me 2 places there (3 if TT also ran out (Legzy suddenly finished before him so don't know what happend)).

And about the forecast:
Sunday Night
Chance of Rain. Overcast. Low: 25 °C . Wind light. Chance of precipitation 40% (water equivalent of 5.61 mm). Heat Index: 32 °C .

Only a slight chance, not like it's going to be wet 100%

I actually tested with a generated weather file this afternoon and it was sunny with race fully clouded (like end of the race) so I didn't expect it to rain actually (or only mildly, damp, but then you could just drive on with slicks).

[picnic]

Replay and provisional results posted

LapChart

[H@L9000]

Lost Jon but then had Hol for company till end. Pretty comfortably held him off by 0.05 at the end Good stuff.

LOL, yep. What a finish.

Nice race for me. My car had the straight line advantage which I seemed to be making good use of. I lost a position to Jon early on after what was indeed a small mistake.

I was never further than 6 seconds from another car for the entire race, which was nice, but stressful.

Simon applied the pressure on me a few times but, I did not get distracted and fall off this time. I caught sbg towards the end of the race. He seemed to have dropped his pace a little and we had an 'almost' photo finish.

Well done podiums.

[goldtop]

Dreadful race for me. Last on the GT2 grid after a hopeless quali so decided to fill it for a splash/dash.

Made one too many mistakes coming out of those tight corners and was in the wall with damage and front puncture. Pitted for repairs and fuel, but somehow forgot that I needed to change the fronts, so had to do a full lap with the same puncture before pitting again

Worse than that, I think I might have held up sbg allowing Jon to have a run on him into the following corner and take the lead. Big apologies if that was the case

[Jimmie]

Replay and provisional results posted

LapChart

The results of the LapChart seem correct to me, how come I'm 3 places down on the results page (on this thread)?

I ran out last lap and wasn't lapped by the front runners, so it's totally bogus

[picnic]

The results of the LapChart seem correct to me, how come I'm 3 places down on the results page (on this thread)?

I ran out last lap and wasn't lapped by the front runners, so it's totally bogus

Sadly that's the way the import scripts work. You didn't complete that lap. You'll find several places where this has happened in the past, include to yours truly

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!

You could always do what everyone else can do and click the generate weather button and see what the system is going to generate

[JonM_uk]

Unlucky TT. A new record I think as well as the most GTR races that's the closest I think I've seen anyone come to the finishing line after running out of fuel

  Just checked the replay...I guess you didn't get the record

Can't hope wondering if it would have been even more fun the Panoz though Jon  

Maybe we can pencil the Panoz in for Brazil I may race it TBH. The F430 has probably seen the last of me, then again if the Panoz is rubbish...

[Jimmie]

The results of the LapChart seem correct to me, how come I'm 3 places down on the results page (on this thread)?

I ran out last lap and wasn't lapped by the front runners, so it's totally bogus

Sadly that's the way the import scripts work. You didn't complete that lap. You'll find several places where this has happened in the past, include to yours truly

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I just did a quick check in the replay: Mark Jonzo and gsi bob unlap (and spanner if I'm correct? didn't see him that fast) themselves but when they finish the race they're actually still half a lap behind me.

Can't you cheat the import file then so I end up at the right place? (or edit this imported data afterwards)

Not that I'm going for the championship or something, but seeing the results this way makes me feel like a sad puppy


edit: now I think of it, ain't it possible to give a penalty but then positive places upwards (most easy fix not?)

[Truetom]

Meh, didn't do as good as I anticipated.
Firstly, my quali time was almost 1 sec slower than my pb, got 8th. The race went ok from the start, was past Jimmie relatively quickly after his mistake and then pulled away slowly. Was behind Jose the whole time, was a bit quicker but couldn't pass. We were very close with the cars up to 3rd place, so I was quite optimistic at the time. Gained some time after Jose went to pit and waited for the friggin' rain to start. Had meds and full fuel so strategy could be adopted if there was something to adopt to. This way I just tried to get as close to H@l as possible. Tyres were ok, even with rears worn up to 20 I was making latimes only 0,5 sec slower than my pb in race. Pitted, took softs and 10 l of fuel and came out just in front of Gazza(?) and Jose. Was gauging if I can make a turn before them and while staring into the rear mirror promptly forgot to brake and went into the sand. r00kie crap 1.  ( Instead of getting 5th place and start molesting Shark for 4th I fell to 7th. Jose was slow and I was closing fast. Was preparing an exit to pass and was too fast through the corner and tapped him to spin. r00kie crap 2. Was driving on, not knowing weather to wait stop or quit. Cruised as I waited if he's gonna pass Jimmie as I wanted to let Jose by. He did and I waited for him at s/f line. The sneaky bastardo Legzy sneaked by as well, suits me right, there. Oh, r00kie crap 3.
And no, I didn't run out of fuel.

Big sorry to Jose. Made a report and I expect to go backward some more places.

Lapping was difficult, though it's not GT3s fault, they were brilliant. Speed difference is a bit low and it was hard to pass without both cars losing time.
Nice to see you again, MJ.

Grats to podys. 

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Can't you cheat the import file then so I end up at the right place? (or edit this imported data afterwards)

Sporting Regulations - Race Classification

Competitors will be classified according to the following criteria, in order:

• Finishing position as recorded in the server export
  Currently rFactor is the only sim in use by SRou which supports this.
• Highest number of laps complete
• Fastest race time; competitors marked as having retired are classified behind those given a race time
• Fastest qualifying time

I know it seems harsh but we've all been on the receiving end of it at one time or another. GTL/GTR2 only record the finishing position as it was when the driver left the server, which means it's more than a little ambiguous, and doesn't accurately record all laps, which means the import process can't consistently examine the detailed lap data.

[Mark J]

And about the forecast:
Sunday Night
Chance of Rain. Overcast. Low: 25 °C . Wind light. Chance of precipitation 40% (water equivalent of 5.61 mm). Heat Index: 32 °C .

Only a slight chance, not like it's going to be wet 100%

I actually tested with a generated weather file this afternoon and it was sunny with race fully clouded (like end of the race) so I didn't expect it to rain actually (or only mildly, damp, but then you could just drive on with slicks).

When did it change to that? Each time i looked it said rain, rain and chance of thunderstorms for the 3 day spell. Mind you i was flipping tired this weekend so may have glazed over it too quickly. If i was wrong i will take my foot out of my mouth and apologise. I dont remember it saying 'chance of rain' though otherwise i wouldnt have done so much wet praccy (more than dry!).

Unlucky with that fuel problem though Jimmie.