UKGTR Season 11 - Brno - Dec 6

[ad1980]

I thought I had restarted the server with a new weather file this morning but perhaps not 

Feel free to PM me when there are issues as I don't always see when problems are reported buried in threads. Server should be there again.

cheers mate will bear that in mind next time 

[Jayblue]

Lost connection after an exciting first part to the race. Very rare for this to happen to me 

Jon did a great quali lap and i started second but seemed able to push harder than early on and soon snuck past. Then for some reason i experienced brain fade at the second to last turn and forgot to brake and hit the wall. Dropped well back and after some great racing with TT & Gazza i was back up into fourth when i DC'd. Oh well, Brno has never been kind to me in all my sim racing days and nothing changed today...

[Simon Gymer]

Oooerr missus. First time for a very long time I got a disco from the server.

Was happily trundling along in 2nd not too far behind team mate Jon with Jose not far behind me. Then out of the blue times to everyone else started to rise rapidly. Thought there might be something wrong, hoped it would recover but a lap later it chucked me off. Didn't get booted from TeamSpeak though and I'm 99% trouble free on cable normally.

Server software seemed a bit stressed with a full grid so I guess that wasn't helping things for everyone.

Oh well, not much you can do. Bye bye championship lead.

[lazlow]

Not the best of starts for me...managed to get punted round on the warm up lap 
I also had a problem with the pitting (must off been the large number of people on the server) I pressed the request pitstop button, but when I arrived there was someone parked in my pit box :'(
Apart from those couple of incidents I had a really good race....car felt good to drive, if a little slower than everyone else.

Well done teamies for picking up some valuable Championship points..hotting up quite nicely

C u all in Spain....aarreebba!!

[JonM_uk]

Qualifying went well. 1st time I've got on pole with medium tyres on After that I thought the race would be fairly easy TBH but JayBlue was a fair bit quicker and after a nice couple of laps racing he got past, he started to pull off but then...I got lucky and he fell off. No doubt he would have won this race hands down if he'd stayed on. I had a nice 20s gap come the pitstop but I'd made a few real life errors. First my steering wheel fell off the table but I was able to jam it back on and only lose about 1s and then I thought my chair was too high so I pulled the lever...Was like an old lady looking over the wheel after that I had the same old problem at the pits as usual where my crew chief tells me to turn off the already turned off engine(time for a reinstall I think) but I only lost about 15s so no big deal today. After that it was just a matter of trying to be consistent and with Sharky only 5s back he kept me on my toes. Was a shame when he disco'd but I guess that's the way it goes, would've been nice to get a Shark 1-2. Was a nice race overall and I'm glad to have won, thanks to the GTC drivers for being extremely polite and the lapped GT1's too

[Jayblue]

Oooerr missus. First time for a very long time I got a disco from the server.

Was happily trundling along in 2nd not too far behind team mate Jon with Jose not far behind me. Then out of the blue times to everyone else started to rise rapidly. Thought there might be something wrong, hoped it would recover but a lap later it chucked me off. Didn't get booted from TeamSpeak though and I'm 99% trouble free on cable normally.

Server software seemed a bit stressed with a full grid so I guess that wasn't helping things for everyone.

Oh well, not much you can do. Bye bye championship lead.

I have cable broadband too so it seems they are to blame for our problems tonight...

[H@L9000]

Nice race.

I had a good view of the battle between Jon and JayBlue in the opening laps.

Gutted that I made a couple of mistakes as my pace was rather good by my standards. My last spin (5 mins from the end )  put me in the wall and I had major damage. I was lucky that all the wheels stayed on as I was able to limp it back home to claim 5th.  

See you all in Spain.

[picnic]

Replay and provisional results posted

LapChart

[Prof]

I had not driven here since the damp race we had a couple of months ago. I was shocked to qualify second in class but had no idea which tyres to choose on a cold day. I got it wrong and was quite pleased to finish 4th having been passed by Dave in the pits and McFids on the track (good fun chase waiting for a mistake which never came).
Well done to all podium finishers and most GT1 lapping attempts.

[Truetom]

First an apology to phspook for a scary moment while lapping at left hander at the bottom of the hill. I didn't want to lap you there, was gonna wait until the up-straight. You drifted out a bit and I thought you were leaving me room. Good reaction, my man.
I tried to use safe parts of the track for lapping, I hope I mostly succeeded, GTCs were real gents.

Qualified 7th with a pb and I was quite satisfied as Brno was never my lucky track. After some dicing with the Psuedo team members and Jayblue I managed to get through and was driving 4th after Jayblue discoed - bad luck. Then Jose pitted and Shark and Jon and I drove with an empty track in front, thought I was making good time and expected a good result after my pit. Lol, came out 10 sec behind Jose, so much for my "quick" pitstop. Shark and Jose were having a good time which enabled me to slowly creep closer. Then Shark discoed - bad luck again - and some GTCs were to be passed and Jose was 10 sec away again. H@l was comming closer from behind but I kept me wits and held. Then Jose must have had some issue with the car, tyres or fuel as I started to close quite rapidly. Ran out of laps, I did. Grats to both podys. I'm well pleased with my third here, one of the rare Champain Occasions on this track.

Erm, I have no objections for ongoing distribution of GT1 podiums, guys. Please note that there are others still without 1st or 2nd place, like H@l and Gazza, etc. Everyone should get their 1st or 2nd place, I'm satisfied with the 3rd, thank you.

Good race.

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Mostly good race that; was surprised to be fairly competetive in the 997, although it's a very 'point and squirt' track which should suit it.

Qualified 3rd but lost that place early on to McFids avoiding trouble ahead; gave chase and towards the end of the stint I clearly had a better car as the tyres wore. The proportion of GT1 or GTC is a big frightening and at times the lapping traffic was manic; at one point I was in an Aston sandwhich with one of them on the grass passing me.

Sadly I bumped McFids round at one point whilst trying to get a run on him. Waited to let him get going again, which should've let Prof get away, but he had his own dramas and it was soon a threesome again. Then more lapping chaos at the top of the hill saw the three of us trying to go into the penultimate corner simultaneously; that worked even less well and at least two of us were off.

Did a couple of steady laps until McFids caught me up again and let him by also letting Goldtop by in the process. Pit stops were coming and I only needed the tiniest splash of fuel; had no idea what the Z4 needed but Picnic told me over TS it was thirsty so I thought I had a good chance of jumping both of them.

The plan worked and I came out 20 seconds ahead, but I could see the gap closing. Even more worrying, I didn't know whether Goldtop hadn't yet stopped, or whether he'd pulled a fast one and just taken fuel and no tyres. As time pounded on it became clear that the Z4s weren't going to catch me, but although I was closing Goldtop down fast, it wasn't clear whether I could catch and pass him before the end of the race.

With a big sigh of relief I saw him pit with 10 minutes to go, and was able to cruise home in second place, 'best of the rest' a country
mile behind Ginsters.


Really not sure what was going on last night with the server; most of the cars looked stable and solid, with a few specific cars warping - GSI Bob, Terry, and Craske all noticable warping at times. With Shark's disco as well, I wonder if there was a problem on one of the cable networks rather than a server load issue?

[ginsters sponsored]

Always enjoyed Brno and luckily I just clicked with it and the Spyker during the pracci sessions. Made for an uneventful race though. GT1's were very good although I did get a rather funny clattering from Jon, thought it might have been team tactics  Congrats to all the runners and riders.

Will see how the Spyker goes around Barca (not my best track) and then maybe plump for another motor to "mix it" more. Great turnout but a few more in GTC would be welcome I guess 

[Craske]

at one point I was in an Aston sandwhich with one of them on the grass passing me.  

Er yeah my bad dude  , I wanted to come to your left but Legzy was there, We were having such a hard fight and I was just going too fast. If I had tried to slow down behind you it would have been a 3 car pile up I'm sure.

Really not sure what was going on last night with the server; most of the cars looked stable and solid, with a few specific cars warping - GSI Bob, Terry, and Craske all noticable warping at times. With Shark's disco as well, I wonder if there was a problem on one of the cable networks rather than a server load issue?

Terry Roberts and I are on the same network, I have a 6Mb internet connection which should be more than enough. I really hope it's nothing to do with last nights disco's.

Good race for me again, had a battle swapping places with legzy for what seemed like for ever. Legzy put the hammer down after that and left me behind and I spent the rest of the race on my own.

Thanks to all the GTCs great job, and congrats to podiums.

[Mcfids]

Fantastic close racing last night with Dave and Prof.

Qualified 4th in GTC class and got the jump on Dave at the race start as he was held up by Prof (I think). From then Dave was glued to my backend for the next 1/2 hour and it was great fun trying to stave him off. Thanks for waiting for me Dave after my off - another reason I like to race here at SRouk.

Dave finally got past and the Prof, Dave, Mcfids train entered the Pits at the same time (as well as everyone it seemed). I was somewhat surprised to see Dave exit 20 seconds before me, which I'm guessing from your earlier post was due to the 997s frugile use of fuel. Myself and Prof, however, exited the pitlane side by side with Prof winning the game of chicken at T1.

After a few laps I managed to get past Prof on a good run going into T1, but he was hanging on my shirt tails for the remainder of the race. Btw Prof, what tyres did you go for? I went for mediums all round, which were the right choice I think; anymore laps and hard may have been the better choice.

Very good lapping from all concerned. It was absolutely manic at times as GTC battles got mixed up with GT1 battles:) Congrats to podiums.  

    

[spanner]

With the rain holding off and the surprisingly warm ambient temps i felt i might not spend the entire race hot-lapping or digging myself out of the gravel.It actually ended up being quite a manic race with someone always nearby to push me along! Early on was a good scrap trying to hold off Terry then i managed to creep closer to the group ahead who see to be slowing each other up a bit and then tried to get past G_bob which was fun and we were running quite close at times and there wasnt any warping but it seemed to happen occasionally though as i remember once down the main straight you were warping a bit.
Managed to get some good drive up the final hill a few times but couldnt always make it stick.

Then managaed to work my way up to Blunder and had so close scraps with me starting to miss apexes as the tyres started to struggle and Blunder took it as an open invitation

Nearly messed up my stopp as i ended up canceling/ enabling the stop several times during my final lap as it seems to be delayed from me pushing the button before, just getting it in finally. Came out with Bob infront by 5 secs and Blunder behind by about 9 secs eventually but the tyres felt completely different in the second half so was just happy to keep about there.