Endurance Championship Division 2 - Season 1, Round 7, Anderstorp - Oct 16

[Jamera]

Firstly congrats Dave & Gerald, good 1st & 2nd in class, secondly "what a prat!!! I had pole in class, Dave span out behind me and threw the race with too many silly offs :'(

[Simon Gymer]

That was tough. Well done SBG, looked very close with Mo at the end and Gizmo (even though I beat you in my German U-Boat) for his class win.

I usually don't mind the rain, the Lambo is great in the wet, but was struggling with the BMW a bit, was good for my G3 championship hopes when Jon's pit crew decided they'd weren't being paid enough and walked out (perhaps you're car was running Michelins and they decided they didn't have any safe tyres to give you? )

It was quite a race of attrition. Didn't really deserve 6th overall, but as Murray Walker always said "to finish first first you must finish", although in my case that meant "to finish sixth first you must finish".  :

[greg130]

Complete nightmare of a race, 3 silly spins, finished 4th, enough said.

[Jon Chadwick]

nightmare on Anderstorp street!
took hard wets at start couldn't get any heat in them,
eventually damaged my car badly enough to warrant a pit stop and got some softs
after 4mins of repairs :'(
car felt good again at least before the dreaded 1fps bug got me
grats to SBG,gizmo and i presume Shark for the wins

[Jamera]

Complete nightmare of a race, 3 silly spins, finished 4th, enough said.

Only 3 lol u did well

[ginsters sponsored]

Jeez that was tough. First no-stopper race for me (soft wets lasted well) and my eyes were watering and head bouncing after about 45mins. Then to top it all mo began catching me like a bat out of hell when I could hardly focus on the screen. Just managed to hang on and lead an excellent 1+2 for the krawlers.

I didn't see much trouble, apart from the div.1 drivers , and didn't cause much except to Jon, sorry. Thx to everyone for being careful and congrats to Dave.   

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Bit of a nightmare race, was confident of class pole until Jamera pipped me by 0.03s - gah! Knew it was going to take quite a few laps to warm the tyres up, then had a stupid off at T1 just braking too late and having to turn whilst on the brakes, sailed off and rejoined, broke early for T2 and sailed straight on anyway with cold and dirty tyres.

Gathered it up but had damaged the splitter which was giving me mild understeer, never mind, it was still drivable and I figured the other NGT runners would also have offs. Settled back into a good rhythm and slowly but surely everyone else fell off the track and I regained the class lead.

T'was all going swimmingly until I decided to try braking fractionally later in T1, big mistake, got into a bit of snaking braking and "hello kitty" (litter). Then had another much stranger off in T4 where it just didn't slow down. Odd and very annoying, letting Shark back past in the G3 Bavarian Muppet Wagon, but I kept the class win thank goodness, a vital points haul in my championship quest.

Did get bumped by a 550 in turn 6 - was braking very conservatively after my offs, something caught my eye in the mirror, looked up to see it bearing down on me, "bump", luckily for both of us it was just a touch, he got through okay and I carried on. I guess I just caught you out with my early braking, whoever you were.

Had a couple of "after you", "no, after you" moments with Ginsters on the start/finish straight too.

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

car felt good again at least before the dreaded 1fps bug got me

Tough break - I had terrible stutters for a couple of minutes when I first joined and then it settled down. Just loading textures I guess.

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Was quite pleased to come in 10th out of 19 runners...does that get any points?

Points are scored per class so you'll get points for sure as there were only 4 of us in NGT.

You were doing really well in the first few laps at least, I was sure Jam and I would drop you easily but you were putting me under a fair bit of pressure until I went off.

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Was going along fine, took soft wet tyres and they seemed to start to go off after 20 mins so I thought pit in change tyres to hard wets and repair damage..... Drove to my pit stall and slowed down, then it happened....Nothing, no pitboard or any options so I pitted out went around again and the same thing happened 

Didn't we have a thread about this recently? If the crew hasn't called you in for fuel or tyres you need to tell them you're coming or they don't get ready for you.

I also noticed during testing that if you cut the corner on the pit entry lane you don't even get your pit stall marker!

[Jamera]

Was going along fine, took soft wet tyres and they seemed to start to go off after 20 mins so I thought pit in change tyres to hard wets and repair damage..... Drove to my pit stall and slowed down, then it happened....Nothing, no pitboard or any options so I pitted out went around again and the same thing happened 

Didn't we have a thread about this recently? If the crew hasn't called you in for fuel or tyres you need to tell them you're coming or they don't get ready for you.

I also noticed during testing that if you cut the corner on the pit entry lane you don't even get your pit stall marker!

I ALWAYS tell them I'm coming in just in case. Dave, roll on sprint season 2, think you and I are in for some interesting battles

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Got home after a weekend today to find my PC completely screwed, I suspect the mobo or CPU has fritzed  :'(
Can't tell you how much I was looking forward to this one, loads of praccy on my favourite track.

Bad luck - NGT numbers were really thin - and I missed our obligatory tussle. :'(

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Dave, roll on sprint season 2, think you and I are in for some interesting battles

Very interesting especially as I'm not running in the Sprint races.

[Jamera]

Dave, roll on sprint season 2, think you and I are in for some interesting battles

Very interesting especially as I'm not running in the Sprint races.

LOL, well about time you did then!!!!!!!

[mo]

Congrats to SBG, Dave and Shark on class wins, especially in treachorous conditions; in fact congrats to everyone who made it through.

Firstly. apologies to As-here who I hit when lapping in final corner  - so sorry if i wrecked your race.

Crazy weather and a tough race all round. Jon C had an off early on which handed me the lead! I then promptly threw it all away a lap or 2 later going off on turn 1, giving SBG the lead.
I eventually dropped to 5th after a further spin, so am actually very happy with 2nd place in the end.

Did get bumped by a 550 in turn 6 - was braking very conservatively after my offs, something caught my eye in the mirror, looked up to see it bearing down on me, "bump", luckily for both of us it was just a touch, he got through okay and I carried on. I guess I just caught you out with my early braking, whoever you were.

Sorry Dave, that was me in the F550 - I couldn't slow the thing down as quick as you could slow the F360.
I'm just happy that you stayed on the black stuff.

Hopefully we'll get sone wet sprint races