UKGTR Season 11 - Barcelona (GP) - Dec 13

[Truetom]

Beautifuly crafted page.

[Clive Loynes]

Spanner...

Will point you at these as long as you don't then beat me 

iRacing and 550 GTR2 set ups etc.

http://www.teamredline.co.uk/setups/sim/9/

M.

Thanks for the link.  The GH race setup has sneaked me below the 1:39 barrier but I don't have a clue why.  I had been piling on the power side diff and had gone past 50% in an attempt to get some power on-steering but GH seems to provide that using black magic and 30% power side.

His qually setup wasn’t much use to me as it’s only good for two laps before the guy on the radio starts ranting at me, in Swahili, about the engine over heating.  It takes me two laps to remember which way the corners are going.

[Burtoner]

I wont be around tonight, visiting my dad..

[Busi]

I'm most probably gonna be racing tonight

[David M]

 

Nae chuffed!

Qualified 13th, that'll do after 10 months of no racing! Got going in the race, lost 2 places after re-passing somebody who'd passed me who outbraked themselves a bit into T1, so I had to run v.wide so we didn't collide, lost the 2nd place as a result.

Then the rain came, a bit rubbish 'cause I was running very long, but I realised after about 10 seconds that folk seem to struggle when it looks wet, I was planning on staying out for 3/4 laps to see which way the rain went, during which time I would make up several places. Except I suddently lagged out a lot, thought I'd been disconnected so I hit Escape to make sure my lagging 550 didn't get in anybodys way...only to find when I was back in the pits, I could see everybody else again (after a few seconds more of uber-lag)...so I could've probably got away with not quitting.

Disappointing, I was delghted when I saw the rain!

[phspok]

Big mess. Was disapointed to see the rain, I too was going for a long 1st run, came round the 2nd to lst
and hit a red 550 that looked to be rejoining, but was hung. got lapped while getting out of the gravel
pitted, left tyres as hard all round, got VERY warpy into T1 so I went wide to let two GT1s through
went into the fence for my trouble, partys of car flying through the air, not keen on wet on line races anyway
so quit.

[Craske]

Well not my best race, was hitting low 1.37s in practice but couldn't manage anywhere close to that in qualy.
First lap of the race went well made a space or 2 then the weather turned.
I was all over the place so i pitted in for wet tyres and low and behold when i came out of the pits it had stopped raining, went round one more lap pitted again, messed my fuel up and escaped out of the game.

congrats to all finishers.

[ad1980]

ma game went mental on me  everytime i went to join the race it was saying i was in 1st and all i could see was sky 
tryed many a time esc back to pits but same thing happened every time i tried to join how annoying 

from the sounds of things race is bit off a nightmare anyway

congrats to the winners

[Busi]

Shame I was gonna join in the middle of qualifying, but just saw the server going from 27/28 to 28/28 - server full DOH!

Gutted especially hearing that it started to rain :'( hope you guys are enjoying it

[JonM_uk]

Blah
Race was going OK. JayBlue was a fair bit quicker in the race and I had no answer to his speed but was confident of 2nd place, then....SBG flashed me past so was just searching for the 'h' on the keyboard to flash back and my arm flicked the gear lever and threw the car in to 1st and the engine blew 2nd time I've done that now. Nevermind. Hope you all had a good 'un cya next time

[nsfast]

ma game went mental on me  everytime i went to join the race it was saying i was in 1st and all i could see was sky 

Bad luck Ad. I've had that problem before. I'm sure you're luck will improve 

[Clive Loynes]

Am I right in thinking that if you don't select a setup when the session changes to race then you get stuffed in the default?

I certainly felt like it but with the rain I didn't really know which way was up.  

I managed to always be on the wrong tyres in the first half of the race.

The sky was as black as the inside of your hat after five laps so I put wets on.

By the time I came out of the pits it had just about stopped and all four tyre were showing red in that thingamy in the top left of the screen.  So I pitted again and put intermediates on, since it was still raining.  They were OK but I had no idea what they were going to do.  Finally at half distance I went back to medium slick and stayed like that for the rest of the race.

[Simon Gymer]

Unlucky Jon. Maybe map the lights to your shifter unit, or don't flash back ? I have mine on the far left red button.

Pretty disasterous race for me. Qualified in an amazing 3rd that I really wasn't expecting. My practice involved driving back and making it just before the start of the event, so I just grabbed the last setup (as usual) and dived right in. Quick adjustment on the gear ratios and stuff and was sorted.

With Jon in 2nd and me in 3rd on the grid I thought it was going to be a bonanza night for Team Shark. Bah! Weather! Bah!

Started fine, with TT behind me, just getting into it and then the skies suddenly darkened and it started to rain heavily. In that one lap I really struggled to hold it on track and decided if it was raining this hard I would be clever and get hard wets on straight away. Jon and JayBlue didn't and I thought oooh, might get the jump on them here by coming in first. Bah! I think the reasoning was good, but after 1 or 2 laps the rain stopped and the wet tyres were so bad that it was almost like driving on ice.

Decided I had to stay out then as I didn't want to lose another pit stop, but after a while and speaking to Jon I realised I was 6 or 7 seconds off the pace of the slicks and so I stayed out as long as I could to get enough fuel to get to the end. Well I came in earlier than that to put on slicks and realising it was VERY tight on fuel I raced 40-50 minutes on short shifting to make sure I made it to the end. As it turns out not sure that was a good idea either as I was losing 2 seconds a lap short shifting which I maybe could have made up again with a splash and dash.

Oh well, most annoyed as I had the third fastest lap of anyone in the race so a podium was a real possibility. Just unlucky. In hindsight I should have stuck to my usual rule of if you aren't falling off then don't pit to change tyres just cause the rain is falling.

Well done JB and SBG on the wins.

Bad luck to Picnic too on yet another disco.

[Simon Gymer]

BTW, can I PLEASE ask everyone to ENABLE Simple Debris Collisions in their games. There was one moment in that race when I was behind another GT1 and someone ahead went off into the gravel and it made the other GT1 warp like mad. Enabling simple debris collisions stops the graphics slow down and subsequent warp.

[API]

Well that was a total disaster.

Got a tap on the formation lap (might have been my own fault), did 2 and a half pit stops (I was already on the pit lane, going to change the tyres back to slicks when it started to rain again...) and hit 2-3 lagging cars. And I short-shifted for the last 7-10 minutes to just notice that the race won't last that long. I'm glad that I didn't practise so much for this race.

Sorry GTCs if I was a bit aggressive. The rain just isn't for me (besides that I'm not so good in driving in wet conditions, I also suck at tactics ).

Well done winners and pods.