Endurance Championship Division 1 - Season 1, Round 8, Oschersleben - Oct 23

[Simon Gymer]

My apologies to anyone i got in the way of/or span in front of...suffered impossible lag/warping throughout whole of qualy. I tried one lap in the race but it got worse and un-driveable, so i baled out rather than cause accidents. 
Dont know if anyone else was suffering likewise? Not had any problems before.
But i do know NTL are sodding about with their broadband systems this weekend so it may have been that

Until next time, hope you had a good race.

Shame Mark, thanks for bailing, very good of you.

I haven't been able to read my NTL email for 3 days, but other than NTL connection has been fine.

[Jamera]

I had to bail out from the grid, bloody wire came off the poxy brake pot again, gutted

[Rich_A]

Had an obismal race, I felt jittery for some reason. Lost the rear tyres coming off a bump, quite a cool spin and slightest of tap on tyre wall and my splitter was gone. Team fixed it but I should have put more fuel in, realized I had to stop again and I was a little annoyed with myself. Decided to push on but ran out of fuel on last lap in 8th. Car felt great though..

There was an incident with two F360. The guy ahead of the two F360 seem to loose it coming off final turn, his car wooshed quickly to inner line where I was trying to follow the second F360 through but he had to slow a little and got a little bump from me .. sorry. I can't predict things like that at those speeds, I slow down always for nGT but i'm not slowing down for mistakes too.

Glad to hear you got some new hardware Craig, maybe give me buzz on msn if you having some probs - would be cool to hear what you got too, I got new x850xt last week very nice card..

Catch you later, Rich[CBFR]

[Luis Branco]

The race went well in terms of lag with exception from Doni and Fozzmeister, from who I had some lag, although Doni was by far the worst. My apologies to Fozz for the bump I gave you but I couldn’t avoid it as it was due to lag warp. Your car suddenly disappeared to reaper a moment after already in corner.

About the race it self it went pretty well if weren’t for my close encounter with a pin that made drop from 2nd to 7th. But even worst then that was my pit crew. I pitted in 1st and I took 54,5 secs   to change tyres and put 42 litres of fuel (no repairs).
Just for changing the tyres the crew took 33,5 secs   after I pressed Enter and another 21 secs after that to refuel 42 litres (yeah I checked the replay and i'm going to put some og the guys out of the team )

I had 2 good fights with Blaz and an amazing one with Truetom. I put all the pressure I could on Tom but he handled it very well. However I was losing time behind him and decided to make a fearless overtake. I bet Tom wasn’t expecting for such an aggressive brake and cornering but I had to try it as best I could. It worked flawlessly and I taken 3rd from Tom.

The second fight with Blaz was almost a copy of the fight with Tom, including the overtaking. I chosen the same corner and applied the same heartless manoeuvre to take 4th from Blaz.

Overall a great race if weren’t for the tremendous time lost in pit - between 10 and 15 seconds of what should be the normal pit stop.

Congrats to Jon for a great driving and deserved win.

[Mike Wrightson]

Enjoyed that back in my Viper

Seems to be one of the few GT's that I can get the most out of and I spent most of my time lapping in 25's and fighting with some of the Listers   Through accidents and offs for others, I went from 10th at the start to 6th at the end.  Quite pleased with that, no big mistakes, no spins, no offs, smooth pitstop and very stable setup.

Nice race

[picnic]

Replay is up, I'll do the import of results later if no one else does, I had to go out 10 mins ago 

[greg130]

Seems to be a problem with the replay, incomplete file.

[Mark J]

was wondering afterwards, would that have been the dreaded 1fps bug i have heard you guys mention on occasion in these posts?

Basically about every 15-20 seconds, the whole screen image would slow down/stutter to a ridiculously slow speed and the car would appear to judder along a section of track or warp forward about 20 yards. Are they the symptoms or just online lag ? Not had it before, is there a fast cure when in an online event?...ie should you drop out and come back into qualy?

It made it impossible to keep the car on track and i felt a right plonker in qualy, i couldnt even complete a lap until 13 mins to go. It seemed worse when i had either of two black 550's ? on track at same time. (cant remember names), though it may have just been coincidence. The first warm up race lap it happened nearly all the way round so parked it off pit straight after someone gave me a gentle nudge up the backside

[Don]

was wondering afterwards, would that have been the dreaded 1fps bug i have heard you guys mention on occasion in these posts?

Basically about every 15-20 seconds, the whole screen image would slow down/stutter to a ridiculously slow speed and the car would appear to judder along a section of track or warp forward about 20 yards.

I suffered a bit also, wasn't quiet the 1FPS I have had before but a real slowdown at times, then it would run smoothly again. That might explain my high ping and finally getting booted. weird!
Don.

[Truetom]

I bet Tom wasn’t expecting for such an aggressive brake and cornering...

Lol, yea, you're absolutely right! I was expecting your move on the start/finish straight, where I never left you enough room. Good move! When I saw you up close I chose not to block as it would have been real messy.   You were faster, anyway.

I had also a good duel with cb95amc (had to lok for this one, sorry mate, I can't remember names very well   ), I was on your tail and the pressure was visible - you were making mistakes and you came out of the S poorly, partly off the track and the fact that I was ready to pass you on the "Luis Branco straight" was the reason I was in your rear, got a puncture and had to pit and that was, of course, AFTER a regular pit stop. As far as I could see you could continue. Race accident, of course, with a sour taste... There goes my second place...  :'(

Otherwise a good race.

[Simon Gymer]

was wondering afterwards, would that have been the dreaded 1fps bug i have heard you guys mention on occasion in these posts?

No, it's not the 1 fps bug as that permanently shuts you down to 1 fps and you have to exit the game fully and come back to resolve.

[popabawa]

was wondering afterwards, would that have been the dreaded 1fps bug i have heard you guys mention on occasion in these posts?

Doesn't sound like it. From your description, I'd say the problem was connection related. Fingers crossed it's a temporary NTL thing as you suggest 

Pops

[Blaz]

Had good quali and bad race.
My pace was almost 2 sec slower, took hard  rear tyres cos hight track temp and i coudnt do 123 like my normal fast lap here. Was very frustrating race (was soooooo slow), but didnt do any larger mistake and finnished 5th.

[picnic]

Seems to be a problem with the replay, incomplete file.

Opps, appears I copied up the Barcelona one again when it failed this morning 

Seems to be giving a Netout error everytime I try and upload at the moment, it has done this before. Last time waiting sorted it but I'll try and copy it here and then up, but obviously that will take a bit longer. Sorry for the delay.

[picnic]

And of course I try once more and the upload worked  Computers, don't you just love them!

Complete replay now available and provisional results imported