UKPnG Season 2 - Shot Glass Challenge - Barber (GP) - Feb 11

[Legzy]

I'll be a grumpy old git in the run up to Elan week thats for sure  

Boy have I got a treat in store for you

[Geoffers]

Good news, I've somehow succeeded in getting the recalcitrant beast around 7 whole laps without spinning off. Having tried several other setups, I went back to my own concoction & with a few tweeks & lots of concentration on slow in/ fast out I managed to knock 4s off my previous best & did 1.39.0. Not going to be near the front but hopefully somewhere in the midfield.

Cya all tomorrow  

[Clive Loynes]

Well I'm enjoying the 911 and Barber is fine.  Could do with being flatter and with less corners but apart from that fine.  

Showed Ian how wide the black one is tonight.  

I was a bit miffed that the 37.007 I managed in the first qually session got binned when we advanced the session to have a race.  I think that I have a 36 in there but keep messing up the middle section.

[Mike Miller]

My meetings tomorrow are confirmed so I won't be able to join you guys. Enjoy the race.

[Mark J]

Thats a shame Mike  as i hear your a fellow 911 owner and this is a great combo

I think some here are getting hung up on the fact that 2 or 3 are pumping in superb 1:36 times but the majority of us are around the 38/39 laptime so it should make for some great racing. Just brake earlier than you might normally do so that you enter corners under more control then power out the other side.

I also found turning my garage brake sensitivity down to 92% helps locking up the brakes, as well as the rearward biased brakes.

If some have done a gazzillion laps practise and have bored themselves thats not really anyone elses fault 

[Clive Loynes]

Hard luck Mike, it was only yesterday that I knew for sure that I could do this round.

I must have done eleventy million laps around here but boredom is not an issue because no two laps are the same for me.    It took ages before that 180-left stopped being a surprise after you have gone back past the pits in the other direction to the start-finish straight.  At least the 911 comes out of the gravel ok!

And please Legzy, no surprises!  I would like to know now what all the cars are going to be for the rest of the season, in both series.

[Manteos]

Dedicated to the lucky holders of Windows Vista http://www.mikesplanet.net/2007/10/the-vista-commerical-you-will-want-to-see/

[Paul968]

 

Excellent - made my day 

[Mark J]

just dont believe my luck. Stupid poxy pc went into total stutter mode and made it undriveable after only 1 flaming lap. So angry and p*ssed off 

Spent two weeks looking forward to that. Had 6th on grid and looking forward to great battle  :'(

aaaarrgggh!!!!

[Paul968]

That was a shame  Got a nice qual lap in for pole despite limited practice and then when I went to the grid I was in never-never land. The sky was at the bottom and the green was at the top When I tried to move,  the car was stuck in a treackly gloop and started to sink

Oh well, I was looking forward to the tarmac rally stage that is Birmingham in the IROC  Hope you all had better luck.

[Sandor M]

Crashed the car in lap 3 and the engine died :'(
So another DNF for me.

Hope the rest of you kept the car in one piece.

[Alex vV]

First of all a BIG apology to WT for messing up his qually lap and punting you off the road.
Entirely my fault because I completely missed the braking point.
This numpty came to realise that a Porsche has 5 gears instead of 4 just 3 minutes before the race.
Tried to run with normal gearbox settings and was busy feeling a numpty with the above result.

Race was fun. Had some good little battle and was feeling more and more confident with the car until I put it into the barriers at the top of the uphill section.
Engine dead, game over. Really a shame...

When is the re-run?

[Clive Loynes]

4th, my best result yet in PnG.

Grats to Ian, ade and Madd and sorry to ade for holding him up early on but it was for a podium spot.

Eased off at the end as I had another big screen semi-freeze and then at one point the engine died so I started short shifting.  Shame because Madd came back to play but I didn't dare do anything daft with the motor at that point.

Good fun.

Thanks Legzy et al

[Wiltshire Tony]

No probs Alex, it wasn't like I was about to set the world on fire or anything.

Great track, Nice hovercraft.

[ginsters sponsored]

Tough break Paul, really looking forward to that. Hope you have time for future Shot Glass events (yank tanks next ). Feel for you MJ. Those intermittant PC problems are a real pain, do what I do and make it a problem for an expert? Let it do their head in

Just the presence of the Jedi Paul produced a pretty poor quali effort. Trying to go faster I tried to brake later and later like a prune. Think Pauls badluck on grid unsettled those around me on grid and had quite a gap after a first lap and after that, it was more a case of concentration rather than racing. If Paul had made it would have been a cracker so no criticism of car/track combo from me    

Congrats to all that finished and should add that those I lapped were more than helpful. Great work Ade. Well hung in there Matt. A just award there Clive

Judging by the post race comments, don't think we'll see the IROC too much which is fine by me, even if I really enjoy it. Just glad that Legzy/Tony are brave enough to try these thing as I half expected this series would be boring choices like the Elan (thats my attempt at mind games there ). Must be the Cobra next?