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

[goldtop]

That was as tough as I thought it would be. Had a great start and made it up to 5th or 6th by the back straight. Had a couple of nervy moments and gave the places back before getting up to 6th again. Made a hash of the downhill twisty bit and kissed the inside barrier causing my splitter to fly off into its own virtual world Limped around the last 7 laps and was relieved to get 8th in the end.

Had some nice little chases with Tim, Paulo and Legzy but most positions were swapped as the result of mistakes which was a bit of a shame. Great track and great car and a very challenging combo.

Lots of people seemed to have various issues tonight: it took me many attempts to get in the game and when I finally did my ffb settings were awol. Had to reload them from a backup file.

Bad luck to MJ and Paul for missing out on this one

Congrats to pody and of course the Kerbie duo for hauling away maximum points towards the team championship

[Legzy]

Results & Replay in the usual places

[Geoffers]

After the problems I was having adapting to this car, finishing the race was like a victory for me. Still don't like the car though, you can't really attack the track with it. Just a case of tippytoeing into & through the bends & then flooring it, no fun.

Early part of the race went well, missed all the early dramas & was upto the dizzy heights of 6th until I locked the brakes at T4 & slid off. Lost 3 places there & another soon after when Lazlow caught & passed me. Had a couple of other grassy moments & was happy to finish 10th but moved up to 9th in the last few laps when Tim went off the road.

Congrats to Ian, Ade & Matt

Hopefully something a bit more fun in 2 weeks 

[Tim Robey]

Hmmmm, that was a strange race. I qualified in 14th, not bad but I was disappointed I didn't get close to my times I was getting yesterday.

When I got onto the grid, I didn't see anyone in front of me which gave a big shock! I thought that can't be right, so went back to the pits and returned and I am on pole.  , sorry Paul for that, but I wasn't sure what else I could do....

I took it easy the first few laps, and let anyone who I was holding up by, had some nice battles with goldtop, Geoffers and PR mid race, but my tyres were getting seriously shot with about 5 laps to go, and I started to spin virtually every lap, and JPV caught me on the last lap but I just couldn't hold him off 

I enjoyed driving the IROCs, it is a challenge, hopefully they will make a reappearance at an easier track!

[Paul968]

Not your fault Tim. Hope you enjoyed the unrestricted view from pole 

[FullMetalGasket]

Was having great fun In that race till I Kamakai'd a concrete wall 
After nudging someone (Pribiero?) a lap or 2 in (big appology for that), I in turn was nudged by the car behind and also span which dropped me way down the order.
The chase from there was fun and promised to become a proper fight with Laz once we had some clear track to play in, sadly I messed up on one of the brows and poughed headfirst into a wall.
Engine died and wouldn't restart so race over 

[phspok]

I could not join. Not my fave car for this track, but I was quite keen to see how the race went.
kept getting "booted as possible cheat" from 10 past 8 until the race start.
Tried enablin diasabling tearrain patch/ffb patch, rebooted router/pc/house/streetlamps
tried joining in different cars. no joy.
AN Elan spec race? what a splendid idea, something everyone can drive will produce some good close racing
even if practice is less enthralling. 

[Mark J]

still gutted this morning. Had really looked forward to that race, best since LM at xmas. I just knew something would go wrong !  :'(
I think my pc is overheating and thats what causes these problems. It usually lasts out okay in GTR2 unless its been on for hours beforehand. This time my missus had been off ill for the day and had the heating cranked up all flipping day. The room was like a blast furnace and i opened the windows while i raced despite being minus 2 outside ! No doubt the heat led to the pc frying earlier than normal. Time for a new one !

Hope you all had a good race and i hope we do see these cars again. To me they cause no more problems to drive than a lot have with the US muscle cars so shouldnt be excluded as they are great fun.

Unlucky with your problem Paul and Matt/Madd? who was trying to join all night without luck.  

Congrats to podium  

[Clive Loynes]

Hope you all had a good race and i hope we do see these cars again. To me they cause no more problems to drive than a lot have with the US muscle cars so shouldnt be excluded as they are great fun.

Agreed!

If it's got a round black rubber thing on each corner we can race it. 

[phspok]

Yep t'was I trying to join the party, I was unhappy - you must have been well gutted MJ
as these are a particular fave of yours, I would be quite happy to race with these (again)
Just I think a track with less tight turns over brows would be less frustrating.

Take the side off your PC for race night MJ see if it helps, usually does.

[pribeiro]

To be honest, when I first tried a few laps some days before, I was scared.
I wasn't able to do one lap without a spin.   Therefore I wasn't happy
and I wasn't enjoying at all.

After Goldtop's tip about enabling the FF patch, things began to run better,
however my qualification was close to the 1.40 in 13th place. Even so, my plan was to have fun
as much as I could.
A good start allowed me to jump into 9th, but on the first corner at second lap I was hit and spun.
Lost several positions and had to begin all over again.
Surprisingly, my lap times began falling to 1.38 and a few .37, not as fast as the leaders, but fast enough to
aim to a better place on race. That and some unlucky problems affecting other drives aswell
not doing a mistake allowed my final 5th place. Honestly, I wasn't expecting that, but clearly
the lack of practice lead me to those thoughts.
Nice pursuit and fights with Goldtop, Legzy and Tim.  
Congrats to podium boys and their pace.
Well done to all. This car really needs a different kind of driving.

Well done Legzy and Tony, I am enjoying very much both seasons P&G and GTL.  

Cheers

[BillThomas]

That was a hard race but fun.  On my setup the 911 IROC and 911 RSR both seem to be absolutely entry speed critical on corners.  Too fast and I run off on the outside of the corner; too slow and I just understeer off to the inside - is it me?    Joined later than normal to save wear 'n tear on my foot  it survived.

In qualification lost the line and entry speed and had too many offs  - I think I only had one decent lap almost at the end of qualifying - just pipping Laurie.  The start went well, and the first few laps were OK before I lost the line and had series of offs.  Got it all together and put in some fast laps (new PB)  interspersed with rubbish laps.  Very satisfying when you get it all right drifting the rear end, although most of my corners were rather Threepenny bit like.  For me finishing was a result. 

Bill

[Mike Miller]

Congrats to Ian, Ade and Madd for their fast pace and podium positions. Paul had demonic pace in the quali. Too bad he fell out at the start. Gutted for MJ too. I'm also impressed with Clive's pace and finishing position. The practice and preperation paid off. Kudos to you dude!

[Clive Loynes]

Cheers Mike, obviously if you had been able to make it I would have been 5th but perhaps it isn't such a leap from GPL to the 911 as it is to some of the other wagons. 

Practice for Mid-Ohio continues tonight.  Come on Legzy, tell us what the car is for the next one.   

[pribeiro]

  Come on Legzy, tell us what the car is for the next one.   

To spice things up, next cars only will be show when you join server and get the options to chose.