UKPnG Season 2 Shot Glass Challenge - Potrero - Feb 25

[Henry]

Hi Henry
Hope you manged to download the right track from Humyo ok?

As you may have gathered, tonights race is rather experimental in nature as my evil nemesis Dr Legzy  has organised this cunning puzzler.

Who will win....the Trans Am with it's speed (but must pit at sometime) or the snail like Alpine which definately will not need to stop.

sure i was on the server few minutes ago with santini.

btw. i know the answer

[Burtoner]

awww crap, Got booted from PnG, think i didnt have the updated 2.1 patch since i reinstalled other night doh!

Oh well 20mins to download, will miss the race :/

[Henry]

yeah, this rac was an easter egg. no formation lap, lol


14 of 17 laps a nice race. thx all.
then of course only one person can destroy that all - my girlfriend

@geoffer
hope i didn't block you in that difficult shikane.

[Clive Loynes]

WD podium and anyone who finished.

Still don't like the track and trying to race cars as different as these two is horrible.


PS  Please pass on my thanks to your girlfriend Henry.  She did a first class job there.  Did you actually have any wheels left?

[Mark J]

had an okay race, nothing that exhilarating, just didnt find these cars that exciting on this great track. The mustang was fun but should have been pitted against a similar car not a flipping Alpine.

Qualied lowly 16th in the popular Renault  

Got off to decent start in race making up a few places, until about 4 corners round until some idiot tried to bulldoze through the apexs knocking me flying off track and down to last  

Got hit 6 times tonight by 5 different drivers. One was partly my own fault when i got out of shape in the double hairpin but the others were either from behind or being cut up into the wall by desperate defending.
Best racing of the night for me was against Alex vw who raced close and clean with no contact, unlike a few others nearby. Will watch the replay later and make some reports.

My aim was a top 10 finish as hadnt had much chance for praccy and everyone seemed very competitive here. Got 10th so fine with that   but could have been higher if not knocked off so many times.  

Well done Mike and Ian up top with amazing pace as they spur each other on again!!  

[phspok]

Inquiring minds need to know what your girlfriend was doing to disturb you so....  

Good fun race, as I expected I could barely keep up with the mid to fast Alpines never mind pull out a pitstop's
worth of a gap, so no disappointment there, enjoyed chucking the big tank around, apart from the tight bit in
the cutting was a good track for it. Grats to Pody, and thanks to Manteos for letting me beat him by injuring his leg  

[ginsters sponsored]

Welcome Henry, cya next week

Undecided on the format. It does favour those with a bit more time available and those in bigger teams to colate any info. Ideally, you'd not gain anything from that but it must be nigh on impossible to find two cars that balance perfectly. Maybe, like the idea mentioned previously, have a two man team and plunk one each in fast/slow option?
However, thx for trying that as I had one of the best races tonight Me and Ade came together on T2 even though we tried our best to avoid it and I returned the favour later, sorry mate (we'll both be called in to see Paul in the morning). Had brilliant fun coming through the field though, had to be more forceful than normal but hope I didn't upset anyone. Standards were again excellent and its so rare to have complete confidence in all you race, even those  racing with a joystick (brilliant effort Manteos).

Congrats to JR who drove the wheels off the Stang. Realise it wasn't quite right this time but hope we see you some more and it'll be normal service resumed next week I'm sure. Well done to Mike for sticking with the Penelope Pitstop car, bet you enjoyed it in the end or maybe not  

[Sandor M]

Got hit 6 times tonight by 5 different drivers. One was partly my own fault when i got out of shape in the double hairpin but the others were either from behind or being cut up into the wall by desperate defending.

Sorry , one was mine when i missed the breaking point after s/f midrace.

First lap was rubbish where I got involved in 2 accidents. Have to watch replay to see if it was my fault or not.
After that it was a nice race, apart from hitting Mark.

Had some nice battle to the flag with teammate Alex.
Finally made it to the end of the race this season after 2 early retirements.

[Wiltshire Tony]

Replay and Results now posted

[Mike Miller]

I really enjoyed the challenging track. I'm still learning the braking points; especially those while turning left in preperation for a right. I still don't have the track down yet. Like others have said, I'd really like to run this track again with some bigger horsepower cars. I rather disliked the Alpine, but I knew without a doubt it was the winning car on this track. All the pit experience with R2P has taught me that time in the pits is the death of your race.

I qualified where I expected, but didn't expect to be gifted 2nd right off the bat. If Ian didn't have his misfortune I think he would have won easily. Still, it must have been a heroic drive to claw back up to 2nd. Ruskus had incredible pace in the Mustang, but was fighting an uphill battle. Evidence of this is all the Alpines lined up right behind him in the finishing order.

By the 3rd lap, I found a nice hole with nobody around me so I could concentrate on clicking off clean laps. This was good because I knew the race would come to me once Ruskus pit. In time, I put in some decent laps and just snuck into the 2:46 territory.

Congrats to Ian and Madd for podium finishes and to Ruskus for wheeling that Mustang around so quickly.

[Clive Loynes]

The really imortant news, for me, is that I did a whole race without a screen shudder, lockup or anything else.

In addition to running EnditAll to close and kill everything it could, I then defragged the game folder and swapped to game mode with gamebooster(thanks ade).
Then vacuumed the cat and sacrificed a squirel.

But in addition I have turned the hardware acceleration on my sound card up to maximum and have now notched up half a dozen runs without incident.

Do you think it's safe to get back in the water?


PS   The sun shining smack in my eyes in the last two laps frightened the life out of me.  I thought that my GFX card was going belly up on me to start with!

[Hotkeys]

ARGH...... was doing OK .... except for a small team rendevouz ( sorry I bumped you Dan, but how come Clive stopped ? ) and all off a sudden the wife comes flashing into the room yealling about some waterpipe beeing broke ... WATER ALL OVER THE PLACE STIG, LEAVE THE STUPID GAME AND FIX IT !§!!   .

Fun while it lasted though, impressed by the topdrivers laptimes.

Stig / Hotkeys

[Ade]

You can kick me square in the for that one Ian    nice job getting yourself back up to 2nd   didn't go well for me.... went to pit in and skidded out of the pit lane and ended with half my car back on track ,sorry to whoever it was i scared on top of that my pit crew didn't bother to put any fuel in doesn't the pit strategy thing work in advanced setup? so after another pit i was dead last i think.

                                                           On to forget for me
                                                               Cheers Ade

[Jeffrey]

What can I say, most unbalanced grid ever . Shame too many take the easy option instead of giving themselve a challenge.  .

No idea where I had to win 25 seconds of fuel and 15 seconds of tyres, added with the slow pitlane speed .

Car was a blast to drive/drift, except for those horrible 1st gear corners.

[goldtop]

Fair to say that was not my best race tonight. Had a good start, but lost it on lap 1 under braking into the big chicane. Waited for everyone to pass, or so I thought, but managed to rejoin right in front of MJ who did well to avoid me (at least I don't think there was contact). Apologies anyway for that MJ . That was the story of my race really; had ok pace, but just kept making too many mistakes. At one point I oversteered into the pitlane when trying to get a run on Alex into the s/f straight and had to drive through rather than risk a dq for manoevring my way out

Had some nice battles with Tony, MJ, Alex and right at the end FMG who caught and passed me in his stang, just as Legzy had planned it We had a great couple of laps to the flag.

Well done to pody; another great result for us kerbies and well done all those who went for the stang and added the extra dimension to this race.