UKPnG Season 2 - Shot Glass Challenge - Monaco (1979) - Mar 11

[Jeffrey]

I left, horrible car and the GTR2 netcode is just terrible, cars were stuttering everywhere. Don't know why I bother really with this mod/game.

[BillThomas]

Early bath for me, literally.    That was a first; on the 2nd lap hit the right hand kerb of the chicane, after the tunnel and flew off into the marina floating away there with all those luxury yachts!    

Bill

[goldtop]

Hmmmm...      I was having stuttering problems too, which is unusual for me. Tried a few different settings, but no better.

Hate Monaco in real life as well as sim world. Lots of hype over what is frankly a ridiculous place to race around and one which should have been assigned to history years ago imho. As for my race; clipped a barrier going up through Rivage on lap 1 spinning me across track and hit esc hopefully before I caused any damage.

Hope others had a better time.

[Mark J]

Monaco or bust eh?....unfortunately i bust ! 

was having a good race up until Matt lost it in front of me and ploughed into my car  :'( but was able to continue with just body damage and chase the pack once more, albeit with lost time and places.

Fought my way upto 7th or 8th? past a few cars despite the odd hiccup like people typing just as i am about to brake for a fast turn  ...kiss in the bar after if you have to say sorry etc to each other.
Had a nasty clash with the armco later on, turning too tight at T1 and damaged my suspension so badly the car was crabbing around the track. Lost all my hard fought places and pace and slipped down about 5 slots on lap 14/15. Car became almost undriveable and had to park up with only 5 or 6 laps to go 

[Legzy]

Well seems like I'm the odd one out, because I really enjoyed that.

Fought tooth & nail with PR from start to half way (when I forgot to brake for t1 ), but we'd traded placed about 5 times already & it was just truly great stuff. Move over Mansell & Sena

When I saw the low turnout, I remembered that I don't think it was overly popular the last time we did it in GTL. Obviously a bit of a marmite track. Might be worth putting on the back burner for a while... it's not like we're short of other excellent tracks to race

[phspok]

Chortle
Was having a good race until I lost it and MJ ploughed into my car  
Spun round got going again, caught Alex, went up the inside of hairpin, instant stop/go
no cut tracks before. Caught and passed some, passe MJ and Hotkeys as they had
come off, passed Spanner as he seemd to lift out of the tunnel, I went left through chicane
he went right and caught the kerbs and launched into space, hated to see that in mirrors
thought maybe there was contact but felt nothing. Then caught Alex again who lifted
big time into the chicane and I did Spanner's trick, launched into space landed with
bent car and onlt 4 laps to go, steering well bent, but managed to go some
next time out of tunnel frozen black screen which didnt come back after a couple of
secs, so ctrl/alt/del out of it
Didn't really like the Elans here, was tempted to quit several times, only stubborness kept me going

p.s

This mod rerally is frozen fish fingers, it crashes to desktop, dosent let you in, then booted as possible cheat 1 out of every 3
the frozen screen is a GTR2 thing really, but all in all I too sometimes wonder why I bother with it.

[Mike Miller]

Wish you would have stayed Ruskus. I would have enjoyed the challenge. My setup was better in race trim. I had a bit of trouble with the shadows early in quali and decided it would be best if I left and came back with a better frame rate. I dropped the reflection effects and shadows a bit. It worked well.

I couldn't find the lights at the start. Were they above me? I used the clock in the hud. Fortunately, nobody got past going tinto turn 1. I built up a nice gap in 4 laps and then just drove the gap and around the occasional car stopped in the middle of the track on the racing line. It really is difficult racing around here. Like others said earlier, racing shouldn't really go on here any longer. The F1 guys say Donnington isn't up to snuff. They should look at this place a little more carefully. Well, it really isn't about racing in F1 anyways from Bernie's perspective, but that is another topic.  I think Spanner went in the drink at one point.

Terrible car. It was fine in GTL. What happened to it here?

[Alex vV]

Then caught Alex again who lifted
big time into the chicane and I did Spanner's trick, launched into space landed with
bent car and onlt 4 laps to go, steering well bent,

ehhmm.. well.. ah... that's me just being chicken before the chicane  
No brake testing or other nasty stuff intended.

Quite like the place because you have to focus all the time. For me very rewarding if I can get all the corners right in 1 lap...
And the Elan.. I guess I am used to scruffy setups because I had no other troubles than the usual ones ...

Oh.. could the leaders please turn their headlights on? I was a bit confused who ran were (car schemes were the same).

[phspok]

Teehee

Of course Alex, didn't mean to infer you were brake testing, just not used to people lifting there, and it caught me out
I could have rammed you up the posterior, or risked a pass, which I did, but hit the spring loaded part of the kerb
I think it must be manufactured in the same factory as that one in the chicane at Oulton 

[Legzy]

Results & Replay in usual places

[Mark J]

Chortle
Was having a good race until I lost it and MJ ploughed into my car  

i take it you mean when your car bounced off the armco and came back diagonally straight into my path 

I enjoy Monaco usually, just found the Elan a little too tetchy for it and too easy to bend the suspension. Perhaps the little Elites or Renault Alpines may have been better 

[Clive Loynes]

As the race drew nearer and nearer, so I seemed to get slower and slower.

I managed one effort that was something like my best during practice but my attempt to leap onto the track and get a decent early lap in was thwarted by being beaten onto the circuit by Legzy.

My first few laps, and the crucial third one where I usually seemed to be able to put my best time in, were all spent watching our benevolent race organiser personally trying to widen the whole track for us.  With Legzy in front, and pressure from Ade behind, I came to the conclusion that I was not in the right place for a clean lap.

So I dropped back and completely failed to find a clear piece of tarmac for the whole session.  That is to say a, clear piece of tarmac when I hadn’t already made a complete Horlicks of the lap.

In the race I made a good start and had the opportunity to poke my nose between the two cars on the row in front but thought better of it.

I think that I was about fifth and had Legzy all over the back of me for a couple of laps.  He then discovered that I was a bit slow at Casino and his efforts not to hit me were rewarded by a meeting with the Armco and a loss of the place to Paulo.  Many thanks.

It also put that pair far enough behind me and busy enough with each other for me not to have to worry about who was in my mirrors.

I then spent the rest of the race in the ideal position, as far as Monaco is concerned, of nobody in front of me and nobody behind.  Perfect.

I was able to avoid the barriers for the whole race and at the end found myself fourth.

I’ve never been a big fan of Monaco, it’s just one of those things that has to be endured every now and then.

Congratulations to Mike, API and Ade.  Guess you didn’t hit the wall either.

[Tim Robey]

Hmmm, I've never been a fan of Monaco but enjoy driving the Elans so decided to have a go.....

I was nowhere near the pace of the front runners, and decided my plan was to take it steady and not make any silly mistakes, which I did but didn't lead to a very exciting race. I had a few scraps with Tibs early on, but that was all.

I only made one mistake, a spin in Rascasse putting me tight against the barriers, I had to reverse out a little but got clipped by the lapping Ade or API. Sorry guys for getting in your way....  

[Mike Miller]

I enjoy Monaco usually, just found the Elan a little too tetchy for it and too easy to bend the suspension. Perhaps the little Elites or Renault Alpines may have been better 

I like Mini's at Monoco.

[Geoffers]

Sorry I didn't make the race, PC problems  . Not sure I've sorted it now, so hopefully cya all next week.

Congrats to Mike, API & Ade.