NGT Sprint Cup - Season 2, Round 2, Magny Cours - Nov 1st

[Truetom]

Qualified 7th, finished 3rd.  Well done, Penguins, 2nd and 3rd (sorry, don't know about others).

Had luck as I came forward mostly 'cause of other racers mistakes. Place 1 and 2 was too far and when I was 3rd Shark was chasing me. I saw you couldn't close on the straights, so I was just careful not to make a mistake under braking. I was ready to block you if necessary but then you had some other problems and I cruised to the end. All in all it was an uneventful race.

[Simon Gymer]

Place 1 and 2 was too far and when I was 3rd Shark was chasing me. I saw you couldn't close on the straights, so I was just careful not to make a mistake under braking. I was ready to block you if necessary but then you had some other problems and I cruised to the end. All in all it was an uneventful race.

I was kicking myself when I span whilst chasing you, was turning into a good fight and I definately thought i'd get you somewhere as long as I could get your slipstream down the straights then I've got some good moves up my sleave at Magny Cours.

Only other exciting event was a little tussle with shark on last couple of laps, went defensive on the hairpin to keep him behind but he pulled a gr8 manoeuvre couple of corners later that I didn't think needed a defensive line, I know for future though, nice move bud, deserved the place.

I must check that one out on the replay cause I even suprised myself, but I was soo determined at that point to get the 4th I thought I deserved back and I knew I could do it especially after our fun tussle into the hairpin just before where you went defensive and I went round the outside I thought I might have you there but it's such a longer way round that no it wasn't even close, so coming up to that left hander with the marbles on the outside, there's plenty of grip on the inside for an outbrake and when you broke slightly earlier than I would normally I knew I could do a real nice move up the inside. Good driving from you and very enjoyable.

[Edza]

Watched the race replay last night and it looked like a bit of a mad one alright.
Almost wept not being able to join in...(DELIVER MY BROADBAND NOW YOU MONKEY SERVICE PROVIDERS!)

Congrats to Mo on a simply amazing quali time and a great pole to finish win!

Mind you, I see Mr. Matjaz wasn't about so maybe there'll be something special in Enna between yez both.

Can't wait even though I hate those Enna kerbs!

Cods - my aim is to beat your time (just a bit of friendly rivalry there  )

 

[mo]

I finally seem to have come into some good form - mainly due to having so much free time lately.
I dont mean to sound cheesy but I was really shocked by my qual lap and by my race pace - both were PBs for me, the qual time by almost a second.
I think I might even have given Matjaz a run for his money! Where were ya Mat?   

Anyway the race went perfectly for me - I managed to avoid all the invisible cones and stayed on track except for 2 scary moments.Firstly down at Adelaide I stuck the thing into neutral while braking and went straight on into the gravel and then hit a rejoining GT3 just before the final chicane.

For the first half of the race I could see JonM_UK in my mirrors always at the same distance, no matter how much I pushed you were always there; I see from JonM's post that he hit one of the cones - pity Jon as I think you may have had better tyres( on the 360) than me towards the end so it could have been interesting.

Anyway onto the joys of Enna with its huge kerbs and ridiculous car killing chicanes......

[Rob Bywater "Kerb Crawlers"]

Great night for me (in perspective of course!). Quallied 18th with a personal best time. Managed to avoid 2 tangling cars in first couple of laps, then after that a pretty straight forward drive. Still made 3 or 4 unforced errors resulting in spins, but am managing to control these better now, so dont end up flying thru the gravel and slamming into the wall!! So not losing as many places as used to. Managed to climb up to 11th, and with 6 or 7 laps to go and 30 seconds in front of next car, decided to drive fairly conservatively and conserve my best ever UKGTR finish. Woohoo 

Congrats to Mo and the rest of the Crawlers, some good points there.

Cheers

Rob

[silver53]

Hi Guys I was crap I can not follow a slower car at magny just throws my whole rythum out. Was going for a straight through run . Had done it in practice on my own at whatever laptimes are on the rank. could not get within 3 secs of that with other cars .I guess there are some tracks its better to pit stop at. bye for now gerald

[Jamera]

Who is doing the moderating for the NGT races this season?



Ok ignore that, found it

[mo]

Who is doing the moderating for the NGT races this season?

The NGT Sprint race moderators are mo and mclaessen.

The moderator for each championship is listed at the top of the Schedule and Standings page.