Endurance Championship Division 2 - Season 1, Round 9, Estoril - Nov 13

[Truetom]

During the quali session some late night visitors came and I had to quit. 

I would be glad of the visit at any other time but a GTR race. Hope you had a good time.

[picnic]

Who raced as Mark@[GP] last night? Can't find you in the registrations thread!

Replay available, results awaiting the above

[Zacari]

Very scrappy race from me, probably a fair reflection of the practice unfortunately

Started off well, sat behind Nik, SBG and aajay getting into a steady pace.  Was great racing, aajay was fast through the middle of the lap and the chicane and I was getting a good drive out of the final corner and closing down the straight.  Then I think Nik spun and SBG either past or caught up and all of us were nose-to-tail for a while, ended up getting past aajay after finally keeping up with him going through the middle sector, then squeezed past Nik whilst SBG and Nik were having a door-to-door moment before the back straight.

Passed SBG over the start/finish line (and now I know why!  I wondered why you were struggling down the straight) and managed to pull away a bit until I spun in the chicane.  After that it was all a total mess, I started with an understeering setup to try and cope with the problems I have with the chicane and ended up with 'tyers worn' messages with 7 and 3 laps to go.

Spun 4 or 5 times in the end, all stupidly low speed and not what I'd have expected considering I felt the car was stable in the corner - but I've a feeling the 'increased steering lock at low speed' was causing the problem when I dropped below the 25m/s (about 55mph) it was set to.  I've changed it now to 0 (I'm sure I did that before but must have been overwritten!) so hopefully that'll stop that happening in the future.

Still better racing than I'd expected though, I expected to be miles away from everyone from the start!

Oh and the start was weird too, with mo not making the start aajay thought someone had not passed who should have, so i was sitting there on the grid wondering what to do if he sat there any longer!  Thankfully wasn't a problem, shame that a bug kept mo out though

Looking forward to Monza a lot now 

[Simon Gymer]

Well done Gizmo on your championship victory!

Team Shark's second driver's championship of Season 1. Pretty good going.

[picnic]

Indeedy - well done Dave 

[Nick Phillips]

Yep well done Dave!

Personally looking to see if Season 2 is any better - cant be much worse!!

[Mike Wrightson]

Congrats Dave

That was more fun in the BMW, it goes quite well round Estoril!  Qualified 12th and moved up to 11th when Mo didn't make the grid.  Had to wait before the line so that I didn't pass Dave at the start as the field had got very spread out.  Had a ringside seat for the big fight between Jamera and Dave as I could keep up with them quite well whilst they were battling

Then had a couple of spins at the 2nd-3rd gear left hander and one half-spin at the chicane on my non-stop way to the end, picking up 1 more place when Jameras engine blew to come home 10th

It gets interesting when you try and lap an NGT car with the BMW

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Had a ringside seat for the big fight between Jamera and Dave as I could keep up with them quite well whilst they were battling

I wondered at the time if you were hanging back and admiring the view - I was quite concious of you being there and concerned that if I didn't find a way to clear Jam and make a break for it I was going to end up defending from a G3 car instead of fighting for NGT points.

[Jamera]

It was surprising how difficult it was to hold Dave for that long. I managed to identify the danger spots quite quickly, but in order to defend them I had to adapt my line and driving style dramaticly which affected my lap times. In hindsight I should have supported Dave's passing attempts in the hope he would catch Pops and maybe force an error from him, thus keeping my hopes of a second place alive . Also maybe then the engine on the Mosler (LUUUUUURVVVV that car!!!!!!) may have held out. I think the Mosler may become a feature of the NGT sprints for me


Anyway once again Dave congrats, that was such a good battle, can't wait to have a look at the replay

[Aagramn]

Congrats Dave.

[locutos ukgtr]

Well not a bad qual, I'd been playing with the BMW and got a 1:45 high in practice, then switchet to the porsche to see how that went, the porsche was very stable out of corners, unlike the beamer, but was about a second a lap slower. I should have stuck to my original plans and stayed with the porsche cuz I knew I would be spinning the beamer, but saw the times Jon and Mike posted and thought best go with the BMW (very bad decision No1.).  To make matters worse, i somehow managed to get my qual set up in race with a full tank of gas, the tyres would be fine if I didnt spin and that where bad mistakes Nos' 2 to 6 came into play, got to the stage where I was loosing the rear on any corner I tried to accelerate out of (all of them) which made me a mobile hazard so I decided to quit and take the lessons home with me. Congrats Dave on NGT championship win, well done mate.

[silver53]

Hi All thanks jonm for letting me know I thought you were close but I assumed I had spun . Anyway I must have rooted the tyres after that as it spun whenever I tried to make up time . Sorry to the lambo I spun in front of , I think I must have had some damage from the first spin as I could get nowhere near my quali time set on my race set up. No blame to anyone I think as Estoril is not an easy track in my opinion. cheers bye for now.gerald

[Scott Carpenter]

Same thing happened to me as Mo my arrow did'nt light up but you just have to take it up the i mean on the chin   Grats to dave have a buzzin holliday oh yeh grats jon i'm delighted for you

[stnasky]

Who raced as Mark@[GP] last night? Can't find you in the registrations thread!

Replay available, results awaiting the above

i am Mark@[GP] but i use the name Stnasky when i race in leagues... i tried to login to lobby (in game) as Stnasky but it kept saying could not connect to server,  so then i try my my other login name  Mark@[GP] and it worked....... i guess i should of explained that on the night

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

i am Mark@[GP] but i use the name Stnasky when i race in leagues... i tried to login to lobby (in game) as Stnasky but it kept saying could not connect to server,  so then i try my my other login name  Mark@[GP] and it worked....... i guess i should of explained that on the night

Ah ha! I've now updated the race result to include you and added Mark@[GP] as a driving alias.