UKGTR Season 12 Lower Endurance (GTC/GT3) - Brno - May 9

[Mike Miller]

I just found the start is rolling from the championship announcement. I also see a potential conflict in the weather report. The championship announcement (just above the points standings) indicates changable weather, but the race announcement in this thread indicates dry. I just found the championship announcement while looking for the start procedure. Is the weather going to be dry for this race? I don't mind changeable weather, but will need a bit more time to prepare.

[spanner]

Think that might be a copy and paste error The race will be dry as per race post Mike.

[Mark J]

Gutted, had 5th in the bag then for some reason the race carried on an extra lap despite being on 00.00 well before i crossed the finish line and i ran out of fuel with 1 corner to go  :'(

Couldnt match my praccy pace in qually and so didnt get the top 5 time i was hoping for.

Race was a corker, total action from the start upto the pitting at around 40-50mins mark. Had great battles with Prof and H@L with nothing between us for lap after lap.

At the pits it was the same frustrating scenario. Prof pitted before me and then H@L who was behind me on track. I had two further sloppy laps on worn tyres then came in early. Had a totally straightforward stop for tyres and 25mins fuel, manually pitting, but when i came out the pits i had lost 20-25 seconds to the whole top 5 ahead of me including H@L I dont know what the heck you guys are doing so special to gain so much time.
As i emerged from the pits, Prof came zipping past into T1 so i chased him hard on my fresh tyres and got by him within about 3 laps. I pulled out a 15 second gap to Prof and took 10-12 out of H@l ahead but it was all for nothing for despite getting 5th place, i ran out of fuel with that one blinking corner to go and had to watch Prof and spanner go past dropping me to 7th 

[Paul968]

The race ends when the leader crosses the line with 0 on the clock. He probably crossed the line before then and so needed to finish that lap before the flag was shown.

[ginsters sponsored]

More than a bit peeved to run outta gas as well (to be fair, how long have we been at this mj ). Ended up ruining TT's chances for nowt and that makes it doubly annoying

Good to see some "new" faces from PnG land and a better turnout. Congrats to all.

[picnic]

Replay and provisional results posted

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[Mike Miller]

I'm happy with 2nd first time out with the group; especially considering it has been a couple years since I've driven GTR2. These cars are much twitchy than the P&G cars I'm used to which force me to have faster hands. The race length and the need for fuel and tire strategy also adds to the level of excitement and need for thorough preperation. I'll have to work harder in this department in the coming races. I am happy to see I'm on pace with the resident aliens.

Sorry to see SBG didn't have the fuel to get to the end. I nearly gave him 2nd by losing 5 seconds getting loose into turn 2 and brushing the wall drivers left. Even with my tires being a bit stronger in the end, I could not close the gap to Berger even if I gift back to myself those 5 seconds lost. He was simply quicker today. We were very close coming out of the pits. It had to be less than .1 at the line. It was a very close race most of the way.

I'll be on holiday the next 2 rounds, but will return for Donnington. I thoroughly enjoyed the race and the prep work.

[Truetom]

Ended up ruining TT's chances for nowt and that makes it doubly annoying

Was having the time of my life up to the pitting. Then the Legend Curse striked once again. I can't think of doing anything wrong in the pits and still came out 20 seconds behind.

Watched Bergers car cross s/f line after warmup lap and thought he was gonna go but he did it 0,5 sec later. That made me lift off and sbg passed right there. Was trying for 35 minutes to pass. Was faster through corners but the porker danced away on every straight. Tried on the inside, on the outside, left a bit of room to get into slipstream (i didn't notice there was any ), nothing worked. I bet Mike was having a laugh there as we were slowing eachother down.
Anyways, decided to pit a bit sooner and leapfrog. Oh yea, came out behind H@l who was, what, 20 seconds behind? I don't get it.

[phspok]

No setup time, so ran with an Enna setup. was 2 secs per lap off the pace in the race, Viper doesn't seemt to work here.
Persevered up to stops, had preset 42 mins fuel and change all 4 Hard tyres - fronts were down to the canvas, and the pit crew were giving warnings about worn tyres, rears were not quite as bad but needed changing, so hit return the second the car stopped, 52 second stop amnd came out another 20 secs behind Nsfast. so parked it and left.
I think I need to find another car. I like the viper but it is too slow at most places for me to have any racing with anybody. Tried the Z3 but it felt a horrible wayward thing.

[Truetom]

I think I need to find another car. I like the viper but it is too slow at most places for me to have any racing with anybody. Tried the Z3 but it felt a horrible wayward thing.

Vertigo seems a nice choice to me. It's the opposite of the Viper, so you might need some adjustment in driving style.

[Mcfids]

An all action enjoyable race for me even though my poor GTC pace in the Mosler forced me to dice with the G3 drivers.  I really struggled to get any more speed out of the car - maybe that's why I'm the only the driver dumb enough to choose it, although it is fun to drive . For some unexplained reason, my best race in this car was, by far, Edmonton where I was right on the GTC pace. The car just seemed to work there. 

However, it did make for some excellent racing with G Bob, Nsfast, Jose and Picnic - cheers for that. My race ended when I elected to bail before rear ending Jose towards the closing stages. Much rather ditch my car than take someone out 
 
  

[Prof]

The first half was fun.
The second half was boring.
Two undeserved places gained at the end.
Well done to the podium winners.

[picnic]

Strange race. Had some good battles before and after the pitstop but before GSi Bob was a little quicker and after nsfast had had a moment and dropped back in to our battles I was as quick as him.

Had a good pitstop (almost too good as I had 1.1l of fuel at the end) and jumped nsfast and Jose and had them about 8 secs behind, we all peeled in to the pits on the same lap with Jose first, me then ns.

Initially they both started to gain on me, no matter what I did ns kept closing, for some reason Jose had dropped back. In due course I was reeled in and ns hounded me for a few laps until he worked out that I was just too slow through the corners and often ended up with uncontrollable understeer. He took advantage and executed a brilliant overtake though the chicane before the uphill section at the end of the lap.

GSi Bob seemed way off the pace after the stops and I caught and passed him with ease, did you not take tyres at your stop?

[Truetom]

An all action enjoyable race for me even though my poor GTC pace in the Mosler forced me to dice with the G3 drivers.  I really struggled to get any more speed out of the car - maybe that's why I'm the only the driver dumb enough to choose it, although it is fun to drive . For some unexplained reason, my best race in this car was, by far, Edmonton where I was right on the GTC pace. The car just seemed to work there.  

I made minimum tweaks from Edmonton setup for Z4, same should be for Mosler - or did you make a new setup? Rear suspension needs to be quite stiff or you'll never get that corners right.  A fun car, really.

[gsi bob]

     Good first half race with some very, wow! that was close,battles.
   
     The old brainbox was in overdrive, when i pitted i pressed for no change to
     front and rears instead of no change rears only! wear was 32 on fronts on
     coasting (no fuel left) over the finishing line.

     Congrats to all podium winners,see you next race,Bob.