UKGTR Season 12 Lower Endurance (GTC/GT3) - Donington Park (National) - Jun 6

[purdie]

Great racing  

After a long string of disappointing iRacing results it was nice to get something out of GTR2.... reminds me of why i loved it so much!

Suprised in quali to be so competitive and after putting in an early decent lap I could concentrate on race setup as I had none!

....sorry on the rolling start H@L   I thought TT has slowed down and put on his limiter (i can't tell with some addon cars) and then I had to speed up and noticed you didn't close the gap  

Solid start and TT was off and I had no response..... but it was clear after a couple of laps H@L was quicker in that mental sounding TVR   .... I was keeping a wide 911 and Legzy and Spanner kept H@L occupied and I pulled a good gap I was hoping to keep until the pitstop.

I started on 100L with soft/meds and pitted lap 27 for meds/meds and 75L to get me to the line   Should have been more traditional but a set of front softs can't last half the race, so I did consider a 2 stopper... wished I had tried it in hindsight

Scrapped into the pits before H@L was completely on my backside and came out 7th.... by midway things had panned out and I had just kept infront of H@L   and retained 2nd   ... after some heavy fighting H@L got passed and pulled a gap and we finished like that  

Dominate win TT and Legends 1 - 3   Will definitely be doing gtr2 next season... not a complete convert to iR just yet  

[Legzy]

With turnout being so low I don't see how UKGTR can continue with multi-class though, so I await to see what Legzy's plans are for next season.

sadly I agree. I had been thinking of doing one multi-class series & the other as a single class, but the numbers attending have just bombed... So I also see little point until we've seen the numbers grow again.

[picnic]

Probably should have it's own thread but would multi-class still be an option if we ran one race each week rather than 2 events a fortnight apart. E.g. one GT1/CTC multi-class event every week rather than GT1 one week and GTC the next?

[nsfast]

Probably should have it's own thread but would multi-class still be an option if we ran one race each week rather than 2 events a fortnight apart. E.g. one GT1/CTC multi-class event every week rather than GT1 one week and GTC the next?

I also like the idea of running one weekly series as we did in S11.

[H@L9000]

Great race, had to watch the replay.

....sorry on the rolling start H@L   I thought TT has slowed down and put on his limiter (i can't tell with some addon cars) and then I had to speed up and noticed you didn't close the gap  

Thats OK. I was not expecting to be able to match your pace and so was more worried about spanner and Legzy behind. I put my limiter on when you slowed, thinking that your limiter was on and then decided to just leave it on to save confusion when I realised that yours was not.

I had a excellent fight with Legzy and spanner in the opening few laps. We took it in turns to make mistakes. Eventually, to my surprise, I did come out in front of them both after recovering from my own big mistake.

I then tried to close the gap on Purdie but, spanner was not close behind. After a few laps I had closed the gap a little and spanner had dropped back a bit. Purdie then made an early stop. I came out close behind Purdie after making my own stop half way through the race. It took me a few laps to get close enough to try a move.

after some heavy fighting H@L got passed and pulled a gap and we finished like that  

That was an excellent fight. I had a good run through the chicane and managed to pass just before turn 1. It was not long before we caught Shark and nsfast having a close fight of their own. I was lining up for a pass on Shark just before the final chicane when he began a pass on nsfast.

I thought 3 into that chicane does not go so I will back off. Purdie got very close to me as nsfast was in front and we went either side of him down the S/F straight. I was lucky at that point but it was great fun. Great bit of multi class racing I thought. Although I am sorry to have such a big affect on the fight between Shark and nsfast.

I am very happy with 2nd overall and fastest lap. I started to figure that TVR out a bit in the last few races. Well done podiums. It has been a nice season with allot of fights for me despite the low numbers. Thanks organisers.

See everyone at the last race next week and next season.