UKGTR Season 13 - Test Race - Albert Park - Jul 18

[purdie]

finally got a sunday evening free 

just downloaded the track , hopefully i haven't completely lost any gtr2 ability 

[Truetom]

Purds, get married soon so you can have more time to play.

[Mark J]

Purds, get married soon so you can have more time to play.

only where you live TT !...i seem to have a bit less  but she's getter better as the training kicks in 

1:58's for me now. 

[purdie]

haha TT you summed it up perfectly...... and MJ countered it perfectly lol 

down to 58.3 with meds all round and about 30L .... done it 4 times now but still got a bit of track learning to do

[Legzy]

Just fixing sorting out the weather forecast now ... be right with you

[Legzy]

Weather: Changeable. (Related to real-world conditions)
Virtual Race Weather Forecast (for rough guidance only) To be Published ~19:30pm on Race night Weather: Dry and sunny
 On line: Dry
 Off line: Dry
 Ambient: 15.00
 Track: 13.58
 Early Conditions:  Overcast
 Mid Race Conditions:  Rain
 Late Race Conditions:  Overcast

Race conditions posted...

[H@L9000]

Ah fudgestickles! I missed the start, what a fool. Not paying attention to the time after family meal. :'(

Totally gutted. Have fun all.

[Jayblue]

Weather: Changeable. (Related to real-world conditions)
Virtual Race Weather Forecast (for rough guidance only) To be Published ~19:30pm on Race night Weather: Dry and sunny
 On line: Dry
 Off line: Dry
 Ambient: 15.00
 Track: 13.58
 Early Conditions:  Overcast
 Mid Race Conditions:  Rain
 Late Race Conditions:  Overcast

Race conditions posted...

Nice to see changable conditions returning here, i hope we get more races like this for the new season  

Great password by the way.... 

[purdie]

computer crashed with 6 laps to go....    

...was 2nd following 2 secs behind Lazlow and he had the edge...

sorry if my car stayed frozen, i held down the off button almost immediately after my screen froze....        

ul Mike, your pace was immense.... coming back from 6th !!!

[Mike Miller]

Dissapointing to see the server settings in practice were set for 1X fuel which tempted me to choose the Viper. Turns out it was a lame duck because it had to make an extra stop for fuel. If I would have practiced with the correct settings, I wouldn't have even thought about it and simply taken the GT3. The pace of the Viper was quicker early on, but fell off and was even or maybe even slower than the GT3 after 10 laps. The car is very hard on tires.

The mid race calculations in my head and messages indicating the race will end prematurely also threw me off and led me to stumble twice with visits to the gravel. Preparation is key to a smooth race for me. I get flustered a bit with last minute changes like this.

[phspok]

Note to self: make up imaginary problems within the 1st 10 laps to throw Mike off the pace

1st GTR2 race for ages that I had people to race! very enjoyable. was similar pace to Legzy, MJ and SPanner
had some good dicing/chasing with them. Was surprised to see 60 laps after it had been stated 60 mins
but thought, err ok, so we do 3 stops, went in for 1st of 3 and decided to repair and chage all 4 tyres + fuel
60 mins stop. After Legzy and MJ pitted I was unusually in front of both, and was chasing spanner again
he went off, I nipped through then fought him off for a few laps until we had a minor touch into T1, was catching
APEX quite fast, but didn't quite have enough laps to have a go at passing.
Good race, 430 was easy and fun.

[Legzy]

The mid race calculations in my head and messages indicating the race will end prematurely also threw me off and led me to stumble twice with visits to the gravel. Preparation is key to a smooth race for me. I get flustered a bit with last minute changes like this.

Pleased you didn't lose any positions because of the two pit stops or the info messages & managed to cling onto 2nd .

Not ideal tonight/this week guys sorry. The mistake with server not being on x2 fuel on practice server & then the race being set to 60 laps not 60mins... glad that was a test race!

What a great great track though

[Mark J]

Good race tonight, surprised to get 6th in the end (dependant on photo finish of me and Spanner crossing the line!..think i knicked it and gtrXpd agreed with me as showed me ahead on the positions table). I did another lap as didnt see a race finish announcement but then noticed everyone else had stopped, but when i hit quit it showed me and many others as DNF

Qually was a series of mistakes for me or running out of fuel due to the 2x rate but i eventually got a decent enough time to qually 10th on the grid.

Got hit up the backside hard on lap 1 by my teamie   he says lag, i say too much Cinzano   dropped me to back of the field and had to play catch up, only to find Legzy kissing a barrier further around  
The rest of my race was spent in lower few driving as hard as i could but suffering heavy understeer...might be the crash damage and i had to drive my cotton socks off to stay ahead of Legzy for the final 20 minutes.
My pitstop also worked well and got out efficiently, even jumping ahead of a couple of drivers. Hadnt done any fuel calcs so just fuelled it to the brim again at my stop.

Great track, should make a good round of a championship  

ps..was there variable weather? didnt notice any!

pps..good to see teamie Purds back in the mix and great pace.  Bad luck getting the disco with a pody on the cards

[Truetom]

Variable, yes. A few more test races and we might actualy see the rain falling.
Never mind. I got laggy cars all around from the start but guys on TS said I had a ping of 45, which should be ok. So, what, where, how? Cars were laggy in front and behind so I maintained a few extra meters during warmup lap. Lag subsided towards the end of the lap and just before start intensified again, so I left again some more space. MJ was shown at least 2 meters away when I saw him spin with a err, dark smudge on his ... behind.   Sorry MJ, this really didn't go the way it was supposed to.
Waited and ended dead last on the field, then gained on others mistakes and came 3rd in the end.

Lazlow, let Mike win the next time to build his confidence. Amazing pace, Mike, Lazlow, Purds.
Track is great. Cars seem to be a bit unequal on fuel, Mosler being quite thirsty while not bein all that quick. 10 more litres or so of fuel load could be the answer.

[Legzy]

dropped me to back of the field and had to play catch up, only to find Legzy kissing a barrier further around  

Ah yes almost forgot about that.
 
Suggestion: If you shunt a fellow driver, it's always friendly to wait while they recover or take a voluntary drive though of course. Reading a "sorry" on the screen as I'm choking on your dust means little to me.