UKGTR Season 13 - Lower Sprint (GTC) - Barber (GP) - Aug 8

[Legzy]

Couldn't sort myself out in qually & only managed 12th in what was a decent enough lap, but could have been so much better.

I got a little bumped off (shoulder to shoulder racing incident really) going into the slow downhill chicane right hander type thing (T4-6 ) & while doing my best to stabalise, somebody behind must have missed their braking point & came straight "through" the chicane & punted me off into the sand. So 12th to 20th in two laps & I'd not done anything wrong yet

Then I started clawing my way up through the field, not an easy task @barber & managed to register 11 overtakes & finished 9th after numerous good battles with numerous people. Gutted to through away two positions on the 2nd last lap by trying too hard & spinning myself. Grrr!

But such an enjoyable busy race & this will be my 1st ever season in a Porka (nasty little things eh MJ ), so am looking forward to that challenge.

Big congrats to Team Oldie for registering 2nd/3rd/4th (Can you hear SuperSonic's sing? No, no ), I'm sure my lowly 9th must be a positive embarrassment to you?

Also a big well done to Picnic, for possibly the drive of the night . Looks like Team Shark is going to need more drives like that from you if they want a sniff of the Team title this season .

Sadly I'm dropped from the team AWOL for the next two, so see you in a couple of weeks.

Legzy
p.s. Welcome to Mr Sunny & Sly

[phspok]

Was promising t be a good race, qualled 16th as I was making a race setup as usual, was chasing HAL when new
PC went black screen , then BSOD, hope my car didn;'t hang around too long.

[Truetom]

Was promising t be a good race, qualled 16th as I was making a race setup as usual, was chasing HAL when new
PC went black screen , then BSOD, hope my car didn;'t hang around too long.

Long enough. Well, I hope I'll finish the next race.

[spanner]

yeah, never known a car to stay frozen for so long!

Wanted to try something different as i knew it was going to turn into a porka-fest even though its one of the few cars i can drive. After trying a few cars i decided to go with the the 360 as the fezzas i've never really got on with and hoped i could get the hang of it. What ever car i tried my best was a 1.25.0 but i never had time to try it over a race distance, how bad could it get! Managed to tame it a bit but the braking was still tricky, tried adjusting the controls in game to help but i then endedup with hardly any braking! and i had no real time to sort it out before the race started.
Couldnt beleive how quick everyone was, kinda hoped my only 1.24 time was going to be half decent, wasnt expecting to be pretty much last

Struggled round for most of the race but the tyres were wearing pretty fast and towards the end was loosing it under braking all the time and after being lapped was just annoyed with it all, especially as Legzy was revelling in how fast his btcc spec ford like performance he seem to have as he breezed up the field after ending up at the back.


So do i go back to the old faithfull porsche or go with the the z4, which seemed ok in the corners but gutless down the straight?

Welcome to all the new faces we had last night hope you enjoyed it

[phspok]

Oops, really sorry for blocking the road guys, I quit imediately, but it took a while before the noise
stopped and it BSOD'd. I have now installed the older version of the ATI drivers I was using under
VIsta, with no probs for over a year. Hopefully I will get a stable setup.

[goldtop]

Just a thought.......I had trouble with BSODs when I first started racing and it turned out to be my ATI 4850 card overheating. I just switch to manual fan at 50% whenever I race now and fortunately haven't had a problem since. I know ginsters had the same trouble too. Also as I mentioned earlier, I had to turn down my settings for this one which is something I rarely have to do; just a heavy track I suppose.

[phspok]

Not looked at fan control in ATI. The case is open with no side fitted, but the fan is doing
whatever it's been told to. I'll try setting it manually for tonight's GTL race. The card is not new
it's the same card I've been using for a while for this, but in a different box. This is Win7-64, the other is Vista-64. When I had this prob before It was with NVIDia, and I bought an ATI card
specifically to avoid it.

[Prof]

Kind of agree with Spanner. I thought I had done a decent lap time given next to no track time but was 17th out of 20. I was disappointed to lose another place during the warm up lap  but it led to an interesting chase. I made up places due the the misfortune of others but the Z4 just doesn't have the speed to get past people - in my hands at least. My first visit to Barber, I kind of like it. Well done Legzy on your first league race and the podium people/aliens.

[spanner]

Oh great! your not helping Prof lol. Looks like its the 997 then.

[Truetom]

This track is quite specific and I wouldn't judge a car based on just this one. Road America will be a different track altogether. Looking forward to it.

[Mark J]

Tough opening race for me in a Fezza 430. Cant see what all the fuss is about 

Like others, i was hoping my low 1:24 pace would see me in the top 10 at least but quickly saw that everyone else had found more pace over the weekend whilst i was away.
Nearly didnt race as only got back an hour before the race, after 350miles of driving my 911 all over warwickshire and oxfordshire..was fair pooped.

Had decent race start and made up a couple of places, only for Legzy to get all out of shape ahead in the chicane, and while i watched his 911 dance from side to side i took to the outside as he recovered and thumped him up the backside. Next lap round i lost the fezza out of the exit of T4? as it oversteered me onto the grass and lost about 5 places  :'( Took an age to catch up the pack but steadily got myself upto 10th as others had incidents. Stayed there until 2 laps from the end with nsfast and Prof chasing me hard.
Unfortunately my front left was at 31 wear by that point with pit warnings, basically on the canvas and i became a sitting duck for the two chasers...sickening to lose 2 places with 2 laps left.

Finished a cruddy 12th. Tough race, i was sweating buckets by the end with no respite on this track, bit like Brands Indy!

[Prof]

This track is quite specific and I wouldn't judge a car based on just this one. Road America will be a different track altogether. Looking forward to it.

The next race is at Road Atlanta though TT but your point is valid.

[Truetom]

Ah, ok. Read the whole name!

[H@L9000]

Good turn out, great racing and good fights!

Nice.

then i had a crazy race, 25 laps under constant pressure, a big thank you to peter and H@L9000 that waited for a clean opportunity to pass and did not force their way through even if there were a bit faster, that's racing how i like it and i really appreciated that 

That's how we do it here.

Yep, excellent fight. I could not find a way passed and tried to stay close in case you made a mistake but, you did not. I did out brake my self a little when I did pass, sorry about that. Lucky you saw it coming and I think you may have given me a little bit of a helping hand passing in the end.

Awesome stuff.

Thanks to all other people that I raced, its probably about half the field.

PC went black screen , then BSOD, hope my car didn;'t hang around too long.

I had a similar issue with my last PC build. It seemed to work OK until I ran memory intensive apps, then I would get BSODs. It turned out to be the RAM. The mother board by default did not supply the RAM with a high enough voltage. I had to manually increase it in the overclock settings in the BIOS.

I had to go to the RAM manufacturers web site to find out the voltage that it was supposed to run at. I discovered that there was an error with the RAM after running memtest:
http://www.memtest.org/ (download link is half way down the page)

Well done podiums.

See you all at the next race.