UKPnG Season 4 Then and Now - Silverstone (GP 2000-09) - Oct 21

[Legzy]

Great race, good opening laps with Mike & race long battle with Mr Mutram
Tyres was the difference in the end, I changed & he didn't. Swung my way this week
Great driving on your part buddy (& mine ).

Congrats all.

p.s. I told you I'd have enough in the tank to out-qually MJ.  Easy, I tell ya!

[Alex vV]

Great first half of the race where I sort of could keep pace with the rest of the field.
After that I tried to be smart by pitting late but front tyres were totally ruined (that's why I braked early).

Next time I will stick to a Sauber-esque pitstop strategy   because this time I mingled with the fast guys... and it was obvious my pace wasn't good enough.

Too bad about the smallish field. Wonder where all the regulars are from a couple of seasons ago..

[phspok]

Replay And Results Posted

Good race. Had a dice with Mike's wide Mustang, then kept MJ at bay for the run up to the stops, only took fuel
and was suffereing with pace, MJ 17 secs behind, closing at half a sec or so a lap, with only a few to go
would have held him off except I got an instant - no previous guv - stop and go for going wide at Stowe.

[Legzy]

Too bad about the smallish field. Wonder where all the regulars are from a couple of seasons ago..

You could ask the same question about every single series here at the moment. Every single SIM run here (iR/PnG/GTR2/GTL/Race) is getting just about 15 drivers per race on average. But then a couple of seasons back, we were only running three SIMS.

Go back a little more & we only ran GTL & GTR2... full grids every race!

[Hotkeys]

Made an awfull lot of mistakes, but had fun trying to get back. My biggest mistake was not to change tyres ..... the car got sompletely hopeless so I had to do an extra pitstop.

Stig / Hotkeys

[Mike Miller]

Too bad about the smallish field. Wonder where all the regulars are from a couple of seasons ago..

You could ask the same question about every single series here at the moment. Every single SIM run here (iR/PnG/GTR2/GTL/Race) is getting just about 15 drivers per race on average. But then a couple of seasons back, we were only running three SIMS.

Go back a little more & we only ran GTL & GTR2... full grids every race!

We may need to start alternating sims each season? I know it is even more sweet to drive my Porsche after being away from it for some time. That 1st drive each spring is the best.

[Wiltshire Tony]

Don't forget to read about this years Christmas Special

https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=8446.msg149214#msg149214

Lot's of seats left but don't get left out

[Navin R Johnson]

Had high hopes for a podium for this race and was very happy to have a good qualy. Then I noticed that I had the harder tire on for qualy .. At first I thought what a dope . Then I realized that I might just have better race pace then the other Ferrari's if they had qualified on the soft tire. At the start I got a decent launch and was able to follow FMG past Lorenzo for second place.. FMG was able to gap me by a couple of seconds and Lorenzo was right on my bumper. After a couple of laps I was able to get back to FMG. Got side by side going just before turn 2 and we had a nice side by side through the s's. Nice car control FMG . Then in the lead I was glad to see that FMG now had his hands full with Lorenzo..After a short time Lorenzo then got to 2nd and was back on my 6.. Bigtime!! We then drove like we were connected for many laps till Lorenzo had to pit. I have to give Lorenzo big props for being a true gentleman .. A very classy driver who could of given me a bump and run at any point in our battle. Instead we had a great battle without either of us making a mistake . I started the race with a full tank so I was bale to go 17 laps before pitting. After my stop. I noticed that edit:FMG(thought it was Legzy at first, being same color car) had exited with me now in second place.. I was then in cruise control until the car behind had changed colors from FMG's blue Ferrari to something red... Gulp... It was Lorenzo again So I went back to driving 10/10th's and hoped it would be enough.. In the end it was and I was able to get the win Congrats to Lorenzo for a hard fought 2nd place and to Legzy for a solid podium finish .  Good racing all around fellas

[Clive Loynes]

Started eighth and finished eighth.......................but the future is ORANGE!!!!

Will have Lorenzo's Mustang next week.  

At the start, a Ferrari in front didn't move and that allowed me to be passed by a few.

Then I was embroiled with some lap one goings on that dropped me back to 13th.

Had some good fun with Alex, hope you didn't mind the odd friendly tap just to stop you forgetting me.

Watched Stig do some grass cutting.  I think he must have the contract to keep all the infield and verges under control.

Ade and I have finished within a place of each other for the first three rounds and I ended this race trying to close the gap but ran out of laps.  

WD Ade and grats to Navin, Lorenzo and Legzy.

Anyone taken a look at who is leading the driver and team standings?    


It would be good if we could have the server switched over to the next track asap so that I know that I have the right one and that it works.

[FullMetalGasket]

I had a great race last night, shame I messed up in T1 about 5 laps in and gave Navin a run on me - It quickly became clear that the main reason he was struggling to get close was due to the attentions of Lorenzo!
As soon as Navin was past I was faced with the same problem and seemed to loose my ability to lap fast consistently  
After a lap or so I made an error and Lorenzo snuck by aswell leaving me to fend off Legzy, who had the initial advantage (I think I must have slightly cooked my tyres fighting Navin and Lorenzo) until I finally got it together enough to open a small gap on him.

Legzy pitted at about the halfway point while I still had plenty of fuel and decided to stay out for a few more laps in the hope of minimizing pit time.
I don't know who made the 275's fuel guage but they did a fine job of replicating Italian electrics.  
The Fezza was showing full for the first 5 laps or so before the guage then started on a rapid nosedive towards empty - I foolishly took this to mean I was getting better milage than the setup screen predicted so removed a few liters from the preset top-up.
I also didn't change tyres this time around having lost time at Road America due to an accidental full change - This time It cost me as although I left the pits in 2nd (From 3rd) Lorenzo caught me at about warp factor 9.
With a few laps to go and my tyres starting to show signs of imminent death Legzy caught me again - instead of the protracted battle of the first half he wafted past me within a few corners this time while I could only watch...
MJ started to worry me towards the end of the race when my tyres were well and truely worn out (would be curious to see my final lap times ) but then he suddenly dropped back after getting to about 5 seconds of me.  
This was especially lucky as I'd spent the final 3 laps short shifting and coming off throttle early to preserve my remaining fuel vapours (Fuel light started blinking about 1/3rd of the way into the penultimate lap! ), after finishing I switched to the outside view and discovered I had all of 0.2 of a gallon remaining, so very lucky to make it!

I am now totally amazed that I appear to be 3rd in the championship   That won't last  

Brilliant racing with those I battled with - Esp Legzy who managed not to punt me whenever I had a minor wobble just after Lorenzo got by 

[Lorenzo Galluzzi]

Great race yesterday!
I got the pole with an unexpected low 13...
Race was different....
I started slow and the 2 Ferrari's passed me...I knew my pace was very good but was able to pass just one of them and my tires were getting in trouble....The pit was pretty hilarious trying to find out where my area was and decided to change only the front tires...A bad decision.....after a few laps my Mustang was undriveable and had to give up trying to catch Navin.
Congratulation to him and to Legzy.
Thanks to Navin for the battle and for the kind words! Classy man!

[Mike Miller]

Anyone taken a look at who is leading the driver and team standings?    

Solid driving from the SBR team. KC is nipping at your heels though. With you and Ade in orange and Lorenzo and I in Yellow we've got a pretty fair fight. Hotkeys and Geoffers also have potential of stealing points too. My crew is going through the rig. They are preparing a fresh copy of Windows and a brand new ATI 5870. Think of it as a fresh motor rebuild for the remainder of the season.

[Mike Miller]

The server is running with next weeks event at 1970 Silverstone.

[Alex vV]

Unofficial LapChart

[Alex vV]

Too bad about the smallish field. Wonder where all the regulars are from a couple of seasons ago..

You could ask the same question about every single series here at the moment. Every single SIM run here (iR/PnG/GTR2/GTL/Race) is getting just about 15 drivers per race on average. But then a couple of seasons back, we were only running three SIMS.

Go back a little more & we only ran GTL & GTR2... full grids every race!

We may need to start alternating sims each season? I know it is even more sweet to drive my Porsche after being away from it for some time. That 1st drive each spring is the best.

Was thinking on the same line. I see a LOT of good races here but due to real life I can only commit to one race a week (gutted to miss the Avus race).
May take some workload away from the admins also .

Only my two cents and I guess it's up to SRou organizers to follow up or not. I wouldn't mind mixing some historic racing wih newer machinery..