GTL Endurance Race

[Don]

lonely drive in the Alfa (except for a bit of fun with Dave) was I the only one driving in the TC-65 class?
That was maybe my most consitant drive ever in GTR or GTL, I only made one mistake braking into La Source and managed to get it turned in on time.
The Alfa felt great all race, didn't have to stop, loads of fuel left from a full tank, tyres were good and I was pushing all the time (smoking every turn). Just a shame I had no one in the same class to race.

I know what Jams means when he says harder work than the GTR cars, seems like more consentration is need for those and more physical work for these.
It was nice to have the luxury of being able to stretch your fingers and toes whilst driving down Kemmel (thank god) Though cruise control would have come in handy.
Really enjoyed that.
Don.

[Mark J]

phew, that was very hard work in the TVR...i'm glad Dave suffered as much as i did, i thought it was just me   The car was a nightmare to handle through the twisty section, understeer to oversteer and back again!  I hadnt had any time in the car or on this track before, so it was a steep learning curve, i'd only unloked enough cars to buy the Tiv about 5 mins before praccy start using the DNF cheat in offline. I thought the short wheelbase and grunty engine would work well at Spa Suspension finally broke on exit of eau rouge
Good fun though....kinda

There will be some fantastic close championsip races once the game bugs are sorted out

[fozzmeister]

See that guys Sig?

We know where to send our bug reports then :-)

[pswillies]

Never driven the Elan until last night, glad I did though as it was great fun. 

Planned on running without a stop, but discovered just as the race was about to start that the elan held 2 laps less fuel than I needed!  Could have probably got away with it.

It all went horribly wrong at my pit stop when the crew seemed to take a week to change the tyres.  Got back out on track, looked at the fuel gauge... empty!  They didn't refill me!  Got annoyed... slid off, got a stop/go penalty (rather harsh I thought, since I ended up in the gravel).  It all came to an end on the next lap when I rolled it on the exit of Eau-Rouge.

Great fun  , just a shame I barely saw any cars as the race went on... a shorter track might be a good idea next time with a grid of 16.

 

[PaulW]

It's nice someone who had a hand in building the game wishes to drive with us but I'd imagine the last thing Andy wants is to be leant on when here Fozz- he probably just wants to enjoy the game like the rest of us

Interesting about the suspension damage Mark- when I pitted I'd apparently got suspension damage needing 90 secs worth of work to fix. I elected not to bother because the car felt great. Hadn't had a crash but think it was probably a cumulative thing after hammering through Eau Rouge all those times!
 

[fozzmeister]

Actually, I never finished figuring out if Blimey were a renamed SimBin, or a splinter organisation. Thier page specifically say "the core of the development team having worked on the critically acclaimed and multiple award-winning GTR - FIA GT Racing Game" which is a long way of "we made it". Also the games section is marked "Team Track Record".

I get the disgrutled ex-employee's feeling from those two things, or it could be corporate games or something.

Anyway welcome to our little racing place AndyG

[Jamera]

Interesting about the suspension damage Mark- when I pitted I'd apparently got suspension damage needing 90 secs worth of work to fix. I elected not to bother because the car felt great. Hadn't had a crash but think it was probably a cumulative thing after hammering through Eau Rouge all those times!

I had exactly the same, though 95 secs worth, which I too chose to ignore with no apparent ill effects

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[Aagramn]

Great turnout. A shame some people couldn't get in, but it sounds like we'll have little problem filling the server when the patch comes out.

[ginsters sponsored]

Please Mr.Picnic can we have some more? Friday would be great.