UKPnG Season 4 Then and Now - Albi (1959-80) - Nov 18

[Mark J]

will jump on in about 10mins or so, havent done a lap at Albi before 

[Legzy]

will jump on in about 10mins or so, havent done a lap at Albi before 

Sorry MJ, calling time for tonight after best part of an hour. You'll learn the track after about two laps, quite straight forward. Might take a bit longer to get your times down though

I've done 1:25.7 in race trim so far... but you should know that I'll make 20secs+ on you in the pitstops, so you need to be doing 25.1's to have a chance 

[phspok]

Cool little track, just enough turns to make the racing interesting, without too much learning to be done
(You got yer ears on Clive?)  into the low 24's with the Aussie Mustang, Stig getting into high 23's in Ferri !
Be interesting to see what aliens manage.

[Geoffers]

I've got a problem with the track, it causes P&G to crash on start up. If I remove it, P&G runs OK. I've tried the download from here & also the download from NoGrip and the same thing happens with both. Any ideas?


Edit: OK solved it, I had the non P&G version of the track installed as well & it was causing a clash!

[Clive Loynes]

Cool little track, just enough turns to make the racing interesting, without too much learning to be done
(You got yer ears on Clive?)  into the low 24's with the Aussie Mustang, Stig getting into high 23's in Ferri !
Be interesting to see what aliens manage.

24.2 here in the z06 but the XD tyre display is like a rainbow.

Any sign of a pit lane speed trap? Or perhaps we have to weave down the pit lane avoiding stray mechanics and people on bikes?

Did half a dozen laps tonight, off-line.  It's a track that I liked in GPL and it feels much the same in PnG.

[Mark J]

server was off when i tried to go online 

did some offline but only handful as dog tired. Way off the pace of the rest of you at present. 1:27.0 in the L76 but suspect i am quicker in a mustang from quick go of one lap. Hope i can get some praccy in before the race tomorrow eve but working late so might not 

[Manteos]

After some laps on the Z06 (non white) I'm on the 24 high with full tank. When the car starts to be a bit more light I can manage some 24 mid-low at the end of the stint I guess.
As usual it's probably not needed changing the tyres, but I guess that the pit stop with such a narrow pit lane, will be a good challenge if there are some cars in it.

Didn't practiced in quali fuel, so we will see tomorrow what I will able to do. Cu for the race. Bye bye

[Navin R Johnson]

Great to hear you're back in form Manteos!

I created a setup folder on Humyo for you guys. There are a bunch of setups in there.
http://www.humyo.com/FSlWqtt/Setups/?a=oYct0BvPY54

Thank you Mike    I appreciate it 

[Mike Miller]

There is a pit speed limit tonight guys. 36 mph is max speed.

[Legzy]

There is a pit speed limit tonight guys. 36 mph is max speed.

Yeah, just tested myself in an offline race (read = 1 lap & pit) entered pits as quick as possible... it does force a limit on you (35mph) but I was above that at entry & so it rightly awarded me a stop n go for speeding

p.s. it's quite hard to get above 60mph by pit entry following the last bend anyway

[API]

I'm so sorry about ruining your race, Geoffers. I completely missed my brake mark. Sorry.

I'll submit an incident report as the race ends.

[Mark J]

Pants event for me. Had no time for practise before the event, only having done about 6 laps prior to tonights sessions.

Tried taking the Mustang but dont enjoy driving any of the cars in my alloted group and dont feel there is a 'driveable/race-able' one for mortals like myself who manage to get a couple of good results to get promoted.  Part of the allure of this season for me was being able to take a regular car i enjoyed driving rather than being forced into one i dont. This race quickly turned into a slow-hotlapping contest by myself as i couldnt race anyone, just haul the barge around the track for lap after lap. So i parked up and left the circuit as couldnt face another 30laps of the same. 

Nice track and sure the rest of you had some fun 

[Hotkeys]

Had good fun chasing Mike and some others, but as usual ..... I lost my focus, damaged the car, tried to make it to end finish line loosing 3-4 sec a lap, only to find out that the engine didin't last till the end  :'(

Hope to CU all next week

Stig / Hotkeys

[phspok]

Comedy of errors for me, might have been on for a pod, or top 6 at least, was flying 1st couple of laps, passed
people, was catching Manteos when I got a pit in blue light! I had forgotten to fill up after qual...

Took my extra stop, and then set about trying to unlap myself, was doing ok until I got a wheel up the inside
of the fast right onto the straight and rolled..... then was doing ok (again) and was watching gaps in display
forgot to brake for next to last and smacked into the wall big stylie... bent steering a bit, but was drivable
finally caught Alex, might have caught Navin if I hadn't had offs. ah well was fun race all the same.
Results delayed because EifelBlitz was know to the database as "SpecialKS" a lightweight breakfast cereal?
Anyway, that's what it decided to call you  

EDIT: Not sure which of the many forums to post this in so....
Had trouble inporting results txt files. The file was correct on the server, but when trying to upload from
within the .zip on replay server it complained about the name not matching. I copied the files manually
to my PC and imported them from there, but may be a naming issue? too long now it's simracing.org etc etc?

[Navin R Johnson]

What a great little track this was. Lots of fun . Had a very good start and then had a tons of fun battling with Mike. We were so close in speed we couldn't shake each other. Interesting battle as Mike was better in some areas and I in others. We kept slowing each other down by getting side by side and raced very hard but had no contact at all . Then I got to my pit stall and totally screwed up by accidentally hitting the Enter key before I set my fuel load . Lucky I had pitting with 1 lap left in the tank so i was able to go around again and get fueled up. I came out in 10th place and was well aware that a 9th place finish would still allow me back into the Orange Group of cars so that was my goal. It came to me easy as an unlucky Hotkeys seemed to have an engine blow up . After that I just cruised the rest of the way. Grats to Manteos for his well deserved 1st place. Also grats to Mike for 2nd and Clive for a solid 3rd place podium. Great fun fellas .