UKGTL Season 11 World Prototype Cup - Silverstone (GP 1952-73) - Nov 14

[Hristo Itchov]

It was tough driving this car for an hour, my left arm was beginning to hurt after half distance from the constant bumps that the FF was reacting to. Might lower the FF strength next time lol.

Qualifying was a bit unexpected, but I thought perhaps others were driving with full tanks in preparation for the race.

At the start of the race Pelle, Navin and myself had pretty much the same pace, so we kept running together and exchanged positions a couple of times. I noticed they were reluctant to push hard early on and thought that perhaps it was to save tires, so I did the same. In addition, I was not sure about the fuel, but my very long 5th helped to save some automatically on each straight. I would've ran a shorter 5th TBH but it was not available in the setup options. The next number was the one I used in qualifying and it was way too short, hitting the red line before the end of the straights.

Navin dropped out of the battle eventually and I also tried to pull away from Pelle once he made a mistake, but although that worked well for a couple of laps and I managed to pull up a 10 seconds lead, it took quite a toll on the tires and would later bite me back during the final few laps, nearly costing me the race. I had a very loose setup to combat the natural understeer of this car and while it worked great with tires in good shape, it was very tricky on worn out tires.

I had a spin near the end of the race, on the exit of the left hander before the last straight, which allowed Pelle to go into the lead with less than 10 laps to go. We had a great battle during those final laps but I managed to come in front just on time and then preserve a comfortable gap until the finish.

Looking forward to trying more races, in different cars.

[Pelle_B]

There were perhaps some who wondered when I said: Now I win no more...now you know why, really nice run Hristo  Grats
This shows again what I've always said, if you can run Grand Prix Legends...it's easy to run GTL. Top 3 are all old GPL drivers 
Race:
Really enjoyable race that was run very close & amazing priming race in top 3...unfortunately disappeared NRJ in grass & as something completely new, NRJ was taken with a lap  ...but finishes in the top 3 & gave fine Team points.
Yes, I saved the tires for the entire race & was hoping that maybe Hristo was surprised of tire wear, so I could beat the final laps...but the plan did not work, Hristo was too fast at the very end 

[Wiltshire Tony]

I just noticed that we had seven different nationalities in one race