GT Sprint Cup - Season 2, Round 5, Donington - Dec 20

[Mark J]

Unlucky Paul, was hoping for a formation finish !

Great race, really enjoyed myself though i couldnt match the front guys for pace as the race went on. Car setup felt great, quick and stable.
My only error the whole race was when i checked my mirrors for the resurgent Leuven in his spaceship ...i just missed my braking zone but no spin and was able to turn in at last seconds and continue without losing too much time.
Had some good close racing with Willier for quite a few laps until he braked late in turn 1 and i nipped past, then it was a bit lonely for a while other than back markers and i had to really concentrate so my mind wouldnt wander off

Had a scary moment later on when lapping Gerald for the ?th time and he shot across my bows at the chicane...phew Glad i took that slow and wide

Brought it home in either 9th or 10th...not sure if Leuven expired before or after i crossed the line

Great fun, and no blinking problems either...whohoo

[fozzmeister]

You and me both PW, I can't get it consistent at Doni, I can be semi quick, but I can't do it consistently, most other tracks I its much more defined what I can and can't do.

If you wanna laff, watch me at the start!

Spent the last part of the race trying to catch Willier, which was my only good racing, but it was still error full :-(  I was mostly catching up through not giving a lot to the lapping cars, whereas I think Willier gave too much. got to within a couple of seconds I reckon as we crossed the line. I still had 14L of fuel left, I gotta get this fuel thing sorted one day!

Fozz

[Truetom]

Jon didn't allow me too close, so we were just driving, lol!  

I was in the lead for 1 second when I braked too late and he let me pass but I was too fast to make it. Good move, it scared me s..tless that we'll both go out. Good race! Too bad for Leuven, could be four fun with Mo!  

[fozzmeister]

Was you in a Lambo Paul? someone had was a bit laggy in a Lambo infront of me going in to the Melbourne hairpin, anyone else notice or was it just me?

That wasn't PW, can't remember who, I was racing that Lambo for a while, quite scary!

[Simon Gymer]

Server Replays and Exports available here http://www.ukgtr.org/replay/Donington%20-%20GT%20Sprint%20S2%20201205.zip

[Aagramn]

Provisional results are up.

[JonM_uk]

What a race! Qualified with a great 1.26.3  
Thought I would be able to conserve tyres and just take it a little easy in the race....Boy was I wrong
Even though I posted the fastest lap Fellow Penguin Truetom was more consistant overall. Everytime I tried to get away he was there crushing what I thought was a hard earned 1.5 sec lead like it was nothing. I felt like a bit of a road block at times but managed to keep Truetom behind us. The closing stages were tense, I got lucky as Truetom seemed to get held up lapping people and that gave us a 3 sec gap with 2 laps to go but my tyres seemed to be melting away at every corner and I really had to start braking earlier and earlier. Sure enough Truetom came storming back and if there would've been 1 more lap I would've been overtaken for sure. What a cracker. And a penguin one two

[fozzmeister]

Provisional results are up.

Wow that's efficient

[greg130]

Good race for me, qualed 5th and finished 4th.
Had a great battle with Rich for thr first 14 laps until he dropped back, think it was a spin.
Nearly caught Mo in the end, another 2 laps might have done it.
Well it was nice at the top of the league while it lasted, grats to Jon for another fine win  

[Truetom]

Jon - I had a feeling you had some reserve and could have driven away from me.

My tires were loosing grip, too and I was struggling with the car at the end. Good the race finished, would have spinned otherwise soon. Hell, I got a puncture in the second doughnut!  

Hail to the Penguins!  

Btw, where is the Major Penguin Thief, ehm, Tyf?

[LEUVEN]

The Corvette is easy to drive at mediocre pace, but really hard to wring it's neck which I was having to do to keep up with Aagramn in his Lister. Was about 2 secs behind him for 35 mins until finally my rears let go round the bend at the top of the hill and it was a struggle after that to keep the rest of the pack behind me.

Stupid me forgot to open the vent more after qualifying so I was having to short shift most of the time and keep and eye on oil to occasionally rev higher and up my pace.

Unlucky, but guess who else didnt change the radiator vent,

Well, after a bad qually (for me) I couldnt get anywhere near the 1:26's i did the other day in the Lister

Race started and was keeping up with the guys infront for waaaay over seven turns   until I noticed Truetom? I think it was, going a little wide into Coppice corner so i tried that little bit too much and ended up in the bunker waving to everyone as they passed me by.  

Got back on track (Pun intended  ) and clawed back into 6th from 12th or 13th after a few good tusstles only for the engine to give up going through McLean's  

Again I was left waving everyone by on the straight between Coppice and the Esses.   :'(

Well done Jon, and Truetom in 2nd I think as it was close one at the end wasnt it?

Just cracked open a bottle of Finkbeiner ,which i am just in the mood for

As I'm typing this leaning over my MOMO it is smelling worse than the other day, so it looks like I'll be using a Gamepad next race if the motor goes.  
Just as I was tempting myself with the idea of some BRD Speed7's For Xmas

[pswillies]

Was you in a Lambo Paul? someone had was a bit laggy in a Lambo infront of me going in to the Melbourne hairpin, anyone else notice or was it just me?

That wasn't PW, can't remember who, I was racing that Lambo for a while, quite scary!

I think that was me.  Discovered after the race that my girlfriend had helpfully started up some torrents on the laptop downstairs without telling me and ate up my connection  !

Sorry for any scares!

 

[Truetom]

Well done Jon, and Truetom in 2nd I think as it was close one at the end wasnt it?

About 1 second, but I think Jon was just teasing me all along, lol. 

[JonM_uk]

I had used up all reserves with about 10 laps to go  
Tried to go agian but there was just nothing left.
0.78 was time gap between us, just glad race ended when it did 

I seen this on ZIP

Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 9:23 am    Post subject: Olla  

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I'm still alive peeps, just no inet for the moment. It's all taking a lot longer than expected! Grrr! No clue as to when or where or how, lol, but I'll be back! :^D

Tweets,

T

So Looks like our leader should be back at some point but who knows when  

BTW thanks for the big kiss at the end of the race Fozz, I know where to come for my pork sausages now  

[Rich_A]

Great race, glad to finish - even 8th is worth shouting about in a field like this!! You had a spin at the start Leuv after being a tiny dot on my horizon for 15 mins... was dissapointed to see that but it put me into fifth which was as high as I got!!

Was following Greg, gaining then loosing like a yoyo very good.. very nice to see. Not much point in attacking to begin with as it only slows both parties down.. but I started getting close until I freaked out on the downshifts and then spun downhill into hairpin.

Grats Jon, could sense the epic battle going on a few thousand meters away haha, great stuff.