UKPnG Season 6 Sprints - Jerez - Jun 30

[Sandor M]

My story is a bit like Bill's  . Could get it around corners but due to limited practice time I made way too much errors.
As there was no one to race with (Bill quit earlier) I decided to stop .

Hope the rest had a fun race.

[M Cinderby]

  Great race guys. I just pushed to hard to soon, just a few more laps at the end and I think I could have got P2 back........but then again who knows!!! 

[Wiltshire Tony]

I was absolute rubbish, could hardly go around a single corner without going off and each time got a fishtail into the opposite barrier or backwards into the nearest barrier.  So many bits were flying off decided to call it a day as the handling got worse with each off.

PS My Win 7 updates are messing my computer - each time I get an update, one won't install and is still there everytime I switch off.

I found it easier to be too slow on entry, man handle the car around the turn, trying to glimpse the apex if poss then flooring it.

Sounds like you have to do the installs in a certain order Bill Thomas now. Do you have auto install set to on?

[Legzy]

Entertaining first 20mins as I managed to just about keep on the tails of Mark C, Matt & Miguel. But then made 3 bad mistakes in 2/3 laps & I was only own to the end.

Congrats podium, great drive Clive.

[phspok]

Results and Replay in usual places
Great race, surprised to be competitive, in practice I was faster in the White whale
was a shame to spoil the perfect order of Italian cars so took the 275 and went
faster and faster, Took the harder tyres which payed off in the second half
Had some door to door paint trading with Mark, then got too close out of a corner
and nudged him gently into a spin, waited and off we went again, this time
got past, and then slowly crept up behind Miguel De Rat, followed politely
for a few, got on the grass and caught up again, seemed i could brake a bit later into
the tight right at the bottom of the hill after the chicane so put it up the inside
a bit physical, but no damage I could sense, and managed to keep in to the end
Clive's early pace waned as his tyres went off big time, and I got dangerously close
to catching him. Good race.

[M Cinderby]

  Oh forgot to say...........Got a shitie start because I could not see the lights. So sat in P1 waiting for some one to go so I didn't jump start.  Must remember to start on what ever side the lights are on in future. You would think they could have carried the 3.2.1 GO over from GTL......Very frustrating. 

Sorry to whom ever was in P3 as I didn't move at the start. 

[goldtop]

Was way off pace in the 275GTB and even moreso in the Z06 but I thought I'd have more fun in the vette the audio cranked to enjoy that V8 growl.

I used default with lowered pressures and a bit more caster, but still it would be more use down my local canal than on a race track. I really hope PnG3 has a major rethink on physics because these cars are a joke imho.

Anyway, had a reasonably non eventful race after the first few laps with a gap behind and a big gap in front  

Congrats to Clive and pody.

[goldtop]

DOn;t remember GT being in the Vette, the results file has him in one, and I don;t know
how to change it after importing the results.

I definitely remember being in the vette  

Oh forgot to say...........Got a shitie start because I could not see the lights.

I tested the track for the F1 race and it was ok for me, but of course that would have been from an open wheel cockpit. I always use the HUD to watch the countdown if I can't see the lights 

[Wiltshire Tony]

Really didn't expect much from this race but it turned out to be rather good fun.

I turned up as early as poss so that I could setup the car and learn the track. First thing I discovered was that the Ferrari had an aversion to going around corners and understeered like crazy. Tried everthing to get the beast to behave but in the end realised that only a slow entry speed would make the turns drama free. I also discover that the softest tyre wouldn't last the distance so used them for qually but changed to the hard for the race.
Had a lovely ding-dong with Syd for nearly all of the race. He had (I suspect) a shorter gearing to me and was leaving me for dead on every turn exit. I would then catch and outbrake at the next turn. This continued for many, many laps. Syd must have chosen a softer tyre compound because his car seemed to handle worse the more the race progressed. In the end I was robbed of a racing overtake as Syd's luck ran out and a brush with a kerb sent him into a long spin down the track. I had nothing to do for the remainder of the race but keep the distance between him and me consistent. I had no hope of catching GT in the yank tank as we seemed to have the same pace.
Yeah, enjoyed that one a lot.

[Clive Loynes]

Thanks for the congratulations.  An unexpected win but like they say, it’s not how it’s how many.

I’ll take it.   

With two weeks to practice, SBRC was able to sort out quite a nice Ferrari setup, having started with a Stig car that we then modified.

I had established early in my track learning phase the limit of how fast I could go in the Z06 and the Ferrari was so much easier to drive that there was no competition on car choice.

I did all my practice about a week ago and had got bored with nobody to race.  I had also done a practice AI race on x4 tyre and fuel which showed that I could get to the end on the soft tyres.  So bored that I did a GPL GT race on Wednesday night instead of more practice at Jerez.   

Then disaster!  Right at the end of practice I had a screen freeze that needed a reset.  I managed to reboot and re-entered the race, with about twelve minutes of qually on the clock, only to find that my steering wheel and pedals were behaving very strangely.  So, back out to Windows and this time around all was well. 

Half of qually was now gone but I managed a fast enough lap to claim 2nd on the grid.  This proved to be a benefit as I could see the lights, although they took some finding.

At the start I made use of my soft tyres to go as fast as I could whilst the rest fought amongst themselves.  Mark held on to me at first but then made a mistake that let me get away by the tune of 14 seconds or so.  Even after my tyres were shot, I was still able to keep the gap at a safe figure of around 10 seconds.

But then I messed up the last long left and suddenly the three of them, Matt, Miguel and Mark were only six seconds away.

Eeeeeek!

Looking at the replay, I don’t think that their tyres were much better than mine and I was able to stay in front to the line.

Phew!  Had me sweating there!

SBRC will be working on its 911 as of tonight.  Should have a TT lap available by Saturday.

[Hotkeys]

Great race .. .. a pity so few turned up. I guess we're in the holiday season now.

Just like Clive, I started practicing early, and like him, I also got a bit bored with it. I should have stayed at it though, 'cause at some point I was able to do 2.07.500 laps on low fuel and soft tyres. I honestly expected people like Ade and Mark to get below 2.07. On race day however, I couldn't get the right rhythm back, but I had some nice duels at the start of the race, and at least I managed to complete the race. I plan to make that a habit 

Stig