UKGTR Season 14 Formula 1 1988 - Mexico City (1962-1979) - Jun 7

[goldtop]

Discoed after a few laps after making my way up to 3rd    Just hope I didn't cause any mayhem.

Good to see so many on the grid tonight, even if some of them STILL DIDN'T SIGN UP  

Guys....I don't want to spend half the night doing admin...I have enough of that &$%$ at work. If you want to drive then please at least let me know here so that we don't get any duplication of cars....

https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=9337.0

Would be helpful too if those who can't make it for particular races could try to let me know so that I can make cars available.

Hope you had a great race  

[Dan Minton]

Was loving it untill i started to panic over wether there was a mandatory stop or not and spun coming out of T1 damaging the front wing.    Limped back to the pits but crashed entering the tight corner on the entry to pit road.   
Realise now i didnt need to stop , shame as my tires would have lasted the whole race.

bring on the next round.

cheers

[H@L9000]

CTD shortly after my pit stop.

I was having a great race up until that point. I was in the middle of 2 other cars going the main straight at one point. Great stuff. I had some nice fights with several different drivers.

I had to pit for new tyres half way as mine were shot and never would have lasted. Mind you I may have lost it after a while as I had 2 very close calls in the first 17 laps.

See you all next time.

[Truetom]

Rode a curb in first lap, how smart is that?!
Trailed slowly around the whole lap, pitted, repaired, came out and was two laps behind everybody. Couldn't afford to change tyres again, so I drove on until the next accident. Kissed the wall and said goodbye.

[phspok]

Car was much looser in qual and race than it had been in prac
maybe I was just trying harder.
Anyway, usual Ferrari story, very fast for athe 1st few laps
then 2- 3 secs off the pace after 10 laps, went in pits on lap18
to change tyres as they were down to nothing at the front
and about a 1/4 left at the back. forgot about the tight chicane
on pit entrance, and took a wheel off, and again i got a red cross
against the missing wheel, and the crew refused to replace it
end of race. hacked off with the damage model in this sim
it's bad enough that things break so easily, realistic or not
if the crew won't replace damage it's a bit naff. Two races in
a row I have lost a wheel, my own fault, but had to quit
without the option of taking a long stop to fix stuff.

[Manteos]

It's not funny to race only to defend the position pulling the braking. I would like to have some chance to try at least an attack for the next.

This is a video about Coloni's engine strating procedure http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-MhL4B7UFU&feature=related

This is my last race with Coloni for sure... I've had enough of it...

Cu  

[SRW]

3rd place, my first ukgtr podium! well chuffed after last weeks race where my computer froze up with half a lap to go, cant wait till montreal next week, one of my favourite tracks

[Navin R Johnson]

Dan and Son were untouchable in Qualy.. Then Matt put together a great lap for 3rd on the grid.. So started 4th and got a good jump at the start for 3rd but was quickly dispatched again by Matt. Then GT got by me shortly after. CAr didn't feel quiet right but after GT got by the balance came to me and I was able to match pace in a Benetton sandwich with Purdie right behind. It was sizing up for a great close battle up front then GT disappeared on the screen what looked like a super battle to come never materialized Because of Matt's and GT problems I inherited 3rd place and was just able to stay in touch with Dan. That only lasted a few laps and then Dan pulled away as the tires started to wear. After that I was basically all alone for the rest of the race..  I noticed first Son pitted and then Dan so I hoped my pace would hold on for the win.. Once we cycled around once I noticed Son was like 14 seconds behind with like 12 laps to go..  I'd be a lame duck once he got to me so I just tried as hard as could. To no avail Son passed me with around 6 laps to go. Once he got by his pace slowed just a bit and I was about 5 seconds behind trying like hell. Then I noticed the lapped car of Evert's gaining on me big time through the s's and I would of been happy enough to pull over to the side once through the s's but that was not to be as Evert's must have pitted and was on fresh tires and was much quicker then me at that point. Got drilled by him entering the back straight spinning me out and breaking my rear and front wings after hitting the wall. There was 4 laps left and I had 50 seconds on SRW so I soldered. No way I was gonna pit and I was fortunate to have the front wings and not just the rear gone because the balance was OK and not a spinning beast. Then for some reason Evert stayed behind me for the next lap and that was not needed bro as you were a lap down and believe me I didn't want your car around me as I was struggling with no wings, no tires and had no pace whatsoever. Plus, I did noticed you almost hit me again on the next lap in the very same spot when you first hit me. Best to just clear the guy and let them be So even with the kaos I got lucky and managed to finish 2nd. Big congrats to Son who was flying!! and to SRW who finally gets his well deserved podium

[goldtop]

Results and replay in the usual places

Congratulations Son, please fill in your nationality and the flag will appear by your name.

[Navin R Johnson]

Hey Goltop, Could you please put Henry in the "GTLDK racing team" as well Thank you.

[spanner]

You need to do that yourselves Navin. If you go to LM2/ team management/ there is a list of all those in your team. At the bottom is bit to send an invite to others.

[Samb]

Great fun that. Glad to have finally finished a race  . My pace was more respectable this time round although I was struggling with the Lotus's understeer and chewing the front tyres to pieces. I was very pleased not to have spun or crash this race but made an almighty cock-up in the pit lane. I didn't realise the limiter turned itself off after my stop, hence requiring to do a stop and go for pit lane speeding  .

I must apologise to Manteos who got caught out by my appalling corner speed on worn tyres, and crashing into the back of me, ending his race. My Lotus was understeering like the Titanic just before my first stop. For the next race at Montreal, I'll give a lower steering lock a try, as it was probably one of the causes of my high tyre wear this race.

Congrats to all on the podium  .

[Navin R Johnson]

You need to do that yourselves Navin. If you go to LM2/ team management/ there is a list of all those in your team. At the bottom is bit to send an invite to others.

Thanks Spanner.. I just noticed Henry is still in GTLDK team.. Team name just didn't show up in results of this race.. Nevermind

[Truetom]

3rd place, my first ukgtr podium! well chuffed after last weeks race where my computer froze up with half a lap to go, cant wait till montreal next week, one of my favourite tracks

Well done SRW.

[Navin R Johnson]

Good to see so many on the grid tonight, even if some of them STILL DIDN'T SIGN UP  

Guys....I don't want to spend half the night doing admin...I have enough of that &$%$ at work. If you want to drive then please at least let me know here so that we don't get any duplication of cars....

https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=9337.0

This is starting to be an issue. It's not fair to GT who does a lot of busy work putting these together and wants to play just like the rest of us... It's the very least a mate can do is give a heads up to the chairman on any given series. The fear is those driver's that should be reading this post aren't.. And never will. My suggestion to GT is if someone new doesn't bother to sign up at least 24hrs before race start they are out. If they really want to race these cars I bet they will read you post's GT if they get turned away in practice literally minutes before a race.. Will be the first thing they do... And if they don't we never needed them in the first place..