Race 07 Season 5 GTR Evo - Silverstone (GP 2000-09) - Jun 19

[Truetom]

Hope she's ok, Jamera.

Forgot to say: can we not develop some kind of restart emergency system for the cases like last night when Perdy450 accidentally pressed Esc on the start line? I mean, we're struggling with numbers, so each driver is essential, right?

[spanner]

That will be just me then that thinks not. Why shouldnt people at least read the announcements before turning up?

My pace surprised me somewhat there. Again having to go opposite to waht i would normally do in gtr2 helped to reduce the front washing out. Decided to to my normal strategy and run with enough fuel till i stopped, reducing the mass, tyre wear and allowing me to be a bit more consistent.

This was clearly the way to go as i even managed to catch up to MJ and Lazlow but my downfall was my pit stop. I think i must have had the first stall in the pits because before it is a wall  that sticks out to the pit lane. I wasnt expect such a tight entry so actually drove past the stall by a few meters. Once i'd reversed and it pit details popped up it had defaulted to a different preset and the cursor was right at the bottom of the list. wasting more time. I then couldnt get the engine re-started afterwards, acually i'm not sure you need to switch it off as i dont think i did but then i killed it during the tyre change. I'd also picked up a stop go as the limiter didnt seem to stay on during the stop.

Came out with Matt ahead by around 20 secs and tried to close it down, only managing to get down to about 10 secs. Shame, i wasnt confident beforehand about even finishing and i could have managed a bit more!

[Truetom]

That will be just me then that thinks not.

When you're the only one to see the way, the only Hero, struggling against the current of people rushing the other way, then it's time to redefine your priorities.

[Mark J]

yeah but we all know spanners a miserable bugger 

One thing i would urge everyone to do is blinking post in the race thread before the event as well as after. We are never going to generate any interest in a lifeless thread where it looks like nobody is bothering to turn up for the event. This place used to be alive with pre race banter, laptimes etc but now it always has the appearance that nobody is remotely interested.    More posts generate more interest !!

[purdie]

That will be just me then that thinks not. Why shouldnt people at least read the announcements before turning up?

lol....well i managed the password so apologies for not studying the post very hard! Is it not possible to quit and restart just the session? i.e. without re-qualifying

Sorry for dropping out last night, missus fell over and we spent the next four hours in A&E

Sorry to hear that mate   hope she is okay

[spanner]

I dont believe we could have restarted it using the qually results.

[H@L9000]

I did not think that a restart would be suitable either. At least one person does something to miss the start pretty much every time, it would have been someone else after the restart. Some drivers are on a tight time limit for their racing as well a can not afford any extra time.

I do not think we could have reorganised the grid without redoing qualy either.

I was well off pace as usual in the race and my front tyres were once again destroyed after about 8 laps. I was using a default setup this time as well so I appear to be turning the wheel too much or something. Will see if I can actually get near a decent pace for Nurb.