UKGTR Season 14 Upper Endurance (GT500) - Silverstone (GP 2000-09) - Jul 17

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Managed to get into the 42's just, last night. 43's normally.

[H@L9000]

Hey guys I have tested all the cars and my first choice is the Honda HSV 010 GT 2010 second choice is the Aston 3rd choice is the Nissan GTR.

Please let me know which car I am able to use so I can get a skin made.

You can take any car from the mod.

To add a skin you will have to wait until I organise a skin pack up date. I will post a message in the UKGTR announcements section to let everyone know when I sort it out. Hopefully that will be some time next few weeks.

P.S. Is there any official signup procedure??

No but, we have an official procedure for adding a skin which is why you will have to wait for a skin pack update I am afraid. Feel free to show up for the races with no registration needed and no restrictions on car choice from the given class.

I hope this helps.

[H@L9000]

I have reloaded the server with a weather file generated using the weatherGen system using real conditions.

It was set to 30% chance of light rain (as forecast at 7pm ish) and ambient temp of 19 degrees (as forecast at 1pm - 4pm).

The system made a file that had no rain in the end so if anyone wants me to generate a file that definitely has some rain then let me know. There is currently only a 20% chance of rain tomorrow night so it will probably be a dry race.

If anyone downloaded my June 2011 version of the waetherGen system and had an error when running it, it was because you needed a fully up to date version of Windows to run it but, I have removed that dependency in a July 2011 version, no other changes were made so no need to get July 2011 version if you have June 2011 and it works.

I have managed to get a few laps in the 42s but, I suspect some people may be going faster.

[H@L9000]

The chance of rain for tomorrow has gone up again. Good old English weather.

[Truetom]

 

[H@L9000]

Weather forecast generated, see first post.

[Jamera]

What a waste of time. Apex was warping all over the place, hit him 3 times where he suddenly appeared stationary in front of me. Saw him off the track and I moved up to 7th, then he reappears in front of me and I'm in 8th, then he disappears and when I go through the place he was I'm catapulted up and race over

[Manteos]

What a waste of time. Apex was warping all over the place, hit him 3 times where he suddenly appeared stationary in front of me. Saw him off the track and I moved up to 7th, then he reappears in front of me and I'm in 8th, then he disappears and when I go through the place he was I'm catapulted up and race over

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It's impossible to race in this conditions apex... I guess that I was the fourth guy involved in one of your extremely frequent lags... You were appearing and disappearing every 3-4 seconds and that isn't good for the fun of the other people on track.
Luckily I didn't train so much for this race...

Cu

[phspok]

A good event spoilt by lag related crashes which put me into the fence and lost splitter so was dog slow up to the pits
and also pointless rain. Why do we insist on making it more "challenging" Seemed like the rain was intermittent
so took softs, then it stopped so took meds at my early stop, and it peed it down,  very dissapointing.

[APEXTECHUSA]

What a waste of time. Apex was warping all over the place, hit him 3 times where he suddenly appeared stationary in front of me. Saw him off the track and I moved up to 7th, then he reappears in front of me and I'm in 8th, then he disappears and when I go through the place he was I'm catapulted up and race over

sorry mate my deepest i didnt want ruin your race or others

[Legzy]

Started race with soft fronts & med rears, which is what I qualified with & they felt good in the early conditions, though I started making a couple of half spin errors as my car got more oversteery on corner entry due to wear/extra water. 20-25 mins in, it seemed to start raining harder & so I pitted.
What tyre though
Decided to go with inters front & back & after 1.5 laps I was regretting it . They felt more grippy, but I was noticeably way slower than pre-pitting & they were pretty much all in the red overheating already
Decided to keep going with them & see what others were doing pitting/laptime wise, but then there was thunder & everyone who hadn't pitted did so. I was gutted, figuring they'd all probably put hard wets on & be on the right tyre for the conditions :'(. I took the lead at this point, with TT exiting the pits 7.5 secs behind.
But about a lap later the rain had reduced again & the inters were perfect, TT was gaining on me about 0.5 per lap, but I figured I'd have 2nd in the bag.

With 15 mins to go, I'd managed to maintain the gap to TT & then the rain stopped. Decide that I'll pit for my original tyres to finish the race as I can't imagine the conditions will change again... lost a few secs as I fiddled with XD setting the right tyres etc & just as I'm bracing to turn into the pits, the rain starts up again .
So obviously I stayed out & from there i started to eek open the gap back to TT, who I guess was struggling with tyres by then?

Happy to have my 1st win in a loooooooong time, but it was certainly down to luck more than judgement . Congrats to the rest of the podium & the other finishers.

Regardless of the win, I was actually losing interest in the race till the proper rain showed up (i.e. 20-25 mins in). We were down to only six cars, nobody to race & the rain just took me out of the comfort zone & forced a pitstop on me, the heavier rain gave me something to focus on & I thought that these cars handled the rain better than anything (other than PnG cars) we've ever used.

[H@L9000]

Results and replay in the usual places

[H@L9000]

Fun and difficult race for me.

I stupidly decided to put more medium dry tyres when I pitted half way through as they had worked well in the first half of the race. Lazlow and spanner told me to stay out out to see what happens before pitting but, I was reluctant to change my fuel strategy and recalculate while on track. The rain of course got heavier and I had to make a 2nd stop for inters. I had a good chase with nsfast in the first half of the race who was keeping me under pressure. I was on a mission to catch Legzy and TT after my 2nd stop but, it was not to be.

I luckily managed to get the championship win due to nsfast having more problems than me.

Sorry to hear about the lag issues.


Driving in that championship was definitely fun for me, well done all and thanks for showing up.

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Another one taken out by Apex here on the first lap. Came out of Bridge to see a frozen Apex who should have been running behind me. Two weeks in a row i've not got to the finish

Sorry apex, it was decided after you effectively took out 4 or 5 of us with the massive warping then frozen car that it wasnt safe.

[H@L9000]

OK guys a PM has been sent to the driver in question regarding the lag issues. He did not do this on purpose remember, it is more of a case of not being able to let him know that his lag was so bad I believe.

Remember all, try to do your best to keep your net connections in a stable state during race events and we ask that drivers allow in game chat during races in case of any important server messages please.