Tame The Beast GTL Fun Race - 27th Dec

[Simon Gymer]

ALL UKGTL'ers WELCOME!

Let's see who is good enough to tame the beast that is the DeTomaso Pantera.

Date: Tuesday 27th December

Practice: 8:15pm (30 mins)
Qual: 8:45pm (18 mins)
Warmup: 9:13pm (2 mins)
Race: 9:15pm (10 laps) - STANDING START - DeTomaso Panteras ONLY
Track: Hockenheim GP
Race Time Of Day Setting:: 15:00

Server: SimRacing.org.uk(UKGTL)

This will be run using the 1.1 patch

[Aagramn]

Thank god I can't make this one. 

[Adam Parle]

27th (checks diary...), wahaay! I can make this one...

I'm up for giving the Pant-Tearer a go (can't we make exeptions and put Leuven in a mini to even things out tho?)

[fozzmeister]

Interesting, I found it quite stable for the 3 laps that I took it out, not really any issues at all and instantly felt confident.

Perhaps I'll be made to eat my words later on tho...

Foz

[Mooman117]

Hope to be there. The panteras a great car apart from when you need to go round a corner.

[Truetom]

Is there a cheat (like in rFactor) or do you have to buy all cars for multiplayer in singleplayer first?

C'mon guys, I don't believe I'm the smartest here?! 

[Rich_A]

Think you can get it at BHMS but i'm having probs registering there!! I tried uploading to my ftp but it's not refreshing for some reason.. I can send it on msn or icq np.

I sent it in an email to you Tom, the one in your profile.

[Truetom]

Thanks, Rich! 

In the process I decided to get Pathera by driving - and I have it - but I'm doing it in a haste and not with so much pleasure (mid difficulty level  ).

Panthera is a special car, you really have to tame it, lol, to enjoy driving. I'm still learning, we'll see how fare we are tonight.

Thanks again, Rich.

[Iain]

i drove a 1:58:4** in some practice

i dont know, but i have a feeling it should go faster 

[Truetom]

1:55:8 and I also feel I could go faster. Leuven has under 1:55:00 on GTL rank.

[Simon Gymer]

Missed the first race by about 30 seconds. Bugger.
Waited for the second to start, no practice 5th out of 12 not bad. Learnt track and car in about 5 laps but not happy with setup very very understeery. 4 seconds slower than Leuvens 1:53s

[ginsters sponsored]

Sorry that my half arsed driving caused such a feck up at the hairpin. No time for practice but it was fun anyways. It was pleasing to see shark look human because of that beast, at least for a bit .

[Iain]

came 4th in race 1, in the first corner, 4 cars went in to turn 1 and all of them took each other out leaving me 3rd

approached 1st and 2nd in the hairpin, 1 had span, hit him, stayed in 4th for the rest of the race, did ok without a bumper but loads of understeer

2nd race, got 1st, leuven just flew straight by, then i got 3 warnings and a stop go in and a bit corners, so i thought mehhhh

[Adam Parle]

Sorry that my half arsed driving caused such a feck up at the hairpin. No time for practice but it was fun anyways. It was pleasing to see shark look human because of that beast, at least for a bit .

Apparently it was entertaining, didn't have a clue what happened tbh, was on the outside braking into the hairpin, next thing I knew I was across the corner doing a pinball impersonation!

Still, enjoyed it all regardless.  Finished 7th in the first race, with 3 cars in the hunt for 5th.  2nd race was sort but eventfull (for me ).  Third race was just a bit short on numbers, and I screwed it up.

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

came 4th in race 1, in the first corner, 4 cars went in to turn 1 and all of them took each other out leaving me 3rd

Yeah, got a flyer off the line but then arrived at the first turn and thought, "um, not sure where to brake or how hard, ooh, I appear to be sliding wide, ah, so is everyone else, er, okay, rejoin lastish, never mind". Then caught Don up in the slower customer car, accidently nudged him up the bum, then somebody (might've been Don, not sure now) went off and spun or wrestled it back on, I had nowhere to go and creamed the car as a result. :'( Crawled back round and spent two minutes in the pits while they repaired me, went back out down a lap on everyone, managed to unlap myself from Gerald but then spun trying to get into the 1:57s and quit - race was virtually over anyway.

Second race was better, started second but got too much wheelspin off the line, relatively uneventful with Shark and two others scrapping behind me. Eventually managed to get into a better rhythm and got a 1:57.5. I gather from the pre-race chat that Leuven and the other aliens were using much stiffer diffs than I expected, 60-80 on both sides.