GT Sprint Cup - Season 2, Round 6, Spa - Jan 17

[mo]

Not a problem mate, softs on the front and hards on the rear, I dont have an option for medium wets, do you ?

No sorry I mean meant hards or normal or what ever its called in GTR. Anyway I'm trying the 550 with softs/monsoon on the front and hards/wet on the back.
Think I'll set my throttle sensitivity to 2% though 

[Wilier]

dont suppose anyone has a wet set-up for the lister they could pm me?

Ive had about 15mins practice in 2 weeks

[greg130]

Well what a disaster, real basic error, smashed the front up and lost a wheel on lap 5, end of race.

Grats to Jon and all the guys who finished.

[Wilier]

Bugger me that was slippy

Did a pb of 1.28.4 in qual, only 8secs behind JonM, so no chance there LOL

Started OK tbh, Fozz went straight on at the end of the 1st lap, so upto 11th, Mark Jonzon went off, upto 10th then FliBri spun, upto 9th, then Aagramn who I had been close to all race spun and I chose to do the right thing and spin with him
Managed to get going again just behind him and MJ only to lose it a lap later at the top of the hill just after the pits.
Checked my pit crew and they said Aero damage, but I appeared to have lost a wheel limped round to the pits again, but then couldnt find my pit board to repair. BUGGERS.

Never mind, it was fun while it lasted.

[fozzmeister]

Well I made one big mistake on lap 1, going straight on at La Source. Which put me down nearly last. After that I backed off slightly and just moved up the places with attrition and dodging stopped cars, quite hairy at times really, particularly as I'm not one to lift the throttle if I see a way through :-)

I thought I was going to finish 7th, but on the last lap I somehow was shown as 6th, which is pretty much my target finishing place for races. So I'm pretty chuffed.

Fozz

[Aagramn]

Amazing times Jon, and congrats on the win.

That was hard work. Haven't played GTR for ages, and found no time to practise. Wasn't too bad for most of the lap, but couldn't get the power down after the bus stop, cars were zooming away from me there. Didn't have a proper wet setup, might the suspension have been too stiff?

Didn't have many offs, but there was one nasty incident where I spun at the final hairpin and was left facing the wall on the exit, blocking the racing line. Autoclutch wouldn't let spin turn out of the way, and I had zero visibility. Think I got in the way of two or three cars trying to do a three-point turn, sorry about that.

[Mark J]

That was bloody hard work...its not even 'fun'  

Still got a wet PB of 1:25 and qualied 6th or 7th ? so was happy with that. First few laps went well with me staying with the lead pack in tippy-toe convoy for about 5-6 laps then car just inexplicably decided to just slide off at the bus stop even though i could not have gone any slower thru it without stalling  ...put me nose against wall and couldnt move until everyone crept past.

Then fought me way back up as others did formation spinning in front    Had a great second half battle with aagram who was always hovering within a few seconds behind me as i struggled more and more with worn tyres. Then got two 'Tyres worn' warnings from my pit crew as car descended into 'ice racing' mode, spinning the wheels in every gear including 4th
I was really fighting the beast by last lap and aagramm closed right up on me again, i saw he was lining me up for a last go on the very last hairpin so took a defensive tight line and just out-dragged him to a photo finish  
Tough work for a handfull of points to finish in 7th/8th??

[Simon Gymer]

That wasn't as much fun as NGT last week, very low turnout again so was a bit lonely after Mo's chase of me ended 15 at race start, only 8 made it to the end. Was really hard work and there was something really up with the frame rate. Others said the same thing so wasn't just me. I normally have very high fps in GTR but it was down almost to 20-25 near the start and was making it really hard to drive, was having to be very careful. I checked the server afterwards and there weren't any rogue GTR servers running in the background or anything that I could see nasty so very odd as NGT was fine last week.

Qualified 2nd in my comeback GT Sprint race, 2 secs behind Jon, but pretty decent time, was pleased as hadn't practiced at all again. Took it easy in race, stayed with Jon for the first few laps as he warmed up his feathers, but no way to stay with him once those penguin wings were in full flap. Mo then chased me for a bit, but under no real threat (or were you being polite?  ), I seemed a lot faster through Eau Rouge and getting the power down much better than his F550 (the Lambo is still the best for that in the wet imho). Eventually Mo lost is somewhere (sorry cant remember where) and I poodled to the end (another 15 mins I think).

Only scares were really - had a sideways moment out of bus stop where I slammed on brakes and caught it sideways letting TT get to within 3 seconds. Also had a big moment through Eau Rouge where I kissed the barrier at the top with quite some vigor. That was one of those "end of race moments" if the god's had been against me.

Was fun watching the MarkJ and Aagramn last corner / start line battle and well done to Jon on the win!

[Aagramn]

Lol, forgot about our photo finish Mark. I knew the Saleen is bad for tyre wear, so was hoping to stay close enough to keep you under pressure. Saw you run a bit wide at the last corner and got alongside, but couldn't get the power down quickly enough. Well raced.

[mo]

Great drive from pole to flag Jon congrats.

Tough but enjoyable race for me, enjoyed chasing Shark for the first half but fried my tyres trying to keep up.
After that it was all downhill and I ended up hitting my favorite wall at Eau Rouge - broken suspension race over.
Plenty of battling the ridicolous bouncing Ferrari handling along the way .....mmm starting to really dislike the Ferraris now 

Thnks all see you next time

[picnic]

Replay and provisional results are available from the usual

[Truetom]

Agree with you, guys, hard work.  

But rewarding! Qualed 5th, and gained two placed due to mistakes of Greg and then Mo. Tried to close on Shark, especially gained morale after his mistake, but I wasn't close enough, I realized I was just eating my tyres. Good decision, as last 4 laps were critical, was spinning all over the place. Fortunately had enough time to slowly let the 4th (Rich) come closer as the end of race was not far away. Finished 3rd, and happy, another two podiums for The Penguins!  

Tried to drive fast after finish to pits, to test the remaining rubber - I was right, lol, tyres were at the very last layer, all four were spinning.    Nevertheless, I'm satisfied I decided for soft/soft, wet 40 minutes in a Lambo can be done this way.

Grats, Jon, you're a good swimmer.  

[Jamera]

Found that really hard, slid off, fooked my suspension- end of race

"C'mon the Penguins"

[mo]

I normally have very high fps in GTR but it was down almost to 20-25 near the start and was making it really hard to drive, was having to be very careful. I checked the server afterwards and there weren't any rogue GTR servers running in the background or anything that I could see nasty so very odd as NGT was fine last week.

I've notice this before Shark, especially before I upgraded my system.
I'd race the NGT race with excellent fps and arrive for the GT race only to find I could barely see it was so bad.
And the rain into the mix tonight and its a real CPU strain.
I cured it by limiting the number of sound samples to 8 (because there is more concurrent samples in GT than NGT) and setting VBStrategy=0 in the .plr file (something to do with weather dynamics and how system handles changes in clouds, weather etc, cant remember exactly)
Definitely made a big difference on my system and I had 40fps tonight on the grid with 6x AA

Mo then chased me for a bit, but under no real threat (or were you being polite?  ),

No chance m8, I couldn't catch you. Your right about the traction - the 550 is a joke, but you seemed to be struggling a bit too, some good catches there in Eau Rouge 
. The only part of the track I could have passed you was on the long straight but you had better traction from La Source and it tookall the way to Pouhon to catch back up. By the bus-stop we were nose to tail again each lap only for the same to happen alll over again.
In the end I locked up a brake and slid off, got stuck, burned the tyres and then it was a case of ice skaing as Mark says.

[fozzmeister]

all four were spinning.   

Ah the four wheel drive mod?

Fozz