GTC-65 Alpine A110 VS Alfa Romeo GTA Junior @ St.Jovite - Thu 6th March 2014

[Rupe Wilson]

Server name: RACEDEPARTMENT.COM GTL2

Class: GTC-65 Renault Alpine A110 (Default) vs. Alfa Romeo GTA Junior ( download ) + Sounds (Download)
Track: St.Jovite GP 4.287km ( download )
Extra Skins: GTC-65 Class (Download)

See Main Forum for Official Race Time Clock

Practice start time: GMT 20.00 (20 mins)
Qualification start time: GMT 20.20 (single lap)
Race start time: GMT 20.30 (12 laps)
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Practice start time: GMT 20.50 (20 mins)
Qualification start time: GMT 21.10 (single lap)
Race start time: GMT 21.20 (12 laps)

Note1: CLUB RACING RULES CLICK ME for GTL. Please read the rules they have been updated 6/11/2013 and post a reply that you have read and understood the rules
Note 2: Only default liveries or the liveries that come with the mod please plus skin pack we provide
Note 3: We are using the SIMBIN lobby for this event. See here how to switch lobby
Note 4: Odd Number Sign ups Race1 = Alpine / Race2 = Alfa Even number vice versa.
Note 5: We run Super-Pole qualification: You only get a single attempt to set a time (1 out-lap + 1 timed lap. NO IN LAP, Please press escape). If you mess it up, tough luck!



Server password: click here
Racing rules: click here

Entry List:

1. Rupe Wilson - Alpine / Alfa
2. Allan Ramsbottom - Alfa / Alpine
   
3. Steve Walker - Alpine / Alfa
   
4. Hans Sneep - Alfa / Alpine
5. Denis Betty- Alpine / Alfa
6. Matej Lakota - Alfa / Alpine
7. Franklin Stegink - Alpine / Alfa
   
8. Krzysztof Babij - Alfa / Alpine
9. Roland Warmenhoven - Alfa / Alpine
10. Driver
11. Driver
12. Driver
13. Driver
14. Driver

Rules:
If you have not entered the server and driven a few laps with fellow drivers before we go to qualifying you are too late for that session.

Please think of your fellow drivers. Get out on track with them, watch how they drive, you can't race with guys you have not seen drive. We ALL brake a little differently and drive the corners differently, get used to how they drive and then we can all race more safely.

If you drop out of the server during qualifying you can return.
This is being held in our Club, using Club Rules, and should be driven in that spirit.

 

[Roland]

I was pretty tired after a rough day at work, and I better had not raced.. Normally I probably wouldn't have signed up, but I didn't want to miss out as from what I hear this event was one of the few opportunities left to race GTL with you gents, and thus the last one to race with my very own Alpine skin.

Pretty soon however I found this track to be not easy to learn, as most of the multiple right turns looked very similar, but weren't. So I mixed them up a number of times which resulted in my going very slow through a fast corner or ending up in the sand outside a slow one..
All through race 1 in the Alpine I had troubles remembering the bends and keeping the car on the tarmac (messed up 1st turn 5 times in a row) until eventually I managed to hit one of the probably 3 sign posts on the whole track and crashed my car killing the engine. DNF

So after that in the Alfa I knew my way around, but couldn't get a decent lap done in P2 nor in Q2 so started pretty much from the rear. I was doing OK until I approached T1 in heavy traffic, had to go in really wide as to leave room for Allan, but didn't make it and ended up backwards on the grass... Immediately Allan inquired if my exit was due to contact but I didn't know as I hadn't felt any contact so told him to race on.. Only from watching the replay I noticed indeed he had slightly swept me sideways causing my exit..
I continued the race quite far behind everyone else, and got Steven as a friendly chaperone all the way to the end to prevent me from getting very lonely, but my driving was so bad he actually had to wait several times...

Lesson learned: don't race if I don't fully feel up for it..

Thanks to staff for the event, and to all for racing.. you may not have seen me, but I was there too

 

[Tim Ling]

@Roland Warmenhoven If it helps, the Alpine in HistorX is epic

 

[Denis Betty]

I agree with @Roland Warmenhoven, the track is hard to learn.
Having said that, I had a ball.
I managed a 4th place in R1 due to the antics of others and had a great race with @Hans Sneep in R2. Well done Hans on keeping it together.
Thanks to all who raced and thanks to Rupe and Steve for your efforts.

 

[Allan Ramsbottom]

Apologies @Roland Warmenhoven for the nudge and spoiling your race my friend..i did,nt feel any contact and as you did say i asked if you was hindered,i would have pulled over and let you re-take the position...awesome nights racing again..
As ever @Rupe Wilson and @Steven Walker doing a gr8 job..many thanx..roll on the next..