All-In Sprints @ Nurburgring GP - Thursday 2nd April 09

[Stuart Thomson]

Servername: RACEDEPARTMENT.COM
Class: TC65 / GTC65 / GTC76 (3 x sprint race - 1.TC65 -> 2.GTC65 -> 3.GTC76)
Track: Nurburgring GP
Conditions: 17.00 In-Game Race time (all races will be at this in-game time)
Practice: 18.30 GMT / 19.30 UK / 20.30 Europe (10 mins)
Qualification: 18.45 GMT / 19.45 UK / 20.45 Europe (10 mins)
Race: 18.50 GMT / 19.50 UK / 20.50 Europe (11 laps)
Note1: Click here to read the password and golden rules!
Note2: Default Skins only
Note3: These are fun races, not competetive, just race the people around you. Winning is a secondary concern, this event is to have some nice dicing with people around your own pace in various different models.
Note4: With regard to the above Note - No Models Are Banned - but let's try and see a decent spread of models across the grid please.
Note5: There will be prizes - "The Nurbys" - for the best spread of vehicles, the best performance in a slower model, most spectacular crash, longest roof slide, etc.
Note6: People choosing 3 cars from the top of the performance charts in that class will be named and shamed.

 

[Andrew Evans]

i'll be making me car choices this evenhang.... :wink:

 

[Stuart Thomson]

:good:

 

[Amir Margalit]

sign me up please. don't know which cars yet.

 

[Amir Margalit]

car choise:Mini / Austin Healey /capri:th_Jttesur:

 

[Stuart Thomson]

Hmmmm.... another Healey, eh? :wink2:

 

[Amir Margalit]

Hmmmm.... another Healey, eh? :wink2:

lol . i want to test the healey for the upcoming league:glasses-nerdy:

 

[Stuart Thomson]

I know - that was my point

It seems to be a popular car at the moment.

I can see why though, it's a hoot to drive :good:

 

[Ben Tusting]

Sorry about this but i'm going to have to pull.

Got my first race in the STC League.(You can watch me though on the internet)

 

[Stuart Thomson]

It's tempting

:bluff:

 

[Andrew Evans]

arf!

i'll take jag/alpine/csl plox :thumb:

 

[Warren Dawes]

Hmmmm.... another Healey, eh? :wink2:

Ok, I'll try another car to mix the field up a bit then.
Not sure which one, maybe the Merc so Matt has some company.

EDIT: I'll use the Merc for this one, but I can't get lap times near those I did in the Healey. I think I need valium pills to drive the Merc half decently. Everything has to be done sooooo sloooowlly.

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Server is up and running guys :thumb: And it works like new again!

 

[Marty Pierce]

Stuart I would like to change my selection to falcon/Gt40/914 I figured out after testing I dont have enough skill for the cobra or 911 on this track and would be a moving hazzard. THX

 

[Stuart Thomson]

@ Marty - OK mate, but my caveat for you here - if you go GT40, you will have an extremely lonely 2nd race. You'll drive away from the rest of us, and you will have a win, but no real racing.

@ Warren - No mate, stay Healey. I deliberately did this one so people could try out their potential league cars. If you're leaning towards the Healey in the league, stay with - it's absolutely no problem. I'm only not driving a possible league car because I've done shagloads of testing with the 5 cars over the last couple of weeks.

 

[Stuart Thomson]

Cheers Bram - excellent news :good:

 

[Stuart Thomson]

I'm going to skip out of the Elan - it's way too fast compared to the League cars, so I'll drop into one of the others.

 

[Stuart Thomson]

All - just a reminder:

Tonight is the first trial run of the Short Prac/Very Short Quali/Longer Race timings.

With the length of Nurb GP, it's effectively Superpole, so don't hang about when setting your Quali time.

 

[Andrew Evans]

whoa! i just noticed the 5 mins qually... that's not long enough to get round in the slowest class, is it? (am sure i was c. 2:40 when trying out a few last night)...

or does gtl wait until everyone crosses the line, unlike evo?

 

[Stuart Thomson]

I tested it on a local Dedi, and I always managed to set a time, even though it took >5 mins for outlap & timed. But if people would rather make sure they got at least 1 lap in, we could extend the quali to 10mins and make it a 10 lap race.

I don't want to make the whole evening edge up to 3 hours, I want a hard 45 mins tops per race event.

Thoughts?

 

[Andrew Evans]

tis already a 10 lap race, acc to top post... but an extra 5 mins to q might not hurt... if you can't get at least one hot lap in then ya might as well skip q and have a random grid... (which is also fine btw )

ah ha! ninja edited as i type... if ya worried about timings then mebbe steal 5 from prac and give it q....

totally yer call though matage...