GTC72 Full @ Donington Park GP - Thurs 18th Feb 2010

[Stuart Thomson]

Servername: RACEDEPT.COM GTC72
Class: GTC72 (Post with definitions and links)
Track: Donington Park GP
Practice: 20 min
Qualification: 10 min (1 timed lap only)
Race: 2 x 16 laps
Note1: Click here to read the password and golden rules!
Note2: You must choose a different car for each race - Please specify which skin you will be using at sign up so we can keep a varied looking grid.
Note3: Check the tracking thread here to see which cars you are allowed to choose from.
Note4: The GTC72 Carset contains some cars from the RDHGP, so those car skins can be used. Make sure you have the RDHGP skins installed if you are not in the League. Download link.

 

[Tom Wilson]

Really sorry but i'm going to have to pull out of tomorrows race - I have to go into work in teh evening to do some essential work that can't be done during the day.

Cursed Computers.......

 

[Stuart Thomson]

Yep - Bob is right, the cars you can't have are the Opel GT & the Porsche 914. Beyond that, the world's your lobster.

As a first go, the BMW, while slowish, is pretty forgiving, and the Capri is also fairly stable.

The 911 is very arse heavy, so get that out of shape and it's difficult to catch.
The Covette is heavy, not so nimble, but pretty quick straight line
Escort & Skyline are both pretty twitchy.

 

[Ross McGregor]

I'll go for the BMW/Capri option then!

 

[Stuart Thomson]

servers up :thumbup:

 

[Ross McGregor]

Does practice start at 8pm GMT? I couldn;t see a start time in this thread!

 

[Stuart Thomson]

Yes, all events start at 20.00 Ldn time, which is also GMT at the moment.

 

[Stuart Thomson]

Yes, all events start at 20.00 Ldn time, which is also GMT at the moment.

 

[Carlos Diaz]

Race1) Skyline #23
Race2) Porsche 911S #41

 

[Philip Brown]

R 1) P911S #80

R 2) BMW CS 2800 # 4

 

[Bob Hutchins]

BMW CS2800 # 4/ P911S # 80

Phil, you beat me to it, those were the numbers I was going to use, dam... Now I going to have to choose another pair :-(

 

[Philip Brown]

I will take the Lemans BMW if you want....# 49 anyway, great minds etc

 

[Stuart Thomson]

CS2800 #15 / Escort #41

 

[Gary Lennon]

Well time to try these mod cars again back on XP with GTL installed on C:\

Should i just put them all in now or add them as i need them?.

 

[Philip Brown]

Hi Gary

I think you need everything, I did not and could not log on properly last event...

 

[Gary Lennon]

Roightio

Just chucked the 4 mods back in - Bimmer2008CS - 911S - Skyline - Opel - all done in a new fresh install of GTL,i hope for no more malarky from them .

 

[Sam J Simpson]

Everybody remember the server/TS PW has changed.

Sam

http://www.racedepartment.com/rules-passwords/28061-passwords.html

 

[Bob Hutchins]

Well what can I say, quite a lot if I'm honest but I'll keep it short with no waffle.

Another night of thrills, spills & hellrasing fun. Race 1: in the porsche 911 and right from the off everything turned sour. Got a good start only to tap Gary going into T1, sorry mate not my usual style. Waited and from then on the only thing the porsche done well was spining.

Race 2: now in the bmw 2800cs and again a good start and watched the 3 in front duke it out for a couple of corners until the escorts got away and left me and Carlos to fight for the last spot on the podium. Unfortunately all I could do was to put as much pressure on Carlos as I could but never really got closer than 0.5 of a second and he never made any mistakes. Great race Carlos, you seem to have better control over that porsche than I did.

Thanks Stu for another great track choice, thanks to all that showed up, great driving guys & thanks to RD.

 

[Gary Lennon]

My Capri race didnt go as planned really.....but enjoyed the Sammy and Stuey show for the lead ),Ross going great guns too having some good fun with Carlos.
Next race in the Escort,and its been a while since ive had one of those "instant click moments" with a sim car,but i really enjoyed it from the off,had some right off the telly style battling with Stu who had suddenly sprung to life as soon as the lights changed for start!!,then he got in to all kinds of knots at braking zones and dropped back...no one knows better that feeling,once you spin once,you just cant seem to stop :/,proper stuff while it lasted m8.
Now kicking myself in the shins a few times for not doing a proper car test prior to RDHGP S4 instead of leaping on the 911 bandwagon,for then i would have discovered Dagenhams little darling

Big Thanks all there and extra Thanks Stu & RD

 

[Carlos Diaz]

Race1) I had a hard time finding a setup that made the Skyline predictable and consistent. I also chose the Avon tires and I think I chose wrongly cuz the car was a bar of soap in the last few laps, could barely keep it on the road, lol. I still had fun with Ross though. You did pretty darn good your first time out with GTL Ross, hope you stick around.

Race2) I was very pleasently surprized with the 911S. It's nothing like the default 911 cars in GTL, this car is easy to setup and easy to drive consistently, just loved it. I had a hell of a time trying to keep Bob away the entire race, he was always part of my rear-view mirror no matter how hard I drove. I am surprised my nerves didn't get the best of me. If that beemer had just 2 more HP I would have been toast.
At some point Bob and I came across Stu who had spun out so for a little while there Bob and I thought we were gonna finish 2nd and 3rd. But not if Stu and the evil little escort could help it. In about 4 or 5 laps Stu drove past us as if our cars had ran out of fuel lol! Nice drivin Stu.

I'm kind of sad that we couldn't get a bigger crowd this time around, I love these eight cars in this "GTC-72" class and they are so much more enjoyable when there's a whole bunch of them spread all over the track and there are little battles taking place everywhere. I hope we get a larger grid for the two remaining events. I might have to step up my "Public Relations" effort lol.

 

[Stuart Thomson]

At some point Bob and I came across Stu who had spun out so for a little while there Bob and I thought we were gonna finish 2nd and 3rd. But not if Stu and the evil little escort could help it. In about 4 or 5 laps Stu drove past us as if our cars had ran out of fuel lol!

The "going forwards quickly" part of driving wasn't a problem. I was, however, having major issues with the "slowing down without randomly going into inexplicable spins" part. :biggrin: