RD GT Championship 2021 I

[Ernie]

Respect to @Paul Jeffrey commenting 1h without taking a breath. Great job.
And overall great broadcast, guys.

 

[guidofoc]

It was fun at the bottom of the grid, too.. I enjoyed trying to grab some position back after a spin and some damage in the beginning.

 

[Daniel Watkin]

I'm out for the season. Have fun everyone.

 

[rikirk]

@Davy Vandevenne @Paul Jeffrey @Ricoow thank you for all the great work!

@Celtic Pharaoh and @Chris Down you definitely put up a great fight to watch!

 

[Paul Glover]

@Davy Vandevenne @Paul Jeffrey @Ricoow thank you for all the great work!

 

[guidofoc]

I watched the twitch video on my big TV today and guys you did an outstanding broadcast. Great cameras, spot-on catching the live action, great Paul commentary, great replays ( i love the replay intro animation!). Of course ACC looks great too and the racing was intense. Bravi!

 

[Ernie]

I'll just leave my video from the race in Donington here.

I'm pretty happy with P12, even if my race wasn't a perfect one.

I have to admit, that my overtaking attempt in lap7 against @Charlie Lockwood was a little bit too optimistic. I feel very sorry for that. A well-deserved 5secs penalty. Otherwise ... driving quite hard against me the following laps wasn't nice as well. But i suppose that's racing.

Now Snetterton. And this is a completely new track for me. So i have to learn this track first.

 

[Charlie Lockwood]

I have to admit, that my overtaking attempt in lap7 against @Charlie Lockwood was a little bit too optimistic. I feel very sorry for that. A well-deserved 5secs penalty. Otherwise ... driving quite hard against me the following laps wasn't nice as well. But i suppose that's racing.

No worries about lap 7. These things happen and it's not an easy track to overtake at, so we have to go for it at some point.

I defended hard after that, because when you're still getting to know the people you're racing with and one of them has made a bold move that ended with contact, you never quite know what will happen the next time you leave them the inside line.
I wasn't expecting you to try going around the outside into the chicane on lap 12(?) from side by side! I'll try and leave you a little more space in future.

Good luck with practice for Snetterton, another track for me to learn too.

 

[Chris Down]

@Bram Hengeveld Any chance of a practice server for Snetterton? I see the Donington Park one is still up.

 

[rikirk]

Looks like is summertime already. Is this going to stay for the rest of the week?

Also, any chance for refueling during practice?

Thanks!

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Looks like is summertime already. Is this going to stay for the rest of the week?

Sorry dont understand what you mean with this

Also, any chance for refueling during practice?

I think you need to do refueling practice in race simulation only i think.

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

@Bram Hengeveld Any chance of a practice server for Snetterton? I see the Donington Park one is still up.

I think this was fixed in the meantime to Snetterton?

 

[rikirk]

@Bram Hengeveld temps wise, snetterton is much hotter than Donington. Just asking if it's by design and if we can consider those as a good enough reference for Sunday.

Would love to pit and refuel in practice instead of press escape each time I am over with the stint. Wondering the reasoning for such limitation.

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Would love to pit and refuel in practice instead of press escape each time I am over with the stint. Wondering the reasoning for such limitation.

I am not aware we can change those conditions. Do you @Ricoow ?

 

[Ricoow]

I am not aware we can change those conditions. Do you @Ricoow ?

I may have missed a setting somewhere, that allows refueling, will have a look tonight at the server.

Temps etc have been one on one copied from the race server settings.

 

[Ricoow]

I may have missed a setting somewhere, that allows refueling, will have a look tonight at the server.

Temps etc have been one on one copied from the race server settings.

Just took a look, can't find a setting for it. Only can find one for race refuelling which is set to allowed.

 

[rikirk]

@Ricoow @Bram Hengeveld
My apologies, I thought was possible to refuel during practice, but to my understanding it's not. I posted a query at Kunos and report back if there is any feedback. Definitely not a big deal, just breaking the immersion when in VR.

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Due to a very last minute sign out we have one slot left for tonight.

 

[Charlie Lockwood]

Sad news about Murray Walker tonight...

I wonder if there is anything we could do for tonight as a tribute to him? Perhaps something after the race session on the cool down lap?

 

[Chris Down]

Wow, what a race. Thought I'd taken 2nd in turn 1, but then @Joao Borges did a blinder around the outside

After that I knew that I should just not do anything stupid and think about the championship. The main thing in my head was that I cannot under any circumstances get overtaken by @Celtic Pharaoh, and managed to avoid that.

Man, following here is just so crazy. There must be some things on the replay that look like divebombs from all of us at the front, but in reality it's just impossible to spot the braking markers, and there's so few places to overtake anyway. Glad that nothing too catastrophic happened

With Tariq right behind me I was not relishing the thought of another lap, so I'd like to give my thanks to @OscarMIke for saving my stress levels and receding hairline