FINAL GT6 2016 STORAGETRUNKS GT500 BASE SERIES-Monday Nights 18:30UKFinished

[CrazyJohn]

And where are the standings? Or haven't you posted it yet?

 

[Stephen Vann]

POST 834 IS BEFORE DROPPED SCORES

POST 836 IS AFTER DROPPED SCORES

NEW Q lists new standings

Page 1 has all race results and details.

 

[Stephen Vann]

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[Jfrod]

Watching the replay of Yesterday´s race I was surprised with some things.
- How some guys like @TRL_Andromeda and @DannyB013 were driving under 100% water: amazing
- How @nissman finished 4th starting in last position. Congrats mate 👍
- How most of you (9) were driven all time with RH instead wet tires - i thought was raining-
- How race started at the finish line, instead the start line like I thought. That cost me two positions 🤬
- How fast its @CrazyJohn under this weather conditions. Btw sorry for the big collision mate. I touch the grass and lost the control.
- And how slow I am under this weather conditions - - 🤬 - -

 

[Stephen Vann]

Replay does not show accurate tyres for other drivers Javi.

 

[CrazyJohn]

How fast its @CrazyJohn under this weather conditions. Btw sorry for the big collision mate. I touch the grass and lost the control.

Me and rain, brothers!

No worries mate. And sorry for the bumps on the formation lap, the pace was very misleading.

 

[TRL_Andromeda]

Watching the replay of Yesterday´s race I was surprised with some things.
- How some guys like @TRL_Andromeda and @DannyB013 were driving under 100% water: amazing

Thank you! its all about being supersmooth and carefull on the throttle, and finding the wet lines, like that long lefthander from the hairpin all the way up to spoon, wich you run far out on the left side of the track all the way, then into spoon you dont necessarily need to go back to the right to get a lean angle into the corner either.

- How most of you (9) were driven all time with RH instead wet tires

They where on wet tyres, its just a replay glitch.

 

[DrAug]

congrats on erazer for his win , after taking back time from few mistakes and on danny who this time had no issues with other drivers...
i had the same time losses but that was before the rain started , my setup was great at 30% wet , in the dry , but it was absolutely undriveable in the wet , i love these conditions but i never struggled so much in the rain , driving was "possible" , but racing Not!! only once in s1 i was able to recover time on the leaders , once ...

I was in a kind of nightmare , sweating all over the place but not beeing able to make good times or just to have some kind of pace.

Great job for everyone .

 

[TRL_Andromeda]

congrats on erazer for his win , after taking back time from few mistakes and on danny who this time had no issues with other drivers...
i had the same time losses but that was before the rain started , my setup was great at 30% wet , in the dry , but it was absolutely undriveable in the wet , i love these conditions but i never struggled so much in the rain , driving was "possible" , but racing Not!! only once in s1 i was able to recover time on the leaders , once ...

I was in a kind of nightmare , sweating all over the place but not beeing able to make good times or just to have some kind of pace.

Great job for everyone .

Just out of curiosity, what rear DF where you running? and LSD settings? I was using 530 rear DF and 5/9/9 LSD, to try to make it a bit rain-friendly. I also ran -0.45 front toe, and 0.00 rear toe.

It was understeering in the dry and oversteering in the wet, but somewhere in between it felt quite alright.

Also, your main timeloss was not lack of pace, if I'm not misstaken you did an extra stop, I think thats where you lost most of the time.

 

[DrAug]

Just out of curiosity, what rear DF where you running? and LSD settings? I was using 530 rear DF and 5/9/9 LSD, to try to make it a bit rain-friendly. I also ran -0.45 front toe, and 0.00 rear toe.

It was understeering in the dry and oversteering in the wet, but somewhere in between it felt quite alright.

Also, your main timeloss was not lack of pace, if I'm not misstaken you did an extra stop, I think thats where you lost most of the time.

The extra stop is where i lost 20-25sec the other 30 been my fault...
500, 5 9 5,-0.35 rear and that made it tuff ^^

 

[TRL_Andromeda]

The extra stop is where i lost 20-25sec the other 30 been my fault...
500, 5 9 5,-0.35 rear and that made it tuff ^^

yeah, that toe will make it difficult, 500 DF is'nt all that much either. But no wonder you where fast in the dry!

 

[DannyB013]

I needed the dry pace and ran quite stiff rear springs, 5 9 5 and 450 rear df. The traction on the gtr is better though, so I could probably afford to run less but I was hanging on through s1 and some of the long corners!

 

[DeltaJuliet]

Suzuka Race report in the text /emoticon style that we all love (or at least I love haha);

Spin early doors in the dry on a setup favouring the dry
Getting stuck sideways in pit entrance when rain started
Going inters instead of full wets at first stop
Rain
Rain
Rain
Finally settling into rain
Thinking it might rain whole race and I had enough fuel to get to end ...
Realising it was drying
Pit to RH at perfect time
Getting round to to finish 4 positions higher than Qing

Congrats to all for even just finishing, it's tough in the rain!!

 

[CrazyJohn]

When rain started.

 

[nissman]

Race Report:

 

[monkeywall]

I've got bored of wet practice after trying it for over an hour 100% wet on inter's I managed 2.20.6xx, on wet's 2.14.something. Thats a lot better than driving backways most of the race and doing 2.40's .

Leaving the wet practice till the week before monza.

I'm going to open a practice room for Apricot hill in about an hour after some food. I've got all evening to mess about and get my setup just right for a race I get take part in

 

[Stephen Vann]

ROOM CLOSED

 

[RodeRuner1967]

It's 9:05 pm here and I have a room open for practice if anyone wants to join.

Room closed.

This is a fast track, going to be some good times here.

 

[CrazyJohn]

It's 9:05 pm here and I have a room open for practice if anyone wants to join.

Room closed.

This is a fast track, going to be some good times here.

Ha, 7:56 AM at the moment. Did anyone join?

 

[luke norris]

hey Stephen good news ..got my internet upgraded to the nbn so now its perfect ... so hopefully be able to come back and race if I would be able to if I can be awake at your time of racing ...

 

[Stephen Vann]

Luke, i need you to join as often as you can, just to be sure its not laggy.
If all ok, then great, i will be very very pleased that you can race with us.

I am not on tonight, but there may be others on.

 

[Stephen Vann]

Myself Dan13 Dan19 Monkey and Mirial were on for a few hours last night.
Its a great track, and sadly my brain cant remember the times we were running, but i think it was low 1.13s

 

[CrazyJohn]

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[RodeRuner1967]

Myself Dan13 Dan19 Monkey and Mirial were on for a few hours last night.
Its a great track, and sadly my brain cant remember the times we were running, but i think it was low 1.13s

That means that my mid 1:14 wasn't too bad for the little bit of practice I had last night.

Ha, 7:56 AM at the moment. Did anyone join?

No one

 

[Jfrod]

Next Monday I will be working at the race time.

Have fun guys

 

[luke norris]

will do im racing fgt series now 11 in room and no problem so far my download at 11 and 1 on upload

 

[nissman]

Lads, I need an official for Q from 6-7pm if possible?

 

[CrazyJohn]

RAZE REPURTZ

RAUND EIGT. SOOZOOKA​

So that was my best ever race result on this season. Pretty satisfied, I knew I could secure a good result since rain is my best buddy. And I thought of sharing a race report.

The start was very nice. Boosted from 9th up to 6th. But the highlight of that had to be my defence on @nissman. He was faster than me but I sincerely do not have a clue on how I manage to keep him behind me, legally. After a lap of defending, niss span out at the exit of Spoon, which had my 6th place safe, until @Jfrod caught up.

I made the same type of defence (yes, I am good on defending from the outside haha) until the moment when rain started. Just before Hairpin, Javi clipped the grass and t-boned me. Luckily I did not lose any place. But then was @DeltaJuliet just on my tail! Had to defend the same position 3 times in less than 10 minutes. However Mike found his way through, after I felt I was too violent with space issues, and though I should try to re-overtake in the next corners.

But then I got distracted by a mosquito (yes, an effing mosquito) flying around (uhhh). I killed it because it was one of the annoying noisy ones, buuuuut... I span out at the trim before Spoon! Dropped to ninth. Total disappointment.

And rain instantly made my "wish" true, the track got damp. And, of course, everyone had to pit, however I made a silly "pit-to-put-inters-when-track-water-changes-fast-which-means-put-full-wets-instead" mistake, making me drop a place from 8th to 9th (after I found niss on the tyre barriers at Casio Triangle).

Then a lot of people were forced to mistakes, such as @Daniel199025 who was struggling in rain as I saw (?) and Javi. Not to forget niss and @andp132 as well. The former made a mistake after Denger 2 and span out (and I could not take advantage from it), as well as another mistake-what-exactly-happened after 130R, which helped me get P5. My luck did not stop, colo span out on Denger 2 as well, gave me P4, where I stayed for a couple of nice moments until the rain stopped and my hopes for at least a P4 finish were coming to an end.

I made the same mistake with my first 2 pit stops. Encountered "pit-to-put-inters-when-track-is-not-wet-enough-which-means-put-dry-tyres-instead", and lost my 4th place to nissman. Not only that, but colo was catching up as well! I felt stupid again, but colo catching up was more than "I don't have that luck in races".

There was @DannyB013 behind colo, too, but as I checked Danny had nothing to do with colo's off during Spoon exit. The sun came out at exactly the right moment though, haha.

Finished: P5
Thoughts: Finally a good result after 5 disappointing rounds, and one not so disappointing (Monaco). Niss was impressing, from last to 4th, that was a big change. But the person who lost the most places will have to be Dan199025, I expected him to finish higher.

Amazing race guys, hope to see you on Q day.

 

[mirial]

Q lap for @nissman 1:13.384 clean 👍

Q lap for @CrazyJohn 1:14.454 clean 👍

 

[CrazyJohn]

Just one of those days when you never see CrazyJohnIsHere make a good qualifier.