TPC GT3 Monthly Endurance Events Season 2 - Race 3 January 4th at Spa - Spaces Available

[Philtaylor17]

Thanks for the race. GG to the top three.

 

[The_Tullster]

Thanks for hosting @Kermit_2142, I had fun. My apologies to @bloodyboyblue for the hip & shoulder at the end of lap 28. It was a little hard to judge your line with lag.

 

[Kermit_2142]

I think chaotic is the only way to summarise the race last night. Congrats to the preliminary top 3.

Personally I had found a lot of pace following @Philtaylor17 onboard lap but I torpedoed my race with a bad strategy call and not taking an easy pit stop under one of the late safety cars which left me very short on fuel and having to limp the car home. I had some fantastic racing on the way with a lot of you @GT5Apex @tyoungbl @GOTMAXPOWER @The_Tullster @AfraidRacer @MaxAttack to name a few.

Looking back I think there was a culmination of things which led to the spiral of safety cars. The track design heavily influenced crashes and subsequent damage with cars hitting the walls. As the race progressed it was becoming clear that because of the risk of safety cars track position was becoming more and more important leading to more desperation from drivers to get ahead creating a mini sprint race after each restart. I think there was a mixture of some complacency from regulars and lack of practice from the reserves for restarts which led to issues at the rear of the grid with large concertina effects. Then obviously the disconnects right at the end and lag thrown in for good measure.

Thanks for everyone’s best efforts even in frustrating circumstances, there sounded to be a lot of good racing in the party so I look forward to viewing some of that in the replay. As usual I will confirm the final result next weekend. I have recieved a few self reports of incidents already so thanks for the honesty from those people and any further reports can be sent to me by Thursday please. I will be looking over the restarts to see if any improvements can be made to the procedure going forward.

Cheers all and enjoy the rest of your weekend

 

[GTWolverine]

I think chaotic is the only way to summarise the race last night. Congrats to the preliminary top 3.

Personally I had found a lot of pace following @Philtaylor17 onboard lap but I torpedoed my race with a bad strategy call and not taking an easy pit stop under one of the late safety cars which left me very short on fuel and having to limp the car home. I had some fantastic racing on the way with a lot of you @GT5Apex @tyoungbl @GOTMAXPOWER @The_Tullster @AfraidRacer @MaxAttack to name a few.

Looking back I think there was a culmination of things which led to the spiral of safety cars. The track design heavily influenced crashes and subsequent damage with cars hitting the walls. As the race progressed it was becoming clear that because of the risk of safety cars track position was becoming more and more important leading to more desperation from drivers to get ahead creating a mini sprint race after each restart. I think there was a mixture of some complacency from regulars and lack of practice from the reserves for restarts which led to issues at the rear of the grid with large concertina effects. Then obviously the disconnects right at the end and lag thrown in for good measure.

Thanks for everyone’s best efforts even in frustrating circumstances, there sounded to be a lot of good racing in the party so I look forward to viewing some of that in the replay. As usual I will confirm the final result next weekend. I have recieved a few self reports of incidents already so thanks for the honesty from those people and any further reports can be sent to me by Thursday please. I will be looking over the restarts to see if any improvements can be made to the procedure going forward.

Cheers all and enjoy the rest of your weekend

I think the hilliness of the track also might've led to issues with the restarts, with the s/f straight being after a downhill turn and gravity causing everyone to speed up before having to slow down to 75 mph again.