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GTP Live: Race Report From Monaco
And I'm the generic announcer guy back again to, erm, announce all the happenings of today's race from Monaco, the glitziest, biggest race of the year. Unless of course the end of the season shapes out to be a good fight but at this rate it appears that Guillaume Dubois of Williams is going to simply run away with it. He has a 19 point lead already after 6 races and with the pole going into this race he will have a good chance of tacking more onto that lead.
Alongside him will be Hutchinson of Renault. Row 2 is Dubois's teammate Nearn and the other Renault Beyens. Hopefully this will be a good fight between the 2 teams.
I could stand around and announce qualifying all day but most of you already know the positions and with any luck they'll be shuffled around here in the 78 laps to follow.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and the lights are off and Monaco is GO!
Beyens gets past Nearn for 3rd, Haswell's making a charge from the back - up 3 to 14th, and, oh, there's a car disabled already. Baciu's backwards in the wall, he's climbing out of his car. Wonder if he hit somebody - looks like Davidson's got minor damage and is coming to the pits right now. Stays green though, no safety car.
On to lap 2 and the Renault duo continues to chase down Dubois, but we're getting a pit transmission from Toyota, something wrong with Mason's clutch - that might hurt him in the long run.
Lap 3 sees no change in the positions as Dubois leads and whoaaaaaaaaa! Whitcomb had quite a moment there in the Red Bull, spun and saved the car but dropped a couple positions. He was running 5th, now he's 9th.
We're on to lap 18 and no positions have changed in the front still. Dubois leads the Renault team and his teammate. Allman in the BMW is the first to pit , obviously on a short-stint strategy, but he's mired in the back right now.
Lap 19 now, looks like Vega had an incident there but no harm and look, there's a Honda in the wall - it's Haswell. He was running 14th, looks like he got into somebody. 2nd in the championship, but I'm not so sure now after this DNF. Tough break - and the SC's are out.
And the pit lanes light up on lap 20, nearly all the leaders pull into the pits and BOTH RENAULTS! Oh that's going to hurt Hutchinson as he has to wait for Beyens to pull away...looks like Nearn, Horton and Domingues are jumping into the top 3 but only Domingues pitted. Fantastic job from the Aguri crew there on jumping him 3 spots.
...and what's this? Horton's pulled off but there's no pits in the middle of the track...oh, he's got mechanical issues. Word is his transmission kicked it. Tough luck, he was just putting himself in track position and now this. A dissapointing end.
Lap 25 and the SC pulls into the pits! And so does Mason from P7! Well...that'll send him to the back. Funny strategy there by Toyota.
Next lap and now the leader Nearn is pitting, it was fun up at the top while it lasted but this green flag pit might hurt him. Butler looks like he has some wing damage and he'll have to pit next lap.
And he does and oh look! Here comes his teammate Taylor. Ha! What luck for Taylor - just coming in for his scheduled stop and now he has to wait for his teammate to finish!
Lap 28 - 50 to go - and Chang, in the McLaren has retired! Looks like he's driving a tricycle there after a heavy hit with the wall. He's ok but definitely frustrated.
Onto lap 34, and there's some sort of crash back in the rear of the field, only action we're getting all day. Looking like it's Nearn and Hanon. Nearn's returning to the pits, looks like he's going to be fixed up and sent out. Hanon's day is done, and he's furious. In the great words of Alex Tagliani, he has "no bleeping car left".
Lap 36 - what's this! Beyens has slid into the wall from 3rd place! This could be a costly error, he's still in the race but will have to have an extra pitstop, aaandd....he comes out in 4th, one behind his teammate. So much for that.
Dubois continues to kick butt as Beyens is up to second with the other Renault third. Kawasie, season 3 champ but having a poor season, is up to 6th on apparently a zero-stop strategy and...oh, there he goes. Finally into the pits on lap 50.
And just one lap later there's another wreck! Davidson in the McLaren has parked it at Rascasse a la Schumacher. Except by parked, I mean put in the wall. Hard. He's out and so is the SC. Pitstops shuffle the grid 'round but Dubois continues to lead Domingues now.
Lap 61, we've been having all sorts of fun mechanical problem action at the back and now there's a car in the wall at Tabac, a Midland, it's AlMomen and it appears he's going to be out from P7. Tough race.
Safety car out on lap 64! Let's look at the incident and...it's Allman again. 3rd retirement in a row for him, seems like he tangled with Graham, who is ok. Just not Allman's season so far.
Back to green on lap 70 and it's going to be an 8 lap shootout!
No, just kidding. To heck with passing. Looks like for the 3rd time this year Dubois is the winner, and tacks on 10 points to his championship lead.
Domingues is second in a great race for Super Aguri, and Hutchison leads Renault's 3-4. Whitcomb is 5th in the Red Bull. Kawasie finishes 6th, a good finish but he really needs a podium to kick his season into gear. Finally, Johnstone is seventh and Vega 8th.
And I'm the generic announcer guy back again to, erm, announce all the happenings of today's race from Monaco, the glitziest, biggest race of the year. Unless of course the end of the season shapes out to be a good fight but at this rate it appears that Guillaume Dubois of Williams is going to simply run away with it. He has a 19 point lead already after 6 races and with the pole going into this race he will have a good chance of tacking more onto that lead.
Alongside him will be Hutchinson of Renault. Row 2 is Dubois's teammate Nearn and the other Renault Beyens. Hopefully this will be a good fight between the 2 teams.
I could stand around and announce qualifying all day but most of you already know the positions and with any luck they'll be shuffled around here in the 78 laps to follow.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and the lights are off and Monaco is GO!
Beyens gets past Nearn for 3rd, Haswell's making a charge from the back - up 3 to 14th, and, oh, there's a car disabled already. Baciu's backwards in the wall, he's climbing out of his car. Wonder if he hit somebody - looks like Davidson's got minor damage and is coming to the pits right now. Stays green though, no safety car.
On to lap 2 and the Renault duo continues to chase down Dubois, but we're getting a pit transmission from Toyota, something wrong with Mason's clutch - that might hurt him in the long run.
Lap 3 sees no change in the positions as Dubois leads and whoaaaaaaaaa! Whitcomb had quite a moment there in the Red Bull, spun and saved the car but dropped a couple positions. He was running 5th, now he's 9th.
We're on to lap 18 and no positions have changed in the front still. Dubois leads the Renault team and his teammate. Allman in the BMW is the first to pit , obviously on a short-stint strategy, but he's mired in the back right now.
Lap 19 now, looks like Vega had an incident there but no harm and look, there's a Honda in the wall - it's Haswell. He was running 14th, looks like he got into somebody. 2nd in the championship, but I'm not so sure now after this DNF. Tough break - and the SC's are out.
And the pit lanes light up on lap 20, nearly all the leaders pull into the pits and BOTH RENAULTS! Oh that's going to hurt Hutchinson as he has to wait for Beyens to pull away...looks like Nearn, Horton and Domingues are jumping into the top 3 but only Domingues pitted. Fantastic job from the Aguri crew there on jumping him 3 spots.
...and what's this? Horton's pulled off but there's no pits in the middle of the track...oh, he's got mechanical issues. Word is his transmission kicked it. Tough luck, he was just putting himself in track position and now this. A dissapointing end.
Lap 25 and the SC pulls into the pits! And so does Mason from P7! Well...that'll send him to the back. Funny strategy there by Toyota.
Next lap and now the leader Nearn is pitting, it was fun up at the top while it lasted but this green flag pit might hurt him. Butler looks like he has some wing damage and he'll have to pit next lap.
And he does and oh look! Here comes his teammate Taylor. Ha! What luck for Taylor - just coming in for his scheduled stop and now he has to wait for his teammate to finish!
Lap 28 - 50 to go - and Chang, in the McLaren has retired! Looks like he's driving a tricycle there after a heavy hit with the wall. He's ok but definitely frustrated.
Onto lap 34, and there's some sort of crash back in the rear of the field, only action we're getting all day. Looking like it's Nearn and Hanon. Nearn's returning to the pits, looks like he's going to be fixed up and sent out. Hanon's day is done, and he's furious. In the great words of Alex Tagliani, he has "no bleeping car left".
Lap 36 - what's this! Beyens has slid into the wall from 3rd place! This could be a costly error, he's still in the race but will have to have an extra pitstop, aaandd....he comes out in 4th, one behind his teammate. So much for that.
Dubois continues to kick butt as Beyens is up to second with the other Renault third. Kawasie, season 3 champ but having a poor season, is up to 6th on apparently a zero-stop strategy and...oh, there he goes. Finally into the pits on lap 50.
And just one lap later there's another wreck! Davidson in the McLaren has parked it at Rascasse a la Schumacher. Except by parked, I mean put in the wall. Hard. He's out and so is the SC. Pitstops shuffle the grid 'round but Dubois continues to lead Domingues now.
Lap 61, we've been having all sorts of fun mechanical problem action at the back and now there's a car in the wall at Tabac, a Midland, it's AlMomen and it appears he's going to be out from P7. Tough race.
Safety car out on lap 64! Let's look at the incident and...it's Allman again. 3rd retirement in a row for him, seems like he tangled with Graham, who is ok. Just not Allman's season so far.
Back to green on lap 70 and it's going to be an 8 lap shootout!
No, just kidding. To heck with passing. Looks like for the 3rd time this year Dubois is the winner, and tacks on 10 points to his championship lead.
Domingues is second in a great race for Super Aguri, and Hutchison leads Renault's 3-4. Whitcomb is 5th in the Red Bull. Kawasie finishes 6th, a good finish but he really needs a podium to kick his season into gear. Finally, Johnstone is seventh and Vega 8th.
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Update time again...
V8 GTP Series
Another DNF, thankfully in a half points race, and another win. I still lead, but by the smallest of margins.
Champcar Series
A couple of 10th place finishes and my series lead has been cut right down. Despite an unbeatable position I may yet find a way to be beaten. No thanks to my team mate who has stopped posting any setup data... again.
Championship of Failures Series
Some very ordinary finishes sees me slide down to 15th. I found some decent speed in the last race so maybe I can salvage something yet.
V8 Guinea Pig Series
It's been run and won. That's right, the guinea pig series has concluded and Jules Hatton, the game developer, has taken the title. I won the 3rd last race with a brilliant pitstop, then managed to come through the field in the penultimate race to post an 8th. The last race was both good and bad. I led for most of the second half of the race, only to lose 2 spots in the last few laps. A podium was great but those 2 spots cost me 5th in the series - I finish a respectable 6th.
Guinea Pig Stats:
16 drivers won at least 1 race - I tied for 2nd with 4 wins
25 drivers stood on the podium - I tied for 5th with 5 podiums
10 drivers had poles from qualifying - I had none
15 drivers set fastest laps - I tied for 5th with 2 fast laps
7 different driver characteristics in the top 10 drivers
13 of the top 14 drivers used Kool Tools - I was the only one without it
The driver who finished in 2nd didn't win a single race
Holden 32,444 points / Ford 32,442 points - yep, just 2 points difference
V8 GTP Series
Another DNF, thankfully in a half points race, and another win. I still lead, but by the smallest of margins.
Champcar Series
A couple of 10th place finishes and my series lead has been cut right down. Despite an unbeatable position I may yet find a way to be beaten. No thanks to my team mate who has stopped posting any setup data... again.
Championship of Failures Series
Some very ordinary finishes sees me slide down to 15th. I found some decent speed in the last race so maybe I can salvage something yet.
V8 Guinea Pig Series
It's been run and won. That's right, the guinea pig series has concluded and Jules Hatton, the game developer, has taken the title. I won the 3rd last race with a brilliant pitstop, then managed to come through the field in the penultimate race to post an 8th. The last race was both good and bad. I led for most of the second half of the race, only to lose 2 spots in the last few laps. A podium was great but those 2 spots cost me 5th in the series - I finish a respectable 6th.
Guinea Pig Stats:
16 drivers won at least 1 race - I tied for 2nd with 4 wins
25 drivers stood on the podium - I tied for 5th with 5 podiums
10 drivers had poles from qualifying - I had none
15 drivers set fastest laps - I tied for 5th with 2 fast laps
7 different driver characteristics in the top 10 drivers
13 of the top 14 drivers used Kool Tools - I was the only one without it
The driver who finished in 2nd didn't win a single race
Holden 32,444 points / Ford 32,442 points - yep, just 2 points difference
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gOoSeTeR
Yo yo, what's up? And I hardly qualify as a geezer.
Edit: Huzzah! My first ever pole! Beat out the series leader by six thousandths at Istanbul in my pub F1 2006 game...alright, so he made a mistake on his second lap (he only ran two) but I'll take it!
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So, we're past the Monaco GP and on to Britain, is it about time to start up the "contract cancelling machine" and begin kicking drivers onto the street? Or did we ever decide on a different method?
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Well, now that you mention that Chang (I find it easier to call everyone by their driver names now lol), I've been toying with a gimmicky private game to open up after GTP V8 finishes in a little less than a week.
I call it Total Mayhem
It's not a real hardcore series by any means - a lot of your settings would be locked in: Speed at 100, aggression at 100, mech sympathy at 100, always push, battle with your teammate, etc etc pretty much everything to the max really
I'm not intending for it to be a challenging series, just sort of a break from the norm. An insanity-fest as 22 100-agression cars drive into each other and hopefully someone will be left to crawl across the line.
Series is undetermined, but it has to be open-wheel; they're more fragile
Maybe A1GP?
So, anyone interested?
I call it Total Mayhem
It's not a real hardcore series by any means - a lot of your settings would be locked in: Speed at 100, aggression at 100, mech sympathy at 100, always push, battle with your teammate, etc etc pretty much everything to the max really
I'm not intending for it to be a challenging series, just sort of a break from the norm. An insanity-fest as 22 100-agression cars drive into each other and hopefully someone will be left to crawl across the line.
Series is undetermined, but it has to be open-wheel; they're more fragile
Maybe A1GP?So, anyone interested?
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Sounds interesting...it would allow me to sample all the different series a bit quicker...although it could just turn into a total mess. But I do think it would be best with A1GP so nobody will end up taking out a teammate.
, and all my other games are going down lol
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CardcaptorYoshi
Off we go...
Sorry for my absence of late, blame the girlfriend.GTP Season 4 Lottery!
So you know the deal by now, but for all the newcomers lets go over how it works:
- You pick a number from 1-17
- When everyone is with a number (Deadline lets say at the... German GP) Then the draw is made.
- Then 6 numbers will randomly be chosen using a number genorator, these 6 numbers represent the drivers who picked those numbers.
- Thus making that driver effectively "Out Of Contract" for next season.
- The 5 current drivers who were chosen last year are excluded from the lottery, these are, Haswell (Blake), Davidson (Bee), Nearn (blue_sharky39), Butler (Ashley), Chang.
So good luck and start choosing your numbers!
1. Casio
2. DQuaN
3.
4. sayboot
5.
6.
7. Studentdriver
8.
9. ls2_297
10. Ultrabeat
11. eatsviper4lunch
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13. CardcaptorYoshi
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17. Sting
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Interesting Silverstone race to say the least. Why, rain!?
Delay's OK, if you're the one with the relationship Bee then you get to laugh in my lonely face. Uh, I'll take number 13 ^^
As for the A1 wreckfest to whoever asked it: Retirements way, way on.
Delay's OK, if you're the one with the relationship Bee then you get to laugh in my lonely face. Uh, I'll take number 13 ^^
As for the A1 wreckfest to whoever asked it: Retirements way, way on.
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#11 for me 
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I'm gonna make it when I have a slot open. The other private GTP V8 is still going - only about 3-4 days left. Just hang on a little bit more.
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booooo another Williams on pole
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Lucky number 7.
