FRL~WSC VIII - GTP #1 Enduros! FURI & ANDIL WIN THE FINAL AT SPA!Finished 

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Add Bathurst to the WSC VIII calendar?

  • Yes! (Will make it 10 rounds, with 3 drops).

    Votes: 17 77.3%

  • No! (Will stay at 9 rounds, with 2 drops)

    Votes: 5 22.7%
  • Total voters
    22
  • Poll closed .
Andil
Apologies fella, as I say I was quite dazed and confused by the lack of engine/tyre noise, first time
I've had this stupid bug. I think I was trying to outbrake you but the car was sliding under braking and without the sound I couldn't really judge anything properly for a few laps. Yay PD.
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In all honesty surprised we didn't have more issues.

However if these issues are not fixed btw i'll be putting ToCA on hold. Can't be risked.
 
Furinkazen
In all honesty surprised we didn't have more issues.

However if these issues are not fixed btw i'll be putting ToCA on hold. Can't be risked.
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Understandable, given there will be people taking the opportunity to be even more aggressive, and then blame any incidents they create on PD...
 
Finally race that went as I planned. Kept my race pace whole race and 3 pitstop strategy hold to the end. No damages. Was hard not to put too much gas when accelerate from the corners to save tires so that they hold whole stints.
My hands are still hurting :)
 
jammy21
Finally race that went as I planned. Kept my race pace whole race and 3 pitstop strategy hold to the end. No damages. Was hard not to put too much gas when accelerate from the corners to save tires so that they hold whole stints.
My hands are still hurting :)
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The part about 1-3am with you @gtpanoz and me some 0.5 seconds apart was something brilliant 👍
 
Tire & engine problem. You can fixed it by going on the track and go to menu options. Set race sound off. Then exit from menu. Go back to menu and put race sound back.

Andil
Apologies fella, as I say I was quite dazed and confused by the lack of engine/tyre noise, first time I've had this stupid bug. I think I was trying to outbrake you but the car was sliding under braking and without the sound I couldn't really judge anything properly for a few laps. Yay PD.
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Edit: Sorry double post.
 
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After a good night's sleep I still think this was one of the best races in WSC so far. I basically knew going into qualifying that the 250GTO wasn't really pole-material, because its top speed is just too low, so P3 was sort of expected, as was @Andil on pole. The start shuffled the positions around a bit as always at Le Mans, and I found myself following @R0ssingt0n in 4th, then after @Yeratel84 's first problems, in 3rd, and then after Andil's in 2nd. Lout then went wide and head on into the barrier at Arnage and I found myself in the lead. Andil was coming up strong from behind and after passing me (I knew I wouldn't be able to keep him behind as he could just drive by on the straights) I wanted to settle in behind him, but soon after touched the grass on the left going into Tetre Rouge and only narrowly avoided the gravel there. The 2 or 3 seconds I lost there were enough for Andil to pull away gradually though.

Everything went according to plan for a while then, until Andil pitted after lap 11, and on lap 12, shortly after nightfall, I lost concentration and ran wide in the Porsche curves, smashing into the wall. When I got the car going again, @raceorama123432 went by to take the lead for the first time, and fortunately the pits were not a long way away to get my car repaired and filled up for a slightly earlier than planned first stop. My plan had always been for a 2-stop race with the first stop at lap 14, so nothing big had happened that would have required me to change anything. I was down in 6th when I came out again, but I knew some of that was due to pit strategies, but I probably had lost about 20 seconds in the crash.

True to what I had expected, I soon found myself in 2nd again as I was running a 14-lap stint to lap 26. Andil was clearly on a 3-stopper, coming in at L22 for his second stop. My last stop on Lap 26 dropped me to 4th temporarily, although I knew all 3 ahead of me (Andil, O'rama & Lout) would have to pit one more time. As I saw Lout on track before me and O'rama not far ahead of him, I thought that I at least had a shot at 2nd. Andil was further ahead, although I was not quite clear about how far. From what I saw on the map, he was probably more than a minute ahead, but that included the pitstop he still had to make. I was cursing myself for the earlier crash as I would have been a lot closer to him otherwise.

It was a couple of laps into my last stint when I first saw a little yellow speck in my rear view. I deliberately up'd my pace a little again, which had dropped quite significantly during the night, but O'rama kept inching closer each lap. A couple of laps from the end he was finally there and we started trading positions back and forth. I first thought he would pull away, but some little mistakes of his and the slipstream made it possible for me to hang on and fight back. Sorry for the one tap in Arnage, by the way! I braked a little late and touched you on the right rear, but fortunately you caught it, so I backed off a little before trying my next attack. And then suddenly Andil was in the pits after his mishap with DK and our fight was for the win. In the end, I didn't even realise that Andil was coming up again behind us as I was so busy trading positions back and forth with O'rama.

I basically knew that the race was over when we passed start/finish for the last time, as Furi was not far behind us on the track, so we probably wouldn't be able to run another lap inside the grace period, but this is one where I really didn't mind coming in second. Well done everyone, great race!
 
Disappointing race for me, had a great battle with Snow during the opening laps but that stupid mistake at Arnage completely ruined my chances of a decent result, maybe even a win... Tyre life on the Mustang is awful though.

Roll on next season in the Cobra!
 
If we have low numbers at Spa due to lack of GT-P's I can come in my 250 GT but will probably have to leave during the race.

Also turns out if I had actually been available in the 250 for yesterday I would have been right up there in terms of pace.
 
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I am as per usual unable to do most of the next season but if there are races in December I might be able to come to those as I will be finished with uni
 
TOTAL SPA 24 (RE-RUN) ENTRY LIST (v1): PLEASE CONFIRM YOUR ATTENDANCE / AVAILABILITY AS A RESERVE THE RACE!


GT-P (3 entries)
#043 Ferrari 330 P4 @LancerEvo7 (GT-P)
#21 Ford GT40 Grp.4 @jammy21 (GT-P)
#54 Ford Mk IV @Furinkazen (GT-P)

GT-O (7 entries - PRO 5, AM 2)
#12 Ferrari 250GTO @Yeratel84 (PRO)
#23 Ferrari 250GTO @Downhill Dino (AM)
#35 Shelby Mustang @R0ssingt0n (PRO)
#43 Ferrari 250GTB @raceorama123432 (PRO)
#72 Ferrari 250GTO @snowgt (PRO)
#77 Mercedes 300SL @Andil (PRO)
#94 Ferrari 250GTB @DK (AM)


RESERVE ENTRIES (ALL CLASSES)
#19 Shelby Mustang @Siggers (AM)
#24 BMW 507 @1996mikey2412 (AM)
#36 Shelby Daytona @PatrisS136 (GT-P)
#99 Mercedes 300SL @smuffyatfcp (PRO)

ABSENT CARS (ALL CLASSES)
#07 Shelby Mustang @RyanRacer (AM)
#5 Jaguar XJ13 @Pluxtheduck (GT-P)
#29 Ferrari 330 P4 @Phouchg (GT-P)
#38 Ford Mk IV @gtpanoz (GT-P)
#16 Mercedes 300SL @Roflwaffle (AM)
#44 Shelby Daytona @Ninners (GT-P)
#1 Jaguar XJ13 @DrifterJoe (GT-P)
#85 Shelby Daytona @FlyingFox (GT-P)
#93 Jaguar XJ13 @chrisjohnson93 (GT-P)
#31 BMW 507 @MatheusBond (AM)

So errr.... @CAMikaze @ranhammerR34 doing anything sunday? We have room. ALso is @PatrisS136 available?
 
TOTAL SPA 24 (RE-RUN) ENTRY LIST (v2): PLEASE CONFIRM YOUR ATTENDANCE / AVAILABILITY AS A RESERVE THE RACE!


GT-P (3 entries)
#043 Ferrari 330 P4 @LancerEvo7 (GT-P)
#21 Ford GT40 Grp.4 @jammy21 (GT-P)
#54 Ford Mk IV @Furinkazen (GT-P)

GT-O (8 entries - PRO 6, AM 2)
#12 Ferrari 250GTO @Yeratel84 (PRO)
#23 Ferrari 250GTO @Downhill Dino (AM)
#35 Shelby Mustang @R0ssingt0n (PRO)
#43 Ferrari 250GTB @raceorama123432 (PRO)
#72 Ferrari 250GTO @snowgt (PRO)
#77 Mercedes 300SL @Andil (PRO)
#94 Ferrari 250GTB @DK (AM)
#44 Ferrari 250GTB @Ninners (PRO)

RESERVE ENTRIES (ALL CLASSES)
#19 Shelby Mustang @Siggers (AM)
#24 BMW 507 @1996mikey2412 (AM)
#36 Shelby Daytona @PatrisS136 (GT-P)
#99 Mercedes 300SL @smuffyatfcp (PRO)

ABSENT CARS (ALL CLASSES)
#07 Shelby Mustang @RyanRacer (AM)
#5 Jaguar XJ13 @Pluxtheduck (GT-P)
#29 Ferrari 330 P4 @Phouchg (GT-P)
#38 Ford Mk IV @gtpanoz (GT-P)
#16 Mercedes 300SL @Roflwaffle (AM)
#1 Jaguar XJ13 @DrifterJoe (GT-P)
#85 Shelby Daytona @FlyingFox (GT-P)
#93 Jaguar XJ13 @chrisjohnson93 (GT-P)
#31 BMW 507 @MatheusBond (AM)

Does this seem ok? I know I have to leave anyway but if we don't have spare space then I could come??
 
You'd probably need to quadruple the length of that pic to fit me. :(
 

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