GTP WRS-Online : Special Event III - Spa Mixed Class Enduro - Mar 25

EDK · Mar 26, 2012

Mine was done on lap 29, for anyone who wants to verify. Sign came up at 32 seconds and change. I unpaused at 5:33, after sending a reminder to everyone about the need to do the driver change.

Hydro · Mar 26, 2012

Gravitron · Mar 26, 2012

Thanks Marc, I'll take care of any undone ones later, I'm stopping now for a few hours. Mine was on lap 35 I think. But add these to your next update:

GTP_Speedy6543 | Checked by Gravitron | Lap 28
GTP_MadMax86 | Checked by Gravitron | Lap 28

EDK · Mar 26, 2012

GTP_gooners_17 | Checked By EDK | Lap 37

Ren-Tec · Mar 26, 2012

I reckon I was 5 seconds too long for the 5 min pause but not sure.

Dr_Watson · Mar 26, 2012

First, thanks to the organizers. Having tried to do this on my own I can say you guys pulled it off much better, everything was so smooth, fair, well documented, and above all fun.
This was a blast. 👍

My DVR only got the 1st 30 laps of the F1 race due to the rain delay, so I just finished watching the end of that. Fantastic day for racing all around. Kept my spirits up while I hydrated and refueled. Still jazzed up, head still feels tingly ...

these long races really make me want a race engineer on a laptop watching the timing screen. My brain was fuzzy after the race; so much to keep track of:
my pit stops, opponents stops, lap times, gaps, managing fuel, all while making ~15-20 clean racing passes and trying to keep a 200mph rocket on the road. I was also being extra crazy by fiddling with the TCS as the tires wore down so I could get one more lap out of them. Must be nice to just drive and have a dude on the pit wall talking in your ear. :lol:

...so I'm just going to brain dump before I finish this first pint.

Report
I was nervous as hell during the lead up to the race but half-way through the formation lap that all went away. I inherited a better start with Dom's absence (missed you buddy, you would have been right in the middle of it all race) and we started nice and smooth. The other Tim had a bobble in the early going so I got 4th as a gift. Hung onto Hydro for the first stint while Adam and his friend in blue just tore off. They put a gap on of almost 1s per lap while I was pushing hard for 2'03 pace. By lap 9 the tires were going off and I saw it looked like everyone else was coming in so I popped in for tires in turn.

I knew fuel was going to be interesting with the 99lap count we were never going to get anything but a "fill-er-up" recommendation from the game. So I took note of how much I burned off and put in the free 11L you get on a tire swap. Out for another stint pushing to hang onto 4th and keep Hydro in sight. Got some traffic at awkward times toward the end of the stint but saw Hydro go for tires on 17 so I picked up third while I had another lap to go. In practice I figured 9 laps was good so long as I used TCS at the end to milk the tires.

I came in on 18 as planned and continued to come in on multiples of 9 happy that my competition was doing 8's. Worked out great because my pace wasn't blinding, just steady and quick enough. As a bonus the end of my stint lined up with the 'good part' of Hydro's stint so I could hold him up before going in the pits while his tires were the best. :sly:

Overtaking the GT cars here was so mentally stressful as I kept running into them toward the end of my tires. So I rarely had the confidence to go around except where I was 100% good. (Sorry to Ren-Tec, you got the only bad pass of my race on the front stretch. I forgot how wide my car was and we got together under braking... pretty sure I didn't leave enough room, my bad).

I took my 'driver-change' at 1h 1m since it was time for my regularly scheduled stop, and another stint would be pushing it by taking 20min. First time I've ever taken a smoke break during a race. Ran a stop-watch so I'm pretty sure I took 5m 2s. Bonus of going so early is I was first in so I figured I'd get more "clean track" as more cars took theirs.

I plugged away the laps watching the +3L counter until I was finally on the lead lap again and happy to see P3. Hydro looked like he was just coming out from his driver change right behind me. Raced him until my tires quit and came back in on the next 9er. At this point I couldn't take the 'free fuel' anymore as the game was looking for 90+L; tossed in 40 as a guess from stint1, got jumped down 2 spots while filling and came out behind Gravitron.

Raced for position for a while which was fun. Got back up to 4th as cars peeled off to pit. Toward the end of the stint I lost my original goal as the Aderrrm was behind me. I let him through and saw that the other Tim was back there too. Raced til I hit my 9th lap and notice we were just crossing 2hrs so I pushed on for a 10th to make sure I could get to 2:24 on one more stop.

I dropped back to 6th taking 35-ish L of fuel which was plenty to finish up with the 1/8th or so left in the tank. Wasn't worried at this point as I was expecting everyone in front of me to take one more stop. So that got me back up to 4th with only a few laps to go. 👍

Somewhere in the last stint I got a lap down to p2 and never got to catch up to the podium. Hydro stayed a few corners ahead the whole time so my hold-ups weren't good enough.

Meanwhile the other Tim was hunting me.

I just kept motoring cleanly doing 2'05-low over and over again as I watched the last few minutes click away. At 2h 23m I was handed some fortune as me and WRP hit a train of GT traffic. That kept us nice and far apart so I was able to roll across the line in 4th.

GR

👍

Ren-Tec · Mar 26, 2012

Dr_Watson
(Sorry to Ren-Tec, you got the only bad pass of my race on the front stretch. I forgot how wide my car was and we got together under braking... pretty sure I didn't leave enough room, my bad.

It's ok and I really don't remeber unless it was the last chicane when some did a late dive just as I wanted the pits. Nothing more than a tap and I was in the pits. 👍

Hydro · Mar 26, 2012

DDiamond · Mar 26, 2012

Thanks to the tireless work to all the organizers of this event, there are too many to thank, but we all know who you are. Even though on the sidelines, I felt, through Christophe's stream that I was there, kinda.

Look forward to more participation in future events [that physically I can handle]. :sly:

Hydro · Mar 26, 2012

Hydro · Mar 26, 2012

Ren-Tec
I reckon I was 5 seconds too long for the 5 min pause but not sure.

Actually you were exactly 5 minutes - to the second

Most drivers that I verified were about 2 - 4 seconds over the required time.

Ren-Tec · Mar 26, 2012

Hydro
Actually you were exactly 5 minutes - to the second
Most drivers that I verified were about 2 - 4 seconds over the required time.

Wow that was a stroke of luck, I pressed the start on my timer but the touch screen didn't responed. So I pressed it again and gave an extra two seconds to be sure but I don't remember a lollipop so I may have gone by a wheel mans hand up.

ps no fuel at this stop as I had put 68 litres in early in a stop that took im guessing almost a minute in the box Doh!!!

Cheers for checking Hydro 👍

Hydro · Mar 26, 2012

Denilson · Mar 26, 2012

A huge "THANKS" to the administration. :cheers:

I'm super happy with my win, even though my pit and fuel strategy was far from perfect.

I've just watched the entire replay, and it's 4am here in Stockholm now, so it's time to hit the sack.
Full report comming up tomorrow. 👍

Great racing to all of you!
And gratz to Adam for the LMP win! Insane to lap 3 (very close to 4) / 5 opponents. 👍

Oh, and just a small note.. My two nicks, "GTP_chorda" and "chorda" are not spelled with a capital "C" as you can see. 👍

WRP001 · Mar 26, 2012

Fast Laps for Room A:

LMP

GTP_PASM ....... 2:01.323
GTP_Aderrrm .... 2:01.358
GTP_Hydro ...... 2:02.347
GTP_WRP001 ..... 2:02.469
GTP_Gravitron .. 2:02.914
GTP_DrWatson ... 2:03.010

GT

GTP_chorda ..... 2:12.241
GTP_Ren-Tec .... 2:12.566
GTP_Biffy ...... 2:12.720
GTP_PaulMac .... 2:13.176
GTP_Speedy6543 . 2:14.041
GTP_MadMax86 ... 2:14.058
GTP_Insatiable . 2:14.221

Dr_Watson · Mar 26, 2012

Coincidentally I just finished watching "Money Ball" and now that I see that I stole 4th with the slowest "fast lap" I'm pleased to see that my math judo did work out to my advantage. :lol:

👍

BTW thanks for verifying the stops. It's nice to see postmortem evidence that we can do this stuff without a referee.

mcfizzle · Mar 26, 2012

I'm going to try and check some pit stops in a few mine is right around 1 hour 20 mins.

Edit: when I try to skip forward to the next lap it seems to jump 4-5 laps rather than one, is this normal? Maybe due to the length of the race?

EDK · Mar 26, 2012

mcfizzle
I'm going to try and check some pit stops in a few mine is right around 1 hour 20 mins.

Edit: when I try to skip forward to the next lap it seems to jump 4-5 laps rather than one, is this normal? Maybe due to the length of the race?

Yes, I think due to the length of the race, that's the reason I went ahead and mentioned the lap mine took place on.

As a result, these checks are very time consuming. Unfortunately, I only had time for the 1 check so far, but I should be able to do more tomorrow. Bed time for now.

WRP001 · Mar 26, 2012

EDK
Yes, I think due to the length of the race, that's the reason I went ahead and mentioned the lap mine took place on.

As a result, these checks are very time consuming. Unfortunately, I only had time for the 1 check so far, but I should be able to do more tomorrow. Bed time for now.

Might have to do with # of laps set in setup too. I think the replay for A only skips 2 laps as Marc set lap count to 99 instead of 200.

Wardez · Mar 26, 2012

Think that also might've made the replays unexportable?

I've never run into this error before, even in the PURE 2.4 hours of Daytona I believe we were able to export replays fine, not sure have to test. I'm curious as to what the exact size limit for transfer is.

jtv90069 · Mar 26, 2012

WRP001 · Mar 26, 2012

Wardez
Think that also might've made the replays unexportable?

I've never run into this error before, even in the PURE 2.4 hours of Daytona I believe we were able to export replays fine, not sure have to test. I'm curious as to what the exact size limit for transfer is.

The A room replay which was set to 99 laps also will not export.

jtv90069
GTP_Wardez | Checked by jtv90069 | Lap 27 -14 sec, pit finish 45sec pit exit 5'31. please verify

Someone from room B will have to verify.

Note: The LMP cars that finished 64 laps today raced for 278.4 miles!!!

mcfizzle · Mar 26, 2012

WRP001 · Mar 26, 2012

Good work guys. Really appreciate the help. We will have to add 14x2= 28 secs to Wardez's finish time. Not sure what that means for positions if any.

Can someone from B post screen pic of timing monitor at end so we can see best laps?

Also I paused replay of A as guys finished their last lap and copied down race time and lap # for official results.

Shame we can't export replay or I'd just do it.

mcfizzle · Mar 26, 2012

Fast Laps for Room A:

LMP

GTP_PASM ....... 2:01.323
GTP_Aderrrm .... 2:01.358
GTP_Hydro ...... 2:02.347
GTP_WRP001 ..... 2:02.469
GTP_Gravitron .. 2:02.914
GTP_DrWatson ... 2:03.010

GT

GTP_Chorda ..... 2:12.241
GTP_Ren-Tec .... 2:12.566
GTP_Biffy ...... 2:12.720
GTP_PaulMac .... 2:13.176
GTP_Speedy6543 . 2:14.041
GTP_MadMax86 ... 2:14.058
GTP_Insatiable . 2:14.221

Fast Laps for Room B:

LMP

GTP_gooners_17 . 2:03.182
GTP_mcfizzle ... 2:03.284
gtp_jtv90069 ... 2:04.142
GTP_Wardez ..... 2:04.182
GTP_Hun ........ 2:05.887
GTP_ty00123 .... 2:06.859

GT

GTP_Hasslemoff . 2:14.016
GTP_EDK ........ 2:14.172
GTP_MilleRSVR .. 2:14.324
GTP_Allibubba99 . 2:16.110
GTP_otxjto ..... 2:16.306
GTP_Racingworld . 2:16.426
GTP_AspecBob ... 2:16.628
GTP_sjstuart ... 2:20.496

WRP001 · Mar 26, 2012

Thanks Scott!!! 👍 Hope you enjoyed the race!

The whole process was great fun. Especially all the practice sessions and qualifying runs.

Anxious to read more race reports tomorrow.

jtv90069 · Mar 26, 2012

jtv90069 · Mar 26, 2012

Provisional results for Room A:

LMP

GTP_Aderrrm: 64 Laps - 2:24:09.128
GTP_PASM: +19.102
GTP_Hydro: +2:07.807
GTP_DrWatson: (-1 Lap) 2:24:50.802
GTP_WRP001: (-1 Lap) 2:25:00.228
GTP_Gravitron: (-1 Lap) 2:25:10.539

GT

GTP_Chorda: 59 Laps - 2:24:34.704
GTP_Biffy: +18.033
GTP_PaulMac: + 27.643
GTP_Ren-Tec: + 36.920
GTP_Speedy6543: +1:17.043
GTP_MadMax86: +1:43.076
GTP_Insatiable: (-1 Lap) 2:25:10.628

Not a single DC in room A which is beyond expectations. Great racing guys. I'm officially fried.

Provisional results for Room B:

LMP

GTP_gooners_17: 63 Laps - 2:24:16.072
GTP_jtv90069: +35.124
GTP_mcfizzle: +55.549
GTP_Wardez: (-1 Lap) 2:24:57.810
GTP_Hun: (-1 Lap) 2:25:32.078
GTP_ty00123: (-2 Laps) 2:24:24.684

GT

GTP_EDK: 59 Laps - 2:26:24.279
GTP_MilleRSVR: (-1 Lap) 2:24:17.299 (Continued Lap 59 +11.424 from Kev)
GTP_Hasslemoff: (Start Lap 59 in pit lane @ 2:24:03.376, exit in traffic and slowed.)
GTP_Racingworld: (-2 Laps) 2:24:26.786
GTP_Allibubba99: (-2 Laps) 2:24:29.767
GTP_otxjto: (-2 Laps) 2:25:02.643
GTP_AspecBob: (-2 Laps) 2:25:57.159
GTP_sjstuart: DC

Gravitron · Mar 26, 2012

Thanks Jon & Scott! 👍

Dr_Watson: Great write-up, and had a great time battling you and Tim from afar, although we ended up fairly close. 👍 You have this beast mastered. I hope to catch your draft again in the future!

mcfizzle · Mar 26, 2012

Guys I have an issue with the GT podium class results that I will post in a second. Jon touched on it.

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