GT5 Championship - season 9 - "As you were gents"

[Norbury90]

Good to have you back Ferry.

Was a good race, the ballast really stung me in the first one. I had a decent first lap but as soon as we got to a straight, Flip would reel me right in, and he ended up breezing past down the pit straight. I could keep with him easily enough but Old G did the same thing as Flip and then we engaged in battle, some pretty good driving to avoid each other! I eventually got back round him and managed to get away, but by that point I was too far behind Flip to catch him.

Second race was a bit more even with both of us carrying ballast, was pretty lonely in the end! I managed to make a gap before we pitted and then just tickled my way around for the rest of the race and popped out in front for the win. Yippee!

Was a good combo!

Here's the pick for next week, you are all going to love it.

Fiat Panda '90

Sports ECU
Intake mods
Sports cat, sports exhaust manifold (STANDARD EXHAUST)

Oil change, engine rebuild

Comfort medium and hard

Cape Ring full

It's a wild ride but everyone should be able to control it. It is a quite accurate representation of my current car so you can all pity me.

[ferrisbueller]

Are you serious?

How long is a lap? How long will the races be?

[RenesisEvo]

ferrisbueller said:

Are you serious?

How long is a lap? How long will the races be?

That's a fair point, ordinarily the 60-mile distance gives decent race lengths, but with the snail-like average speed of the Panda on a long circuit, each race could well be over an hour. Add in a lengthy qualifying session (10 mins might not be enough for two flying laps) I think we may have to trim the race length to say 45 or 50 miles to avoid it becoming tedious, or the event dragging on too long (I'm sure I'm not the only one who has to be up for work the next day!)

Norbs - can you give an estimate of race duration? I've not had time to test it out.

[Norbury90]

We will shorten it to the right time, don't worry.

[Norbury90]

Old G, if you thought the finishes at Bathurst were close, then you should see this one from last year, it's a cracker.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj4yG10K6kQ

[Mini1275]

That combo sounds hateful .

What is the wear rate?.

[Norbury90]

Mini1275 said:

That combo sounds hateful .

What is the wear rate?.

Very fast you big moaner!

[ferrisbueller]

The wear rate is pretty much irrelevant as it doesn't exactly work the tyre hard.

As much as I pity you Norbs, I really do not wish to share your woes.

[Darkdice]

Been out in the 5 with the Mrs. Weather good but couldn't get the hard top off - 2 man job and I'm not complete at the mo!

Looked good coming out the farm

[DuncsGTi]

Looks good dice.

I'm going to have to miss the next couple of Sundays guys, my boss has decided to send me back to the UK to do a couple of courses

[Darkdice]

Rex your lotus looks a handful to say the least at Spa!! Mind you by the white stuff on the outside and wet on track I'm not surprised.

Hope you don't mind me sharing with the boys

http://youtu.be/nbMc8fs1ZhY

[Norbury90]

Darkdice said:

Rex your lotus looks a handful to say the least at Spa!! Mind you by the white stuff on the outside and wet on track I'm not surprised.

Hope you don't mind me sharing with the boys

http://youtu.be/nbMc8fs1ZhY

Jeeeeeesus that looks like something that GW has dreamt up! Nice car control by the driver (dunno if it's Rex at the wheel, I guess it is!) If it was me behind the wheel then it would get very expensive very quickly...

[Darkdice]

Think it t was, working hard at the wheel. Reminded me of a gw combo!

[Mini1275]

That's my kind of track day .

You don't realise how lucky you all are, people are paying to risk their own cars - in real life - in conditions like those when I replicate them for you all for free.

I don't even get a thanks. Typical.

(Nice control though Rex!).

Edited by Mini1275 on Saturday 20th April 01:31

[DrBillyRubin]

Mini1275 said:

That's my kind of track day .

You don't realise how lucky you all are, people are paying to risk their own cars - in real life - in conditions like those when I replicate them for you all for free.

I don't even get a thanks. Typical.

(Nice control though Rex!).

Edited by Mini1275 on Saturday 20th April 01:31

That is an awesome taste of a very slippery looking spa! Lotus looks to be trying to oversteer as often as it can, great set up clearly, superb stuff rex! :-D
And credit where it's due gw, you have indeed always delivered a thoroughly exciting choice * of car and conditions that is very true!

• ahem I must confess I was not too upset to have been disconnected from the zonda/spa/wet race ;-)

Edited by DrBillyRubin on Sunday 21st April 14:10

[Mini1275]

How many laps are we doing tonight?.

[Norbury90]

Well whats a lap time, was it about 2:30? If it is then that would make it 16 laps. I can't remember if that was the sort of laptime we were running though.

[RenesisEvo]

Cape Ring full takes about 4 minutes in the Panda, so I'd suggest 10 or 11 laps.

[Ian_sUK]

You got a spare car for me norbs?

[Flipatron]

Fun race last night, my pace in race 1 was epic.

BTW, who was it that ran an illegal race exhaust in race 1.....