Goose "flies" at Donny
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I've never seen a 911 overtake at altitude before..Very impressive!
What an earth was going on in that race?! The pace car picked up the wrong bloody car! Anyway, well done for finishing in one piece.
Peter, you are a very bad man by the way..
Fantastic finish to the hour race. Couldn't believe it would be that close after an hour of racing!
Steve R
What an earth was going on in that race?! The pace car picked up the wrong bloody car! Anyway, well done for finishing in one piece.
Peter, you are a very bad man by the way..
Fantastic finish to the hour race. Couldn't believe it would be that close after an hour of racing!
Steve R
Some might say that trying to pass the pole-sitter from 7th on the grid a little ambitious. They may be right, but at the moment I made the decision I was sure there was just enough room to pass on the inside into Redgate. However, with the tight pack of cars all together there wasn't enough space when he turned in, we touched, his back went round somewhat, I'd kept my foot down and, possibly due to the contact forcing my wheels to point straight again (rather than them steering right as I had intended), I managed to "mount" his front offside wing with the front of my car. There were around 25 cars coming through too and I was expecting to get collected by someone, but luckily I made an adequately safe landing (sparks flew apparently) and continued on my way, albeit the car not steering quite as well as it had been. I had no idea how much damage had been done, but gauges were OK, no black & orange flags from the pit wall and no sound of bodywork rubbing into the tyres, so I kept going and working my way back up a bit.
The Safety Car came out in front of the car in front of me, who was running 4th, and was out for 3 laps (I think). It did wave us through, and we did get a bit of a move on, but I thought we would catch up the back of the train before being "released". What happened was the yellows and SC boards were out all the way including Goddard's chicane, then we saw the green at the start line and recommenced racing (for all of 2 laps or so). Unfortunately this caught me a bit by surprise and I wasn't right up there with the guy in front as we passed the green flag, but luckily the guy behind was caught out too and was at least the same distance behind me. There was a bit more rain by then so two reasonably restrained laps later I took the chequered flag as winner of the class (this was then in doubt as we were called up to see the COC about the Redgate incident, but the final decision was that there was no action to be taken). The way we were released after the Safety Car period meant there was absolutely no chance of catching the guys in 1st 2nd & 3rd so it did seem to give them something of an advantage. Is this normal (in the rare circumstances that they don't pick up the leader)?
The Safety Car came out in front of the car in front of me, who was running 4th, and was out for 3 laps (I think). It did wave us through, and we did get a bit of a move on, but I thought we would catch up the back of the train before being "released". What happened was the yellows and SC boards were out all the way including Goddard's chicane, then we saw the green at the start line and recommenced racing (for all of 2 laps or so). Unfortunately this caught me a bit by surprise and I wasn't right up there with the guy in front as we passed the green flag, but luckily the guy behind was caught out too and was at least the same distance behind me. There was a bit more rain by then so two reasonably restrained laps later I took the chequered flag as winner of the class (this was then in doubt as we were called up to see the COC about the Redgate incident, but the final decision was that there was no action to be taken). The way we were released after the Safety Car period meant there was absolutely no chance of catching the guys in 1st 2nd & 3rd so it did seem to give them something of an advantage. Is this normal (in the rare circumstances that they don't pick up the leader)?
Yes it sure was close 2nd ,3rd and 4th covered by 0,8 of a sec but the greasy conditions helped that and you were only 4 secs back. We lost about 40 secs going of the track during the race and a bit of hassle at the driver change...P.M. struggled with the belts as I had too much Lamb and beer from the night before (thanks Steve).But all in all great fun weekend. See you at Silverstone and good luck with the 24hr...
This weekend's going to be interesting with us all being on track together (Brands too). Hopefully respect and space will be given where needed for those that are racing close, particularly those that have the closing stages of a very tight championship to think about (the Club & Open class 2). If I'm not locked in a tight battle I will of course try and give you guys as much room as possible to get through cleanly. I've seen unecessary tangles between Open & Club cars before and with the championship at stake (probably only the class in my case, but you never know) I have a certain amount of trepidation about us all being out there together.
Steve Rance said:
Yep, when it started raining I thought Christmas had come early.... until I heard 'dont even think about it, you are winning class by a lap, dont balls it up again' in my radio. Anyway oposite lock through the craners in the wet on slicks is not that much fun.
Great race though.
Sounds like you had some fun Goose!!Great race though.
Steve, I was told that we werre not allowed radio in the Porsche Open!? I missed the pit board twice at Snetterton and came into the pits with about 20 seconds to spare, which nearly cost us the race win! I am not used to looking at pit boards, but thought we had to in the open?
Sean Edwards said:
Steve Rance said:
Yep, when it started raining I thought Christmas had come early.... until I heard 'dont even think about it, you are winning class by a lap, dont balls it up again' in my radio. Anyway oposite lock through the craners in the wet on slicks is not that much fun.
Great race though.
Sounds like you had some fun Goose!!Great race though.
Steve, I was told that we werre not allowed radio in the Porsche Open!? I missed the pit board twice at Snetterton and came into the pits with about 20 seconds to spare, which nearly cost us the race win! I am not used to looking at pit boards, but thought we had to in the open?
hunter 66 said:
Sean, Mr Geddie has been going very well of late ,I guess some good help from you and as you know he is a gentleman as well. Always a pleasure to race with him.
Yeah he has, impvoed a lot since the start of the season. He still has a bit to go, as we have not done any testing or track days in a while, due to his work commitments and my main racing (FIA GT)...Yeah Steve, I hate them too...
I thought the Apex 997's were going very well. It should be interesting at Silverstone as the "In2Racing" 997 pair are also quick, so should be nice and close at the front with 5 or 6 very quick 997 cups and a couple of old hat turbo cars keeping them honest.
Good race Steve and good decision about self restraint to take the class win. As we discussed the night before it is crucial for you to do whats needed to win that VIP Carrera Cup drive. You've proved your pace this year without having to tangle with class 1 cars at a wet donny on slicks.
Good race Steve and good decision about self restraint to take the class win. As we discussed the night before it is crucial for you to do whats needed to win that VIP Carrera Cup drive. You've proved your pace this year without having to tangle with class 1 cars at a wet donny on slicks.
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