Dijon GP thread

[_dobbo_]

A shaky start to the season for some saw the '76 cars struggling with pit strategies and refuelling errors, which allowed the '65 class drivers to snatch 1st and 2nd overall with the GT40s of Dangerous Mike and Petrol Vapour taking the honours.

Now, on to Dijon GP!

I make it 21 Laps duration, and with the 76 cars being about 5 seconds faster once again - pit strategies are very important to avoid a repeat of Anderstorp!

Who's managing what times? I'm keeping mine quiet on account of it being about 4 seconds slower than I would like. Thinking about taking the AC Cobra for a spin though!

Talk yourselves up here folks!

[UK952]

was it decided we could swap cars or not - mind you that straight is long GT40's are quick in a straight line.
Tony
(with a good lap time for anderstorp at dijon )

[neil_cardiff]

1:29:456 so far - improving very slowly, but am consistant at 1:29:8

Ian annoyingly went 1 second faster...

[lockstock2sb]

It always the way !! - right who's got the sandbags.....

[davyboy]

I can get a best of 1.29.3 in the 911 RSR.

Dave

[mr_yogi]

1.31s in the 911 RSR ... how do you go faster? No matter how I take the corners I can't seem to beat it.

[ianp68]

neil_cardiff said:

1:29:456 so far - improving very slowly, but am consistant at 1:29:8 Ian annoyingly went 1 second faster...

Just did a 1:28.1xx in the race, 911RSR.
Might try the Pantera tomorrow.

The bad news follows. GTL rank world records at Dijon GP

GTC 76
1 Ari 01:25.223 Porsche 911 rsr
2 Olli L. 01:25.394 Detomaso pantera


GTC 65
1 X, 01:29.718 Shelby gt350
2 Dom Duhan 01:29.958 Ford gt40


TC 65
1 GTEvo 01:34.855 Lotus cortina
2 iltavilli 01:35.866 Alfa romeo gta

[diver944]

Well I'm back up and running after disastrous problems at Anderstorp with my wheel. It's taken me days of fiddling to get the sensitivity anywhere near what I had it before. It's still not perfect, but I'm getting there. I dont know why it suddenly lost everything

I can't get the Pantera below 1:33 at Dijon, but the good old 906 can do a 1:31 after 20 laps practice tonight, but it'll be a sitting duck down that long straight.

Now can anyone advise me how to remove this brick mark from my screen when I lost my temper last Sunday

[FourWheelDrift]

1m27.2s and I've uploaded my times to GTL rank (whoah.......lots of reds and only 7 greens !!!)

[_dobbo_]

UK952 said:

was it decided we could swap cars or not - mind you that straight is long GT40's are quick in a straight line. Tony (with a good lap time for anderstorp at dijon )

Change cars to your hearts content, just remember if you change class you don't rack up as many points in the championship!

Those times are scary Ian, although someone must have put in that GT350 time just recently as it wasn't there when I checked!

TC 65
1 GTEvo 01:34.855 Lotus cortina
2 iltavilli 01:35.866 Alfa romeo gta

What bothers me is I'm only about a second faster than that in the GT40!

The cobra is simply too much of a handful for me, I slide everywhere! Didn't realise the GT350 could be so fast though.

[FourWheelDrift]

Looks to me like it's a GT40 with a 01:29.718 fastest lap at Dijon in the 65GTC's. Fastest GT350 is a 01:36.319s.

[UncleDave]

Can we use TC 65s?

Would that mean 1 Piststop for GT40's etc, and 2 pits for Pantera/906/911 etc?

Or would it still be one for the 906/911/Panteras and none for others?

(Sorry can't remember all these GTCTC657873TGR Abbreviations)

[FourWheelDrift]

For only a half hour race?

[UncleDave]

Oops good point..

Might try the Alfa and see what sort of time I can get

[pvapour]

guna hav a go now and see what i can do to shake off Dangerous Mike

[Rob P]

Annoyed that I'm missing out on the fun.

My router is very off/on so I get intermitant lag which would make close racing impossible..for me and you lot!

Its suddenly got worse so I'm sure I can fix it somehow....

[D_Mike]

what about deployable oil slicks or piles of nails? Or just try to spin a bit less than me and you'll be okay! We need to work together PV so that we don't slow eachother down too much and beat the 76 guys

[rebelstar]

Oh, I wouldn't worry about oil slicks. I've a feeling there will be a lot of spins at Dijon!

[diver944]

D_Mike said:

We need to work together PV so that we don't slow eachother down too much and beat the 76 guys

Ha ha ha ha, you 65 guys have no chance. Us 76 guys just had a few teething problems with pitstops (and @###ing wheels) and we'll be back at full strength for Dijon.

Anyway I've given you a full race headstart, but I'll soon overhaul you

[D_Mike]

PV and I were ahead of Ian after his pitstop - I know he had to have a second one after that though. That was despite a spin each on mine and pv's part - did Ian spin at all?