2 hours and 20 minutes in my video card decided to screw up. I couldn't see a thing so I had to stop.

I finished! Well it was tiring, but fun. That track is a beauty through the day night cycle.

Thanks everyone!

Same time again tomorrow?

Practice

Not much, just an hour before the race starting off with purolaters setup, thanks mate

Qualifying

Quite pleased to grab 2nd spot considering my LMP1 was 10-14 km/h slower down the straight.

Race

Started well and took the lead when Joe ran off track, having a good battle with Col Kurtz. Even with boost 3 down the straight he was still catching me, then I would drop the boost for the other sections and pull a little bit of a gap. It went on like that for a few laps before I lost concentration when the player dots disappeared off the timeline, running off the track where Joe did.

I had now lost a few km/h off my top speed due to damage, which got worse as I further scrapped and hit the wall a few times, losing another 10km/h off the engine It was incredibly frustrating.

In the end MG-Lola and myself are very happy with taking the last podium position and the fastest lap of the race, giving us encouragement and hope for next year.

Congrats to Joe on the 2nd place and to everyone that finished and thanks to all that participated.

And finally congratulations to LazyC who drove a superb and consistent race, thoroughly deserving the win, well done mate!

Whew, that was true endurance.

I got the pole with an insane lap of 3:14.0x. That's about 2 seconds faster than I'd ever gone before, but it was light and we were all expecting dark. In fact, I had my car setup in qually trim for the air temps at 8pm, so I had to open my rad 1 click before qualifying at noon.

The pace lap was a mess because of the rFactor pace car. I had no way to talk on TS, so I was trying to chat and the pace car went really slow through some corners. Eventually I spun while trying to type. Thank you for the restart. I don't know why we didn't just run a manual formation lap...

Once the race started I got away cleanly and right away started pulling a gap. I had a top speed of 205 mph (flicking to 206 very occasionally) and by the end of the first lap I had a 3- or 4-second lead. It all went horribly wrong on the second lap, though. Somehow I missed sighting one of the braking markers into the Porsche Curve, and by the time I realized what was happening I was almost to the escape road. I slammed on the brakes and wound up plowing into the haybales/wall sideways/backwards. I knew as soon as I hit the brakes that it was going to be bad.

Out I came into the traffic, and I tried to slot in safely. However, I didn't know that my rear wing was gone, so the car spun again and I made a big mess with people dodging me. Sorry!

Into the pits I went. No tires, full fuel, fix the damage. The total stop wasn't too bad - 43 seconds spent stationary, I think. By the time I got up to speed again, Ahmad in P1 was 1m17s ahead of me. The gap tp P1 remained pretty stationary for the stint, although I think someone overtook Ahmad.

My accident had lost me about 2 mph of top speed, but that didn't hurt too much. The handling was off, though, which affected me. My car was already very skittish in the approach to Indianapolis, and the damage made it a handful. I must have spun and/or contacted the Armco about 10 times there during the race.

It was fun working my way back through the field. The first two times I came past ktel were unfortunate locations - Porsche Curve and Indianapolis. I performed badly in both case - sorry, mate. Other GT traffic went better.

I was double-stinting LM Medium tires throughout the race. In fact, my first set went longer than that because I kept the set on after the big crash. This saved me 17 seconds every other stop, or almost a minute over the course of the race. I thought at the end I might try triple-stinting a set if I needed to take a risk, but that situation didn't materialize.

At one point I was chasing Anthony Petrakas and we came across a GT car at Indianapolis. Anthony had to brake early and I duck my way past the GT and overtook Anthony. That was really neat.

Over the course of the race I kept making Armco contact that made my car worse-handling and slower on the straights. By the end of the race I had lost 9mph of top speed. I had to move my brake bias forward to keep the rear behind me, and Indianapolis was absolutely atrocious - a wild ride every lap. At the end in came down to me and Ahmad fighting for P2. He must have had a big accident earlier in the race, because he had a long stop and then his pace dropped off. I caught him in the penultimate stint but there was a lot of traffic at Mulsanne Corner and I braked too late and tagged him. I let the gap go back to 2+ seconds (where it was beofre the corner) and then went after him again. The next lap I drafted him on the straight. However, I pulled out a hair too late and actually clipped his car. My car slewed across the track but I managed to save it. Ahmad's car seemed to be on rails, but I have a feeling it was a little more exciting than that in his cockpit. Sorry, Ahmad.

I caught back up and got past him safely (he must have been way down on top speed), then pulled a gap. The same lap, or maybe the next, Ahmad pitted. There were about 36 minutes to go, and I didn't think he could make it. I pitted with 26 minutes to go and took a full tank and no tires. I had a ~15-seocnd gap and basically held it for the rest of the race. Ahmad pitted before starting his last lap, which sealed my P2.

I guess LC had an accident as well, since I was running laps in the 3:22s and 3:23s instead of the 18s and 19s I could do, and he wasn't pulling away nearly that fast. However, I came out of my first stop for repairs down 77 seconds to P1, and finished the race about 140 seconds behind P1. LC deserves credit for his consistency. Congrats.

Overall the race was really fun, particularly since we're running it today. I turned on the TV a few minutes ago to see a Corvette onboard, and knew exactly where on the track it was. Thanks to all who participated.

Too bad, Purolator, that's a really tough brake! I really, really HATE it when that happens.

Unfortunately, we've all been there a time or two. Maybe in the future, it would be nice for the race 'stewards' to nullify such a 'small infraction' by removing the DQ and letting you proceed. I'm not sure that is an option with rfactor server admins, but maybe it is.

Again, too bad, hope it's better with your (hopefully) next race!

Col K, too bad about the fridge.

Stev8, sorry you didn't get to race. I'm stuck at work today and I knew I couldn't make it either. Hope you are feeling better.

Congrats to LC!!

rFactor DQs are final and not clearable by admin commands, unfortunately.

Thanks SpyDoc my back is much better now, this morning i almost signed up to race but decided 3 hours was still to long.

I confess i did do a short Nascar race this evening the first race in 3 weeks for me but that was pretty painfull.

Im thinking of joining the Silverstone race here next week so maybe i can get some practice in to catch up and get on the pace.

Thx for organizing this event!

Congrats to all finishers and the class winners!

Happy with my performance, as my goal was to finish.
It was getting very close at the end to bring the car to the line because of a few brainfarts in those last laps.
But entering the dark again was really killing me at this point.

Had no clue about the strategy beforehand but decided to go with one set of hard tyres as long as possible. That made for 3 quick stops without taking tyres or repairing any damage, but that was definitely one stint too long for the tyres. Went with mediums on my last stop.
Aero damage was lowering my topspeed by 10 km/h by then, but that was still acceptable.
If it werenīt for those last 2 laps, I would be one complete happy camper!

Didnīt like that formation lap behind the pacecar. Too much hassle. Letīs do it manually next time.

I think it was set up that way to accommodate AI, then we dumped the AI.



One of the coolest things about this race was seeing headlights reflecting off of the Dunlop tire. I would see these as I entered Dunlop Corner without realizing there was lap traffic just ahead. A nice bonus was that the GT headlights are yellow in this mod.