Post Donington

What a night. How'd you all go?


Im gonna make this a positive report.

My replays didnt save again, which is really starting to annoy me.

Never seen Donington before, so i got about 40 laps in before qualifying. Managed to get into 8th spot with 1:06.9

Race one i managed to finish in 6th place.

Race two i got a great start and got by a couple going into T1 managed to make the whole lap, going very well in 3rd or 4th place.
Then on the second last turn of lap one, my car suddenly flipped over and i was sent to the back of the pack. I didnt realise it at the time, but Stevo decided it would be a good idea to ram the crap out of me. Lol.
I spent the rest of the race charging back from 13th spot to try and regain some sort of result. GrpcA lapped me with about 5 minutes to go, so i decided to chase him as hard as i could. I stayed within about 4 - 6 seconds of him passing a couple guys on the way to finishing in 9th place.

After the 17 restarts in race 3 we finally got clear and i was happy to be in 4th? i think behind Berlsy. I managed to stay with him for 2 or 3 laps i think, maybe less.
So i am very happy with that. But i ended up spinning it out the back and fell back down the list again. ARGGGH!!! So frustrating.

I found my self somewhere behind Kakswell, for the remainder of the race i chased him round and round, till he made an error and i got by him on the pit straight.
Butttttttttttt, on the last lap i dropped the Porsche again and he got back by me. Was a super fight with him. Trundled into the finish line in 6th spot.

The Good.

* I'd never seen Donington before and still did reasonably well.
* I chased down, caught and passed people.
* I kept up with great drivers for a few laps.
* Very competitive opponents.

The Bad

* Making too many stupid errors stuffing up what would have been a very good round.


Thanks for the great night guys. Dano really has done well with this series. It's awesome.
Thanks Kakswell for the setup too. The car was flying.

i smell bad and i have a soor wrist.....

I raped Stig333...

Webber wrote:I raped Stig333...

So he probly smelt good then?

I had some awesome battles along the way. It was a lot of fun being overtaken and the re passing again.

just some of my face expressions from the night lol trying to get theses car right just not going my way yet i practise in the week and go ok but get stage fright on the night lol but still having a blast so cheers all hope i got out of the faster guys way and will try to get faster but not getting this setup idea

LMAO WEBBER.... i got raped by stig earlier on.... hahahahhah love these cars make room shake LOL

awesome series danoooooooooooooo

peter308 wrote: just some of my face expressions from the night lol trying to get theses car right just not going my way yet i practise in the week and go ok but get stage fright on the night lol but still having a blast so cheers all hope i got out of the faster guys way and will try to get faster but not getting this setup idea

Yeah Peter I think it's the nature of the track last night. We all found the gruntier cars a real handful round here. That's partly why I went for the bmw320. With the capri I found it to be a really difficult balancing act staying on the track whereas the with 320 I was able to drive where I wanted too.
You should find Silverstone a bit more user friendly.

shano wrote:LMAO WEBBER.... i got raped by stig earlier on.... hahahahhah love these cars make room shake LOL

awesome series danoooooooooooooo

Some say that he knows 2 facts about ducks, and both of them are wrong.

Some say that his genitals are on upside down, and that if he could be bothered, he could crack the Da Vinci Code in 43 seconds...

Sorry dudes I was hoping to have the points up by now.
I seem to be unable to connect to SLS at home.
I can from work so I've emailed the logs to my work email so I can do them in the morning.

Tried the "no practice 'til race night" approach.....

Struggled with the faster cars so decided on the Lancia.. (safe option)

Got an awesome set up from Benny........... Had a few good battles in the first 2 races (even with the faster cars)

Got nailed a few laps into race 3, got damage and parked it in the sand on lap 4

What is it with race 3 re-starts?????

Looking forward to Silverstone.....

Cheers Dano for the night

Gentlemen, I really now surprised at Donington Park itself. In a separate training I had always 1:05, x. But every Tuesday in the race dwell worse. It's also the fact that I play quite often and lags. It's a new graphics card driver. If more cars on the track - it is bad. But even so, again, thanks for the courtesy accept excuses. Thank you gentlemen ...

And what awaits us on the mode? Or we go with DRM track Nordscleife?

we go with DRM track Nordscleife?

I will follow! Have never attacked the Nordschleife.

Webber wrote:

we go with DRM track Nordscleife?

I will follow! Have never attacked the Nordschleife.

Dudes!

I'll post a couple of links tomorrow.
I've got the 70s version and the 2007 version.
I prefer the 70s version myself because it's less damaging to the car when you go flying off, which you will do!
I find these cars are too much there, but I haven't tried the mighty 320 there.

Maybe if we ask Benny nicely we can have a night there. but it's either got to wait till after the HQs or be on another night.

Oh and there's one bit you'll hate!

The 7 or 8 minute (probly 6 if your name starts with W) outlap.

I recall, very very vaguely, that there may be a patch that allows for doing the short track as an outlap....

Sorry wait, are we doing the Nordschleife?

That is AWESOME!!!

Can't wait.

I logged in half an hour early, so that gave me a chance to practice. Quailfied last, by a long way. Took it very easy at the start and passed three cars on the first lap, just by trying to be smooth and steady instead of fast. After a while, i moved over to let a faster car lap me and beached it! Took me three bloody laps to crawl out of the gravel trap. Finished last, three laps down.

Missed race 2 because i was out in the shed, helping a mate to unload his race car that he is storing at my place (no room left in his shed).

Almost missed race 3, heard the field come under starter's orders, ran into the study, jumped in to the car and was a fraction too late, got held in pit lane. I was overjoyed, when it was a restart. I was also happy about the second restart because after a very safe and steady take off, I copped a steel enema from Stevie Wonder and his stuck throttle at turn 1. All the subsequent restarts were a little annoying. Slow and steady start saw me gain 4 places on the first lap, then i just took it steady for the rest of the race and ended up 9th without actually passing anyone.

dano wrote:

Webber wrote:

we go with DRM track Nordscleife?

I will follow! Have never attacked the Nordschleife.

Dudes!

I'll post a couple of links tomorrow.
I've got the 70s version and the 2007 version.
I prefer the 70s version myself because it's less damaging to the car when you go flying off, which you will do!
I find these cars are too much there, but I haven't tried the mighty 320 there.

Maybe if we ask Benny nicely we can have a night there. but it's either got to wait till after the HQs or be on another night.

Oh and there's one bit you'll hate!

The 7 or 8 minute (probly 6 if your name starts with W) outlap.

v. 2007 its more realistic.. trust me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMt8bso_RgQ

David Paterson wrote:I copped a steel enema from Stevie Wonder and his stuck throttle at turn 1.

Classic!

Racer wrote:I recall, very very vaguely, that there may be a patch that allows for doing the short track as an outlap....

Cool I'll have a look for the patch.

This backs up Stig's vote for the 2007 version

Finally the points are up!

This is the 2007 version.

www.ttrracing.com/admin/tracks/2007nord.7z

Hopefully tonight we'll know when we can have this one off event.

Dano i reckon we should add The Ring race into the championship... Also whoever takes out the round will be known as the TTR Ringmaster... Could make it an annual thing with different mods!!

Cool yeah I'm all for both ideas.

Imagine the Ring in TCL or V8s.. DRM would be awesome too (well, the toilet mod would be awesome on the ring) but I foresee many crashes

If everyone drives within themselves and gives The Ring respect, it could be some great racing... Patience will be the key in my book!! Damn i wish i was going to that place again soon... Just thinkin about it gives me goosebumps!!

Yeah that's one place I'd like to check out.

I'm wondering if it should still be 15 minute races as they'll only be 2 or 3 laps each.
I suppose it doesn't really matter too much.

The one thing that will do is extend the night a bit as on most tracks it's about 16 or 17 minutes total including the last lap finish.
Where as here they could potentially be something like 22 minutes long.
I suppose that's not really a big deal.

im def down for this place.. ive drivin here more than bathurst!!!

Maybe Dano we could run a 20min Quali, then 2 x 20min Races ?? That should be quite similar to what we normally run time wise i'd reckon

Webber wrote:I raped Stig333...

Donnington..... I didn't get raped at all?

Woo, the 'schleife in DRMs.

Start practicing now. So we can have a close race with lots of ppl finishing.

its hard with the length, 2 laps isnt enough. But 3 might push it for time.

Id say 3 would be a good number, and have 2 races.

So we are using that linked version up there for sure?

is there gonna be a server setup with it on?

probably closer to the race date.


edit**

its up now actually. might only be for a short time tho.

Yep the server is up and it should match the link.
That might be a plan to have a set number of laps rather than time.
But i think yeah 2 races will be good.
I had thought about 1 45min race but i like the idea of having a second chance.

I tested and yes you can just carry on to the end of the short track and start a lap bypassing the massive outlap.
That's good news.

I've got silverstone up too but had a couple of customers on the server within about 2 minutes of it going up.
So i'll leave it on the schleife for now.

Just hijacking guys.. qualy's about to start at Mid-Ohio and there are only 3 of us... cmon over to Simracing NZ server in touring car legends!

Didnt realise we were doing the 24H track.

I didnt have this version of the ring. Seems pretty good, just as good as the 3 other versions i have lol.

Sorry Webber, I went to jump on but the session was closed when I did.

What are the other versions you have Shayn?
This one has the bonus that you can shortcut the outlap.

I did a couple of laps last night and got a bit discouraged till afterwards when I realised I had TC off.

Theres a nord' thread now.