GT Sport Season 8 Division 1

Juice

Enzo!
Think you were sandbagging though Enzo, with that accent you should be much faster.

That was brilliant! Even in the "garbage" beetle! Until next time, ciao!

Suggestions: outlap in TV cam and flying lap in bumper or hood cam

That accent is a strange mix of Niki Lauda and Valentino Rossi. I like it!

I will use your tips Enzo tonight. Grazzie Regazzie forza beetle juice!

Lame

Nothing went my way tonight.
Quality: Didn’t get a single lap without catching someone or decent slipstream. Running draftless 55.5’s in practice I was disappointed with 9th at 55.9.
Race: Tough battle pack at the start, worked my way up to the top 5 before trying to pull alongside @xlxy90 and being turned around. It happens, but it was a possible podium gone at that point. Thank you @groover33 for the redress, I know it wasn’t intentional . From last I worked my way back to the front of the second group feeling I had the pace to lead. Was hoping to get some bump drafting to help chip away at the leaders but started to battle before the end of the stint which was fun and helped save some fuel. Strategy helped me come out 2 seconds behind @razor4797 and @Hatfield as I looked to chase them down, my right foot copped a major cramp and I drove a lap left footed loosing 4 seconds to them and had @JonoStan96 getting close to my tail again. Despite making some time on the top 5, without slipstream it was a loosing battle. I’ll take 6th with so much gone wrong. Wd Podium

Qualifying was pretty fun. I worked with team mate Hatfield and we both managed a solid lap. Hat P3 and myself P2.
I made a good start for a change and with a bit of help from Hatfield I managed to lead the race into turn 1. I was holding my own with Hatfield close behind (until Keeden showed up). From there we had a few fun laps swapping the lead a few times. Eventually it turned into me trying my best to stay with him, which I was managing to do a big thanks to the forgiving draft.
Starting lap12 and still hanging on to the back of Keedens car I noticed I only had 0.6 laps of fuel left. Then things just got better and better. On the plus it feels like I am slowly learning to drive this car and half of the race was awesome. Congratulations Keeden and podium

What about the world record pit stop

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Haha omg you got so lucky you got pushed into the pit. Would have been even more hillarious otherwise. You would have got the record for slowest lap then too.

Those 47 minutes absolutely flew by! Wow what a race.
Very pleased to have picked up 5th place after having done zero practice before qualifying and therefore qualifying dead last and by some margin. Was left to rue what could have been 4th place after making an overtake on the final lap and then running out of fuel on the final stretch to the line with @Hatfield comfortably sailing past to take the position back.
Thoroughly enjoyed that one, see you next week

Definitely the sort of race that’s given me a racing hangover of late...

Taken out lap one by a pretty ordinary piece of driving, and on a track like this where it’s basically impossible to make up time, it was fatal for my race. Gave it absolutely everything I had but actually fell further behind the guys on the podium than when I stopped spinning. Hot tip that I learned from FIA races, it’s no good bump drafting someone for the length of the straight only to divebomb them at the next corner, seriously you lose more time doing that than you gained with more top speed. On a track like this, utilising the draft is key to success, going side by side in every slow corner is massively detrimental. Tonight really did my head in especially after looking at the FL table.

Have to take some of the blame though, I accidently hit X before selecting the keep tyres option, so that was 3 seconds thrown away. Fresh tyres made almost no difference to lap time and it took me right out of contention for the top spots as I was too far away from anyone to draft.

A real disappointment tonght was, scratching my head at where Keeden’s going to be challenged now...

Summary: Pre-qualifying I got in to the rhythm of doing mid to low 55s while @KeedenMcdonald was flapping about at around the same pace and thought I would be on or pretty close to being on pole.

Qualifying: Got out of the pits behind Keeden and stuck with him on the out lap to be in a good position for some slip streaming on my flying laps. But Keeden did Keeden things and decided he didn't wanna give me any of that so I started 5th or 6th.

Race stint 1: Had an absolute flyer off the line and made up a position by the end of the pit lane exit. Had the slip stream down in to turn 1 and had good position on the outside of T1. Turn 1 did turn 1 stuff and I got shoved in to the wall by an out of control Chopperdog and dropped from 2nd to 5th. Fortunately I wasn't involved in any of the murder-suicides at the hairpin, I think I was pretty close to having my rear bumper relocated.

Lap 3 hairpin, Groover got a bit awkward with SSman, which put SSman's nose squarely in to my rear wheel, I grabbed a huge amount of opposite lock and managed to keep the car facing the right direction, and out of the wall.

About lap 6 or so @Viperzed was in on the pack that @Hatfield and @razor4797 and I were all fighting in, losing us time to Chopper and Keeden ahead. On lap 8 I managed to just bump Hatfield in to the hairpin after a slight move under braking, fortunately he didn't go spearing in to the eagerly awaiting barriers and only really lost the time he would have lost had I had passed him without the nudge, but it did give us a good drag race down the straight. Hat made the mistake of being in no-mans-land, couldn't fully get by me but was also out of my slip stream. Enter racing IQ level 1000. I squeeze Hatfield over towards the wall on the left, leaving him enough space to drive, but no space to go around me. Viper was closing in rapidly and gave me a good kick up the backside and we got through.

At the start of lap 11 I talked Viper in to pitting with me, long story short, he said "fkn send it". We sent it. The undercut worked on Hatfield and Razor, by virtue of not fighting and monster slip streams. We gapped the trailing pair by about 2.5 seconds by the time they got up to speed.

Race stint 2:
Me: Hey viper, how much fuel should I have left?
Viper: 9 laps
Me: Got 8.7
Viper: Save fuel
Me: ok.

Me: Gap to hatfield?
Viper: 2.3...2.4...2.5...2.6
Me: ok

Me: Gap to hatfield? They're looking close
Viper: 2.6...2.7...2.8...2.9

Me: (last lap, coming down the straight at the pit entry)
Viper: (at the exact same point)
Me & Viper: I'm out of fuel

With that kind of pace, when are going to see Enzo in Div 3?

Good work mate. Handy work on the strat!