GT5 DTM 2: The Wrath of Carn!!

A bit of an average race for me lastnight. I muffed my Qualy lap with silly little mistakes, then got tail ended by Anon at turn 1 which slung me from 2nd to 6th before turn 2. To be honest, I didn't expect too much from this race, as the car felt like a boat. After my countless little driver errors, and my endless fight with the understeer in my overweight Audi, I managed 4th. Not too bad really, I couldn't have snagged a podium as those Astras are monsters. Congratz to Anon for the win. With a decent weight and tune, the Audi can motor along nicely in the right hands. Well done.

For the record, Chev, I had actually been practicing with my 10 kilo's ballast all along and expected to run the weight during the race, it had no effect on lap times anyway so I wasn't fussed.

Thanks for the race last night fellas. Had a ball.

Tyre wear was the biggest issue for me, Aussie suggested a few changes which really helped but I still don't know if I could've gone the 1 stop route, I'd run a 1:34.9 with the same setup but yeah, I'd have to run that for 5 laps straight on both soft stint's to have made it work tbh, ah well, not too bad considering I lost a fair amount of ground trying to get by guys on worn tyres after my pitstops, as you said Anon, dirty air was a massive around here, not good for the fronts at all.

the weirdest thing is all these previous tracks my car has been slightly understeerey now i get to nurburgring and its a totally different beast it slides so much that its using all the tyres equally i say based on a average 1:56 lap i recommend the number of laps to be 24

Na you started 12th I started 13th Was abit shocked actually did expect to start that far back. I think there was a fair grid spread by the time we got to the 1st checkpoint I was 10 seconds behind the leaders. Great gravy train any way for the 1st few laps, no one had an off I think.

I got abit excited off the line again got caught up in the excitment and nearly forgot to brake for turn one, think I tapped you slightly in the back stu didnt really affect you and I backed off and stayed 13th.

Grinder started to catch back up after his poor start and I let him past pretty easy as I thought he was on softs.. D'oh So I found myself dead last, I was thinking tyres at this point and started to drive like a granny thinking I would burn past you all later. Yea right!

Got passed a couple of ppl towards the end of the medium stint. Wacked on the softs with about a 4 second odd gap on stu. I thought for sure he would reel me in. Caught grinder and I knew my tyres would better Once I got passed him I managed to get a gap on stu. Cool stu will lose a little time passing grinder (if he can)...good for me.

2nd last lap came around turn 1 with enforcer just getting back on the throttle after his off. So I just drove around him leaving him between stu and I, so the pressure was off as I watched there arrows battle on track.


Congrats Anon perfect drive.

Nice drive for 2nd Aussie

Well done snake on the 2 pit and still podium, when u passed me I didnt even know you there until you were right next to me, I was actually trying to pass someone so I went on the inside of them then I went "chit snakes on the inside of me......where the f$%k he come from, he musta had an off"......lol

Special metion to Hoise good result mate running hards second stint too.

I had fun even tho I didnt get a great result. I think I worried to much about tyre wear, the race went pretty quick.

Wow, I've gotta spin on my Quali lap & start last more often, that was FUN !

I squeezed past Grinderman, Stu & Tek on the opening lap, Would've forced my way past Stumbles too if I'd known I'd be chasing him down again at race's end!
Floodsim tagged the wall & fell out of the way (thanks Flood) - only to re-pass me on the front straight.

The Cheek ! !

That kicked-off a 3 lap battle with me, Flood, Stu & then Grinderman all trading places until I could break the tow starting lap 5. Awesome !
Daninline's Audi was easy prey to the Astra's top-end in the draft - Hit the Rev limiter @ nearly 290km/h !
I didn't see what happened to Enforcer onto the straight on Lap 6, looking at the replay I was lucky you had that spin & I got by!
Enforcer & I had a Nice lil' battle before our pitstops, and Snakeism - WOW did we ever hold you up on your 2nd Softs - cop THAT !

I made my stop for softs on lap 9 - 'grats to Enforcer for making your outlap count, I couldn't figure how you were so far in-front with just 1 lap under your belt!
After the stop, it was just a matter of slowly reeling in Enforcer & looking after the tyres. I was hunting down Hosie & Stumbles for the last 4 laps, got Hosie on his Hards (SOLID effort dude, 'grats!) but ran out of tyre on the last lap, just over a second behind Stumbles.

Thoroughly enjoyable, with pitstops I somehow made 9 or 10 passes getting from 14th to 6th.. . . Bring on the Burger Ring ! !

Thanks nat and tek. Will try to be a little faster this week with mediums. I got in the way of you guys near the end trying to pass me.

I'll try not to fall asleep this time, sorry Stumbles (old age catching up)

yeah that sucks Stumbles, my old man had a kidney stone years ago, after they used some sort of soundwaves to break it up he was peeing bits and peices out for a while, reckons it was like pissing razor blades, not fun, all the best to your missus.

hooraay i make a scorepoint i got into the 54.4s at the burgeringring... my softs will last 7 laps so i am all set now just need to make final boost adjustments and i shall take this race to the end right from the start.... BECAUSE I AM O MIGHTY ENFORCEREN !!!

Good pace Enforcer. All you gotta do now is keep it on the track.

aaww yeah thats right D'oh... iz forgotz hmmm... me stu aza and hosie were all in a lounge but couldnt get anywhere like a 54... mustba been paulmac slowing us down LOLOL... his constant talking making the room commit suicide