GT5 The DTM World Tour Series

Not a bad result in the end for the Aussie Battler's eh Aussie, ended up right in the mix, if I had the right setup at Fuji and didn't miss the first 2 rounds things might've been different, still, I'm happy with equal 3rd in the teams championship.

Great race last night Chev, pretty disappointed I couldn't bring home the bacon after a few little issues ultimately cost me the win imo, but it was a very satisfying 2nd place all the same, and a much deserved victory by Chev, barely put a foot wrong, that'll do it, Enforcer, good effort coming back to 3rd after "the incident" too mate.

Anon, please bring back the DTM's or something similar for another season, I ended up getting into it more than the sunday league towards the end, good fun.

Hey groovers, I am sorry to hear there is a bit of angst going on, I hope I didn't contribute to anyones dramas in any way, I did a good enough job of sabotaging my own race without pissing anyone else off.
Anyway, I had my first real chance of a good result and cocked it up big time, had a real good practice and was able to put in some quick times, qualifying not so good but still good enough for third on the grid, (which I was absolutely stoked with). A big change from jumping into prac and qualifying after practising all week, being pretty happy with your times, and finding out your 3-4 seconds of the pace as happens to me in Div 2 on a weekly basis.
My plan was to start on mediums play it cool let everybody who was quicker on softs go by and then do back to back stints on softs and hopefully get spots back through the pit stops without having to fight to much for position and wear out the tyres.
However this all went pear shaped as I pulled into the pits and hit OK on the pit menu not realising that I was putting MEDIUMS back on (dickhead, dickhead, dickhead, is what I was muttering for the next 8 or so laps), thinking I was on softs on my outlap I gave it a bit too much throttle (which I know I would get away with on softs) and spun in front of Neishy and Enforcer but I don't think I got in their way at all.
I persevered on mediums for the rest of the stint trying to minimize the damage and managed a 2:17.2 on mediums which I was happy with, but this didn't pay off and I went further and further back.
Finally I got onto softs at the last pit stop and was ready to make up some time but ended up just trying too hard and cooking my tyres very quickly and couldn't even win a drag race to the finish line with aussie. Still I had an awesome time and was very happy to finally show some pace and not look like a total noob even though I finished last.
A big thanks to Anon for putting on the series and it must happen again as I want to put my Benz back on the track (much more comfortable in it than the G37, god I hate that car.) at any rate I learnt a lot in my first series and can't wait to do the whole series next time.

Once again a big thanks to all involved.

Cheers

My stance exactly Stumbles, this one was a ripper, must admit I'm very much looking forward to having time to dedicate to Forza 4 now but if another series like this occurs, I'll be a shoe-in.

Cob, so unlucky mate, I saw you up in 3rd early on and I gotta say, I was happy for ya, too bad you whacked those mediums on again, would've been a strong result for the Vaginal Voyag... er... JMSR Racing.

That was a sweet race lastnight boys. I didn't expect to win at all. Obviously I was hoping for a good result, but to win was a great and unexpected way to end the event. Leading up to the race I knew Enforcer was most likely going to be quicker in qualy, and destroy me in the race. I somehow managed a PB in qualy but only placed 5th, which I knew was about the limits for me and the car with its extra kilos.

Despite Starting mid pack, I opted to start on softs even though I knew there were people in front of me on mediums and it would be a slow fight to get past them, effectively wasting some of my nice rubber in traffic. Anyways...I got off the line fantastically, and after turn 1 with some crazy antics going on all round I found myself in 3rd. By the start of lap 2 I was in the lead and set off on my getaway plan.

After pulling out a nice lead on Snake and Stumbles, I pitted at the end of lap 8 and put on more soft tyres. I was thinking about going mediums but decided I wanted to be out front in clean air as much as possible, then bring the Bimmer home on mediums, Suzuka style. I put down some extremely quick laps on the fresh softs. A couple of them were almost 1 second quicker than my qualy time....no idea how I pulled them off, I was pushing pretty hard on the softs though, as I knew I was going to be weak on the mediums.

I pitted at the end of lap 17 and put on the mediums. Just like on the fresh softs, I pulled off some of my quickest medium tyre laps. Snake was closing in slightly on some laps, then taking huge chunks out on others...but I knew it wouldn't be enough after the crazy pace I had on the softs. In the end I think it was my very consistant, error, glitch, and lag free driving that won me the race. I know some of the other guys had some offs and penalties that cost them dearly, mainly Snake and Enforcer. Stumbles and Cob were crazily quick in the Merc but just couldn't keep it clean to mount an attack. The sight of that Merc coming at me up Eu Rouge was menacing, that thing is a damn rocket ship!

Thanks alot everyone for another great series, and grats to NOStras for taking the Team Trophy. If only my teammate didn't pike on me it may have been a different story, but anyway. I will be keen to take part in whatever you come up with for next year Anon, it's always a pleasure taking part in your events.

Maaan, I don't know if it was just me but that Merc seemed bloody quick on the straights, when Stumbles got by me early on that car just ate my little Astra alive out of Eu rouge I think it was, I'd like to know what they were pulling without slipstream, might have to check the replay.

I could only get about 262 out of the M3 at the end of that straight, so that 10kmh on me straight up, crazy. After about 250 its a very slow crawl for the BMW.

Yeah I was just tickin over to 270 when getting a great exit out of Eu rouge and braking late at the end of the straight, so wasn't too bad I suppose, Chev that GTR must handle fantastically well through the twisty stuff mate...

Yeah it goes great with the setup I have. At 1120 kg it was magic mate, extremely stable and predictable. Even with an understeary setup it still turns in like a beast, and you can get the power down early with no fear. Of course I still had to keep it on the track, which wasn't always easy. Daytona was the only track that gave me trouble. The car felt very sluggish around there. Not sure why really. But yeah its a great car.