GT5 The DTM World Tour Series

I'll try to get some practice in with you after tea man, haven't even driven the Astra at Daytona yet, gonna have to tone back the downforce I reckon, desperately need to run some laps, Chev and Bonus are gonna be real strong around here.

I'm looking forward to this one. I did some practice lastnight with myst. We are gonna be struggling around here I reckon. The M3 seems very unstable in the high speed bends like the bus stop.

Anon, in the first post it says 80kg max, has that changed?

Cheers for clearing that up mate, was just asking as I noticed Chev will carry 110kg and the OP still says 80, I wasn't aware of the history, had me confused, easily done, haha!

If i'm not there on time tonight start without me.

First race tonight and had an absolute ball, didn't come last and managed to run in the mid field for a while, had a few offs (a couple on my own and one with a bit of assistance after I had all but fried my rear tyres but that's racing and I'm sure I'll be guilty of the same thing at some stage. Sorry if I got in anyones way and was a bit slow getting organised I was trying to ask questions on voice chat but I don't know if it is working properly.
Once again had a ball tearing time and look forward to next week after much more practice.

Cheers,

Ooooh that's nasty Cob, maybe take it a bit easier next time, can't be tearin those balls every round, that's gotta hurt! Haha, good to hear you had fun though eh, in the end, that's what it's all about.

Had a decent race myself, particularly given I hadn't done any practice until the afternoon of the race, set a 1:42.4xx after a quick session with Aussie, at the time I thought Bonus was doing 40's for some reason, so figured I had no chance, must admit it was a relief when I realised 43's were quite competitive, for some reason or another I couldn't get near 42 again in Anon's lobby, or Aussie's lobby before it for that matter, so was relatively happy to start from 2nd, was sooo close to pole though!

Early on in the race Aussie and I got away into 1st and 2nd, at that point I decided to drive somewhat conservatively as to avoid any mistakes as I thought we'd have it in the bag, what I didn't realise was that Enforcer was running mediums, which he had very good pace on, in hindsight this cost me possibly the race win (after Aussie's big bus stop bender) because I should've been pushing hard to try and open up a gap over Enforcer, anyway, I pitted in on lap 9, inside of Aussie's car, I felt as though I'd scrubbed plenty of speed on entry, turns out GT5 didn't feel the same way as my car sat there after it's service, annoying to say the least, Aussie was now a long way down the road.

Lap 13 rolls around and Enforcer comes out of the pits right in front of me, at this point I realise that's he's on softs and I'm on mediums, crap, that pit issue cost me huge, anyway, I tustled with him for a lap or so then he was gone, not long after Aussie made his big mistake allowing me to claim 2nd, lap 20 I outbrake myself into t1 and get the back right onto the green stuff, costs me about 5 seconds, Aussie's right on my tail, lap 21, I do the same ing thing again! Cost me 2nd place, ah well, if I'm gonna be doin like that I didn't deserve any better, so yeah, had I realised Enforcer was on mediums that first stint and not had my pit issue maybe things would have been different, maybe I would've been in a position to cruise home and those off's on the last 2 laps wouldn't have happened, I dunno, still had a lot of fun, not quite ball tearing, but fun nonetheless

In the end, well done Enforcer on a very solid victory.

yes it was a very good race guys especially aussie_man21 ans SNAKEiSM it was very close... yer i started on mediums as the replay confirms... i was actually horrified that id started on softs as to why i had so much pace i scared the outta myself but after the race went back and reviewed replay and it confirms i started on MEDs my start was almost my downfall as most of you would of seen trying to launch on the outside doesnt help i nearly ended up in the wall lol... but yer im so happy the A4 was able to acheive a victory being the only car of this type i dont have any tech support.... but was a consistent run the whole race

I'll do a write up tonight. Not much to say though honestly.

I bet if we were all running at 1230kg's you would've been lightning fast compared to the rest Chev, and yep Enforcer, you were definately on mediums.

Had a mixed race myself, got a fairly good start after doing a slide start as most did on that banked road. Got through the first few corners with out too much rough stuff and braked a bit later than snake on a few corners on the first few laps (little bumps not too hard though, sorry snake). I had a quick look at the replay (before my 5:30 start today) to see what problem you had with a Astra Chev, I was beside you on turn3 lap1 when you ran wide on the grass, but i was hugging my side of the track and there was room for another car between us when you left the track, might be different on your replay but mine and enforcers show a big gap and you just leaving the track (bloody glitch again chev?), it was your own team m8 that then charged through as you came back onto the track. Not sure if that was the incident or you were talking about something later on, i only looked at that bit and my dive pass on snake before the bus stop lap 3 and my consequent slip off the track there and ending up stuck on the wall letting all go by. That was about the end of my race i thought, till the pit stops begun and the tire mix ups happened letting me back in. I got up behind Neishy and was doing a bit of draft passing on the new Med tires and stuffed up at the bus stop again, not as bad this time and managed to keep going without loosing too much time. Just ran out the race then having the odd battle on the way, had some good laps with chev, i could stop a bit better and could get through on the corners and Chev would get me on the straights. Good fun these things and this track really showed up the weight difference, i was heaps quicker without it in practice i did after last weeks race, got to go Boss on me case to go to a meeting.

It wasn't a glitch bonus. Just thought you were closer, I was being too nice. It was completely my fault mate.

Oh ok, thought i was giving plenty room at the start, i did have more bad late breaking moments than i would have liked but nothing too bad that caused any grief to anybody.