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Congrats Chris and Max! Well done guys.

Another shame David had connection troubles. I felt bad for you DP, laying down fast times then disappearing only to retry again.

I had a lot of trouble finding a clean lap for qualy. I was up on Andrew a few times only to get bottled up at the end of the lap. Congrats on the pole Andrew.

I threw my chance to challenge for the lead away right at the start. I lost it cresting the hill and dropped way back. I did myself no favors by going off twice on the last turn before mandatory stops were in order.

At that point I was about 30s behind Chris and Andrew. That gap never changed through the course of the race. I changed tires once hoping to get back some time, but it never materialized.

My only shot at catching the leaders is if the made mistakes. Andrew ran into trouble handing me 2nd, but Chris held the course and almost lapped me in the end.

Stupidly I left on my replay capture, which in combination with the rain resulted in a tough time for my computer.
Freezing mid corner caused me to loose 3rd and end up on the grass by T1.
Marco Novak was quick, he went round the outside of me on the last corner, but did spin a few times.
I almost span it off the start line, but mainly had issues stopping the car.
Good first wet race, and first BMW M3 over the line.

Great fun!

Managed to do a good quali on my final lap, just enough for pole.

Had a goo dstrat too, going into T1 leading the field, with Bas and Mike right behind. We worked on a gap the next few laps when there was a car standing on the race line in the fast right hander at the end of the back straight. And if that wasn't enough the car was moving back and forward to rejoin the track... Bas decide to pass it on the right, I went left. Bas and the rejoining car collided where I missed the car but hit the wall... ouch! Bas dropped back, and I was still leading... now with Mike all over me. With the damage I had lost any advantage in pace I may have had in the early laps. Mike was pushing me very hard for the lead for several laps, and there wwas no way I could re-open the gap. In the end I made one small mistake running onto the grass in T2 (I think), allowing Mike an easy pass.

Grats Mike! :-) Great battle, enjoyed that.

Cheers, Rogier

Man what fun!

Ended up doing much better than I was even hoping to in this event. Ran a PB to qualify P4 on the grid. Lost a couple spots on the start just trying to be conservative through the first couple corners. Then settled into a nice and competitive tussle involving the Top 6 or 8 cars. Moved forward a bit as a couple incidents ahead occurred, including Conor's incident he referenced. At one point, I was second behind Les, and I was able to stick with him and hound him good for a while. Alex recovered from an early incident and passed me, followed shortly thereafter by Felipe (see screenshot). So I settle into P4 for a while until some more hell breaks loose. A couple spins puts me in P1, which I was able to hold for 4 laps until Mike passed me fairly easily. Alex got me a lap or two later for P2, and then he and Mike had their battle-royale over the last 10 minutes or so. Was fun too watch, but I had to make sure not to watch too much as Les continued to fill my mirrors. Ended up with a fun P3 only 3+ seconds off of P1. Absolutely fun race with lots of guys capable of running up front. A pleasure running with you all!

Rob

Another one of those days.

Showed good pace in practice, but never got the opportunity to really used it. First lap was riddled with mistakes and got a clip from Mike going into Tosa which sent me around. The resulting chain reaction saw his car clip my front left.

Stuff happens, you just deal with it. Got the car back on the road and had to chase down Massimo. After that, it was a pretty lonely race. While it didn't seem I got much damage from the Tosa incident, my car lacked all the pace it had shown in free practice.

So just drove her home to the flag.

Real good action tonight,I really felt tonight was my night,No not to win but to place decent and no DNF or forget to add fuel... I had several real good battles,I tried to stay calm,Keep pressure on,keep momentum moving forward. I did pretty good tonight,Tony Bennett and I ran close the whole race but we had 10 laps to the end of swapping and dicing it up. The last 4 laps the rear tires went away really bad,Had to be real careful when you'd smash the Hell out of the Throttle,LOL. It all worked good tonight,Looking forward to one more event i think. WELL DONE PODIUM, WELL DONE ALL WHO SHOWED UP!

Good race for me, though confusion over whether you could use Endurance upgrade or not cost me a whack of wasted set up time. Also didn't know it was going to Parc Ferme after Q so had wrong set for race. Whatever. I will henceforth read the series rules, rookie mistake on my part.

Race went well, I was sure it was going to be an economy run so I just let others do their thing and I tried to stay around 1:20 hoping to get to the end. My monitor was showing marginal. About lap 16 the fellow behind me had an off and the next car back was 10 sec or so back so I immediately went into economy mode, short shifting by 1000 rpm and running 1 gear high in all corners.

Made it to the finish for 2nd but just, tried to do burnouts in T1 after race and it was sputtering. I hate economy runs even when they work out for me. Congrats to Daniel, condolences to Paul.

Grats Joco and Cristi for victories!

I've had my 2 spins, it all happened in 1 and a half lap before my only pit stop. Probably I was underestimated the curbs when lapping slower cars on first spin, and in second it was my stupid decision to press the button "for pit crew calling" in the middle of the fast S curves. And got another big off :-(
After all, gaining seconds closing to Joco and even putting some pressure to him with exciting last few laps :-), grats Joco.

Nice race, but still no victories for me :-(

i had a very interesting race.
quali was ok, my 1st lap i did pole, but other laps i always make mistakes, lucky for me that joco did not overtake me.
then comes again "mr. Dump in masters of GTR2"......

i did make jump start! - motivation down -

i did make stop/go in my 3rd lap and i come out behind all GT cars and 2 or 3 NGT cars, then i did overtake NGt cars and any GT cars, always very fair, any GT cars looks like they did not make fight and let me overtake.
any laps before pit i did overtake robbins and i was 4th with around 18 sec. behind 3rd spyros, then i did make any seconds good till pit.
after my pitbox i come 4sec. behind spyros out of pitbox and i closed the gap then quick to 2sec., but then we had in every lap 1 or more cars to overtake and i did not close the gap, was little frustration (but every car did make extrem good job for me and spyros to overtake), this situation goes any laps, and i think in middle of 2nd stint we had the first free laps to drive and i was then on his rear in last corner and i was very happy now, because i was now sure in this long straight i overtake spyros
- how wrong-
i come with 0.2 sec. out of corner, in finsish line we was side by side, i go out of slipstream and....my lambo did fall back??? i was always thinking mc12 is the slowest GT car, looks like lambo is slower.
now situation new thinking where i can make my move, but where???? in the middle sector where fast corners are the mc12 is so fast and the only possibility was the straight.
i did loose short concentration because thinking and i fall back 2 sec. again, but i did come closer again.
we had then any side by side brake in end of long straight, but he had always inside, lambo was better in brake, but he was always in 1st corner in inside and i had to lift a little the throttle for no accident happens.
we had a good fight, everything clean without touch, but then comes the very very bad end...
in a corner a red car did spin (or something like this) and was in middle of track in the corner(i think) and spyros and the red car did make accidents...
i realy was not happy, he did fight so strong with difficulty mc12 car and this unlucky accident..
i did wait any seconds if he can drive, but then he hit ESC and i did drive slow and without motivation the last 3 laps home.

very much action i had the complete race, endless overtake/lapping and everything was clean, big thanks.

Master of GTR2 is realy my mistake series nr. 1
-spin in start in fuji and last place
-wrong tyres in hot dubai and had any spins in 1st stint
-jump start now
-DNF in 1st or 2nd lap in phillip island

what will come in wet magny course??? :-)

congrats to joco and crist for win.

looks like a good final round for championship between my and milan (or perhaps joco too?) -in my brain i was hopeing i can make tonight a big jump to title, hehe-

servus

Q3
R2

I was looking forward for this race,this track is amazing but not with TVR ;-(((
Happy with qualify;-)
The race started ok but came T1 and I was last one so I tried to push as hard i could and after couple of laps I was about 14 sec behind Cristi and I was trying push but was increasing space between us.After pit stop the gap was about 40s :O !!! I couldn't believe it (where I lost 20 sec?) and I kept 2'th position but came mistakes and my 8 sec in front 360 GTC was gone and I finished 3'th ;-(( The last race in France will be nightmare with 350Z lol but I'll try to do my max;-))so I'll see you there;-)))
Well done JOCO and CRISTI and thx to all for nice race;-))

I didn't win, but I finished ahead of Conor so it still feels like a win, no matter what his excuse was! Was right behind Conor on the grid, but I had a terrible start, dropping back to 8th or 9th or so. Managed to work my way back to 5th behind Conor and Stefan within the first 2 laps, with Jeffrey and Francesco just ahead. Conor managed to get past Stefan first and started to work on a gap. I felt I was faster that Stefan, and wanted to try and keep up with Conor, but had to pass Stefan first.... not easy on this track! When I finally made it, I was some 2 or 3 secs behind Conor for many laps. Then I managed to close the gap... wth???!!! Am I actually going to push Conor for position... Nope... he chickens out! LOL Of course at that point I realized he must have had fuel issues, or he was faking :-) Just kidding Conor, respect for driving the Panoz the way you did! Too bad our battle was over before it started. I hope to get another chance at going wheel to wheel with you...

Anyway, I could just cruise to the finish in a safe 3rd after that. Good fun, even with only 12 driver. Level of the drivers was such that it kept it interesting. Hope to see you all and a few more next time!

Cheers, Rogier

Well that was a tough one, some not so great driving and then alot of really good racing tonight for me

Started second, got a big hole-shot towards T1 I definitely got on the binders early but Eraldo Silva comes from about 8 cars back and is down the inside of me forcing me to use the outside grass to avoid contact between us since he was into T1 soo hot. Watched him drive into the distance and oh well I only lost 6-7 spots right away.

Anyhow after this and a few laps of chasing I caught up to Mark Carty & Dos Santos. We were in a three way battle nearly nose to tail at some points. I managed to get by Carty after quite a few laps and then lap or so later I had Conor breathing down my neck and I am still looking for an opportunity on Mike ahead. I tried the high line into T1 on Mike a couple different times being able to go side by side through T1 but Mike kept getting the advantage enough to keep position. Finally made one stick down the inside of T1 after numerous tries. It was some hard work but that along with some luck later in race I managed to get back to 2nd.

Good race most, and congrats to Alex on his Win and Track record!

I had a fun night. Didn't even know we went to Q, there was no Event Steward giving the usual rules in the chat box. The game just restarted and I was still fooling around with setup. Went out with wacky tire pressures to try something new and did a few laps and spun and hit Esc and then I found out we were in Q! Fortunately, 1 lap was OK enough for 4th though well off what I practiced at.

Race was good, was able to run at the tail of the leaders for a while until I got split off by a lapped car, lost the draft and that was that. I love this track, need to come to grips with the car better though.

greetings to all,
2 nd round better than the 1st or I lost my engine repoussanr Zoltan assaults, damage I could finish 2nd, but that's part of learning
for this round that starts very badly, I am forced to block my wheels a T1 to avoid that which is before me towards the grass runway resumed without disturbing the other and back, reblockage wheel T1 always has to avoid contact , re campaign, and set on my last, then back the other competitors, some battle I did not know with whom but between competitors to avoid in the middle of tracks and everything else that was hot, I finally concluded was 1 seconds jose on the 3 rd step of the podium
thank you again to all and all my apologies to Stuart for having generated a brake but I could not do otherwise to avoid that which was before me

This was a fun race.
I had a shot at pole but unfortunately I did the exact same thing as Stuart. I crashed in the last chicanes on my first flying lap. Luckily I made it back to the pits, fixed my car and fueled up again :) There was time for two flying laps and managed to get a 1'36.2.

Started the race pretty good but had to I defend my position against Zoltan who was right behind me. At the hairpin Zoltan hit me in the back zo I got punted off. I had to let the whole field pass by me before I could reenter the track.

In the last position I focused to get back one position at the time, and it worked pretty well :) I was catching guys left and right. I even had a little tussle with mr. Attwood :D The final lap I caught up with Zoltan that gave me P2 back again. So in the end I'm happy with the result :)

Good race guys.

ps. @Zoltan: watched the replay and maybe should have given a little bit more room in the first lap. You could have easily passed me on the straight with the slipstream :) But no harm done, hope to see you next week ;)

Qualy was fine for me! Had toulk my 4th position as in practise! Could not be faster! So I was happy for it!
The start was good for me and had catched Laurent at start! In third place I hited unlucky Matsumoto at hairpin in first lap! Dont know what happaned with my brakes but I would not believ that would be a hit! If you look at the pic its a lot of space to his car! Sorry for that! I hope its OK that I gived you in the last lap my 2th position back without fight! It´s fair ore? You would enyway toulk the 2th place after Stuart otherwise!? ;)
Sorry for Laurent, he lost his engine in great fight! He cached my 2th place after a litle mistake from me and I pushed after that from behind! So in the 8th lap his car gived up! Such a pity!

I knew from practice that I didn't have the pace to challenge the front runners. In Q I struggled to get under 45, which I had done in practice. Started 7th. Had forgotten this was a rolling start, so my radical gearing actually didn't handicap me in a launch (I had geared everything high and close to get the most out of the Conventry mill, which meant 1st was like a high 2nd gear). First few laps I stayed in contact with the cars in front of me, and then started to advance under their battles and subsequent offs. When MM disco'd, his car was frozen in the middle of the 2nd to last corner. Saw a few cars go wide to avoid and I inherited 2nd, some 40 secs off of Prado. Motored on until my schedule stop on lap 12. Took only fuel to top off again and was out in 18 secs onto clear track. Continued cranking out the laps and regained almost all of my positions when all the other stops started to cycle. Eventually ended up in 3rd and was slowly chipping away at Daniel's 12sec lead. I was on pace to catch him by the end, but a small half spin put me behind him another 8 some secs. Gap behind me was still healthy, so I just focused on maintaining that. I actually reduced my gap to Daniel again to about 11 secs, but last lap put an end to the chase.

I think the Elites benefited from being very gentle on tires. I had discovered in a comparative test, and then heard in pre race chat the the rear tire(s) on the Abarth burned up very quickly. I don't know if this actually slowed drivers later in the race, but it seemed like the Abarth's pace was equalized to the Elite in short order. The Abarth is a quicker car, but it didn't seem sustainable - unless you're a Prado or Miller (if he hadn't suffered a breakdown).

No, Francesco, I am happy to take a second place however they come about :-]

Grabbed Tristan's set and tweaked to make it handleable for me, sure it had more wing than Fran's but happy with second in my first race in the car.

Absolutely fantastic race!

Q: I was lacking grip in the traction zones. These cars seem to have a characteristic "wobble" comming out of the hairpins, well I was getting that comming off of the fast right hander before the CorkScrew... SCARY! Anyway, I was a couple tenths away from where I wanted to be but it was still enough to bag pole and that valuable extra point.

R: The lack of grip remained in the race, but in this instance it was more mid-corner. I was able to brake and turn-in as easily as normal, but the car would wander off in the centre. I'm now convinced that the CARTFactor tyre model is VERY sensitive to track temperature.

In the early stages of the race I just couldn't keep it all together and could not pull away from my team-mate Allen. At one stage we came up on a lapped car and I over-shot the turn in for T1, running wide. Allen nipped through. He lost it though in T6 and nearly wiped out completely against the inside wall. Well saved! I went back into P1.

Eduardo, who had been watching this from 2-3 seconds behind came in at the same time as me on lap 22. We left the pits nose-to-tail and we stayed like that for half a dozen laps. Eduardo then pulled off one of the ballsiest moves I've ever had put on me. I made a slight error in T6 and he was right on me heading up the hill towards the dreaded corkscrew. Well, you guessed it, he stuffed it up the inside. I held the outside line because I knew that a) I'd have the inside for the exit of the corkscrew and b) if he locked a brake we'd be heading for the boonies head-first together.

He got ahead and gapped me when I got stuck a little in traffic. By the way, lapped traffic was superb today. We're getting a fantastic group of racers together in this series and everyone was in tip-top competance mode. Apologies to those couple of guys I dive-bombed. It was such a tight race that when the chances provided themselves, I had to go for it. Everyone was doing a good pace and it was so tight in terms of pace differential. Again, fantastic job on such a nasty track for it.

We came into the pits together again for our second stops. This time, he came out ahead and I gave chase. It appeared that Eduardo was this time struggling for grip. I was able to pull him in and pressure him. The only trouble was, every time he'd lock a brake or run wide, I'd get it side-ways on the exit!

In the end, I had nothing left to give. I finished right behind Eduardo and I was knackered!

Superb race, and I'm proud to say I gave Eduardo more than a run for his money. But he was the best driver out there today and came through the field to take a well deserved win. Particularly after his heartbraking disco in Long Beach.

Congratualtions also to my Team Mate Allen on rounding out the podium.

See you all in Colorado!