GTPC: Birmingham

Computer froze.Sorry to anyone that got caught up in my frozen RS.

congrats to Rob and Tom, and the rest of the survivors! Very tough track.

I think I was involved in the first accident involving me, myself and I. Cold tires make bad traction. I went flying over the rails onto the other side of the track. Managed to survive but when I checked the time distance from the other cars, I was 20 seconds behind the whole group. I had to do the whole lap over again. Worst start so far.

I'm not sure how I managed to come out 5th. Hmmm

i dont no what happened to me. after i left the pits it was in auto pilot. and i couldn't turn it off. i went through all the drivers with the "+" key. and i was no where on the track....? my car was now Jean Andre, and when i pressed Esc, andre was dnf, and i wasn't even on the list. i'm confused with what just happend, and very sad it ended that way.

but how about that rain:) i couldn't keep up all practice, when i saw rain i new i had a chance(i like the rain). but then i qualified well, and everyone was on my ass after the race started dry. so sorry for a couple times there guys. I was just cracking under the presure. then i spun a couple times, got hit off course by a gt car( just as much my fault i think) and then i was just not there....

i'll be interested to see who shows up on the results and the replay after my pit. me or Andre.

looks like this jean andre who was driving my car dosn't exist. i probably look crazy now:) so here is a cellphone pick to prove it, after the race i clicked on Jean's name, and you can see my name selected below. can anyone explain this to me?

Long race I think there were one or two driveing a little to wild running into cars. Take your time long race but not bad I finished thats good.

Darren, I believe that during a pitstop you inadvertently changed to driver 2 (AI) in the pitboard. It's the topmost option, I think.

Hummm...odd thing Darren!!
I must have smelled the rain...cause i was just thinking to ask Charles if it was possible to have rain in qual, it was the first time i saw that , got my answer!!!
great qual with soft wet and all the wings, then got off to a great start and manage to get 1st, then i felt pressure again, boy is it hard to lead a race with a fast guy breathing in your neck!!! GREAT fight there with Rob!! :) obviously, i did a small tiny mistake and there he was, then i figured that i can do the same, put pressure and hope for him to do something, but, never happened, BTW Rob, if i was able to stay pretty much with you, Thanks to your set-up haha!!, then , after i had passed a back marker, i came back in the line at T1 too wide and caught the grass, which lead to a spin, and never was able to catch Rob, Great job!!!
And the nGt's where very good at keeping there line which was like Charles mentionned, PREDICTABLE, that is the secret :) Thanks to all, it was a great race, got to go practice a handicaped car at Indy now...
Cheers!!

wow, what a rookie mistake.
oh well, RSR time! :)

I'm happy that I kept a good pace today but still made one or two mistakes which cost me at least few places.

The qualifying was interesting because I had never driven in those kind of conditions. I pulled off two decent laps and got 4th place on the grid. Start went well also. I managed to climb up to 2nd place after few laps but then as I was trying to pass Dan who was leading, I did a too quick move with the steering wheel, just to get my Lambo inside the corner. This caused me to slide off the track and I dropped to 4th place. A bit later I did a stupid mistake as I sled a bit off the track at the last turn so I crashed and dropped down.

This made my raceplan useless because I had fuel for about 10 laps at the time. After my 1st stop I started to climb back to top6. I was really pleased that all of the nGT drivers gave room for overtaking by lap throughout the race, it was really nice! I had to make my 2nd pitstop so I lost my position again. I took fuel for 30 laps which turned out to be another mistake: It ran out only 4 or 5 laps before finish. So I lost my 4th place for good, but it really doesn't matter. I don't have the car restriction thing at Indy. :)

Well except for my mistakes it was a real blast to drive today! Grats to Rob and Tom for winning!