MSA TORA GT World Championship - Endurance Series Round 3 - Nurburgring Full - March 3rd 7PM GMT

thanks to everyone in my lobby today but mostly for DTechPr, bloodycain, BG scarlett, MGR Wheelwash for the best racing i have been involved with in recent times, i Thank you all for cheering me up aswell

Same time next week boys?

Sorry for lobby D if anything happend early with the GT4 class. Xbox had froze in the middle of a short straight. Hope you all did excellent.

Can't believe I stayed awake, was dozing off on the straights in the last 30 mins. Thanks to Cowboy, after the 1st round of pitstops we had a good battle then he left me behind when I came back out after my 2nd pitstop. Great racing and thanks to the GT4 guys for being great and making passing easy.

XPR Roadrunner wrote:161mi 14:35 won C lobby by a huge difference, sad that x Senna x lagged out cuz he would have won.

I managed to 3-stop the Viper (crossed the line with ~88-89% tire wear).

Replay is on my SF

Time for my full post as I had to run off to dinner in town.

Qualy was FINALLY GOOD!! I had splits for mid 2:01's but never had a clean lap quicker than 2:02.2xx, and qualy'd with a 2:02.3xx so I finally got into the lobby I deserved to be in. After qualy, our lobby was victim to constant shuffling so I was as high as C1 but ended up C3 after being in C2 for a bit. We were just getting underway when Steven was ordered to backout and pickup Dogskii (I think ) as an extremely late addition to lobby C. So we started about 30mins late.

x Senna x had pole and GAZ POT was 2nd with me in 3rd. Nearly got destroyed in T1 by someone (can't remember) as they completely missed their braking point, but was lucky to not get hit. GAZ POT had the early lead with me and x Senna x right behind, but x Senna x got around and started to pull a gap on us, as I was stuck behind GAZ POT. GAZ POT pitted ~5-6mins early to try to get an advantage on me, (which he did after I completed my first stop). I made the mistake of pitting a lap early by assuming the Lambo of x Senna x was a good indicator of when to pit, as this was my first Endo race in GT. Before my second pit stop I managed to get around GAZ POT, who pitted early yet again, and then x Senna x lagged out, giving me the lead. The lap I made my 2nd pitstop I got in the sticky grass in the Schumacher esses, which gave GAZ POT a 1000ft lead when I came out of my 2nd stop. By the time I caught him up, he pitted for the 3rd time. I kept going and made my final pit stop (after GAZ POT pitted a 4th time) with about 30mins left.

I pulled an astonishing 6000ft gap to 2nd after making one less pitstop than the entire lobby and crossed the line with 88% tire wear on the front and about 80% wear on the rears.

I was lucky enough to have some very cooperative GT4 cars in our lobby and was never held back by them.

One.....let's say interesting thing, happened when I came out of the pits from my first pit stop. We had just caught the GT4 cars for the first time and drsanya pitted when x Senna x and I did. I came out of the pits with my front bumper INSIDE drsanya's trunk/boot and I accelerated RIGHT THRU HIM once the AI relinquished control of my car. I thought for sure my car was gonna rocket into the wall with 1000% damage to everything. But nope, 0% damage to both cars .

Another thing to note, was the Viper filled lobby D

EDIT: no stream of lobby C, as my laptop was doing some random stuff that never happened before :s

I think I know why I did so well today:

@driveSRT: "Best of luck. RT @SerpentRacing The #teamSRT Vipers are set to tear up the @nuerburgring_de today in the @TheReal_TORA GT Endurance!"

XPR Roadrunner wrote:I think I know why I did so well today:

@driveSRT: "Best of luck. RT @SerpentRacing The #teamSRT Vipers are set to tear up the @nuerburgring_de today in the @TheReal_TORA GT Endurance!"

The force was with you today

Sorry for not being able to help last night - still working away from home - but my thanks go out to Jamie and the marshals for their astounding work last night at getting the night going without too much delay and without much issue. Sounds like it was a good night of racing.

Thanks to the lobby(D) host, was a very good race. Battle of nearly two hours of high-EZ Challenger, and several times Markius Fox.

My first TORA Race was prety good, annoyed I bumped down to C lobby as I couldn't connect to B but it probally helped as I didn't get caught in traffic, I left everyone in my class in the dust and nearly lapped everyone too!

I wasn't on pole Gaz was on pole I overtook on 2nd lap me and Gaz had some of the cleanest and closet racin for the entire 1st and most of 2nd lap until I overtook the racing was bang on

Just annoyed at being disco

Some great racing last night. Ruined my qualifying on 2nd flying lap. Poor start to the race dropping to the very back of GT3.

Some great battles while charging forward ending in an hour long battle with MXR Claim who I managed to jump in the final stop only to hit the tyre barrier at the chicane a few laps later

Lots of fun

The hosts all did a great job last night, Jamie did a amazing job! I tryed my best to help but due to the earlyer 7pm start my kids were just going to bed and its a nightmare with two kids lol.

I have made an attempt at the results, currently on Live Timing, I have kept the orignal results and all the mods I made to where it is now so I can get Chris to double check it when he is back.

Wumba 4th well done but you were lucky Soundwave & I got damaged! I bet BG wont be going crazy about this result eh?

Myles Prower wrote:My first TORA Race was prety good, annoyed I bumped down to C lobby as I couldn't connect to B but it probally helped as I didn't get caught in traffic, I left everyone in my class in the dust and nearly lapped everyone too!

Myles, you were in Lobby D - and it was good having you there. Great racing from everyone in D lobby.

Cheers all.

T

I think you may have got myself and demo marksmen the wrong round. His finishing time with penalties from starting in E lobby should put him at 14.27 ?

CQR Franchitti wrote:Wumba 4th well done but you were lucky Soundwave & I got damaged! I bet BG wont be going crazy about this result eh?

I heard what happened and that's a shame - I think I even beat you from D lobby if that makes you feel any better!

Trev

SnippetyOggy86 wrote:I think you may have got myself and demo marksmen the wrong round. His finishing time with penalties from starting in E lobby should put him at 14.27 ?

I also noticed that today, been trying to work it all out.

I think i been boosted too maybe.

161mi in 13.15 was my time.

Live T says 13.45 where i expected to lose 8secs making about 13.08

Error? otherwise. woohoo 19place

LastNewtStandin wrote:I think i been boosted too maybe.

161mi in 13.15 was my time.

Live T says 13.45 where i expected to lose 8secs making about 13.08

Error? otherwise. woohoo 19place

Newt, thats maybe my fault by mis-reading a result maybe? I wrote down 13.45 when I took the scores. With everyone doing doughnuts and such like its hard to hear what people are saying. Sorry dude.

JamesHall94 wrote:thanks to everyone in my lobby today but mostly for DTechPr, bloodycain, BG scarlett, MGR Wheelwash for the best racing i have been involved with in recent times, i Thank you all for cheering me up aswell

Same time next week boys?

It was stressful race... Congrats for BloodyCain.

Right to clear things up, I have to get the start times of each lobby, then sync the times together from that so there is time differance from that, then the lobby split times to go on top of that, E lobby started way off the pace compared to the rest so I had to move the times for that, C lobby was the first to start so I had to move all the times from that.

So

A lobby, times stayed (start time- 1.57.12, so 2:48 warm up lap)
B lobby, added 9 seconds (as they started 5 seconds before A lobby and then the 4 seconds lobby split)
C lobby, added 28 seconds (8 seconds lobby split and 20 seconds before A lobby)
D lobby, add on 3 seconds (as started 9 seconds after A lobby and then 12 seconds for lobby split so taken off from that.)
E lobby, minus 12 seconds (as started 28 seconds after A lobby and 16 seconds lobby spilt)

Hope that makes sense

Oh cock.

seems I updated one form but copied another, I have not edited the times

Grumble, changed again.

9th after starting in E lobby?! Can't complain with that!