Re: Sebring 12 Hours Race Day Thread

by **CQR Rogue** Sun 10 Mar 2013 - 0:23

yep fill it out and get stewards to find out what happend

by KickRocks29 Sun 10 Mar 2013 - 0:33

Done, thanks

by LSR SCHIWO Sun 10 Mar 2013 - 1:04

that can not be true unreachable for stint 6!!!! waiting hours for race and then the next disappointment...

by MGR Iceman Sun 10 Mar 2013 - 2:10

I didn't get the chance to qualify. I'd signed up to qualify on Friday 8:00PM GMT and my sign-up post was approved by a mod and I was assured I was on the list. I never got my invite. I was offered a place in the final session at 3:00AM GMT, which I had to decline due to work. I was maybe up to half a second quicker over a lap than my teammates, maybe enough to move us up a lobby, I didn't really want to look. An admin error, I know and it was unlucky that I couldn't make the very last session due work so there were no hard feelings.

So I get home from work on race day to do my first stint in lobby C at 6PM. The start of the race was done on a random grid. LMP cars and GT's mixed up. I'd have complained, but I figured halfway into the event the correct starting procedure was being followed, maybe it had changed since I last looked. It didn't affect me in race 1 because I was in my rightful position (relative to the GT's), but in race 2 it set a chain of lag spikes, crashes and pit stops that would never have happened had I been in my rightful starting position.

I look forward to the next event, but I hope the people running it are aware of the fundamental procedures of the event itself at least half way through it.

by MGR Iceman Sun 10 Mar 2013 - 2:15

Don't get me wrong, I thoroughly enjoyed the event and I'm sorry if there's a bitter tone to my previous post but I really do hope these mistakes aren't made again. I understand it's a big mess to organize but that was a seriously basic thing to be getting wrong.

by **Ax4x Mikey J** Sun 10 Mar 2013 - 2:21

MXR SCH1WO wrote:that can not be true unreachable for stint 6!!!! waiting hours for race and then the next disappointment...

that sucks. Crying or Very sad

See you Friday for GT300s?

by Texaspotatolord Sun 10 Mar 2013 - 2:35

Now that they've updated the standings from my stint I'm even more pissed. Well their's Le Mans to look towards.

by **Ax4x Mikey J** Sun 10 Mar 2013 - 2:39

Texaspotatolord wrote:Now that they've updated the standings from my stint I'm even more pissed. Well their's Le Mans to look towards.

It shows you're leading. What happened?

by Texaspotatolord Sun 10 Mar 2013 - 2:40

The live stream chat said that there was a crash and our car was in 11th place.

by **Ax4x Mikey J** Sun 10 Mar 2013 - 2:41

by **Richy59** Sun 10 Mar 2013 - 2:42

Oh. My. God.

Thanks for being a part of the Sebring 12 Hours 2013.

by **Ax4x Mikey J** Sun 10 Mar 2013 - 2:47

Thanks for giving us the chance to do this, Richy, Simon, Chris, Duncan and all of TORA.

by **Richy59** Sun 10 Mar 2013 - 2:54

Results will be finalised tomorrow morning nce we get the results in from the remaining lobbies.

by **HCR ChicaiN** Sun 10 Mar 2013 - 2:56

I lost power during the final stint. Crushing to race that long only to get ruined in the last stint.

by **Ax4x Mikey J** Sun 10 Mar 2013 - 2:58

Flyin Mikey J wrote:
CQR Aero wrote:
CQR Aero wrote:
Flyin Mikey J wrote:I just noticed that on the Live Timing in Stint 2 C Lobby CQR Chris has more miles than I do... I passed him an hour into the stint and had 4800 feet on him at the end

Hmmm, well I've only put in the information I was given. It's all formula driven based on distance from the lobby leader so the distance given for you was obviously greater than that for Chris. I'll double check Cain's PM.

Er, according to Cain's PM, Chris finished in 2nd, you finished 5th....

BloodYCaiN wrote:1st. Revisedspace 214 miles
2nd. CQR Chris -11,086.
3rd. Maneatingbrick -14,830. 211
4th. Iz Gundham -32,099.
5th. Flying Mikey -87,983. 197
6th. OCR Project -109,601. 193
7th. MGR Ginger -156,863. 184
8th. Montecarlo -164,464
9th. Spartan -165,567. 182
10th. Scuderia -176,247. 180
11th. Teddygtr -176,269. 180
12th. BloodYCaiN -184,429

That result was wrong. I was behind GundaM, and ahead of Chris. Hoping that ManeatingBrick and GundaM will back me up on this, as they should know they were 2nd and 3rd in that lobby. I think that Cain may have forgot an "0" between the two 1s, as in "-101,xxx"

I finished sop far back, I should let this go... had we finished stronger I would worry about it.

But I thought of an explanation> Is it possible that CQR Chris misunderstood the question and gave distance from me, the next position up rather than the leader, when asked.

by **HCR ChicaiN** Sun 10 Mar 2013 - 3:02

Its was really hard to hear people and after double checking people I thought I got it right. Frustrating for sure. I'll be having ppl message me the results also in the future.

by theboomeranga Sun 10 Mar 2013 - 3:09

thanks everyone
was great fun

by **LMR DarthMario** Sun 10 Mar 2013 - 3:11

i can barely even type right now. lol!

that was fun. All 3 stints i ran, i managed to finish without a scratch (until after the last when Chris decided to rectify that once we finished), and finished ahead of all other GTE's in A lobby each time out. i could swear i might have hit a 2:02 in there somewhere. once i found my rhythm, i was knocking out what i think were really good laps. nearly lost it once coming out of Turn 13, when the left rear got caught on the outside rumble strip, causing me to fish-tail for a few feet. Ended up finishing 2nd in A lobby (GTE). now to wait and see how the rest of the results put me.

First time ever Double-stinting. never done it before because i was nervous about my case of carpel tunnel, but i managed to do rather well, i think. might consider it for Le Mans now, seeing that track has longer straights to relax my fingers if need be.

I placed both Liveries (with the Cape and without) on my SF.

by Joito04 Sun 10 Mar 2013 - 3:16

Wow first time doing an endurance race like that and let's just that was test for me but it was a lot of dang fun!!

by Wooflers Sun 10 Mar 2013 - 3:49

Boom.

3.49am.

Sleep.

(Richy I've PMd you, distance is in square brackets bro)

by Texaspotatolord Sun 10 Mar 2013 - 3:53

Texaspotatolord wrote:The live stream chat said that there was a crash and our car was in 11th place.

Just did a bit of number running and there is a possibility my team might still make podium. Very Happy

Tomorrow morning will either be incredibly awesome or just depressing(results)

by ShrinkingSteven Sun 10 Mar 2013 - 4:00

Richy PM waiting for you with Stint 5-6 details.
Enjoy.
I am now sleeping all day tomorrow. Thank god GT's are not on tomorrow I would'nt be able to race on Sebring this week. lol!

by maneatingbrick Sun 10 Mar 2013 - 4:03

Mabye cqr chris said 111,000 and only the 11 part came through, i can comfirm that he was far enough back for me to lap him a few times.

by **Ax4x Mikey J** Sun 10 Mar 2013 - 4:10

BloodYCaiN wrote:Its was really hard to hear people and after double checking people I thought I got it right. Frustrating for sure. I'll be having ppl message me the results also in the future.

I noticed that too. Had a hard time hearing anyone the last couple days in a race lobby scratch

by Velox Midget Sun 10 Mar 2013 - 4:29

I cannot be bothered looking at the replay yet, to see what happened between me and BG Smithy, but I am really pissed off about having the lead of the race taken away like that. Fingers crossed that we still have a podium, Knob and Texas did a damn good job and I would hate to see their hard work wasted (along with the awful 2 hours I spent wrestling my broken car around to minimise the damage to our overall position).
Thanks to the P1 boys in Lobby B, your passing was fantastic! Congrats to all the winners and commiserations to all the people who have hard luck stories!

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