AC GT3 @ Nordschleife Cup - Saturday 16th April 2016

[Sean]

@Sean Rogers Yup, unfortunately AC lacks features in that department, but, fortunately there is an app that makes your life a little bit easier! - http://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/pitconfig.8032/
You can preset your stop and you just come into pits (easy and simple).
As for the race, I don't think that we need to pit, M will hold on pretty well.

Cheers for that mate I'll give the app a try later and go for full tanks in the race today.

 

[brooptss]

Good morning. Can I sign up? Still time?

 

[Chris]

Good morning. Can I sign up? Still time?

Yes, just in time. Booking starts in 10 minutes

 

[Chris]

Only 5 minutes left in booking. Where the heck is everyone?!
@elloLeo Kinnunen @Matt Bailey @MG @Cristian Haba @Alex Townsend @Durand1981 @Matheus Machado

 

[Matt]

Oh ****! I've been so stuffed today I forgot
I feel horrible so so sorry Chris

 

[Michael Stead]

Oh ****! I've been so stuffed today I forgot
I feel horrible so so sorry Chris

2 minutes to join!

 

[Matt]

2 minutes to join!

Not enough time, I'd need to boot up the rig etc
What a day, start by examining a bucket a few times (I blame my wife) now forgetting a race. I guess I should take advantage of this and get some sleep for the 3:30am wakeup for the RDTCC

 

[Luke Z]

ugh! I missed the last booking...

 

[Matheus Machado]

Only 5 minutes left in booking. Where the heck is everyone?!
@elloLeo Kinnunen @Matt Bailey @MG @Cristian Haba @Alex Townsend @Durand1981 @Matheus Machado

@Chris Stacey I will have to withdraw from the race. I have a school test and saturday and overlooked it until my classmates reminded me.

I said I couldn't do it Chris

 

[Chris]

I said I couldn't do it Chris

Yeah sorry mate. I missed that :/

 

[Sun Levi]

Besides the spins I had that was great fun! The battle early on was pretty intense! Well done @Discovery.Tv Great drive

 

[Sean]

Agreed! great fun, thanks guys

 

[Eugene Abramoff]

Damn, if the AMG in front is mine, no wonder i was scraping so much

 

[Tobiman]

Wait, I thought this was happening in another 5 mins?

 

[Michael Stead]

Wait, I thought this was happening in another 5 mins?

Nope -12 hours and 17 minutes.

 

[elloLeo Kinnunen]

Sorry @Chris Stacey, only just got internet connection issues sussed out this morning.

Won't be upset if we return to Nordschleife sooner rather than schlater!

 

[Jeremy Talbot]

I think this race confirmed that I'll be joining @Sniper in not liking this track. I agree that I haven't really given it a lot of time but it's not a track that I've even really thought about let alone raced.

I think I'll give the next nordschleife event a miss.

Congrats to @Discovery.Tv however for a bloody fast win, fantastic times matey!

 

[elloLeo Kinnunen]

not liking this track

At this point some might wrongly advise that you need a bit more practice here, maybe even in a more forgiving, lower powered car than GT3... as though the possibility of mastery might help you make peace with it, but I think to fall in nurburglove you need to take the other path ---> drive a few more laps here in a car that makes your goonies retreat up deep insde your body.

Then think about all those lunatics/heroes who raced/got airborne there over the years in real life, in different weather, and with the threat of real mechanical failures... group c prototypes, pre-downforce f1, all the way back to those silver arrows in the 30s. Most racetracks don't have those kinds of stories to tell, they are just accidents of history. Nordschleife is motorsport itself.

If only there were more narrow width >20km circuits with dramatic elevation changes, high speed corners and straights as well as low speed technical stuff which actually flows rather than disrupts.

I hope this completely dispassionate and thoroughly objective post will make you reconsider.

 

[Jeremy Talbot]

Na still don't like it

 

[elloLeo Kinnunen]

Oooooooooo you wascally wabbit!