RD GT Championship 2017

[Anders Myhre]

you should not complain, I saw your laptimes!!! shh.....

And boy i had to work hard for those haha, nah silverstone and nurburgring is ok with the z4 but monza will be a different storry

 

[Caramidaru Andrei Bogdan]

And boy i had to work hard for those haha, nah silverstone and nurburgring is ok with the z4 but monza will be a different storry

well Camaro will be worse on Nurburgring unless I find some amazing setup that I can corner and now powerslides) so Monza will be the equalizer for me, I hope

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Race Details:

• Date - Sunday October 22, 2017
• Circuit - Nurburgring GP
• Server Name - RACEDEPARTMENT.COM GTC
• Server Password - See conversation message
• Live Broadcast - Twitch

Race Schedule

• 18:00 GMT (19:00 BST / 20:00 CEST) - Free Practice (30 minutes)
• 18:30 GMT (19:30 BST / 20:30 CEST) - Qualification (30 minutes)
• 19:00 GMT (20:00 BST / 21:00 CEST) - Race (90 minutes)

Server Settings

• Difficulty: GetReal
• Fuel Usage: Normal
• Tire Wear: On
• Visual Damage: Realistic
• Mechanical Damage: On
• Flag Rules: Complete
• Cut Rules: On, Drive Through Penalty.*
• Mandatory Pitstop: On

Entry List
Number, Name, Car
#1 Bram Hengeveld (BMW Alpina B6 GT3)
#03 Anders Myhre (BMW Z4 GT3)
#04 Ross Garland (BMW Z4 GT3)
#5 Davy Vandevenne (RUF RT12R GTR3)
#6 Steve Le Gallez (Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3)
#07 Robert Severikangas (Bentley Continental GT3)
#8 Quentis Gillispie (Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3)
#9 Paul Fenwick (McLaren MP4-12C GT3)
#11A Brian van Beusekom (McLaren 650S GT3)
#12 Giannis Christodoulou (Audi R8 LMS Ultra)
#14 Alex Crossen (Audi R8 LMS Ultra)
#18 Paul Hurlow (McLaren MP4-12C GT3)
#27 Laurent Sestacq (Chevrolet Camaro GT3)
#33 Joel Kuismin (Nissan GT-R GT3)
#38 Mathias Nielsen (Chevrolet Corvette Z06.R GT3)
#44 Rupe Wilson (Audi R8 LMS Ultra)
#46 Adrian Campfield (Chevrolet Corvette Z06.R GT3)
#48 Stephen Gibb (RUF RT12R GTR3)
#60A Craig Dunkley (BMW M6 GT3)
#63 Alexander Andersson (Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3)
#79 Colin Herkes (McLaren 650S GT3)
#81 Mike McGeer (Nissan GT-R GT3)
#84 Roy Magnes (Bentley Continental GT3)
#88 Caramidaru Andrei Bogdan (Chevrolet Camaro GT3)
#96 Ronnie Böhme (BMW M6 GT3)
#98 Mike Wyatt (Chevrolet Corvette Z06.R GT3)
#174 Magnus Stjerneby (BMW Alpina B6 GT3)
#200 Cyrille Saussey (Bentley Continental GT3)

Commentator
Joseph Wright
Peter Lee

Removed from the series
#30 Isaac Chavira (RUF RT12R GTR3)
#171 Nate Idiens (Nissan GT-R GT3)

 

[Caramidaru Andrei Bogdan]

Mr.C Race Report - Round 1 RDGTC - Silverstone

Good to be back
After a very long time I came back to simracing, 6months(that's long for me) and it was my first break from simracing since 2009, I have been around in one way or another but never been gone so long.
Fond memories of my first ever RDGTC - also a nasty piece of a car back then, looks like it's a trend for me

Practice/Preparation​

With the baby coming and all the things that come with it I had very limited time to do some laps, Monday I have moved into the new place and only Thursday I got to kinda finish my Gaming Box(it's not a room as it's 2m x 2m) only mounted pc/monitor plus some sim stuff , did 5-6 laps in the Camaro and then jumped on the F3 club event so I can get a good feeling for racing again, ffb and all the other stuff.
Friday the baby came so that day and Saturday flew by, arrived home around 6CET and start doing some laps in the Camaro, luckily I asked a good friend for a setup and I merged his setup with some of my own feelings and got a wild thing but decent times with full load.
Before the race did 2-3 pitstop practice and I knew I had to be very conservative with the pitstop and the amount of fuel that I added, didn't do so much math....

Official Practice Session​

This was a bit odd, as I struggled to match my previous times and was 0.7 from my optimal lap time which is a big margin, and I set myself for a top10 in Q session, as I knew everyone will pick up at least 1sec on their time

Qualification​

I nailed my lap pretty early one and I knew I had a 00 in me but failed to make it, was happy with 3ed but then in the last minute I was bumped to 4th, well still the second row, was happy with that, goal achieved for top10.

Race​

I knew I was going to have a decent start but @Mathias Nielsen was a rocket ship off the line, I was like WTF!!! and going into T1 I was boxed in behind the Bentley, made a clean move in the slow left on the Bentley and of on Mathias, luckily he did a mistake in the fast S-es and I hammered him on the straight, tried an outside move with a little bit of squeezing and both of us overshot the breaking point, but I managed to cut back faster and a good exit in the final chicane saw me in 2nd place.
With full tank, I was gaining well on @Adrian Campfield but never went under the magical 1sec or just a few times at the wrong place, I needed to be 0.7 on the back straight as I could get close and divebomb him in the fast right or chicane but he was on cruise control and I was at 110%.
I failed to realise that I can't match Adrian, but my ego really wanted to catch him, and by 20min mark I had at least 2 yellow tires and pace was dropping to 02's even 3's, out of nowhere Mathias was from 8-9sec behind just 5sec and a bit, craped myself and stopped driving like a maniac started more clean lines, less sliding and was maintaining the gap to Mathias, at that point I gave up on Adrian,
My only hope was that Adrian being new to the game might screw up the pitstop somehow, but it wasn't so, entering the pits he had some 11sec, we pitted in the same time and I was just 5sec behind, recovered well but I knew with a lighter car he had some 0.4 - 0.6sec on me, again tried to push as I saw he was closing in on some backmarkers but I did more mistakes than him losing time with the backmarkers, gap went back to 10sec or so and even with a spin from him I still finished 5+sec behind.

Final thoughts:​

- I know I was lucky and I capitalize on people not being fully prepared for Round 1, but looking at the race pace laps, except Adrian who was 0.4 ahead a lot of us where into 2.02's and that is a very big warning sign for me at Nurburgring where I believe I will struggle more.

- man the Camaro is a handful, my left shoulder and right wrist still hurt A LOT!!!!
- very pleased with my 2nd place behind Adrian, doubt I will manage that at Nurburgring, even tho I love the track
- big thanks to @Bram Hengeveld for letting me join late
- many big thanks to everybody involved in the league, from administration to racers
- and it might be cheesy or not but since I love simracing so much, I would like to dedicate this podium to my newborn boy, it's one of my few (3ed or 4th) podium in league events in all my simracing career and it will mean a lot to attach such a memory to it. Godbless you Efrem!
- Adrian slow down!!!!

P.S. > hotlop video will come soon, as soon as I learn Adobe Premier or quit and go back to SonyVegas

Cheers

 

[Caramidaru Andrei Bogdan]

How come no p4-5 competizione? It's a very good car, a bit hard to be fast but good nonetheless

 

[UMC 22]

I think adding 100kg weight to all the cars except the z4 sounds like a great idea

As your unofficial teammate, I fully agree with your excellent suggestion.

 

[UMC 22]

How come no p4-5 competizione? It's a very good car, a bit hard to be fast but good nonetheless

Because they forgot to install the periscope, so it's impossible to see out of the damn thing!

 

[Caramidaru Andrei Bogdan]

Because they forgot to install the periscope, so it's impossible to see out of the damn thing!

I wouldn't know

 

[metaDp]

Did someone have the ingame replay of the race? If someone can upload it I would be happy .

By the way, a bit late but I didn't had the time to come here earlier. I had some contact in the first 15 minutes. There were stupids error from me, I didn't have your names (the replay would be great for this) but all my apologies if you remember me . From the stream it look like I haven't ruined a race I would say and I didn't get PM so ...

 

[Magnus Stjerneby]

My calculated fuel was spot on if i hadn't pitted one lap earlier than planned. :-(

 

[Roy Magnes]

A bit late, but here are my highlights from the first round of the championship in the MS Queen Elizabeth

 

[Davy Vandevenne]

Standings are now Final

 

[UMC 22]

12 points for being useless... not bad at all!

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

For rounds 2, 3 and 4 we have four vacant driver positions (highlighted above in red).

You can sign up below if you wish to race the remainder of the series in a Nissan, Ruf or Mustang.

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Anybody up for some practice tonight?

 

[UMC 22]

I need all the practice I can get, but it was R3E club night tonight. I'll definitely be about during the week though as I want to do better than 19th this time around!

 

[Caramidaru Andrei Bogdan]

this track will be crazy hard, a lot of steering wheel workout , 90min I will be lucky if I can get out of the chair

 

[Caramidaru Andrei Bogdan]

Come on chaps, put some times on them leaderboards so I can see where I at

 

[Caramidaru Andrei Bogdan]

Might do some laps tonight if anyone wants to join

 

[Adrian Campfield]

might join you online big bad boggers