Alive N Kicking Mktg USA nGT

much better than the Euro Race . it made up for waking up at 5 AM to the race .. worse qualy though ..
1st stint i was stuck behind some no-tyres runners.. took me the full stint to overtake
changed tyres but maybe i shouldn't have .. med/meds i think would've lasted all race for me .. so lost about 15-20 seconds there as i wasn't much faster after the pit ..

The first stint was awesome! The battle for 9th-12th was a blast! I followed Heinz for a few laps at the end of stint one and into the pits. I was in such a rush to beat him out, but my crew wasn't. They decided to throw on some new tires for the hell of it. Ruined a shot for a T10.

The second stint was awesome as well fighting with Ricardo for 10th. Great drive Ricardo (parabens)! The fight between Ricardo and I was marred by a lapped car coming out of the pits and dive bombing our fight not once but twice! He threw me into the litter while I was on Ricardo's tail with 1 to go. He spun once after the first dive-bomb and then spun himself out after the second dive-bomb. Not cool.

Lost it in the pits when my crew was telling me to switch off the engine. It took them more then 10 seconds to realize it was already off. Still it was an awesome race with a perfect handling car.

Managed to get a pole with my PB but my start was nothing special so I've lost 2 positions and with much faster car I was still not able to overtake safely. Great battles with Rob and later Samuel. Decided to pit halftime and after the fiasco in the pits I gave it all to catch Barry in 3rd but again was unable to commit a pass and hold a position. Even managed to stupidly lost a place to Rob in the final turn so 5th place was a big disappointment in the end.

Still it was a nice preparation for tonight endurance race. Hope I've learned a thing or two.

Congrats to Samuel for the win + Emmo and Barry for the podium!

Strangely enough my qualitime in the RS was far better than in the RSR in the euro-race. Started on med/med this time and waited to see who the tyres held. Decided to not change tyres and that was a good one. Entered the pits in 12th after a good fight in the midfield and the stop brought me 4 places in the end. Grats to the podiumfinishers.

I made it into the room with 2 mins before quali .. (problems at work)

Setup wasnt near perfect but it was ok i guess.

Start was crazy .. Almost thought i had a bullseye painted on my rear bumper again when i got hit, but lucky it wasnt off the track.......

Race was interesting, the first sting i was tailing George pol, was fun until we got to shane thompson, who just loves to race ppl he isnt even on the same lap with, this caused george some problems i think, and he lost concentration and half spun out. I was next but shane was all over the place and i got through.

The Conduruta Silviu had enough of my fumes and brake dust and got passed .. a little cheecky pass mind you. but still it was fun while it lasted... Then George was gone from mirros and only had Garret to contend with..

Came into pits together and i think he took my left mirror off my car getting in his stop hahaha. I was a little trigger happy and switched car on halway through fuelling and they stopped.. i had to switch off my engine but kep t getting confused if it was on or off... eventually they carried on and then i was able to go. cost me so precious time i thank i may have held off condu again, maybe not, he was very quick with new rubber..

Good race all .. George, how the hell did you get up there in the end.

Congrats poidum

I had two problems with the same player, first he punted me in the first corner, I'm sure it wasn't intentional but he didn't served a punt penalty, then some laps later I passed him (I don't use tags so at the time I didn't knew it was the same player),after braking for a turn he hit my back and passed me again, this time I didn't spun. When I was trying to pass him again I was inside a turn and he came in my direction, I tried to swerve but didn't make in time, but fortunately for me is back hit my front, he spun, but I didn't. I'm sure none of those were intentional but you should be more careful.
Beside that it was an awesome race, thanks to Garret, obrigado ;), he was clearly faster than me but after David Fish crash I was 10th and wasn't to keen on losing the place, but I think I wasn't overly aggressive maintaining the position. As Garret said, a lapped player almost spoiled the fun, actually he did for Garret.
Edit: I don't think I'm supposed to name names so I edit my post.

Third nGT race for me and i finish 6th again.. :-O

I like George only took fuel. When i came out of the pits he and i were only a few sec apart. Not once did i get "tires worn" from my pits, so i'm thinking i could have pushed harder.

Ryan, bummer that we got together. Looking at the replay you came into my realistate and paid the price. You were faster no doubt, just a bad deal i guess. Sorry that there was contact.

Contrats up front..

-m

That was an intense race. Samuel, Matjaz, and I were having some good battles -- the smallest mistake was costly and fortunately the battle had all of us making just tiny errors here and there.

Got a good start and went up the middle in a squeeze play, but it was all clean and no contact. Found myself in 2nd with Ryan slowly but surely pulling away -- then something happened to Ryan don't know what.

Found myself in the lead but I knew lap 19 was my pit point and the pits is always bad news for me -- don't know why, but it was another costly 60 second stop. I thought I had it all worked out to be about a 40 second stop...ugh!

Anyway, fresh tires and way too much fuel I clawed my way back from 9th to 4th. I got real agressive on my Teammate Mark as I knew he had old tires, sorry again Mark. I think George was in the same boat, no tire change. I had to push and I had to push NOW -- it did actually pay off as I caught up to Barry and Matjaz (but I think they had an issue as the gap was 11 sec then suddenly 1.9 sec).

Matjaz went wide on the final turn and I was able to sneak under him for a 2/100th gap and take 4th -- that was CLOSE!!

Congrats to podium, great job.

Well guys my race went from great to really bad. I was around 16 seconds in the lead and then my screen shut down to start my virus scan which screwed my fps for the rest of the race. So I went from 1st to 6th with that and then bumped someone or they bumped me not sure and I went off with heavy damage. Went to the pit took over two minutes to fix and went back out.

Garret that was me you are talking about and I merely trying to get by when you nudged me after I overtook you. I agree I don't need to ruin your run at the end but I was much quicker with new tires and just wanted to get by you two and continue on.

Fantastic race and a great team effort , couldn't be more happier for the result. For once i didn't put a foot wrong , everything went like planned and driving felt good , so did the car... and it looks good too in the victory lane :D.

Excellent fight with Matjas and Rob in 1st stint , 2-3-4 were nose to tail most of the stint and racing was clean all the way , great stuff guys... 8) .

Who ever lead the 1st half , was long gone but after pit stops were shuffled out i found myself behind my team mate and we were 1-2 :O . WOW ... talking about surprise there , obviously there had to be some problems for few cars but still it was great to have 2 Ferrari's in front 8) :D.

Emmo didn't take tires so he was in trouble on last laps and he let me through after i got a good launch into the last uphill and got beside him. He also were a bit tight on fuel so i had the chance to open up some gap before the end.

Pleased to see that the good old Modena still can run reasonable lap times and on some tracks it can be pretty competitive even :).

Congratulations to me , Emmo and Barry for the podiums ...good job :D.

Cya in next one...

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Samuel