Sydney Olympic Park - Homebush GT3

Well it was interesting. I made some major change on setup for qualli and it put me surprisingly high on starting grid.

After the start David and Simon were just too quick for me so I concentrated on keeping 3rd because Luiz was fighting with Daryl.
Everything went well until lap 8 when I crashed and lost front spoiler and left dasher. I was about to go to pits but after few corners found that it ha no effect at all on my lap times so I decided to give it a go and chasing Luiz. we swapped position few times due to mistakes when finally in lap 18 he hit the curb (picture) and I overtook him for good.

With 5 mins to go I did my second big mistake of the race and spun, I was angry on myself cause I knew I will lost 3rd place, but unfortunately Luiz spun in same corner and in uncontrolled car he hits me which send me to the wall where I lost rear bodywork, but more important it punctured my tyre:(
I crawled to the pits got out only for last 2 laps and finished.

Good race anyway, congrats Simon for the title, I'll see you next time.

Wow, what a great Series that was!My first Drivers title so im well chuffed about that. However, i see that the team title has tied .... Where does this leave us? Who gets the title? Ive seen this on the FAQ -

'When drivers or teams end a series tied in points there are two tie-breaker steps:

The first tie-breaker is number of events participated. The driver or team with a greater participation in a series is rewarded.

The second tie-breaker is average finishing position. The best average finishing position will be rewarded. Keep in mind, while the Race2Play statistics display only to the hundredth, the average can be caluclated to the thousandth or beyond.'

Still confused to who would get it? Ive made all 7 races of the series, so has Luiz and 5 for Mark. That mean i win because i attended the same as Luiz and have better finishing positions? Or are you adding the two drivers 'entries' Ala 7 vs 13? Or do we divide that by 2 as an average attendance? SO 7 vs 6.5?

Admin, would you please be as kind to explain i am itching to know!!

Cheers to Wayne for putting on a really great series. Have made me look forwards to Sundays for the past 2 months so well done mate, very grateful. And also to everybody that has participated, inc Fabrizio, who was my tough competitor most of the way though this series.

Congrats Simon on a well deserved championship, fast and consistent all races ;)

Thanks to Wayne for this fun GT3 season with lots of nice and gentlemen drivers ;)

Grats to Muttley on the Team title. Still none the wiser as to why when its a draw ..... If anyone could please make the small effort to explain please. I cannot understand that if you firstly attend the most events then .... Mark missed 2 races from the 7 when i attended all.

didn't prac here but learnt the track throughout the race, by the end getting 1m32's and finishing fifth :)

Simon R2P does all the scoring, I wish I could help but it is ultimately up to R2P officials and I wish you luck and hope the right decisions are made RE this.

Wayne

Well i almost didn't race as i had not done a single lap here ever, i had the most crazy week and ran in the Spa race Sat night. I'm certainly glad i did though :)

Sorry for stealing the team championship Simon, to be fair you did only have 1 driver i think because we were a TEAM it takes precedence :-)

Crazy race though, hit the wall head on quite early and was just fighting the car after that. My aim was literally just to finish and hope people DNF like the last week (which i had to missed), that didn't happen till the very end i literally couldn't believe it!

Wayne thank you again, it's been a great series (my best yet), sponsoring my own GT3 Sat nights now if anyone is interested, huge grids so far!

Hope to race with you all again soon.

Mark

Finally I get to write a report on this!

Considering how much I dislike street tracks and how much I'm slow at tight bends... this was quite a nice result. And quite unexpected.

Battled with Virt for most of the race and was lucky to make the second-last mistake as we both did plenty once tyres started to wear out.

Damn that two-wheeling was scary! I was blade running there, risking to ruin the race on a silly mistake. All I could think was to finish on a nice position to get the points, I never knew I actually needed the 3rd spot!

Eventually we took the championship for Muttley. It was due budget wars in the end lol. But seriously, I don't know about the draw criteria. Maybe we had more starts (first criterion) since we were two drivers and starts are added up? Just a guess but would make sense I think.

Anyhow, despite the fact that we were two against (an almost invincible) one, it was nice to get it with quite some effort in the and and on the very first series for the team.

Most of all, it was really nice racing with you all. Amazing series, certainly the best for me so far both in terms of fun and in terms of drivers. I can only second Fabrizio's comments on that regard.

I hope to race you all again, the sooner the better. It won't probably be on the V8 though, as I don't think I'm getting into that one. I actually like the car but the car absolutely hates me, I suck with it :(