Next weekend is round 2 of the GT2 World Series, so our little Canadian team is back in acton.
As per series rules, the top 10 teams in points are automatically locked in, and the rest of us need to Pre-Qualify for 20 spots.
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I must say, as far as online series goes, this is incredibly fun. The series is extremely well-organised, the competition is fierce but for the most part clean, and the races are spread out just far enough to be able to race without turning into a hermit every weekend
A lot of the other teams are really full-time deals, with dedicated websites, private servers running 24/7, massive setup databases, crowds of drivers complete with specialised "setup gurus" that spend their days off refining and pumping out new setups for their teams. (Some teams registered with as many as 15-20 drivers, then pick the fastest 4 for each event).
We certainly cannot compete with that kind of set-up and are somewhat the "Minardi" of the GT2 series. We are just a group of 4 guys who love racing, but in two seasons we have qualified for every event so far, and even finished 17th in the last race of last year at South City.
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Last edited by Reg LeBlanc on Mon Jun 04, 2012 12:01 am, edited 3 times in total.
Well, we all tried laptimes, our Hungarian speedster Zoltan got us our fastest time, and we easily made the race!
(We are #98 Angry Angus Racing)
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2012 GT2 World Series 3 Hours of Aston - Pre Qualifying May 27-29, 2012 Pos Car # Team Car Time Driver --- Automatically Qualified 1 4 Western Wolves FZR 2 3 SpdoRacing XRR 3 33 CoRe Racing FZR 4 1 My3id Gaming FZR 5 7 TeamSpeak Racing FZR 6 8 Genuine Racing FZR 7 23 Lanzarote Racing Team FXR 8 69 Savage SimSports XRR 9 20 Hellenic Racing Team XRR 10 10 Genuine Racing II FZR --- Pre-Qualifying 11 60 nFinity eSports FZR 2'36.98 Sasa Pasic (CRO) 12 6 Team Vires FZR 2'37.07 Matias Pikkarainen (FIN) 13 58 Playerzone XRR 2'37.20 Holly Wong (NED) 14 16 Team Vires II FZR 2'37.73 Przemek Wdowiarz (POL) 15 47 Bazinga FZR 2'37.93 Dávid Jagodits (HUN) 16 29 Team Rock Racing FZR 2'38.03 Tommy Østgaard (NOR) 17 77 TeamSpeak Racing II FZR 2'38.06 Jack Sedgwick (GBR) 18 9 Raptor-Gaming FZR 2'38.29 Patrick Kreutz (GER) 19 14 SGP Team FZR 2'38.32 Remco Majoor (NED) 20 28 Speed Desire FZR 2'38.53 Michał Śmieszek (POL) 21 93 HT Motorsport XRR 2'38.69 Jan Torn (EST) 22 66 CoRe Racing II FZR 2'38.77 Ben Keough (USA) 23 13 Absolute Beginners FZR 2'38.81 Ömer Köse (GER) 24 98 Angry Angus Racing XRR 2'39.09 Zoltán Gácsi (HUN) 25 21 Conquest Racing FZR 2'39.13 Miłosz Garbolewski (POL) 26 26 Last Lap Motorsports FZR 2'39.49 Lukasz Paszczyk (POL) 27 25 Last Lap Motorsports II XRR 2'39.88 Nathan Lamothe (CAN) 28 86 Black Bull Racing FZR 2'40.18 Riccardo Belo (SPN) 29 11 WCL Racing FZR 2'40.69 Joni Katila (FIN) 30 5 RLR Team FZR 2'41.44 Bogdan Toader (ROM) --- Did Not Qualify 31 39 rForce II FZR 2'42.73 Kasper Korsbaek (DEN)
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Last edited by Reg LeBlanc on Sun Jun 03, 2012 8:55 pm, edited 1 time in total.
- For hours 1 and 2, the car will be run by Zoltán Gácsi, our Hungarian team-mate. - The final hour will be run by yours truly! My first GT2 World Series action since the 2011 Kyoto 3 Hour last September!
After a few teams were unable to make the race, 25 cars will be in the field. We start 19th.
Pre-Race Coming into the race, we had a big tire durability issue. Most teams would be running 3x1 hour stints and we would need to do much the same to stay competitive... but only Zoltan could get his tires to last that long.
Jonathan could run 50 minutes on a set, and I could get maybe 55 minutes.
With a minimum 2 drivers needed, Zoltan would run the first 2 stints in a hope to stretch a little bit past 1 hour each time, then put me in the car to finish and hope for the best.
Race Zoltan ran well early, going as high as 13th before overheating tires struck again. His tires rapidly deteriorated near the end of the first hour and pitted after just 52 minutes. Uh oh...
His second stint went well, we ran in 15th position and this time he did make it past the hour mark so I had to run 65 minutes to get us to the end of the race. Something I never achieved in practice.
Running as gently as I possibly could, the tires stayed relatively cool, even though I was not breaking any world records on the lap charts. With 15 minutes to go I passed #13 Absolute Beginners (see video below) and looked like we would get our best-ever 15th place finish...............
....but on the last lap of the race, 2 miles from the start/finish line the RF tire finally gives out and I limp back to the pits to end the race, classified a still-respectable 16th place!
The race had it's fair share of challenges, but it was still our best result to date!
Video of me passing car #13
Round 3 is at the very hilly and technical Fern Bay Black Circuit on July 7th!
_________________ "The sport is more important than anything. More important than any of the people in it." - Gilles Villeneuve
I actually ran until they popped in practice, just to see how running with a flat felt. It got me back across the finish line without spinning out or making too much of a fool of myself , but I lost the 15th place I had made up earlier.
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, but I lost the 15th place I had made up earlier.