ACC GT World Challenge Europe @ Barcelona - Saturday 11th April 2020

Ross McGregor · Apr 11, 2020

Peter Roche Racing said:
My godness P11 to P2 again and an amazing fight until the end for the win with McGregor and Matyja. I was feeling very bad about my pace today and decided to take it extra carefully. I wanted no mistakes and no damage. And it paid off. Bit of shame that the win was this close but I'm still extremely happy that I was even in contention for it.

Thanks Peter, or Mikolaj?! I had the most enjoyable battle of the race with you- and i had more than a few to pick!

Qualified poorly in 8th, got a bad start and fell further back. Got punted on lap 1 and ended up in the gravel. Fell to the back of the pack before rejoining. Worked my way through the traffic - most were clean and fair - and couldn't believe i was 7th after the pit-stops shook themselves out! Picked off the remaining cars and overtook Bart on the penultimate lap, despite a couple of hopeful lunges into the hairpin...

So, my race started off poorly, but ended up being one of my most enjoyable club races in over 11 years of RaceDepartment club racing.

Yes, I'm old.

Finally, does anyone have a copy of the full replay file? I've only got the last 75 minutes!

Cheers all, and congrats Peter & Bart on their podiums.

Michael Rudolf · Apr 11, 2020

r!ver_cz said:
still have no clue why I got it. It was in first lap and I was nowhere to limits of the track nor cutting anything

I know what you mean, limits are a bit ridiculous compared to other tracks here. I was warned before but it did not help me either. I got several warnings due to loosing the rear little and sliding not even being on throttle.

Michael Rudolf · Apr 11, 2020

Ross McGregor said:
Finally, does anyone have a copy of the full replay file? I've only got the last 75 minutes!

I'd love that replay too, start phase was better for me than the end

Would love tor eview some of the fine battles in the beginning.

Paul Glover · Apr 11, 2020

Michael Rudolf said:
I know what you mean, limits are a bit ridiculous compared to other tracks here. I was warned before but it did not help me either. I got several warnings due to loosing the rear little and sliding not even being on throttle.

Yeah I had two track cut warnings during the race, felt a bit hard one by them. Wasn't a problem at all during practice or qualifying. Fortunately I managed to avoid getting a third.

Nomat16 · Apr 11, 2020

What a

lap 1 from my part. I took out two people on Lap 1 and feel so bad. I really need to concentrate more and be less greedy on the first lap. Sorry to Paul Glover and B. Kolma. In that occasion there, I totally missed the breaking point. Honestly, I feel like

after this race. Really sorry guys.

Paul Glover · Apr 11, 2020

Ross McGregor said:
Thanks Peter, or Mikolaj?! I had the most enjoyable battle of the race with you- and i had more than a few to pick!

Qualified poorly in 8th, got a bad start and fell further back. Got punted on lap 1 and ended up in the gravel. Fell to the back of the pack before rejoining. Worked my way through the traffic - most were clean and fair - and couldn't believe i was 7th after the pit-stops shook themselves out! Picked off the remaining cars and overtook Bart on the penultimate lap, despite a couple of hopeful lunges into the hairpin...

So, my race started off poorly, but ended up being one of my most enjoyable club races in over 11 years of RaceDepartment club racing.

Yes, I'm old.

Finally, does anyone have a copy of the full replay file? I've only got the last 75 minutes!

Cheers all, and congrats Peter & Bart on their podiums.

You have to hit save reply during the race, as the recording won't cover the whole thing. It should then be split into two.

Paul Glover · Apr 11, 2020

Nomat16 said:
What a lap 1 from my part. I took out two people on Lap 1 and feel so bad. I really need to concentrate more and be less greedy on the first lap. Sorry to Paul Glover and B. Kolma. In that occasion there, I totally missed the breaking point. Honestly, I feel like after this race. Really sorry guys.

Thanks for the apology.

David Jessat · Apr 11, 2020

A brilliant race, many thanks. Although I have to apologize to Ross for that punt in lap one, I had a brilliant start, wound up on the inside, hard on the brakes and suddenly had another Aston in front of me, I am very glad I didn't spoil the race for you, I alsways try to stay clean, sometimes things are happening way to fast for me, I believe...

Also thanks to Jensen for the last couple of laps!

Ian Watkins · Apr 11, 2020

Paul Glover said:
Your ping looked OK by what some were saying, did you check CPU usage?

I think it's most likely packet loss that's the problem. We're moving house at the end of the month (hopefully!) to somewhere with a better connection. I'll stay off your servers until then.

Fernando Deutsch · Apr 11, 2020

r!ver_cz said:
Sorry @Fernando Deutsch for the small touch at the end of the race I kept my line inside and you were closing the gap. But still waited for you, those races are for fun and I hate to ruin it.

No problem, I was struggling with a very damaged car and out of pace. Appreciate the gesture.

Had a good race start and was on a good race trim with the top 4. Unfortunately there was a collision in front of me at ~~Elf~~ Renault turn and I tried the most to pass through on the inside but was touched. Car was lightly damaged, but functional. Then a couple of mistakes put me a bit behind. Had another contact later and the car was more seriously affected. It was about 10 second pits repair so decided to gamble and not fix it. Had a good pit exit ahead of some drivers, but my car was very unstable under braking which was a nightmare in a couple of corners. Still good enough for a top 6 finish.

It was nice to race back again in RD

r!ver_cz · Apr 12, 2020

thestig171 said:
After leaving the pits I made a mess of letting @r!ver_cz pass me. I thought I had backed off enough to let you pass me before the corner, but I hadn't. I saw the replay and luckily you continued without losing to much time. Completely my fault!

I also thought there was enough space

Luckily it had small effect on my drive

Brian C Jensen · Apr 12, 2020

Fernando Deutsch said:
No problem, I was struggling with a very damaged car and out of pace. Appreciate the gesture.

Had a good race start and was on a good race trim with the top 4. Unfortunately there was a collision in front of me at ~~Elf~~ Renault turn and I tried the most to pass through on the inside but was touched. Car was lightly damaged, but functional. Then a couple of mistakes put me a bit behind. Had another contact later and the car was more seriously affected. It was about 10 second pits repair so decided to gamble and not fix it. Had a good pit exit ahead of some drivers, but my car was very unstable under braking which was a nightmare in a couple of corners. Still good enough for a top 6 finish.

It was nice to race back again in RD

Nice replay, cool too see the fight in front, too bad that incident happend. I had better pace that him but could not find a way too get past him. I thougt i took him in that corner but he came back and wee touch. Respect for him too wait for mee too come back on track again.

Peter Roche Racing · Apr 12, 2020

Here is the race from my view.

Michael Rudolf · Apr 12, 2020

Brian C Jensen said:
Nice replay, cool too see the fight in front, too bad that incident happend. I had better pace that him but could not find a way too get past him. I thougt i took him in that corner but he came back and wee touch. Respect for him too wait for mee too come back on track again.

First 15-20 Minutes were an absolute blast, many cars close together with similar pace, just great racing from everyone. I must have had a small contact with either you or @Geof in that incident, tried to avoid you guys aroud the outside but couldn't make enough room, sorry for that.

Ross McGregor · Apr 12, 2020

Seriously, if anyone has a replay of the first 30 minutes or so i'd be most grateful!

Michael Rudolf · Apr 12, 2020

Ross McGregor said:
Seriously, if anyone has a replay of the first 30 minutes or so i'd be most grateful!

Btw, just checked, default seems to be the "M" key to save the replay any time during the race since the limit is 75 minutes. Next time I know.

Justin S · Apr 12, 2020

I must apologies to all in yesterday’s race, particularly to Paul. I didn’t realize until after that I was the one logged in to Teamspeak as “RaceDepartment”, and missed the poke Paul sent. I don’t know how I pulled that off, aside from being new to the tool. No excuses; I’ll keep an eye on my login name next time. Thanks for the great race!

Ross McGregor · Apr 14, 2020

Some pics from the race. If I get the full replay i'll be able to get more from the start of the race! (server replay would do nicely

)

https://flic.kr/p/2iQ9tUW

https://flic.kr/p/2iQ9qna

https://flic.kr/p/2iQ9qqS

Ross McGregor · Apr 14, 2020

David Jessat said:
A brilliant race, many thanks. Although I have to apologize to Ross for that punt in lap one, I had a brilliant start, wound up on the inside, hard on the brakes and suddenly had another Aston in front of me, I am very glad I didn't spoil the race for you, I alsways try to stay clean, sometimes things are happening way to fast for me, I believe...

Also thanks to Jensen for the last couple of laps!

Thanks for the apology, but after punting me off you really should've waited for me.

David Jessat · Apr 14, 2020

Ross McGregor said:
Thanks for the apology, but after punting me off you really should've waited for me.

You are right, of course, but in the chaos of the first lap I did not want to risk slowing down and cause the next incident, when I realised you spun I tried to find out how far behind you were, a few laps later you appeared a few seconds behind me, so I prepared to let you by but then you went into the pits - I am very new to this, and since you didn't answer on voice chat I wasn't quite sure how to do this.