Was sad for you Tommy ! Really great to hear you'll continue in that way

BTCC races was really nice to see Awesome climb from Jackson in race 2 and Plato into last race.

Such a bad week end for Shedden and Neal

Quote from Tomhah :

I am here/there already I know Momo (Morgan Trollé) is coming on Sunday :-)

Might come on Saturday aswell, probably afternoon. Still got lot of stuff to do so that's pretty unsure. Anyway I will be there on Sunday.

Quote from boothy :

Morgan, why couldn't they have it like Spa and Silverstone this year where the WEC run the event and the local entries join the WEC race? That's the sticking point, ALMS want to have it as their own race which means the WEC is playing second fiddle = https://twitter.com/specutainment/status/251923506701422592

Mainly because of ELMS going to Petit Le Mans.

Cars that did Le Mans 24 hrs had to be rebuild completely for Donington 6hrs. In general that kind of cars have some engine rebuilt and heavy rebuild after 30 hours so you can do two events without any serious rebuild and three if you have a good stock of spare parts to make it go a bit further than 30 hours.

For Petit Le Mans, there is 10 hours of racing + 7hours of official free practise and few over hours of private practise. As European team were only offered one 40 feet container, you can't take that many spare parts and you should be awared that European teams are renting material to american team. Basically it isn't really possible to do a lot of serious work there (wheel bearing for example require some special tools that teams like IMSA Performance can't send oversea in order not to endanger other racing programs).

Basically Petit Le Mans cars has to be completely rebuilt like a Le Mans 24 hours car because it has already nearly 10 hours of racing at Donington.

Last thing is that in the US, GTs are using E85 fuel, so that's require few changes like fuel tank, fuel pump, fuel lines,...

FIA WEC at Spa was 25 August, so car were going to be back in the workshop on 27 August. IMSA Performance has sent his car to the US on September 10th so basically mechanics would have had one week to get the car ready. With many suppliers slowed down by summer holiday, that would be an hard program.

Furthermore, in term of money (that's always about that in fact), Petit Le Mans is like two ELMS event. So it really replace Brno & Portimao. Spa was replacing Zolder and it was almost the same budget. So if a team wanted to do Silverstone and Petit, it would have required an additionnal budget. Budget have been (in general) fixed on late February.

To be honest, for being part of that kind of racing team. Believe me, ELMS+WEC at the same time is by far the best way to have strong grid. The thing is that ALMS teams don't really car about WEC exept Krohn Racing. We only find some european teams that were previously in ELMS (Greaves, Felbermayr, ...). That kind of championship require to have 15 people and a car that only do that championship, that is really expensive. Last year when ELMS and ILMS had several races in common, it wasn't that bad as you could entered a car in both championship and half the races was racing for both championship with only one car. So two championship with one budget = 50% cheaper !

Anyway, one day ACO & Peter Auto would maybe listen to teams to know what to do...one day maybe they listen someone else than Audi...but that's another story.

Session of Incident Race
MPR Timecode ~5:48:20
Lap and Location of Incident Lap restart lap (133) , oval section
Your Car Number 06
Other Car(s) Involved 40
Brief Description of Incident
Does not cost us much time but we think it was pretty dangerous driving from #40. Our driver caught his draft in the hairpin and was going to change his line to go through when Lobato changed suddenly his line to block us by being in the lane Miro was going to overtake him, causing #06 car to clip his back. Later into a turn in the oval, Miro manage another side by side and Lobato move again to close the door in a quite hard racing move.

Btw we don't really aim this protest for a penalty for #40 but only as a warning for mister Lobato. That kind of racing after a safety car is really dangerous and in real life it would have some dramatic consequences.

What an intense finish ^^

Yeah Intrex you have probably chosen the worse place to spin :P Sad it cost us probably win in AM class. But that's the race I suppose.

Miro did awesome job ! Sad to see our PRO car only 4th, a podium would have been possible with our pace but luck wasn't with us exept that last SC (that wasn't luck as AM car would have a strong 10s lead on GenR).

Gratz 3id for the win, ineX for the championship, genR & Bazinga in AM and ofc organizator that really did awesome job this year. Would regret to have made no laps this year in that championship tho.

@mister Lobato : You are allowed to change your line to defend position, but please do it BEFORE someone changed his line to overtake you or at least to not close the door like that. In oval section this is pretty dangerous.

Session of Incident Race
MPR Timecode 4:37 ish
Lap and Location of Incident Lap 107, around sc1
Your Car Number 16
Other Car(s) Involved 67
Brief Description of Incident
#67 defending position while being blueflagged and being warned in irc. It eventually finished both car to had contact and #16 to lose time, lead in AM class and had to pit to change tyres few laps before.

What a stupid decision...I still don't get why didn't WEC use ELMS and ALMS as base like ILMC did in 2011! It worked perfectly and some teams were doing double program!

Now ELMS have poor grid, WEc is way too expensive.I don't get the point at going to Bahrein...

Sebring (ALMS)
Silverstone (testday for rain tyres) (ELMS)
Spa (if silverstone isn't enough it can help)(ELMS)
Le Mans
Sao Paulo
Petit Le Mans (ALMS)
Fuji (Asian)
Shanghai(Asian)

ThaT sounds sexy!

Well the difference is that Chevy was run by RML and Citroën programm will be run most probably by Citroën Racing.

Quote from JJ72 :

potential engine power is pretty much not relevant as well since all cars have to run a restrictor, none of them are being ran to the max, what counts is more about reliability, and oh the sound it makes too.

This...GT3 class

Epic news !

Well 24 hours of le Mans 1968 took place in September, so ...

I agree with Isaac and Miro !

Good luck Tommy and TRR

Quote from kiste :

well good luck.

Ps. The skin reminds me of some reallife corvette. And it just looks good from sideview.

This skin remind me that : http://gt418.files.wordpress.c ... 1/mspeed-34-p7.jpg?w=1000

Best of Luck Niki and the team !

Nice skin and nice group of fast driver !

Always great to see the addition of one other fast team

Last edited by MoMo92i, Thu 20 Sep 2012, 00:55.

Keep it up Rockclan ! LLM had a bad reputation few years ago but they are overcoming it and imo now LLM is a respectful team. Ofc there are still some black point but I think every team have some.

You have Tommy who is really a great guy to help you for that

Now if I can give you some advice from a former Team leader (E-Team); listen what James told to you and choose carefully your team member

Good luck!

:o what???

ride height Mister jack made my day again ^^

#50 Corvette excluded (again)....

I still miss Peugeot !

Well Rockclan that wasn't an attack. Just an observation. With such a line up you might be in top teams next few races. I wish you sincerely good luck for that.

Quote from IsaacPrice :

Rockclan: I meant what you've done in the past. 95% of the people posting here are posting because of the reputation you've given the team. You can't change the past all you can do is make people forget about it by showing things have changed on track and off track.

Fixed

Btw I don't think the argue is about if TRR guys are paid or not. Some would think it is a normal thing, other would say LFS is just a game and not real life and being in sim racing team is not a real life job.

For me it wouldn't be a reason why I would join a team especially if it has a low reputation. Anyway gratz Tommy & NiKi for building a strong line up. Now don't be an nFinity eSport #2 and show us on track what TRR can do. Atm Isaac is right, although you have shown some nice pace, TRR have never been a dominant force in any top level league like GT2WS.

FU ! Really great team with awesome talent and skills Always interested to race you

sad news, such a great man !

Good luck Reno in your new home. Was fun to be under spdo banner with you !

Btw gratz TRR, one more rocket power for you