Further mixed fortunes for Team Vires in GT2 World Series
8th August 2012.
Another round of mixed fortunes for Team Vires passed at the latest round of the GT2 World Series at the demanding Westhill International. Mirroring previous rounds, both cars had the pace to win and finish highly in their respective classes but bad luck hit both as it did at Fern Bay Black, the previous round. With both classes qualifying out of place, 9th and 19th for Pro and Am, both Matias Pikkarainen and Piotrek Krzyżanowski made excellent starts - by the end of lap 1 Pikkarainen was 5th, challenging 4th and Krzyżanowski was 9th about to pass 8th. However, whilst Pikkarainen quickly moved past 4th placed BAZINGA Team and chased Genuine Racing for 3rd, Krzyżanowski produced a fantastic stint to climb as high as 6th before the end of his stint, leading the Am class.
From there it went downhill for the Am class, with the Safety Car coming out at a very bad time for the setup they were running, new recruit Łukasz Paszczyk struggled throughout the remainder of the stint with tyre temp and was subsequently pushed off the track by another driver, which was recognised as a racing incident post race. Meanwhile in the Pro car, Sean Lyddon produced one of his best stints since returning to Vires to hold off the interests of Simon Cattell and Krasmir Ivanov despite both being a little faster and slightly more robust than the Vires driver. At the end of his stint, Lyddon had successfully caught back the time lost during a Drive Through Penalty to be within 1 second of 2nd placed CoRe Racing.
Entering the 3rd and final hour, James Peace took over the Pro car whilst Krzyżanowski returned to the Am car only to suffer further bad luck with a mix up of communication resulting in the Am car and a few other cars colliding causing massive damage and overheated tyres, which dropped the Am car out of contention for a strong finish. Meanwhile, Peace was reaping the benefits of Lyddon's strong stint to pass Meriluoto in the pits and to come out of the pits only a few seconds down the road from CoRe and GenR. It was then a case of stalking GenR after Peace quickly passed the struggling CoRe car of Axel Falck. At around 20mins left of the race, Peace passed ex-Vires driver Klaidas Gasiunas, now in the Genuine Car, for 2nd place and stayed there til the finish. The strong result in Pro sets the car up for its aimed top 5 finish in the championship as both teams set off to South City Long on 1st September looking for their début win!
Also a very warm welcome to our newest singing Marek Jagiello!
8th August 2012.
Another round of mixed fortunes for Team Vires passed at the latest round of the GT2 World Series at the demanding Westhill International. Mirroring previous rounds, both cars had the pace to win and finish highly in their respective classes but bad luck hit both as it did at Fern Bay Black, the previous round. With both classes qualifying out of place, 9th and 19th for Pro and Am, both Matias Pikkarainen and Piotrek Krzyżanowski made excellent starts - by the end of lap 1 Pikkarainen was 5th, challenging 4th and Krzyżanowski was 9th about to pass 8th. However, whilst Pikkarainen quickly moved past 4th placed BAZINGA Team and chased Genuine Racing for 3rd, Krzyżanowski produced a fantastic stint to climb as high as 6th before the end of his stint, leading the Am class.
From there it went downhill for the Am class, with the Safety Car coming out at a very bad time for the setup they were running, new recruit Łukasz Paszczyk struggled throughout the remainder of the stint with tyre temp and was subsequently pushed off the track by another driver, which was recognised as a racing incident post race. Meanwhile in the Pro car, Sean Lyddon produced one of his best stints since returning to Vires to hold off the interests of Simon Cattell and Krasmir Ivanov despite both being a little faster and slightly more robust than the Vires driver. At the end of his stint, Lyddon had successfully caught back the time lost during a Drive Through Penalty to be within 1 second of 2nd placed CoRe Racing.
Entering the 3rd and final hour, James Peace took over the Pro car whilst Krzyżanowski returned to the Am car only to suffer further bad luck with a mix up of communication resulting in the Am car and a few other cars colliding causing massive damage and overheated tyres, which dropped the Am car out of contention for a strong finish. Meanwhile, Peace was reaping the benefits of Lyddon's strong stint to pass Meriluoto in the pits and to come out of the pits only a few seconds down the road from CoRe and GenR. It was then a case of stalking GenR after Peace quickly passed the struggling CoRe car of Axel Falck. At around 20mins left of the race, Peace passed ex-Vires driver Klaidas Gasiunas, now in the Genuine Car, for 2nd place and stayed there til the finish. The strong result in Pro sets the car up for its aimed top 5 finish in the championship as both teams set off to South City Long on 1st September looking for their début win!
Also a very warm welcome to our newest singing Marek Jagiello!
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By the way admins, drivers who contined to tyre warm after being told not to - will this be investigated?
New lesson learned, protest everything in the hope of gaining places. Good game Krasi.
Funny that, because having watched the replay only we get rear damage and you do not. Very strange, and given your recent exaggerations I'm inclined to not believe a word you say. I think before you start accusing other people of mindless contact you should watch all you make contact with other drivers during a race - you are fast but sometimes you have to lift off and this was one of those instances. I believe that your words are reciprocal, you want Sean to learn when there are other drivers around him, I think you should also. And also realise what cold tyres do to a car and therefore bigger margins must be given. A clear example of this is Lap 1 Turn 1 where you spin Simon around because, and I don't want to over use this, you are not aware where other cars are. There was an avoidable incident that could have easily been avoided by yourself. I would also take a leaf out of your team mate's book, notice how he lifts off the gas into T1 when I pass him to get the run at me? And that was even on warm tyres! I think you need to stop exaggerating Krasi.
Was a pretty fun race, with Maddee doing really well jumping from 9th to 5th in first sector and then Sean driving a pretty solid stint after his cruise bind fail (doh!) and then I was able to be close enough to pick off GenR and CoRe and we had some small little battles in that process which was fun! Real shame about our Am car yet again, no luck but good pace! Be sure to see you all at SO4 
I do think this is a slight over exaggeration lol.. "quite many seconds" when having watched the replay myself there was very minimal contact which was always going to happen with little room and cold tyres. You lost 0.41 seconds mate not many seconds. I see no issue with what Sean did as he was alongside for a majority of the straight and when he did pass had sufficient steering lock to avoid a collision had the tyres been warm, the drift wide was due to lack of tyre temp and in the end it didn't cost you anything. I think this was a racing incident to be honest, not a malicious act of careless violence that cost you "many seconds".
I do think this is a slight over exaggeration lol.. "quite many seconds" when having watched the replay myself there was very minimal contact which was always going to happen with little room and cold tyres. You lost 0.41 seconds mate not many seconds. I see no issue with what Sean did as he was alongside for a majority of the straight and when he did pass had sufficient steering lock to avoid a collision had the tyres been warm, the drift wide was due to lack of tyre temp and in the end it didn't cost you anything. I think this was a racing incident to be honest, not a malicious act of careless violence that cost you "many seconds".
Neither myself nor Arco can join the IRC for some reason, connect times out.
Changed Ben's first name so it's easier for you guys to pronounce
Rest in Peace a friend of mine's Father.
LFSW is MaurizioNaselli, I know this is a very difficult time for him and just wanted to show him some support here.
LFSW is MaurizioNaselli, I know this is a very difficult time for him and just wanted to show him some support here.
The opposite being qualifying is not tomorrow and the pre-qual results are out and nobody qualified?
Naaah just kidding - seems legit glad you guys are keeping a close eye on this.
Naaah just kidding - seems legit glad you guys are keeping a close eye on this.
Qualifying is tomorrow and no pre-qual results are out.. I'm guessing everyone qualified?
I used Ctrl + F5 and it works fine now.
The reaction of the guy next to him is priceless.
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I do remember - and everytime I watch it I always feel like I want to race iTCC right now!
Changed Sean's name from Willynames to Lyddon.
teamName: Team Vires
car: FZR
class: GT2-Pro
number: 06
drivers:
- {vipex123, James Peace, England}
- {xtraction, Sean Lyddon, England}
- {Matias-, Matias Pikkarainen, Finland}
- {hahmo, Miro Rauti, Finland}
teamName: Team Vires
car: FZR
class: GT2-Am
number: 16
drivers:
- {przemek21061995, Przemek Wdowiarz, Poland}
- {Pietter, Piotrek Krzyżanowski, Poland}
- {orchideus, Ben Kalicki, Poland}
- {luki97, Łukasz Paszczyk, Poland}
car: FZR
class: GT2-Pro
number: 06
drivers:
- {vipex123, James Peace, England}
- {xtraction, Sean Lyddon, England}
- {Matias-, Matias Pikkarainen, Finland}
- {hahmo, Miro Rauti, Finland}
teamName: Team Vires
car: FZR
class: GT2-Am
number: 16
drivers:
- {przemek21061995, Przemek Wdowiarz, Poland}
- {Pietter, Piotrek Krzyżanowski, Poland}
- {orchideus, Ben Kalicki, Poland}
- {luki97, Łukasz Paszczyk, Poland}
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I think harassing one for weight is a bit old don't you think, I can empathise with Walter as I have a friend in the same situation. I your happy then who cares what you look like.
Road cars have never been used for endurance really, so I don't see why we shouldn't use it. Plus people like Joe suck in GTR's so we have to let them have a chance with everyone else, plus there are plenty of people out there who do laps day in day out with the STD class and I feel it would be great to endorse that group of people into league racing. I mean the STD leagues that have been run that I have seen have always brought in a really good diversity of drivers who are prehaps unknown to most but competitive because its in their comfort zone. baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasically what I am trying to say is I dont care what we use, when we use, where we use it as long as it brings competitive drivers and grids and I think Road Car Endurance is the answer to that.
I am along the same lines as Fram, with half my roster being developing drivers and more often than not it being easier to field an Am car in GT2WS I am always looking for leagues I can enter those drivers in for experience - it's the only way they will improve. However, this is very difficult with no leagues that match their level to train in. Whilst I admit GTAL will not come back, something along the same lines as it should return. Prehaps if we are going to go down the road car endu route, we could try some form of GTAL-esqe road car league to see the amount of interest before an MoE style league later in the year. I would love to see a GT1WS and GT2WS on the calender, just because I know that some people feel GT2 is "below" them and do not race them, but race GT1 a lot. I think that multi class GTR leagues is definitely a big no as it dilutes racing and reduces grids, but I cant see why GT1WS and GT2WS wont enjoy success.
Yet again it is down to interpretation of the rules.
Red Bull have been referred to the FIA for an alleged illegal engine map.
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