GTAL 2010 news from 5th and 6th rounds (3 Hours of Fern Bay Gold and 6 Hours of Aston Historic Reversed)

3 Hours of Fern Bay Gold (Round 5)

Because of lack of time, to prepare for the qualification, we started in 19th position. But just after 3 laps the red flag was risen. It was the worst news for us, as our one driver had to leave after 1 hour after race start. It took quite a while race to restart. After 19 laps, we were in 13th position but unfortunately we had to do mandatory driver change, as we mentioned before, our driver had to leave. After driver change we drove 13 laps more but we decided not to continue the race as in any case we would still break the 75% rule, so there was no point to race. Everything would have came out well if not that red flag. After this misfortune we dropped from 3rd to 6th place in standings.

6 Hours of Aston Historic Reversed (Round 6)

We started in 10th position and beginning of the race was wonderful, because in 4th lap we already were in 2nd place. Unfortunately it wasn‘t for long, as in 7th lap we made mistake in „corkscrew“ and spun, which led to broken suspension and 18th place. But our problems didn‘t end with this accident, as later we made the same mistake in the same corner and dropped to 26th position and we had to pit because of damage. Later on we drove consistently and we tried to save tyres in order not to do additional pit stop. After 2 hours racing, we were in 15th position. After a while we had to pit for the 3rd time and before the pit we were already in 13th position. In 3rd pit stop we did driver change and the next driver came back into 18th position. In the middle of the race, because of flipped car, safety car drove away from the pits, which was very good news for us, as we got a chance to catch up everyone else. In 4th race hour we made some mistakes and lost some positions and just before 2nd driver change, we were in 6th position. We had many opponents behind us, which were very fast and were waiting for someone‘s mistake. 1 hour to race end, 7Karat car, driven by N.Gebauer, started to push and after some time they overtook us, but not for long. As M.Runas did the best he could and retook the lost position. Left just 10 minutes to race end we noticed that Something Awful Racing car, driven by E.Smith, was much slower than us and the gap between was just seconds, so we started to go beyond our limits and after some fighting we got 1 more position. Unfortunately, in the main straight, when we were fighting with E.Smith, we made contact, because of which we got 2 seconds penalty. So in final results we were 5th but we got championship points for 4th position, as there was guest team car in front of us.


In last round we will try do our best, to get as much points as possible, because gaps between championship points are real small. We wish best of luck to all teams!

It's about the time for final Grand Touring Amateur League's round. This round is very important for us as we still can reach the podium, but it will be very hard to achieve, nevertheless we will do our best to attain our goals. We will start in 11th position, we not satisfied with this result because we had done better time in qualifying session No.1, sadly, because of our indiscretion, it was not counted, as we were not using required skin. Anyways, we wish best of luck to all participants. See you in the track!

Two Deadline team members, A.Staškevičius, and M.Runas decided to participate in Apex Cup, but as it's almost summer and the weather is good, we don't expect to achieve something or to take podiums, we're just going drive for fun. Today is the first race of the season, it will be held in Aston North with Formulas V8. The race will happen at 18:00 UTC and it will be broadcasted. More information is available here.

News from Deadline Team



Hello, you probably noticed that for a long time we haven‘t written any news from racing world, but this was because we were on summer holiday, however summer ended and cold, murky winter evenings are coming, when we again, little by little getting into racing tracks. We already participated in annual 16 hours race hosted by RacingMinds team, we also participated in a 1st round of GTAL competition, but about this we‘ll tell later. On the holiday time there were some changes in our team, Aidas Staškevičius and Jonas Bakšys have left the team, also but not for a long time Klaidas Gasiūnas joined us, he helped us in 16 hours race. Even if there‘s only 5 members left in our team, we‘re still strong and looking forward to participate in various tournaments and events.


Report from GTAL Round 1 at Kyoto National Reversed



So, just yesterday was the opening of a 3rd GTAL season, unfortunately it wasn‘t successful for our team. By the 2nd session qualification last year scenario repeated, we forgot to put on GTAL skin, for that reason we lost our fastest qualification lap, the only relief was that the difference between fastest laps wasn‘t so big, we lost only 2 positions. In the final qualification results we were 14th. Race start was very painful, in the first lap, after Safety Car lap, was a lag crash, after this incident we fell down to last place. After 8 laps we were running in 21st place, but to Modestas Runas, who was driving at that moment, fps got low immediately. For this reason he had to stop in order not to make incident. Everything further went well, but at the end of a first hour we were worrying about tires condition, for that reason we decided to do some setup corrections by the pit stop, but we didn‘t knew that setup changes require damage repair, we spent 24 seconds more then doing usual pitstop. When we came out from the pits we were a bit disappointed because we fell very lowly. Driving further was really difficult, it was hard to concentrate. At the end of a second hour we climbed up to 16th place, but to climb higher was really hard because the difference between cars in front of us was very big. When Povilas Klimanskas tookover the car, Modestas Runas wanted to save race replay, but sadly he entered replay title into „Enter message“ window. Soon we got DRIVE-THROUGH PENALTY, we lost about 20 seconds and fell down to 19th place. First half of last hour went well, but again we faced an incident because of lag, after which the car was spinned. We haven‘t lost any positions, but The Danish Racing Team started to breath into our back, but we were able to stand against them. When there was left only few minutes to the race finish, safety car came into the track. Race ended up by the safety car phase. We finished in 15th place. For us this race was worst in a whole GTAL history, but we hope that in other rounds we will finish in better positions.


Report from 16 hours race at Fern Bay Black Reversed



Just like the last year, this year we chose to drive with FZR GT2 car, only this year it went much better. In the race participated Domas Raižys, Klaidas Gasiūnas, Modestas Runas and Povilas Klimanskas. We started in the first server from 4th position in our class. Race start was fluent and it continued for 6 hours, by that time we got close to 3rd position, but unfortunately then we made some rough mistakes and as a result we lost some positions, after that everything proceeded inconstantly, we tried to regain lost positions, but we couldn‘t evade mistakes, after some time we succeeded to regain 1 position, we drove in the 5th place, reaching 4th was desperate for us, but ev0»Racing GT2 team broke the allowed number of drivers participating in race, in that case we finished 4th. The final results you can see by clicking on the link - http://tracker.16h.dms2003.org/.