24 Hours of Spa
Team Tortoise has a car entered into the first 24 hour race held at iRacing.
This is multi class racing with 3 Cars of different pace,there will be around 57 cars on track.
HPD ARX 01c
FORD GT
RUF C-SPEC
Now that we have driver swaps we can have 3 or more drivers to help with the racing.
The 4 drivers for this race are
Andy Gooderson (Old Tortoise)
Jonathan Butel (Nfinity)
Rens Broekman (Coanda)
Thomas van Bussel (Nfinity)
I would like to thank www.coanda-simsport.net and www.nfinityesports.eu for lending me a couple of Drivers 🙂
This is our car for the race.
A BIG thanks to Rens Broekman of http://simdesignr.blogspot.co.uk/
For painting the Team car for this event.
And Average of the teams 3 driver’s times got the car into the shoot out stages where the top six cars get to do 1 lap qualify.
Of course you put your fastest driver in the car for this lap, here is Rens doing his lap,
One out lap and then the run to the Finish.
No off tracks or your out and the time would not count, so the pressure was on for all driver’s.
LIVE 24 HOUR RACE NOW ON
How far will Team Tortoise get ?
4 to 10 hours
10 to 14 hours
14 to 16
16 to 24 +
So how did it end….
Well on the last lap of my last stint 2hours before the end and 4 laps in the lead…..At the Top of Eu Rouge i had a slow down penalty for running wide
No worry, there was no one around so i took it early on the left…braked as hard as i normally do to loose speed and dropped a gear….but i dropped 2 gears it seems and the car shot right
there was nothing i could do to save it…..i never knew what had gone wrong till the following day when i looked at my replay. i have no idea why it or I dropped 2 gears, but it locked the rear in a instant.
Got it back to the pits with the steering at 90 degrees out, had some repairs and Rens like a true hero took her out for as long as she would go.
In the end the engine blew up and our day was done.
So from leading for 20 hours and 4 laps into the lead in the end we Got 9th place in our Class and 29th overall.
We were the team with the least inc in our class and 2nd over all cars.
In the 2nd server we had 43 inc as a team in 433 laps……something i am very happy with.
So i am very sorry for the team for my none incident that turned into a race ending one.
It’s not over until you cross that finish line.
Well done to Team vApex for taking the win from the back of the field, Good job guys.
Braw looking new website Andy.
Still wishing for a new PC, old G25 still in storage !!!
Sumch
Hay Sumch
Long time no see 🙂
Race is TODAY 5PM
Live race for 24 hours here http://www.iracing.com/live/ or here http://racespot.tv/24h/live/
Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TngnDgBdvrA
Andy
yes mate, I’ve missed some of it as I was having dinner.
I watched the whole qualifying and I’m looking forward to the race, hope my crappy lappy does the job… 24hr stress test 🙂
PS. That was a great qualify lap by =TT=
I wont ask your driver strategy as other Teams might copy 😉
well that’s it for me it seems, lost picture at 9pm and cant get back on !!!
nothings ever easy for Sumch and PCs 🙂
Server will be back up soon…….doh
16 mins will be under yellow
cheers, got it back 😉
looking good.
nice bit of coverage with TvB at the wheel
I’m looking on in amazement, thinking back to the old days of GTR etc etc when we struggled to keep 8 cars on the road (mainly down to Hairy at the 1st corner) for a whole race.
What I’m looking at now with 4 man team, driver swaps, different classes is just brilliant.
Sumch
well I had to sleep, just missed JB going slightly off-track but hear commentators talking about not for people to drive real life tired, good to see =TT= still going strong 🙂
what happened, everything was looking so good, that was great endurance racing.
come on Ruf get to the finish line.
gutted for you guys…. engine failure !!!
you can all be very proud leading for that amount of time, total domination to be let down by the car !!!
well done
Sumch
Yeah bit of a bugger Sumch
we were 4 laps in the lead and 2 hours to go, i was on my last lap of my stint.
No worries and no rush, i had a off track at Eu rouge got a slow down.
No one near me so thought i would take it now…brake and shift down….but it double shifted and locked the rears and sent me into the wall in a split second.
Oh shit….Gutted for the Team.
I got it back to the pits with the steering at like 3 oclock
Rens was a hero and got some fixes done and drove on for a lap…but it was still buggerd…so came in again had the last fixes done,,,but engine was under power and not well.
But he took it as long as she would run……Then Bang.
Ferk…
Cheers for watching mate.
If you ever get your ts up and running again we are on as normal 🙂
It was a great watch, I missed about 6hrs over the 24hr period, between 12-6 and had an unwanted snooze around 10-11ish.
Nipped downstairs for a drink (I’m off the beer) to come back and hear that something had went wrong with the =TT= Ruf but they didn’t know what !!!
Don’t know if my Lappy has a built in mic but there’s no separate socket for one. It has Windows8 and its f**kkin useless :)))
I can see by the time of your reply you still like the all-nighters 😉
cheers
Sumch
i not going in a team with Sumch hehehe bad enough on GTR
Thanks Biggy pal !!!
I don’t drink drive anymore :)))