JBR-Kiwi

I currently dart around the A roads of Northamptonshire in a 2017 VW Polo Gti 6C
 
Bought a couple of years ago as I was missing the feeling of racing on a regular basis thanks to various injuries, and just wanted something that made my drive to work a bit more interesting. 
 
Was torn at the time between a couple of different cars like the Golf GTi/R and a BMW 125i/330, but saving for a wedding at the time and remortgaging the house made me consider finances and thought I needed to be a bit more sensible. 
 
It’s a great little car for me and the wife, with plenty of power and great handling and regularly makes me laugh. Definitely surprises a number of more powerful cars in the twisty bits.
 
Only downside is that it’s not got much space in the back and pre Covid I was spending every week at the fuel pump spaffing away 50quid a time on Mr Shells finest 😂

Great race last night, eventhough trying to do a no stop on Hards saw me come last 😅
I was experimenting with settings last night and I think I'll give that a miss from now on.
I was also gobsmacked that Softs lasted the full 11 laps...so much for my testing 😥
 
I'll post up the results and league table tomorrow after @GazzaGarratt shows me how to embed it in the forum 👍

Just wanted to say a massive thank you to @GazzaGarrattand everyone at FG for the surprise parcel posted through my front door containing GT7. 
 
Like Lee mentioned, my playtime has been massively reduced thanks to the arrival of my son in my life. I wouldn’t wish things any different but things are not the same as before in many ways so it is so difficult to play up to date games with everybody nowadays.
 
Hopefully I will see you all back on online real soon and I really can’t express enough thanks for everything you guys and girls do 🙂 
 
 

Just wanted to say a massive thank you to @GazzaGarrattand everyone at FG for the surprise parcel posted through my front door containing GT7. 
 
Like Lee mentioned, my playtime has been massively reduced thanks to the arrival of my son in my life. I wouldn’t wish things any different but things are not the same as before in many ways so it is so difficult to play up to date games with everybody nowadays.
 
Hopefully I will see you all back on online real soon and I really can’t express enough thanks for everything you guys and girls do 🙂 
 
 

Just wanted to say a massive thank you to @GazzaGarrattand everyone at FG for the surprise parcel posted through my front door containing GT7. 
 
Like Lee mentioned, my playtime has been massively reduced thanks to the arrival of my son in my life. I wouldn’t wish things any different but things are not the same as before in many ways so it is so difficult to play up to date games with everybody nowadays.
 
Hopefully I will see you all back on online real soon and I really can’t express enough thanks for everything you guys and girls do 🙂 
 
 

Just wanted to say a massive thank you to @GazzaGarrattand everyone at FG for the surprise parcel posted through my front door containing GT7. 
 
Like Lee mentioned, my playtime has been massively reduced thanks to the arrival of my son in my life. I wouldn’t wish things any different but things are not the same as before in many ways so it is so difficult to play up to date games with everybody nowadays.
 
Hopefully I will see you all back on online real soon and I really can’t express enough thanks for everything you guys and girls do 🙂 
 
 

I would very much be up for this especially as I have just bought a new crash helmet for a potential return to my racing past 😄

Whilton Mill near Daventry is another possibility if you are looking at other venues. Brilliant circuit well maintained and great on-site facilities (restaurant etc) and are open to group events like the one I am participating in this Easter Sunday for charity(70+ entries). 

I would very much be up for this especially as I have just bought a new crash helmet for a potential return to my racing past 😄

Whilton Mill near Daventry is another possibility if you are looking at other venues. Brilliant circuit well maintained and great on-site facilities (restaurant etc) and are open to group events like the one I am participating in this Easter Sunday for charity(70+ entries). 

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Good racing last night and looks like, with one race left, a Kiwi will take the championship. The last race will be three laps around the Nordschleife, so that will be a laugh.
 
When the league finishes I might do something to keep us going until GT7.
I was thinking of doing a fun championship where everyone has to use the Mazda Roadster with boost and high slipstream on tracks we don't usually use (short courses for example).

Big congrats to Mr @phil bottle on his win last night! I believe that this is the first race in three seasons that hasn’t been won by @Grebothor myself, so I’m pretty sure we are both going to work extra hard in next weeks race to try and restore the status quo! 😂
 
This weeks race seemed so simple but it was clear that from the off in practice that tactics were going to play a massive part in the outcome of the race. Drafting played a incredibly important  on this track with a good draft easily saving you half a second on your lap time. From lap one it was clear that fuel saving was going to be the main strategy with Phil being the only person to say fuck it and go balls to wall every lap 😂
I’m absolutely gutted that I made my move half a lap too soon and ran out of fuel exiting the final corner!!

Big congrats to Mr @phil bottle on his win last night! I believe that this is the first race in three seasons that hasn’t been won by @Grebothor myself, so I’m pretty sure we are both going to work extra hard in next weeks race to try and restore the status quo! 😂
 
This weeks race seemed so simple but it was clear that from the off in practice that tactics were going to play a massive part in the outcome of the race. Drafting played a incredibly important  on this track with a good draft easily saving you half a second on your lap time. From lap one it was clear that fuel saving was going to be the main strategy with Phil being the only person to say fuck it and go balls to wall every lap 😂
I’m absolutely gutted that I made my move half a lap too soon and ran out of fuel exiting the final corner!!

Big congrats to Mr @phil bottle on his win last night! I believe that this is the first race in three seasons that hasn’t been won by @Grebothor myself, so I’m pretty sure we are both going to work extra hard in next weeks race to try and restore the status quo! 😂
 
This weeks race seemed so simple but it was clear that from the off in practice that tactics were going to play a massive part in the outcome of the race. Drafting played a incredibly important  on this track with a good draft easily saving you half a second on your lap time. From lap one it was clear that fuel saving was going to be the main strategy with Phil being the only person to say fuck it and go balls to wall every lap 😂
I’m absolutely gutted that I made my move half a lap too soon and ran out of fuel exiting the final corner!!

It was a shame that you missed this weeks races mate as I think you and the GT86 would have suited this track with the Toyotas low tyre wear and fuel saving capabilities!
 
Really enjoyed this weeks race especially the race long battle with @Greboth in our aircraft carrier length Stuttgart specials! Shoutout to @GazzaGarratt whose pace in practice and qualifying certainly worried me as I think there was even more pace there, and if you can nail the race pace as well you would be extremely difficult to catch!
 
The Mazda race was absolutely hilarious between @GazzaGarratt @Greboth @slamminbones  @phil bottle and myself and until the last two laps it genuinely could have been any one of us who could have won it! However I am extremely glad it turned into demolition derby and I could get away 😂
 
I urge everybody to get on for next weeks race if they can as it will likely be one of the funniest races you will ever compete it!!!

It was a shame that you missed this weeks races mate as I think you and the GT86 would have suited this track with the Toyotas low tyre wear and fuel saving capabilities!
 
Really enjoyed this weeks race especially the race long battle with @Greboth in our aircraft carrier length Stuttgart specials! Shoutout to @GazzaGarratt whose pace in practice and qualifying certainly worried me as I think there was even more pace there, and if you can nail the race pace as well you would be extremely difficult to catch!
 
The Mazda race was absolutely hilarious between @GazzaGarratt @Greboth @slamminbones  @phil bottle and myself and until the last two laps it genuinely could have been any one of us who could have won it! However I am extremely glad it turned into demolition derby and I could get away 😂
 
I urge everybody to get on for next weeks race if they can as it will likely be one of the funniest races you will ever compete it!!!

It was a shame that you missed this weeks races mate as I think you and the GT86 would have suited this track with the Toyotas low tyre wear and fuel saving capabilities!
 
Really enjoyed this weeks race especially the race long battle with @Greboth in our aircraft carrier length Stuttgart specials! Shoutout to @GazzaGarratt whose pace in practice and qualifying certainly worried me as I think there was even more pace there, and if you can nail the race pace as well you would be extremely difficult to catch!
 
The Mazda race was absolutely hilarious between @GazzaGarratt @Greboth @slamminbones  @phil bottle and myself and until the last two laps it genuinely could have been any one of us who could have won it! However I am extremely glad it turned into demolition derby and I could get away 😂
 
I urge everybody to get on for next weeks race if they can as it will likely be one of the funniest races you will ever compete it!!!

It was a shame that you missed this weeks races mate as I think you and the GT86 would have suited this track with the Toyotas low tyre wear and fuel saving capabilities!
 
Really enjoyed this weeks race especially the race long battle with @Greboth in our aircraft carrier length Stuttgart specials! Shoutout to @GazzaGarratt whose pace in practice and qualifying certainly worried me as I think there was even more pace there, and if you can nail the race pace as well you would be extremely difficult to catch!
 
The Mazda race was absolutely hilarious between @GazzaGarratt @Greboth @slamminbones  @phil bottle and myself and until the last two laps it genuinely could have been any one of us who could have won it! However I am extremely glad it turned into demolition derby and I could get away 😂
 
I urge everybody to get on for next weeks race if they can as it will likely be one of the funniest races you will ever compete it!!!

Missed last week due to prior commitments, and I'll be missing this week's due to a wedding! Normal service from me willresume next week 🙂

Good racing last night, I did my best in the Nissan but star of the show was @GazzaGarratt in the VW Scirocco, just a shame he couldn't convert those fast laps times into race pace.
 
And I don't know where @JBR-Kiwi  get the energy 🤗
 
Testing for next week's Mazda fun race was also interesting and will turn on boost and strong slipstream for the lols as it's the season's fun race.
 
Latest standings for Season 3. 
 

Position Driver Race 1 Race 2 Race 3 Race 4 Total Pts 1 JBR-Kiwi 25 25 n/a 25 75 2 Greboth n/a 15 25 20 60 3 phil_oi 12 20 20 12 54 4 GazzaGarratt 15 11 11 15 52 5 TehBluebear 20 8 n/a n/a 28 6 Mikepjbell n/a 12 15 n/a 27 7 Crispy n/a 10 12 n/a 22 8 slamminbones 11 9 n/a 11 20 9 Diddums n/a n/a 10 n/a 10

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ive been promised that I will still get Thursday nights but we shall see if that actually happens! If he doesn’t get a wriggle on then it’s looking very likely I will miss next week at least…
It was really unlucky for you fella clipping that barrier it would have been a really close race at the front between @Mikepjbell  @phil bottle you and me. 
 
Well done @phil bottle  on the podium, it was a really good race and I was rather worried that I had made a mistake by choosing mediums instead of softs, but thankfully the pace (whilst slightly slower) was quicker then the hards which gave me a chance at running long. 

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ive been promised that I will still get Thursday nights but we shall see if that actually happens! If he doesn’t get a wriggle on then it’s looking very likely I will miss next week at least…
It was really unlucky for you fella clipping that barrier it would have been a really close race at the front between @Mikepjbell  @phil bottle you and me. 
 
Well done @phil bottle  on the podium, it was a really good race and I was rather worried that I had made a mistake by choosing mediums instead of softs, but thankfully the pace (whilst slightly slower) was quicker then the hards which gave me a chance at running long.