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Welcome to the Team Shark Online Racing website.

Founded in 1993 with brother Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer, Team Shark is an active online racing team run by co-founder Simon 'Shark' Gymer. The team is currently participating in online racing competitions using games like GTR 2, iRacing and GT Legends, continuing a long and illustrious history in the simulation racing genre.

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NEW SETUP: Setup (iRacing, Dallara IndyCar, Infineon (Long)), uploaded by Mike Wrightson, Tuesday, March 09, 2010

NEW SETUP: Setup (iRacing, Spec Racer Ford, Laguna Seca), uploaded by JonM, Monday, March 08, 2010

NEW SETUP: Setup (iRacing, Riley MkXX Daytona Prototype, Watkins Glen (Boot)), uploaded by Gizmo, Sunday, March 07, 2010

NEW SETUP: Setup (iRacing, Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS, Road Atlanta (Short)), uploaded by Gizmo, Sunday, March 07, 2010

NEW SETUP: Setup (iRacing, Dallara IndyCar, Road America), uploaded by Kerr, Sunday, March 07, 2010

Series News - GTR 2 > SimRacing.org.uk > UKGTR Endurance

by FreQ, Sunday, February 28, 2010

S12UE - Rd1 Monza

S12 began at Monza, a track that I like but haven't raced at for a long time, way back in S5! Ruskus made a return and used the difficult Marcos to full effect by sticking it on pole convincingly. I had not got comfortable in the Saleen or Lister, so was happy to take 4th on the grid behind Supersonics Jayblue and Berger.

GT1 Pole 1:40.525
GT2 Pole 1:47.241

FreQ passing Berger

Jeff's long first gear meant he lost a little ground off the start but held on well into T1. Berger seemed to be very cautious on the brakes and from quite a long way back I went round the outside to take 3rd and continued to pull a small gap. I'd stuck softs on for the first stint and Berger seemed to be conscious of getting too close to his team mate, so I can put this one down to good fortune!
The race started to spread out, with Ruskus and Jayblue pulling out at the front and Berger closing back in on me as my tyres went off quite quickly. Picnic suffered from "wandering Porsche syndrome" along Monza's long straights, although this was Sunday evening - a few drinks were probably contributing to it...In any case, he had a decent battle with TT for much of the race.
I stopped early to switch to mediums whilst Berger stayed out and managed to jump me during that time, which was disappointing but not unexpected. After a few laps of pushing and still losing time, I settled into a slower pace and kept an eye on my fuel to bring the car home. Ruskus had made a good stop and was now clear in the lead from Jayblue who had kept second place.
David M out of gas

This stayed very static until Berger cut the track 1 to many times and got a stop/go, handing me a very fortunate 3rd place. On the very last lap new Shark David M managed to run out of fuel out of Ascari and coasted to a halt just before the line; with everyone wreaked in the traditional post-race smash up, he was stranded and failed to make the last lap. Gutting!
A good start in GT1 as we lead the team championship and Ruskus is out front in the drivers standings with me 3rd. Picnic is 5th overall in GT2 and David's fuel cock up means 8th is his for now. More of the same from Ruskus and I hope to be more dialled in for the next race.

Race Results and Standings. See you at Suzuka on 14 March.

Series News - GTR 2 > SimRacing.org.uk > UKGTR Endurance

by Prof, Monday, January 04, 2010

UKGTR Season 11 - Race 5 - Spa

The Team Shark GTC drivers started the second half of the season at Spa famous in real life for its ever changing micro-climate. This certainly proved true on this particular race night which challenged the whole field to the limit.

Qualifying started on a wet track which was drying fairly fast. Picnic got to grips quickly with the conditions with the Spyker and was faster than some of the slower GT1 drivers for most of the session. Prof managed to get runs in on wet, intermediate and dry tyres and was on a promising lap when the session ended leaving him second behind Picnic. Dave had done little or no wet weather driving and ended up six spaces further back on the grid.

As the drivers prepared their wet race setups, the track turned from wet to damp and Teamspeak was full of 'What should we do now? type questions. Unfortunately no one guessed right.

Picnic and Prof started on slicks hoping things would get drier as they had in practice. Gizmo started on inters which proved no better once the rain got harder and harder. All Team Shark GTC drivers needed to pit early for wet tyres which cost places to those who had started on wets.

Slowly the Sharks made their way up through the field as others made mistakes in the wet, slippery conditions. Picnic's scheduled stop coincided with a period of drier weather and he put slicks on hoping to be the first to make the most of the improving conditions. Unfortunately things did not stay dry for long and soon the deluge returned forcing Prof to cancel his pit request for dry tyres (one lap further on the wets saved him from Picnic's fate). After Picnic left the game, Prof and Gizmo battled on to the end on the wet tyres being too far behind those who guessed right and started on wets to finish 3rd and 5th.

Not the best result after a 1-2 in qually but useful points for Team Shark who in the absence of Ginsters gained a few points on the Kerb Crawlers in the team championship. Prof has temporarily borrowed the GTC championship lead from SbG who will be expecting to regain it when we race at Magny next time.

Series News - GTR 2 > SimRacing.org.uk > UKGTR Endurance

by Prof, Monday, December 21, 2009

UKGTR Season 11 - Race 4 - Oschersleben

The Team Shark GTC team gathered at a cold, wet Oschersleben for the half-way race of Season 11. Qualifying was a bit of a lottery in the very wet conditions where merely staying on the track whilst bringing tyres up to temperature was difficult in itself. As usual Ginsters was miles faster than the other GTCs in his Spyker (and some of the GT1 drivers too for much of qualifying). Pete mastered the wet conditions best of the Sharks to grab second with Prof in fourth and Dave two spaces further back.

With everyone expecting it to be wet all race, setup adjustments were made accordingly. As expected SbG zoomed ahead with Pete trying hard to minimise the gap. Prof was stuck for the early laps behind Matt Rowe and although he felt faster in some parts of the track, he got nowhere near an overtake until Matt fell off on his red hot soft wet tyres. Prof stopped very early for slicks when the rain stopped to try to catch the leaders but although he had better pace, it was also easier to make mistakes. Dave made steady progress on his wet tyres benefitting as others made mistakes to progress through the field to tenth place before he stopped for slicks after an hour. Pete made similarly sensible progress by staying in the track as others fell off and profited when SbG made a rare mistake to take a richly deserved win for his consistency during the race.

The other GTC Sharks kept things safe to the end to wrap up a second Team Shark 1-2-3 of the week and in the process grabbing a narrow lead in the GTC championship. Keeping that lead will remain a huge challenge for the second part of the season.

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	Type: Driver Position: Runner Up Series: Prototype Challenge, Division 3 (Race), Season 4 (2010) Driver(s): Gizmo
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