Moderator's Report

Lap 1 - Approach to Crowthorne

There are two cars side by side at the dip before the braking point. Vinnie Kwicker sees a slight gap to the right of them and goes for it. He brakes late and attempts to go round the outside of Kevin Clark (KC). KC slows down along with the rest of the pack, VK does not and hits KC with his left rear as he passes him. Kevin is pushed left but luckily there is noone there and he recovers. KC loses two places through the incident.

This would be unacceptable driving in a pickup race but in a restricted Shift-R league race it is unforgiveable.

• Vinny Kwiker — Dangerous driving — 10.0 championship point(s)

Lap 3 - Crowthorne

VK has caught Pete Shill (PS) but does not get close enough down the straight to mount a challenge and PS is still well ahead at Crowthorne.

PS goes deep into the corner and gets sideways but recovers and is straight, on the racing line and under acceleration when VK rear ends him, knocking him off the track. VK drives off without waiting.

It is the responsibility of the driver behind not to hit the one in front. VK had plenty of time to slow down but I see no evidence that he attempted to do so, holding a constant speed on the racing line until it was too late.

• Vinny Kwiker — Hitting Pete Shill — 5.0 championship point(s)

Lap 4 - Crowthorne

Eddie Urbanski tries to dive up the inside of Griz from way too far back to have any hope of success. Griz is knocked unceremoniously into the Armco losing a wheel.

EU accepted responsibility, has since apologised and was on his way to serve a stop-go when he discoed.

• Eddie Urbanski — Hitting Griz — 5.0 championship point(s)

Moderator's Report

Pete Allnutt got too much power on at the start and slewed across the track into Ryk. At Monaco it's even more important than usual to start in a straight line.

• picnic — Over-aggressive start

Lap 1 - The Hill from St Devote: Ben Summers overtakes Pete on the right. Ben is clearly ahead and visible from cockpit view. Pete doesn't concede the place and drifts right into Ben ust before the road narrows.

They touch and both crash, causing the rest of the field behind them to crash. Many of the following cars had to use their shift R.

• shilluz — Over-aggressive driving — 10.0 championship point(s)

Lap 2 - Casino: JV continued after the second shift R and was involved in several incidents before he disco'd. As the one shift R rule had not been clarified at the time of the race I'll treat them as if he was still in the race.

• John Vizoso — Excluded from race — excluded

Lap 19 - Chicane: JV rear ends Ryk.

• John Vizoso — Rear ending

Lap 23 - Chicane: Ben rear ends Paul Bird.

• Ben "Welling" Summers — Rear ending

Moderator's Report

Lap 2 - Kink after Tarzan

Juan Vizoso spins on the exit of Tarzan and Clive Griffin hits him. This was unavoidable and a racing incident.

JV gets going first and takes the wide RH line round the following kink. CG tries to overtake him on the left but is going way too fast to stay left and drifts across into JV, taking him out.

There was plenty of room for CG to pass on the left but he didn't take enough care and was not really in control when he hit JV.

• Clive Griffin — Dangerous driving

Lap 2 - Second Hairpin

Vinnie Kwicker is accelerating out of the corner after recovering from an incident.

Kev Clark gets too much power down and hits VK, spinning him out.

VK was having trouble getting the power down out of the corner so was ripe for overtaking but there was plenty of room on the left for KC to do it. By taking the more normal racing line he was relying on VK getting out of the way before he got there.

• Kevin Clark — Contact with Vinnie — 5.0 championship point(s)

Lap 8 - Michael Boylan takes a second Shift R.

To clarify the position on this. You are not allowed a second shift R. If you end up in a situation where you are forced into taking one you should retire from the race. If you continue and come across another car I will view the incident as if you are being lapped. This means that if you hold them up or take them out I will apply penalties accordingly. You can only lose points by continuing.

• Linus27 — Excluded from race — excluded

Lap 22 - Main Straight

Clive Griffin is following Paul Bird and has been for several laps. PB has been taking the right hand defensive line down the straight to hold CG off and does so again.

CG gets a better exit from the last corner and tries to overtake PB. Unfortunately he does this on the right hand side. Because PB is on the right this forces CG onto the pit lane. He is not past by the time they reach the hay bales and he is forced to turn left into PB, taking him out.

This move was never going to work. PB took the same line he'd taken on previous laps and kept straight. CG was overtaking into a dead end.

• Clive Griffin — Contact with Paul Bird — 10.0 championship point(s)

Moderator's Report

Lap 1 - Eau Rouge

Vinnie Kwicker got a run down Pete's left at the start and was slightly ahead into Eau Rouge. VK stayed to the left but PS cut across into him, obviously unaware that he is there. PS bounced into the right hand wall while VK was unaffected.

After this Pete handled the situation well, staying out of the way of the following cars until he had picked up speed.

The other incidents around Eau Rouge were collateral damage around JV's Eagle.

This is the incident which was the catalyst for the major carnage. It was totally avoidable and both drivers are culpable, though Vinnie only partially.

JV passes the start of the left hand wall on the entry to Eau Rouge at 125MPH. The cars in front of him passed the same point at a more reasonable 103-110 or so. JV is forced to brake hard to avoid hitting Michael Boylan. He does touch MB but only lightly and they both drive on. JV has now slowed drastically though.

Meanwhile, VK has passed Pete Shill and is following JV through the dip. When JV suddenly slows he is caught out. He tries to stop but there's no hope and he rear ends JV, spinning him round and launching himself into the spectator area forcing a reset.

In 98% of cases it is the driver behind who is at fault when someone is rear ended. I view this incident in the other 2%. JV's reckless speed into the most dangerous first corner in GPL made the emergency braking inevitable. Anyone behind him didn't really stand a chance.

VK is not totally blameless, which is one reason why JV only gets a warning. He was going too fast for the traffic but in my view he was trying hard to leave enough room and simply got sucked into the accident by JV's sudden stop.

JV, having spun through 360 degrees continues up the hill on the left hand side of the road. A Brabham is spinning off in front and Kevin Clark's Ferrari is slightly sideways to his right. JV sees a potential gap to the right of KC and veers across the track towards it. Unfortunately Dave Gymer in a Honda is to his right. He hits DG at about the same time as he hits KC, sending Dave over the barrier and spinning KC.

This effectively blocks the road and several cars behind are caught up to varying degrees. Some have to reset.

This was the first corner of a 9 lap race, on a track where you can overtake just about anywhere and he was in the fastest car. There is no reason whatsoever for JV to go charging into the first corner like a missile and every reason to expect to hit people if you do.

The point of UKGPL is to provide a better racing environment than you can get in a pickup race. That means you take it easier into the first turn. Not much to ask. Hence the heavy penalty.

• John Vizoso — Excessive speed into Eau Rouge; dangerous driving resulting in a pile-up — 20.0 championship point(s) — 1 race ban (suspended)
• shilluz — Not allowing VK enough room
• Vinny Kwiker — Contact with JV

Moderator's Report

Start

Dave Gymer's engine blows as soon as he lets the clutch out. Good driving by the cars behind him (Juan Vizoso and Ryk Penfold simply stopped and waited) prevented the situation becoming worse.

Dave Shift-R'ed and the logjam soon cleared.

There were a couple of people (Mike Boylan and Clive Griffin) who also had major warping at the start which complicated the situation.

Having watched the start from every driver's perspective I think everyone drove very well so I'm calling it one big racing incident.

Lap 11 - Dave Gymer and Ash McConnell

Dave was following Ash into the right hander before the straight. Dave got a good run out of the previous corner and got alongside on the inside line into the right hander. Ash turned in, taking them both out. Dave waited for Ash.

This is a dangerous place for Dave to attempt a move but he executed it perfectly and would have won the corner in a real race where the other driver would clearly see him. Unfortunately this isn't real racing and Ash didn't know he was there. He should really have had some idea as Dave had moved off his mirrors but it's never easy.

Six of one, half a dozen of the other - racing incident.

Moderator's Report

Lap 1 - T1: Colliss, Clive Griffin and Michael Boylan.

Colliss got a good start and got alongside Clive Griffin into T1. In doing so he seems to have left his braking too late and the back end of the fridge steps out as he turns in.

Behind him Michael Boylan went for the same gap as Colliss. He brakes late to get alongside Clive and the move would have come off if Colliss hadn't slowed so much because he was sideways.

The person I feel sorry for is Clive. He did everything right, staying wide round the corner and giving them both enough room. It's not his fault that Mike and Collis come together and they both barrel into him.

Turn one, lap one you have to be careful. Colliss braked for the corner slightly later than he should have and Mike went to overtake Clive when he was maybe a little too far back. The combination of those two slight errors culminated in them taking Clive out.

Warnings to Colliss and Mike Boylan for not taking enough care at the start.

• Colliss Coll — Lack of care at start
• Linus27 — Lack of care at start

Lap 15: Ash McConnell rear ends Paul Bird

Ash goes to overtake on the inside of Paul. Paul sees him and stays straight but Ash stays almost in the centre of the track and hits Paul, forcing him to Shift-R.

Ash had plenty of room to his right so there was no excuse at all for him being so far over.

10 Point penalty to Ash for not giving Paul Bird enough room when overtaking.

• Ashley McConnell — Rear ending Paul Bird — 10.0 championship point(s)

Lap 18: Dave Gymer and Mike Boylan

Dave pulled off the move of the season round the outside of Woodcote. Mike follows him down the straight and tries to get the place back immediately into T1. Unfortunately he's simply too far back and takes Dave out.

Normally this would have got a penalty but in this case Mike stopped round the corner off the line and waited for Dave to go past. In doing so he lost as much time as he would have done through a stop-go and lost several more places so I don't feel any further action is necessary.