Gents,

Welcome to round 4, this time at Monaco.

Good luck to all. Please report any incidents you wish investigated.

Cheers,

Steven


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Race date = 11-05-08
Track = Monaco
Damage Model = PRO
Qually time = 35 minutes

You must NOT start qualifying until 30 mins is left on the clock to allow for reserves.

Race length = 34 laps


Groups Based on Divisional Standings:

Group 1 - 1st and 2nd - Limited to BRM, Cooper or Honda
Lorenzo Galluzzi
Hristo Itchov

Group 2 - 3rd and 4th - Limited to BRM, Cooper, Honda or Brabham
Glyn
Clive Gardner

Group 3 - 5th and 6th - Cannot take Ferrari or Lotus
John Roberts
Syd Drake

Group 4 - 7th and 8th - Cannot take Lotus
Napo
Mike Wrightson

9th and below - Free choice of chassis.

If you want to take a chassis other than those you are restricted to, you will need to make the appropriate pit stop(s), as follows:


Group 1

Chassis	One Stop	Two Stops
Lotus	41	18
Ferrari	22	NA
Eagle	17	NA
Brabham	12	NA

Group 2

Chassis	One Stop
Lotus	24
Ferrari	4
Eagle	SnG

Group 3

Chassis	One Stop
Lotus	19
Ferrari	SnG

Group 4

Chassis	One Stop
Lotus	15

The pit window is as follows:

First pit stop to be taken between 26 and 17 to go on your pit board. If a second stop is required it must be taken at least 1 full lap after the first and before 8 to go on your pit board.

Steady qually and steady race. No point trying to run with Lorenzo and Hristo so I just tried to keep it on the black stuff. I ran wide early on at Virage de la Gare and Kruger nipped through. We did touch but thankfully we both survived unscathed. Soon after Kruger spun at Gazometres and I was back through. For the remainder of the race I watched my pitboard and maintained the gap. I did try to up the pace at times but I just couldn't seem to string a whole lap together without some minor error somewhere. I was gifted 2nd when Hristo slipped up. I think he was doing my trick of circulating on three wheels hoping for some retirements for a little while after that. 

I think that might be the Lotus put away now. I'm not a fan of Zandvort but I'm really looking forward to the sequence of addon tracks. Laguna and Pau are amongst my favourite circuits.

Taking the Honda really wasn’t the smartest idea, but I had a setup for it and I’ve got to race it here in another league pretty soon, so I thought why not. As I said in chat it’s a bit like getting a whale to do a Seaworld show in your bath tub. Anyway, lap 3 would be the last time I hit the brakes entering the swimming pool.

After the spin which you witnessed, I lost places to Syd and John and then tried to do put some pressure on John who wasn't having any of that and only thing I put the pressure on were the tyres. I then slid across the armco with my lefts and overheated them and tried to slow down to cool them off but then made mistakes one after another.

It then felt as stuffing down my throat something I really don't like to eat so quitting lingered on my mind and eventally I did just that.

Great race!
I did a good lap in qualifying  and got the pole, with Hristo very close to me...
The start was pretty good and i was able to came out of the 1rst corner as the leader, but Hristo was definately faster and made a big pressure on me and i did a mistakes, so he passed me...
He pulled away and after some laps the gap was increasing, but he made a mistakes on tha last hairpin and after break a wheel....
The rest of the race was quite and got the win...
Grats to all the finishers!

Lorenzo

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