Well spotted Steve, apologies for that. Yes the race will start 21.00 GMT+1. First post now updated.
Are you serious? I know that we don't speak the same language --- I'm a Yank --- but in what counting system isn't 2100 GMT + 1 = 2200 GMT?
Not that it would have made any difference for me, since I spent the last two weeks practicing at the original Papyrus Spa track. Imagine my surprise when two hours --- well, maybe one hour, or maybe three hours --- before the race I tried to log onto the UKGPL track at IGOR and was told that I didn't have the right track installed. Oops. So I went through the drill that others experienced simply trying to overcome the installation issues while thinking to myself, "How different can these two Spas be, really?" I think we all know the answer to that little puzzle.
I'm not Robert Fleurke and I can't learn a track in one lap. Even after the first half-hour offline my 3:26 Cooper times at Spa were still no better than 3:45 laps at the new and improved Spa since I really didn't know where I could put that front tire and not wind up in a hospital. Eventually I wandered over IGOR, logged in, and watched in horror as I repeatedly posted 4:10 laps or worse in what I thought was going to be a 5-lap practice race. OK, I consoled myself. I still have about half an hour before the real qualifying begins. I staggered through a lap or two in last or next to last place, went off the road into a barn, and disconnected to go to the bathroom and put cotton in my ears to keep the blood from leaking onto the keyboard.
I'm not sure when I realized that I'd actually been in the race. It might have been when I tried to get back into the server but was greeted by a red "x." So much for that experience. Two weeks from now I'm logging on at noon and I'm not signing off until the server bounces me. And I know that noon everywhere is when both Mickey's big hand and little hand are pointing to "12."