Moderator's Report
Solid pole-to-flag win for Mike that keeps him in the running for the Trophy, after a forgettable peformance at Watkins Glen. This time he kept it together on his parade lap. There was a complaint from one of the marshalls, though. Apparently after Mike had stopped to be handed cash for a hot dog, he took the slip road at Gresil, but just sped past the van.
Nicky did very well with the Cooper on a fast track, but might need to win at Mosport to stay in the running. Clutch took full advantage of a last lap slip by debutant Al Heller to complete the podium.
My compliments to Al Baldwin for a good rejoin at Nouveau on the first lap- unfortunately he then made a very dodgy one at Beauval, but still. Bernie would have had a good race had he used full fuel...
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Start
The server replay seems to show that Vos selected reverse off the grid and then teleported around causing havoc and more than one reset. He claims that this wasn't his fault, and it was fairly unusual behaviour, even for someone who pretends to be undead.
The server may have dropped Vos for a few seconds, then replaced him on track- with the inevitable comsequence.
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L1 T1
With the outside blocked Clutch moved to the inside at T1 just ahead of Jim. Jim then failed to anticipate Clutch's braking. Both Billy and Graham ran into Jim's stopped car and were entitled to no-fault resets. Jim doesn't appear to reset but certainly wasn't entitled to one.
There is an extra place penalty for a first lap incident.
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L1 Nouveau
Vos snaked under braking at Nouveau and then speared Billy when he lost control and continued on into the hairpin.
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L2 Scierie
Norm got down Roger's inside and then Roger moved over into him.
I'm not going to penalise this, as there was little effect on Norm.
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L4 Scierie
Glyn made an odd approach to Scierie, with an initial turn left that allowed Jim to get some overlap on his inside. He then took an early apex and speared Jim, with little effect on Jim.
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L5 Nouveau Monde
Vos had to slow at the hairpin for a recovering Maestro and Jim rear-ended him. Though there was a green flag Jim failed to keep an appropriate distance from the car in front.
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L10 Nouveau Monde
Maestro reset after an unforced error and failed to take a sng. As Maestro span on his last lap and was lapped by Mike at Scierie, I'm not going to penalise him as per my guidelines for the Novices- however had he not been lapped there would have been a 30s penalty.
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L14 Nouveau Monde
An eyebrow-raising rejoin from Billy, after several near-misses he finally collided with Clutch.
Though Nouveau Monde is not a great corner to be facing the wrong way, drivers should use reverse gear off the track as much as possible to improve a difficult position.
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L17 Nouveau Monde
Norbert made warp contact with Billy's rear end, there was then further warp contact between Billy's RF and Norberts LR.
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L18 Scierie
Heartbreak for Al Heller, as he went wide at Scierie on the final lap. Clutch overtook him when a yellow flag was being shown for an incident ahead, however since Al had gone entirely off the track there is no penalty.