Moderator's Report
Excellent win for Clutch with the BT11 for the debut of Mountside Racing, and Peter a fine second with the same chassis. Roger and Jim also raced well. The slower chassis will be far more competitive at Albi- though it's fast, at least its tight!
A good grid for the first race of the Novices season, though I hadn't realised that we needed to create a new track65.ini so we ended up with a tight grid, my apologies. However the more experienced drivers contributed more than they should have to the pile-up, and might be advised to rely more on consistency than rocket starts.
Server replay time: 0h00m49s
L1 S/F
Graham and Billy collide off the line, neither much to blame, rather the tight grid.
Server replay time: 0h00m53s
L1 S/F
Bookie has been tapped from behind by Hezemans and has Burt overtaking him on the left, he moves over too much and collides with Vos. Again, I'm going to put this down to the tight grid.
Server replay time: 0h00m54s
L1 L'Eau Rouge
Bernie attempts to squeeze outside NHance at L'Eau Rouge, when there is only barely the width of a car to aim for, and though the server has no contact Nhance veers off to the right.
Many drivers were affected while Bernie got away scot-free. There were murmurs about 'poetic justice' and a 'criminal element' in the reports (though I made that last one up). However, with no contact and the cars not clearly moving closer together, there has to be some leniency. Get together and drink the club out of his favourite sherry?
Server replay time: 0h01m16s
L1 L'Eau Rouge
Burt seems to block the outside somewhat after his reset, but when NHance takes the opportunity to pass him and several others on the inside there is side-to-side contact. Only Burt and NHance are affected though.
It's difficult to pass so many cars at once, Burt could claim to be unsighted.
Server replay time: 0h02m11s
L1 Malmedy
Hurtubise goes out of control and Bernie clips him.
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L1 Malmedy
Vos goes out of control at Malmedy and neither Nhance nor Mike can avoid him. With Norbert losing his car independently of this incident, and Aulden going out of control trying to avoid, there was another pile-up.
Server replay time: 0h04m36s
L1 Blanchimont
Burt rear-ended Nhance, his car was then hit by Aulden, but he can't claim a free reset as he was already upside-down!
Server replay time: 0h07m54s
L2 Stavelot
Billy has to reset at Stavelot and is then clipped by Vos.
Server replay time: 0h08m31s
L2 Source
Bernie rear-ended Fabio at Source.
Server replay time: 0h11m30s
L3 Masta
Billy struggled for control at Masta, Aulden had to attempt a pass and there was side-to-side contact.
Server replay time: 0h14m00s
L4 Masta
Al passes Hurtubise before Masta then hits the barriers, Hurtubise loses control also and they collide.
Server replay time: 0h19m58s
L5 Source
Bernie loses control at Source and eventually hits Mike. This was the first of two curious incidents involving Bernie. He appears to be nudged into a loss of control by Mike on the outside, but there was a fair amount of space between them on the server replay.
Server replay time: 0h20m42s
L6 Combes
Hezemans lost control and NHance could not avoid him.
Server replay time: 0h21m17s
L6 Burnenville
Bernie squeezes Mike at Burnenville and there is side-to-side contact. Though there is no clear contact on the server replay the cars were moving together, and Bernie has far too much of Mike's side of the track.
Server replay time: 0h24m19s
L7 Combes
Hezemans fails to stop-and-go after having destroyed an engine.
Server replay time: 0h26m49s
L7 Malmedy
Fabio was far too close to Billy at Malmedy and rear-ended him.
I've waived the normal caution points as this was Fabio's first race with UKGPL.
Server replay time: 0h30m17s
L8 Blanchimont
Hurtubise slipstreamed Roguk into Blanchimont but allowed himself to get too close and rear-ended him.
Jim has watched Roger through Blanchimont on the previous lap without gaining on him, and after catching him on the straights the Ferrari has pulled away at every corner. However, when no pass is attempted the following car needs to maintain enough of a gap to make allowance for the braking zone, and Jim fails to.
I've waived the normal caution points as this is Jim's first race with UKGPL.
Server replay time: 0h31m50s
L8 Blanchimont
Bernie resets after a crash but fails to stop-and-go before the end of the race.
Server replay time: 0h33m45s
L9 Source
Bernie made a late attempt to outbrake Burt into Source and collided with him. Perhaps an element of warp but the collision was inevitable. Burt is allowed his free reset.
Server replay time: 0h33m46s
L9 Masta
Burt your report for this incident had the title 'Entering top corner of track what ever its called lol' and a server time of '300', which left Glyn unable to comment...
Glyn lost control at Masta and had to rejoin, after his rejoin he was very slow and also moved toward the centre of the track. Burt clipped him on Burt's replay, without any effect on Burt.
After drivers have recovered from an incident and before they have racing speed, they should stay away from both the centre of the track and the racing line if possible- though they should first of all drive straight down the track rather than angle across it, so that drivers approaching at speed have more chance to avoid them.
Server replay time: 0h39m05s
L10 After Carriere
Burt was passing Bernie when Bernie mysteriously lost control, if this was warp contact it was a huge warp.
Perhaps the new collision box on the Cooper might merit further obsevation?