Moderator's Report
First race of the season and a full grid. So were we all good and everybody got through the Red Zone cleanly?
Errr... not quite.
I could have penalised the entire field just about but I have chosen to be extremely lenient as this was very difficult for Novices to deal with. The point of penalties is to improve driving.
If people will not or can not improve, they WILL be penalised.
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Giovani blows his engine and makes a Pit stop and resets in the pits. He does not take an additional stop and go for resetting, which he should do. You CANNOT take your stop and go before you reset.
To compound the error he drives into the pit THROUGH the pit wall, which was specifically mentioned in the race post.
The pit at Kyalami is very difficult to enter at high speed and not having the wall in place gives a definite advantage.
Unfortunately both of these are penalised by disqualification.
I must apologise for publishing this late. I had forgotten to add the incident before publishing.
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Fabio gets too close to the back of JohnnyP and taps him. Johnny helps cause this by changing his line under braking having got too close to JonnyO. I cannot stress enough that racing hard into T1 is a recipe for disaster in the mid-field. It was just all too tight and carnage ensues. Al is left nowehere to go and is one of many innocent victims!
Paul V finds anovel way to avoid the jam by spinning on the kerb at Crowthorne, crossing the track and re-joining on the other side! Amazing!
Boggy slows but is biffed by Adam who then rejoins into Billy. Boggy having done the right thing unfortunately then blots his copy book by joining right in front of Bernie.
Bernie is late through after being tagged by Ivan. Ivan then goes on to side swipe another driver and narrowly gets away with an ill-judged rejoin in front of Nigel.
After a cracking start Nigel is a bit too keen to get on the gas out of Crowthorne and inspects Rog's exhaust a bit too closely. Unfortunately for Nigel he is launched skyward by Roberto.
Once Mr Smith starts off again, he does well to avoid Boggy who literally disappears in front of him.
Tony shows everyone how it should be done by slowing and weaving through!
ALL the drivers mentioned could have been penalised - please be more careful at T1. Losing a second on the first lap will not lose you the race but it might mean somebody else's race isn't ruined.
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Roberto is caught out by Billy having an earlier braking point. It is the responsibility of the driver behind to ensure that they do not hit the man in front. Having track position allows a driver to control the pace and the driver behind MUST ensure that they do not plough into them.
In the spirit of this moderation, the penalty is ameliorated.