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UKGPL Season 21 Porsche Super Cup
Race 4 Silverstone

The fourth round of the championship sees the Porsches arrive at Silverstone, driving around the former World War 2 Bomber Base.

Half the circuit is in Northamptonshire and half is in Buckinghamshire, and it was first used for motorsport in September 1947 when 12 friends held an impromptu race on the deserted airfield. One of them, Maurice Geoghegan, from Silverstone village ran into a sheep writing off his car. The sheep didn't fare too well either and the race became known as the Mutton Grand Prix.

Drivers should be especially careful on lap 1 as usual but hopefully this fast circuit will not compress the field once safely through Becketts.

Please see the Porsche Super Cup registration thread for an explanation of the Team Setups:
https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=9197.msg166098#msg166098

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE CHECK WHICH SERVER YOUR TEAM IS RACING ON AS IT WILL NOT BE THE SAME FOR EVERY RACE OF THE SEASON.

1 TEAM NAME - Pasti Porsche - SERVER 1
Driver 1 - Pro - Tom Van Ostade
Driver 2 - Am - Nicky Ickx
Driver 3 - Nov - Norbert

2 TEAM NAME - Porsche International - SERVER 2
Driver 1 - Pro - Juha Hallikainen
Driver 2 - Nov Wink - Ronniepeterson
Driver 3 - Nov - Axel Cookie

3 TEAM NAME - Clark Hill - SERVER 2
Driver 1 - Am - Geoff Heard
Driver 2 - Am - Steve Bird
Driver 3 - Am - Vlad Vosblod
Reserve - Nov - Happy Al

4 TEAM NAME - Hiki-Waza 1 - SERVER 2
Driver 1 - Pro - Hristo
Driver 2 - Nov - Paul
Driver 3 - Nov - Blito

5 TEAM NAME - Hiki-Waza 2 - SERVER 1
Driver 1 - Pro - Evil Clive
Driver 2 - Nov - Nigel Smith
Driver 3 - Nov - Karliss

6 TEAM NAME - Black Knight - SERVER 2
Driver 1 - Pro - G Jonsson
Driver 2 - Am - Pedro
Driver 3 - Nov - il_lupo_mannaro

7 TEAM NAME - Team Coyote - SERVER 2
Driver 1 - Pro - Raoni Frizzo
Driver 2 - Nov - Jonny'O
Driver 3 - Nov - Du Fossa

8 TEAM NAME - Team 7 - SERVER 1
Driver 1 - Pro - Fulvio Policardi
Driver 2 - Am - Bob Whitwell
Driver 3 - Nov - s2173

9 TEAM NAME - Team GPFun - SERVER 1
Driver 1 - Pro - Andrea Tendas
Driver 2 - Am - Sergio Lonzar
Driver 3 - Nov - Roberto Baldassarri
Reserve - Am - Gianni Sellitto

10 TEAM NAME - Pastit Porsche - SERVER 1
Driver 1 - Am - Phil Thornton
Driver 2 - Am - Natan
Driver 3 - Nov - Francesco

11 TEAM NAME - LOL'TEAM - SERVER 1
Driver 1 - Pro - Guérout Tom
Driver 2 - Am - Bot Tristan
Driver 3 - Nov - Lenclen Maxime

All drivers may join the server immediately but are asked not to go out on track until there are 30 minutes of qualifying left as this helps all drivers join the server successfully.

Please restrict chat to pit messages if necessary, and this includes the end of the race, until all running drivers have completed the necessary laps.

The Porsche Super Cup Races will be run across 2 Servers, under Pro rules and will be approximately 50 minutes in length.
Lap 1 will be fully moderated and thereafter will be reported incidents only.

SERVER 1
Race List = IGOR
Server = UKGPL_T7_2
IP address = 62.149.202.168
Race date = 17/06/2011
Time = 21:00 UK time
Track = Silverstone
Variant = GT67
Damage Model = PRO
Qualifying time = 35 minutes. Don't start until 30 mins left on clock to allow everyone to join.
Race length = 33 laps
Password: see above (#post_event_password)

SERVER 2
Race List = IGOR
Server = GPG_8
IP address = 62.195.32.131
Race date = 17/06/2011
Time = 21:00 UK time
Track = Silverstone
Variant = GT67
Damage Model = PRO
Qualifying time = 35 minutes. Don't start until 30 mins left on clock to allow everyone to join.
Race length = 33 laps
Password: see above (#post_event_password)

The Team Championship Standings can be found here:
https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=309&theme=6

GT67 Mod: The GT67 Mod for GPL can be downloaded here:
http://www.sportscarlegends.net/index.html

Team 11 - welcome - are going to be blisteringly fast if BREASTS is anything to go by!

What times did they do?  ;D (getting excited)

1:30:104 leading in race!

Can anyone tell me how to move the pitboard in the Porsche?. All the relevent info is obscured by the windscreen frame, and I need to push it out wider and up a bit higher. Thanks in advance,
Geoff.

Then I guess it's finally time someone else gets the most severe handicaps.  ;D

Geoff this came up under the general UKGPL thread, I think. Do a search in there and I will take a look later as well.

H, you finally have some competition but we won't always be on the same server but Tom is REALLY good. I  had to check to make sure it wasn't you!

This is what you want :):
http://www.sendspace.com/file/zmihxz (http://www.sendspace.com/file/zmihxz)
Throw in object folder (backup the original pitboard.srb first ;))

Just noticed that you don't have to backup the original one.
It's inside the object.dat file ;D.

I knew, I had it somewhere  ::):
Here's Lee Bowdens batchfile for quickly changing the pitboards.
( And Ginettos explanation of how to edit them  ;D)

http://www.sendspace.com/file/njdr4i (http://www.sendspace.com/file/njdr4i)

Thanks Norbert. I knew you'd done this before.

I`m away for this one so Samb will be driving "my" car.

Göran

Both servers are set for 33 laps Long Pro races and listening on Igor.
Ciao

He did a 129:92 last night in a race on the practice server......

I'm 80% sure I'm going to be free tomorrow, so if any team needs a reserve driver let me know, and I can confirm availability tomorrow.

Cheers

Arf

Welcome onboard to the latest team. But remind me again who exactly is not a Pro in the LOL team???

Good point.  ???

Yep, thanks Norbert........is there an echo in here??     ::)

It is Maxime - who is missing this one :D

Attention please!

Last nite, while at least 13 of you were practicing on server _3, it has been impossible for me to join because of timeout error and the server showed ping = 9999. I hope this evening all will be adjusted.

Thanks in advance.

Fulvio, sorry for short notice but I won't be able to make it tonight, off to a music festival, only decided to go last night.

Perhaps there are a few 'spare' drivers lurking.

Have a good race.

Bob.

Thanks for the info Sergio - I am really unsure why you and Fabio have problems connecting. You have been successful in the past though, haven't you? I will also check tonight because it may be that I set the number of drivers to 12 (it is the default) by accident - the thirteenth would be the server. Don't think so but I will check.

Sure! I've been able to join till 2 days ago but yesterday nite not at all.

Thanks anyway.

Don't worry Sergio, we're racing on the official servers tonight.
Ciao

Fulvio

I'm available if you need someone

Arf

OK Bob no problem, have fun!

Arf we have Stefano62 as reserve, but I haven't heard nothing from him yet. Please come in chat tonight and we'll sort out. Thx for your offer :)
Ciao

The teams will be made up of 3 drivers from the same GPL team, and the total points tally for the 3 drivers in the team must not exceed 6, so a team could be made up of the following combinations:
1x Pro
1x Amateur
1x Novice
OR
3x Amateur
OR
2x Amateur
1x Novice
OR
1x Pro
2x Novice

So which one of the racing two (Tom and Tristin) is the amateur circulating in the 1.30's at Silverstone and 21st band 16th irespectively in the overall GT67 rankings???

It seems to me we accepted a couple of new teams without even ranking their drivers first.  ::)

Sorry, something has cropped up and I can't make this race tonight  :(  My seat in Pastit Porsche is available.

Arf sorry, Stefano62 has confirmed his presence.
Ciao

The problem with such a popular series attracting drivers from other leagues and countries is that we are not all familiar with them or how they race.

Just as our 65 chassis are moderated, so to will our Porsche teams be monitored.

If our new arrivals seem to be more Pro than they claim then we will give them the offer to rearrange their team or maybe even split into 2 teams by adding a couple of slower drivers. We do still have a slot free over the 2 servers.

BTW 1:30 around here isn't that fast is it?  ;)

Team 7 don't need me - happy to fill in @ Pastit if required

What...............
If "here" isnt Silverstone I agree  ;D

No chance for me to join tonite :'(

Hi guys :).........
I  don't understand everything well , so , in the end are we autorised to race this evening ?
 ???

Well, pleased I never got chance to practice.  Race lasted 1 lap, car disappeared from the screen in front of me in a braking zone and reappeared attached to the front of the car! That somehow made the engine catch fire  ???

Tim, sorry if I turned in too early at Abbey.  I ended up in between 2 cars I think and was trying to leave room both sides!  Obviously didn't work.

Ronnie....... I am very very sorry to run in to you!
I was so re leaved to see you could drive further.
You were going wide and I thought I give it a go............please forgive me.

Bi side the accident I had a very nice race with you Ronnie.
Also Axel and  Jason were fun to drive with.

Thanks all for racing and UKGPL for hosting.
Congratulations Hirsto, Juha and Sam.

Cu next time.
Greetings Pedro.

Well, if on tuesday I was Jensen, then tonight I was Lewis! I had soo much speed in the race but I just couldnt make it work for me! I was sitting in a comfortable 4th place when I lost concentration and put a wheel off at Abbey - it cost me half a minute of lost time! I then set about chasing the pack in front, passsing Ronnies stricken porka at Maggotts, and chasing down axel, getting my best lap time of a 32.9 on the way.. I caught him with 2 laps left to go and promptly outbraked myself.... almost caught him again on the last lap but clipped the kerb and lost the car big style!  Not my best outing but I still gained 6 places from yet another dreadful starting position!

Gentlemen,

It would be REALLY helpful if you make sure that you join the correct server with the correct car (Cookie, Du Fossa :( ). Also if you are guesting, please put a post in to let me know which team you are running in. It helps to avoid guesswork. Martin - I have you in the Hiki Waza 2 team - was that right or were you Team 7? Let me know and I can correct it.

I have had to edit the HTML race result and the race reports to remove incorrect drivers and I have to map unknown drivers to their forum names. If you have not raced before, a post to let me know what your driving name will be is also helpful. Not that I mind the hour or so it has taken me to get the results in... <sigh>. Suppose I asked for it.

Race was ok, had three mins qually after chasing Du Fossa off T7 (Thanks Fulvio) Sorry about the shouty chat there - I didn't know how to chat to just one person. If people want a giggle they can see me taking Du Fossa out in a less than subtle attempt to get his attention. Didn't work though. Lol.

I felt very sorry for him as he qualified nicely on T7 and then had a really bad time on GPG8. Sorry mate.

I just decided to limp round and see what points I could get with most concentration on not getting in the way. I had mixed success. Juha hit me when I tried to leave room at Copse, Axel span off when I was too slow at Beckets and Fabio was more eager than a beaver when passing me for last... I wasn't fighting it. Vos had earlier misunderstood me and backed off. Lol. I am not quite that slow Tim!

Jonny O disappeared by me on Lap 1 and I didn't see him again until well into Copse where he had a warp moment I think. Scary. Lots of crashes ahead and I was amazed that so many people escaped.

Finally came to life at the end and wanted to hold Fabio off but coming out of Abbey I saw yellows and knew my Teamie was there - time to take to the grass. Arrrgggghhhh. Fab is past and I can maybe get him on the Farm Straight as he has a poor exit but I think better of it - I didn't want to put us both out at the last corner so I just settled in behind three laps down.

Overall good fun but as I was running a temperature I felt I did OK. Got home and got some points for the team.

Go Hiki Waza. Well done H. Stunning although I think you might have your hands full with French Tom. What would a Tom, H, Tom sandwich be called?

Another short one for me then. Got hit on first corner, not sure if that contributed to the camshaft giving up on lap 2...hey ho.

As a newbie, I'm still trying to find my around all the pages and threads. I've checked the PSC Silverstone pages, and the PSC registration thread - I can't see the post that tells me where to look for the server 1 replay (it may not have been uploaded yet, I'm not chasing whoever has that job). I know this info will be somewhere, just need to know where to look.

Thanks

Arf

My job, Colin. It is being uploaded now. The replays are stored under the 'Replays' item on the UKGPL front page - top left, just above forums. Should be obvious from there.

Any problems give me a shout.

There's no way I could've done a low 30, not even a mid 30, at least not with my setup. Tom was kind enough to send me his, so I'll take a look at it and try to figure out if it was the setup or that he's just a much quicker driver than I am.

My race was a lonely one for most of its part, after the initial scrap with Sam and subsequently Juha was brought to an end when both made mistakes and dropped back. Despite making some errors, I could gradually increase the gap back to Juha and keep 1st, even with an off near the end when the wheel lock up bug kicked in.

I must congratulate Sam on his great pace in Qualifying!

Paul  :euro:
sorry for making extra work, but when I tell you what happenend you will laugh:  :jumpjoy:
After some great fun racing this afternoon with Andrea in LeMans with my ChapF I was a little tired  :yawn: and laid down.....
AWAKING  :o ...dark outside!?...21:18GMT on my clock.....uhhhhhhhhhh  :cursing: ....pc started.... looking which server Juha is....pw.... and go!....still 17minQuali....but car sounds strange deep :o .... OMG wrong car!  :oops: ...leave server ... rejoin  

Practice went ok but couldnt make a 2nd stint where I use to make my best times

Race start was good as I managed to keep fast Pedro behind me following Ray. Could keep Rays pace but Pedro was  pushing hard behind, so I decided to be a team player and defend. So Pedro had a very defensive  Cookie to swallow, what he finally did after some laps in an excellent maneuver  :thumbup1:
Still a little sleepy my pace went down until I saw Pedro and Ray in the green. Could pass them carefully with Jason getting bigger in my mirror.
Tried to get faster but Pedro was coming again from behind. Now I wanted to defend my position but Pedro is better in infight  :fencing:  
So I dreamed further when in last laps this Jason came again pretty near promising a hard last lap. But he made a mistake in one of the last corners and made me a lucky 5th :thumbup2:

Gratz to podium and all finishers
Thx for great racing

Cheers

The results currently show me as subbing for Hiki-Waza 2, and much though I admire their talent, I'm fully paid up, as a reserve for Pastit Porsche. ;D

. . . . . . . . . . . . fast food?  :clown:

There's not a lot to tell here.  My biggest battle was with a building, which I happened apon at an awkward moment.

An ok grid position, was cancelled out by a dive across a curb, during the first lap, to avoid a car in front.  It's time those were ripped out!  Recovering, I was pursued briefly by Fulvio, and at greater length, by teammate Natan.  And I was just considering  where to let him by, when my disobedient car decided for me! A touch too much opposite lock, and some new territory suddenly opened up before me.  Sadly, the property developers had beaten me to it, and I was only allowed a brief visit, to an exterior wall.  I don't like to grumble, but this caused half the cylinders on my motor to fall off, and the race wasn't even half finished yet!  Surprisingly, as I'd hit face first, no other damage was done - except for the black smoke, which always happens when I'm angry.  >:(

So I proceeded to shuffle along, in limp mode - there were still points to be won, by soldiering on.  Also, some good practice, for an aspiring mobile chicane, but not quite what I had in mind.  This Snails pace race, actually gained me 2 or 3 positions, and a better understanding, of every blade of grass, around the track.  Aarrrrggh!!  "Calm . . . breathe deep . . . "  :blink:

Nailed a time better than my time round Silvy in a 65 during practice, but couldn't buy a decent laptime in Qually. Managed a low 33 on the last, desperate lap to maintain 8th after having dropped to 11th at one point  :eek:
A steady start saw me leaving a good safety margin to the cars in front at T1......this IS pro remember. Fabio must have been late for work, cos he arrived behind rather quickly and attempted to re-model the engine bay of my Porsche  :o Lukily for me, he came off second best with a spin, roll and Pike, leaving me to continue undamaged. It slowed me for a bit allowing Tim, Jason, Edouardo and Steve to catch right up and the first couple of hectic laps were about consolidating the position and settling into a rythm. Tim made it a little easier by punching our teamie Steve off at Abbey, and following to see if he was alright  ::) Jason caught up and pushed for the remainder of lap 1, but I seemed to be able to hold him at bay without going defensive, as our cars worked well at different points of the circuit. Until Stowe on lap 2  when Jason got a bit impatient and simply punted me out of the way.  >:(  Lost 2 spots here as Edouardo got by before I was back under way. Chased him as hard as I could with a big, fat fuel-laden car until lap 10 when he messed up Chapel and handed me back the place. Held him in check til lap 13 when I screwed up at Club and had a spin all of my own. Rejoined and just settled in for a steady drive to the finish Edouardo retired soon after and gave me back 7th place. Stayed out of the way of the lapping H, Juha and Sam. With 1 to go Sam spun off at Woodcote and allowed me to unlap myself..Ta Sam. All in all a pleasing race, few errors and fair consistency with agood points haul for 7th.....maybe 6th after moderation.  ::)  Congrats to the podium wallahs.....much too fast for me.
Geoff.

Great race with Pedro. With Axel riding shotgun for me he held him off valiantly as long as he could. This gave me a chance to get used to my cars race setup for the impending duel with the faster car of Pedro. Sure enough when he had cleared Axel he closed in. We then had a succession of really great laps where he could get close but just not close enough to pass. Unfortunately for us both it all ended when I suddenly found myself rolling over at the end of the hanger straight. I assumed Pedro had made contact. I forgive you but for the sake of team International I have to report it Pedro. Whatever the mods decide is good with me and no hard feelings on my part.

When the car stopped rolling it was the right way up and appeared to be drivable. I set off again expecting the car to give up on me any second but it didn't and I started to speed up after a few laps. Just when I thought okay we might finish this one bang went the engine, again! Sorry Juha and Axel, thank god you both drove so well. Grats also to Hristo and Sam.

This gets the silverware for story of the round I reckon!!!.... :oops:

Sorry about that Martin - you are not on the announcement list for the race and I couldn't remember. I'll fix it now.

I just tried a couple of laps with Tom's setup and I must say I'm very impressed with how much better the Porsche was handling! It has stiffer suspension, different bump/rebound, different gearing, stiffer front ARB, a 30/85 diff and the car was suddenly so stable and grippy, even when I was messing up! The corner entry, change of direction, and traction were superb.

Couldn't quite do a 30.1, but came out with a PB of 30.35, half a second better than my PB! Thanks very much for the eye opener on setuping the Porsche, Tom!  ;D

Hi Tom I am still blind!

I show you mine, you show me yours  ;)

https://rapidshare.com/files/4138638026/00_AC_Por_Silv_00.zip

Oh, so Juha used yours, Axel.  ;D

C'mon chaps - get those reports in...

Thanks for that Paul.

Now that I've seen the replay, I find it funny to compare what you think happened and what actually happened.....I wasn't hit at all...

...I span avoiding the car in front, who seemed to be taking the first corner very cautiously....  And what a good job I did miss him, because it was none other than my team leader for the night, Evil...

phew...  :)

Maybe!?

How come you know?

Because he sent me his and it's called exactly the same as yours.  :D

Many thanks for your kind words H. I too was surprised at my quali time, though I did get help from Geoff's car with a tow  :). As for the race, Juha passed me early on and I had a grandstand seat watching H and Juha battle it out. Their squabbling allowed me to stay in touch until Juha lost it at Chapel which promoted me in second, behind H.

What became apparent after that was, despite perhaps being able to match H on the odd lap or two. I couldn't sustain that pace consistently. I was past my comfort zone and was making a lots of mistakes in a bid to catch H. Sooner or later, the inevitable happened and a lost the back end into Becketts, allowing Juha back up the second and me down to third where I stayed for the rest of the race.

A error ridden run to the flag commenced but was still pleased to bag third. Congrats to H and Juha for being able to sustain such brilliant pace  :).

not very good this one, pace was ok but i could go faster setup was very stable and easy to control ,thanks Cookie for setup, (little modified setup::)) . Few laps i try to chase Hristo but couldnt overtake him no way, small mistake and i drop 4-5 places, this was like replay of our earlier Silverstone race, but Hristo didnt blew his engine.  :laugh:

Sam did mistake in some point and i was back to 2nd place , Hristo was one point 6 seconds away but he maybe see on pitboard that i was closing cap slowly, after that he speeded up.

some troubles with backmarkers they didnt gave me clean raceline to overtake and i have to move off raceline most of time, sorry to Paul as i hit you lightly on Copse but you did somehow brake on middle of corner and i was not aware of it.,sorry.

good points to the team  ;D, shame ronnie you didnt finish. :-[



on to the Kyalami

Juha

Just a note to say that this has been addressed and we don't need to get into a UKGPL style public debate.

Your concerns are noted and have been actioned.

No doubt an announcement of some kind will follow.

Thanks

Hello,

ok no problem, we'll change our team.
So, we plan to have 2 teams :

LOL'TEAM 1 :   Tom / Tristan   (2pros)

LOL'TEAM 2 : Maxime (novice) and two others amateurs drivers.
Is there two drivers without team who want to race with maxime ? If not, perhaps we coulds find two another french friends.
i'll speak to maxime to know if he's agree .

See you :)

ToM

I was more than pleased to nail a PB and squeeze myself up to 5th on the grid behind Team LOL who were setting some stunning times.

The plan was to try and hang on in their slipstream and get towed along for as long as I could keep the car on the track. However I screwed that little plan by twitching my fingers on the grid, causing my gearbox to select 1st gear and lurching forward.............JUMP START!!! ??? :o Then I fluffed the real start and Tom v O jumped past me to chase the fast boys.

Sure enough, 1st time past the pits and I get the black flag :-\ ,so 2nd lap I pull into pits and wait....and wait.......and wait, as the whole grid sweeps past and I am emerge from the pit lane in last position.....not good :cursing: :cursing:

By the time I am up to speed the nearest car is about half a lap in front and out of sight even on Hangar Straight!! I tried to concentrate on hitting every apex and screwing every last rev out of the Porker without busting the engine and slowly reeled in car after car.
Of course, the further I progresses up through the field I had to pass cars that were faster and faster and each one required some thought and planning to make a clean pass. Some were kind enough to launch themselves into the scenery and i was eventually up to 4th...which was where all this started. The podium guys were almost a lap ahead by now and there was no chance of catching them unless they made a big mistake or broke their engines, so I pressed on and maintained my pace. I got my FL on the last lap but it still was not into the 1:30's, so 4th was probably as good as I was going to get even with a good start.

Grats to the podium on some stunning lap times and thanks to all the drivers for clean racing.


Hristo, can you forward me that alien setup for the Porsche?? would love to know how they are carrying so much speed through the corners... ;)

You can only have 1 Pro in a team, so either you or Tristan has to go to the other team.

WOW,fantastic race for me yesterday and a lot of point for the team. ;D Nor a lap.Blow engine after 5 curves.

Sent it via email. Hope Tom G doesn't mind.  ;D

I gave them that option in a PM. Obviously they are at a disadvantage with only having 2 drivers and starting the season in race 4, but they are trying to raise enough drivers for 2 teams.

Sure, but should you penalize the rest of us just because they started late? It's like a handicap, because they can take 1-2 and rob others from a better finish. Plus I don't see a problem if they split themselves into their 2 teams. Nothing personal against either Tom or Tristan of course, but we should stick to the rules IMO.

It is actually helpful to have an even number of teams as you don't really want 15 on one server and 18 on the other.

Might be an idea to move some of the reserves to the new teams? Otherwise we end up chopping and changing all over the place and the teams become meaningless in the context of a season.

Stunning debut though boys.

It is cos they are French so every time we do 5 yards they do 5 metres....

Time now for you Brits to become more  contemporary!

But I also  envy your priviledge to live on an island  :ban:

Cheers  :chef:

I'm sure that if they can find 6 drivers they will fill two teams of 3 drivers, and these are Pro races so they may not finish each race anyway.

If anybody wants to join them I'm sure we could get 2 teams of 3 which would split them up.

We used metric in Bulgaria as well.  ;)

By not sticking to the rules of one pro per team this debate is being unnecessarily prolonged. The attraction and challenge of the Porsche Supercup was the balance of the teams with only one clear pro driver. Excellent and worthy drivers that they are, allowing Tom and Tristan in the same team (of only two or three) defeats the object in my opinion.

However if you prefer racing to debating get on Toms server now but you will need to be quick as Tom and Tristan are lapping at 1.21 - 1.22 pace already. You have to laugh.

we are agree to have two teams (with one PRO in each) , but i think that it'll be difficult for us to find 3 others drivers with the right level......(2 amateurs and 1 novice)

Is there any free driver who could come in ours teams ????

I don't see a problem with letting them race with incomplete teams, until they find more drivers. It's not like the rest of the teams always have their 3 drivers racing, so what's the big deal? Again, nothing personal, but they choose to make new teams, so it's their responsibility to find drivers for them. Until then, just race with less than 3 drivers.

YO ....:)
....w'll try to do 2 teams , but it's not easy to find 3 drivers with the right level .... and the motivation to be present evry time.....

....about sticking to the rules.....

.........The teams will be made up of 3 drivers and the total points for the 3 drivers in the team must not exceed 6, so a team could be made up of the following combinations:
1x Pro
1x Amateur
1x Novice
OR
3x Amateur
OR
2x Amateur
1x Novice
OR
1x Pro
2x Novice

Since I made those rules I have added the option of:
2x Pro

...so, in the end , if we can't find people for 2 full team .... we only have the choise of the last option ....!?

The answer as I understand it is in the rules


While two Pro drivers does total 6 points you are only two drivers and not a team as specified in the rules. The addition of the required third driver will exceed 6 points and disqualify your team.

Whether all three drivers can turn up on a regular basis or you have to use reserve drivers of the appropriate ranking is up to you.

The advantage of 2 Pro drivers versus 1 Pro 1 Amateur 1 Novice or the other combinations is obvious - you can take 1-2 result in a race, while the others, even if they're 3 drivers, would always score (under normal circumstances) less points by finishing lower down the grid.

Again, I'm asking - where's the harm in running 2 LOL teams, with less than 3 drivers? You wanted to join, you wanted to make teams, so you should've known in advance how it works. I don't like it that we suddenly change the rules to accommodate new drivers and ignore how that affects all of our other members. It's not like you'll alienate our new comers by sticking to the rules, right?

So why not let them race in 2 separate but incomplete teams, and in time they'll fill in the gaps. Some of our other teams have drivers who can't make all races, but I don't see you shuffling drivers around to compensate for that. We have to look for reserves and other drivers ourselves, just like it should be.

I believe Arf Arf Arf does not have a permanent team and has driven in the series. Perhaps he would be interested in joining one of your teams.

As others have said, some teams do not always have all 3 drivers racing. At Brands Hatch the Clark-Hill team had only 1 driver.  ;D

There are definitely drivers around each Friday and I don't think Magic or Tom_g will find it difficult to get allies... :)

As long as people are registered we can accommodate them. Would be nice to know what team they are before the race though ;)

It may be worth asking at GPFun as they have a team racing here in the series, they may have a couple more who would race.

On another note, can you imagine the fun if next season this thing runs over 3 servers?

It's a good job I'm already an alcoholic.

No, it's not good...  ::)

Hi guys, where may I dnload the raplay of the race ?

Sergio, there is a 'replays' link from the www.ukgpl.com (https://www.ukgpl.com/) home page.

 :)

RGR
Thx!

Yes, indeed. I would be interested. I think Fulvio also mentioned that Stefano62, very recently added as Team7 reserve driver, might be looking for a team.

Arf

 :) ;D
that indeed was an great race !! very thrilling .. got very nice close racing with A.Tendas over a big numbers of laps , as well with Fulvio .. real big fun ( except maybe the kickout at lap 17 at Woodcote by A.T. , which of course wasnt sort of enjoyable to me that moment ,lol. ) Bit overdone and did messed up my race... , but have to metioned he did very gentleman like while wait for me after the first unwanted kickout at lap 10 . So as I said above ; it was a very great fair racing  ...

btw. quality of server 7 to me was brilliant .


I am too curious to test that setup , so if possible , it would be great if you can sent it to me via email Hristo .

looking forward to the next race ...

big hand to the podium ones !!!
as well to my team mates  :)

You do realise that would mean having Arf Arf Arf in a LOL team?

I think you did that on purpose.  ;D

Hi,

cool, you're welcome, but we have to find two another drivers...stefano had no team ?
I don't know if you'll be with me or Tristan until we don't have two complete team.

ToM :)

Again, not everyone has a complete team atm, yet that's not a problem for anyone, but if LOL #1 or LOL #2 don't have a complete team there's all this big fuss? How come?  ::)

Hi guys.
First time for me in the top three qualify places for mod. GT. I was a little lucky for that but...not completely  :P ;). Anyway the gap between Tom G. and me (something around 0.7 sec) says enough about his skill.
I was thinking to have a good gear setting but at last 3rd, 4th and 5th gear were a little too much longer than expected compared to the ones of my direct adversaries Tom G., Tristan B. and Tom W.O.
After the start Tom G. pushed hard and gained 2 or 3 secs in 10 laps but...the battle for the 2nd place was in order to begin, in fact after lap 10 my direct adversaries reduced the gap from me and at stowe I made a little mistake on curve exiting permitting Tristan to engage me and trying to overtake me along the straight between stowe and club. So at club, I was forced to retard the brake point but...I retarded too much crossing the groove line and hitting the barrier on the other side of the curve fortunately without any damage to my car. This event made me furious due to my mistake (I was in 4th place anyway) and because I have lost 4 secs from Tristan and Tom W.O. Then I begun to push very hard (at least for my capabilities) and in 3 laps I was again behind Tom W.O.
At lap 20 Tom W.O. made a mistake at abbey going on the grass surrounding the curve ad so I had the opportunity to overtake him gaining the 3rd place less than 2 secs behind Tristan but, at lap 21 while I was in the slipstream of Tristan, I made the mistake that compromised my race definately going on the external grass at abbey during acceleration on curve exiting and loosing control of my Porsche. The car crossed the track side by side going to hit the barrier at the left side of the track and exploding in flames. AMEN !
Nice and fun race but...since now watch your six...I could be there!  ;)
See you soon at Kyalami...

HI  :)
....was a very plaisant race and some goods fights with Clouds and Tom W.O. .. :fencing:...I'v'been a little lucky after the  mistakes of my direct opponents ....... and very lucky after my mistake in the last corner of the last lap ...... I was in the grass at maby 20 m of the finish line and could't go out ...... argl ! ..... I finaly find the road and I finish juste behind Tom W.O........ :P.ouff !....
.....Well done Flying TOM   ;)

.....thanks to everybody ( lapped was top ok ! )

.....hope to see you in South Africa..........

 ;D.....sorry !....not behind.......ahead .... ;)           .....sorry for my english.....long time with out practice ....and small level :-\               

Hi all,

very good race for the fisrt one on the porsche cup !
I like the porsche, not a real fast car but really cool.

Happy to had won this race, i made some fast laps before the race but i didn't really know if i could do the same in qualifiying
Finally, no big mistakes,  no problem with lapped drivers ;) Thanks !

I hope our teams will be full for kyalami

see you :)

ToM

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