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WELCOME to the UKGPL Season 23 - Pro Trophy  

The second race of the season is at the well known Papy Rouen-les-Essarts track.  

Rouen, in northern France on the River Seine, is the capital of the Haute-Normandie (Upper Normandy) region and the historic capital city of Normandy.

Pro drivers have a free car choice in their first race!
You have to keep your chosen car for the rest of the season,
you will only be allowed to swap chassis in exceptional circumstances and only with the approval of the moderator.
Driver lists can be found on the Pro Trophy (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=362&theme=6) championship standings page.

There will be full moderation of lap one Red Zone and reported incidents for the rest of the race.
Please submit incident reports within a week after the race so that the moderators report may be out before the next race.
Full time drivers have priority access to the server until 21.00 UK time.
Please restrict your chat to a minimum!

Please ensure you are aware of the new in-series penalties for this season.
Details are here (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=10879.0). Drivers incurring a penalty will receive a PM informing them of this

Race List	=	IGOR
Server	=	UKGPL_8
IP Address	=	tba
Race date	=	10-07-2012
Qualification Time	=	~20:45  UK time -> 30-45 mins
Race Time	=	race starts at 21:30 UK time
Track	=	Rouen les Essarts - Papy
Variant	=	65F1 the 2.02 Release of the 65mod should be used
Damage Model	=	PRO
Race length	=	~50 min -> 24 laps
RED ZONE	=	from race start to the exit of Nouveau Monde hairpin
Password	=	see above (#post_event_password)
Replay	=	you will get here (ftp://ukgpl3.dyndns.org/Replays/Archive/Season23/Pros/)

GLA

WOW, what a race!

First of all: Gratulations to Hristo for this great win!

But also a big compliment to all drivers of this race! 100% finished in the same lap!

This was my best and hardest race I did in my 18 month of online racing...
Had pressure from the first to the last lap  ;D
The fight with Al was a balance of keeping my tires and engine in a healthy temperature and have a save gap.
Great job Al!  :thumbup1:

Sorry for the absent drivers, you missed a big fun!

Great driving Cookie. I tried to put you under pressure & was able to chip away at the gap but the Cookie never crumbled ;) Congrats to Goran, Tris & of course H for the rich-tea deserved win.   

I was finally able to use the Honda in these series after so many seasons stuck with the BT7, so I kind of expected an easier time, but it wasn't the case at all! Tristan was very quick in his Ferrari and would have taken pole had it not been for the full lap of tow I got from Evil by chance (thanks!). Even with some mistakes, the tow compensated more than enough for me to improve my lap time by a lot.

The start was good and I kept the lead, but had to push right off the bat in order to prevent Tristan from passing me via slipstream down the long straight. He still made an attack, but I managed to brake later and remain in 1st. From there on it was maximum attack for both of us, and any little mistake would have instantly gained one of us the advantage. That continued for about half of the race distance, before Tristan made a mistake which I didn't notice and dropped back.

As was expected, having no immediate pressure had an impact on my focus so I made a few small mistakes, plus a big one with half a spin at the hairpin on the penultimate lap, just when I was pushing for a fastest lap. I had more than enough lead though, so it was nothing major, and I managed to bring it to the finish. Much to my surprise there were still 14 liters remaining in the fuel tank, even though I used quite a lot of revs, so apparently my calculations during Qualifying were rather wrong. Not that fuel make much of a difference with these cars anyway.

Grats to Tristan for pushing all the way, and to all other finishers!

;D

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