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WELCOME to the UKGPL Season 23 - Porsche Super Cup - Race 8  

We celebrate our 3rd season with the attractive PSC Team Championship and I hope we will have fair, clean and close racing.
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The 8th race of this season will be at the Norisring,
a very short circuit at Nürnberg on the old Reichsparteitagsgelände around the VIP stand where those nazis held their ceremonies >:(

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We have the Rolling ZONE for the start where a moderate speed of maximum ~ 75 mph (125 kmh) is required and no overtaking is allowed. (Read the registration thread!)

Guidelines for rolling starts...

The car on pole will lead off the grid and maintain a steady pace for the "rolling zone" around 75 mph (125 kmh)
All drivers should form up in single file behind him leaving 3-4 car lengths between each car.
There is NO OVERTAKING on the "rolling zone".
It is the reponsibility of the lead car to ensure that all drivers are with him as he approaches the final "rolling zone" corner.
Racing and overtaking begin AFTER the Start and Finish line!

Any driver who loses his position in the "rolling zone", by going off or through contact with another car ( regardless of fault) must rejoin at the back of the field.
Incidents on the "rolling zone" will be fully modded and anyone found to have caused another competitor to lose position through bad driving will be penalised appropriately.
Also, please make sure that you know which car you should be following on the "rolling zone", so that you do NOT get out of position.

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There will be full moderation of the 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 team drivers have priority access to the server.
Driver lists can be found on the Porsche Super Cup (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=369&theme=6) championship standings page.
Please restrict your chat to a minimum!

Race List	=	IGOR
Chat room	=	#UKGPL
Server	=	UKGPL_8
IP Address	=	TBA
Race date	=	16-11-2012
Qualification Time	=	30-45 mins ~20:45  UK time
Race Time	=	race starts at 21:30 UK time
Track	=	Norisring (http://srmz.net/index.php?showtopic=8060) + fix (http://srmz.net/index.php?showtopic=6053&view=findpost&p=57454)	norisrng
Variant	=	GT -> Porsche 910
Damage Model	=	PRO
Race length	=	~50 min -> 54 laps
Rolling ZONE	=	full first lap
RED ZONE	=	end of the second lap->finish line
Password	=	see above (#post_event_password)
Replay	=	you will get here (ftp://ukgpl3.dyndns.org/replays/Archive/Season23/PorscheSuperCup/)

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There are more than 19 drivers registered, so the full time team drivers have the priority!
The R1 drivers have to leave the track for ~5 min with 30 min practice left to let waiting FT team drivers join!
Drivers with no team may join if there are spaces left after 21:05 UK time
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It was impossible to form complete teams for all the registered drivers, due to the missing novices, so I let all teams race as they are:

Porsche Cup teams as they stand at 26/06/2012

  Team Squadra Padova Corse
  1. Piero Mercaldo (FT)
  2. Marco Mercaldo (FT)
  3. Smudge (FT)

  Team Shadows
  1. Sergio Lonzar (FT)
  2. Axel Cookie (FT)
  3. G.Giovani (FT)

  Team 7Porsche7
  1. Alex Barresi (FT)
  2. Pedro van den Berg (FT)
  3. Francesco Molteni (FT)

  Team Makikas
  1. Mark Barresi (FT)
  2. Ronnie Petterson (FT)
  3. Stefano62 (FT)

  Team Pulse Racing
  1. Ron Clegg (FT)
  2. Nicky Ickx (FT)
  3. XXX

  Team Hiki Waza
  1. Hristo Itchov (R1)
  2. Paul Bird (R1)
  3. Paul Badblood (R1)

 Team LOL Racing
  1. Tristan Bot (FT)
  2. Max Lenclen (R1)
  3. XXX

  Team 7 Racing
  1. Fulvio Policardi (FT)
  2. Skymole (R1)
  3. XXX

  no team yet

   natan5 (FT) Pro
   EvilClive (FT) Pro
   Jason Blito (R1) Nov

Blow the engine 3e lap :(

To bad, it was great fighting!

Cu next time, Pedro.

Not a track I like. I stayed until the entire field had lapped me. Took longer than I thought it might ;)

not a track I can get to work at all :(

You NEED the fix. It isn't optional for the Porsche.

Not a track I like....

Yes, same here, but I made a pretty solid setup that allowed save braking into the hairpins and looong gears to survive. ;)

Sorry Marco for the touch in the hairpin, some Moderators have to judge!  ::)

The replay can be downloaded.

 Thanks Cookie, accept my registration within minutes of the race! :notworthy:

  Well, I think the Coyote team was very pleased!! 8)

  The race has a very high index of dropouts,I clearly saw several motor break in front of me! :o

Many Congrats to my team mate Axel for his result and for JonnyO.

this track was difficult to overtake, then an attitude like   this would be penalized

Maybe you should have a look at the replay...

Shutting the door like this is not an attitude for a fair driver!

But let the mods do their work!!!

I was in front of you and you came on the side, my car has saved you because you'd be long gone

Please, let the mods do their work!!!

They are neutral!

I will look at this Marco but the forums aren't always the best place to debate it. Although it can be entertaining!

Marco only expose his point of view, he don't offended or accused no one.

Cookie point himself as cause of accident, please, take your job fairly, don't cover your arse before facts and do not put words in the mouth of others that they hadn't say...

The place to put your view of a disputed incident is, generally, not the forum.

I am unclear how I am 'covering my arse' since I am asking people NOT to discuss it so that I get an unbiased view.

I most certainly did not put words in anyone's mouth and I am unclear why you think I did. I do not think that either driver was well advised to post what they did about this.

As for doing my job fairly, I stand by every judgement I make since I can be 100% certain I make them honestly and impartially.

I try to explain better, pardon my horrible english.

Coockie write:
and this is a way he, not you, cover his arse.

Nobody put your honesty or your work in doubt but nobody start a dispute: one driver apologize for his conduct envisaging that he must be judged, the other replies that he was hit and have no doubt about.
No offenses, no swearing, no dubt about the jury, no doubt about facts.

Ah ok, Roberto. I did wonder if there was some Ital-glish going on.

Just for general info, any incident is looked at by the series moderator (but moderators cannot look at their own incidents). Some are very clear cut and they are easily dealy with but others are more difficult to call. The better the driver the tougher the call usually. In these cases, as a Moderator, I ask other moderators to take a look at the incident and we try to come to a consensus.

If the driver is unhappy they can appeal and then we look at the incident very closely with a panel of up to four senior moderators who will examine the incident frame by frame.

In this case, I am ruling on this one and Cookie has no input whatsoever which is why I said it might have been better not discussing on the forum.

 :)