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Season 26 Works Trophy - Round 3 - Nürburgring

"The Green Hell" need we say more?  As always, we will run Pro Damage, so resets are not allowed.

Race List = IGOR
Server = UKGPL_GPG
IP address = 62.195.2.111
Race date = 09-02-2014
Race Time = race starts at 21:30 UK time
Qualifying Time = Between 30 and 60 minutes, starting no later than 21:00 UK time
Track = Papyrus Original
Variant = 67F1
Damage Model = PRO
Race length = 50 minutes (laps 6)
Password: see above (#post_event_password)

Replays Available here (http://ukgpl3.dyndns.org/inc_replaysS26_js.aspx)

Driver lists can be found on the championship standings page (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=427&theme=6)

The full time drivers can start to practice as soon as the server is available.  Reserve drivers can also join as soon as the server becomes available but must leave the server with 35 minutes of qualifying left, for a total of 5 minutes; this will allow any remaining full timers to join.  If there is enough space on the grid, the reserve drivers will be able to rejoin when there are 30 mins of qualifying left. 

Moderating The red zone will be fully moderated for lap 1 only. For this event the red zone will be from the start to Flugplatz. Other moderation will be on reported incidents only.  However any incidents that occur in the red zone that are not reported by the drivers will be reported by the moderator.  This will allow all affected drivers the opportunity to present their case before the incident is moderated.  This should ensure there are no surprises when the moderator's report is published and hence appeals will be less likely.  If you haven't received a PM about an incident before the link below the results table is removed, you can be sure that you will not appear in the moderator's report.

The chassis token system is explained on the Works (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=427&theme=6) standings page. Please ensure you choose a chassis that is within your budget, which can be seen by hovering the mouse over your points total in the standings.

Please restrict chat to pit messages including at the end of the race until ALL drivers still racing have crossed the line.

Password: see above (#post_event_password)

Because of my busy (race)schedule of late, I kind of dreaded going to the Nürburgring early in the Season. It's been 8 years I drove there, and knew I had only few days of practise. But after 5 laps in the Coop I've got the hang of it again after brewing a setup in GPLSM. Enjoy driving this awesome track. Again, my aim will be to have a clean race and finish, should be fun! :)

Hi, I would like to participate at some of these races and the ring is one of these. Also if my presence is not 100% sure, I registered anyway. Please activate me because I don't see the PW.

Thx. See you on track.

Damn...I'm sorry but something is happening that takes me away from this event unfortunately !

Have fun !

Saw you on the practice server Sergio last night in that practice race (in the Brabham). See you next time!

Hate this place... last on the grid, last on lap 2, stuffed it in the hedge.

So sorry to Doni for my rejoin that ended your race, and to Greg as well who suffered from it. Checked prib and saw a gap that was not there, feeling real small right now :(

Really annoyed with myself, was just running solidly in P2 when I lost focus, went wide at Adeneuer Forst and rammed the tree on Lap 2. Then I rejoined thinking there was a gap. I accept all blame and penalties, no excuse. Sorry again, but it won't help you much :(

I think I raced here three times now, and never managed to finish...Poor qually, but the race start was fine, profited of others' mistakes to climb to second, then the usual concentration lapse, pinched the grass, got sucked up the bank, hit the marble hedge and of course landed on my head. I think this place is just irritating, glad it is out of the way..See you at the next one guys.

Well...  I'd like to say that I'm not bothered but...

Nah...  What's the use.  Poo happens.  I'm sure, Robert, that if you were convinced that you had time to safely rejoin, that, indeed, was the case.  Just didn't work out for either of us.

Grats to Tristan on a fine drive after an early off.  Ditto to Greg for likewise.  Tough luck on Tommie with a comfy lead.  Evidently, there was lotsa poo to spread around.  :)

Just a short hop to Austria.  CYA then!

I will submit an inc report, in order to explain and accept the blame, no excuse. I'd be pissed too if it would happen to me. Once again apologies Doni and Greg...

PS: congrats Tristan, Greg -impressive pace-, both good comebacks and well done Arf and Clive. Not sure what happened to Tommie who looked to do a double-win tonight...

Just one of those days I guess. But for a lazy understeer moment at Brunnchen, I would have had a new BRM PB on my last Q lap. At t1, left room for Robert on the inside and ran wide, but I just wanted to make it to 3 laps done so that was OK. Art got by near the end of the lap, as he was right on my tail at Pflanzgarten. Lap 2, the melee happened, and I crashed just as the yellow came out and I looked up the road, just before braking for Adenauer. Flew over the hill on the right, bounced off the barrier and landed right next to Robert. I can sympathise with the pribluda thing, as sometimes it can be not 100% updated and give a wrong impression of gaps. As I got going again, Doni hit Robert, who was also trying to get going again. I then weaved my way through the gap between them and got going. My 1st gear was very long, and it took ages to get moving, thus Robert could only move after I had gone past. By this time, Greg came in and made contact with Robert, ending his race. Dean followed me up to the hedges and lost it in there, before at the end of the lap a RR wheel spin out at the mini-Karussell put me behind Clive's train of recovering cars, as it took me an age to get going again in 1st gear. Now wanting to just make it to lap 4, I promptly spun into the hedge in s2 on lap 3 with Arf on my tail. At least I can bag the tokens for starting this time..  :laugh:

Well since we're all bashing Prib tonight, let me have a go....

Firstly, I don't use it, cos its generally too much info and too distracting. However, I took the risk of using my new PC tonight, and having done a fresh install I see that Prib is part of the standard install. After working out how to hide all the panels of Prib data, and getting used to the slightly different positioning of the speed/gear/revs data vs Digital Dispaly Modifier, I went out to qualify. Lots of familarisation issues meant I only got 1 clean lap, and what a lap it was - a PB. The pick of the issues was my monitor going into sleep mode just as I went into mini karousell on a blistering lap. I have hopefully fixed that by altering the power plan settings (? or is there a better way?).

Happy to qualify in 3rd.....and that's all I can remember at the mo..so many things happened in the race. I think I was 11th at the end of the first lap, as I made two small mistakes, and left myself in harms way. The damage report says I only got damage in separate(ish) incidents at 3:23 and 3:26, which surprises me (thought the car took way more than that...). Whatever, by the middle of lap 1 I had major problems with the handling, which took me a lap or so to understand, and the rest of the race to tame. The car was rotating in a very weird way, and always kept me on my toes.

Halfway through the race I started to get paranoid that the monitor would switch off again, so along the big straight I made a clumsy stab at the keyboard to tell the PC I was still there......and in doing so I switched a ****** prib panel on...and it happened to be the one that tells you how far apart you are from people. I had no idea which button switches it on/off, so tried to ignore it...and failed. Kept sneaking a look. Greg was disappearing ahead of me, but I started fixating on Clive behind......and of course that caused me to spin. Twice. If only I'd known that his car wasn't in great shape...but the gap got smaller and smaller, and the only reason I stopped looking at the gap was to look in the mirrors instead....d'Oh..

Still, last two Works races here I have been 3rd. I love this place!!!

Congratulations Tristan! Took the BRM to a win at Nurburgring. Excellent job! Thank Tommie for pressuring me into a mistake at Schwedenkruez.


I was crapping all over the place. I also pissed away my only real chance for a win this season.

I apologize for all the trouble I may have caused. I wrecked Arf twice. I don't what I may have done to Dean at Adenauer. He followed me into a mess there and I got lost and didn't know where to go. I hit somebody on two consecutive laps there. Don't worry about it Robert on my part. Any problems I had were due to my early mistake. I'm just glad my car kept going through all the abuse.

I had a good time but it sure was an ugly race on my part. I started by miscalculated my qualifying fuel because of the different pit position. I realized after my second lap I didn't have enough for a third lap. Then I missed getting in a third lap on my second stint by seconds. I was hoping to get well into the 8:06's. I'm slow in the first sector, especially so on cold tires. I really needed to hold off Tommie until I got into the 3rd sector and I'd have been tough to keep up with then. It takes me two laps to get any real heat into the tires. It was lap 3 or 4 before I got the rears out of the deep blue. The fronts never made it during the race.

The Ferrari sure showed some strength today. I made pretty rough contact four times but the car kept going. After a spin I floored it thinking I was in 1st when I in neutral. I can't believe the engine took that after all the over revving from lousy shifting. The car did start over steering more after the first contact at Adenauer. That led to more screw ups. I got a wheel off going up the hill from Bergwerk while tailing Tristan that I thought was going to ruin the car. I finally started getting it together on the last two laps. If I 'd have had one more lap I'd have got another chance to catch Tristan.

I used to think of the Ring as ride in the country. It reminds me of some of the roads here at the southern end of the Appalachian mountains. But after all the chaos today, I might not see it that way again.

Thanks for the fun guys.

Bobbie: I'm not PO'd.  The shock has worn off.  :)  I understand the nature of racing and that it can turn sour in a heartbeat.  No hard feelings, amigo.  I've responded to the incident report notification I received in my email inbox and have requested no action be taken.

I don't use Pribluda and the thought occurs that perhaps you didn't see me coming in your display since I'm not transmitting a Prib signal.  Is that possible?

I stepped away from the 'puter for a bit but came back late to watch the last lap.  Only four runners!  LOL!  I was watching Greg in his brilliant charge to catch Tristan and caught his off in the tricky leftie between Ex-Mühle and Bergwerk.  Shades of 1976!  This is precisely where Niki Lauda had his life-threatening shunt!

Doni

Experience has taught me that any race at Nurby is never won on the first lap, but that about 90% can be lost in the first half lap!!  Well it has always worked that way for me!!!  ::)

So for this race I decided on the wimpy strategy and made no attempt to do a fast quali time, being quite content to start at the back of the grid.  Even got that wrong, and manged to have 2 cars behind me!!  lol

As the flag dropped I allowed those cars to pass and cruised up to the back of the pack at T1.  I think Jethro got caught at T1 ....gained 1 place. Down the straight behind the pits to the sharp left hander ...2 cars on the grass...another 2 places gained  8)

By the end of Lap 1 I was up to about 5th place, at the end of lap 2 I was showing as 2nd!!!! and I had not actually overtaken any cars. At that point I did have a train of 4 recovering cars behind me, but as far as I was concerned that was their problem, not mine  ;).

Tris was very obviously keen to pass and I put up no resistance across the S/F line. Art and Greg were also on missions and when I screwed up, they rushed through and went on their way. I was able to tail them for a couple of laps but then a small "off" must have inflicted some suspension damage because cornering became a lottery. Sometimes it would enter a corner and  accelerate out sweetly, on random occasions it would either suffer from terminal understeer and refuse to turn in or snap into oversteer at even moderate speeds provoking a spin.
By now TvO had vanished and there were just 4 cars running, which made me last  :-\. Each time I reeled AAA in and was getting within range to maybe steal 3rd place, the suspension gremlin chose his moment to jam his finger into the workings and spin me around.
It was so frustrating!!! lol  Anyway I backed off for the last lap just to be sure I made it to the flag for the satisfaction of completing the race in the Honda.

It could have been better, but might have been a whole lot worse!!

Grats to Tris who stormed back to the front after his early off and to Greg who kept up the pressure right to the line. I'm still miffed about not catching Arf, so I am finding it difficult to say "grats" to him...lol! But I guess I should.  ;)

Thanks Doni :) No, I checked prib and saw a 300m gap between you and Iestyn (prolly was 300m to me), but I hesitated and 300m isn't much at 140mph. Should have double checked prib and waited...

Shock has worn off here too, but still very annoyed about making a silly mistake, in the first place losing focus on Lap 2. Ah well, I can put a stripe through my two bad results of the season. Need to be flawless the rest of the season if I want something.

Again, grats Tristan, Greg and Arf, and well done Clive. Finishing with pro settings is always admirable here. Too bad Tommie, but still good points...

Took no notice of Pribluda and couldn't hear Doni next to me in T2, and decided colliding with him was a good idea. Gave me a good chance to attack without any distractions around.

The amount of cars dead after lap 1 was rather a lot!

Hi :)

.....5 on the grid, was not so bad after a ( allways ) difficult qualif here.....where we want to do good but it don't work all the time....but still confident for the race 'cause I know I have a chance of podium if there is some retirements in front of me....
....I take a good start and gain one place at T1.....but I go quickely off just before AREMBERG turn, and loose 5 places >:(.........then, I restart but re-go off just before ADENAUER FORST !!!......damned !....I ended the race of a ferrari !....sorry!....after this I try to be fast but safe and sudenly one lap later I was 3....then 2nd......and leading the race at 3 laps from the finish line, whith around 20s advance on Greg ....then I just check Prib and controle the gap but it was just enought to win , one more lap and Iwill not able to resiste to the Ferrari... :o..oufff !

....well a lucky win but a win !..... :laugh:

Thx all and Cu at Zeltweg .......I'll take the Ferrari ;)

Salut Tristan ;)

if you ended the race of a Ferrari by your full responsibility ...not sure it will be a win after moderation  :(

Yeah, that was me. On the right was Evil (if I´m right) and you where turning to the left. So I had nowhere to go...My Race was over and you won...Very disappointing for me. Had some hopes for the Nordschleife, but so it was a waste of spending tokens for the Red Machine.
Will stick with the Cooper next time again.

A bientout! or something..

Mod published

Thanks for mod and leniency on my part ;)

If the track had been a different shape Robert....  ::)