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Season 27 Amateurs Trophy - Round 1 – East London

Round 1 of the Amateur season 28 championship will be on South Africa :  East London is almost flat but still has a several challenging corners. Not a Papyrus original but one of our regular add on tracks.

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.  

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

Race List = IGOR
Server = UKGPL_9
IP address = 37.157.48.87
Race date = Tuesday 10-03-2015
Time = 21:00 UK time (21:00 GMT)
Track = eastlndn (ftp://ukgpl3.dyndns.org/tracks/EastLondon)
Race length = 31 laps
Variant = 1965
60fps patch used = 60fpsV2newmod
Damage Model = (One shift-R allowed followed by a stop and go)
Qualifying time = minimum of 30 minutes

Password see above (#post_event_password)
Replay will be here (ftp://ukgpl3.dyndns.org/Replays/Archive/Season27/Pros/)

Driver lists can be found on the championship standings page
championship standings page (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=477&theme=6)

The red zone will be fully moderated for lap 1 only. For this race, the red zone will be until the exit of the Essess.
 Other moderation will be on reported incidents only.

First race in the 65s for a while.  I've never been good in these things and I really struggled tonight.  Hopefully I didn't get in anyone's way.  Grats to the podium.

Congrats all finishers! I had fun in qually and in race. Turn 3* on first lap was too close for comfort. I'm sorry if I caused any problems for the Ferrari (Fabio?), or for anyone following me into to turn 2 on first lap. Good race, but I had the dreaded screen freeze in turn 1 with six laps to go. Looking forward to next one!

*Congrats Kai on your first win at UKGPL!

Gents, the results have been imported but a name was flagged up in the import that I don't recognise. Who is Steve Peake also known as? Billy and I possibly thought fester, but would be nice to know to match up properly. :)

We wondered what happened to you Walter , tough luck , my screen flickered a few times giving me a worry on a couple of occasions . Still one mans bad luck is anothers good fortune  ;D

No doubt you will be back wit ha vengeance !

Good racing with Billy Rog and Dave for a while until Billy got fed up with fooling around  pushed the nitro button and disappeared into the sunset leaving some of us trailing in the dust and others sliding around on his oil slick !

Nice track once you get the hang of things , looking forward to the next bash  :)

Yes steve = fester  (he goes back a long way :))

Good race & entertaining track. Couldn't hook it up in qually so went back to an older set up for the race. Good racing in a train with Rog & Bernie & no way past until Bernie ran a bit wide. DC fast Lotus was on my tail for a bit & probably would have passed me but for a mistake.
Walt & Kai were far away. Bad luck on Walt's connection but it gave me P2.  Congrats to Kai on the win.  Special mention to Phil for battling with real gears I will stick with the flappy paddles.

The link for the replay in the announcement takes me to season 27, but I was able to navigate my way to season 28 easy enough

*I just checked the replay for Turn 3 Cocobana on first lap. It does appear that my crash box bumps Fabio very lightly.   :-[  So I will be watching for the moderator's report to find out if I will receive a penalty.

Don't forget to report incident if there was !

I will be on holidays from Friday 13/03  morning to sunday 22/03, so I will not post the moderation report  before 10-15 days !

Thanks Billy :).  Being lapped by the entire field was sobering.  My aim is to get back to the times I could do with LFB, hopefully well before the end of the season ::)

What a Race. My first Victory in UKGPL. Gratulation to Billy and Bernie to the Podium. The Season start's very well. It can go on so a long Time. Next Race in Monaco is very difficult and i hope we see us again.

Gratuliere Kai on your first UKGPL win! :)

PS: much respect to Phil changing to RFB...it must be hard and frustrating not having the pace you used to have, but I'm sure you will get there!

Yes. I'm Steve Peake. This was the first race of my second UKGPL comeback. My first comeback lasted eight races before I was invalided out of Season 23. I only set my wheel up for the first time since then a couple of weeks ago and I could only drive for fifteen minutes before back ache set in. I signed up as a reserve because I didn't think I'd be able to last a race length. I was wrong  :jumpjoy:

I was amazed to qualify second. It was false position but I made a terrible start anyway and three people went by before T1 where I repeated the same stupid mistake I made in my very first race with three pedals and used the clutch as a brake. Fortunately this time I didn't take anyone else out with me. I enjoyed the rest of the race. I had several spins but was always racing someone. Apologies to Rog if I hit you. All I can tell from the replay is that it was very close but no harm was done.

Congratulations to Kai on your first UKGPL win. And to Billy and Bernie. Commiserations to Walter. I hope to see you all at Monaco.

Well done Steve!

Keep taking the tablets!

Thank you Clive. Good to see you doing so well in UKPnG. You're an inspiration to me.  :)

I returned to simracing expecting to be slower but after two hours practice I was running 0.5s/lap faster than last time out at East London six years ago. It's probably just this mod and this track but if I can maintain this rate of improvement I should be running at the front by the time I'm ninety.

Not long to wait now then!   ;D

Moderation posted.

Hi  had some close racing with Bernie early in race, then made a mistake and Bernie and Billy took off into the distance, rest of race had some good racing with Fester.

Grats to Kai on win
Grats to Podium