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UKGPL Season 15 Division 1 - Round 1 - Kyalami - Apr 6

The first round of the Season 15 Div 1 championship is at Kyalami.  Take it easy on the first lap especially at Crowthorne Corner, Barbeque Bend and the Jukskei Sweep.  Please make sure you have the pitwall in place.  Anyone caught miraculously driving through the pit wall on the server replay will be disqualified.  Don't forget, incident reports should be entered on the SRou system following the link at the bottom of the results table when it appears.  Race details below.

Div 1 Season 15 Round 1 is this Sunday at 9:00 p.m. London UK time (8:00 p.m. GMT).
Please be in VROC UKGPL chatroom passworded Savage by 8:55 p.m.
VROC and Race passwords: see above

Server 1.ukgpl
IP address  194.105.176.22

Race date = 06-04-2008
Track = Kyalami 1967
Variant = 67F1
Damage Model = PRO
Qually time = 30 minutes.
Race length = 50 minutes (37 laps)

Password: see above (#post_event_password)
Driver lists can be found on the championship standings page (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=73&theme=6)

Division 1

	Single Stop Time		Double Stop Time
BRM	No Stop		N/A
Cooper	Stop and Go		N/A
Honda	1		N/A
Brabham	20		N/A
Ferrari	34		12
Eagle	39		15
Lotus	50		20

 First Pit Window is: 28 (to go) to 18 (to go)
 Second Pit Window is: 26 (to go) to 9 (to go)

I'll be there in case there is room for me :)  Hoping to give the Honda another run out.

I'm banging away here trying to get the BRM negative. I just seem to be getting slower the more I try. I'll give it a go tonight and see if I can manage to fluke a lap somewhere in the proceedings.

Finished again!  After 37 laps on Pro, that feels like victory :D

With the Aliens in BRM's ahead of me, I was realistically looking at a 5th or 6th place finish, and in the end it was 6th.

An OK start this time and held my place into T1, past a spinning Ken and nipped past Kruger!  He then shredded my nerves over the next 2 laps whilst the Honda was going through it's uncooperative first few laps, and he repassed me into T1.

Once the Honda was warmed up, I began to ease away from Clive, but could make no impression on Kruger and plugged away as Glyn caught and passed me recovering from his spin and then I discovered that Ken was only 8 seconds back  :o  I was gonna need 15 if I was going to get out of my pitstop ahead of him, pushed hard but couldn't extend the gap and got my stop over with.  Came out 4 seconds behind him and as the car got lighter, I was gaining  ;D  I trimmed off a couple of seconds, but with 2 laps to go I went for 4th gear and put the damn thing into 2nd  :o I was so lucky not to blow it up there and then, eased off and cruised the last laps.  The perils of having a shifter  ::)

Good race and congrats to the podium!

Nice report, Mike, grats. :)

I had a rather uneventful race due to a great handling car and an out of control Neil early on.  :D
Qualifying went well and I managed to snatch 1st on the start, but on the next lap he got my slipstream but opted to stay behind going towards T1. The thought that Neil was going too fast ran through my mind for a moment, so I delayed my braking a bit to give him some space and it proved to be decisive - he went off, just missing my rear. Lucky one, for me anyway, I just managed to keep it on the outside edge there and continued on. Either Lorenzo wasn't risking too much or my setup was very consistant, but I could manage to keep the gap back to him and eventually extend it. Not many moments with backmarkers, though I'd like to mention that it's really safer if you don't change lines to let us through but rather keep your own and maybe ease off a bit, at least when it's before a corner or on a straight. Anyway, in the end I saw Neil's Ferrari ahead and I really wanted to lap him.  :angel: So I pushed very hard, taking unnecessery risks in a way, but I had the belief that my "little" BRM would hold.  ;) He was quite fast though and only an off on his behalf made it possible. Grats all finishers!  8)

I had a frustratingly bizarre false start to my first Division 1 race. Joining through VROC I found myself at the unfamiliar controls of a Brabham, rather than my (t)rusty Cooper. Hmm, must be going mad in my old age.
So quit, and rejoined making doubly sure I'd selected Coventry as my car:  still Brabham. Odd, quit again and had GEM+ rebuild all the exe's, and rejoined to find... a Brabham. Hmmm, tried connecting directly without using VROC and checking the Player Info screen to be sure: Brabham. Getting fed up now, I tried joined the ukGPLpractice server through Igor, and got a Cooper! So, gave it one more try and sure enough still got a bloody Brabham!

Still, with less than ten minutes of qually left I took it out for an cautious exploratory lap. Now, to say that I'm not fond of the Brabham would be a bit of an understatement, and I've never driven it with more than a dozen or so laps of fuel on board. That, combined with my general lack of talent at Kyalami, resulted in me binning it half way round the lap. Three times in a row. At which point I decided that discretion was the better part of valour and abandoned the race. At best it'd have been embarrassing, and more likely I'd have ended up ruining someone else's run.

So, hopefully I'll make my Div1 debut at the next race, assuming my computer decides to co-operate!

cheers,
ak

Just to make a comment akamal. VROC uses gpl.exe while iGor uses gplc.exe, so that might point to where the problem lies.

Did you join VROC from GEM? I prefer not to do that unless forced to when running Mod races on VROC. When you join VROC from GEM it does some renaming of exe's to overcome the limitation of VROC only to recognise gpl.exe (of course mods weren't invented when VROC was made).

When joining a 67 race from VROC I'd normally not go through GEM.

oh well just like Massa 2 races and 0 pts and even finishes, pretty annoyed all down to joining the grid for race my graphics are all screwed up,installed latest drivers, omega and nvidia drivers, obivously still not working, just what to do....

Quite happy with the result actually. I had a nice head to head battle with Brendan, this time in identical chassis. It was an interesting shoutout, one Brendan has won fair and square.

I just couldn't get the lap right in qualifying, had all the sectors but never in the same lap. Pribluda showed a flattering 1.20.4 but I even couldn't net a 1.20.8 lap that I had driven just before the race.

Got a good start, better than Brendan in fact and I was slipstreaming Ken down the hill and I anaged to go on the inside, leaving a car width to Brendan if he had chosen to go for it - which he did :) Only later when I checked the replay I noticed that it was actually less than car width but somehow Brendan managed to squeeze his Cooper while I had to back off because Ken held better line into T1. Brendan then went into corner side by side with Ken and even though they both held their lines cleanly, there was an unfortunate warp moment between them. I had to slow down to avoid hitting Ken so I got passed by Mike.

We had an interesting battle for next two laps but a mistake into last corner, allowed me to get really close and slipstream accross S/F line and outbrake the heavy Honda.

Meanwhile, Brendan made a 2-3 seconds gap and I was off to chase him. In first part, we lapped at very similar pace and there were no changes however, I think I overdrove the poor thing and left tyres started to melt so I started sliping back trying to find different kind of rhythm.

Brendan stopped three laps before pit window so I went for it all on those three laps trying desperatelly to make some grounds thinking about the possibility that he may run into traffic.

Once I made my stop, the gap seemed to have remained the same. I tried to push from there on but had an oversteery moment in last corner. As Brundle said about Massa's trip up: the ambition got the better of adhesion :)

It looked as though it will be a quiet last third but then I realised Ken was up to something and after my spin, he was 5 seconds behind so I upped my pace and wanted to keep the gap that way.

So, having in mind the Alien vs. Predator BRM fight at the front and an excellent Brendan in third, I can't be unhappy about the result.

Grats to Hristo, Lorenzo and Brendan. Looking forward to Spa

A decent race yesterday....
Qualification was fine, i did my pb  :w00t: but it wasn't enough to stay ahead of Hristo and Neil.... :no:
A few laps after the start i realized that Hristo was definitely faster and gave up a bit to be sure to gain 41 points :punk:
Grats to Hristo on your win and to Brendan on a well deserved 3rd place....

Enjoyed that one, which I haven't done for a while in D1 (trying too hard last season....). Qualified 9th, finished 9th, can't say fairer than that.

Some excitement at the start as Evil's front wheel appears. I quicky realise he doesn't know I'm there, and move out of the way (Honda drivers, pah  ;)). Scooped a few places from the incidents in the opening laps, then lost them when Syd and I come together at T1 (I decided not to resist the pass, tried to keep to the outside line but got a little sideways on entry, then I think he hit the kerb and then into me - warp assisted). I didn't suffer any fatal damage and carried on.

Managed to catch Evil later when he spun, then the rest of the race was me vs. him for 8th/9th. Comedy moment as I decided to pit when he closes me down, don't realise he spots my plan (I wanted to use the 1 sec pit stop advantage to get some clear air from that engine) and follows me in. I pull up at the first stall (with no idea he's still behind....focus on that armco, FOCUS!) but Evil's right behind and taps me on the rear. I ended up with more clear air, but my rear suspension was a bit bent (not noticable, but GPLRA says "severe damage" - I guess I was lucky).

I then spend the rest of the race trying to preserve the engine, and scurrying out of the way of Alien BRMS. Evil then manages to close me down with 2 laps to go, gets the draft and then a superb pass around the outside of T1 for a well deserved 8th.

Shame there wasn't more folk - Easter hols perhaps. I like Spa, but I think I'll be lucky to get into the top 10 in the Coop.

I had a solid start, I think I gained a place or two on the way to t1. But then someone was off between t1 and t2, I had to back off, and lost a few positions. Overtook Steven and was closing down on Chris I think (blue brabham), but then he lost it between t1 and t2 and swiped me off. Went back to almost last. At this point frustration was starting to set in. As I was in a brabham I couldn't really afford any mistakes, and here I was running almost last. Caught up  with Steven again. I was on the inside, thought I started braking early enough. I don't know, maybe I locked the wheels, or touched a kerb, don't remember, but I couldn't keep on the inside and pushed Steven off. Sorry about that. I tried to slow down and wait until you repass, but messed that up as well, and spun out just after t2. At his point I was considering retiring, but then the engine mercifully let go and I was sparred more frustration. Bring on Spa.

Had a decent qually with a 1:20.4, just a few 100ths off my PB.

The start was a different story, I bogged down off the line and got overtaken by Kruger and Ken.  I managed to brake later than Kruger and squeezed down the inside and although the replay shows that our wheels touched slightly no harm was done.  On the exit of T1, I tried to keep my distance from Ken but it looks as if warp reared it's ugly head and unfortunately he got pushed off to the outside.  Sorry Ken. :-[

I was now in 4th and after Neil had chucked his Fezza I was up to 3rd.  Over the next few laps I managed to keep within 2-3 seconds of Lorenzo, and the same back to Kruger.  Gradually the gap to Lorenzo widened and I managed to pull away ever so slightly from Kruger.  After the pitstop the gap was around six seconds and this widened to around 10-11 as the race wore on.

Although this seemed a comfortable enough gap, I couldn't relax as I knew that one mistake and Kruger would be through.  Anyway, managed to keep it in one piece and was delighted to see the chequered flag.

Grats to all who finished and especially to Hristo and Lorenzo who made the rest of us look like mere mortals. :)

See you at Spa.
Brendan

I only came across one backmarker in a BRM, which worried me as I had to pass him into T1, which is my least favourite corner in GPL to overtake at.  I was a bit further back than I would have liked, but tried to ease up alongside under brakes and made it stay on the inside (which is where I usually go wrong).  Thankyou that man for your good awareness :)

sorry for missing the race guys. I was waiting an hour earlier for the race, then Team Canada was missing a driver for the last race of round 1 for the gpl world cup. I thought I just do a few laps and retire so I could race in ukgpl. But the race turned out being fun so I stuck with it. :)

The latest drivers aren't good for GPL. You need 162's. Just ask Clive L.

A frustrating yet enjoyable event for me.

Frustrating because in qually I missed a neg BRM lap by 0.027 secs and then in the race I got bumped off at T1. No hard feelings towards Brendan, it was warp what did it. When I ended up hung out on the wide line I was just waiting for it to come. You are a sitting duck to internet lag on the outside, even in these days of high speed connections.

Anyway I never really expected to be that high up the grid to start with, although I may have been somewhat nearer to the two Coopers ahead of me at the end of the race had it not been for that incident.

With no pitstop to worry about once I eventually got going it was just a case of maintaining concentration and try to be consistent. After the pitstops I did have Mike to worry about and he was close enough on a couple of occasions for the sound of his Honda to be audible as I exited the hairpin. I managed to stay ahead though but I did have a scare over the last two or three laps when I noticed my fuel levels dangerously low. In fact I only just made it with the BRM spluttering to a halt just over the line.

That was actually quite an enjoyable race. Hristo got the jump on me at the start but I knew there was a chance of getting past. As Hristo said I got into his slipstream and braked as late as I dared and it turned out to be a bit too late. Without Hristo in front I probably could have gotten away with it with some trail braking but I was so far up his gearbox I couldn't see a blind thing :P Some smart quick thinking on his part to give me room to have my accident in :D

After that I had a few battles with people, probably most notably Mike and Clive with some really good wheel to wheel racing.

Well all I can say is that I am quite chuffed that you feel I gave you at least SOME competition.  lol

I had tried all the cars in the few days before the race, in an attempt to get a sub 1:20 race pace . Competing ( well appearing ) in the recent World Cup round at Kyalami I had watched some "uber" aliens lapping comfortably in the 1:17's and 1:18's whilst I was allocated the Honda and it was hoped that I could at least beat someone and make it to the finish . Neither wish was granted!!!
I thought therefore that the Lotus or Eagle would get me at least somewhere near, but when I saw the puntive pit stop times i realised that the difference in pace between my Pathetic times would condemn me to a siesta in the pits whilst everyone and the ice cream seller at Clubmans corner passed me and went home for their tea.
So it was either the BRM or the ...or the.....Honda ( again..sob sob) Just before the race I was still undecided but I caught a whiff of lotus blossom in the wind and the sound of a distant wind chime and, without thinking, I opened the storage cupboard and retieved a crumpled white headband and Fundoshi.
The next thing I know I am sat in a very dusty, but familiar, Honda in the pits at Kyalami.
Practice is spent re-aquainting myself with the not existant steering and brakes and the pendulum that calls itself an engine strapped somewhere at the rear.
My grid slot is as good as I could have expected as I had only run race fuel in an attempt to get familiar with the setup.
The start goes well as my plan comes to fruition and peolple start throwing themselves off the circuit at T1, I am then witness to Kruger's attempts to squeeze his dainty minnow of a Cooper past Mike's white whale. Now if the two of you had done it properly , I would have gained another 2 places :O). But much to my dismay Mike casually allows Kruger to perform a devilishly cunning and brave kami kaze outbraking move into T1!!! Bah!! in my younger years in the Waza's we would never have capitulated without losing at least one wheel!! hrrumph the young generation of today...no backbone.

Well I would just have to show Mike how it should be done and pass him in an arrogant and cavalier manner.
I was about to perform this overtaking move when the ice cream salesman at Clubman's corner attracted my attention by waving a particularly large and enticing strawberry sundae in my direction, and quoting what I considered to be a bargain price. Being someone who never passes up the chance of an advantageous financial transaction I quickly parked the car hopped over the fence and completed the deal.
Upon returning to my car, I realised that the rest of you blighters had not been gentleman enough to pause the race whilst I got my ice cream!!!
That young Mr Foster swept past and, yes I swear he was laughing!!! Well!!  I would show him a thing or two. So driving with one hand, the other fully occupied with my strawberry sundae, which I did not wish to spill on my nice white overalls, I set off after said Foster character. Well, blow me ...when I finished the ice cream a couple of laps later I had almost caught young Foster but then I had to stop, to place the empty carton of the sundae into the waste bin adjacent to the ice cream seller. Can't go dropping litter all over the Veldt now can we.
Now with two hands free I set about retrieving the lost places and as the fuel level came down and the "e"  additives from the sundae made me hyper active I closed the gap steadily but surely on the Cooper in front.
Then, in what can only be described by any true follower of the art of driving as almost perfection, I performed the most graceful pass around the outside of T1 and swept majestically on pausing only now and again to wave to the crowds and taunt that Foster character for having the temerity to laugh at my ice cream!!!
Just a shame that it only resulted in 5th place and I still did not get to race with Mike who finished way ahead, which come to think of it, so did most of you!!??  Hmmm need to adapt my plans, maybe next time I should choose something different............a peach melba perhaps???

Must get new glasses .......finished 8th not 5th!!.... but that pass merited a few bonus points  lol!!!

Gardner at his best  ;D

Great read Clive  :thumbup2:

;D brilliant Clive, another ex-Waza eh I didn't realise!

...ahem, as am I  :P

Sorry I missed this , it would have been nice to add a few more points to the Soggies total and help put those upstart Coopermen (shouldn't they all be driving wheelbarrows ) in there place.

Bring on Spa  ;)

Hello Bernie!  It's been a while  :punk:

Great read Clive, keep it up  ;D

As an aside, have the Wazas officially been disbanded?  If so, I'll look out for surplus fundoshies (sp?) and kamikaze headbands next time I'm down the market.  :)

Wazas = Ronins :)

Trivia:

A ronin (浪人, rōnin?) was a samurai with no lord or master

The word rōnin literally means "drifting person".

I like the drifting bit :)

The Wazas have sadly shuffled into UKGPL's history - AFAIK, there are no team members competing this season after the departure of Evil, Hristo and myself last season.

A shame - if you listen carefully near the pit wall, you can still hear Ms. Fujikawa's distant voice....."all your victories are belong to MEeeeeeee.......".

 :(

Never say never. The Wazas may not be intimidating you by staring in your mirrors, but their ghost lives on. As Kruger has pointed out the "Ronin" are wandering amongst you, looking for victims.  :ninja:
Don't you get a chill down your spine when you hear that v12 howling behind you and see the white whale in your mirrors??? was it really a Waza, or just a figment of your imagination and was the chill just the ice cream you upset ?? :eek: :devil: :scared:

The Honda will be my steed for the season in Div 1, I feel strangely drawn to it's magnificence  ;D

Well, judging by the obvious physical appearance and handling characteristics, the chill could be from the Honda, or it could be a fridge freezer.  I struggle to tell the difference sometimes. :)

UKLRS?  if memory serves , them was good days them was .

 ;D

Yup, I remember you overtaking me at Monza in my first race when I was a n00b ;D

Jeez Mike , what a memory , you always did know how to make a guy feel good  ;D

Dont get the chance to overtake much these days , I'm steadily morphing into a  mobile chicane  :D

I never departed. Actually I didn't even know the team is no more until minutes before the first race of the season. I was prepared to race the Honda when ppl told me there's no team. So, as Kruger says, I'm a drifting person now...

We have kept your room just as it was, waiting for your return to SBRC, ;D

I did CC you on the email's about Clive and myself leaving (it's on the website too)......I have not heard anything from the other Wazas (apart from Dean, who isn't racing this season), so the team was effectively dead. I you fancy a challenge, come and join me in the Coopermen!

yeah come and join us Master Hristo teach me the dark side ;)

Padawan Burt ;)

hmmm! wine women and song is a pretty persuasive cocktail.............. ;)

Oh blimey! Look, there are still far too many Soggies. Ronin will not defeat them......you must join/form a team. Lots of tiny ones won't do, so if you want to take the fight to the Borg entity that is SBRC, join up with one of the smaller outfits.

Please?

 ;D

Need I say, resistance is futile?  :P

Prepare to be assimilated.  :surrender:

No it's not. With Hristo on our side (and Evil and I supplying a few extra points, well, mostly Evil), we managed to lift the D1 trophy in S14. Take that you Borg fiends!

Now, if I could persuade Hristo to join, it would be (mostly) him and Brendan against you lot...well, let's just say I think you'd be in trouble!

Hey Hristo perhaps this is the time to revive THOR!

It'll be just like the good old days only this time I will actually finish a race.  :D 

It would be great to have one more team in the league, especially one as strong as THOR promises to be ;)

Good luck gents

THOR's hammer perhaps? Now that would be scary - tremble with fear Soggies!

THOR eh?  hmmmmmmmmm.
T.......H......O.......R
The Honourable Order of Ronin??
has a certain appeal  ;)
or They Have Our Respect? or Time Hristo Ordered a Round? or  ........

It has a certain ring to it :) My team name is a bit of a placeholder anyway ;)

So,  hmmmm   are the "Ronin" gonna stop their roamin?,
and come together to prove the concept of small gathering dynamics and the chaos theory in one fell swoop.
Will a team of absolutely random ability levels trounce the establishment???? because my ability is very random!!!!
This could be the start of something big....or at least sort of bigger than small ::) :devil:

we shall see what we shall see, but only if the open eye is not closed   thus spake a very wise man...........as he left the snug bar of the Wonky Weasel and fell down the cellar hatch. :stupid:

Well, I'm up for it ;D

New team sounds a good idea too.

When I received my REED RACING contract Loot wanted me to agree to a clause that specified that I wasn't to wear any clothes at team functions, but I managed to persuade him that it might be better if I just didn't wear any suits.  He okayed it as long as I went without shoes on special occasions, so I signed, and we got sloshed.  However, he must have hidden one of the other pages during the argument, and it seems that I have to act as team recruitment representative.

Lord Loot wants to grasp the opportunity to create the most successful single-chassis Div. One outfit in UKGPL history.  With Hristo, Napo and Derekho, and even the possible luring away of Lorenzo, Loot would have his team of ‘Galacticos’.  Though one of the stipulations of the team is that it should achieve notoriety out of all proportion to it's success on the track, he feels that it would be possible for us to ‘carry’ some development drivers in this respect.  Also, the tippling tests will be waived for any Canadian volunteers, as per usual.

Contracts aside, he'd like me to add this message of congratulations and approval for your efforts so far- “Oh I say- good show!”