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Season 16  Division 1 - Round 1 - Mosport


 
For some reason I have been appointed as your moderator for this season. I can only assume that you all must have been very wicked in previous lives to have to suffer this torture for a whole season.
I will try to be as impartial and fair as all the moderators before me have, but things may take a little more time to process as I get used to all the backstage wizardry.


Div 1 Season 16 Round 1 is this Sunday at 9:00 p.m. London UK time.

Please be in IGOR UKGPL chatroom by 8:55 p.m.
IGOR and Race passwords: see above

Server ....for this race we will be using Bully's server on Igor .    IGOR IP Address: 194.105.176.22
(but please watch for a switch back to VROC when we have established a system for connecting to the new server format in future races)


Race date = 07-09-2008
Track = Mosport
Variant = 67F1
Damage Model = PRO
Qually time = 30 minutes.
Race length = 50 minutes (34 laps)
Password: see above (#post_event_password)
(2) Driver lists can be found on the championship standings page (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R;group=190;theme=6)


Division 1

	Single Stop Time		Double Stop Time
BRM	No Stop		N/A
Honda	Stop and Go		N/A
Cooper	Stop and Go		N/A
Brabham	14		N/A
Ferrari	22		N/A
Eagle	24		N/A
Lotus	38		14

 First Pit Window is: 28 (to go on your pit board) to 19 (to go on your pit board)
 Second Pit Window is: 26 (to go on your pit board) to 9 (to go on your pit board)

The interleague races will alternate with Division 1 this season, and we'll need a nine-car team for the first race with trellnet on the following Sunday.  I would hope that all the D1 drivers who aren't also registered for Clubmans would want to represent us!

Hi Clive. I've noticed my name isn't in D! this season? Any reason for that or just that I'm not wanted?  :P

Hi Art.  You don't appear to have registered.  Please vote in the poll (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=5124.0) and I'll add you to the list ready for tomorrow.

You are certainly welcome in Div 1 Art.

We need more handsome, intelligent and skilled drivers like you ;D

Noticed I'm down as first reserve, probably because I joined late and didn't want to commit to entering all the races (think I said approx 50% attendance) although I'll probably be there for most. Having never been a reserve before, whats the usual drill? Do I wait in VROC x minutes for others to connect first?

I don't think there will be a problem Glyn as we only have a total of about 12 drivers listed as Full Time and Reserves. So just join as normal at the start of qualifying, remembering not to venture onto the track until 30mins left on timer to give evryone a chance to make the connection. ;)

Shucks Clive....now I'm blushing.  :-[

C ya guy son the track.

Clive, there is a discrepancy between the race length and laps to go before pitting (marked red).

I don't have excel [on this OS] to check the pitstop calculator so if Pete or Clive could correct this before the race.

Kruger

Apparently it should read 34 laps for the race and I will edit the posting( to be approx 50mins racing), but selecting "Pro Long" in Igor shows up as 27laps. Phil has said that he will "adjust" the number of laps to be 34.

I have no idea how or where that is achieved.

Igor server hosting procedure, as far as I can see, only offers me the choice of "Pro Long" Intermediate Short" etc with the number of laps preset.

True, Phil, or Bully in this case, should adjust it on the server - basically increase race length in percentage, something.ini sort of file :)  - so when you select int long, it is longer by said increased percentage in race length. 

Just wanted to apologize to Storm Cloud for nipping him on T1 L1 and to anybody else this may have affected. I was way overcautious at the start. I will work on this for the next race.

After the T1 incident, I waited until the track was completely clear and I started out in dead last. Soon S. Cloud and Evil were just ahead and we had a nice trio going for a good bit. Just managed to get past SC but it wasn't long before I had a few offs and stopped for my 14 sec drink break. Once I got going again, I was shocked at how many folks had dropped out. Ended up in 5th after a lot of very lonely laps.  :o

Grats to H and the podium.

Super drive by both my Crash 'n' Burn teammates Art and Phil. WD guys. Great start for the team in S16!!!

Cheers,

Will

It was a good battle throughtout the first half of the race after I had too much wheelspin at the start and dropped down to 3rd. At T1 I ran outside of Lorenzo but a warp contact sent me off a bit so down to 4th there. After that it was difficult to follow Kruger's warpy car too close, but eventually I had a run on him before the jump but there all went wrong. I haven't looked at the replay yet, I hope there wasn't contact that sent you off into retirement, Kruger. Personally I braked too late but managed to scrub off enough speed in the sand and just slightly touch the fencing. In a few laps caught up with Lorenzo but then he went off at T2. Realizing I'd only lose time behind Neil's Honda which might allow Lorenzo to make up the lost time and go ahead once I pit for my stop/go, I decided to make it much earlier and it paid off. Eventually Neil's tyres seemed to have overheat too much and he lost it at T3 thus promoting me to 1st. From there on I just enjoyed the ride as the setup felt comfortable and I could push hard to ensure I keep the concentration level until the end. Only had one more moment when I went off at T3 myself, but apart from that it all went ok. Grats to Neil for 2nd and Art for 3rd!

Your performance was simply stunning last night Hristo.

Lorenzo was on my tail at the start and I have a feeling I was holding him up, but pulling away on the back straight so I could keep him at bay. After about 10 laps the tyres were starting to fade and the rears getting quite roasty. That and a combination of running out of talent was my demise in turn 3 which let Hristo into the lead, but I'm sure he'd have got ahead very shortly exiting turn 2.

I think I was more at fault for T1 than you Will. I was surprised by your lack of speed at the start and I wondered if maybe you had a problem with the car or possibly your pedals had slipped or something. I didn’t want to pull left into the outside lane in case someone had a better start than me and was coming up on my left. At the same time if you had a bad problem I didn’t want to follow you around the corner at slow speed. In the end I tried to pass you but still leave room for anyone to the left of me. Too close unfortunately.

Anway, for some reason the server stopped scoring me halfway through the race so I didn’t really know where I was. I did have a good scrap with Will Tway and Clive Gardner early on and towards the end of the race I was catching a Honda and I guessed it was Clive and that I was still racing him. He ran a little wide going into the fast right at the end of the backstretch on the last lap and I got into the gap on the inside. I kept as tight to the inside as I could but we had a little touch and Clive spun off, which I was sorry to see but I don’t think I took him out. Apologies though if it turns out I was a lap down and that wasn’t for position.

Hristo – the replay of you passing Enge doesn’t make pleasant viewing I’m afraid.

Qualified 5th where I expected I'd end up and had a better start than Will's Brabham. Hristo went wide at T1 and I was in third following Lorenzo and Neil. I could keep pace with them watching Hristo closing oin quite fast. I managed to hold off for a couple of laps and I was determined to put up a good fight. Once Hristo got close enough, there was one attempt at the end of back straight but I managed to hold the position and next time around, Hristo braked quite late and seems to have gotten a bit out of shape under braking. I don't know if it was warp or not, my client replay shows contact but your replay Hristo should hold the answer.

I didn't move from the outside line and the contact sent me into the barriers. Car was not the same after that and I struggled to keep it on the road - soon I retired.

Whatever it was Hristo, no hard feelings whatsoever, its racing. You had to pass me as soon as possible and I had to keep you behind and sometimes these things happen.

My connection was actually good and the latency meter was stable - everyone else seemed stable to me.

I enjoyed the fight up to that point.

Grats Hristo, Neil and Art.

Kruger

Kruger


Just hope the Maffia dont decide to award you a 25 seconds penalty   ;D

I have not yet had the opportunity to check the replay, so I am not sure what happened to Storm Cloud's lap count. He was showing as lapped on my prib, but I can't see where that happened.

Thanks, Kruger, what exactly happened was I wasn't positioned exactly straight over the jump so the correction I did afterwards sent me at an angle towards the middle of the track plus that didn't allow me to brake enough. As for warp I meant that from all cars I raced yours warped more since I had no problem staying very close with the others, but anyway it's not an excuse, though as you said I was really desperate to pass sooner because of the stop and go I had to serve. I'll leave it to Clive to judge it after watching the replay.

Correct the new standings, still shows me in 1st. BTW, I liked to read the short race report after each race, is that dropped too in favour of moderated incidents only?

Sorted now. 

I always liked to write a quick summary of the race, it adds a nice touch.  But it all depends how much time the moderator has.  We will try to continue the tradition.

Having said that, with the SRou message board system the story of the race is quite often encapsulated in the drivers comments that appear in the same thread as the race results.  This didn't happen on the old Yahoo groups because they weren't linked to the old results pages.  Hence any comments about the race were down to the moderator only. 

It still shows me as 1st on this thread, as for the short report, yeah I know it was just moderator's personal view, but it was always nice to read from a non-competitor's point of view more like a newspaper column.  ;) Oh and I like reading about myself of course (well who doesn't!) !  ;D

With all the stress of actually doing the modding stuff, I totally overlooked the race review bit Hristo.

If that element is important to you, and others, I will try and include some words of praise ( or otherwise ::) ) in future results. ;)

Yes that's the way it is done in SRou.  The revised position is shown in red.  If you look at the results table (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=190&theme=6) you will see that Neil has been credited with the 50 points for first place.

Yes of course they do, that's why I did it ;).  I always tried to mention the podium and anybody who had a particularly good drive.