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Season 17  Division 1 - Round 9 - Silverstone

The championship is still undecided with 3 drivers in with a chance of the title.  Take it easy on lap 1, we don't want the championship decided by an avoidable incident.  There are no second chances with PRO rules.

Race List = VROC
Server = 6.UKGPL
IP address = TBA
Race date = 05-07-2009
Time 9:00 pm (UK London Time = BST = GMT + 1h)
Track = Silverstone
Variant = 67F1
Damage Model = PRO
Qualifying time = 35 minutes. Don't start until 30 mins left on clock to allow everyone to join.
Race length = 50 minutes (34 laps)
Password: see above (#post_event_password)


Pit Stop Times

	Single Stop Time		Double Stop Time
BRM	No Stop		N/A
Cooper	Stop and Go		N/A
Honda	1		N/A
Brabham	8		N/A
Ferrari	26		N/A
Eagle	31		11
Lotus	41		15

 First Pit Window is: 27 (to go on your pit board) to 18 (to go on your pit board)
 Second Pit Window is: 25 (to go on your pit board) to 9 (to go on your pit board)

Will be giving this one a miss, won't be back in time. :)

I "voted" to enter myself in your Jul 5 D1 Silverstone race (and the last race) but the top of this forum topic says that I am not licensed to enter this series.  Will the race password be posted in this thread?

Rick, see the note I've put in the registration thread - you should now see the password prior to the event.

hmmm,

qualified a full half second slower than my pb. Blew 3 engines during qualy, so reverted to the default setup.

safe start to the race behind Phils Ferrari. I was a bit faster and we had a bit of a dice. I got ambitious on braking and rode onto the grass, letting a Brabham by in the process. At least I think it was a Brabham. Anyway, I had a fantastic battle with this dude, side by side down hangar and he forced me to try to pass on the outside. Still, we were side by side up the hill and the Brabham ran wide on the tight right hander and once again I pulled forward.

Now the tight left hander onto the back straight was next and I thought the brabham would ease off the throttle, because even though he had the inside line, I had the momentum and its a sweeper of a corner. Anyways, I eased out a little and left room on the inside, but  we touched and....around we went.

I put this down to a racing accident and started an aggressive string of lappery to catch my team-mate. jack was quick here and going well. I caught him at one point and I wondered to myself 'is my team mate gonna let me by?'. Into T1 and he pulled to the right to block me and I almost creamed into the back of him  :o. Then I hesitated as he pulled over to let me by....and spun on acceleration  :oops:. What a dope I was!

Anyhow, a string of good laps hauled me towards him and this time I was by with no probs, although I had got used to following someone and had some leery oversteery moments as I tried to up the pace. Lap 18 and I'd pulled a big gap on Jack and I think (but not sure) that I was closing on P5 fractionally.

The BRM engine couldnae take any more and let go on me   :censored:. All my fault for pushing the old girl too hard, she really struggled for pace on this track. Think I need to work on my race-craft as I've had more than my share of contact recently!

Jim 

Qually didn't go well at all. I know I was second on the grid, but I was in the Lotus. I'd been doing fairly consistent 1:26's in the short practice run I did yesterday but just couldn't get a rythm going today. The last left hander especially was proving difficult and many times I ran on the grass.

In the race I think I may have won the drag race to T1 but I was puzzled to find my look left/right mappings on my wheel buttons weren't working! I kept really tight and I could hear Hristo, but couldn't see him. This situation continued to T2 and I decided to lift and settle in behind, rather than risk contact. I then followed Hristo, quite closely at times, up to my first pitstop. I presume Hristo was just enjoying the fun of the close combat as I was because neither of us had any reason to fight hard. I had those two 15 secs stops to come while H only had a virtual stop and go in the Honda so it was pretty pointless, but fun as I say. I even managed to pull off a pass just before coming in for my first stop, not often I can say that with regard to Hristo, but I did have the advantage of the green and yellow car.

Anyway after that I did have some cars get ahead due to my stops but I was back to second with about 4 or 5 laps to spare. Then I was really chuffed to get the fastest lap of the race and a new PB on the penultimate lap when I posted a 1:26.4. The cure for the troublesome last lefthander was the old adage of slow in fast out. I must try to remember that for the future!!!

Qualifying was awkward, I did my pole lap on my first run and couldn't even get a clean lap in the remainder of the session.

Had a nice battle early on with Ken, after narrowly keeping 1st after the start.. It's not so much I was trying to have fun, it would've been easier to open up a gap, but after the first 3 laps I noticed the oil temperature go way too high for comfort, so I had to begin shortshifting in most places to stay within the safe limit. But even without doing that, Ken was faster and the result would've been similar.

He made a great pass just before his pitstop, initially I thought I'd manage to keep the outside line, but he braked too late and was through.

I wasn't sure if Ken had 1 or 2 stop strategy, so after our pitstops when you began closing up the gap I started thinking how I was going to keep you behind near the end. Luckily you had to pit once more before the end and had to fight with Fulvio, so I just had to reach the finish in one piece.

Monza promises to be an interesting race!

Cheers,

-=Hristo=-

I had a couple of interesting laps following closely behind Bernie and James and was nicely positioned to take advantage of any mishaps. Unfortunately when the inevitable coming together happened I wasn't able to avoid clipping Bernie as I tried to squirrel between the spininning cars and finished up in the middle of the track facing the wrong way. After waiting for everybody to pass it took an age to get the car pointing in the right direction by which time I was about a mile behind the rest of the field with a Pribluda full of red - not very encouraging after only 4 laps :(.
All I could do then was to make sure I didn't impede the lapping cars and eventually succumbed to another off by which time Bernie had also retired so it was not a good day for the Soggies.

Hoped you would have stayed wide and continued the race ,but as it turned out  you didnt leave enough room to sqeeze through.

The Cooper ( not brabham)  is impressively slow on the long straights of silverstone but good in the twisty bits . I had made a slow start and was trying to drive smoothly until the tyre temps got in the working zone , you seemed to slow a lot for the corner and I thought I could get through easy , but things went a bit pear shaped.

A lap or two later and I got a blank screen which required a quick flick of the mouse button to restore vision,  but too late as the momentary loss of control caused me to dive up the banking, into the armco,  ( I must buy shares in that stuff ) and out of the race .

My own fault for not deploying "end it all" before the race .
 
Appologies to Mike and Phil who got caught up in my fracas , escp Team mate Mike who was going well in the sister car .


   

Where are the twisty bits at Silverstone?! :)

Good response, I imagine Maggotts/Becketts/Chapel.

Bernie probably imagines virtual cones to impose a handicap for himself on the straights. We should be thankful I suppose.  :D

 The reporting system can be accessed via a link entitled "Submit an incident report" that will be made available under the race results table.

Help. I can't find this.

It will be available once the race results are posted at the top of this thread. The link is positioned under the results then.

Hey !

They laughed at Galileo Galilei ,and some folk still think the earth is flat  ;)

Gutted I missed this, was twiddling my thumbs on the train back from Stratford.

Who won? ;)

Do you really have to ask?!! ;)

My guess would be Hristo or you, but it's hard to tell from the reports people post, so yes, I do have to ask. ;)

1) Hristo
2) Ken
3) Fulvio


A nice consistent race for me :)
I had a nice dice with Clive's Honda in the first part but then he spun and later leaved. Then I kept the gap from Tim's Honda till the end.

Ciao

Results uploaded.  Took a bit of sorting out because there were duplicate race numbers which was tripping up the importer.  This is probably down to people joining leaving and then re-joining the server.  Please try to keep rejoins to a minimum please gents.

Sorry but I don't see a link to the server replay which is req'd under regulations for submitting an incident report.  Have I missed it?

It's in the usual place Doni http://www.jamesonline.net/ukgpl/ (http://www.jamesonline.net/ukgpl/) or find it on the UKGPL frontpage under 'replays'

Donny, you don't need to submit a replay clip from the server replay.  We already have the full server replay so there is no point sending us a clip from that.  It is better to submit a replay clip from your client replay so the moderators can judge if warp was a significant factor.   

However, if you haven't saved your client replay then please download the server replay.  When you submit your report it is a BIG help for the moderators if you can provide the replay time (ideally in hours seconds and minutes - as displayed by the GPL replay not in seconds as implied in the incident report form) so the moderators don't have to trawl though the replay trying to identify the incident in question just from a textual description.  You'll need one or other of the replays to do that.

OK, PT.  Sry.   ;D

I wish someone had said that to me before - I always used to have to sit there and work out how many seconds 32mins 12 was ect  ::)

Yeah, same, LOL! ::)

Sorry this post is so late after the race but just wanted to say thanks for letting me in.  Didn't expect great things being my first race and it did not disappoint.

First goof, I read that no reset is allowed in qualy.  So when I had a shunt that ruined the car after about 5 laps I retired from the session and patiently awaited the green flag.  Doh!  No reset allowed but continuing after Esc-Enter back to pits is OK!  What a dumbass!

Second goof, (actually the true first) I left my last practice while adjusting my gear choices.  Well I guess I never finished the job because I left 5th gear about 2 teeth away from 4th.  So I had to race with essentially only 4 gears and 4th/4th+ was way too low for the job.  Makes overtaking on a straight just about (no, make that absolutely) impossible.

So basically I just went around trying to not get in anyone's way.  Had some offs that would have ruined even a good effort but oh well... just you guys wait!!

Sorry to Darwin for the broadside.  Thought I was going to slip by to the left but at the last second you creeped into my path and K-BLAM.  Luckily we could both continue.  Hope you car wasn't too screwed up.

See ya Sunday.