UKGPL Season 22 (2011-2012) Novices (65) - Surfers Paradise - Nov 8

[NHance]

Paul. Do I understand that correctly that if you go on at say 8.45pm over 30 minutes before the race starts a time you do counts in qually. If so that's more than our usual 30 mins qually.
Anyway in the hope of phsyching out my rivals I have just done 2 fun races on the server & quallied in 1.12.48 & 1.12.14. Did me no good though - bumped off at turn one both times & by my standards a good start obviously slow by everyone else's. I would have liked to keep the 1.12.14 for tomorrow 'cos I HOPE it won't be far off. Race pace is what counts & that's a LOT LOT slower.
Norm H

[BadBlood]

Blast... and triple blast...

I was hoping low 1:13 would put me high and I can definitely do it BUT at that pace I spin off every lap or two...

We have done away with 30 mins qualifying because it was very hard to get the server started on time. We have moved to a system where there will be at least 30 mins qually but up to 60 mins. Reserves must leave the server between 35 and 30 minutes to go to ensure that Full Timers can get on. If they rejoin they should pick up their previous times.

[Cookie]

If they rejoin they should pick up their previous times.

Phew, that did not work for me tonight...

I left in 2 races the practice and rejoined with the same car, but my times were lost!

[BadBlood]

shame

[Johnny.P]

If the race is 32 laps would you fill with 32 laps of fuel or is there scope for ..ahem.. short filling.. and stopping for fuel.

[Cookie]

If the race is 32 laps would you fill with 32 laps of fuel or is there scope for ..ahem.. short filling.. and stopping for fuel.

A shift+r for tires or refueling is not allowed by the rules!

Those 65s have a low consumption, if you would stop you would never get back to your lost position

I did a 250miles 67s race at Indy and stopped once for refueling and lost my lead, the winner did not stop!

[maddog]

Refueling was very dangerous in the 1960's, and was not allowed in F1.  At a GT race at Goodwood, a few years earlier, the pits burnt down after a refueling problem.  We do not want this!  Racing with too little race fuel is against the rules.

[Cookie]

[BadBlood]

If the race is 32 laps would you fill with 32 laps of fuel or is there scope for ..ahem.. short filling.. and stopping for fuel.

You need to test Jonnyboy. You may well find that you need nothing like as much as 32 laps...

[blito]

Wow... a novs race with no Ferraris!!!! That must be a first! Two seasons ago the novs division was almost entirely red or white.... how things change!

[Cookie]

WOW Jason 

Great win in a BT7

Cheeers

[BadBlood]

Well that was HUGELY disappointing. Started late because I was trying to herd people into the servers so only ten mins left in qually and I couldn't get under 1:14. Been doing 1:13s regularly in training. After about three laps my steering wheel started wobbling and then it fell off... not sure who totalled me but I lost all drive and then had to wait for the whole field. Difficult after that. Then when Jason caught me (and I had hoped to stay clean and not get lapped) it was blue flag city.

Really difficult, then I took Nigel out when I lost it on T3 just as I was about to let him through (sorry mate). Then set about chasing Roberto and Economia. Got past EE when he made a mistake and then I returned the favour. Just wasn't good enough and I span it five or six times.

Shows that I have come on to be hugely disappointed with eleventh but I had the worst laptime consistency - partly down to slowing to get lapped but on the whole very frustrating.

Hard to get the modding and the racing balanced. Have been looking forward to this for weeks and I didn't really enjoy it

WD to my mate Jason and well done to Rog and Al (who is the dark horse now?)

Finally, hope the debutants enjoyed it. Pierre and Phillipe did very well and kept it going - check out my first race at Mosport (S19) if you think I am kidding! And well done Johnnyboy - I assume your lobby name is John Pennington!

[BadBlood]

Replays are downloadable here.

Feedback welcome on how the Chassis allocation went.

[clouds]

Hey guys...watch out for a new Shadow is coming to cover you all 

Way to go JasooooOoOoOon !!!

[blito]

Hehehe Sergio... I doubt I will be too much of a threat for the series championship, my BT7 will be a sitting duck at the faster tracks! This race was almost perfect for me. Surfers is a track that suits the BT7 well and I had the car set up perfectly for it, it was so well balanced and I could throw it around with confidence. My race wasn't free of mistakes, in fact there were a few moments when I was really close to losing it but again the car was perfect and I could recover every error!
On the starting grid I was very concious of the fact that Surfers is not an easy track for passing and that the win would likely decided by backmarkers and lapping incidents. I was right. I mad a great start and moved from 4th to 3rd on the start straight. A lap or so later I made my only contested overtake, passing norm into T4. A lap or two later race leader Happy Al made a mistake exiting T3 and I out dragged him into T4. Al then put me under pressure for a few laps until we caught our first backmarker. Philippe was doing ok at the back, not bad speed for a new entrant but clearly wasn't sure how to be lapped... I made it past ok but when AL tried to follow me through Philippe turned in on him and there was contact resulting in Happy Al becoming a less-than-happy Al. Perhaps all new entrants  should watch Badbloods race for tips in how to be lapped... BB is the expert in this!
From there on all I had to do was keep the car on the road... Roguk kept me on my toes the whole way, never more than a few seconds behind, but I was driving well and the backmarkers were generally very considerate.
In all, my 105th UKGPL race was apretty good one