UKPnG Season 7 British Touring Car - Silverstone (GP 1987-90) - Nov 22

[Alex vV]

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Great race. _Very_ clean first lap.
Totally outclassed by the old and new faces in the beginning but hold on.
Could gain some places and had a nice fight with Jamera. Cool stuff 
Congrats to John for the champ and to jules for a good, mature drive 

Thanks all. Very enjoyable.

[Geoffers]

Great turnout for this, good to see a few old faces back as well as some newcomers. Hope you all enjoyed it & will be back for some more.

Race started well but ended a bit disappointingly. Didn't think I got too good a start but it must have been OK because I grabbed the lead. Soon had John & Ross (sounds like something out of 'Dallas' ) homing in & looking for a way past. Held on for 5 laps until I was a bit slow out of the chicane & John got ahead into Copse. Remained close for many laps with John eeking out a small lead & Ross staying close behind. All went wrong at the end though, got a wheel on the grass at Copse & spun & a couple of laps later was a bit to eager on the gas at Becketts & spun again. So eventually finished 4th  

Congrats to John, Ross & API  

And congrats to John, Clive & FMG on the championship podium.

Hope to see a big grid again next week.

[pribeiro]

First of all, thank you all for letting me join for this last round.

I've been away from PC racing since FORZA4 came out. More than 1 year.  
Yep, I was addicted to paint and make liveries. Made almost 500. Real, fictional and a mix
of real and fictional. I just love it.
Back on topic now.

Tried to not cause any arm at the start and lost 2 places.
When things went more stable, I was chasing Clive.
When we're braking for the chicane a few laps later, I lost my braking point and the only way
to avoid contact was crossing over the grass, ended up in front of Clive and ofcourse,
gave him back the position on the S/F straight. Sorry for the scare Clive.  
With that in mind, I quit of giving fight to Clive to not disturb his championship fight.

A bit later I was in battle with Mark. For a few laps I had fun and remembered all the fun
I had with SROUK gentlemen for more than 5 years (maybe more).  

During the last third of the race, I saw Clive on the grass (problably a spin), and then I managed
to overtake Simon. Last 5 laps were a nightmare with my RL tire with 30% wear and all red.  

All in all, after one year without racing on PC, I'm happy with the race. But even more happy for
racing again at SROUK and with the lads. TBH, I really missed you.  
Fortunately P&G3 came out and the will to PC racing reborned.

Congrats to the champ winner and thank you all.

Cheers


P.S. I will be not able to attend to all races, but I hope to participate in the next serie. ASAP. 

[purdie]

Went with the Alfa and didn't regret it... a real gem of a car!

Finished 2nd in race 'B' (behind the stangs  ) after spending the race closing the gap to Swift. Caught him and MJ while they battled and then I had a 5-odd second CTD and kept the wheel straight just in case it came back, and luckily it did. Dan had closed up behind me and so began the long slog again to catch Swift! Finished a second or so behind him after Dan and I got a bit racey in the last few laps!!!

Agree with Paulo..... been a long time since I had a SRou race and it was like days of old. Thoroughly enjoyed it!

I've been away from PC racing since FORZA4 came out. More than 1 year. 
Yep, I was addicted to paint and make liveries. Made almost 500. Real, fictional and a mix
of real and fictional. I just love it.

Yep, it got me obsessed for a few months! 

[phspok]

Great turn out and looked like some good racing was had. Nothing to do with me though
The credit is all Tony's for this series.

[Jules™]

Great Race,

I actually can't believe that I got 11 because I thought I would crash out quite early on. I messed up on chapel on the last lap and Goldtop was about 0.3 seconds behind me. Then it was just a battle to the finish.

I beat my dad in the first race! He must of nodded off 

Great race and thank you to everyone for letting me join 

[Jamera]

Just wanted to say thanks to everyone for a great race last night, really, really enjoyed it and it was sooo nice to be able to push the car without worrying about "SR" & "off track x 1" (Clearly I've been spending too much time with iracing )

Joined the server about 5-10 mins before qually 2 and have to say I probably should have given this one a miss as I'd only just finished mounting my new wheel and hadn't even tested it. That having been said, I felt I was doing quite well until I manged to spin out and fell almost to the back of the field, battled to catch up again and then span out and damaged the car. I limped into the pits for repair and got out just in time to land right in the middle of the battle of the white & red alfas.

Anyway, had some REALLY good battles along the way, thanks to all

[API]

Good to see you again after some time, chaps

Decided to give it a shot in PnG (especially Png 3 ) after a long time.

Qualy went pretty well. I didn't really had a chance to get any qual laps before the session so I really didn't know what to expect. So I was very satisfied with the p4 in the grid. The race itself then didn't start that well. I didn't remember that there wasn't any virtual starting lights in GTR2/PnG. Because of that, I failed miserably in the start as I actually found the lights about 0.3 secs before them turning to green. Lost a place, or two, or three, as I dumped the car in the start. After that, I had a great fight with Simon. Good stuff, mate. However, I eventually managed to pass him as he made a litte mistake in the exit of a turn. After that it was just about me driving by myself and keeping the Stang on the gray stuff. However, about 2 laps before the finish, Geoffers apparently had some sort of incidents so I eventually got an undeserved 3rd spot. Bad luck there, Geoffers. Good win John and well done Ross, too.

All in all, I had loads of fun and I hope to do more of these races in the future. Huge thanks for the organizers, as always!

[Clive Loynes]

Finally I have time to write something about Thursday.

Firstly congratulations to John and many thanks to Tony for running the series.

Obviosly the fastest bloke won but then when was that ever a requirement?    It would have been a bit of a travesty if I were to have won and I was only in the contention due to John having made some generous car selections during the season.

Fantastic drive from Geoffers too!  Don't tell me that you are a v3 beta tester as well!

I just couldn't find any pace at all on the night and being blind at Copse didn't help much.

I was behind API on the grid and got in a right state trying to go around him.  He saw me off coming out of Becketts and I settled to try to catch him and Simon.

Never made much impression until Simon dropped it and API had managed to pass him by then.

 Pribero gave me a fright but then backed off so that he didn't get “involved”.

Simon was catching me and suddenly vanished.  As a result I was gazing at the list of runners and riders as I hammered through Chapel.  The next thing that I knew, I was on the grass and heading for the solid looking parapet of the bridge.  I managed to get back on the grey bit for long enough to pass under the bridge but then wiped both my headlights off on the Armco.

That let Pribero, Simon and MJ through.  I managed to pass MJ and Simon very kindly drove off the circuit at Becketts whilst looking at the fuel gauge.

Pribero was too far away and getting the hang of the TransAm despite his tyre troubles so that was it.

Good field and hopefully that will continue so that I sometimes get a decent car to fight the aliens with!

Grats to Ross and API on their podium finishes.

[FullMetalGasket]

Well Done Clive and John - gutted my internet went AWOL and I missed the final

On the place side it was Silverstone which I hate 

[Legzy]

19 drivers 

[Clive Loynes]

19 drivers 

How come it wasn't 20?

[Geoffers]

Fantastic drive from Geoffers too!  Don't tell me that you are a v3 beta tester as well!

Well actually Clive, secretly........................................................no! 

[Mark J]

19 drivers 

Yeah come and join the party legzy, it's great racing