UKGPL Season 22 (2011-2012) Porsche - East London - Nov 25

[Pierre D]

Hi  Wink
.....sorry for my team mates but , as Tom , I race in the same champ (LFGPL).....so , see you in Malaisia  .... Cool

Since our reservist - Michèle Maytheforcebewithher - is still looking for the keys of her 910, I must ask for HEEEELP !
MauvaisSang - sorry - Badblood, you are of course welcome in what is left of the leading team .

I may also ask for a raise but I don't want to distract you guys with my domestic problems. 

Pierre D

[Mark75 Barresi]

if there is enough room, i can participate at is race.
i wait your answer...

[Geoff65]

if there is enough room, i can participate at is race.
i wait your answer...

Of course you can.......you're registered under Team Godzilla. Do you have a third driver in mind?
You will be Server 2.

[1967driver]

if there is enough room, i can participate at is race.
i wait your answer...

Of course you can.......you're registered under Team Godzilla. Do you have a third driver in mind?
You will be Server 2.

Ehm ... it's our fate that we cause misunderstanding when try to enter in this champ.
I go to substitute Tom Guérout and Mark75 would participate at place of another absent, both in quality of freelance drivers (Team Godzilla exist only for the GT, ignore him).
The PSC Regulation allows to involve other 3 drivers per team to make races during season, and this would be our case.
We are in chat before race, see you later.

[fpolicardi]

Sry Jason for the contact at lap 1, not a great show by myself. 

After having spent many of the qualy time to join the server, it was saying it was full, I struggled to do a clean lap and at last attempt I had a contact with Fran, sry.

I'll comfort myself tomorrow with the Rally show at Monza. Loeb, Capello, Sordo, Dovizioso and Valentino will give some fun 

Night

[Pierre D]

After doing a 1.33 at the very beginning of the practice, I realized that my chances of getting closer to my 1.30 were very slim. Once everybody got started, there was a car every 200 yards and I spent more time watching either Pribluda or my mirror than actually looking at the track.  With still some time on the clock, I decided to leave to fix a display problem and I was told the server was full when I tried to get back.

I switched to server2 and I started at the back. I had decided that I would quit if I was in the way . Well, I didn't have any rhythm and it didn't take long for the leaders to catch me. I spun at low speed in the esses and unfortunately got in the way of someone I want to apologize to.  I quit on the spot.

I don't belong to this championship. I was contacted to be the reserve novice on a team and that was OK for me. There is some fun to be had mixing talents on long tracks like Spa or Le Mans but it becomes a nightmare on small tracks like East London.  

Anyway, if this championship comes after some other race in some other league for some team leaders, I don't feel I should be missed too much.  I will spend more time in the 65 championship where I belong.

Have a good time.

Pierre D

[NickyIckx]

  looks like luck does not shine on Team 7 .

screen starts flickering and then finally lost power (black screen ) .
  it turned out the screen`s plug lost contact to the PC ... never ever happend the last 30years .
well I better should use the screws.. thats what they made for , lol

have fun with F1 and Ralley at Monza on TV  

[s2173]

looks like luck does not shine on Team 7

My fault... it wont get any better until you kick me out of team...

Had no space to do a good time at the (second) qualify and ended last... Fulvio went somwhere at the first lap, so no chance of full team finish...Got rearended at lap 3 by some guy with italian name...ended last again... then I didnt care anymore... did several laps...span several times...parked car at pits and left...

[Phil Thornton]

A very eventful race for me.  Had several battles throughout the race but I went wide a few times which dropped me back.  Early dices were with Geoff and HappyAl (A Baldwin), we were all of pretty similar pace so any overtaking was usually down to mistakes.  Geoff and Al dropped out and the rest of the race was a big fight with Marco Mercaldo whilst trying not to take out my team mate Fran.  We circulated as a trio for several laps trying to get the better of each other when the leaders started to lap us with about 8 laps to go.  It got pretty hectic but thankfully none of the leaders got taken out.  It looked pretty close at times.

With about 6 laps to go Marco tried to get up the inside of Fran on the last corner; he didn't make it and ran slightly wide leaving the door open for me.  I sneaked past on the inside but as we accelerated away Marco got a bit sideways and we touched (racing incident IMO but I'll submit a report anyway).  We both ended up spinning off and loosing touch with Fran.  I then went wide at the first hairpin (turn 3) and Marco got past me again.  Then half a lap later we came across Fran, motionless after his Porsche engine had expired .  Very unfair after such a great drive.  I then had to chase Marco down who had got a 2 0r 3 second lead with only a couple of laps to go.  I tried my hardest to catch up and I got very close, almost along side on the last corner but I had to back off and hope Marco went wide under the pressure.  He didn't and my last chance was to get a better exit and beat him to the line but I gave it too much throttle and spun.  By the time I got going again, Jason had nicked the place from me  

Grats to ArfArfArf on a good result and some decent points for the team.  Unlucky Fran, you were driving well!

[happyal]

Had some fps problems with the GT mod, and had to run at really low res to get it to run smoothly. As a result I couldn't use the mirrors and prib at the same time. So sorry to anyway who I didn't move out of the way in time as I couldn't see you coming.

As for the race, it was going OK for me. I was keeping it on the track OK and my times were OK. After a few problems there were a little que of cars behind me. I was having fun keeping my lines and keeping them behind me, but the my engine went on the 910 I've driven more and harder laps in pratice than I did in the race, so it must of just been random.

[BadBlood]

Well I am glad you are all enjoying the racing. I have just finished the imports and it is a bit of a nightmare. Didn't even get to drive as we can't get the two PCs sorted

We actually had all 21 drivers turn up for Server 1 but Pierre couldn't join and Hendy joined the wrong server (which helped). I will need to talk to Geoff about what we do about that. We may need to have a 'floating' team that is not assigned to a server.

PLEASE READ THE RACE THREAD. Once again, several drivers thought the password was wrong - it wasn't. YOU MUST KNOW IN ADVANCE WHICH SERVER YOU JOIN AND WHAT THE PASSWORD IS. Would it help if we had two race threads? Problem with that is that you cannot see all the results in one place.

As always, replay is available here. Just select the PSC series and select the Server you were on. Analysis is available if you click on the Archive name.

That analysis is available directly from here for Server 1 and here for Server 2.

The Replay .rar files are available here for Server 1 and here for Server 2.

[svenvangent]

Waaaaaaaaaw , what was it a close nice/battle race with Evil and Axel .
Me on 3 place Axel 2 pl and in front/1 there was Evil .
Phew..... for many laps we sticked together unbelievably never done such a close race .
This al went well until Evil was hit by a driver who we where lapping .
Damn , i tought , bad luck for Evil because he deserved to stick with us but at that time i didn't knew what i would know later .
One thing I've read in the rules of UKGPL is .... when someone gonna be passed please place your self on the side so the faster drivers can continue there race .
So the race continue between Axel and me woooooow also close situations funfunfun;
Yup .... now it was my turn to be  crassed by the same driver who crassed into Evil  .
I tried to continue the race but my wheels decided to go in all directions except the directions i wanted .
Also my engine didn't want to stop so i almost crassed in the driver who crassed in to me lucky i touched nobody .
End of the race for me and disappointed ach ..... it was so much fun out there at East londen .
A big congrats to Evil for taken the first place anyway , and second place for Axel and third for Raoni
Infact for the three guy's/drivers who made it on the podium .
Like always thanks for the server and race see you guy's at Sepang .

Greets svenvangent

edit by mod Alex =/= Axel
Thanks 

[Arf Arf Arf]

What a weird race......

I should be glad that I finally finished one, but ended up frustrated. In the first few laps I was chasing someone who was warping so badly that I was scared to get too close, and spun avoiding them when they started appearing and disappearing all over the place. That put me behind Maxime and Cookie, although Maxime slid off. For the next few I chased Axel round, although he too appeared to be warping a lot. I nearly got passed him once or twice, but our pace was too close for there to be a real chance.

Then 2 things happened. First the warping stopped. Then Axel started to drive away from me and there was nothing I could do about it. Soon after Maxime passed me as if I wasn't there, and Roberto Teso would have too if he hadn't lost it and spun at a corner. I became convinced that I had some power loss due to gremlins, but I don't get a mention in the post race mechanical report. All I know is that Axel and Maxime were pulling away from me lap after lap, where previously we were all lapping at the same pace. By now all I could manage was mid 127s, so I just settled down to try and make it to the line and take some points for the team. Nice to see everyone in Super Pastit Porsche made it home - well done lads!

Highlight of the evening was coming out from behind Axel just after the first corner with vague thoughts of passing only to find a stationary car exactly where I wanted to go - that certainly got the blood going. Axel had taken a very wide line to avoid the spinner, and I probably could have got past him, but wasn't sure if it would have been legal, given the spin, so backed off. I think it was the only way I was ever getting past him tonight....

See you at Sepang

AAA

[Roberto Vianna]

Wow, I was a little disappointed, I was not forcing the car, was walking within my possibilities, easily followed my compatriot Du Fossa at the end of lap 3, falls to my teammate, Peter Berg, who had been delayed but was much faster, and when to accelerate again to resume speed, the engine exploded.
 Too bad, because he trained hard and was pretty comfortable on the circuit.
 Thanks Sven for the setup was great.
 Congratulations to all.
 We will meet at Sepang

[Rainier]

PLEASE READ THE RACE THREAD. Once again, several drivers thought the password was wrong - it wasn't. YOU MUST KNOW IN ADVANCE WHICH SERVER YOU JOIN AND WHAT THE PASSWORD IS.

I cannot understand what happened.
As my English language understanding is far to be good, I read several times the topic and finally it was clear for me :
I had to connect the server 2 with password dud  (now the race is over, I think I can write the passwords), so I tried 3 times to connect but every time I got a "wrong password" message !!!
Finally, an administrator/moderator told me the right pwd was Pete !!

So could you explain what was wrong ?



About the race itself, it was a terrible battle with Matti/Zampedri and Pedro VDBerg. I spun one time and lost around 10 sec. Then I was not able to overtake Matti who had a lot of lags !
I also had problems to overtake some cars when I took them one lap
Grats to Clive   for his great victory !