UKGPL Season 22 - Monaco 65 and Silverstone 67 - Ferrari Challenge - Jan 03

[s2173]

Well, im not sure, but I believe so. I started slow, so several cars overtook me, but then at lap 1 carnage I believe I passed atleast 5 cars. After that I was still  10th, but in following laps I overtook the retiring (if im not mistaken) Nicky, Evil, Cookie, Alex Barresi. At lap two or three I noticed that Hristo is down to 6'st, but he was still 20 secs ahead of me, and after that he kept gaining positions. During almost the whole race I was following Bernie and Clouds,  eventually passing them when they made some mistakes, and getting to fourth possition. After that, with 4 laps to go, I clipped the wall at chicane and span, letting then back through. With 1 lap to go, clouds rearended bernie at the casino hairpin, and I passed bernie, finishing fifth after one lap.

Only time I was passed was when I span at the chicane, and I was never lapped, im sure of that. I did lap someone once, I think it was Blito....

My memory isnt too good, so I cant say things went exacly like that or that im sure about my possition... hovewer, if clouds and bernie's positions are corect, mine is too. We were allways close.

Tho, now when i think of it, it seems I should have lapped also Phil, Pierre, Bob and Rainer... And I dont remeber doing that. Maybe they were at pits at that time...  I, hovewer, was not lapped. These things cant go unnoticed on so tight track...

[clouds]

Apart I didn't make the S&G after the reset for the heap at the very beginning of the race, I think my finish position should be correct but I didn't see the replay yet!

[Hristo Itchov]

The fact that I was 6th on lap 2 or 3, with other cars still in my mirrors, means that at least the first 4-5 cars on the grid were dropped time-wise and were positioned wrongly. When we went on to overtake cars, we were in fact lapping them, not overtaking for position, even if GPL thought otherwise.

[Cookie]

Yes you are right Hristo!

I see in the replay:

The 5 drivers

Alex
Albrecht
Pierre
Bernie
Nigel

were  set to lap 2 just after their crash after the finish line!
So I have to subtract one lap of them.

[blito]

Sadly I had to miss the silverstone race - we had a powercut!

[Cookie]

So this is what I get:

RACE RESULTS (After 18 laps)

Pos No Driver                          Team     Nat Laps   Race Time       Diff
 1   6 Hristo Itchov65           30      Ferrari  JPN   18  26m55.339s            
 2  14 Mark75 Barresi            25      Ferrari  ITA   18  27m39.980s    44.641s
 3   9 Sergio Lonzar 65          21      Ferrari  ITA   18  28m22.605s  1m27.266s
 4   1 Skymole 2173 -m65         18      Ferrari  JPN   18  28m25.549s  1m30.210s
 5  10 Albrecht Kleinf65         16      Ferrari  GER   17  
 6  12 Dave Rainier65            14      Ferrari  MON   17  27m06.571s   1 lap(s)
 7   8 Jason Blito               13      Ferrari  GBR   17  27m43.281s   1 lap(s)
 8  17 Phil Thornton65           12      Ferrari  GBR   17  28m02.005s   1 lap(s)
 9  16 Bernie65 Darwin           11      Ferrari  GBR   17  
10  22  Pierre D                 10      Ferrari  CAN   16  
11   2 Bob Whitwell               9      Ferrari  GBR   16  26m59.436s   2 lap(s)
12  11 Nigel Smith65              8      Ferrari  GBR    8  
13   3 Axel Cookie                7     Ferrari  GER    6   9m52.814s  12 lap(s)
14  21 Nicky Ickx65               6     Ferrari  RSA    6   9m55.463s  12 lap(s)
15   4 Axel Cordt                 5     Ferrari  GER    4   7m59.003s  14 lap(s)
16   5 65 evilclive               4     Ferrari  GBR    3   4m52.254s  15 lap(s)
17   7 Alex Barresi               3     Ferrari  ITA    1     13.621s  17 lap(s)

any comments?

[BadBlood]

This is fairly easy to correct in LM2 Cookie - just go into Reference Data > Entries and you can make adjustments there. The difficult bit is ascertaining what the data should be!