UKPnG Season 8 Grand Touring Championship - Rouen - Nov 28

[Clive Loynes]

Fuel  Gonna gave to look for some new kerbie pitcrew for next season 

LOL

The lads did their job then.  Their Christmas bonus is secure. 

[phspok]

Results and Replay Posted

Driver Award goes to JohnW
Who managed to win the title despite sportingly taking the slowest car at most events!  

Team Award goes to those Soggy Bottoms (Again   )
 

[phspok]

That was a great ending to the series, Thanks to all who took part, and there will be more series starting in January
There will be fun races for a couple of weeks before the Championship events start.

I had some great fun dicing with Legzy and Stig for a while until the rears started going on the RSR
which I am not used to driving with manual clutch, twice I bounced off a fence and was so busy trying to
keep the engine running I backed up into people's way, sincere apologies to all for that, Donato in particular  
Legzy actually couldn't avoid contact at one point when I was sat in the middle of the road with a dead engine
He was good enough to wait the first time, after that was all my own fault.

[Alex vV]

Congrats to the Italian podium and to John for taking the championship.

Replay page asks for Flash Player to be installed which smells a bit fishey 

Race results hopefully tomorrow...

ps. apologies for the in-game chat. Pushed wrong button. Won't happen again.

 

[phspok]

http://thecarnells.com seems to be the issue, can you add that site to your firewall?
I will post the replay on an alternate site in a few mins

[Clive Loynes]

ps. apologies for the in-game chat. Pushed wrong button. Won't happen again.

 

We were all very please to know that you were still with us.     So many had departed.

Are the results correct?  If so what happened to Geoffers on the last lap?  Have the Kerbies put on even more entertainment for me?

[phspok]

Replay

http://www.matt-rowe.co.uk/comp/PGfiles/20131128_Rouen.zip

I saw Geoffers dive bomb the entry to the hairpin across the grass past my nose, and into the wall
I assume he continued afterwards?

I have reported the bogus flashplayer request to the server gods (Gizmo and Picnic)

[Alex vV]

ps. apologies for the in-game chat. Pushed wrong button. Won't happen again.

We were all very please to know that you were still with us.     So many had departed.

Yeah, I was running in my usual last position entertaining the aliens but quit I will not.
Next time I'll wave...

[Alex vV]

With a little help from Matt:

Unofficial LapChart

[Clive Loynes]

I saw Geoffers dive bomb the entry to the hairpin across the grass past my nose, and into the wall
I assume he continued afterwards?

On my replay, Geoffers crosses the line in 6th and then goes and parks his car a country mile away.

Meanwhile, when I cross the line, having had a similar accident to his, it tells me that I'm 6th and he gets knocked back to 7th.

LOL  I think that the stewards must have investigated his crash after the race, as they say, and applied a one place penalty!   

[Geoffers]

I got a S/G penalty for cutting the track when I went across the grass at the hairpin. Otherwise a good race despite one or two brushes with the barrier, couldn't keep up with the Italians & Ivan but enjoyed the Zakspeed Escort.

Congrats to the podium & to John & the Soggies for championship success. 

[Mark J]

Good race that, enjoyed it  

Qualied a disappointing 11th as had hoped for higher until I saw how quick the zakspeed was and how many were in it  
Got a great start for a change only to have NPPs car suddenly change direction and biff me straight into the barriers so quickly lost the 2 or 3 spots I would have gained  
But then had a great 4 way battle with a pair of escorts and a Capri for a few laps dicing places, and soon joined by Ed in his 911. That was great fun. Unlucky for Bob his escort let go under engine braking and I picked off JX and ed after a while. This left me chasing Jesper in his Capri for almost the whole race only 2 secs behind. Then late on I got an oversteer moment in a corner and the gap got bigger. Slowly closed until the end keeping him honest but he didn't falter. Good job.

Finished 9th. Congrats to podium and well done John on the drivers championship and SbRc on the teams champ  

[Wiltshire Tony]

Entries begin in 3 days time

[Johnny X]

Grats to the podium, JW and the Soggy Bottoms.

Mixed race for me. I've been looking forward to driving the new Eskie and, in general, it was huge fun. I love the noise it makes. Anyway, quali went ok, made an indifferent start and managed to avoid any potential accidents early on. Some really good racing with MJ and our little group early on till I started to get picked off. As the race wore on I was losing concentration but managed to pick off Animal Ed after he had an off. I was running alone for a while but gradually dropping back to Ed et al. Ed got me mid race through the long right hander onto the back straight, stayed in contact with a bit of tow and made a bit of a silly dive into the next corner. Gave Ed a nudge, for which I'm truly sorry dude, let him go after he recovered and managed half a lap before my concentration completely went so I bugged out.

I'm struggling a bit with this length race whilst using the pad. It was at least 10 minutes after I bugged out before I could open up my hands   Anyway, as someone mentioned, grotmas is coming and hopefully a G27 will be arriving in my neck of the woods.

Looking forward to the next time.

[Edited for language ]

Further edit: Sorry about that...sincere apologies for any offence caused.

[NPP]

Got a great start for a change only to have NPPs car suddenly change direction and biff me straight into the barriers so quickly lost the 2 or 3 spots I would have gained  

Sorry Mark, I had tried to avoid a car that bogged down in front of me and getting back on the power I got sideways. I didn't want to go where I then went - still it was a driver error and I have to take the blame.