UKPnG Season 8 British Historic Cup - Goodwood - Dec 5

[NPP]

BTW Sorry for the contact in the first lap NP

don't worry, I think it was a robust move but still ok.

[Mogget]

I was expecting the Mini to be considerably slower than the Alpine and Alfa, but it was not quite as bad as I thought it would be. In fact, I seemed to be able to keep pace with the Alfa on the straights, and even close the gap using the slipstream if I was close enough. I had a couple of enjoyable battles with Alfa drivers (firstly with Legzy until he spun off, and then with Animal Ed later on). I was struggling to keep pace with Animal Ed towards the end of the race, and then I ran wide onto the grass as my tyres started to show signs of wear. I completed the last three or four laps on my own, but I was happy enough with P11 as I didn't expect to have any chance whatsoever in the Mini

[Alex vV]

Unofficial LapChart

[goldtop]

Quite an exciting race last night. I never seem to do very well at Goodwood but it was my first time in the Alpine (I think) so maybe my setup also contributed to me feeling so far off pace of those at the front. Had some good dicing but made too many little mistakes compared to those around me.

Congrats to Donato for the win and to Geoffers and John for the podies 

Well done John for winning a hard earned driver's championship....impressive stuff again  Well done Kerbies for winning the team championship and denying those soggies a clean sweep 

Thanks to Matt for his continued efforts in organising these events and to Alex for those lapcharts 

[phspok]

Chat in Qual or Race ist verboten. It is potentially distracting for people in the heat of battle.
It is "normal" for a few messages of good will while sat on the grid like "GLA" etc, but once the race starts we prefer silence
even if you knock someone off, it is expected that you will say nothing and then wait for them.
I sometimes want to shout "Sorry I shoved you off, but for Cod's sake hurry up and GET BACK ON THE TRACK so we can get on with it"
but that would be errrrr  "inappropriate"

I made a comment on the grid to try to warn people about the lights at the right that are not race start lights but pit lights
but it came out all wrong, hopefully it didn't confuse people too much, watching the timer start is always a safe option on these
add on tracks.

I will fix the minis that are no longer in Gr2, in 3.1 they have moved some cars into sub groups that didn't exist in 3.0

[Mogget]

I made the mistake of watching those pit lights at the start of the race, which resulted in an even slower start than normal. Thankfully, it didn't seriously affect my position. As for chat in race, I am used to saying "Sorry" or "Thanks" elsewhere in league races, so my apologies if I did this last night.

[phspok]

It is polite to say Sorry etc, but some people find it very distracting so we encourage silence.
It's not a hanging offence to me, it's just that if you are in mid braking or trying to avoid another car
it's off putting to have messages flash up on your screen. Some people turn off in car chat for that reason.

[Wiltshire Tony]

That seems like a sensible approach Matt. Having witnessed at first hand another league, that was good fun to take part in, slowly have the joy sucked out of it by the constant introduction of rule after rule, your approach is definately the way to go (IMO). 

[phspok]

Yep. My real life racing is going through some rule changes created by well meaning people who are rather missing the point.
I can't do aything about the Gr2/G5 Minis, the Britax is in once as Gr2 and again as Gr5
Alex has kindly produced a list of cars, perhaps we can send it to Dave?

[Wiltshire Tony]

Yeah, only Dave can do Class configuring

[Wiltshire Tony]

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[ElPorracho]

First congrats to John on a well deserved championship win. Also well done to all my Kerbies teammates on pinching one of the Soggies cups, well plundered!  

Good race from my point of view. Had a great run in the Alpine, harrying Donato for the first few laps until a mistake at St Mary's let Giuseppe past. Got back into 2nd a few laps later when Giuseppe copied my mistake then had a good battle with him for a few laps until his attempted overtake at Woodcote bumped me onto the grass & I dropped back to 4th behind Federico. The three of us then had a good battle for several laps until both of my opponents got on the grass exiting the chicane & left me in a fairly comfortable 2nd place. Cut Donato's lead a little over the remaining laps but I was never gonna make up the deficit even if the race had been 10 laps longer.

Congrats to Donato on the win & to John in 3rd place.

Yeah.... tough race!

i didn't thought to be in pole.........so it was a surprise to be first with the Alfa.

Only a good start would gave me a chance to win the race, so for the first laps my concern was to colse every doors to Geoffers, trying to get away in the corner. Twice Geoffers was almost inside, but i've gently colsed him..... Then Geoffers went off in the grass, same thing with Reali and Zecchin.
In the second half of the race a couple of lapped drivers made me lost some seconds on Geoffers, but i've maintained a sufficient gap to win the race.

See u! 

[Alessandro Tancioni]

Very funny race!!
In qualy i achieved a very good 4 position.
But during the race, after a couple of laps, i totally lost the concentration.
in 4 laps i went off the grass 2 times and i lost 3 positions.
Finally, my pace arrival.
Beautiful chase with johnw and federico zecchin...but they was faster than me
Finished the race in 5 position.
Is a real pleasure to drive with you mates on tracks...thank you!!
cu

[Legzy]

That was about as good as racing gets in my book. Says the bloke that finished 12th

Had some good racing with Mogget & a couple of other drivers, but then enjoyed almost endless laps with Matt. Don't think we could have been much closer at times, but don't think we traded paint once despite being side by side & bumper to bumper through litterally a hundred corners! 

More please.

[Alex vV]

Unfortunately I blev the engine with 4 laps to go.

http://youtu.be/LmCQsCs-6WU

 

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