UKGPL Season 27 (2014) Friday Trophy - Moon - Nov 21

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Season 27 Friday Trophy - Rounds 35 & 36 - Moon - CanAm 71

Welcome to the CanAm round for the Friday Trophy, we do our longest trip to the Moon.
A nice smooth track with some great racing expected.


This seasons tracks will be easy and well known to have a smaller time gap between the lights and heavies,
if there is a too big gap on a track, a stop and go for the lights in the 30min race will be recommended!

This is really designed to be a fun series with 3 different car mods
- running 1 sprint length race of ~15 min and a ~30 min race with the same car.
- ONE SHIFT-R with NO Stop n Go

Light drivers are restricted to not use any of the big 4 (M8F, T260, M8D or Shadows)   
Heavy drivers will allways have a free car choice!

Race List = IGOR
Server = UKGPL_8
IP address = tbc
Race date = 21-11-2014
Variant = CanAm
Damage Model = intermediate
Track = Moon

Qualifying 1 Time = 20 minutes, starting  20:45 UK time
Race 1 Time = race 1 starts at ~21:05 UK time
Race 1 length = 15 minutes (12 laps )

Qualifying 2 Time = 10 minutes, starting  ~21:25 UK time
Race 2 Time = race 2 starts at ~21:35 UK time
Race 2 length = 30 minutes (24 laps )

Password: see above
Replay = will be here

Drivers having missed race1 can join the server for the Quali of race2 in IGOR

Please restrict chat to only real necessary messages including at the end of the race until ALL drivers still racing have crossed the line.

Races will be moderated for reported incidents only unless there is something VERY BAD happening!! so be nice to each other. 

GLA

[GregT]

Congrats Mark, Axel, Dean!

That was a weird event for me. Luckily I was fast enough to overcome most of my mistakes.

I really screwed up the first heat. I clipped the curb in T1 and ended up sliding off the right side of the track. I went into a huge crater. The tires were warm and I had 3.5 gallons left so I took off in what I thought was the right direction but instead I was heading back towards the starting line. DQ - reversed on track?! I knew that was too big a mistake to overcome in such a short race. I tried though.

In the second heat, I was glad to get the pole. I thought I had a good chance of winning if I could keep from making mistakes. Lately, that's been too much to ask of myself. My self discipline and consistency has been terrible. I keep getting myself into situations where I try to drive faster than I'm really capable. After my off, that gave Mark the lead, I knew I had a very difficult task to try to catch Mark but at least, I still had plenty of time. It's a shame Mark was discoed. He very likely had another win but I was going to try to make it very difficult.

After the race I figured out some of my problems with this event. I thought my PB in the 712 was 1:02.33 not 1:03.22. I expected the McLaren to be at least .5 seconds faster. I actually thought most of my laps were slower than my 712 PB. So I was actually 1 second faster through the event than I thought I was. I didn't need to be trying so hard to do 1:01.8, which I thought was .5 seconds faster than my 712 PB. I wanted a 1:01 but it wasn't as important as I had been thinking. After the event, I thought I had only run 3 or 4 laps better than my Ferrari PB. Actually I had only run 3 or 4 laps that were more than 1 second faster. What a dummie!

Good fun guys, thanks!

[Mark Jones]

Can ams are difficult on the moon.  I knew the McLaren C is definitely faster than the Ferrari, so I worked on making it stable but struggled with overheating the left front tyre.  Greg gifted me the lead in both races but I had an igor problem in race2 that caused a screen freeze, which is very annoying as by then I'd finally worked out a zen-like attitude to driving the thing round this track.  Anyway, farewell to the moon.