UKGPL Season 28 - Joe Shaw Memorial - Snetterton - Aug 9

[EvilClive]

For Samb's benefit... and anyone else contemplating the wearing of the Fundoshi of Fame.  Mrs Fujikawa has made contact from her secret mountain retreat, where she is enjoying her retirement from world domination, and issued this advice about her all conquering V12 masterpiece.

She say,

"I watch all things, all time, and know when the mighty Waza race car will be used.

All Ronin intending to use Waza machines must be fearless in race and uphold my honour.

Engine must never reach 260F.

Respect rev limit, banging red pointy thing not good for survival.

Be velly careful with shifting stick down, easy to make wizzy bits part company.

Such is power of Waza engineering , must treat rear tyres with respect".

I think She has just about covered the important points. 

[GregT]

Respect rev limit, banging red pointy thing not good for survival.

It never fails me if I always keep the engine under 11K. It's a lot of fun to make it sing at 11.5k and improves your lap times, but the engine never lasts long under those conditions.

I guess I'm fast enough that I should drive a Cooper. If it had a Honda engine, it might be rather glorious.

[Iestyn Davies]

Talk about saving weight and getting the CofG lower with the Fundoshi The Wazas are back!

BRM for me or maybe Brabham with RFB - could be fitting for Beefpie

I might be missing the last race, depends how it falls, but I'll try to attend them all before that!

[Ronnie Nilsson]

What a tricky track it is.  The only chassis I can find to give me stability is the Ferrari.

Sorry, I can't see for looking - are there any Shift-Rs allowed?

[Cookie]

The Joe Shaw Memorial  is run in PRO mode!

[Ronnie Nilsson]

OK, I thought that's what it meant, but just wanted to check.  See y'all later!

[Phil Thornton]

Pleased to see a full grid for this one.  Race started well.  Having a good battle with Andreas and Doni until I got it a bit wrong out of the last corner.  I lost momentum and then to top it all I missed a gear near the finish line and consequently I slowed unexpectedly which caught Doni out and he clipped my gearbox sending me into a spin which ended my race.  Apologies to Ronnie Nilsson who hit my wreckage and crashed out but I think everyone else got away with it.

Good luck to everyone still racing.

RIP Joe.

[Samb]

Looks as though I'm continuing my poor form from last season. One of these days I'll learn to drive my own race and not over-drive and crash.....

I'll attempt to make the other races. Sure is fun making that Honda sing  (Thanks for the tips guys).

Good luck to those still running.

[MagicArsouille]

.....2 laps to go and disco.....grrrrrrrr !!.....before that I'v been under pressure all along ......funy track .....but Iwas needed a braby to contain Iestyn in brm

cu guys

[Robert Fleurke]

Sorry to hear Tris, you deserved to win, even in a BT24

Excellent racing up front, and a worthy tribute to Joe Shaw. From a personal POV happy with my fast lap, but made too many little mistakes in too many laps which cost me trackposition. Just wasn't able to string the good laps. Went through my back last week, and it's hard to maintain good focus...

Grats Iestyn, excellent consistency, and well done to Axel holding me off. Good job finishers and commiserations retirements. Some tough luck for some, like Andy, Greg, Tris and Pelle.

Thanks to Billy and Axel for organizing, see you at Brands

[Cookie]

Shame Tris! Sorry...
Better luck next time.

Great racing, very clean and fast. Thanks!

The replay link is in the racepost  

[Ronnie Nilsson]

Pleased to see a full grid for this one.  Race started well.  Having a good battle with Andreas and Doni until I got it a bit wrong out of the last corner.  I lost momentum and then to top it all I missed a gear near the finish line and consequently I slowed unexpectedly which caught Doni out and he clipped my gearbox sending me into a spin which ended my race.  Apologies to Ronnie Nilsson who hit my wreckage and crashed out but I think everyone else got away with it.

Good luck to everyone still racing.

RIP Joe.

I thought it was you, Phil!  I've never seen a car spinning like that - you were lengthways across the track, so there was no room to get by.  Ah well.  Brands is nicer - a rhythm track, I find. 

[Billy Nobrakes]

Excellent turnout. Good to see nearly all chassis represented - apart from the green whizzy one (Lotus 49).
I hope the Privateer drivers are not daunted by the faster drivers in the field. This is an open series, for the first 19 drivers who join the server. I can't think of an easy way of running more than one grid for this series & not sure we really have the numbers to do so. If the leaders have to contend with lapping a few back markers this will just add to the authenticity of the series.
I tried out the Eagle but found the BT24 was better through the corners & more consistent. (If I get chance I will try & sort out a set-up for the Lotus for Brands). The guys at the top end of the grid were incredibly quick, even with handicapped chassis. My ambitions were modest, try not to be lapped & avoid the scenery for long enough to finish - so mission accomplished, but only just. Snetterton is quite a challenging track & caught out enough of the competition to get me 10th place - which I'm quite pleased with.

[Pelle_B]

Grats ID, C & RF 

In honor of Joe I chose BRM...unfortunately a car I had never tried on Snett. Chose to use my 'fast' Rouen setup...of course with some changes & I had fun. Unfortunately, it went up...& down Again, until I learned how to get control of the heavy car. Especially the first laps were fun close race. 

Strangely, on the server replay I discover TB & I freeze at the same second...too bad for both of us. When I freezes...imagine the sound of a BRM rising wildly in rpms without exploding...but the car would not cross the finish line 

[EvilClive]

First of all what a great turn out guys! A full grid is something that we rarely see in GPL, so thanks to all for making this first race a fitting tribute to Joe and lets keep the numbers going right through the series 

Not looked at the replay yet, but I was vaguely aware of Andy's(?) Ferrari alongside me out of the hairpin on lap 1, but after fighting my car through the Bombhole, he was not there??? Hope it was not contact from me that ended the race for that Fezza driver?
I thought I was going to be the lone Waza, but Sam had the b*lls ( and I loaned him my spare fundoshi ) to take the white whale into battle alongside me. In fact, not so much alongside as IN FRONT! for the first few laps.
My setup needed time for the tyres to come up to racing temps and then some careful management to prevent them melting. About mid race I got a bit excited and sent the rear tyre temps into the stupid zone and paid the price with a couple of offs allowing Dean and Greg? to get past. I had to cruise for a couple of laps until sanity was restored to the tyres and then started to hunt them down. I benefited from Tris and Pelle's disco , hard luck guys, and Doni's Brabham threatening me in the last laps forced my lap times down by about a second a lap. That extra pace gained me approx 5 secs on race time which was enough to steal Dean's 4th place as he crawled towards the line with his stricken Brabham.

Grats to Iestyn Cookie and Robert on a fantastic performance out front, that was fast and furious!!!

RIP Joe