UKGPL Season 29 (2015-16) UKGPL 69 Extra Trophy - Rouen - Oct 25

[dave curtis]

Tried to get on the server,  but seems to have been very popular tonight!

Have a good one chaps.  Time for an early beer!

Cheers,
Dave.

[Ronnie Nilsson]

Ah crap.  Rammed up the arse in lap 1, then disco. 

[Tom van Ostade]

I'm always good at quickly adapting to the circumstances, but a P4 in quali and P2 in the race is above all expectations. I haven't seen the replay yet but was glad to survive the hairpin L1 and being able to overtake Tim. Tim kept very close the entire race but I managed to save a podium . Fun . Thanks for the race.

[GregT]

What a joke! The first start I'm hit from behind or the side at the hairpin. The second time Marco shifts into neutral to exit the hairpin. I almost stay off him but that assures I'm hit from behind again.

Fast lap of the race is at least 0.8 seconds off what I can do without a slipstream. The AI is more fun.

I hope there's a replay of the first start. It might be as sad as the second one. I wish I had saved mine.

[DLogan]

...I almost stay off him but that assures I'm hit from behind again...

That also applies to anyone behind who managed to avoid hitting the guy ahead too hard. 

...Moderation : no more red zone, only reported incidents will be moderated...

And not having a "report incident" button cuts down on the workload even further, what?

[Rainier]

...Moderation : no more red zone, only reported incidents will be moderated...

And not having a "report incident" button cuts down on the workload even further, what?

I wanted to have less work to do ... 

Axel corrected it, it should be OK now.   


To all racers :
PLEASE REPORT INCIDENT BEFORE NEXT SATURDAY 23:59 (11:59 PM) 

[Ronnie Nilsson]

Always tricky for me racing with the Big Boys, but I had done a fair bit of practice during the week, and finished with a reasonable setup. First time I qualified 9th. Second time I managed to get a lap in and qualified 7th. All seemed to be going ok, until the hairpin, when a Ferrari appeared on top of my car! I managed to wriggle free, but in the process my DFV had nearly reached 12000 revs, so I spent the rest of the race wondering if it was going to blow. I found myself in 4th place, with two BRMs right in front of me, but not for long as they pulled away. I then ran a solitary race for the next 20 laps, with the only scare being when Cookie's name appeared on my pitboard, but he was fortunately too far behind to catch me.

I really love the feel of the 69X cars, and was very pleased to end up 4th.

[Marco Mercaldo]

Sorry guys for my mistake at the hairpin, always at start the sounds becomes confused, you only hear other cars, so I found myself in neutral gear, I thought I had broken the engine, instead I was neutral....damn, I tried to move to avoid disasters, however  I  and  the other drivers we lost many seconds...........

[Cookie]

I hope there's a replay of the first start. It might be as sad as the second one. I wish I had saved mine.

Sitting in 6th grid position I saw only 2 cars in front constantly, all others were jumping like crazy or not visible!
After the first lap the server had only 4 cars left so I decided to shut down.

Even the extra wide grid (~17m!) did not avoid the pileup in the hairpin that left me lying on my back...

[Doni Yourth]

My apologies to...

The membership for in-race chat.

The membership and admins for using an expletive in said chat.  Edit: And just to clarify, that expletive was not directed at any particular individual.  Just a general comment reflecting my displeasure and disappointment concerning the developments in the New World Hairpin on Lap01.

Dean for the knerf in the New World Hairpin on Lap01 that set you off.  From what I can see, you lightly touched the car immediately ahead of you which set you back and I couldn't avoid.  Sorry.

Just about reached my limit with this series.  Already...

[Rainier]

Sitting in 6th grid position I saw only 2 cars in front constantly, all others were jumping like crazy or not visible!
After the first lap the server had only 4 cars left so I decided to shut down.

Very strange.

about the 1st lap, there was a big crash at the hairpin (...as usual) but after that and even after 2 laps when you decided to shut down, I still saw 14 cars still racing 
and I didn't see any jumping crazy cars ...

is it possible that, you only (or maybe with 1 or 2 other drivers) had connection troubles ?

[Cookie]

is it possible that, you only (or maybe with 1 or 2 other drivers) had connection troubles ?

NO! Impossible!
I am sitting to the server next door

I controlled it at the server before I shut down, the server had only 4 drivers driving after the second lap  

PS
I retired after the first lap on pos 3...
Shame on me I did not save the replay
All other drivers were marked in red color on the server, so they had lost connection!

This was a first time situation I never had seen before.
 

[Ronniepeterson]

Have to admit I'm with Dave. I was still racing with a lot of cars ahead of me and some behind when the decision was taken to shut the server down.

Unfortunately I was unable to stay around for the rerun that occurred the same night.

Grats to the podium of Piero, Tom and Tim.

[Cookie]

At the server it looked like a mass disco, 14 of 18 driver not racing in the second lap!
I did several attempts to verify it 

I remember a server crash at GeLi, where we could handle that easy using Teamspeak, maybe we should also think about TS here...

[bernie]

Race 1 and next to last on the grid  Then after lap1 mostly spent dribbling through the battlefield I get to be 9th , there seems to be chaos at every corner , thinking "whats the matter with those guys" and "why is everyone in such a hurry to self destruct " This is 69X where the guy behind has the advantage , why chuck it away 

Race 2 start 11th (thanks to late joiners) Finish 11th , not bad on paper except almost 2 laps down and being lapped by some who had s/r and done pit stop .

Conclusion , its better to be a crap driver & fast than a crap driver & slow  ( though it doesn't help being stuck behind a stranded car for ages at the hairpin waiting for him to re set )

Think I might have turned in on some one going through T1 late on in the race , not seen the replay yet so not sure if I am guilty of a transgression , will have a butchers later 

Grats to the podium boys and Ronnie for P4 , a great result there mate .