Moderator's Report
Lap 1, La Source
Bill Worthington seemingly doesnt brake at all and runs straight into Paul Smith who gets sent into orbit. Following Bill's email, explaining that his computer locked up, the accident makes sense and despite the severity, can only be described as a Racing Incident
Paul Smith, unfortunatly, has to wait a long time to shift-R and does so, but doesnt take a Stop and Go, which I'm afraid is an automatic 6 place penalty.
- Paul Smith — Failing to take Stop and Go — 6 places lost
Lap3, Stavelot
David Powell on Ryk Penfold: Ryk is ahead off David Powell and while getting a tiny bit out of shape when entering Stavelot, Ryk doesnt lose more speed than normally. David doesnt slow anywhere near as much as Ryk, hits him and sends him off the track, while continuing unhindered. Only reason this doesnt look worse, is that Ryk gets slightly out of shape and doesnt quite get in on the racing line, but the result wouldnt have been any different.
After spinning off, David should have been aware that the people who have passed him, aren't as fast as him and have shown more caution.
Lap5, Eau Rouge
Paul Harrington spins out of Eau Rouge, does a couple of funky bounces of the hedges and ends back up on the track, right in front of unsuspecting Paul Thurston.
Racing Incident.
Lap6, Pitlane.
Barty Mee pits for his stop 1 lap too late and 1 second too short. Both in the race-announcement and on VROC, it was made clear that the pitwindow was with 7-5 laps to go.
The pitstop is then also clearly 1 second too short.
This has an effect on the final outcome, as Mike Prickett, who had stopped within the correct window and ended up losing a couple of seconds due to traffic and was catching Barty Mee, with something like 1.5 seconds a lap and was right up behind him (0.25 seconds) as they cross the finish line.
To avoid this, if you are using GPLwait, activate it until you are fully stopped and don't start moving the car (for continuing racing) until it changes back to the front view...or if you are counting missisipis, elephats, crates-of-beer (my favourite), make sure you err on the side of caution!.
Due to this, I will have to relegate Barty from first and issue a Warning for breaking the rules.
- Barty Mee — Pit stop infringments — 1 place lost
