UKGPL Season 16 (2008) - Rouen - Trellet- Sep 14

[Burtoner]

another pathetic race really, every knows its PRO rules so why do they mess half fields race up?

I wait for the moderation.....

[EvilClive]

Harsh as it may seem Rob,  there will probably not be any moderation.

[Lorenzo Galluzzi]

Nice race for me....
Started 3rd but made a mistake and went on the back of the grid, then i tried to recover and was 3rd again, but i did another mistake due to my tires temp and lost many seconds from the lead. I pushed very hard again and the tires seemed to go well, so i reached again the lead but couldn't make any attempts to win the race....

Cheers

Lorenzo

[Jack O'Ferrall]

The replay is up, also Trellet have started an RSC thread on the race here:  http://forum.racesimcentral.com/showthread.php?p=3885323&posted=1#post3885323

RSC is probably the best venue for post-race discussion, while (fairly) heated debates are usual and even encouraged on our own boards, the RSC boards are more neutral in nature.  

[Iestyn Davies]

Hey guys,

Thanks for making me aware of the new league for this season. It's a good idea to run some interleague matches, as the GPL community is quite tight knit, and quite country based, so there can always be interleague matches to enjoy some international competition

Sadly this race fell for me on the weekend that I was moving everything to Liverpool John Moores University which I am now at. Before the move I would have said increase bandwidth settings to full and for many people (non-prib users?) to use new rasters for all cars in view. But after seeing the shocking 1mb/2mb line in my accom, I can see why bandwidth has to be considered (lol).

Sadly I won't be able to do any GPL at my accomodations. Vista laptop, no wheel... = no simracing during the week. But my home isn't too far away, so I might be home for some weekends. I hope to do some oAo events at these weekends/holidays, and if there are some ukgpl races I will try and make them too [iRacing is going out of the door until the Lotus 79 comes out  ]

Unlucky for the race guys, good effort to organise this new league and get it off the ground. I'll contact some guys in eolc and lfgpl to see how they feel about some interleague fixtures.

GL with the ADC

[Burtoner]

looks like we can still submit an incident report 

[EvilClive]

I know it was a bit of an anticlimax going out about 15 secs after the start when it was not your fault and it might make you feel better if you get it off your chest Rob, but there is no moderator appointed ( officially) to make any rulings.


Plus, if the result was changed by a few points, you would not get your race back and as there is no league table it would not improve your or the team's position.
The guys from Trellet who were involved have made their excuses and apologies and it might be that some of the problem was that our server did not show all the cars that were arriving at the scene. If the person who caused the accident could only see an empty track, he can hardly be blamed for attempting to rejoin the tarmac.

So we need to check our server settings and be sure that next time such incidents are not a result of hardware/software/bandwidth issues and can be attributed to "ungentlemanly driving"