Moderator's Report
Congratulations to Will for a deserved win. Despite my efforts at balance there were several Hondas in the race, one Ferrari and no BRM's! There wasn't even enough fuel for all the Hondas, and Paul Bird was the one who lost out... Hopefully we should have the BRMs back next race but with all the Ferraris in the Novices there might be room for one more in the Amateurs... Thanks to Clive for again providing the server, unfortunately we have not yet managed to get UKGPL1 working on Igor.
The race was started off a tight grid, which led to a few problems that might not otherwise have occurred.
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Start
The side-to-side contact between Nicky and S.Cloud is warp, though Nicky may have been moving inside too early in the race. I'm not going to penalise this, because of the tight grid and because it only affected Nicky, since he was thrown over the armco out of everyone's way.
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L1 Esses
Geoff clips John Roberts right rear as he turns in. Geoff turns in too early- he can see that there are cars two abreast just ahead of him, with the outside car forced to stay wide.
I've waived the additional 1 place Lap 1 penalty and the yellow card points because of the tight grid.
John performed an sng for his reset, though it wasn't necesssary as he wasn't at fault. However the sng wasn't carried out 'according to Loynes', as you have to be closer to the pit wall, as Clive kindly explained to me in my first UKGPL race.
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L1 Esses
S.Cutter loses control on the kerb and is rear-ended by P.Maestro, who has to reset, but doesn't need a sng for this. Racing incident.
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L20 90
S.Cutter loses control in the 90 and slews sideways, there seems to be a gap which N.Ickx goes for, leading to side-to-side contact as S.Cutter regains grip. Both cars suffer minor damage.
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L23 Back straight
FullMetalGasket attempts a very ambitious pass between P.Bird and C.Loynes at the end of the back straight, and makes contact with Clive's left rear, sending him off. Clive is left upside down on the racing line and is hit by J.Roberts, who has failed to slow under yellows, and so correctly takes an sng for the needed reset.
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L27 Turn 1
Burt makes a slight error at the 90 allowing S.Cloud to get alongside before T1, but then turns as if S.Cloud wasn't there, and the side-to-side contact sends Burt into the armco. The contact was Burt's fault but I'm not going to penalise it, as there was no damage or hindrance to S.Cloud.
Bernie is following and finds Burt right on the racing line at low speed. He tries the inside where there is no space, the contact sends him into the armco. There wasn't much Burt could have done about this, as his car had simply spun onto the line and any attempt to move off it would have just taken up more of the track. Bernie had little time to choose and almost squeezed past.
