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November 30, 2008, 10:02:03 PM +0000 - Solitude - UKGPL Season 16 (2008) Division 1 '67
Driver
 Team
Nat. Make Model Class Qualifying Race
Tyres Pos Time/Gap Pos Time/Gap Laps Stops Best Retirement
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Ken Murray
 Soggy Bottom Racers Club
Cooper T81b (Maserati) F1 1967 2 +3.335
121.985mph
1 49:44.658
119.800mph
14 3:30.123
121.549mph
Firestone  
EvilClive
 
Honda RA300 F1 1967 6 +9.844
118.307mph
2 +2:10.732
114.773mph
14 ---
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Firestone  
Jack O'Ferrall
 Reed Racing
BRM P115 F1 1967 7 +12.333
116.959mph
3 +2:33.718
113.932mph
14 3:39.565
116.322mph
Goodyear  
Phil Thornton
 Crash 'N' Burn Racing
Ferrari 312 (1967) F1 1967 3 +8.502
119.047mph
4 +2:44.812
113.531mph
14 3:39.136
116.549mph
Firestone  
Storm_Cloud
 
Cooper T81b (Maserati) F1 1967 5 +9.519
118.486mph
5 +6L
113.969mph
8 3:34.685
118.966mph
Disco
Firestone  
bernie
 Soggy Bottom Racers Club
Cooper T81b (Maserati) F1 1967 9 +19.591
113.196mph
6 +9L
111.820mph
5 3:45.098
113.462mph
Disco
Firestone  
Hristo Itchov
 
Brabham BT24 (Repco) F1 1967 1 3:26.036
123.960mph
7 +10L
121.604mph
4 3:28.437
122.532mph
Disco
Goodyear  
Samb
 Reed Racing
BRM P115 F1 1967 4 +9.156
118.685mph
8 +13L
110.440mph
1 3:50.279
110.910mph
Disco
Goodyear  
Will Tway
 Crash 'N' Burn Racing
Ferrari 312 (1967) F1 1967 8 +14.673
115.719mph
9 +6.070
107.615mph
1 3:54.683
108.828mph
Disco
Firestone  
Burtoner
 Soggy Bottom Racers Club
Cooper T81b (Maserati) F1 1967 10 DNS ---
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Firestone  
1 UKGPL
 
Brabham BT24 (Repco) F1 1967 10 11 ---
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Goodyear  

Moderator's Report

Solitude, a circuit that inspires extremes of emotions. There are those who detest its dark brooding forests and interminable bends and hills and there are those who revel in its majestic sweeping bends and undulations.
Ken and Hristo seem to fall into the latter grouping and several of those who experienced the close attentions of the scenery probably feel they belong in the former group.
Ken and Hristo certainly set a stunning pace in practice and looked set for a thrilling race on their own, with the added element of Hristo's pitstop in the Brabham to consider.
The rest of the mortals made a good fist of it and the mid field looked like it might engage one or two in their own private battles.

Once the race started the field spread out quite quickly ( some spread out more than others!! cough!) and Hristo along with Ken were off into the sunset.

There were the promised battles between various small groups of drivers, although they seemed to end in enforced "comfort breaks" or armco impact testing.

Hristo was so enthralled with his race that he fell asleep at the wheel and Ken cruised home alone to take the win. A certain lost and lonely Waza benefitted from the excursions of others and slipped home in 2nd spot. Jack nursed and cajoled his BRM over the line in 3rd and Phil scored good points again by prancing across the line in 4th in his Fezza.
Others were not so fortunate and there are search parties still combing the forests for survivors and stragglers who will be required for the next round in this series which takes place on Jan 4th 2009, so there is time to walk to Brands Hatch for that one.

Enjoy the break from league pressures but be sure to join in some of the fun races and events planned for the festive period, when sitting at a computer and twiddling your fingers might be the most exercise that you wish (or are able) to do!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A BELTING NEW YEAR!!!!!!

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« Reply #15 on: December 01, 2008, 08:50:25 AM +0000 »

Grats Ken, you do like those German rally courses.  Grin
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« Reply #16 on: December 01, 2008, 10:45:20 AM +0000 »

Team pie eater arrived in germany full of confidence and sporting the latest upgrade ,  a complete set of brand new remoulds ! Confidence was boosted further after having completed 2 whole laps without incedent and acheiving a staggering last place on the starting grid .

Comes the race and for 8 laps we fought dammed hard to maintain the usual position in spite of JOF and PHL trying there best to snatch last place from me.

By the start of lap8 I was begining to feel super confident as I was now familiar with most of the trees, bumps and escape routes and was thinking about the pit stop when suddenly out of knowhere I stumbled over a rock which must have been disturbed by the spring thaw and rolled into my path , the resulting accident terminated all forward progress so retirement was imminent.

From here I watched the battle for podium honours betwixt Phil and JackO , very entertaining chaps , got to say I did cringe when Phil lost it on the last lap .

Grats to Ken on his runaway win,  as H says it would have taken a good man to beat him on the day .

As for me I think 8 laps completed of this mad circuit is more than enough excitment for one day.

Ain't it about time someone instigated the use of the "pause" button  Roll Eyes



     
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« Reply #17 on: December 01, 2008, 06:11:05 PM +0000 »

Grats to Ken and commiserations to Hristo ( if being tired counts as an excuse ?)

I cobbled together a setup derived from the default and what little I could remember from my Honda base setup for this race and arrived at what at first seemed quite a good result.
A few gear tweaks in Quallifying, making sure that there was no redlining in 5th at the end of that gloooriiioouuusss straight and eventually managed a mid grid time.
Ken and Hristo were light years ahead ....just where the heck are they finding 10 secs?Huh?? I need some serious practice at Solitude and might even resort to the Loynes' School of Telemetry Studies to see where I am going wrong!!!

The start was a little tentative as T1 got a little congested from my viewpoint, but exiting T2 I was quicker than Bernie who had audaciously slipped up my inside at T1 ( this man has no respect for age or beauty!!). I saw the opportunity to return the favour into the tight uphill right hander T3 but I closed too quickly on Bernie and was upon his tail pies before he made his anticipated move to the left of the track.  I took abort/evasive action and I'm not sure if it was warp or a slight nudge on Bernie's rear that sent me onto the grass whilst the whole field streamed through.

I thought that would be the end of my race and almost quit there and then but thought that I should at least see if there was any damage to the whale. But these Japanese tanks are made of very high grade tinfoil and we were good to go.

It took a couple of laps to close down on the three way battle between Jack, Phil and Bernie but at Solitude there are not that many passing places when you have a large anvil attached to the rear end of your car acting like a pendulum. That and the constant swapping of line and position of the three cars in front!!! Quite entertaining though.. Grin

Eventually got the run on JO onto the straight and closed up on Phil and Bernie through the twisty section where Will and Samb were laying an ambush. It seemed that the Fezzo magnetic ray atractor worked well on European machinery but left Japanese tinfoil unaffected as Bernie and Phil tried to join in the fun whilst I was allowed free passage?Huh?

Stormy was next on my Prib list but was quite a long way in front until I came upon him in the woods ( not sure what he was doing but we'll gloss over that!)
It was getting near the time for my SnG stop and I wanted to be in front of stormy before then if I could. I knew I was faster and needed to get past and build enough cushion to see me through the stop. Once again the majestic power of the Honda V12 came to my aid down the straight and I breezed past.
At that moment the phone rang in my cockpit!! and I was forced to perform heroic car control, stuck in 4th gear, through the twisty bits whilst Stormy closed and threatened to regain his place and hold a sensible conversation at the same time . Shocked Undecided

It was a very short conversation!!!

Stormy took his pitstop and I went for a quick lap to build a safety margin, turns out I need not have risked that as Stormy's engine through in the towel.

It was only then that I reralised that Hristo had vanished and there was only Ken in front ( a looooong way in front!!) So I settled for engine preservation mode to the flag. Not always a good idea to change your rhythm half way through a race as 2 or 3 graceful pirouettes at less than racing speed proved!!! Fortunately I had a large margin over any following cars and was able to steer the car through the spin and keep it on the tarmac ( mostly!!)

The last lap came not a moment too soon as I was beginning to lose concentration. Second spot was very satisfying given the poor 1st lap and a new setup.

Grats to JO and Phil for finishing and to Bernie for some spectacular mud slinging through the twisty bits.
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« Reply #18 on: December 01, 2008, 11:57:28 PM +0000 »

I'm not so sure I would have got this win if Hristo had managed to stay awake, but as they say, never look a gift horse in the mouth!! As Clive mentioned, maintaining concentration while not racing in close company is a big problem, especially on those repeating curves back towards the start/finish. Thankfully my mind didn't wander too far away and I brought it home for a welcome victory.
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