Round 8 of the Season 15 Div 1 championship is at Brands Hatch.  Remember it is PRO rules for Div 1,  and the sweeping bends and undulations of this very British Circuit demand one's full attention.

We could benefit from a few more drivers joining with the current Div 1 crowd, so if you want to test yourself against the best ( and the rest!!) get practising Brands Hatch and be there on Sunday.

Don't forget, incident reports should be entered on the SRou system following the link at the bottom of the results table when it appears.  Race details below.

Div 1 Season 15 Round 8 is this Sunday at 9:00 p.m. London UK time.
Please be in VROC UKGPL chatroom by 8:55 p.m.
VROC and Race passwords: see above

Server 1.ukgpl
IP address  194.105.176.22


Race date = 04-01-2009
Track = Brand Hatch 67
Variant = 67F1
Damage Model = PRO
Qually time = 30 minutes.
Race length = 50 minutes (32 laps)

Password: see above
Driver lists can be found on the championship standings page



Division 1

	Single Stop Time		Double Stop Time
BRM	No Stop		N/A
Honda	Stop and Go		N/A
Cooper	1		N/A
Brabham	4		N/A
Eagle	17		N/A
Ferrari	21		N/A
Lotus	23		N/A

 First Pit Window is: 25 (to go on your pit board) to 17 (to go on your pit board)
 Second Pit Window is: 23 (to go on your pit board) to 8 (to go on your pit board)

Great to here , does that mean I can use the 66 coop 

No and now for asking for that, you have to start from the back of the grid! 

sorry I'll miss the race, stupid work got in the way.

Been off-line for a while (reorganizing the house after re-decorating) all sorted now.  1.UKGPL is good to go.

On the pit stop discussions.  I added a race pace factor to the pit stop calculator this season to encourage people to use the faster chassis so we didn't get a series of "Cooper fest" races like we did last season.  The pit stop times have been available via the pit stop calculator link all season so they shouldn't be a big surprise.  I admit the adjustment for Brands may favour the faster chassis a little too much but they are the same adjustments we've used at all the other tracks this season.  Brands does appear to be a special case.

Thanks Phil....saved my bacon .........again

Ahh, sorry my mistake.  I think that is something for Giz to have a look at.  It must be down to the track length in the SRou database, not something I can do anything about.

I really like this track. I wouldn't mind if we run it more than once in a championship. Qualifying was a bit different than I expected with Ken going very fast, so much that I had to do a final minutes run on minimum amount of fuel and risk everywhere, but it worked.
I don't know what happened at the start, as soon as I released my clutch button the car just died. It's not like I had too tall 1st gear or something, so I'm not sure, it might've been that bump in the road there. I was lucky to lose just 2 positions and so set off to chase Ken and Clive.
Brabham fits the track well and they were going at a very good pace so I just thought pitstops would give me the needed advantage, but at the same time it appeared Ken could open up a lead on Clive by then. That became irrelevant as Ken bottomed out on the backstraight and spun slowly in the middle of the track. I saw it early enough and started braking but it felt like the car would spin if I tried to change my direction, so I just kept braking as Clive was doing the same infront.
Sadly that wasn't enough - we made contact and he got flipped upside down while I just spun around. I tried my best to flip him back up and I think it would've worked eventually but he gave up and quit. 
Sorry, Clive, thinking about it the contact could've been avoided even if I had spun as a result, but next time let me flip you back over, lol. 
So I set off to chase the whole pack that now stood between myself and 1st place and it was quite enjoyable as the handling of the car improved over the next few laps and allowed me to really go for it. Obviously the gaps were big and it took many laps to catch up people but as some were making mistakes it helped me alot. I was expecting a battle with Ken but he must've gone off somewhere as I never saw him again. My pitstop went just fine and now I only had to make it to the finish, but near the end I went too fast into T4 and spun around, then had another off at T1 on the next lap. Luckily no damage or anything, so I was able to continue and take the chequered flag.
Fun race, despite the low turn out.