UKPnG Season 1 Clubmans Tokens - Riverside (Long) - Nov 17

[Legzy]

I finished in 4th position with a thrilling final lap with API, that has made a great come back during the final laps when my tyres get worned, and he finished back to me only for a half second... After the finish line, I've done 200 meters in a wrong way, and the game decided to DQ me , even if the race was finished... It was never happened to me yet!

I have inspected the replay & corrected Manteos' finishing position.


*Please could people not drive the wrong way on the track after passing the finish line in future* (instead wait for the person you want to crash into to catch you up )

[Legzy]

I'd been looking forward to this one since before the season started & the track didn't let me down!  

Had a good few laps attacking or fending off Clive & Keith particularly, but I managed to spin once & go off once (getting myself trapped under a stadium briefly )) which robbed me the chance of having what I think would have been a race long battle with GoldTop... Instead I spent the race knowing he was just round the next corner  :'(

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I want to thank all of you drivers that have stuck with it through our first PnG season(s), in what was a very "fluid" experiment season really. It's all you gentleman drivers that make the league work. There are some of you particularly that have put in a lot of effort to help me work out/correct things sometimes, your effort is much appreciated  .
I do think we've managed to squeak out some most excellent races, along with a couple that just didn't quite work & with some in between. But I've certainly learnt lots along the way that can be used one way or the other next season.

I'll kick off discussions on "What SROUK Historic Racing does next?" on a separate thread ASAP.

Just finally I want to Congratulate Paul & Lele for being the Season One (parts a & b) Champions, PR, Lele, Jose & Blunder for completing the podium final standings. Teams VDA, Oldie & the Crawlers for filling both Team event podiums too. Also, well done to the ten different individual race winners over the twelve races

Chris

p.s. The next PnG race is at Spa on 1st December (will post details ASAP)
p.p.s. Hope to see most of you for our traditional GTL Le Mans end of season finale on Thursday 19th Nov (that's tomorrow Bill )

[pribeiro]

A big thank you to Legzy and Tony's effort and work, allowing us to have lots of fun.
Great job guys!  

Congratulations Paul for the drivers championship, which proved once more that success is a mix of:
consistency, skills and luck, well and a bit of practice... as I don't have time for it I almost forget it.
Congrats also for team VDA for team's championship.

Cheers

[Geoffers]

Another fantastic race, action from flag to flag. 

Got a great start & went from 14th to 7th by T1, but this only lasted a lap as I lost it through the esses on lap 2 & was back to 14th!  . Thereafter most of the race was a great battle between Clive, Tim & me interspersed with Tony catching & passing all of us  . Towards the end we caught MJ & Clive & I managed to pass both Tim & MJ on the last lap thanks to both of them going to play in the sand.

Congrats to PR, Matt & Paul.

Congrats again to Paul for taking the championship & VDA for the teams win.

Finally a big thanks to Legzy & Tony & the others involved in creating this great series, can't wait for season 2 

[Mark J]

Congratulations to Paul on the championship win   

Congrats and hearty thanks to Legzy, Tony and Paul for all the hard work in putting this superb P&G championship together, its been great fun and we've all been able to use a great spread of cars to compete with on some great new tracks. The US track series worked really well. 

Onwards and upwards !! 

when do the first official xmas Le Mans practise sessions start? Be good to organise a set time slot so that a fair few of us get on track together and can compare laptimes etc. 

[goldtop]

when do the first official xmas Le Mans practise sessions start? Be good to organise a set time slot so that a fair few of us get on track together and can compare laptimes etc. 

Great idea now that many of us have commited to our rides. 

[Legzy]

Just want to make sure everyone is aware of this thread: https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=7124.msg124490#msg124490

when do the first official xmas Le Mans practise sessions start? Be good to organise a set time slot so that a fair few of us get on track together and can compare laptimes etc.  

Nice idea MJ, the server will be set to Le Mans after any other Tuesday fun events have happened, so you'll probably get at least a couple of weeks of it on the server & we'll sort out some sessions I'm certain

[Legzy]

So as not to get her in trouble her name shall remain a secret, but one of our female SROUK members just sent me this message about one of our drivers sadly missing the final PnG tokens race due to PC problems .

It was too funny not to share

"So after months of saving all his tokens to get a decent car for the final race.... he breaks his computer....hahahaha.... cant... breathe... hahahahahahahaha... must learn to be sympathetic!!!"

[spanner]

LMAO

[phspok]

Sigh

St Helens humour for ya! 

[Clive Loynes]

when do the first official xmas Le Mans practise sessions start? Be good to organise a set time slot so that a fair few of us get on track together and can compare laptimes etc. 

Great idea now that many of us have commited to our rides. 

Gulp!!!

You mean you can do whole laps? 

[Mark J]

How about switching it over now?    its still got Riverside on it

Double 05 made its debut onto the fabled tarmac of Le Mans this eve for some tyre pressure testing and familiarity laps.

First lap time for you to aim at 4:13.043 in the GT40 Mk2. Early days though.

What a track.

[Legzy]

In an attempt to keep it neat & tidy for future ref...

The following drivers had the points dedeucted for overspending their seasons Token budget.

Driver Dave Gymer Purdie SamB TrueTom King Minholos Simon Gymer Spanner

Attended 3 1 1 1 5 1 1 2

Overspend 9 7 5 4 3 2 2 1

Penalty 45 35 25 20 15 10 10 5

Five of those eight drivers that overspent, only took part in one event... so thanks & well done to everyone for going with the spirit of the test season.