UKGPL Season 18 (2009) Graduates Cup (67) - Bremgarten - Nov 15

[Turkey Machine]

Feels like it's 23 laps too short! I love this place. Got no idea how quick others are or what chassis they'll take, so could be an interesting race....

[Hristo Itchov]

Don't you find the cobble stone of the last section a bit psichedelic? 

Yeah, it gives a different impression of speed and some sort of a floating feeling.

[john roberts]

Don't you find the cobble stone of the last section a bit psichedelic? 

I went back to the old track cobbles gfx because of that .

john

[bernie]

Think the track I have is the original beta ? its very barren , dont want to risk it with track updates , with my history it could be a fatal move .

Just driving it gives me the heebies and if you ask me with pro rules, T1 is a disaster waiting to happen for the hard chargers

have only managed 1 clean lap so far without deranging some part of the car or the surroundings , guess I will be toddling around at the back waiting for suitable  retirees to eliminate themselves 

[Turkey Machine]

I found backing off at certain points was the only way to avoid clouting the barriers on a regular basis.

Bernie, check out the updates linked in the first post of the thread. It does make a much better improvement on the original, for a start the forest run doesn't look quite so dull!

[john roberts]

Think the track I have is the original beta ? its very barren , dont want to risk it with track updates , with my history it could be a fatal move .

the track was never released as a beta bernie .

john

[vosblod]

have only managed 1 clean lap so far without deranging some part of the car or the surroundings , guess I will be toddling around at the back waiting for suitable  retirees to eliminate themselves 

I'll be joining you Bernie, struggling on this one.

[bernie]

Think the track I have is the original beta ? its very barren , dont want to risk it with track updates , with my history it could be a fatal move .

the track was never released as a beta bernie .

john

Well its Beta me  

Quote from: bernie on Today at 10:00:09 PM
have only managed 1 clean lap so far without deranging some part of the car or the surroundings , guess I will be toddling around at the back waiting for suitable  retirees to eliminate themselves 

I'll be joining you Bernie, struggling on this one.

you bring the beer , Ill bring the sanies 

[kinghiro]

Then it was definate..I work till 2200 uk time tonight. :-\GL all..

[Turkey Machine]

Well chuffed I got 2nd, especially after the last-gasp qualifying effort, and the subsequent one Hristo produced that was a second quicker than mine! Ended up 4th on lap 1 after Lorenzo then Ken went through at T1 after H forced me to take a wide line. Stayed a couple seconds behind until H fell off the road and ended up behind me. Wasn't long before he was literally nudging my gearbox saying "move over!" After an overtake went wrong entering the forest, I thought it was time to let him through and just finish. As it turned out, Lorenzo crashed, Ken had engine trouble and made me slow down on the main straight because of it, and John behind me fell off with a couple laps to go, so that meant Hristo, myself and Fulvio were the lucky survivors on the podium! Shame the last Waza couldn't make a permanent hash of it and gift me a win, but that's how it is and you can't ask for too much!

[fpolicardi]

Really sorry Clive for having crashed in front of you and causing the end of your race. It would have been an interesting race, I was lucky to be able to continue and crawling at the back with a bent car.
I owe you one.
Fulvio

[Andrew Hodgson]

I got past lap 7!

Sadly didn't finish though.

Lined up on the back row in my Cooper after qualifying on full fuel and planning a "gain places by attrition" race. Got away ahead of Phil and everyone disappeared pretty quick as I was ultra cautious in the first few laps. After a while I managed to get up a half decent rhythm and started passing unfortunates who had wiped themselves into the barriers. Slowly started reeling JR in. However, I just couldn't close the gap entirely. I'd have a good lap and get to within a second, but JR would respond and I started overdriving the car to go quicker.

Then the better half decided to use my printer to print stuff which put me off completely. Spun in the hairpin and then missed my braking into the Satanic T1, getting the front wheel stuck in the fence there. GPL physics did the rest, producing some rather bizarre car oscillations, eventually putting me on my roof!

An improvement, but still looking for my first finish of the season!

[EvilClive]

Really sorry Clive for having crashed in front of you and causing the end of your race. It would have been an interesting race, I was lucky to be able to continue and crawling at the back with a bent car.
I owe you one.
Fulvio

No probs fulvio, I know it was a racing incident.

I thought I might have made a pass after your first "incident" at the quarry a lap earlier, call me chicken but I decided against risking a squeeze through. I followed closely for half a lap just to see if the pressure would produce an opening and then backed off to a safe 1 sec distance ( I thought  ).

I saw you go up the grass bank and begin your spin as I entered the corner and thought that you would continue back across the track. But just as I committed to go through, your Cooper seemed to fix itself to the tarmac dead centre of the road!!! directly in my path. It was just too late to do anything and I hit you hard enough to remove wheels from my car.

I was quite happy with my pace and setup for a change and was planning for the "long run" concentrating on a safe drive and no heroics.... "the best laid plans......."

It was a shame Fulvio because I had just got the tyres up to temp and was running at a very similar pace to your Coooper so things could have got interesting.

Grats to the other podium finishers...special mention for JW who survived to the end.......this time

[vosblod]

Replay in the usual place http://www.jamesonline.net/ukgpl/
Many thanks to Fulvio for the server.

[john roberts]

Many thanks to Fulvio for the server.

thank you Fulvio for the server , everything was fine here with it .

john