UKPnG Interleague Race - Goodwood (Circuit) - Jan 27

[fpolicardi]

Many thx Ian for organizing the event and UKPnG to host.
Great race for me, I love Goodwood and when I race  there I have good memories of my trip at Goodwood Revival in 2002  
I had set the Cobra to get the max oversteer to exit at full power from T1 and Lavant and get T2 (Ford?) at full throttle.
At the very last second of qually I got second place on the grid advancing from 6th till there. There was only one sec. between 2nd and 11th on the grid too, good hopes for great fights.
At the start I couldn't see the lights and someone in TS told me that there was a flagman on the right so I started with the clutch buttons pressed with right thumb and the left thumb on the right view button to be able to see the damned flagman, that eventually never dropped the flag, and a look at the Hud timer  
In the end I started when I saw Matt on my right side starting so all my row got caught by my slow start, sorry.
Later I found in my replay that the only one light on the left it was exactly hidden by the left frame of my windscreen and I couldn't have seen it in any way  
Paulo's white Cobra was the quicker at start so I had to defend my third spot from the rear pack with Matt already flight away in his red Daytona. Stunning pace bud, congrats  
Later Paulo spun at Lavant and I got second place with Giuseppe roaring a couple seconds behind.
After a couple of small mistakes at the chicane Giuseppe was on my neck and managed to slipstream me and pass on the run to StMary. The gap remained for the rest of the race inside 3 sec. and during the last five laps I managed to short it to one sec, but not enough to try a move on Giuseppe. Nice driving!
I saw in replay that there was  a lot of battles  also for 4-5, 6-7 and 8-9 for most of the race, so no boring race for the most of people.
I saw also a black Cobra coupe running well  
Ciao

[Eddie Meyer]

Thanks to Ian for organizing that great event.
And apologies to Mark, that lift off was well-meant but poorly timed

[Clive Loynes]

I saw also a black Cobra coupe running well  

Ciao

LOL

The black cobra managed to get within 10seconds of you before he blew it.

I had been really depressed in qualifying as I could not break the 1:28 barrier no matter what I did.  With about six minutes to go I realised that I was running on race fuel load.  Just had time to do one proper run after getting the tyres up to temperature.

At the start I was watching the pit exit lights until enough people had run into me to convince me that I should move.

The race was a blast, although exactly who I was fighting  at the start I had no idea.  On lap one, one of those big silver beasts had a go at me at St Mary’s but I was able to retake the place on the exit.  The next lap, I think, two of the MARA cars hit each other at St Mary’s and that was a couple of places gained. St Mary’s and the last corner before the chicane seemed to be the places where the big beasts were having the most problems and I was able to gain places.

I made it through to 4th when MarkC rattled both sides of the chicane and I think that you were 10sec up the road at that point.  In pushing to reduce the 10sec I ran wide at Madgwick and let Mark back through.  I also had an untidy lap which allowed the fast recovering Paulo past.  I just managed to stay in front of Mike and was setting about getting back onto the tail of Paulo and MarkC when all the names on the HUD started changing to blue cos the race was over.  Could have done with it being longer.


I did much the same as you did with the setup but did chicken out at Fordwater more often than not.

Now tonight’s Daytona is another matter!  Plenty of turn in that beast!

[Clive Loynes]

You...and me Bill. Never want to race around this cornfield again as long as I live.....er....well, maybe tomorrow, but then definitely  neverevereverever again. 

LOL

I'll take Goodwood before Ahvenisto any day of the week!

[ginsters sponsored]

I've managed to add the scores up, using the present UKPnG scoring, and its a win for UKPnG 117 to 101. I've always said it was an unfair system

I think all at MARA enjoyed that so thanks again to Legzy, Chris and Tony for letting that happen. Seeing we came 2nd, we must do that again.

[Legzy]

I've managed to add the scores up, using the present UKPnG scoring, and its a win for UKPnG 117 to 101. I've always said it was an unfair system

That is a shock! I anticipated us coming second, even if we blocked out the podium!

I think all at MARA enjoyed that

That's good to hear. They're all welcome back anytime. (EDIT - we'll review that statement with regards Ian & Paul )