UKPnG Interleague Race - Goodwood (Circuit) - Jan 27

[goldtop]

Most of my laps here to date have included some lawnmowing and even when I do get the E-Type round I'm lucky to get under 1:30 A deceptively difficult track to be fast on imo and I don't expect to be competetive tonight.

[Mike Miller]

I took my first laps around here last night and I too am in the 28's. Like GT said, it is a deceptively tricky track to go fast on. I still haven't figured out the tricks.

[Paul968]

I'm afraid I'm going to give this one a miss. I've had a bad cold for a few days and haven't turned a single lap at Goodwood yet. I'm also in iRacing mode atm and I find swapping between the 2 always costs me time. Not sure I'll be missed that much anyway since nobody really knew who I was racing for 

Have fun 

[Legzy]

Not sure I'll be missed that much anyway...

You know that's not true. I reckon you must be sure by now?

Come & join us for the fun

[ginsters sponsored]

Shame but no worries Paul, hopefully you can make the serious stuff

Late comers will be welcome tonight, if there's room, come on in with any car you fancy.

[BillThomas]

Sorry folks, don't know what the start signal was, missed it.  Then I lost the line on T1 and had offs almost every where.  The harder I tried the worse the result.  After half the field had lapped me I gave up the will to drive - I was getting no where.

Bill

[goldtop]

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. 

Seriously though, thanks for organising this Ian and great to see such gentlemanly racing across both leagues (from where I was sitting anyway). Hope we can do this again soon, but preferably not at Goodwood

Hope others had a good race, looked like Matt was enjoying it when I left

[Clive Loynes]

Sorry about the start folks.

I was sat there staring intently at the pit exit signal waiting for it to go green.  Dooh!

[ginsters sponsored]

Sorry about the start folks.

I didn't see a flag either. Is that a concern for tomorrow?

From where I sat that was a blast. Cheers to MJ, Legzy and Clive for some great fun. Particularly MJ for playing it in the right manner (Legzy was trying to hard I thought ). Congrats to Mike for rather kicking my butt tonight.

Saw the odd incident, but I'm sure it was approached in the right manner by both teams. Remember, it happens. Thx all for attending and maybe we can do that again

[phspok]

Was expecting to be somewhere in the vanguard, but was not expecting the Daytona to be so dominant, particularly
with me driving it. Was also expecting to get mugged at the start with my usual rubbish starts, and that didn't happen
Either people were being super polite or others made even worse starts, managed to slowly grow a gap to 2nd place
except for a couple of minor offs, just tried to be fast enough and manage the tyres.

I love Goodwood, though I never seem to get the 1st turn quite right, and umm the 2nd turn isn't too great.... etc...

SO, tommorow will be a field of Daytonas then?

Thanks for organising such a great event between clubs Ian. Top stuff.  

p.s
There is no flag, the lights - red then green, are to the left at the front.

[Mike Miller]

Good fun on a very difficult track to master. I still haven't figured out all the corners. I threw it off at Woodcote 3 times. If I hadn't done so, 4th would have been mine. Part of me is actually happy I threw it away because that gave me the opportunity to battle with Clive, Paul and Matt. The Z06 was clearly out classed, but it was quick enough to pester the others. Paul executed a beautiful pass entering the front straight from the chicane using a lapper as a pick. Nice move Paul!

I didn't see any lights at all and had to use the timer in upper right to go. If there aren't any lights, bad things happen. Check for tomorrows race. If no lights then maybe a manual rolling start would be best.

Aris (sp?) had trouble at St. Mary's on the first lap. Wish he would have hung in their as I wanted to battle him. He was .15 quicker than me in quali I think.

I enjoyed the race. Thanks for orgainizing Ian. Would love to do another in the future. Next time make it in my back yard.... Lime Rock. I think you guys had some added track knowledge that helped keep me at bay.

[pribeiro]

The lights are on the left side near the first row.

Don't know very well why, I found myself at 2nd place on the first corner.
Clearly, Matt was faster, maybe half a second for the first laps than me.
By lap 3 we had a confortable almost 3 seconds gap for the 3rd place driver.
Then, my silly mistakes began! 
First mistake, lost a place. Second mistake, I rejoin track in 7th. Third mistake, I fall into 11th. 
Get my concentration back and tried to recover as much as I could.
Brilliant close - and I mean close - fight with Mike for several laps and with Mark for the last
four or five laps. I was so confident driving so close because you both have drove so well
and perfectly. 
At the end I managed to finished just where I sarted race. Good fun and intense race.
Thanks for organizing this event Ian.

Congrats on your win Matt and well done to podium and all finishers.

Cheers

[Legzy]

Results & replay in usual places (that's above & HERE for our new MARA friends )

[Mark J]

that was good old fashioned fun at a great old circuit.

Like most, i was staring at the wrong set of lights on race start and didnt budge until other cars around me careened past. It all stayed clean despite the gaggles of cars on the early laps.
Soon found myself upto 11th from my cruddy 16th qually slot, then gradually upto 8th where i enjoyed a long battle with Ians Z06. That was great fun and cars seemed evenly matched throughout a lap but once i got past i pulled out a decent gap of a few seconds.
Thought a safe 8th was on the cards to the finish but came across a backmarker in another Cobra who either didnt use his mirrors or lifted in panic in the middle of the fastest corner at Goodwood i hit him up the jacksey and the car slid off and clumped a barrier giving me suspension damage and losing 4 places  Then chased after Ade and a MARA italian, getting by both for 10th, only to run wide on the final blinking corner allowing Ade back past to the finish line...D'oh !!
T'was a good race, with some good battles, only mildly let down by a couple of backmarkers not doing the decent thing, but not an easy track to get off-line on.

[Clive Loynes]

LAP CHART HERE:-

www.planet-venom.co.uk/PnG/GWoodIntL/index.html