UKGPL Season 19 (2010) Novices Trophy (65) - Keimola - Apr 20

[Ross Neilson]

LOL Peter, your remark about panicking while leading makes me feel better :-) I was very nervous on the grid and perhaps if I'd used my brain I might have pressed the button on my wheel to look right, and seen the flagman!

I make too many mistakes in races at the moment anyway, so I'm sure you would have won even if I had got started properly. It was still a cracking race and I can't wait for Laguna.

[Hristo Itchov]

The worry of leading and not going off was immense. This is ridiculous, its only a game.

Not quite. 

Grats on your first win, not any other feeling like it!

[Al Heller]

Well done Pete - you were overdue a victory 

[EvilClive]

Yes grats Peter.
Victory tastes sweeter after such a long journey. The trouble is it can get addictive......ask Hristo

[maddog]

Things weren't promising for me in the Coop, during warmups for the big race,  but a final tweak,
and things were suddenly better.   I managed a 4th on the grid, behind a suddenly better
Billy.

Off the grid, I was suddenly up to second, and fighting to overcome the cloaking devises of
Maestro ahead, and Roger behind, as we traversed the first lap, in close formation.  Some skill and intuition, to stay so close and not collide, I thought.  Bravo gents!  And it might've stayed a 3 way
battle, but it was such a nice day, I preferred to take in some of the scenery. 

It was the first of several detours, as I proceeded to have fun slinging the car about the countryside,
and quickly found myself in 5th behind Bill, and newcomer Karliss.  Our battle just as quickly resolved
itself, in a bit of a calamitous moment, when we all arrived at a left hander at about the same time.
We all braked late - I found an empty patch of grass before the turn in, and somehow managed to scramble around in front.  But don't try this at home folks!

After that, things were less fraughtful, with a brief spell in 2nd, and 4th after another of those wretched detour signs!  And for the last 10 laps, my pitboard insisted I was stuck at 8 seconds behind Roguk, even when I was driving fast!  I must have words with my timekeeper. . . grumble . . .grumble!
Oh well, a podiums not bad, and nice driving by those at the pointy end. 

[vosblod]

Just a note to say well done Pete. Hopefully I'll make the next one.

[Statmeister]

Maestro57 took the laptime consistency prize with an average variation of just 0.254 which was virtually identical to the 0.252 that Evil Clive managed in the Amateur division. The gap between the divisions shows in average laptimes though; Evil Clive won at an average 1:20.8 while Maestro57 did it in 1:22.7. Over qualifying the divisions seem a lot closer & Gilles27's pole lap would have put him 7th on the Amateur's grid.

I've adjusted the climber-meister table to take the penalties from the last race into account which means Billy Nobrakes won the last round. Consistency scores obviously aren't affected.

A perfect consistency score would be 145 (that's no variation in laptime over 29 laps).



* only best 8 scores will count
** average variation above 5 seconds = 0.00 points

[karlisss]

Quite a race for some:
•   Karliss made his debut in UKGPL

i think no...
i already debuted some 2 years ago and did some 2 races
but still slow

[Phil Thornton]

i already debuted some 2 years ago and did some 2 races

3 actually - see here

[Turkey Machine]

Well done to Pete, the first win's always the best, until a better one comes along!

[miner2049er]

Sorry for the delay in posting the final standings.

There were a few incidents but thankfully no penalities.