UKGPL Season 21 (2011) Specs - Keimola - Jun 10

[BadBlood]

Well I held Jason off in Race 2 (sort of - he didn't lap me...). That is a result.

I have found that sometimes when I am coming out of a slow corner if I get the throttle on early the back end becomes unstable and I am see sawing - front is OK - so I have to ease off the throttle and let the car settle. Is that too much rear ARB? Too little or something else.

[bernie]

to much left foot , try feeding the power in slowly ( well not that slow) 

If it still does it try 1 less clutch or higher number on  power side 

[Geoff65]

Hmmm, race 1. Apologies to Fabio for getting a full gearbox of neutrals on the startline. I've been having some troubles with gear selection lately....but more often on the downshift, causing a second bite at the correct gear and arrival in corners a gear higher than necessary. Usually ending in a frustrating spin. It's pretty rare that it doesn't select a gear on the upshift. Just a pain in the a*se that it happened on the start....  Nearly avoided the  L1 T3 shenannigans, til Nicky got tagged, whom in turn tagged me, triggering the first of many abused rear tyre spins. PB in the Coop here and finished top 10, so pretty happy overall.

Race 2 was a better start, just plenty more shenannigans to be had. Run off the road at the last corner by a re-entering missile called Bernie, caught people up just to spin lazily and throw it all away. Sorry Paul for the warp whack in the straight. I was right on the edge of the bitumen and thought I'd left you plenty of space to complete your........gyrations. But.....you chased after me like a stalker, until I had no option but to wallop you. Cruised around for the last 1/3 of the race in isolation after more useless spins and stinking hot tyres made driving hard a lottery. Happy to finish 2 races and gather some points..at last.

[BadBlood]

LOL - I thought - 'Arrrgggghhh no I've lost it... Geoff's gonna whack me... arrggghhhh... wait a minute, I'm OK..... ARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!' Watch the replay, it will make you smile. It was your own fault for pressing me too hard. I thought I'd better leave some room to let you past if you had the beans... that'll teach you. What's that? You continued unscathed.

LOL.

@Bernie, thanks mate.

[s2173]

I have found that sometimes when I am coming out of a slow corner if I get the throttle on early the back end becomes unstable and I am see sawing - front is OK - so I have to ease off the throttle and let the car settle. Is that too much rear ARB? Too little or something else.

I usially floor it, steer the exact opposite direction of the corner and pray it all goes well... 

[Samb]

Well, I think I need to apologise to everyone for my shocking performance yesterday. The first race went down the toilet when I closed the door on Clive who was right beside me  . Soon afterwards, I thought I missed the turn 3 carnage but suddenly Fabio appeared out of nowhere on my screen right in front of me! Must have looked amusing on the client replay but I was completely unsighted thanks to my internet setting of only being able to see four cars ahead.

The rest of the race was good fun, I managed to finally finish 6th after all the shenanigans. The second race was less fun. I was struggling with the Cooper's understeer and I couldn't dial it out in the setup. However, I still managed to qualify 4th and make a complete arse of myself a second time, passing Nat into 2nd, braking too late on the straight, almost colliding with H and going to the gravel in an effort to avoid colliding with anyone  .

About half race distance my heart wasn't really in it anymore, and a spin obliged me to retire, being pretty appalled by my driving. You'd think I'd learn after how many seasons, but I hope this will be my last shocker for a while. Congrats to the winners.

[Ronniepeterson]

Just looked at the replay of the lap 1 carnage. Apologies to Clive for the subsequent contact but if Goran had not spun and stopped on the outside of the turn that pass was going to stick, in my opinion.  A lot for the mods to sort out, good luck. Had to laugh at my search for the pits after my shift-r. It took me at least two laps and an unnecessary stop and go at the side of the track as well as the one in the pits. We must have used a different track for race 2, quite serene by comparison.

[BadBlood]

I wish I could have had the sort of crappy races that you lot had. If I could crash and do 1:22 that would be preferable to the consistent 1:27's that are my lot...

EVERYONE should look at the Lap 1 footage - its hilarious.

[Cookie]

Two total different races for me 

My first race on this track and first time driving the Cooper...

Race one I decided to take the slower BT7 and had all the luck to become best of the rest

Race two all went wrong, in quali stuck behind a constant driving sky but on this track seems impossible to overtake...
On the grid my screen froze,  I could get it back but with wild flickering blue/green where has to be black on top and bottom of screen.
The start of the race was fantastic till T1 where I had warp contact with Jason and all the hassle began. Can't even count the events...
This became the worst ever race I had in my 6 month online career! 

Cheers

[blito]

The start of the race was fantastic till T1 where I had warp contact with Jason and all the hassle began.

Cheers

Really? I felt nothing and saw nothing untoward anywhere! I might have to check the replay to see this one!

[il_lupo_mannaro]

Race 1: a total disaster!
At start I was really fast but, unfortunately, Geoff in front of me didn't move at all so a collision was the result...
Then, I was carefully escaping the carnage on lap 1 when someone hit me on the back: after s+r I was probably the last car...
Least, but not last, when overtaking someone (Bernie?) on s/f straight he suddenly moved to the right (in order to do the stopn'go there) and hit me: I did the stopn'go there too but I'm still thinking it wasn't the right place to do that...
Later, after another crash, I had to quit...

Race 2: a fantastic one!
I had great fights, with Jason and Steve

Anyway, it's a great track!

Long Live UKGPL!!

[bernie]

Sorry Fabio

Guilty as charged 

My head was still spinning from the previous debacle and resultant re set when I suddenly realised I hadn't a clue were the pits were situated untill it was too late , then saw the car in front dive in and decided to follow , not realising you were so close behind and I was on the wrong side of the track

Maya Culpa !

In defence I'm not very good at 65's and only learned this track an hour before the race

BTW it wasnt just my driving that was deplorable , seems to be accepted practise in 65's to drive like a twunt .

I believe  it was Clive Loynes who christened it  "formula hooligan"  he was right on the money IMO

Again sorry if I ruined your race 
 

[BadBlood]

Hmmm Bernie, Fabio, you are both in my report... sadly so am I.

That crash at the S/F is a classic though and that Lap 1 will go down in history!

You have definitely given Billy some work to do.

And no, it wasn't the right place for the stop n go 

[Billy Nobrakes]

Moderating reports now added.

[blito]

A good read as always