UKGPL Season 21 (2011) Specs - Monza (Full 10km) - Jul 8

[Cookie]

At first sorry Göran for that encounter we had in the first banking in heat one,
but even after several looks at the replay I can't say whose fault... 

Had done some practice and found, that my cars aren't too bad after some close fightings with more experienced drivers.
I can't understand the troubles some have in the bankings, as for me they are just like full throttle straights...

Race 1
As a first reserve I waited to join and saw all the fast drivers will drive Ferrari, so my chance will be the Eagle
Wow this worked fine! Had a good start and could keep in reach of the leaders.
After two carefull laps, my tires were warm, I begun to fight with Nathan in his slower Fez and finaly got him in a great battle.
Being now second with Clive half a mile in front, I said to myself on the backstraight to Parabolica "Now just don't make a  mistake!" .
But now braking in Para I did....
Ran wide in sand and lost my position again to Nathan  :'(
Rejoining, Göran got the chance to come besides me out of Para and we went full throttle to the banking where I kept the inside.
In practice I had done this several times and it was no problem for me to keep under the yellow line, but it is way more bumpy there!
In the middle of the banking we touched, both running near this yellow mark with lots of space for Göran on the outside.
Luckily I was not affected, as 2 seconds later a Paul was parking on my line and I could just avoid crashing...
So I drove in a 3rd place, with Nathan in front now too far away to catch.

Race2
Now my odds were not as good in the Ferrari, as all the fast drivers were in front of my 7th starting position...
But I luckily could avoid being involved in the hassle, that was caused by the outbreaking Fez in front of me, at the start.
So I reached the Curva Grande as 5th and held this position til the end, as I had no chance to reach the slipstream of Göran and Nathan.
Most of the race a brilliant mouse driving Sky followed  me in a secure distance

Saw the strange ranking changes in pribluda 

Greetings

[Samb]

A tale of two halves those races. The first race was an utter disaster. I didn't set up the Ferrari properly and there wasn't enough time to change the setup. Also, my computer crashed on me twice which meant I could squeeze just squeeze in two flying laps. On the first I was baulked by traffic. On the second, I went wide at the Curva Grande and slewed into the hedges  . The start of the race didn't fare that well either. With the traffic cones on my right I could only follow the car in front but sadly I got caught in Geoff and Bernie's tangle after the first corner. From then it was a fight up the field.  Had a good fight with Bill on the last lap and somehow finished 6th after all the calamities.

The 2nd race was much better. I was reasonably happy with the Eagle's setup and managed to snatch Pole in the dying minutes of the session. The start went well enough and after the Lesmo's I managed to pull a slight breather on H in the Ferrari. That was crucial for the remainder of the race as I was just too far away from H for him to get a tow from my car. He was dynamite through the Lesmo's and under-braking for the Parabolica but my car's straight line speed advantage made our times evenly matched.

Pleased to have finally won a race after some time. I just hope the results stand after the events at the start  . Congrats to everyone that made it to the podium.

[Ronniepeterson]

I know I apologised immediately after the race last night but let me say again I'm really sorry about the fiasco at the start of race 2. I have just watched the replay and its horrible. I have never pirouetted at the start like that before here, maybe the camber settings on my Fez had something to do with it maybe my foot was too heavy on the gas, whatever, sorry.

I still really enjoyed both races despite my coming together with Geoff in the final stages of race 1 and that dreadful start in race 2. I for one think this track is brilliant and hope to see it used again in a longer format.

[s2173]

  I made the same mistake for the first race and drove the ferrari with default setup and 50 laps worth of race fuel... Which didnt turn out bad at all. Car was behaving like a dream, tho i could hear bottom scraping the asphalt all over the banks. Its definetly pure luck that i ended so high, but this was my first perfect race with not one mistake from my side...
  However, i second race with eagle i had the proper setup and still was a dissaster. MIssed the braking zone to parabolica twice, skyrocketed from the banks twice and just gave up...

[bernie]

Looking at those results your best was a 2m24.xx 

Sorry but the default setting is crap to say the least 

[natan5]

What about championship table ?
Do you gonna fix last race points ?

Thx
Natan

[Hristo Itchov]

What about championship table ?
Do you gonna fix last race points ?

Thx
Natan

They better, lol! I also hope the fastest laps are fixed (the 10 secs laps ditched!)

[s2173]

Looking at those results your best was a 2m24.xx 

Sorry but the default setting is crap to say the least 

Well, I definetly am no match to evil and hendy... but they have special way with feraris i guess. 2100 mph is just...wow! 

[BadBlood]

As you will have noticed we have corrected the race results as best we can. The server skipped a lap for Hendy, Jason and Clive in Race 2 and gave them a lap time equal to the point at which they reset in lap 1. We have added their best qualification time + 5 seconds for lap 1 to achieve a realistic lap time which has obviously resulted in some movement. Whilst recognising that this is not absolutely perfect it is the best solution we have come up with. The moderators discussed this at some length and agreed that this was the most equitable solution all round. The points for the series have also been adjusted accordingly. So well done to Sam, even if the victory came in the Steward's hut!

Note that I (Badblood) benefited from a strange reset which skipped me half a lap. I have added 0.5 x Qualification + 5 seconds to deal with this which has resulted in me being demoted behind Ronnie, which is more realistic.

If you have any comments or questions I would be grateful if you would PM me before posting here. I am keen to avoid an argument in the forum due to misinformation. Not that UKGPL drivers would ever do that. 

[Hristo Itchov]

Can you adjust the correct fastest lap times so they are read by SROU? ATM it shows much slower times as the fastest, for both races. And BTW, why not just watch the replay and see the actual finishing positions of those whose times messed up at the end, instead of adding random 5 seconds to their lap times from qual?

[BadBlood]

Because we are limited in what we can do with altering data within LM2. It is not random. The 5 secs is to account for the fact that this is lap 1 and accelerating away from a standing start is slower by roughly that amount. The FL has not been updated even though the underlying data has. This is the only way I am ever going to get an FL so I am not too unhappy with the situation

[Hristo Itchov]

Because we are limited in what we can do with altering data within LM2. It is not random. The 5 secs is to account for the fact that this is lap 1 and accelerating away from a standing start is slower by roughly that amount. The FL has not been updated even though the underlying data has. This is the only way I am ever going to get an FL so I am not too unhappy with the situation

 

[BadBlood]

Lol - not sure why the fastest lap hasn't been updated but you and Evil have loads anyway

[Ross Neilson]

Paul, I wonder if there is a separate field in the lm2 data structure which stores the fastest lap. Even though the underlying times have been updated that field is probably still out of date.

Shame there is no way to alter that but I suspect we'd need access to the database directly, which Gizmo probably wouldn't allow.

[BadBlood]

There is a Race Fastest Lap field which has been amended to match the real best lap as taken from the replay/report but clearly the code to create the grids and record keep is not fully in tune with this. The relationship must be complex because my Profile shows that I have a Fastest Lap but my record has disappeared as has Hendy's.

The main point is that we have a reasonable as opposed to a ridiculous race result with supportable points totals.