Donnington S4

[Baz West]

Last set up with more tyre pressure, not in 58s yet.

[Baz West]

First race start p5 get tagged in the rear at Redgate loose a few places, to P9 fight back and thanks to fuel problems ended up P4 only 96 points but a lot learned. I had 16 galls of fuel and needed it, tyre presures to high they were 29PSI at the end of the race no wonder it was slippery

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[Rik Walker]

I've been playing Legend of Grimrock 2 too much this week and only made the SOF race. Started 10th & finished 9th for a decent 144 points. Tough race though with some questionable moves from the usual suspects...

btw Baz, on the last lap when you let me through, I do hope you didn't deliberately not let Robert through too. That would have been taking the team aspect a bit too far

[MarkF]

Just been busy with other things, haven't played much games at all this week, got a new front door fitted though, back door this week and some furniture to build, haven't turned a wheel in Iracing since the last patch.

[Baz West]

I've been playing Legend of Grimrock 2 too much this week and only made the SOF race. Started 10th & finished 9th for a decent 144 points. Tough race though with some questionable moves from the usual suspects...

btw Baz, on the last lap when you let me through, I do hope you didn't deliberately not let Robert through too. That would have been taking the team aspect a bit too far

Nice haul Rik, I did manage 4 races with reasonable results in 3 of them highest being 96points but not very strong fields, then feeling very confident of a good finish in the SoF I t-boned David A as he lost it in the Curves (no where to go, I was breaking like mad as I could see it happening, really pissed me off,) it was a very difficult and boring drive from then on, the only excitement being letting people past. Did manage to finish 14th from 21st but I should have been up with Robert we had a good race on Friday matching each others times with my FL just pipping his. If it hadnt been for getting a poor start and stuck behind Klaus for 6 laps, based on FL times P2 was on the cards. In the Sof I ended up with 96 points the same as previous highest score in the lower races

I did slow as I didn't want to get in the way of both of you, but I should have slowed more as I think I did baulk him at the chicane although it didn't make any difference to the result. You did have things under control didn't you?

I tried to view replays of the start and incidents after but I couldn't, any ideas on reasons why?

You will love the new tyre feel Mark at low speed. (up to80mph)

[Baz West]

Race report is up fortunately I did better in an earlier race. Not my fault nowhere to go, as a car broadside in the Cramer curves.

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For those with no access here is text;

Anreus Leads New CTC Season
by Thiago Izequiel and Kalle Ruokola on November 12th, 2014


The CTC is back at Donington.

After a brief pause between seasons, the Classic Lotus Grand Prix is back in business with a week at Donington Park, using the “National” configuration. The CTC will run popular road tracks in this brief championship in a calendar featuring Donington, Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, Canadian Tire Motorsports Park, Mount Panorama, Silverstone (Historical) and Road America.

Donington’s “National” configuration wasn’t used in 2014 S3 by the CTC members, who only officially raced the “Grand Prix” track. This is the fastest circuit of the whole schedule, and Mattias Anreus now holds the inaugural record with a lap time of 57.091 seconds. The average pace of the race was a bit slower, with sim racers running around one minute per lap.

Sunday’s SoF race had two equal splits. Each one had a 24 cars grid, with Anreus taking the pole position of the first split, a good start for the F2 ICI Racing team. Tapani Linnaluoto, second place overall in the Season 3 standings, now defends that position in the Martini Lotus, and also started the new season also on the first row, holding the second place. Gernot Fritsche, 10 times overall champion and now driving for Williams, started third with Kalle Ruokola, back at Ferrari, in fourth place on the starting grid.

On the race start, David Azevedo, driving for a F2 ICI Racing, had an incident with Barry West (Mclaren) while at the back of the grid (19th and 21st). Both Lotus 79s were damaged but not enough to retire from the race. Up front, Ruokola was overtaken by Gregor Thomson (Renault), who started fifth, but would soon retake his spot. Thomson ran wide a few corners later, falling back to fifth and now having to deal with Juho Raina (Team Merzario) coming from sixth place. Behind him, sixth starter Daniel Friberg (Brabham) had a brief moment holding the seventh place, but Arto Ihamäki (Martini Lotus) got his original place back, leaving Friberg behind.

The action continued as the sim racers headed into Redgate for the second lap, with Bill Fraser (Renault) coming from ninth to eighth, passing Friberg. Ahead, Thomson and Raina were busy racing each other, creating an ideal opportunity for Ihamäki to overtake them both in a smart move. Thomson later lost his place for Fraser, falling from fifth to eighth in a lap.

Reaching Lap 10, Raina spun and lost places to Fraser and Thomson, going down for the eighth place. But the battle had not ended, and four laps later, Fraser found himself behind Raina’s gearbox, also losing his place to Thomson. Raina would not keep his position for long, as he got a slow down penalty on Lap 11 and had to let Fraser go by. Raina would be back though, hunting the Renault driver in an effort regain his place. Before that could happen, though, he exited the race after making hard contact with the walls in the Chicane. Meanwhile, Fraser lost his spot to Antti Lepistö (Ligier), who benefitted from Raina’s incident to go into seventh place.

Lap 25 and Lepistö advanced one more place from 19th on the grid, taking advantage of a mistake from Thomson to take sixth place. Lepistö then had to deal with Thomson putting pressure on him, but he managed to keep cool and finish in the top six — make that the fifth as, right before the end of the race, Ihamäki retired his damaged car. Ruokola kept the fourth place he started with and the top three also remained unchanged: Anreus won from Linnaluoto, with Fritsche, third.

In this race, Thomas Torp (Brabham) and Marcel Penzkofer (Ferrari) were both disqualified, losing any points they could might have earned.

For the second split, pole winner Ryan Williams (Shadow) lost the lead on the first lap to Matt Mead. Mead kept the first place just for one lap before giving way to Frank Herfjord (Team Rebaque). Williams left the race by Lap 12, due damage on his car, and Mead finished in 13th place. Herfjord won, with Craig Birleson and Joachim Boeddeker (Wolf Racing) on the podium.