A massive grid of 31 drivers appeared at Rouen Les Essarts for the first event in this Winter mini series. An action packed event and we where happy to welcome some new members and a few guest drivers who have been drawn to the F167 cars like moths to a flame.

 

Moreover, the server became so crowded that the admins where worried if there would be too many drivers and where discussing during practise if it would be necessary to remove latecomers from the server. Fortunately this was not needed although the server was moaning and sweating with this large field and the number of disconnects at the end of the qualifying session showed it was not going to be a completely smooth session.

This track however catered for a good qualifying session, the field could stretch out and a lot of drivers made sure they had enough room to do their fast laps without too much hassle. Most drivers seem to be aware of others and gave room for qualifyers when on their outlaps.

The formation lap was less of a smooth endeavour. Quite a few individual cars did not maintain one pace but decided to stop and go, get dangerously close to others or in some cases even lose control. Some penalties could still be imposed by the Race Director if felt necessary.

The start of the race was what could be expected from such a large grid, some great starts and powerful overtakings within the safety margins and some dramatic manouvres which could have been lag related as several drivers did not have a smooth frame rate. A few smart people even decided it would be safer to start from the pitlane.

 

Sadly both races had disconnects and some drivers even decided to leave due to lag problems and not wanting to cause accidents due to it. Overal though both races where pretty hot and feedback shows most drivers had a great event and are already looking forward to the next one at Kyalami.

Ales Simunek qualified 2nd but was able to win both races comfortably (also due to Christopher Snow's disconnect but he made up for that by gaining 25 places in race 2)  So Ales is the event winner, many congratulations! (someone stop this guy!)

But there is still one event to go and because points from both events are accumulated there is allot to gain!  (2nd, 3rd & 4th place all have 58 points to take to Kyalami and further down the grid its the same situation for quite a few drivers)

See you at Kyalami!

 

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Race 1 HMTL Results  Race 2 HTML Results  Forum thread (individual reports)

 

QUALIFYING RESULTS

Pos	Driver	Fastest Lap	Gap
1	Christopher Snow	01:49.652	-
2	Ales Simunek	01:49.824	00.172
3	Patrick Dobner	01:50.573	00.921
4	Miguel Bento	01:50.585	00.933
5	Jef Vannijlen	01:50.710	01.058
6	Rouke vd Hoek	01:50.940	01.288
7	Paul Langford	01:50.989	01.337
8	Bret Metcalf	01:51.087	01.435
9	Simon Baggett	01:51.094	01.442
10	Nigel Metcalf	01:51.749	02.097
11	Fernando Deutsch	01:51.813	02.161
12	Daniel Kuhl	01:51.885	02.233
13	Rick Stratton	01:52.021	02.369
14	Marcus Adams	01:52.165	02.513
15	Ralph Maiph	01:52.165	02.513
16	Jouni Trogen	01:52.458	02.806
17	David Pym	01:53.153	03.501
18	benoit Hocq	01:53.261	03.609
19	Salvatore Tallini	01:53.505	03.853
20	philippe	01:54.766	05.114
21	Ivor blackmore	01:55.409	05.757
22	Mark Abbott	01:55.418	05.766
23	Graham Palfreyman	01:55.626	05.974
24	Ted Ball	01:58.055	08.403
25	Aymeric De Keyser	01:58.423	08.771
26	Kat Scott	01:58.677	09.025
27	David Kadlcak	01:58.995	09.343
28	bourgeois guillaume	02:01.518	11.866
29	Eric Fulghum	no laptime	no laptime
30	John Wallace	no laptime	no laptime
31	Shazy Ahmed	no laptime	no laptime

 

SPRINT RACE RESULTS

Pos	(Grid)	Driver	Laps	Led	Time	Gap	Pitstops	Points
1	(1)	Ales Simunek	9	8	16:40.484	-	0	40
2	(2)	Patrick Dobner	9	0	16:58.022	17.538	0	34
3	(5)	Rouke vd Hoek	9	0	17:04.859	24.375	0	30
4	(6)	Paul Langford	9	0	17:06.976	26.492	0	28
5	(9)	Nigel Metcalf	9	0	17:08.545	28.061	0	26
6	(10)	Fernando Deutsch	9	0	17:12.343	31.859	0	25
7	(4)	Jef Vannijlen	9	0	17:13.294	32.810	0	24
8	(15)	Jouni Trogen	9	0	17:21.145	40.661	0	23
9	(7)	Bret Metcalf	9	0	17:21.962	41.478	0	22
10	(14)	Ralph Maiph	9	0	17:24.410	43.926	0	21
11	(16)	David Pym	9	0	17:24.743	44.259	0	20
12	(12)	Rick Stratton	9	0	17:37.518	57.034	0	19
13	(19)	philippe	9	0	18:02.441	01:21.957	0	18
14	(20)	Ivor blackmore	9	0	18:12.205	01:31.721	0	17
15	(21)	Mark Abbott	9	0	18:20.748	01:40.264	0	16
16	(22)	Graham Palfreyman	9	0	18:24.725	01:44.241	0	15
17	(18)	Salvatore Tallini	8	0	17:54.557	-1 laps	0	14
18	(25)	Kat Scott	8	0	18:21.703	-1 laps	0	13
19	(8)	Simon Baggett	6	0	DNF (Suspension)	-3 laps	1	12
20	(13)	Marcus Adams	5	0	DNF (DNF)	-4 laps	0	11
21	(3)	Miguel Bento	4	0	DNF (DNF)	-5 laps	0	10
22	(17)	benoit Hocq	4	0	DNF (Suspension)	-5 laps	1	9
23	(11)	Daniel Kuhl	3	0	DNF (DNF)	-6 laps	0	8
24	(29)	John Wallace	3	0	DNF (Suspension)	-6 laps	0	7
25	(26)	David Kadlcak	2	0	DNF (Suspension)	-7 laps	1	6
26	(24)	Aymeric De Keyser	1	0	DNF (Suspension)	-8 laps	0	5
27	(27)	bourgeois guillaume	1	0	DNF (Accident)	-8 laps	0	4
28	(28)	Shazy Ahmed	1	0	DNF (Suspension)	-8 laps	0	3

Fastest lap: Ales Simunek, 01:49.779
Highest Climber: Jouni Trogen, 7 position(s) won


 

FEATURE RACE RESULTS

Pos	(Grid)	Driver	Laps	Led	Time	Gap	Pitstops	Points
1	(1)	Ales Simunek	21	14	39:23.736	-	0	40
2	(2)	Jef Vannijlen	21	6	39:31.019	07.283	0	34
3	(28)	Christopher Snow	21	0	39:32.534	08.798	0	30
4	(3)	Rouke vd Hoek	21	0	39:41.147	17.411	0	28
5	(6)	Simon Baggett	21	0	39:44.294	20.558	0	26
6	(4)	Paul Langford	21	0	39:48.344	24.608	0	25
7	(25)	Patrick Dobner	21	0	39:54.076	30.340	0	24
8	(8)	Daniel Kuhl	21	0	40:02.561	38.825	0	23
9	(19)	John Wallace	21	0	40:11.811	48.075	1	22
10	(5)	Bret Metcalf	21	0	40:12.952	49.216	0	21
11	(18)	Graham Palfreyman	21	0	40:58.280	01:34.544	0	20
12	(12)	Jouni Trogen	20	0	39:25.881	-1 laps	0	19
13	(16)	Ivor blackmore	20	0	40:24.488	-1 laps	0	18
14	(15)	philippe	20	0	40:44.929	-1 laps	0	17
15	(22)	Kat Scott	20	0	41:08.845	-1 laps	0	16
16	(26)	Mark Abbott	17	0	DNF (Suspension)	-4 laps	2	15
17	(10)	Marcus Adams	8	0	DNF (Suspension)	-13 laps	0	14
18	(21)	Aymeric De Keyser	6	0	DNF (Accident)	-15 laps	0	13
19	(9)	Rick Stratton	6	0	DNF (Suspension)	-15 laps	0	12
20	(14)	Salvatore Tallini	3	0	DNF (Suspension)	-18 laps	1	11
21	(20)	Ted Ball	2	0	DNF (Suspension)	-19 laps	2	10
22	(7)	Nigel Metcalf	2	0	DNF (Suspension)	-19 laps	0	9
23	(27)	David Pym	2	0	DNF (Suspension)	-19 laps	2	8
24	(11)	Ralph Maiph	1	0	DNF (Suspension)	-20 laps	1	7
25	(13)	benoit Hocq	1	0	DNF (Suspension)	-20 laps	1	6
26	(23)	bourgeois guillaume	1	0	DNF (DNF)	-20 laps	0	5
27	(24)	Fernando Deutsch	0	0	DNF (DNF)	-21 laps	0	4
28	(17)	Shazy Ahmed	0	0	DNF (Suspension)	-21 laps	0	3

Fastest lap: Ales Simunek, 01:49.525
Highest Climber: Christopher Snow, 25 position(s) won


 

OVERALL POINT RESULTS

Pos	Driver	Sprint Points	Feature Points	Total Points
1	Ales Simunek	40	40	80
2	Jef Vannijlen	24	34	58
3	Patrick Dobner	34	24	58
4	Rouke vd Hoek	30	28	58
5	Paul Langford	28	25	53
6	Bret Metcalf	22	21	43
7	Jouni Trogen	23	19	42
8	Simon Baggett	12	26	38
9	Nigel Metcalf	26	9	35
10	philippe	18	17	35
11	Ivor blackmore	17	18	35
12	Graham Palfreyman	15	20	35
13	Daniel Kuhl	8	23	31
14	Mark Abbott	16	15	31
15	Rick Stratton	19	12	31
16	Christopher Snow		30	30
17	Kat Scott	13	16	29
18	John Wallace	7	22	29
19	Fernando Deutsch	25	4	29
20	Ralph Maiph	21	7	28
21	David Pym	20	8	28
22	Salvatore Tallini	14	11	25
23	Marcus Adams	11	14	25
24	Aymeric De Keyser	5	13	18
25	benoit Hocq	9	6	15
26	Miguel Bento	10		10
27	Ted Ball		10	10
28	bourgeois guillaume	4	5	9
29	Shazy Ahmed	3	3	6
30	David Kadlcak	6		6

 

 

 

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