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When he veered back onto the track, I tried to slow and turn left more,
but I was carrying too much speed into the corner and over-corrected.  I
spun without leaving the racing surface or hitting anything/anyone.  I
was simultaneously beginning to accelerate and congradulating myself for
my deft recovery maneuver when a Lotus stuck his nose in my gearbox as I
was flipped over.

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All I can do is apologise unreservedly. I wasn't aware of your presence,
otherwise I would not have attempted to rejoin the track. I wasn't in any
great hurry or trying to limit damage from my half spin either. I just
didn't see / hear you, I'm sorry.

Damn... I was pretty proud of that race until I read this.

Jan.
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I was just severely disappointed that I was only in it for nine of the 80
laps, and was removed through no real fault of my own.

My record thus far in Eldred's GP's is less than stellar.  I ran out of
gas at Zandvoort because I had the wrong setup loaded, and bent my
suspension at the ring on lap 1 turn 1 (both were my fault).

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I got discoed on lap 3 at Zandy and then got it into my head that the
Ring race was a day later than it actually was.

At Silverstone I connected, found my brake pedal was playing up, and so
shut down and restarted. I managed to get back only to have a different
brake problem. I restarted again, ran some training laps, found
everything was OK, and restarted VROC.

Found it was in "transition" mode with 20/20 drivers. No race for me :-(

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RACE RESULTS (After 80 laps)

Pos No Driver                          Team     Nat Laps   Race Time
Diff
 1   2 Andre Warringa                  Lotus    HOL   80 124m05.525s
 2  12 Jan Verschueren                 Coventry BEL   79 124m45.307s   1
lap(s)
 3  19 Mike Tate FD                    Ferrari  IRE   79 125m36.599s   1
lap(s)
 4   6 Don McCorkle                    Ferrari  USA   63  98m22.896s  17
lap(s)
 5   9 Herko ter Horst                 Ferrari  HOL   49  76m08.142s  31
lap(s)
 6  14 Roger Squires                   Ferrari  USA   47  74m26.189s  33
lap(s)
 7   3 Eldred Pickett                  Ferrari  USA   44  71m30.165s  36
lap(s)
 8   1 Mochlos Hellblade               Ferrari  DEN   33  51m30.275s  47
lap(s)
 9   8 Jon Andersen                    Lotus    FIN   28  42m14.930s  52
lap(s)
10  17 Rob Adams                       Lotus    CAN   22  34m46.895s  58
lap(s)
11   7 Brett Cammack FD                Coventry USA   15  27m20.704s  65
lap(s)
12   5 Pierre Leblanc                  Lotus    BEL   13  20m10.213s  67
lap(s)
13  16 John Ferrari Simmons            Ferrari  USA    9  14m23.970s  71
lap(s)
14  18 Remco Rohde                     Ferrari  HOL    8  12m29.172s  72
lap(s)
15  20 Manfred Winkler                 Lotus    GER    8  12m50.396s  72
lap(s)
16  13 Phillip Malphrus Jr.            Ferrari  USA    8  13m56.959s  72
lap(s)
17  10 Johnny Herbert                  Lotus    GBR    5   8m21.974s  75
lap(s)
18  11 Kevin Chalk                     Lotus    USA    4   6m28.416s  76
lap(s)
19  15 Simon Willis                    Lotus    GBR    0   0m00.000s  80
lap(s)
20   4 Eldred Pickett                  Brabham  USA    0 DidNotStart  80
lap(s)

Jan.
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Andre

Congrats Andre.....

Great (mental)battle, If I never ever see another pitboard saying "WARRI -2"
it will still be too soon.... I have never before driven so many laps
without any major mistakes... I think these GP lenght races are helping me
improve the mental part of my driving a lot.

Started in 4 position and got a clean getaway... let a follow Ferrari pass
me into T3 ( and another slipped right by in the same manuever) and set out
to just keep them in my sights. Lapped quite consistently and at some point
the board claimed that I was up into second... Warringa 7-8 seconds behind
and Jon a full minute ahead.

I had to get out of my chair to turn the volume up... my girlfriend
suddently cranked the livingroom speakers up, so I was having trouble
concentrating, that little move cost me 5 seconds and the next 10-15?? laps
the board just said "WARRI -2".

I tried to keep cool, but eventually I broke, lost it and Andre passed me.
Got going right away and follow him closely. Now the board said "WARRI +2"
for some laps ;)

Then my wheel quit working properly AGAIN and after 2-3 laps of shaky
driving I decided to kickstart it. Drove to a halt at the side of the road,
turned the power (to the wheel) off and on again. That does one of two
things... either the wheel starts functioning again, or the computer
dies.... the computer died.

The really wierd part is that even though i could use no buttons, the mouse
or the wheel, I could still see other people in my rearviewmirror .... I
really hope I was stationary according to the server also ;) So if a Ferrari
drove around like the driver was blind, I apologize.

All in all a fun race for me personally, hope to be a part of the next event
also.

Mikkel

PS: any replays or replay analyser txt's available ??

Sure, blame the girl :)
I qualified 10th if I remember correctly and during the start I also
let a couple of cars pass me. The start was surprisingly clean as far
as I could see. Especially at Silverstone this is quite rare!
During the first laps I had to avoid a couple of wrecks, I could pass
a couple of cars and I quickly gained position.
You were at a certain moment in front of me, and indeed I was -2
seconds behind you for a lap or 10-15.
I wasn't trying to gain on you, or to stay close to you.
I was only concentrating on staying on the track. I had in my mind to
only start pushing it when there would only be 20-30 laps left.
And to my surprise you then spinned in front of me and I could pass
you.
I can't remember what happened then, I believe I had position 3 or 2,
anyway, at a certain point I was 2nd and Jon Anderson was driving in
front of me, with a huge advantage of 1:30.
Then I saw some Pit In messages from Jon. This distracted me, since I
couldn't understand what the hell he was doing, pitting in after every
lap. It turned out that he had some weird blag flag problems.
From lap 30 or so I was at nr.1 position, with nr.2 being 30 seconds
or so behind me. He didn't gain on me so I could drive on quite
relaxed.

Around lap 40 I lapped a couple of guys, who let me all pass safely at
the first oportunity, thanks gentleman.

Around lap 70 I spinned, but since the rest of the field was -1 lap
behind this was not a problem.

Boy was I glad to see the chequered flag, including the practice it
was a 2.5 hour drive and every part of my body was hurting now.
But it was worth it, completing 80 laps without shift-R felt great,
especially at Silverstone, the track which I dislike the most in GPL
:)

Andre

Eldred said he would upload the replay.

You're welcome... :)

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Results from Zandvoort, Nurburgring, and Silverstone...

http://www.umich.edu/~epickett/gpl.htm

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Wasn't me John, Brett Cammack is the one you want to hit.

I had a similar incident, but luckily my efforts in determining if someone
was still behind me proved sufficient as I re-entered on a "clean" track.

Phew!! -I can show myself in public again. ;-)

Jan./who's praying he didn't inadvertently shove someone else into the
fence.
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All in all I was very pleased with the quality of the driving. I will look
for "realistic" damage on line from now on - people are smarter when the
stakes are higher. That start was GREAT - lots of give and take and no red
haze visible anywhere :)

Like John, I was punted rather sharply in the *** at the end of the
Hangar Straight and spent what seemed an eternity staring down the
nose of my Cooper watching the pavement and then grass passing below.
By some miracle, I never passed over the "point of no return"
vertically and it fell back onto all four wheels unharmed.

My race ended at lap 20 when, while trying to leave the line open
entering T3, I was a hair too fast for that wide a line and
encountered the bank with enough force to turn turtle.

Please accept my apology, John.  I can certainly understand your
frustration.  I would never intentionally cause such a thing to
happen.  I certainly wasn't out on the grass on purpose, Silverstone
tends to find me there after several of the faster corners.

Honestly, I was shocked when I signed onto Vroc about two hours later
and saw there were still 10 laps to go!  I don't believe I would've
given it a go had I realized there was a possibility of that sort of
time commitment.  Man, I would've been a basket case by the halfway
point!  I will definitely demiur from further such contests until I've
better got my chops up at a particular track and I can set that sort
of time aside.  What do you guys use, leg urinals or something??  LOL

Congrats to Andre.  I could not believe that anyone could hang a car
out like that so early into such a race without seemingly a care about
wrecking.  Amazing display of prowess...

Regards,
Brett C. Cammack

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