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Post by **Ataxia** » 02 Sep 2012, 19:23

Suzuka Race - Part Two

Here’s the arse-end of the field...

Stan Frankham there with a Mazzacane tribute helmet

Lappalainen is a bit ambitious, as he attempts a pass around the outside

Reith draws closer as Nakaya makes a move for 4th...

...as you see Douglas pass Pacer behind them.

Voeckler and Columbo are having a fight between themselves

Voeckler loses out...

...as Grove comes out of nowhere to steal past at the Casio Triangle

Grove now 15th.

Aya and Scalabroni put some moves on

Aya passes Pykalisto whilst Scalabroni has a go at Butler

Pykalisto not giving up as Einhrin holds up Pacer

Butler wrests 12th from Shukinen

He’s now behind Scalabroni

Shukinen fancies returning the favour...

...but doesn’t make it.

Douglas is unbelievably quick today, he’s now in 6th

Reith still hasn’t passed Vosu.

Kurniawan and Feldhoffer scrap behind Voeckler

Ekdal far ahead

Da Cunha’s had a quiet race; he’s fighting Feldhoffer...

...as the German loses ground to Kurniawan and Voeckler

They’re still in that order around the hairpin

Mestach pops down the inside of Shukinen

He can’t quite do the deed...

...as Shukinen tries a move on Grove and Columbo tests Butler’s resolve

Columbo’s fallen back into the clutches of Grove and Mestach before Casio Triangle

and he loses out to them both.

He’s got Shukinen for company

Reith’s got Nakaya for company in his Andrea Moda...no, sorry, his V-Sport.

Nakaya has a go...

...as Vosu locks up at the hairpin

This gives the following pack a chance

Reith might have that...

as Douglas looks down the inside of Nakaya on the run up to Spoon

Ekdal’s rather dominant. He’s still striding away

Pacer’s got clear track ahead

Aya and Pykalisto are still fighting it out

Come the chicane though, the Malaysian is well ahead

Da Cunha gets a run at Voeckler...

...but not only does the Frenchman stay ahead, he’s managed to pass Shukinen too!

Now this is interesting, Douglas has cleared Vosu and Reith.

Mestach, Butler and Grove line astern.

Douglas’ view of the chasing pack; Reith’s finally ahead of Vosu

Ekdal’s had a lonely day upfront

Butler fancies a go at Mestach

Shukinen’s haemorrhaged positions today, now Da Cunha wants a piece of the action

There is the Finn...

Hwok Kwol-Cho’s now 3rd

Da Cunha on Shukinen...

...not quite.

Is De Boer pitting?

Nope, he’s pulling off the track.

Race over for the American...wait, where’d he go?

And, ladies and gentleman, we have a race! Douglas is eating into Ekdal’s lead

A Southern Cross on a New Zealander’s helmet? What is this?

He is visibly closer to the Swede up the hill

Kwol-Cho’s lost 3rd to Nakaya

Da Cunha’s passed Shukinen, now Voeckler’s next up

Matt Grove passes Hans Einhrin

Feldhoffer in 19th.

Douglas in 2nd.

Aya’s now relieved Pacer of 7th.

Voeckler and Da Cunha still at it...

... and the Brazilian can’t seem to get the better of the Frenchman.

Pacer won’t give up just yet...

Simon Mestach in 11th

Pykalisto looks for a way past Scalabroni

Kurniawan’s ahead of Butler now

As Aya and Pacer are still fighting away

Pacer can’t seem to reclaim the position

Douglas is right behind Ekdal now!

The New Zealander’s done it on the straight!

Kwol-Cho still behind 3rd-placed Nakaya

Shukinen’s under pressure from Lappalainen now...

...and the Donkervoort driver’s got the job done

Ekdal’s not letting this lie...

Da Cunha on what looks like Butler

Einhrin started on pole. Now he’s 14th...

Pacer’s under pressure from the Aeroracing of Scalabroni

The Argentine’s tucked right up in his gearbox

Mestach looks at Pykalisto for the final point

Ekdal looks like he’ll have to settle for second

Lappalainen is quite close to Voeckler...

...but loses some ground at Spoon.

James Douglas wins at Suzuka! Bjorn Ekdal takes second.

Nakaya gets 3rd.

Hwok Kwol-Cho gets 4th

Anu Vosu’s got 5th, she might have hoped for more.

Nestra Aya gets 6th

Reith manages 7th, another who may wonder what might have been.

Scalabroni pips Pacer to 8th.

Mestach rounds out the top 10.

Classified Results to come...

Post by **Nuppiz** » 02 Sep 2012, 19:46

BaconLettuceNinja wrote:Anu Vosu’s got 5th, she might have hoped for more.

Fixed.

pasta_maldonado · Post by **pasta_maldonado** » 02 Sep 2012, 20:01

Luke Knight wrote:We definately had the pace in the race, but our lacklustre qualifying performance really hindered us in the long run. Alexis' accident was violent, I haven't seen the replay and I don't want to. The doctors tell us that he's in a stable condidtion, and we at Plus One are releived the implications of that crash aren't life-threateningly serious. What the bathplug was that Kingfisher doing?? The last time I saw driving like that was the conclusion of the 1992 BTCC championship!!Appalling! The stewards really should look to ban him for at least one race.

Gary Pacer wrote:Dissapointed to have dropped back there at the end, the rear tyres, ummm started to go off a bit, and after that, ummm, I couldn't quite keep Scalabroni behind. We've got the best qualifying engine in the trunk, so if we can sort out our quali pace we'll be right up there. Oh, and hi mum!! She's watching me back in Vancouver.

Post by **Ataxia** » 02 Sep 2012, 20:21

The incident between Stan Frankham and Alexis Tantovich is under investigation.

Results:
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WaffleCat · Post by **WaffleCat** » 02 Sep 2012, 21:54

Berhman Reith wrote:Of courze,we had a brilliant start to thiz race,but then the time I zpent behind Vosu sort ov vheld me up,and my tyres were completely,how do you say,gone?That'z why I lost so many pozitions

Nessafox · Post by **Nessafox** » 02 Sep 2012, 22:54

I would like to remind people that Donkervoort is Dutch, not Belgian (in the wiki) It's an actual existing car-manufacturer.

Shizuka · Post by **Shizuka** » 03 Sep 2012, 06:01

V-Sport got a 4th and 7th? Great. Also, the car looks menacing in plain black.

Post by **tommykl** » 03 Sep 2012, 06:43

Simon Mestach wrote:C'était une très bonne course pour nous, j'ai bien récupéré par rapport à ma place sur la grille, et je suis content de marquer un premier point pour l'équipe dans la Winter Cup. Je pense que ça annonce de bonnes choses pour cette saison.

Post by **Nuppiz** » 03 Sep 2012, 07:18

Niko Nurminen wrote:Noh, olisihan se huonomminkin voinut mennä, mutta kyllähän se vähän harmittaa kun yhdessä vaiheessa johdettiin kisaa ja molemmat autot olivat pisteillä ja lopputulos on sitten tämä. Kehotan molempia kuskeja tarkkaavaisuuteen mikäli he mielivät pitää paikkansa kauden loppuun asti...

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 03 Sep 2012, 07:38

James Douglas wrote:Crickey, that was a blimin' sweet as race for us bro. Was going flat out to get the car home and hosed cuz. Now, off to the next race and hopefully she'll be right bro.

RonDenisDeletraz · Post by **RonDenisDeletraz** » 03 Sep 2012, 07:42

Wizzie wrote:
James Douglas wrote:Crickey, that was a blimin' sweet as race for us bro. Was going flat out to get the car home and hosed cuz. Now, off to the next race and hopefully she'll be right bro.

That is a bucket of win right there. :lol:

the Masked Lapwing · Post by **the Masked Lapwing** » 03 Sep 2012, 07:50

James Douglas wrote:Crickey, that was a blimin' sweet as race for us bro. Was going flat out to get the car home and hosed cuz. Now, off to the next race and hopefully she'll be right bro.

John Zimmer wrote: Jimmy, what have you done?

Jimmy Rosenforth wrote: Did you catch any of that?

John Zimmer wrote:Nah, sounded like typical Kiwi gibberish really. I s'pose if he's winning races...

AdrianSutil · Post by **AdrianSutil** » 03 Sep 2012, 08:27

Kingfisher Racing:
We are pleased to get both cars home, although they fell through the field rather quickly. We feel the engines may have had something to do with this. We will appeal any fine/penalty/ban for Stan after the crash. We feel there was nothing he could do to avoid the car veering across in front of him.

Vepe · Post by **Vepe** » 03 Sep 2012, 09:43

Björn Ekdal wrote:Jag är inte så nöjd med tvåa, men jag kunde inte hålla Douglas bakom mig. Jag hoppas att jag kan utmana om vinna i Motegi.

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 03 Sep 2012, 10:14

James Douglas wrote:Crickey, that was a blimin' sweet as race for us bro. Was going flat out to get the car home and hosed cuz. Now, off to the next race and hopefully she'll be right bro.

John Zimmer wrote: Jimmy, what have you done?

Jimmy Rosenforth wrote: Did you catch any of that?

John Zimmer wrote:Nah, sounded like typical Kiwi gibberish really. I s'pose if he's winning races...

James Douglas wrote:I'm off to take a hike to the takeaways for some awesome greases cuz. You Aussies want anything?

RonDenisDeletraz · Post by **RonDenisDeletraz** » 03 Sep 2012, 10:36

James Douglas wrote:Crickey, that was a blimin' sweet as race for us bro. Was going flat out to get the car home and hosed cuz. Now, off to the next race and hopefully she'll be right bro.

John Zimmer wrote: Jimmy, what have you done?

Jimmy Rosenforth wrote: Did you catch any of that?

John Zimmer wrote:Nah, sounded like typical Kiwi gibberish really. I s'pose if he's winning races...

James Douglas wrote:I'm off to take a hike to the takeaways for some awesome greases cuz. You Aussies want anything?

Matt Grove wrote:What are you on about mate, I guess so.

Just so you know, Grovey is one of my real life friends. I tried to make this sound as mush like him as possible

Post by **Ataxia** » 03 Sep 2012, 13:22

Stan Frankham will receive a deduction of 20 performance points for the next race at Motegi. This is for causing an avoidable accident with Tantovich. I felt that the accident warranted more than a warning, so I've used the lowest perf deduction possible. The penalty isn't any higher as I felt that Tantovich was a little hasty on returning to the racing line.

Kingfisher Racing have the opportunity to appeal the decision.

I would also suggest that Miguel Silva is ROTR, considering he was deadbeat all weekend.

AdrianSutil · Post by **AdrianSutil** » 03 Sep 2012, 23:12

Kingfisher Racing will indeed appeal, especially as you said the other driver was 'a little hasty' in going back to the racing line

. I would say its a 'racing accident'.

Post by **Ataxia** » 04 Sep 2012, 11:23

After an appeal from Kingfisher and a re-evaluation of the incident, Stan Frankham's 20-point Performance deduction will be suspended over the next 3 races.
- If he keeps himself out of trouble in those 3 races then the punishment will be dropped.
- If he finds himself at fault in a further incident in those 3 races, the deduction will be applied and further action may be taken if required.

AdrianSutil · Post by **AdrianSutil** » 04 Sep 2012, 19:58

Kingfisher Racing:
"We are pleased Stan's penalty has been suspended. He explained what happened once the race was over. He knows he has to be careful in future as this series is very close and competitive, but we are confident Stan's performance will not falter"

pasta_maldonado · Post by **pasta_maldonado** » 04 Sep 2012, 20:05

Luke Knight wrote: Personally Frankham is a lucky bathplugger for having the ban suspended. But seen as Plus One and Kingfisher have a great working relationship, I will say no more. What's done is done, and Alexis realises this. We are resting him for one race, where he will be replaced by Italian Andrea Bianchi.

Post by **Ataxia** » 05 Sep 2012, 19:15

Winter Cup Round 2 - Motegi Qualifying

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 05 Sep 2012, 19:29

I am extremely concerned about Voeckler's poor pace. He must show improvement throughout the season or there will definitely be no drive for him in 2016.

RonDenisDeletraz · Post by **RonDenisDeletraz** » 05 Sep 2012, 21:49

That is good, Silva seems to have returned to being good after his one off struggle at the previous race.

Nessafox · Post by **Nessafox** » 05 Sep 2012, 22:34

Is there any chance the Donkervoorts will actually score points this year? :lol:

Post by **Ataxia** » 05 Sep 2012, 22:59

I don't think I've seen eichy for a while, if he doesn't make an appearance come the end of the Winter Cup I'll probably let someone else take that team slot.

As Ferrarist is first on the reserve list, he's in line to take the team should that scenario occur. I'd just ideally like to keep everyone checking...

AndreaModa · Post by **AndreaModa** » 05 Sep 2012, 23:06

Just a polite request BLN, for a few less images in the next race report? Cheers

Stan Frankham wrote:My fault my arse...I'm bloody glad that punishment has been reduced cos that would have been daylight flaming robbery otherwise. The car's quick in qualifying, need to get that foot down in the races though, she just isn't keeping up with the other cars. Bit of Hype for me, and some super unleaded for the old girl and we'll be right as rain in no time!

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 05 Sep 2012, 23:12

AndreaModa wrote:Just a polite request BLN, for a few less images in the next race report? Cheers

Or perhaps link us through to an imgur album for each race with all the pics?

Post by **Ataxia** » 05 Sep 2012, 23:39

kostas22 wrote:
AndreaModa wrote:Just a polite request BLN, for a few less images in the next race report? Cheers

Or perhaps link us through to an imgur album for each race with all the pics?

Sure thing, I'll do that for all future races..probably makes the job a bit easier too.

Yeah, sorry about all the images...

AndreaModa · Post by **AndreaModa** » 05 Sep 2012, 23:45

BaconLettuceNinja wrote:
kostas22 wrote:
AndreaModa wrote:Just a polite request BLN, for a few less images in the next race report? Cheers

Or perhaps link us through to an imgur album for each race with all the pics?

Sure thing, I'll do that for all future races..probably makes the job a bit easier too.

Yeah, sorry about all the images...

It's no worry, its actually quite a novel feature actually, it's just every time I load the page to view the latest post, the images take a little while to load so the page scrolling goes a bit haywire momentarily! :lol:

Post by **Ataxia** » 05 Sep 2012, 23:57

AndreaModa wrote:
BaconLettuceNinja wrote:
kostas22 wrote:Or perhaps link us through to an imgur album for each race with all the pics?

Sure thing, I'll do that for all future races..probably makes the job a bit easier too.

Yeah, sorry about all the images...

It's no worry, its actually quite a novel feature actually, it's just every time I load the page to view the latest post, the images take a little while to load so the page scrolling goes a bit haywire momentarily!

I've just resorted to clicking the stop loading button...

If I find that doing the images this way is a timesaver, I could possibly do two races per weekend as Wizzie suggested...

Post by **Ataxia** » 06 Sep 2012, 18:18

Well, I've run the race, and...erm, people retired en masse on the last lap. Only 5 cars finished.

Then DOSBox froze. I'm tempted just to blitz through the weekend with a smaller number of laps (which might have been the reason why everyone retired, perhaps running out of fuel...) and just repost qualifying and race results without a picture coverage.

Would this be OK for everyone?

Vepe · Post by **Vepe** » 06 Sep 2012, 18:25

BaconLettuceNinja wrote:Would this be OK for everyone?

OK for me

since Björn only qualified 11th... : )

Post by **tommykl** » 06 Sep 2012, 18:38

Simon Mestach wrote:Ma performance de qualification était nettement meilleure cette fois-ci, je suis loin devant Patrick, et j'espère pouvoir convertir cette position en points pour la course au titre.

Post by **Nuppiz** » 06 Sep 2012, 18:50

BaconLettuceNinja wrote:Well, I've run the race, and...erm, people retired en masse on the last lap. Only 5 cars finished.

Then DOSBox froze. I'm tempted just to blitz through the weekend with a smaller number of laps (which might have been the reason why everyone retired, perhaps running out of fuel...) and just repost qualifying and race results without a picture coverage.

Would this be OK for everyone?

Yeah, I have no problem with this.

Post by **Ataxia** » 06 Sep 2012, 20:00

In that case, here's the results of the re-run qualifying:

Apologies to the teams that this puts at a disadvantage compared to the last run, but it wasn't feasible to redo the race from the last qualifying as the mass retirement would most likely happen again. The race has been reduced to 20% to combat any further issues.

Race result to follow soon.

Post by **Ataxia** » 06 Sep 2012, 21:56

Winter Cup - Round 2 - Motegi Race

Apologies for the lack of picture coverage; after running the race once and it freezing I really couldn't sit through it again, pressing F12 ad nauseam...

Hopefully Fuji's good enough to make up for it

pasta_maldonado · Post by **pasta_maldonado** » 06 Sep 2012, 21:58

What happened to Pacer?

Post by **Ataxia** » 06 Sep 2012, 22:39

pasta_maldonado wrote:What happened to Pacer?

He was running as high as 2nd IIRC, and then I think he spun out. For some reason on this track the cars have trouble rejoining the track, usually waiting for the rest of the field to pass by.

However, looking at the field spread it's possible he had a failure on the last lap.

the Masked Lapwing · Post by **the Masked Lapwing** » 07 Sep 2012, 01:15

Who set the fastest lap?