DRIVERS DEBRIEF & FINAL RESULTS - RACES 1 & 2 @ ALGARVE
Congrats once again to everyone involved for some great racing on Saturday night, this debrief is an explanation of everything that has happened since. The stewards are myself, V8, TB & Familiar.
Protest #1 was lodged by Sparky on Johndog for unredressed contact which was confirmed by the stewards. John was given a 30 second time penalty, which was a time equivalent to a drive through penalty. John rejected the stewards findings & did not elect to have the matter forwarded on to Stu, acting as Grand High Marshall of this series.
Protest #2 was a general protest lodged by Johndog for track limits.
Grace was given to everyone for Race 1 to come to terms with the cars & the setups & how they handled when being pushed to the limit & in traffic.
For Race 2, the off track excursions of the top 10 drivers we're logged, 59 in all. Most of these occurred on the exit of T1 but also happened on the exit of T4, between T7 - 8 & also on the exit of the last corner T15.
Individual tally is as follows:
Woody 11, Brett 11, Hoppy 10, JJ 8, Sparky 7, Blue 6, Tuddy 4, TB 3, me 2, Johndog nil.
10 second time penalties were issued to Woody, Brett & Hoppy. Severe warnings were going to be issued to the next 3 drivers on that list, JJ, Sparky & Blue, I just hadn't got a chance to do it yet.
It was established that without the throttle inputs & delta times in the replays, it is impossible to establish how much of a gain, if any, is incurred from each instance. No one was suspected of intentionally cutting corners by the stewards.
However, as Johndog has now been officially confirmed to have left the series as of this morning, all protests have now been dismissed entirely & the 3 penalties issued so far have been rescinded (Woody, Brett, Hoppy).
Johndog has now been excluded from all results which are as follows:
Race 1:
1. Nige
2. JJ
3. Benny
4. Blue
5. Woody
6. Brett
7. TB
8. Tuddy
9. Sparky
10. Max
11. Coxy
Pole position: Woody. Fastest lap: Nige.
Race 2:
1. Nige
2. Woody
3. Blue
4. Benny
5. Tuddy
6. JJ
7. TB
8. Sparky
9. Max
10. Familiar
Pole position & Fastest lap: Nige
These results are now final.
The teams & individual drivers tables will be posted as soon as I work out how to do a partial screen capture shot of the sweet new tables we've got from Bounty.
I'll be going into much greater depth about the track limits situation in the drivers brief for the Spa race. What we learnt is that there was way too much of it going on & that everyone is now on notice that if you exceed track limits more than twice in any race, you will be issued with a time penalty. It's as simple as that.
Last edited: Mar 14, 2020
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