Right-o. Incident Reports
Race 2 Lap 2
Haitch has gone by Sakery on exit of the corkscrew through turn 10, Sakery tries to cut off a fast approaching Spurgy. Coming into the final turn, perhaps not realising Spurgy's front bumper was just about in line with his rear, Sakery cuts through to try a legit move up the inside of Haitch, but this ends up with him catching Spurgy's bumper under braking and making him lose control so he shoots across into the IRT Volvo's of Haitch and O'Rama.
Race 2 Lap 5
A few scrapes early on in the lap, Chris and me run off in Turn 3, Spurgy aggressively but fairly gets by haitch into Turn 4. Spurgys move and adjusting for Chris still with dirty tyres running off at Turn 4 results in the field gradually bottlenecking together.
Coming into turn 5 it kicks off. Haitch fairly takes Spurgy back past but behind int he shuffling Snowcrash gets a tap from Conbon, and gets sideways, forcing him on the inside line. When he corrects he is suddenly on the inside of Haitch and Spurgy, which takes them by surprise (if they ever knew he was there). Snowcrash trying to adjust his line bumps them both out of shape and gets out of shape, Atin trying to avoid on the inside himself gets into Snowcrash's door. Haitch still trying to regain control catches Snowcrash and that spins him around. No-one at fault there, just an accordion effect of people backing up and running over each other. Everyone was busy trying to save their own cars and it's like a domino effect, one gets a small knock and others go.
However coming into the following Turn 6, this cluster are attempting to break up. DK pulls out slightly wide to free up room, Atin, not perhaps thinking he would do this, cuts the corner thinking the gap would n ot have been there. This puts Atin off-line and off the track, Snowcrash follows at the back on dirty tyres. In all this mess, O'Rama was the unlucky pinball.
However on a lighter note, for anyone who has Race 2 replay, look at Smuffys pass on me on the last lap, around the outside of Turn 11. Amazing move.
Race 3 Lap 7
Sakery gets a great bit of Atin's Volvo planted in the rear of his Infiniti at the corkscrew. Contact with Smuffy and Conbon at the last turn and there's a bizarre bit of bashing and banging out the turn. From first viewing it seems that Sakery just tries shoving them in the pit wall. Yet on freeze frame a look inside Sakery's car shows he is actually turning the wheel RIGHT to get him away from both BMW's. Infiniti rear end kick-out? Lag? Strange and as a result hard to pass any kind of judgement on.
Race 3 Lap 13
Coming into Turn 1, the Andretti Hairpin, Yeratel is a little lazy with steering which hits Chris off. Needed more care there, he could have steered to the left to avoid contact.
Verdicts
There is nothing particular penalty worthy in race that warrants a specific penalty. Everyone was being aggressive or screwed by being at the wrong point and wrong time. But I am issuing warnings to a couple drivers:
Conbon: Aggressiveness all around mate. I know you said pre-race you were nervous sometimes, but you were a bit dangerous, Race 1 you divebombed a few times. Tone it down, you get an Official Warning for that.
Yeratel: A little bit clumsy in Race 3, Official Warning issued there.
Standings will follow in a while.
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.... I had around 14 hours sleep in 5 days...
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Fought back past Sakery and then put a wheel wide and spun again. Had to fight back past Sakery, gave him a tap which I'm not happy with my self for, and past Haitch. Finished 13th, my lowest TOCA finish ever!
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