GT QLD League

Shuffle On!

Another fantastic race night I think you’ll all agree.

And best of all, we’re getting a good field of participants in the league, so racing is always fun and close. Thanks!

But how close was it last night?! A tight track, shite cars (in the main), some boost, some penalties and superb racing to boot.

Again, as I said last night, thanks to all for being true gentleman racers. I think I need a mute button though – apologies to you Roderick, I think I called you on one corner, but the replay clearly shows at least 50:50, and really only some gentle rubbing. Oooerr. (Was only watching for the sport of the race, no grudges!).

So who came of best on the night? No idea. To my mind I think we all had a good finish in at least one of the races, so that’ll do.

Special mentions...

• Roderick’s first car - we’re all in awd boy racer cars and other manly motors – you got landed with the hairdresser’s Fiat Barchetta in a fetching sky blue. Fabulous!
• Followed the race after by scoring a Skyline. Karma dude, karma.
• George – “Did you see me lose it?” No mate, we’d need a camera in your living room for that. But that NSX was a handful wasn't it...
• And when I had the NSX I hung back (ahem, cough) to watch Adam and Roderick duelling it out. A supra and an RS4, drifting round the hairpins. Most excellent. Top driving guys.
• Adam – “Muscle car, pftt”. Haha, not a good car on that track eh!

And the after party...

Ended up being three of us back at the ol’ stomping grounds that is Deep Forest. Where we discovered that RUF make shopping trolleys, and that setting a PP limit is handy as it gives us something to aim for without having to try and discuss – always hard on the keypad.

Guess the car against the driver below, there was George, Baloo and myself in the mix:

Next race

Next race next week (the pressure!) will be announced this weekend. It’s the first proper seasonal race; points are to be had in this race.

Remember, turn up and start the race and you’ll get at least one point. Winner wins the number of points for the field. So, six start, six points for the winner, five for second etc. So even if you login, start the race then go have a beer you’re going to get a point. If we have only five starters the winner gets five points and so on.

I’m tempted to fix the points against the championship field size, but in the interests of keeping a gentlemanly race I’ll leave as is. Happy to discuss points mechanisms if anyone feels strongly about it. Do read the league rules for more detail around points and missing races etc.

Usual start time applies, 9pm for practice, around 9:15 for the first of two races.

Timeouts and missed races

Totally get that some of us won’t be able to make race nights, commitment on a weekly basis for leisure time is hard. Certainly I’ll be missing a non-league night in December at least. And given there’s the Christmas break and folks are away or with the in-laws we’ll keep commitment to the non-league nights at a minimum – no expectation there, other than top racing of course.

League nights, please do try and make it, as we’re all finding the racing is excellent, but really only because our field is so big.

One option for non-league nights that we might exercise is online B-spec racing. With that in mind, it may pay to get your B-spec driver’s skill points up a bit if you’ve not already done so. It’s also a handy way to get credits and cars (check an online list of what you could win). No promises, but as we get into the Christmas season we may all need to work a little to keep the league alive.

Bernie out.