Generally Rookie Championship : Season 20 [Login][Race]

[Naimare]

Hi everyone !

This championship seems sweet to get back to generally.

Ill do my best to race all events, but count me in and Im trying to invite some friends.

Naimare
(I am sending you my email, Ill use my regular one so prefer not making it public)
France

Privateer for the moment, I'll see if I can make my friends join me to make a team

[Sartalas]

Sartalas
Poland [POL]
altacea@o2.pl
GRPL Team

[Mszostus]

Polish drivers in GP2 attack

[Buka]

Hey, guys. I've decide to extend the first deadline till today's midnight so the late sign-upers Sartalas and Nalmare wouldn't miss the start of the champ (unfortunately, I was away for the last day and half and couldn't make login files for them earlier).

I hope you'll forgive me that. BTW, I've got plenty of results from you: puttz, RacinGene, axetm, SGroe, Bird, ACM, scaramanga, lenc, indleseckum, edsid, Rafael, Mszostus, gzehoo, Demoniac, HJ, Lukeno, Dany, Gimpek, JWong and Harrysson.

So the rest of you have an extra day to make and send me your races.

[Danonak]

Can I race with you?

Danonak [POL]
GRPL Team
wojo_osa@wp.pl

[Lukeno94]

Anyone who hasn't got a team yet is more than welcome to join Lukeno94 Sports.

[JWong]

Luke, I'll join

[Lukeno94]

Good news, now we match GRPL Team in terms of numbers. One more and we can match PGR.de xD

[kuba]

now we match GRPL Team in terms of numbers.

Not really ;p

Read few posts above - Sartalas and Danonak joined GRPL Team, but not yet are listed in entry list.

[Lukeno94]

Ah, dangit. So we need two more drivers! These teams are just as big as British Formula Renault teams used to be though

[Trigger Happy]

Personally I never liked this rule change of unlimited drivers number per team and still wonder, why was made. GRC used to be place, where not only novice drivers were learning things like how to manage with login, but also where new teams used to be started. Now it's about 2-3 teams (or actually one*) so the champ parts of compos are bit boring nowdays unless some old dogs are in and take a younger guy under own wings for the season, because GRC no longer creates new fresh teams, which, after gaining some basic experience and trust in reliability of each other, would then try to enter ''big scene'' to challenge those established.

*

grpl and plgr.de are IMHO hardly teams in right sense but rather pseudo-national teams of those, who cannot distinguish between national and team standings in particular season and/or in GWR, so duplicate one into other - maybe because are not used to it from they own national scenes, I'm really not sure. Cheers to exemptions like Lambda or Destiny Racing.

But on these feelings nothing more than only my .

[kuba]

It's not that bad - remember that only the 2 best drivers of the team in a race can score points for their teams.

It will be prestigous fight between two biggest non-English GeneRally's forums - www.planet-generally.de and generally.pl. Moreover, Lukeno94 Sports aren't without chance if they'll be focused.

Personally what I don't like is that there are so many drivers without a team - they should orginize themselves in some teams or join existings ones to make team standings more attractive - I can see few interesting nicknames there.

[Trigger Happy]

It's not that bad - remember that only the 2 best drivers of the team in a race can score points for their teams.

I'm aware of this, rule, it's indeed right measure to keep the champ interesting. But the concept in sum doesn't really motivates other people to create own teams (as entry list shows), when to take some decent points to rivals you don't need to beat 2-3 of them, but dozen - some 2 of those armies of 6 or more always make a good race.

And as I told, teams champ IMHO should not be here for fight of national or pseudo-national teams. For that here in GRC is nations standings, so I miss any point, why Germany and Poland should fight each other in teams standings too.

[kuba]

PLGR created quite strong team, people from GRPL saw it and - as history of relationship between Germany and Poland shows - decided to create strong team to compete with them.

It's first season of unlimited teams in GRC - let's see how it will work, maybe Buka will decide it was mistake - but I think it's one worth making.

[Trigger Happy]

I don't blame one or other from anything bad on purpose and of course I understand to these motivations. I just meant, that it's making on me impression, that Nations and Teams standings (here and also in GWR) are being confused together ATM thanks to this - to pity for both these honours. BTW I'm not sure, if it's for first time, I loosely recall that like now Luke also Mad Dan once was trying to keep the pace and organized a group of guys under Monkey Crew in a past season.

[Lukeno94]

I'm personally not that bothered, otherwise I'd attempt to cherry-pick drivers, which I don't do. Although you could call us the Silver Foxes at the moment, due to having 4 Silver class drivers... I just like giving privateer drivers a ride, which doesn't do our GWR any harm, especially if you consider relatively how few competitions we actually enter (as I am very sporadic in my activity), unlike GRPL Team or PGR.de, who enter almost every compo there is.

[ACM]

The reason I'm a privateer is because I'm not a good people's person. I just want to get on with racing.

[Mad Dan]

Once I tried to contact few guys and invite them to my team and all of them to my surprise answered positively and I had Lorenzo, fogoRJ and Mr.J in my team alongside me and SpL . I remember there was planetgenerally.de team against me in that season though . And season 14 I won title with SpL and Spede who did just a few events. I also remember I could not win a race these days .

I'm ok with PGR.de and GRPL but I wish there was more diversity .

[Lukeno94]

Just looked at my fastest lap... 0.6 seconds slower than my best training lap. Wow.

[Buka]

Ok, results and replays are ready. But at the moment they will be posted only here. Standings will be ready during the day (probably late in the evening).

GRC S20 - Round 1: Albi Results

ACM 4:17.48
Sgroe 4:20.10
axetm 4:22.79
Rafael 4:22.90
Jwong 4:23.22
Areen 4:23.92
indleseckum 4:25.31
scaramanga 4:25.87
lenc 4:26.39
Dany 4:28.34
Gzehoo 4:28.61
bduddy 4:28.74
Gimpek 4:30.26
Bird 4:31.79
Senna 4:33.25*
Emil Patanen 4:34.15
Harryson 4:34.38
edsid 4:34.55
naimare 4:36.24
puttz 4:37.97
Lukeno94 4:40.63
Mszostus 4:41.65*
Krisu 4:45.71*
Demoniac 4:49.52*
RaciGene DNQ

* - time with penalty

GRC S20 - Round 1: Albi FLs

ACM 16.19
Sgroe 16.49
HJ 16.53
Jwong 16.57
Gzehoo 16.58
axetm 16.65
lenc 16.68
Rafael 16.70
Gimpek 16.75
Areen 16.76
Harryson 16.80
scaramanga 16.85
indleseckum 16.93
bduddy 16.95
edsid 16.95
puttz 16.98
Dany 17.00
Bird 17.04
naimare 17.07
Lukeno94 17.39
Senna 16.64*
Krisu 16.67*
Mszostus 16.75*
Demoniac 17.14*

* - cancelled FL

GRC S20 - Round 1: Albi Notes

Penalties:

RacinGene - No login : DNQ
Mszostus - Raced on training track : +20 sec
Demoniac - Late submit (10 min) : +10 sec
Senna - Late submit (5 min) : +10 sec
Krisu - No savegame : +20 sec

Warnings:
ACM - No .trk file
Emil Patanen - No .trk file
indleseckum - Late submit (1 min)
Areen - Late submit (2 min)
Krisu - Late submit (3 min)
Mszostus - Late submit (3 min)
Areen - Choose your driver profile before AIs
ACM - You can't restart after 1 lap raced
Areen - You can't restart after 1 lap raced
Bird - You can't restart after 1 lap raced

Be aware that it's the first and the last time I accept results without .trk file.

Download replays here

And login files for the second round are ready too.

Round 2 - The Ide Race

Deadline: 04.08.2012, 23:59 GMT

Login time for the Race : 9 minutes

* Tyre wear : 12%
* Fuel consumption : 10%
* Fuel mass : 50 kg
* Damage : 15%
* LENGTH : 10 km

Details here

[scaramanga]

could I be listed as Croatia Racing Team driver from now on?

[ACM]

Oh hell. I wish I knew you couldn't restart after one lap. I believed all that mattered was sending the results in the allocated time. I don't even know how one can tell for that matter.

The part about not sending the .trk file confuses me even more. As I didn't find anything mentioning it in the rules for race events before. Only now that I checked again do I spot it.

Sorry.

[Lukeno94]

Oh wow, comfortably last of the unpenalized drivers. So much slower than my training runs...

EDIT: Buka, DNQ means Did Not Qualify. In this case, it should be DQ or DSQ - disqualified.

[JWong]

@Buka: Can you supply trk file to watch the replays?

[Lukeno94]

You shouldn't need the trk file, should you?