HETM Round #8 - Hockenheim

[shaxberd]

Das Ende naht! It's round 8 of the Hyper European Touring masters, with the Hockenheim round taking place on Sunday, 7th April 2019!

Track on the FTP/server

All times are BST

• Practice 1 - running throughout the week of the race beginning on the Monday evening.
• Practice 2 (19:00) - 30 minutes
• Qualifying (19:30) - 20 minutes, all cars on track, with any driver's best lap determining the R1 grid and their 2nd best lap the grid for R2
• Warmup (19:55) - 5 minutes for setup finalisation, refuelling, and bathroom breaks (last chance to join the lobby)
• Race #1 (20:00) - 30 minutes in length with a formation lap followed by a standing start
• Race #2 (20:35) - 30 minutes in length with a formation lap followed by a standing start

WEATHER FORECAST

• Pit boxes will be allocated per-team
• Damage will be set to 100%
• In-game penalties and thus track limit violation detection are enabled. This does not mean that everything the game lets you get away with is fine. Our usual rules still apply.

Stearding Post Coming Up

Real Life Race

Statistics
...are available via the live timing

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The Championship Situation
With two races to go and a maximum of 20 points still on offer, @KJP93's 17 point lead over @Mike Bell isn't quite unassailable, but it's not far off. @JoeNathan's withdrawal means that @fjordnet is guaranteed an excellent 3rd in his debut Realish Racing campaign but Joe could be overhauld by either of @sin_racing or @lazaros18, who are 7 and 12 points behind, respectively.

@lemming77 leads a rather intense midfield squabble in 7th with 25 points, though only eight points separate April, @CuruxaUK, @shaxberd, @Mosaegir, @MrRandom287 and @Lin1876, so expect that group to move around a bit over the final races. Behind them, @artanonim is only three points ahead of team mate @craighypheno in 13th. @Sam Hill and @ajokay lead the stragglers, both on 6 points.

UPA were confirmed as Teams Champions at Most, their 37 point lead being just enough with a maximum of 36 points still available. Behind them, Smile Power are thirteen points ahead of Fury. In 4th, Valor, on 49 points, could be overhauled by BPR (42 points) and Kaibutsu (40 points). Aureus are probably safe in 7th but Cosmo and ByCraig are level on points behind. Argosport, Nethersport and Howler round out the standings, all on under 10 points.

[Goobertson]

@KJP93's 17 point lead over @Mike Bell isn't quite unassailable, but it's not far off.

It is if im not able to make the race, which, is going to be the situation next weekend. Again, have fun all

[zephyr]

Hopefully in

[ajokay]

Hockinheim

[artanonim]

I sense a distinct lack of "what's next season" gossip

[MrRandom287]

I sense a distinct lack of "what's next season" gossip

Well, I have my hopes up for something. But logically it would be a "World" season.

[cosmo]

Returning to action for the finale.

[shaxberd]

What a crazy round to end the season, thanks for racing everyone, and congratulations @KJP93 & @lazaros18!

[artanonim]

Well, that went pretty well given that I had to go through some personal drama half an hour prior to qualifying start, had barely the time to get two scruffy quali laps in, and it turning out I was running crazy high wing (18) compared to rest of the grid - two points finishes after some good battles Though @ajokay 's excellent performance today dropped me a one further place in the championship.

Thanks for this season's racing and congrats to the winners!

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Those races were fucking wild.

Race 1
Made a reasonable start and made progress as the frontrunners collectively decided to trip over each other. Between one thing and another, I was in 3rd and chasing @ajokay but the UPAs were right behind, we went three into one into the hairpin and I got pincered into the barrier by @lazaros18. I rejoined in 8th but the damage was too much to make any progress.

Race 2
It was crazy but eventually @Mike Bell made his way past and I was left to race @shaxberd (of course). Going into the last lap, I was in 8th and trying to get past Bjorn when I dropped it on the exit kerb at turn 1 and crashed quite hard. 11th

[KernowekPand]

HISTORY HAS BEEN MADE!

...I finished a Realish Racing race in 9th for the first time ever. Aren't you all proud of me?

Mental couple of races! Super glad I took the banter approach, though speaking as series champion I wouldn't recommend trying anything I did tonight! Spearing into a wall and having to drive the factory Audi shopping trolley for 17 laps was certainly not boring though! Did my best to steal P2 from @ajokay on the final lap but he did enough to hold me off. Really neat to see him get a solid podium!

Elected to start from the back for a laugh in race 2, I spun three times in four laps on my own or avoiding mayhem which murdered the tyres. Somehow managed to get fastest lap four laps from the end of the race which I'll take considering the state of my tyres!

...noos uoy ot gnimoC !puc bulc-yrotciv ym ot drawrof kool dna hO

[MrRandom287]

..noos uoy ot gnimoC !puc bulc-yrotciv ym ot drawrof kool dna hO

Sounds like someone's going to have some work to do

[Goobertson]

Managed to get home intime for an 'arrive and drive' appearance in race 2, was pretty fun to go in totally blind, but by the end felt as if P4 was possible given maybe 5 more laps. I must apologise to Pete though for the nudge that sent us both around