Miata Masters - Post-Season Plaudits

[PJTierney]

Is there anybody you would like to congratulate on their performance this season, or merely thank in general? Do so here!

[DanThorn]

Firstly, congratulations to our two champions, PJ and Koopa. Koopa backed up his sporadic pace in the Classic Tour with a consistent challenge for wins every week; it's always good to see new names at the front of the field.

Congratulations and thank you to everyone who stuck with the season - the start of it was tough at times but it got better and even though enthusiasm may have waned at times, I'm glad there were healthy single lobby grids for most of the season.

Thank you to PJ for running the season and to everyone who did their share of wiki editing and whatnot.

Thank you to the regular Lobby 2 guys for injecting some high spirits when the lobbies merged, it's always fun with guys like Scott and Tom C in the lobbies and it was fun to race people I hadn't done so for a while.

Finally a huge thanks to Pete - The only guy who was around my pace level who stuck with the season and gave me a target every week. Every race I had eyes only for you, we were close on track a lot and had some fun battles. Without yourself, it could have been a very lonely season!

[PJTierney]

Congrats to Koopa on his performances this season. Once I knew how well he was doing I had to up my game in order to stay in front.

Many thanks to Shouty and Motorhead on being solid teammates; Shouty pushed me forward, while Motorhead played the team game and helped out quite a bit with tuning/driving.

The stewarding team deserve some credit as well, Matt and Pete were of great help.

Koopa, Dave and Matt also deserve plaudits for getting results pics up quickly, posting photos and editing the Wiki.

Finally, many thanks to those who stuck it out and raced to the end

[RaceProUK]

Got to single out Dan for praise too, being the only driver to score three thirds, two seconds, and one win

[PJTierney]

Got to single out Dan for praise too, being the only driver to score three thirds, two seconds, and one win

And 4 4th places

[DanThorn]

Ha, I hadn't noticed that!

[MasterOntWolf]

Although it took me the entire 7 events to get a handle on my car I really enjoyed this season. Had some really good battles some long some brief but kept everything interesting. It was a well set series with ups and downs but great fun either way. Was really surprised to see myself jump into 5th on the Amateur standings. This either means there just isn't alot of racers or my driving is actually improving. Lets hope that it continues as time goes on.

Shame I won't be doing much Forza racing anymore with limited access to xbox but have to say I am truly enjoying race 07 especially now with using a steering wheel. Looking forward to see all in more of the great events created by the members of RylR.

In closing congratulations to all the winners and thank you for an enjoyable season of battles.

[D0n M4730]

Finally got round to this so here goes.

Thanks to PJ for running the series, it was very well organised. Also, big congratulations on taking the overall championship.

Well done to Koopa for achieving your first race win, winning the amateur title and generally taking the fight to the front-runners. Nice to see a Lobby 2 graduate doing so well .

Well done to Ben and Dave for beating me in the amateur championship as well. I was hoping to be able to get the 2nd spot but a few bad results followed up by missing the final round put paid to that.

Thanks to Niall for being my team mate again, it was good to give PSP one last outing.

And finally, once again thanks to everyone for great racing and great banter .

[Boovolari]

Better late than never...

Well done to PJ and Koopa on their championships. I always checked the leaderboards before practicing the night before an event and you two were always up there with the top times. Well earned titles.

Cheers to the Lobby 2 brigade - it was great getting a chance to race with you finally and I had some great battles - the race with Scott at Catalunya was amazing. It was fun chasing down Ben at Suzuka too. I tried everything to steal his podium and spoil his day, but he had it covered

Thanks to all those that stuck around until the end, particularly Dan, who became my target for the season early on. I was pretty pleased to get within 11pts of him by the end and the race around Top Gear on the final night was the highlight of the season. Looking forward to resuming that one.

[HFG Ben]

Just noticed I'd forgotten to do this!

First of all, a thanks to PJ for organising the season. The cars were easy enough to drive without much tuning (I made some balance and gearing changes before the season and never changed them after), although I probably could have got a fair bit more out of it had I worked on it for individual races (some races my gearing let me down, but others it really worked well) and obviously the extra practice that would have brought would have helped too, but my gaming time as we all know is limited nowadays anyway.

Congratulations too to PJ again for the Championship. It's what we were saying to you right from HGTM, cut out the crashes and hotlapping and you WILL be a champ. Now you are. And well deserved too. Yes you may practice more than some of us, but thats just part of becoming good at it. We just like to make Goteki the bad guys

Congratulations to Koopa on the AM title. One of the quickest AMs the club has had (outside of Seasons 1-3, I can only really think of Blairy and Ollie being as quick in their first club seasons). For selfish reasons, wish you had been in the PROs. Bastard

Thanks also to my usual sparring buddies from Lobby 2, especially Matt and Dave, who I had great fun chasing down in the tables after a few early season misfortunes. Got you in the end, and was great fun being in such a close scrap in the final few races. Shame it wasnt for the title really as it would have been a fitting end to the Lobby 2 era. I doubt I will get as close to an AM title again, being as I dont race GT and as well as being plain rubbish at Race07 I almost certainly will not be making full seasons of it with it being on weekends (something which got me thinking more about the whole "do you feel a part of the season/the club if you only do a few races"). I really hope we do get some more Forza races or even some GRID Autosport, which sounds promising, as otherwise I may well end up not doing much racing at all here which makes me a sad panda.

Finally, Thanks to those that dropped out this season. Yes, you read that right... let me explain
If not for those dropping out, then we would have had 2 lobbies once again, split on skill. I personally never liked this split as it meant I couldnt race against people like Dan, Tommy, Pete, Shouty, PJ on a regular basis. I always found I was never too far off their pace if I wasnt making mistakes and being in the same lobby always helped me actually keep up and pick up driving styles from following them. Its why I championed the splitting of lobbies by alternating championship position, as it always gave you new people to race and new challenges. I think because of that and the subsequent use of one lobby, it helped my driving more than a season in Lobby 2 would have (I probably would have been further down the end tables if it had gone that way) as I was challenged by a whole load of different and often faster drivers, especially in the reverse races!

[Storming83]

Well done to PJ for putting together a well thought out season. The gripes over driving standards early on did seem to put everyone's back up a bit, but once that passed it seemed to be fun racing each week.

Congratulations to Koopa for taking Conquest Motorsport's first podium, win and fastest lap all in the same season! Nice to have some success in British Racing Green this season too. Well done!

For me, if the club is moving away from Forza 4, then unless I get up to speed with Race '07 on my iMac, then I don't know if I'll be around. I want to carry on with F4 as I'm still enjoying it (when I'm not being punted into rolls and spins by Wolf, you dick) at a level that probably some of the older members were at 18 months ago.

I'll miss Lobby 2 though, especially Matt, who has been a good laugh to race against in the last year. Always remember chasing you down in the XS Trucks at Benchmark, the Furai battle with Lin, and Cruddy with Scott. All good times, you'll be missed mate.

[RaceProUK]

I want to carry on with F4 as I'm still enjoying it

There'll be a few of us sticking with FM4, in an unofficial manner at least. Both me and Ben have ideas for seasons in the pipeline.