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Buxton is the venue for the meeting today for the Tarmac Masters Final. This race was introduced last season and was run at Ipswich with Michael(2) being the inaugral winner. Michael started the race on row four, occupying the inside position. By the end of lap two he was in second position, and for the following two laps led the race, swapping places with MoR(137). MoR re-took the lead on lap five, keeping it for eleven laps. Michael led for the last four laps and crossed the line as the winner with MoR in second place and rounding out the podium places was Mike(315) in third. The meeting format will be: Tarmac Masters Final 2 Heats per driver Consolation (if necessary) Grand Final Grand National (x2 if necessary) 2 (or 3) Thursday Night Thunder races The grid for the Tarmac Masters Final is determind by the points awarded at every tarmac meeting so far this season, using the multiplication system; with the highest point scorer in pole position. The grid will be: ROW 1 - TomD(1) .. Johno(3) ROW 2 - Harmen(262) .. Dazza(290) ROW 3 - fast track(527) .. Mike(315) ROW 4 - MoR(137) .. Tosh(8) ROW 5 - LeeK(39) .. Murf(561) ROW 6 - Spike(221) .. Lee(531) ROW 7 - Corny(391) .. Jarry(164) ROW 8 - DanSkin(236) .. spikejnr(172) ROW 9 - walker(363) .. Lars(553) ROW 10 - Skeet(31) .. GoingInStyle(399) Reserves - 525, 413, 488, 380, 126, 107, 188, 16, 515, 516 There is a 20 car track limit at Buxton so the top 20 available drivers will be on the grid (further reserves are available if necessary). So get yourself booked in for tonight's meeting.

When the 2010 fixtures were released, no mention was made of any World Championship Qualifying rounds for the 2011 World Championship. We try to follow real life as much as is practically possible and so the concept of having WCQ rounds in one season relating to the following season's World Championship was introduced in 2008. This had an adverse effect on the WC Semi Final grids with drivers having scored points in 2008 but not racing their Semi Final in 2009. Nevertheless, we continued with this concept in 2009 with four WCQ rounds counting towards the 2010 World Championship. But this season we wanted to see how this would affect the Semi Final grids before deciding whether or not to continue running end of season WCQ rounds. Three drivers scored WCQ points at the end of 2009 but failed to race their Semi Final having qualified for one. The F1 admin team thought that this was not too bad, and was certainly better than the previous season, and so would continue to have WCQ rounds at the end of this season counting towards the 2011 World Championship. However, we have decided to reduce the number of rounds from four to just two. These will be at: Kings Lynn on 21st October Arena Essex on 11th November I will get the fixture list changed as soon as possible.

Here are the final grade changes of the 2010 season. They come into effect this Thursday with the exception of those marked '*' who have already been upgraded due to the start of the shootout. Up to Superstar: 3*, 527*, 561* Up to Red: 8, 39 Down to Red: None Up to Blue: 31, 221 Down to Blue: 41, 188 Up to Yellow: None Down to Yellow: 488 Down to White: None

They have been added to the first post. This meeting was the third time you have top scored at a meeting.

If you go to the results pages (linked to from the fixtures) then where there are pictures you will see a link to them at the bottom of the page. Most championships are covered and a few other meetings. Not all meetings have pictures though.

The National Points Shootout begins this Thursday at Ipswich. Qualification Qualification for the shootout began at the very first meeting of the 2010 season and continued up to the end of the 5th grading period. The top six drivers in the Grading Points chart at the end of that period were TomD(1), Dazza(290), Mike(315), Johno(3), Murf(561) & Fasttrack(527), all of whom automatically qualified for the National Points Shootout. The winner of the shootout will be entitled to wear a silver roof for the whole of next season and will also be graded superstar for the whole season. As a point of reference, the winner of the Grading Points (season long points championship) will be recognised within UKDirt F1 (unlike real life) and be entitled to wear two silver stripes on their roof for the whole of the following season. They will also be graded superstar for the following season. Fixtures The following fixtures have been designated as National Points Shootout rounds: 30th September - Ipswich 7th October - Scunthorpe 14th October - Buxton - also Tarmac Masters Final 21st October - Kings Lynn 28th October- Birmingham - also Grand National Championship 4th November - Belle Vue - also World of Shale Final 11th November - Arena Essex 18th November - Coventry All meetings are on Thursday evenings and start at 20:30 (UK time). The meetings at Scunthorpe, Kings Lynn, Belle Vue & Coventry will be run completely at nighttime; the remaining meetings completely in daylight. Thursday Night Thunder races will take place at each round and will always be run under the lights. Grades All of those drivers will be graded superstar, starting at Ipswich up until the end of the season. This means that TomD, Dazza & Mike will remain at their present grade and Johno, Murf & Fasttrack will be upgraded with immediate effect. NOTE: This grade change is out of sync with the normal grade changes which will be announced after the Ipswich meeting and will take effect from Scunthorpe. Grid Line Up The shootout drivers will start every race in a particular meeting in a fixed formation. A draw was made at the real life World Final meeting to determine how they will line up for the first meeting (obviously 2-a-breast as normal): FRONT OF GRID Johno(3) Murf(561) Dazza(290) Mike(315) Fasttrack(527) TomD(1) BACK OF GRID For each subsequent meeting, they will line up in point scoring order, lowest at the front. The only exception to this is where there is a special race determined by point scoring positions. These are (1) Grand National Championship (2) Tarmac Masters Final & (3) World of Shale Final. Of those, only the GN Championship race is a point scoring race and will be run as the first race of the meeting with all six shootout drivers eligible to take part. Further, where the meeting attendance requires a 2/3rds format to be used, an equal and random number of shootout drivers will be assigned to each heat, and if necessary each GN race. At the end of each meeting there will be some Thursday Night Thunder races. The grids for these races are completely random. The shootout drivers will not be required to start at the back of the grid; they will line up in a random order determined by the meeting steward as normal. Further, the points scored in these races will not count towards the shootout championship. Non Shootout Superstars Any superstar driver attending a meeting who is not in the shootout competition will start their races in their normal position (ie one grade gap behind the red grade drivers). In this case the shootout drivers will line up one grade gap further behind. In other words the non shootout superstars will have a grade to themselves. Points Points have been awarded already based on the following criteria: 1. Two points per appearance from the qualifying rounds. 2. One point for every Grand Final victory in the qualifying rounds. The points table as it stands before the first round is: TomD(1) - 67 Johno(3) - 64 Fasttrack(527) - 61 Dazza(290), Mike(315), Murf(561) - 60 Points at each round will be exactly the same as a normal meeting. The exception being the final shootout round at Coventry where, for shootout purposes only, the points will count double.

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Here are some pictures I've taken from last Thursday's British Championship Final. They are on kev149.com along with pictures I've recently taken from the World, European, Long Track and UK Open Championship races (over 200 pictures in total).

26 cars raced at Skegness this evening (the 39th meeting of the season). The results were: Heat 1: 516, 8, 1, 262, 137, 188, 236, 41, 391, 55, 30, 285, 47 Heat 2: 527, 290, 137, 516, 39, 3, 221, 31, 41, 323, 16, 236, 285, 315, 561, 343 ( dnf 164 ) Heat 3: 8, 290, 221, 391, 3, 1, 55, 47, 31, 323, 172, 16, 262, 30 ( dnf 315, 188, 343 ) Heat 4: 164, 39, 236, 41, 1, 561, 137, 16, 391, 285, 172, 30, 516, 47, 527, 55 Heat 5: 39, 1, 221, 290, 8, 3, 164, 561, 188, 323, 527, 262, 516, 285, 31, 172 ( dnf 315 ) Heat 6: 290, 262, 527, 221, 137, 172, 391, 8, 55, 236, 188, 16, 41, 30 Heat 7: 1, 39, 236, 164, 516, 31, 527, 561, 323, 315, 41, 391, 285 ( dnf 3, 221 ) Heat 8: 188, 164, 31, 30, 39, 315, 3, 137, 290, 323, 262, 8, 172, 561 Grand Final (British Drivers Championship): 290, 137, 41, 1, 3, 527, 262, 561, 236, 172, 164, 31, 30, 39, 516, 285 ( dnf 323, 8, 391, 188, 315 ) The points scored were: Name .. Points Dazza (290) .. 53 Tom D (1) .. 44 MoR (137) .. 37 LeeK (39) .. 30 fast track (527) .. 28 Johno (3) .. 26 Drumbstick (41) .. 25 Harmen (262) .. 22 Jarry (164) .. 22 DanSkin (236) .. 21 Tosh (8) .. 20 Spike (221) .. 19 IanStep (516) .. 17 Murf (561) .. 13 Aub (188) .. 12 Skeet (31) .. 11 Corny (391) .. 9 spikejnr (172) .. 7 Peppi (30) .. 5 madcowie (323) .. 5 Kbarker (55) .. 4 Mike (315) .. 4 JK (16) .. 1 Samson (47) .. 1 Mav_Jnr (285) .. 1 Zero: numbnut grogan (343) No Show: Shawty (119) Congratulations to Dazza on becoming the 2010 UKDirt F1 British Champion.

26 cars booked to race tonight. The grids are: HEAT 1: 30, 285, 47, 119, 172, 516, 8, 236, 262, 391, 16, 41, 55, 188, 1, 137 (STEWARD 149) HEAT 2: 285, 343, 31, 119, 164, 221, 516, 39, 236, 323, 3, 41, 527, 561, 137, 315 (STEWARD 149) HEAT 3: 30, 343, 31, 47, 172, 221, 8, 262, 323, 391, 3, 16, 55, 188, 1, 315 (STEWARD 149) HEAT 4: 30, 285, 47, 119, 164, 172, 516, 39, 236, 391, 16, 41, 55, 527, 561, 1, 137 (STEWARD 149) HEAT 5: 285, 343, 31, 164, 221, 516, 8, 39, 262, 323, 3, 188, 527, 561, 1, 315 (STEWARD 149) HEAT 6: 30, 343, 47, 119, 172, 221, 8, 236, 262, 391, 16, 41, 55, 188, 527, 137 (STEWARD 149) HEAT 7: 285, 31, 119, 164, 221, 516, 39, 236, 323, 391, 3, 41, 527, 561, 1, 315 (STEWARD 149) HEAT 8: 30, 343, 31, 47, 164, 172, 8, 39, 262, 323, 3, 16, 55, 188, 561, 137, 315 (STEWARD 149) #47 will race from yellow tonight and #55 from red please.

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Server .48 is up.

I'll put one up when I get home from work (about 17:30) unless someone beats me to it.

It seems there has been some problems with Skegness and we think its down to the recent F2 WF Skegness track update so we have remove the WF update and gone back to Skegness V1 on the server which can be found below. Skegness V1 PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU DO THIS ALSO If you previous installed F2 WF on your computer please do the following before you continue: - Delete the Skegness folder from C:\Program Files\rFactor\GameData\Locations - Delete the Skegness.HAT and SkegnessHR.HAT files from C:\Program Files\rFactor\UserData\LOG\HAT Just to confirm, if you did not install the F2 WF update for Skegness then you WON'T have to do this but if you did install that version then this will need to be done to race tomorrow night (23 Sept - British Championship meeting).

20 cars raced at Northampton this evening (the 38th meeting of the season). The results were: Heat 1: 527, 16, 315, 221, 1, 3, 188, 172, 137, 236, 553, 262, 391, 380, 8, 488, 39, 290, 343 Heat 2: 262, 391, 8, 39, 527, 137, 172, 221, 290, 315, 236, 380, 16, 1, 553, 343 ( dnf 488, 3 ) Grand Final: 39, 290, 1, 527, 16, 137, 236, 391, 380, 119, 8, 221, 553, 262, 488 ( dnf 3, 315, 343, 172 ) Grand National: 137, 221, 1, 3, 391, 290, 527, 236, 262, 553, 315, 8, 119, 39, 488, 172 LeeK (39) started the Grand National from a lap handicap. The points scored were: Name .. Points fast track (527) .. 33 Tom D (1) .. 31 LeeK (39) .. 30 MoR (137) .. 28 Dazza (290) .. 27 Corny (391) .. 22 JK (16) .. 21 Spike (221) .. 16 DanSkin (236) .. 15 Harmen (262) .. 11 Johno (3) .. 11 Mike (315) .. 7 davey boy (380) .. 6 Tosh (8) .. 6 Shawty (119) .. 4 spikejnr (172) .. 3 Aub (188) .. 2 Lars (553) .. 2 Zero: numbnut grogan (343) , Dave (488) This meeting also saw a round of the Thursday Night Thunder Series. The results were: Thursday Night Thunder Race 1: 290, 315, 1, 39, 3, 137, 391, 527, 488, 262, 119, 236, 553, 8 ( dnf 172, 221 ) Thursday Night Thunder Race 2: 8, 315, 391, 1, 137, 3, 290, 488, 236, 553, 39, 221, 527, 119 ( dnf 172 ) The points scored were: Name .. Points Mike (315) .. 20 Dazza (290) .. 17 Tom D (1) .. 17 Corny (391) .. 14 Johno (3) .. 13 MoR (137) .. 13 Tosh (8) .. 12 LeeK (39) .. 8 Dave (488) .. 7 fast track (527) .. 4 DanSkin (236) .. 3 Harmen (262) .. 2 Lars (553) .. 2 Zero: Shawty (119) , spikejnr (172) , Spike (221) This means that after 3 Thursday Night Thunder Series meetings the overall points table is: Name .. Points Tom D (1) .. 44 Corny (391) .. 41 Mike (315) .. 38 Tosh (8) .. 34 matthewb (413) .. 30 MoR (137) .. 29 Johno (3) .. 29 Aub (188) .. 27 LeeK (39) .. 23 Drumbstick (41) .. 20 Dazza (290) .. 17 Harmen (262) .. 17 fast track (527) .. 14 Murf (561) .. 10 spikejnr (172) .. 7 Dave (488) .. 7 DanSkin (236) .. 3 Skeet (31) .. 2 Jarry (164) .. 2 Lars (553) .. 2 Zero: Shawty (119) , Kruiz (136) , Spike (221) The points scored by white, yellow & blue grade drivers, using the multiplication system [white x 2.0, yellow x 1.5, blue x 1.0] and excluding those drivers who are in the top 2 places in the overall points chart are: Name .. Points Tosh (8) .. 34.0 LeeK (39) .. 23.0 Harmen (262) .. 17.0 spikejnr (172) .. 10.5 Dave (488) .. 7.0 Skeet (31) .. 3.0 Jarry (164) .. 3.0 DanSkin (236) .. 3.0 Zero: Shawty (119) , Kruiz (136) , Spike (221)

With 19 cars booked to race the meeting will be all-in. 2 Heats, Grand Final & Grand National. The server will then be set to night time and there will be 2 thunder races to round off the evening. Please make sure you have the latest skinpack from here.

Bookings closed. MI up shortly

Yeah no problem.

Its attached. WF_Replay.zip

A disappointing 24 cars raced with the results being: HEAT 1 (WORLD FINAL): 112, 315, 16, 413, 39, 561, 8, 188, 1, 391, 137, 31, 41, 262, 527, 87, 365, 172, 488, 531 (dnf 3, 221, 136) HEAT 2: 136, 391, 413, 39, 3, 16, 188, 137, 85, 31, 221, 365 HEAT 3: 8, 561, 41, 85, 315, 1, 527, 488, 262, 172 GRAND FINAL: 221, 188, 31, 413, 315, 391, 39, 16, 1, 8, 85, 41, 365, 262, 527, 136, 172, 488 (dnf 3, 137, 561) GN: 31, 136, 391, 188, 39, 8, 41, 413, 16, 315, 561, 85, 137, 527, 1, 221, 488, 172, 3 And the points scored were: Number .. Points 112 .. 100 315 .. 45 413 .. 44 188 .. 40 39 .. 38 16 .. 34 391 .. 34 31 .. 31 8 .. 30 221 .. 25 561 .. 21 136 .. 18 290 .. 17 41 .. 11 85 .. 6 137 .. 5 3 .. 4 527 .. 2 172 .. 1 262 .. 1 488 .. 1 Zero: 87, 365, 531 Many congratulations to TomD(112) on becoming the 2010 UKDirt F1 World Champion and to Spike(221) on his final win.

Yeah I will in 30 mins when I've done the results

27 cars booked to race tonight at Coventry with a start time of 20:30 so please be in chat by 20:25 and the meeting will be run from chat tonight. The heats are: HEAT 1 (WORLD FINAL): 1, 561, 315, 531, 391, 137, 39, 136, 262, 3, 8, 527, 16, 188, 31, 488, 87, 172, 112, 365, 413, 41, 323, 221 HEAT 2: 31, 221, 484, 39, 61, 85, 136, 365, 391, 3, 16, 188, 413, 112, 137 HEAT 3: 172, 484, 8, 61, 85, 262, 323, 488, 41, 87, 527, 531, 561, 1, 315 The grid for the WF is: ROW1: 1 .. 561 ROW2: 315 .. 531 ROW3: 391 .. 137 ROW4: 39 .. 136 ROW5: 262 .. 3 ROW6: 8 .. GAP ROW7: 527 .. 16 ROW8: 188 .. 31 ROW9: 488 .. 87 ROW10: GAP .. 172 ROW11: 112 .. 365 ROW12: 413 .. 41 ROW13: 323 .. 221 THE WINNER OF THE WORLD FINAL WILL RETIRE FROM THE MEETING. The top 14 points scorers will go straight to the grand final, the rest will race a consolation race for the remaining 8 places. The server will be set to night time after the consolation race. There will then be enough GN's for everyone. Please make sure you have the 'WF special' track installed. Get it from here and also the skinpack from here. IMPORTANT: The server word will be changed just before the meeting starts and will be given out in chat. Also due to the server playing up tonight - All races MUST go from green flag to chequered flag in order for a result to be confirmed. If any race is ended for any reason during the race, then the race will be declared null and void, and a re run will take place.

Bookings closed MI up soon.