Kevin

With only 16 cars we will be running an all-in meeting tonight. Please be in chat for 19:55 for an 20:00 start.

My site is now completely up to date including last Thursday's meetings for all those who enjoy looking at all the stats etc. I've included all the action shots posted by Tosh & Walker so thanks guys, they really do enhance the meeting results pages. The fixtures are now correct as I made a mistake with removing the Belle Vue fixture on 6th August and all the remaining fixtures moved up a week doh! Anyway they are now correct. I must also say thanks to Johno for posting the points tables after each meeting using a spreadsheet created by LeeK (I think) so thanks to him aswell - I'm unable to update my site on a regular basis.

Just a quick reminder: If you want to play your joker tonight you must PM me before 8pm.

Just a reminder anyone wishing to play their joker should PM me before 8pm tonight.

Server .91 is set for Belle Vue

Just a reminder that anyone wishing to play their joker tonight should PM me before 8pm.

This may help you.

Attached is the replay of the final from the server. replay.zip

20:00 UK Time

This has been updated on the server.

Anyone wishing to play their joker tonight must contact me via PM on here or in chat before the heats are called.

Anyone wishing to play their joker tonight must contact me via PM on here or in chat before the heats are called.

The results from tonight's meeting are: HEAT 1: 136, 16, 137, 288, 363, 300, 3, 259, 515, 365, 2, 52 (dnf 8, 599) HEAT 2: 315, 151, 137, 500, 8, 527, 2, 112, 599, 216, 531, 488, 363 HEAT 3: 3, 315, 136, 233, 16, 112, 300, 216, 151, 488, 288, 527, 365, 188, 515 HEAT 4: 315, 8, 3, 233, 500, 531, 2, 16, 259, 363, 300, 599, 52 HEAT 5: 233, 136, 515, 137, 112, 500, 531, 151, 288, 527, 52, 216 (dnf 365, 188, 259, 488) GRAND FINAL: 233, 3, 136, 8, 112, 16, 315, 2, 363, 188, 531, 488, 259, 151, 137, 288, 515, 216, 527, 300, 365, 52, 599, 500 UK OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP: 315, 136, 137, 8, 16, 112, 233, 216, 2, 531, 259, 151, 527, 363, 288, 515, 52 (dnf 500, 488, 599, 365, 300, 3) Points scored from tonight's meeting are: Number .. Points 136 .. 59 315 .. 58 233 .. 53 8 .. 43 16 .. 38 3 .. 36 137 .. 35 112 .. 34 2 .. 18 500 .. 12 363 .. 11 216 .. 10 151 .. 9 531 .. 9 515 .. 7 288 .. 6 300 .. 5 188 .. 4 527 .. 4 259 .. 2 365 .. 1 488 .. 1 599 .. 1 52 .. 0 Congratulations to Mike (315) on becoming the UKDirt rFactor F1 2009 UK Open Champion.

OK didn't see that sorry. Will add you in now and make it 5 heats.

GOOD EVENING AND WELCOME TO SKEGNESS FOR THE EIGHTH UKDIRT F1 MEETING OF THE 2009 SEASON AND THE RUNNING OF THE UKDIRT F1 UK OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP. THE MEETING FORMAT FOR TONIGHT IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT ..... EACH DRIVER WILL RACE IN 3 HEATS. THEN THE GRAND FINAL WILL RUN AS NORMAL, HOWEVER THERE WILL BE NO GN TONIGHT. INSTEAD THERE WILL BE A RACE TO DETERMINE THE UK OPEN CHAMPION. IT WILL BE CONTESTED BY THE TOP 22 POINTS SCORERS FROM THE HEATS (FROM TONIGHT AND LAST NIGHT COMBINED) AND WILL BE A CLOSED GRID IN GRADED ORDER, HIGHEST POINT SCORER OF EACH GRADE AT THE FRONT OF THEIR GRADE AND RUN OVER 20 LAPS. AS THERE IS A LOT TO GET THROUGH TONIGHT (5 HEATS AND EFFECTIVELY 2 FINALS) THERE WILL ONLY BE 1 RESTART PER RACE AND THE 3 MINUTE RULE WILL BE ADHERED TO. IF YOU ARE NOT IN THE SERVER WHEN YOUR RACE IS CALLED, TOUGH. PLEASE BE IN CHAT AT 19:55 FOR A PROMPT 20:00 START. HEAT 1: 52, 515, 599, 300, 315, 365, 3, 8, 288, 363, 16, 137, 259, 2, 136 HEAT 2: 126, 599, 315, 488, 500, 527, 8, 151, 363, 137, 188, 216, 2, 112, 531 HEAT 3: 126, 515, 300, 488, 365, 527, 3, 151, 233, 288, 16, 188, 216, 112, 136 HEAT 4: 52, 126, 599, 300, 315, 500, 3, 8, 233, 363, 16, 188, 259, 2, 531 HEAT 5: 52, 515, 365, 488, 500, 527, 151, 233, 288, 137, 216, 259, 112, 136, 531 FINAL GRID: WHITE 52 .. 126 515 .. 599 YELLOW 300 .. 365 488 .. 500 527 .. 315 BLUE 288 .. 8 3 .. 151 363 .. 233 RED 216 .. 16 137 .. 259 S/STAR 2 .. 531 136 .. 112

Bookings now closed - MI up shortly

Of course you can race Trav no problem. Bookings will stay open until 7pm tonight.

Sorry to mess you around Mike but please cancel my booking.

Just a reminder, if anyone wants to play their shale joker tonight they MUST PM me here before 8pm or tell me in chat before the first heat is called.

All of these grade changes are detailed in the newsletter released earlier this week but I'm posting these here in case anyone missed them. Up to Superstar 112 - An incredible start to the new season for TomD as he leads the National Points chart. The first grading period saw the first ever UKDirt F1 double header at Sheffield and Belle Vue and TomD won both meeting finals and even top scored at Belle Vue. All of this points to an upgrade to superstar. 531 - Lee made a good start to the season by winning the first final at Buxton and top scoring at the meeting. This final turned out to be his one and only win during the grading period, however he managed to finish on the podium a further seven times. Up to Red 16 - An average points haul of 24.80 points per meeting means an upgrade to red for JK. He has four heat wins to his name, his only wins during the grading period, and also top scored at the Ipswich meeting. 216 - speedtech is another driver with a great average of 23.50 points per meeting; with these being achieved over only four out of the five meetings during the grading period. His shale average of 28 is far better than his tarmac average of 19. He has a heat and GN win to his name. Down to Red 290 - Dazza has struggled this season; having scored an average of 26.71 points per meeting from 21 meetings (at superstar) last season, he has only scored 11.50 points per meeting from his four appearances this season. He hasn't won a race this season and only finished on the podium once. Maybe a downgrade to red will kick-start his season. Up to Blue 151 - An impressive average of 20.40 from his yellow grade, one race win and a further five podium finishes results in an upgrade to blue. His form appears to be better on tarmac than shale which bodes well for the upcoming UK Open Championship at Skegness. 363 - Here is a driver with a massive differential between the two surfaces. He has an average points per meeting score of 23.67 on tarmac but only a mere 2.50 points per meeting on shale. His two race wins (a heat and a Grand Final) both came on tarmac. 561 - 44 points scored at Sheffield, top scoring at the meeting, from white grade resulted in an immediate upgrade to yellow. From there he scored an average of 9.33 points per meeting over his three meetings and will now support a blue roof for the next grading period. Down to Blue 3 - Despite winning two heats and having an average of 19.20 points per meeting from red grade, Johno now finds himself back down to blue grade where he had a lot of success towards the end of last season (scoring 24.80 points per meeting from five appearances). That success saw him get upgraded at the start of this season so he may find the same thing happen at the end of this next grading period. 8 - Tosh spent the vast majority of last season at red grade before dropping to blue for the final grading period, scoring an impressive 30.67 points per meeting. This meant that he started this season at red grade and by his standards has had a poor start scoring only 12.25 points per meeting. He has however won two races (a heat and a grand national). A drop to blue will help kick-start his season. 288 - Ironmac has had a disastrous start to his 2009 campaign. His only decent meeting was Ipswich where he scored 22 points, however in his other four outings he never scored more than four points at any meeting. All this means he will be starting at blue grade for the next grading period. Down to Yellow 315 - Mike has only score an average of 8.80 points per meeting from his five meetings with only three podium finishes to his name (no race wins). He is yet another driver to struggle on shale with an average of 1.50 points per meeting whereas his tarmac average is 13.67 points per meeting. 300 - Matty also seems to be struggling from his blue grade start, however his shale form is much better than his tarmac form. He's scored 10.00 points per meeting on shale and only 2.67 on tarmac. Maybe a drop to yellow grade might help him relinquish his top spot in the hardest triers chart. He has made 33 appearances, racing 129 times without winning a single race. 488 - No race wins, not even a podium finish for Dave during this grading period. Only 19 points scored from his three appearances results in a drop to yellow grade for the upcoming grading period. Down to White 11 - Five meetings into the new season and chevy has only managed to score points at one meeting (Bradford tarmac). This means he will be able to start every race from white for the next grading period. Of his 20 races he has finished in the top 10 twice (both 8th places) and in 11th place five times, each time just missing out on scoring some points. He failed to finish six races. These grades take effect from Wednesday 15th April. The grading period will finish after the Birmingham meeting on 30th April.

Hello, Here is the second issue of the UK Dirt Rfactor F1 Newsletter. Included in this months issue is the following: - This months grade changes - News on the National Series Shootout - Fixture list changes - Points Chart Updates - UK Open Championship Information - NEW!! Rfactor F1 Dirt Bites (Hopefully a little bit of light hearted fun from last months racing - can be removed in the next issue if you dont like it) Johno is away for a couple of days, but he does know that some poeple will not be able to read the newsletter if they are not a member of the forum, yet may still be keen to know all the goings on in UK Dirt F1. Well he will upload it to the wesbite on his return on Thursday. We hope that you like this issue, as a further 6 more are planned for this year. Cheers Rfactor F1 Admin Team Newsletter_issue_2.pdf

Attached are heats 1 & 3. heat1_3.zip

If nobody else replies I will get them from the server later this evening for you (it won't be until around 8pm though).

Race Results: HEAT 1: 363, 151, 527, 16, 137, 500, 136, 531, 112, 3, 216, 315, 561 (dnf 288) HEAT 2: 16, 136, 531, 137, 216, 112, 365, 11, 561, 221, 126, 599, 52 (dnf 300) HEAT 3: 365, 151, 3, 363, 288, 300, 599, 11, 500, 527, 126, 315, 221, 52 GRAND FINAL: 136, 112, 531, 527, 216, 315, 137, 363, 561, 151, 11, 599, 3, 16, 300, 288, 52, 221, 126 (dnf 500, 365) GN: 216, 527, 531, 112, 3, 137, 16, 136, 500, 151, 599, 288, 561, 363, 300, 315, 221, 126, 152 (dnf 11) Points Scored: Number .. Points 136 .. 42 531 .. 34 527 .. 33 112 .. 32 216 .. 30 137 .. 25 363 .. 21 151 .. 20 16 .. 18 3 .. 14 315 .. 12 365 .. 10 500 .. 7 561 .. 7 288 .. 4 300 .. 3 11 .. 2 599 .. 2 221 .. 1 Zeros: 52, 126

GOOD EVENING AND WELCOME TO BRADFORD FOR THE FIFTH UKDIRT F1 MEETING OF THE 2009 SEASON. THE MEETING FORMAT FOR TONIGHT IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT ..... EACH DRIVER WILL RACE IN 2 HEATS BASED ON THEIR POINTS AVERAGE NOT AN EVEN SPLIT OF GRADES AS NORMAL. THE GRAND FINAL AND GN WILL BE ALL IN AND THE MEETING WILL BE RUN FROM WITHIN THE SERVER SO NO NEED TO COME BACK TO CHAT AFTER EACH RACE. YOU STILL NEED TO LINE UP IN YOUR CORRECT GRADE FOR THE HEATS AND KEEP THE NORMAL GRADE GAPS. HEAT 1: 112, 531, 136, 16, 137, 561, 216, 3, 151, 363, 500, 527, 315, 288, 188 (STEWARD 149) SERVER .91 HEAT 2: 112, 531, 136, 16, 137, 561, 216, 300, 599, 365, 126, 221, 11, 52 (STEWARD 149) SERVER .91 HEAT 3: 3, 151, 363, 500, 527, 315, 288, 188, 300, 599, 365, 126, 221, 11, 52 (STEWARD 149) SERVER .91 Good luck everyone.