Author: Doug

Bayfords Tour of Japan – Round 4/5 Fuji

Posted on December 10, 2020 by Doug

We only had 10 drivers for the penultimate round with regular front runners Loui and Ant not able to make it. This made it a straight fight between Jono and Graham. Graham took the pole but Jono took the win and the points. For me, it was a race to forget and a valuable lesson learned.
This is a quick section….. foolishly assuming I knew this track I spent all week preparing for a race on ACC around Barcelona. I didn’t know it half as well as I thought I did, paying a heavy price and qualifying 7th behind my championship rival Dan.

Bayfords Tour of Japan – Round 3/5 Tokyo

Posted on December 4, 2020December 4, 2020 by Doug

Round 3 of the championship saw us visit the streets of Tokyo for a night race on the longest track

ESR ACC League – Round 2/5 Mount Panorama

Posted on December 2, 2020December 2, 2020 by Doug

After really enjoying the race at Kyalami I was really excited about racing at Mount Panorama which has always been

ESR ACC League – Round 1/5 Kyalami

Posted on November 27, 2020November 27, 2020 by Doug

Season 2 of the ESR ACC league would be 5 rounds with the first at South Africas Kyalami. A track I’d not driven on at all so not only would I have to learn it, I’d have to be quick too otherwise I’d be in for a dull 50 minutes of pootling around at the back.

Bayfords Tour of Japan – Round 2/5 Autopolis

Posted on November 25, 2020 by Doug

After a bug in the GTSport servers prevented us from racing on the 17th, all 12 drivers reconvened on the 24th for the 30 minute race at Autopolis – round 2 out of 5 in our tour of Japan. Like last time we’d be driving the group 3 Porsche 911 RSR with an open tire choice and a minimum of one pitstop.

Bayfords Tour of Japan – Round 1/5 Yamagiwa

Posted on November 14, 2020November 25, 2020 by Doug

With another lockdown in the UK I decided to run another championship on GT Sport. I drummed up some support

Eldar Sim Racing 1hr Endurance League – Round 8 Autopolis

Posted on November 5, 2020November 6, 2020 by Doug

This was the last round of the series and not a race I was looking forward to. Prep Autopolis has

Bayford Meadows Lockdown Porsche Cup

Posted on November 2, 2020November 2, 2020 by Doug

During the first lockdown, a few of regular Bayford Meadows SuperPro drivers organising some regular racing online using Gran Turismo

Cheap Karting Telemetry!

Posted on November 1, 2020November 14, 2020 by Doug

So…. you can collect your own Karting telemetry on the cheap but you can’t do it for free. In order to get it to work reliably and with consistent data you’ll have to buy a few bits and pieces…. here’s how I do it. This follows on from an article I wrote months ago (First steps in data) but has more info on how I’m actually collecting the data.

Bayford Meadows Winter Cup Rd 1

Posted on October 29, 2020October 31, 2020 by Doug

Under grey skies and the threat of rain, Saturday the 24th October saw the start of the Bayford Meadows SuperPro Winter Cup – a 6 round championship with the best 5 rounds counting. On the day, there were 26 drivers taking part across 3 classes – I was in the <75kg class with 9 other drivers. A meeting where I recorded my first win in a SuperPro race meeting. After taking the lead, I spent the 2nd half of the race concentrating on not throwing the win away and was so happy to finally see the checkered flag after what seemed like an eternity!