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Season 13 Review – British Racing League – Elite Tier

This was a season of change. EJ Technical Motorsport (EJTM) were victorious again in the drivers Championship, but would lose the constructors to Nomura Lyons Mercedes (NLM). This season also showed that having a good driver isn't enough to win in this league anymore, you will need a good car too.

Australia
Novak took pole for Comic Racers (CR) & 1 second covered the top 10. The top 27 were covered by just 1.9 seconds. Novak led away & by half distance he had a 17 second lead & looked as if he would win easily. Juhno from Reidj Scuderia (RS) & Zerdzinski from EJTM had other ideas & after what appeared to be the final stops, Novak's lead had been reduced to 6.4 seconds with Juhno 2nd & Zerdzinski a further 4.4 behind.

There would be a twist in the tail here, with Novak's team manager realising that he might have to stop again for fuel & at the same point RS brought their drivers in for a splash & dash, dropping Juhno to 3rd. Novak was instructed to back right off in an attempt to make the finish & this allowed Zerdzinski to close on the leader & they were separated by just 1.2 seconds as they started the final lap. Both set their fastest laps of the race on the final lap & Novak managed to hold on.

Scuderia Keijmel (SK) had not managed to score in the last 2 seasons, but here managed a fine 4th place with Holm & 7th for T Klein. Lemon GP had their only points of the season here with Mookjai finishing 8th.

Malaysia
King was on pole for NLM, who's team manager had missed the opening round with technical issues. The 1st 9 were covered by 1 second & the entire grid by 2.6 seconds. King led away until he stopped at the end of lap 8. There were a mixture of 3 & 4 stops here, which on adjusted time had King leading until his 3rd stop at the end of lap 32. He would emerge from the pits in 4th & would stay there until the end.


At halfway, Juhno led by 6 seconds to Chan (RS), then 5.6 to King, 1.0 Smetowski for RJR & 1.4 to Zerdzinski. As they finished their last round of stops, it could not have been closer at the front: Zerdzinski 0.2 Juhno 1.2 Smetowski. These 3 would spend the final 9 laps locked together, never more than 2.2 seconds covering them. Juhno was 0.2 behind Zerdzinski, then it was 0.8, 0.8 again, 0.7, 0.7 again. Juhno looked as if he could pass at any moment. The gap was then 0.2, 0.5, 0.5 & then with 2 laps to go, Juhno set his fastest lap of the race to close to just 0.2 again. Zerdzinski somehow held on & was 1.7 in front at the flag, with Smetowski just 0.5 behind Juhno. A sensational finish.


China
This was a somewhat uneventful affair after the excitement of the opening 2 races. Onishi was on pole for NLM, with 1 second covering the top 14 & just 2.2 covering the entire grid.

When Smetowski stopped for the 1st time, he was already in the lead & would run unchallenged to the flag; winning by 13 seconds. Zerdzinski was a fine 2nd after qualifying only 16th & Onishi was a further 3 seconds back.

Bahrain
Novak took pole, the top 18 were covered by 1 second & the whole grid by 2 seconds. Novak led away & spent much of the race battling with Onishi. As they finished their final stops Novak trailed by 1.1 seconds. It would be another close finish though & the gap started to come down. 1.1, 1.1, 0.9, 0.5. Novak gave it everything, but Onishi was too fast & had 1.1 seconds at the flag, making it 4 races & 4 different winners. King finished 3rd & this gave NLM the lead in the teams championship with 85 points, EJTM were 2nd with 71, then RJR 68, CR 59 & RS 57.

In the drivers title, Zerdzinski had 71, Smetowski 60, Onishi 50, Novak 49 & Juhno 45.

Spain
Castro took pole for RJR, with the top 10 covered by 1 second & the whole grid by 2.1 seconds. Castro led until his 1st stop at the end of lap 6, but would fade & managed only 14th place. Onishi took over the lead & would hold it until the flag winning by 7.5 seconds. Zerdzinski was 3rd after his final stop, behind King, but he was out of kers & Zerdzinski used his to speed passed. He could do nothing about Onishi though & with NLM getting another 1 3 finish it seemed that they were going to mount a serious challenge for the teams prize.

Monaco
Invictus Competition (IC) locked out the front row with Todorov on pole. 1 second covered the top 23 & 2.1 the entire grid. King led after the 1st round of stops, from Castro, Todorov, Smetowski & Mustonen (IC). The IC boys would fade from here sadly, Todorov finishing 8th & Mustonen out of the points.

The order at half way was King, Smetowski, Castro, Ronis for Zero Wing (ZW) & Zerdzinski 12 seconds behind. King looked very impressive at the front, extending his lead & made it look easy. Zerdzinski finished 3.4 seconds behind, but King had backed off long ago; Smetowski finished 3rd.

Turkey
Mustonen took pole & the top 13 were covered by 1 second. King was quickly at the front again & it took just 9 laps for NLM to have 2nd place too. They then drove away from the field having a 9 second advantage before long. Todorov & Zerdzinski battled over 3rd for much of the race, with Zerdzinski managing to pass with 10 laps to go. NLM looked nailed on, but surprisingly had miscalculated their fuel & stopped on the final lap for a splash & dash. Zerdzinski was promoted to 1st & Todorov to 2nd, his best finish of the season. King was 3rd, Onishi 4th but despite this mistake, NLM seemed to have 1 hand on the teams trophy.

The situation looked like this: NLM 189, EJTM 132, RJR 93, RS 83 & CR on 65.
In the drivers title: Zerdzinski 132, Onishi 99, King 90, Smetowski 75 & Juhno 69.

GB
Some say, we don't get Summer in GB, just slightly warmer rain & this caught out about half the field, who had qualified with dry settings. Zerdzinski took the wet pole with 1 second covering just the top 10. Onishi from 2nd was quickly passed but he & King pitted early at the end of lap 7. Todorov who qualified 3rd was determined to stay with Zerdzinski however & managed to pass on lap 18.

The order remained until lap 27 when the rain stopped & shortly after Zerdzinski got back into the lead & began to drive away. The gap back to Todorov was 1 second, then 2.5, then 6.1, 9.6 & 14.9. Todorov pitted for inters on lap 35, but this was a mistake, as others were proving by running slicks. He pitted again shortly after & disappointingly finished only 5th.

NLM had been the 1st to stop for dry tyres on lap 28, with many watching the lap times for an improvement. But it did not come & they circulated about a second slower than they had on the full wets. Indeed several stopped shortly after & were unable to improve on their full wet times. Zerdzinski was lucky here; he had to stop for fuel at the end of lap 36 & decided to give the slicks a go. He had been doing 1 minute 23's & 24's on the full wets & was immediately into the 21's & 20's. Ali from Speedvision moved into 2nd, but could not match Zerdzinskis times & would finish 3rd. Zerdzinski took the win with 23 seconds back to King, who had been 15th during the rain; one of the drives of the season.

Germany
Smetowski was on pole, 1 second covered the top 12 & the whole grid was close again, covered by just 2.4 seconds. After the 1st round of stops, Smetowski led from Onishi, King, Zerdzinski & Castro. Smetowski led until his final stop, but could only manage 4th. Zerdzinski went on to finish 3rd but the story here was about the performance of the NLM pair. The gap was only 13 seconds at the flag, but this 1 2 gave them a significant lead at the top of the teams title & it appeared that no-one had an answer to their speed.

At the half way point in the season the points looked like this:

Teams: NLM 258, EJTM 178, RJR 105, RS 85 & CR 83.
Drivers: Zerdzinski 172, Onishi 132, King 126, Smetowski 87, Juhno 71.

Hungary
Zerdzinski was on pole here, with the top 12 covered by 1 second. This race would be a battle of strategy between Juhno & Zerdzinski, 3 stops versus 4.

Zerdzinski led until his 1st stop on lap 14. Juhno went passed & pitted 4 laps later. Zerdzinski retook the lead until his next stop, when Juhno went passed again. After their final stops, Zerdzinski led by just 0.9 seconds & this would be another thriller. They were never more than 2.5 seconds apart, but Zerdzinski just had the speed to keep Juhno from being close enough to use DRS & this allowed Zerdzinski to take the victory. The gap at the flag was just 1.9 seconds. Chan was 3rd 18 seconds back & Holm for SK finished well again, taking a fine 4th from 20th on the grid.

Europe
Onishi was on pole & just the top 8 were covered by 1 second. These 8 would circulate together initially & after the 1st round of pit stops, they were covered by just 2.8 seconds. The leading 3 then started to pull away; Onishi, King & then Zerdzinski & it was not long before they had a substantial lead. Castro who finished 4th, was 40 seconds behind at the finish.

Onishi & King had around 5 seconds on Zerdzinski for much of the race, but after the final stops he used up his Kers & went passed King. On the next lap he was just 0.8 behind Onishi, but that was as near as he would get & Onishi took the win.

Belgium
Onishi was on pole again here, with just the top 8 covered by 1 second. After the 1st round of stops the order was Smetowski 2.2 Onishi 4.2 Castro 0.1 King 1.7 Zerdzinski. This would be another race of differing strategy, with Smetowski choosing to make 5 stops, whilst the majority of the others were doing just 4. Against the odds, Smetowski was making his strategy work & led for much of the race & even managed to be ahead after his final stop. King was 2nd, Onishi 3rd & Onishi got by with a couple of laps remaining but neither of them could mount a challenge. Smetowski's 5 stop win had to be the drive of the season.

Italy
It was raining here, but that didn't stop 3 of the top teams from qualifying with dry settings. EJTM, NLM & RJR, would all pit at the end of the 1st lap. Juhno took pole for RS, only the top 5 being covered by 1 second.

We had a few races this season which were not just won, but where the winner was annihilating the opposition. This would be the case here, as Juhno, on a 3 stop strategy, led all the way on adjusted time. He was only 7 seconds in front of Ali for Speedvision at the end, but he was managing the gap & took a sublime victory. This was Speedvision's best result of the season, with Cavallero finishing 3rd. Asrai GP (AGP) had their best result of the season here too with Mogul finishing a brilliant 4th. Having been so far behind RJR had a superb race, finishing 9th & 10th, but it was Zerdzinski again who produced a seemingly impossible drive to finish 5th.

With NLM failing to score twice in the last 4 races, you might think that the teams title would be close, but you would be wrong dear reader. When they were scoring, they were scoring heavily & the position looked like this:

Teams: NLM 331, EJTM 257, RJR 175, RS 151 & CR 98.
Drivers: Zerdzinski 237, Onishi 172, King 159, Smetowski 131 & Juhno 116.

Singapore
There would be more annihilation here. King took pole & just the 1st 9 were covered by 1 second. King led every lap bar 4 & Onishi was right behind him. The rest of the field were led by Zerdzinski who managed 3rd, some 17 seconds back. ZW had their best result of the season here with 4th & 5th but they were 45 seconds adrift.

NLM had speed which could not be matched & after 13 consecutive seasons EJTM were going to lose the teams championship to NLM. Zerdzinski's 4th drivers title would be little reward.

Japan
NLM locked out the front row, with Onishi on pole again, his 4th of the season. Just the top 6 were covered by 1 second. After the 1st stops Juhno had passed both the NLM cars, with the order Juhno, Onishi, King, Zerdzinski & Chan. At half distance Juhno still had the lead, 2.4 Onishi 0.4 King 1.2 Chan 1.1 Zerdzinski. Juhno continued to lead & whilst he was only a couple of seconds in front, no-one could make any impression & Juhno took his 2nd win in 3 races. Zerdzinski passed Chan & King at the end to finish 3rd & took his 4th Drivers Title.

Onishi held onto 2nd & with it Nomura Lyons Mercedes took the Team Championship.

Brazil
Onishi took pole again, with the top 10 covered by 1 second. With the title races over, some were experimenting with their strategy whilst others were looking to rack up some victories. Smetowski took the lead on lap 14 & had things nicely under control taking a relatively straightforward win. Zerdzinski managed to close the gap to 2.6 seconds at the end taking 2nd & Juhno continued his excellent end of season form with 3rd.

Abu Dhabi
Juhno took pole & 1 second covered the top 12. Once again some were trying different strategies, but with their depth of experience RS did not need to & took a superb 1 2 some 14 seconds ahead of Zerdzinski in 3rd.

The championships looked like this:

Teams: NLM 426, EJTM 338, RS 260, RJR 218, ZW 123, CR 107.
Drivers: Zerdzinski 300, Onishi 220, King 206, Juhno 189, Smetowski 158.

So, David L had taken just his 3rd championship, but showed that it was quality & not quantity. Zerdzinski from EJTM was still the best driver, but since his training had now been completed, the others were closing the gap. Reidj showed his expertise at the end of the season & hoped to be around for more of the races next season. Richard had taken 3 victories & looked certain to mount a greater challenge. The same could be said of Guilherme who had scored points in all of the last 7 rounds of the season & also of Ben who won the opener so convincingly. Fernando had the expertise to stand on the top step as did David J, who hoped to be around more often. As for the others, well, the general level of performance had gone up considerably & it looked as if someone scoring points would be relegated next season. We were sorry to lose Jos & Andrew to Pro & welcome Adam & Ben.

This league is now 2nd in 100% races by average ranking points & is probably the most compeitive.

Edwin Smith

This will lead us to a double win!

We have 4 spaces in Pro & 1 in Rookie

Nomura Lyons Mercede's Team Analysis for Season 13

EJ Technical Motorsport
With only one car running for glory, we have a safe bet that we can hold the championship much of the season, it wasn't until Monaco we started to show after we deployed an upgraded car, and which at that point, we continued to make regular wins, nearly every race, towards the the last few races where we focused on just scoring suffcient points and not going over fueling and trouble. One thing we noticed here is Edwin does not use his Strategical Options to their full potiential which is what we exploited to steal wins from other teams who were doing similar.

Reidj Scuderia
Lack of attendance from Reidji Free made his team less efficient in the season, allowing NLM and EJTM to push up the ranks through the season. Their first win came from a very unusual Italian GP with the Top three teams of the season currently having technical issues with their cars, which allowed him to score a win. When he attended, his performance changed and went on to win two more times in the final three races. Ideally, he needs to attend more to succeed, otherwise he's a filler.

R J R
From each of his starting races, he is able to be a competition on the track with both cars. He doesn't take well into consideration of how to balance both his drivers on the track and solely concentrating on one driver (Smet) ruined his title run long before it started. Towards the end he lets go of his strategy and rethinks his strategy when he cannot anticipate the final stint link up, less decision changes could of given him a few more wins and possibly take third or fourth. On the track he hasn't mastered ordering his driver's pushing levels, so many times while he had no kers, that he could still outrun the DRS Straight.

Zero Wing
This team was playing simply midfield skill and strategy, like Edwin, he wasn't playing full strategy and considered not managing pushing levels, outside of Tire Temperature. Otherwise soon he'll be a challenger if he believes more in his ability to manage his strategy. Consider building a calculator? Richard Too.

Comic Racers
Ben our beloved League owner mis-balances his car at the start of the season, he throws everything into the first race and in the next, he slumps away. His poor Fuel management in season 13 has broken his first race lead in the points and continued to decline throughout the rest of the season. He can win more, only manages his strategy.

INVICTUS Competition
Fernando has two common issues, that is Tire management and stint management. Simply his strategy is rather erratic and puts him outside of the points often enough to knock at the bottem of the tophalf of the league.

Sparks McLaren GP
Mark's lack of strategy planning in setup and car design leaves him outside of the competition regularly his only point assured him to stay in the league for one more season. Also he has been offered hel to boost his position to a regular point runner but has not replied on the request. This offer has disappeared. Simply, he doesn't plan or take oppotunities, if he did, he would get a few podiums, maybe a win, most probably in Monza.

We still have 4 places in Pro

A filler who did well enough:
- to beat you in season 12 and finish 2nd in championship standings
- and still managed to finish 3rd in season 13.
It's really funny to read your reviews David.
I hope you will bless us with another one like this at the end of the next season and please can you include yourself too, I would really like to read what you think of yourself.

I could post a meme of a crying person for your lack of ability to take critism mate, I rather held back and could of said, go join a league that is more time suited for you, but instead I rather have you here so I can race the best? Ungrateful.

This thread is a public advert for the league, don't squabble on it!

What an absolute crock of shit. If thats your opinion of other players then fine but have more sense than to go making it public & showing the rest of the managers on this game that you have your head firmly stuck up your arse.

Was David's post meant to be taken seriously??!
#bangs head on table#
I think most of us saw it as fun until you start slagging each other off.

As I have said before - I suppose it is good that players are taking this all so seriously,  but try to find the fun element as well guys.
+1 Richard.

Use the PM if you want to rant.

Put it this way, I'm certain if David says that that post was tongue in cheek then he'd definitely fail a lie detector test.

Hopefully that came across nicer.

er.....we still have 4 places in Pro, if anyone would consider joining after this regrettable incident

You hit the nail on the head, it was slagging off and a lil bit of critism. Reidj just seems to hate when I type anything most of the time. :')

Sorry about that forumers, I offered to do this and some people, said yes, nobody said no. Then it came down to one individual who didn't like what was said and began a flame war. I was actually going to forget about it, but then I got asked by 3 people in the elite series if I was still going to do it. So I though, yeah okay, I won't be harsh on people on it, but one, (maybe more got a lil too overworked over this, thankfully they have the ability to bite their tongue.) went on a rage and started the flamewar. At the end of the day, it's all fun, some people may get bothered by what is said, but it's another thing to start a fight. Shall we cool it down? :)

And Chris don't confuse someone's ego over someone else's envy. I don't know why you are getting yourself involved in here, and all you are doing is adding fuel to the fire. So if you could do us a favour, and show a bit of dignity for once as you already have done yourself enough favours already. Learn to stay out of our business? If you are going to get involved, stay at an observers point, read and learn Jake's post, and mate, It would be a good idea if you toned it down, you've really upset alot of people and I hate to bring this mate, but you're becoming the community's runt.

Let me be serious here instead of just trying to wind you up.

First of all, im not your "mate". Secondly, this is a public forum. You're suggesting that only people from this league are allowed to look in this thread. Kinda backfires against the whole point of this league being in the advertisement part of the forum, doesn't it? The idea of a review could be pretty cool (like Edwin's one, not your drivel) if there was a new part of the forum created, but to be pedantic, this is for advertising your league. You don't realise how patronising your comments were, you come across as a teacher talking to the players mums and dads at a parents evening. I'll start a new thread somewhere where i'll share my opinions on a few managers on here. It'll only be a bit of fun but I won't shy away from being very critical. Guess who i'll be most critical of? I trust that you would take my comments in a light hearted way, right?

If you're that concerned with trying to get them to improve their skills then why don't you try talking to them in game chat during the race? Maybe send them a PM? Writing your "report" is a public place which essentially is full of sheer arrogance is just embarrasing. I see you like to take this game very seriously in the way that you actually design a livery from elsewhere for your car, you have a sponsor in your team name, which is all good and well but cut out the insulting crap will you? Contradictary I know but the shite I post here is deliberate and often aimed to wind others up (mainly you) but your stuff seems proper genuine.

Finally who are these people i'm upsetting? Unless they're still pre-school sorta age then I'm pretty sure they're grown up enough to take what I say on the chin, like tbh you seem to have done alot lately. I see your "partner" is leaving the game at the end of your current season because of "harrasment". Whats this all about? Is this based on the stuff that I say to YOU?

Quite a shame really because the other people in your league seem like nice people, whereas you, "mate", are... different.

I wish there was  betting for this kind of thing can see this happening a long time ago! lol

It's what he does in his free time. We shouldn't judge.

Dont you understand David you have taken his bate.............. But what id like to say he has an opnion so you cant dismiss him. Gotta be honest and say I find some of your post to be quite stupid.