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SEASON 31 Professionals Trophy (65) : Round 4  ENNA
Enna-Pergusa is a track located in the center of the sunny Sicily near the city of Enna and around lake of Pergusa.
From 1962 to 1965, four Formula 1 Grand Prix occurred but not counting for the championship.
Winners were Lorenzo Bandini, John Surtees and two times Jo Siffert. 
This is a short fast track.
 Please take care when exiting the pits & be courteous when overtaking.

Check the Season 31 details (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=587&theme=6) regarding rules and the Pros (65) Trophy pages (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=590&theme=6) in particular.

Please restrict chat to emergency messages only, including at the end of the race until ALL drivers still racing have crossed the line.

Password: see above
(2) Driver lists can be found on the championship standings page

Race list	iGOR
Server	UKGPL_8
IP address	look at IGOR
Date	21-03-2017
Track	Link (http://srmz.net/index.php?showtopic=7533)
Mod	65 with 60fpsV2newmod
Damage	PRO
Race time	Race starts at 21:30 UK time
Qualifying	~45 minutes, starting ~ 20:45 UK time
Race length	36 laps
Replay	get here (ftp://ukgpl3.dyndns.org/replays/Archive/Season31/Pros/)

Handicapping
- Still free chassis choice for this 4th race, EXCEPT for EvilClive and Robert Fleurke who should not use Lotus 33 / Brabham BT11.
- NO Reset / SHIFT-R  allowed. (Damage mod PRO)

Not sure at 100% but seem that my 65mod don't properly work with 60fps new.If i apply the 60fps,after the first lap the brake stop to work or work weakly,without(36fps) all is ok.This could explain my problem at Stardust when,sometime,the brake entered into operation without touching the pedal.Until now i don't know if the problem is random or not.At Enna the only use of the brake is if there are incident but could be evenly a problem.

That's a strange problem Fran, I have no clue, maybe ask for help at SMRZ!? There are some knowledgable guys like the answer man.  ;)

Thank you Robert,i will follow your suggestion.

REMEMBER for tonight

free chassis choice for this 4th race, EXCEPT for EvilClive and Robert Fleurke who should not use Lotus 33 / Brabham BT11.

GPL crashed when joining the race  ??? Adds to my monitor shutdown problem I did encounter since last week...have a good one ;)

That's a real shame, as I had a very lonely "race" again...

I never seem to have pace here. How you guys were running in the 13's is beyond me, I need a tow to get into the 14's!
From 7th on the grid I aimed to keep the tow & get dragged along until we saw the chequered flag. Everyone was tucking in, making moves, passing, challenging, making mistakes but avoiding major offs or contacts.

I have no idea what position I was in most of the time but I had a great time with Doni, CLive & Dean, thanks guys :)
I made one small error when I got startled finding Dean up the inside in a corner which put me into the barrier which slightly damaged my left front suspension.
Later in the final corner, Clive drifted into the barrier as I was close behind & when he came back to track we touched & he spun around. If he had not gone off, we would have come out of the corner with me tucked up under his gearbox for the run down the s/f straight. Sorry about that Clive. I couldn't leave more room under the circumstances.

I tried to chase Doni down. Managed once to even pass him but the speed of the Ferrari re-passed me soon afterwards & although I kept trying I couldn't get into position before suddenly we saw the flag.
Great racing guys, grats Axel, commiserations Robert.
Thanks admins, cu at Road America (is this a change from the original Road Ontario?)

It bums me out to learn that Robert never even got to enjoy his splendid pole position start.  Atrocious luck, Rob.  I knew something was wrong early on as I could only see dark coloured cars ahead of me.  Where was the white Honda?  For sure, Clive was there, big as life in my mirrors for a time but where was the other one?  :(

Axel really put his stamp on this one!  Grats, Cookie!

With Rob a no-show, Tristan was surely to take up the challenge but it soon became apparent that Cookie was in great form with the BRM singing along at a great old rate.  Tristan seemed to have P2 pretty much secured but a lurid slide pruned a corner off quite early on and that was that.  Bad luck, TB.

For me, good fun in a real nail-biter right to the end.  A pretty reasonable result having erased to some degree my mediocre performance at Riverside.

Early duels with Clive and Dean were pretty tense with exchanges of positions coming from minor gaffes from all concerned opening the door for pursuers.  Lap09 had me holding my breath and wide-eyed as I turned in to T1 only to find Dean's LF corner taking up my bit of road.  Scary stuff for a moment and Dean only narrowly avoided going for a swim.  :)  Clive got a really up close and personal look at the whole deal.  All three of us could have been done on the spot but it was not our time.

Later, Dean spun off crippling his efforts and Clive suffered a blown engine.  This left me alone in a good P2 but I could faintly hear a 32-valve Climax V-8 not far off my right shoulder.  This was Roo doing his best to spoil my day.  For many a lap, the gap was sustained and on some tours, I lost his engine note altogether.  PHEW!  Am I homefree?  Nope...  A few spotty laps getting the Ferrari just a little too bit sideways scrubbed off speed and again, I could hear the Climax mill.  And it's getting louder.

With just a handful of laps to go, Roo was most definitely catching a tow and the battle was joined.  A pass and re-pass swap ensued on Lap35 and it would all be down to a turn of the cards for the last lap.  Roo lead at the S/F line with me right on his tail.  I was running a tallish 4th gear which allowed me to carry more rpm to start the lap and I managed to slip by on the right for T1.  Roo was very gentlemanly and did not make an attempt to cover low.  I only just managed to hold the place in time for Curveone.  In the run up to Zagaria, Roo was certainly making inroads on my tenuous lead but just fell short of getting into position to challenge.  Changing down to 4th for that curve, I was able to hold it over to the Curva del Cancello.  This made the difference as I was able to lead into, through and out of this treacherous corner and prevail at the line by a mere tenth.  Great drive, Roo!

It wasn't lost on me in viewing the replay cap that my old ami, Phiiippe was having a fine run and probably would have finished P4 except for a late-race spin.  Good job, PG!

Grats Axel, well done Doni and Roo! :)

I don't think my problem was related to my other problem, this time screens went black while joining and after a while back to desktop it said gpl crashed. Still having the odd monitor signal loss while racing. Not sure if it's GPU/CPU temps either display port adapter (enabling me to run 3 monitors)...have taken PC apart two times cleaning and recabling, and will put in a new fan...might have to go back to DVI-DVI single screen if the problem keeps on coming.  :-\

Sorry guys for not been able to finish this one.

A technician from the phone company arrive to fix my phone line.

I asked them to come in the morning, but they always do whatever they want.

Too many distractions around here at 15:00 hrs México.  :-[

Grats to Cookie Doni and Roo!

Cheers to all. See you next event.  :)

Moderation posted.