UKGPL Season 15 - Historic Division - Race 8 - 66 mod - Watkins Glen




UKGPL Season 15 - Historic Division - Race 8 is this Tuesday at 9:00 p.m. London UK time (8:00 p.m. GMT).

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Race date = 08-07-2008
Track = Watkins Glen
Variant = 66mod
Damage Model = Intermediate
Qually time = 35 minutes



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(2) Driver lists can be found on the championship standings page


Chassis assignments:

Mclaren M2B Ford	Hristo Itchov, Lorenzo Galuzzi
T1F Eagle Climax	Neil Stratton
Lotus 33 BRM	Mike Beattie, Oliver Rakonjac
T1G Eagle Weslake	David Bryant, Remy Roesz
BRM P83	John Roberts
Ferrari 246	Ken Murray, Paul Skingley
Lotus 43 BRM	Syd Drake, Clive Loynes
Brabham BT11 BRM	Clive Gardner, Kruger Enge
BRM P261	Derek Howe
Honda RA273	Chris Bull, Amir Kamal
Cooper T81	Artur le Marquand, Robert Burton
Brabham BT19	Phil Thornton, Tim Robey
Ferrari 312	Terry Worth, Bernie Darwin

And while your at it lets have a 30 deg banking on the S's 

hrummph!!  ruddy barge pilots, always moaning and getting in the way on the interesting bits...then they bugger off on the boring straight stuff.

Just leave about 200mm + kerb on the inside of the bends, and we will slip through so cleanly and quietly, that you will never know we were there snigger! snigger! Well maybe not so quietly, after all we will have the engines revving at warp factor 8.

But surely, hard wooden wheels won't give any increase in grip for the "barge" class??? but then, I suppose they wont give any less grip either

this is gonna suck being in same car all season, no wonder theres "advantage" for other drivers, I cant even get below 1:10 and i tried 2-3 setups and cant find anymore to get. Im at least 3secs quicker in a BT19

Dont talk about Burt like that clive you know he gets easily upset 

Started off wonderfuly with a pole, which came after following Paul and Syd for three laps.

Started off nicely and kept my position through the esses but stood little chance on the straight. Lorenzo passed and he was then the only thing that kept Paul from charging from behind.

Then I lost a bit control at the loop but managed to recover. Being wide there, Paul took the inside and carried that line to the straight however, Lorenzo stayed on the left and gave me a tow and pulled Clive and my self through, leaving Paul helpless.

Clive then relieved a bit of pressure that I had from Paul so I was trying to find where I can dive on Lorenzo. Being so close through the speedtrap, I had a go at Big Bend, going down the inside. I downshifted awkwardly and at one moment lost all revs and lost control completely, just getting in the way of Lorenzo who had to slow down and give his positions to Clive and Paul (sry Lorenzo).

I then Shift Rd as I got funnily beached when trying to rejoin and made a Stop so was after Syd, Phil and Clive. I was getting closer but then made a stupid mistake at the loop and requiring another Shift R, it didn't feel like fun anymore.

It was a great race at the beginning, shame to have missed the better part of it.

Grats podium.

Kruger

Ma damn engine exploded on rundown towards loop on lap 2. After that I drove with a bit of anger, and even got a fastest lap. I got up through the field to third in the end, but I could have been fighting for the win. And to make matters worse, now comes Mexico where I was way off pace last time we ran 66 cars there.