UKGPL Season 16 - Novices and Amateurs - Race 2 - 65 mod - Watkins Glen

This will be the second championship race in the Novices and Amateurs Division, which uses the 65 mod.  Watkins is a short and fast track- to avoid problems, for this race the Novices and Amateurs will run on separate grids, see the grid lists below.  The Amateurs, as the bigger grid, will run on 3ukgpl.

Please be in IGOR UKGPL chatroom by 8:40 p.m.
(You will need to set up a channel called #ukgpl if you haven't already done so)
IGOR and Race passwords: see above

Server 3.ukgpl (and another server, to be assigned)
IP address  87.194.135.42

Race date = 23-09-2008
Track = Watkins Glen
Variant = 65F1
Damage Model = INT
Qually time = 30 minutes.
Race length = long (33 laps)

Make sure that you have enough race fuel to complete the distance!

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

Moderation:  I'm hoping to be able to moderate the whole race, thanks to Bully I should have access to the server replay.  However only incidents that are reported are certain to be looked at.  Please can all drivers be very careful at the start of the race, many of the circuits are awkward at the beginning and Watkins Glen is no exception.  The first turn is tight, and the armco on the esses tends to create multi-car pileups, allow extra room for warp on the first lap.  Don't go off the Loop on cold tyres, as you'll kick yourself.

Penalties are to be worried about after the race, with the exception of penalties for restarts.  The UKGPL rule is that you have to take a stop-and-go in the pits for each reset at the end of the lap, with the only exception being if your reset was caused by another driver.  The penalty for not taking a stop-and-go is thirty seconds.   Novice drivers will be on their own grid for this race, so any reset will have a thirty-second penalty unless another driver has collided with your car, or you carry out a stop-and-go.

Chassis assignments: Once you've begun to drive a car in the championship then you should continue with that car, there's no switching cars by track.  

Novices Grid
norbert, LondonRC, happyAl, G Poole, vosblod, Asbjeurn Tverberg, b_1_rd, Samb, dtown14, kiwi, karlisss- other novices who haven't yet registered should contact me before the start, if you were unable to race at Mosport, please use your assigned chassis

Amateurs Grid
Any driver not listed above who has already registed, plus Bernie... if you were unable to race at Mosport, please use your assigned chassis

65 Mod

These were the 65 drivers
BT7 Bonnier, Baghetti, Hulme (Bonnier drove for Walker)
BT11 Brabham Gurney Gardner Anderson Siffert (Siffert drove for Walker, Gardner and Anderson were privateers)
Lotus Clark Spence Rodriguez Mitter Russo Solana (and Maggs Hailwood Attwood Amon and Ireland for Parnell)
Ferrari Surtees Bandini Rodriguez Vaccarella Bondurant Scarfiotti
Honda Ginther Bucknum
Cooper McLaren Rindt
BRM Hill Stewart
 
The 1965 season was the last to use the controversial 1500cc formula which had begun after 1960, to the initial advantage of Ferrari.  The 1965 cars are smaller than the 1967 cars and have less torque and hence more grip.  It was claimed that they 'cornered on rails', however this allowed the Grand Prix series to retain the use of circuits which were otherwise to prove extremely dangerous.

The 1965 cars are ideal for those new to GPL as they allow the tracks to be learnt in light reliable cars, however these are also full Formula One cars, and quite fast....  Graham Hill won the '65 race from pole in his BRM P261, his pole time was 1:11.25.

David Wright's 'Legends' site http://fp.gplegends.plus.com/ has the download of the most recent 2.0.1 version (under 'details') as well as being an exceptional guide to both 1965 and 1967, for those interested in Formula One history.

Unfortunately the current 65 mod download does not have default setups.  Default setups can be downloaded from http://www.neurology-crew.com/gplserver under '65 setups'.  Though there may not yet be a setup for Mosport, the Brands Hatch default could work, perhaps with taller top gears.  Note that you will also have to add enough fuel for the race!

Thanks Nicky,

You're setup has helped me a huge amount.

I did change the brake baised as I found that I was locking up the rears quite often, apart from that (for me) it's great.

I take it that you brake with your right foot pretty much planted?

When I'd planned this division I'd wanted to set up a mixture of senior team leaders and beginners, so that each chassis had one driver who'd be a source of advice for the rest of the team.  There proved to be too many chiefs to make the concept viable, and beginners in Coopers or BT7s might be too slow compared to the rest of the field, but any help the senior drivers can give is valuable.  Perhaps something for Season 17..

If there's any other drivers still unsure about their chassis, just pm me- or post here, and I'll pm you.

I think I need KAS ...........





Kas I'm just tooooooo slow 

I think that's what Al meant Nicky, you keep your right foot planted on the gas while left foot braking.

Certainly hard to train your brain to do it, but it does work so if anyone's not tried it yet, have a go and keep practicing.

Just to confirm the structure of tonights racing:

There will be two grids, the Novices grid will have ukgpl3 to themselves at 8.45 and after they've joined there will be a second server for the Amateurs, slightly later.

It might be that we have less than a full grid,  but I will still have two separate servers, as Watkins will involve a great deal of lapping and it seems better to separate fast and Novice drivers..   

Yes, that's right- as you've already raced, and I haven't listed you on the Novices grid.

I have organised some beginners who haven't raced online before, they should join the Novices as well.

Maybe, but you've got far more race experience than the Novices Burt, which makes you an Amateur...