UKGPL Season 16 - Inter-League race - Watkins Glen

This is the third race in our Inter-League season, and will use the 66 mod.  Our guests will be the Anglo-German league GPLRacer, though since the race will be on the GPLRacer server, we are as much their guests!  Since CET is +2GMT, this race will begin one hour earlier than the previous race.  Each club is to field nine cars, and there are no chassis handicaps, drivers will be racing to complete the distance and score points for their team.  GPLRacer have been great supporters of the mods, and there's almost always an open GPLRacer server on Igor.  Let's give a warm welcome to the GPLRacer drivers. 

Please be in Igor UKGPL chatroom by 7:55 p.m, (though we may use the GPLRacer chat room as well).
Igor and Race passwords: see above

Server GPLRacer6
IP address  212.202.70.148

Race date = 12-10-2008
Time = 20:00
Track = Watkins Glen
Variant = 66F1
Damage Model = PRO
Qually time = 30 minutes.
Race length = 50 minutes (45 laps- complete 41 laps to score points as a finisher)

Chassis assignments: I've left this for the team captain
BT19
one of the BT11 versions, driver to choose
one BRM, driver to choose between P261 and P83
Cooper
one Eagle, driver to choose between T1F and T1G
one Ferrari, driver to choose between 246 and 312
Honda
one Lotus, driver to choose between 43 and either of the 33 versions
McLaren

If you'd like to represent UKGPL in this race please post on the thread.  When you advise what chassis you'd prefer, can you mention whether you've tested a full fuel race setup for it.  We've only completed one season with the 66 mod, and aren't as familiar with it as with the original cars- perhaps we could help each other with setups?

I'd also like to learn from the last race, and I suggest that we could use some American-style encouragement for the team.  I've made a study of American coaching methods and it seems that they often use something to focus on, though we don't have to chop at ourselves with sharp instruments as the NFL teams do, or the Welsh...  What we need to do as a team is to 'punch the gnome', as it were.  Hit that little guy, slam him!  Punch the gnome!

I'll make myself available again as I need to defend my honour after DNF'ing the last race 

If needed I'll take the Kiwi wagon again, but wouldn't mind a go in the Honda if none of the Hiki Waza brigade or aliens call dibs 

Will do some testing in the Honda first though just to make sure it is as good as I remember 

If none of the above then I'll happily drive anything you point me too 

Thanks for the invite Dave, I'm in.

Fez 312 maybe?

I'm in. Brabham?

I'd already confirmed with Lorenzo that he will be available and we'd discussed chassis.  Unfortunately Ken has other commitments.  Also Clive hasn't been on SRou since I put the thread up- he might be an alternative choice for the T1F, if Neil can't make it and Hristo has another preference than the Eagle? 

The provisional list is earlier than I'd anticipated, but I'll take the opportunity to let you get on with it!

I'm actually pretty fast around this track, so I'd like as fast a car as possible. I'd prefer BT19.

I'm up for the challenge to make that lump of steel tackle corners, but my question is how much slower or faster the Climax driven Eagle actually is? I haven't driven it, but if it handles much better than the Weslake version it might be enough to overcome the disadvantage in terms of engine power. I have no time to test soon, so anyone with some information on the Eagles handling and performance and perhaps actual laptimes is more than welcome to share.

Well Lorenzo is the WR holder in the Climax version at Watkins Glen.  His time is 1:07:478.  I would have thought he'd have a decent set up he'd be willing to share . 

Steve Cloyd is WR holder in the T1G Weslake version at 1:07:364.  The T1G is just a whisker over a tenth of a second quicker than the T1F. 

If Storm Cloud reckons the Climax handles really well and if Lorenzo can provide a WR setup then maybe it would be safer to drive the T1F Eagle Climax