UKGPL Season 17 - Novices Trophy - Race 2 - 65 mod - AlbiThe second race of the Novices Trophy is at the French F2 circuit Albi north of Toulouse, a small tight circuit where the Coopers and BT7s will be substantially less handicapped. The track is by Alain Bosco and is very popular with GPLers, visit his site to download it here:
http://a.bosco.free.fr/gpl/albi67.htm Use caution at the start, this applies to Bernie and Burt as well, I wouldn't want the Courbe Armand Brouzes to become a repetition of the wreck at L'Eau Rouge!
Please use the updated 65 mod for this race The 65 mod update has surprised us as it was a low-key announcement, and it isn't available on the 'Legends of 65' home site, where the 65 mod is hosted. However, the effort put into it certainly merits a season's testing, without which feedback and any further development would be made difficult.
The updated layout features are very welcome, with the ability to record best lap times at addon tracks and to have 65 specific tracks. The new collision boxes are also a great improvement. Though the new slipstream code will need extensive testing, the preliminary race seemed to show that it would be a definite improvement in racing terms, without the controversy over its extent, as with the 66 mod.
It seems a pity that the opportunity wasn't taken for more extensive changes to the 65 mod, especially as this means that we'll be racing cars that have compensation for the absence of slipstream built into the top speed, yet with slipstream present. Though it might be a consideration that an update with corrected and slower speeds would then not be useful for rank, as the cars would be slower, rank should always take second place to realism, and the ranks could continue with the original mod. However, an extensive reworking of the 65 mod might have taken resources that aren't available to the community. While I'm disappointed because I'm not keen on the concept of patches that make the carsets faster without regard to realism, at least it's still possible that we could still have a 65 mod v3 based on the 66 physics and made incompatible by the addition of extra cars to prevent the unrealistic faster 2.02 mod being used by overcompetitive racers.
Thanks to all involved with producing the update. If the new slipsteam code works as well as it seems it might, perhaps it could help persuade the authors of the 66 mod to rework their code as well!
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8:55 p.m.(You will need to set up a channel called #ukgpl if you haven't already done so)
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Race date = 17-03-2009
Time = 21:00
Track = Albi
Variant = 65F1
Damage Model = INT
Qually time = 30 minutes.
Race length = long (24 laps)
Driver lists can be found on the
championship standings pageCHASSIS ALLOCATIONFerrari Norbert Roguk Fabio
Lotus Al Vos Mike Scott
BRM Billy Hezemans Hurtubise
BT11 Graham Maestro Clutch Nhance
Honda Bookie JamesRye
Cooper Asbjeurn* Ian* Steve B* Steve B2* Geoff* Bernie* Nicky*
BT7 Aulden Burt* Glyn
*drivers also assigned an Amateurs chassis
James wasn't at Spa, but was going to race a Honda- though he may revert to his earlier Ferrari if he wishes.
65 ModThese 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.... Albi was a Formula 2 track in 1965.
David Wright's 'Legends' site
http://fp.gplegends.plus.com/ has the download of the 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. The 2.02 update is available here:
http://www.jamesonline.net/ukgpl/1965mod_PATCH_v2.0.2_Setup.zip