I had good hopes of a nice race with Connaught after the second place of last year, but after a good start passing Jon at T1 I had to take evasive action on the inside grass for Dimi's early braking at T2 and lost the place to Jon. At Surtees again Dimi caused heart attack to Clive, Jon and me that managed to not hit each others and in the lucky manouvre inside I passed Jon. At braking for T1 L2 I was following Clive that had a little momentum on braking, maybe for Dimi  , so I had to swerve to inside grass to not risk a rear-end forgotting that the poles were of solid stone and ripped off two wheels rebounding my car to the outside where luckily anyone was involved in my crash.
Second time in a row following Clive, but this time ended in tears. Maybe I have to put a banner on my screen with "Take care of Clive" written in cubital font  

2 wheels within the white lines at all times 

I don't think there is anywhere on this track where all 4 wheels on the grass would be advantageous. Riding the kerbs is tricky in these cars, so all 4 wheels within the white lines is a good place to be.

I'm withdrawing from this GP55 series in protest over the rampant corner cutting as witnessed in yesterday's race at Assen.  The stats speak for themselves...

ON TRACK LAPS

Driver                           Laps/Total    Percent
 Doni55                             (12/13)      92.31
Clive Loynes55                       (7/14)      50.00
Fulvio Policardi-55                  (5/14)      35.71
Phil Thornton55                      (5/14)      35.71
Alain Maurice                        (4/14)      28.57
Leo Menegucci                         (4/5)      80.00
Syd Drake55                           (3/7)      42.86
J. Jonny'O                           (2/14)      14.29
enrique farina                       (1/14)       7.14
E vil55                              (1/14)       7.14
Dimitar Dulichki55                    (0/5)       0.00
Hristo Itchov55                      (0/14)       0.00

I endeavour to drive as cleanly and safely as possible in this mod as even a minor shunt in these cars back in the day could have the most dire consequences.  I scored one '64'...off-track lap...when I briefly lost concentration coming off De Vennen.  It neither cost nor gained me time.  What I witnessed from most everyone...and especially several individuals...leaves me cold and filled with disgust.  I reviewed the first five laps of this race noting each and every competitor.  The efforts of some to shave off lap time by putting four wheels in the grass through the serpentine starting at Madijk is simply appalling.  And this isn't the only venue where this kind of thing occurs.  Aintree and Panorama come to mind.

This conduct is an indication of the sense of fair play.  It would appear that few have any notion of it.

OK she's alive!    complete wipe/reinstall of mods seems to have fixed it.   
thnx for your patience gents

yeah a final push to try and debug it tonight, fingers crossed

Phil, since my 55mod installation is still crashing my system every time, I'd like to remove my allocated slot to free it up for anyone who was late to register, but would like to compete.

Hey Clive, good to see you too! I did some laps with the 250F and played with its setup too. Very tricky to be consistent! I expect to be really bad at this, as I just can't be sure at which moment the brakes are going to disappear, plus the rears tend to overheat a lot if I try to compensate too much with sliding around and using the throttle in a rally style kind of way. And that's at Assen, which seems to give plenty of time for the brakes to cool down. I suspect it's just going to get worse on other tracks...