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Sorry to those I inconvenienced on lap 1. I thought I had slowed down enough but ran wide & then span across the track. After that I lost concentration & span off twice more - wrecking an expensive Eagle in the process.
Just not happening for me tonight.

I saw you spinning and realised you would roll back across the track and into my path so I slowed right down and would not have hit you but I got rear ended ???.  Needed a shift-R. Took a S&G and ended up a long way back.  I was catching the rear of the pack when my engine exploded. Hadn't done that in praccy or qually so just unlucky I guess. Unless it had something to do with flooring a cold engine after the Shift-R.  The 30 Seconds at the start warming the engine makes a difference.

I have confused a curve for another and made an S&G.I risked to lose the 3th position conquered with effort.
Chosen the Eagle for a strange teory to be demostrated.The first 2 race,with the Brabham,i was with only 4 gears.
The hypothesis is :when i join online there is confusion between 55 and 67 mod.Brabham=Vanwall 4 gears,Eagle=Maserati 5 gears.
To confirm or deny this hypothesis ,the next race i should enter with a Brabham and than,if have 4 gears again,change the car.Is possible?

Grats Fran. You are very competitive this season.

I know Tripoli isn't the place to take a Cooper but I've never used anything but a Coop in the UKGPL. I hoped I could get through without being lapped, but that turned out to be a lost dream. I wasn't caught up in the actual kerfluffle at the bottom of the hill on L1 --- stopping just in time to avoid contact --- but in resuming my timing and concentration were a bit rattled and within the next 15 seconds I'd lost it, banging into the posts on the left side of the track. The car suffered some obvious damage, so I did a CTRL-R and took the S&G at the end of the first lap. After that, it was just looping and hoping to stay out of further trouble.  The only cars I ever saw again were the two who caught me with a few laps to go.

Provided you don't post a qualifying time you are allowed to change chassis after having joined the server. This is intended to accommodate drivers who make a genuine mistake selecting the correct chassis in IGOR but if you need to to join to test your gears (which you can do in the pit lane) I'm sure nobody would complain.

Thank you Phil .This one was a fast track and the Eagle have an advatage,i hope to have all the gears for the future.

Ok thank you.

Congratulations to the podium, I really like this track, eagle was great for me, I just had to manage the advantage and keep the same pace, I do not see it in nuburging.

Well, that was the first official outing for UKGPL_10 - so hopefully no issues for anyone.
Although, it looked as though Bill had disconnected/reconnected a few times - so hopefully not anything to be aware of?

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Well done podium - some scary-looking times there!


Congrats Fran, you were quicker than me (I was watching you closing in)  although I knew that I would not be able to hold you off once you got another couple of seconds closer. That was even with managing a personal fastest lap when you were really close!

I got a bit greedy with speed & ran wide at the corner with the hitchhiker,  but managed to keep out of the trees,  so you got past 1/4 of a lap sooner than it would have been :)

At that time, I was more than happy with a potential 4th.  But managed to just go off on 'that' right-hander near the underpass.  Thought it would be quicker to drive round,  but trashed the car in the trees & needed a reset.  Dumb move - that cost 2 real places!

Still happy enough to have completed race distance.  I had planned to join the Eagle fan-club,  but in testing I only managed 1.2 seconds quicker.  I figured I may as well save the tokens as a result, especially if I did not make it to half distance.

Cheers all,
Dave.

If I have to sort the table I thank, because my name is Ricardo Valim da Silva, so my name is Ricardo Silva. and Du lima is also the same person DuLimaDulima, from now on I thank the administrators.

Thank you but looking at the time in race i have not realized great time.Excluding my only one mistake probably i was more constant,we can say also that your last mistake have returned to me the position.

Dave, thanks for the server. It had a very solid debut. My reconnections were to reboot the steering wheel, nothing server related.

Fran, I can confirm you can change cars at the next race. As Phil says don't ser a lap time until you gave decuded. It should be easy at the Nurburgring.

Bob, why don't you try another car? You have plenty of tokens. You should find the handling of the Brabham quite similar to the Cooper. I use almost the same set up for both. If you want I can share some set ups.

Ok thank you,i could test also more than one into the box.If the 5th gear don't exist is visible even when stopped.

There is something wrong into the rank about Silva and Dulima,they are reported 2 time.

yes I'll fix that.  They both have 2 accounts so it is easy to mix them up when importing the races.

It's an honor thing, Billy. I'm an average driver (GPL Rank +8) where the concept of "average" has changed considerably over the last 20 years. All the guys I used to beat back in the day have found other things to do in the meantime, like women or Counter-Strike or methamphetamine. Me, I'm the same, but the guys who are left for me to play against are the ones I couldn't have conquered on my best day in any era. I can adjust for all this if I'm playing the AI guys by tweaking the NPT_override, but real drivers --- you guys --- aren't so easy to tweak.

The UKGPL is where I come to relax from the cares of the day with the old Cooper. I remind myself here what it was like back in 1998. I don't care if I finish last. I care if I finish. When I want to remember what it was like to get my nuts caught in a meat grinder, I take the green flag in the oAo races every other week. That's the joy of schizophrenia: One league lets me calm down; the other produces reliable post-traumatic stress disorder.

You're very, very kind to offer help to one who appears to be a helpless rookie, and I do thank you for it. But this, I'm afraid, is always going to be my private combat: Can I beat the Eagle at Tripoli in my Cooper or will I have to wait for another day? It appears that last Sunday was not my day. But why give up now?  :)

The scary thing is there are drivers on the Works grid who probably could get a lap at Tripoli faster than me in an Eagle.

At Nurburg I'm taking the Cooper. Hopefully it reduce my propensity to crash.

Mod report now published.