Wiltshire Tony
Director, UKGTL
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Championship Standings here Grid/server capacity: 22 Practice/Car change: ~19:20 (60 mins) Qualifying: 20:20 (20 mins) Race: 20:40 (15 laps) Track: Spa '67 Download this (Includes texture update)Cars allowed: All cars included in this pack Download thisCLASS P+2.0Ferrari 330 P3/4 Ferrari 330 P4 Ferrari 412P CLASS P3.0Ford Mk.IV Porsche 907K Porsche 907LH Porsche 908K Porsche 908LH CLASS S5.0Porsche 917K Porsche 917LH Car restrictions: Three drives maximum per class. Check your status hereTime of Day Setting: 14:00 Start: STANDING Tyre wear: 2x Fuel consumption: 2x Pit stops: Required Server: simracing.org.uk Monday Password: see aboveNotes: (1) It's best if all drivers can make sure they are connected before the Qualifying session as drivers on track during qualifying will not see cars that join after they are on track until they go back to the garage. (2) Please make sure you are fully aware of the SimRacing.org.uk Rules. (3) The AI control should be turned off so that you have control of the car at all times, including pitting. Your player file should therefore read Autopit="0" Force Autopit Off="1" // Forces autopit always off No AI Control="1" // AI never has control over car If you still finding pitting problematic, experience tells us that its less to do with positioning and more to do with approach speed. A slow approach to pit crew chief has proved most reliable. Special Notes: None.
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The only UK based GTL community which races every Monday night. We are always looking for new drivers of all ages and abilities. GTL here since 2006.
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SpecialKS
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« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2018, 11:59:51 AM +0100 » |
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Very interesting: - Frank Gardner, on the Porsche 917 (found on fb) "Late one Friday in 1969 the telephone rang. Hello Frank, this is Huschke (von Hanstein). We would like you to drive our new car at the Nurburgring 1,000 kilometres this weekend. I said I was busy and recommended he call Brian Redman. 'Brian has had a crash, and is in hospital.' Jo Siffert was my next suggestion. 'Jo has had a crash and is in hospital.' 'What the bloody hell is going on there?' Our new car is not easy to drive, Frank' - and he wasn't kidding!
"Porsche came to us because there was a shortage of drivers but the money was good so David Piper and I decided to take it on. "These first cars had alloy tubular chassis, which was gas-filled to detect cracks. There was a big guage in the cockpit, which measured the gas pressure. If the guage zeroed, they said it meant that the chassis has started to crack, and they said I should drive home 'mit care'. I told them, 'If the needle zeroes I'll park the ******* there and then and walk back, pick up my Deutschmarks and go home'.
"The chassis flexed so much that the position of the gearchange was never the same twice in a row. You'd reach out for the lever and it wasn't there anymore. I was asked to drive it at Le Mans, the money was great too, but I told them 'I never wanted to be the quickest bloke in motor racing - just the oldest- and that Porsche was going to interfere with my plans.
"Then there was the engine. You had about 300 horsepower at 5000 revs, and then between 5000 and 6000 you picked up another 300! So it was a bit of delight, really, and it was on narrow nine-inch rims all round. The computer had said that nine-inch rims would make the car very quick in a straight line, but the computer wasn't strapped in the bloody seat up in the Eifel mountains, where you tend to get the odd corner...
"David did one lap at the Nurburgring and said he was too young to die. It snowed and poured, the car was snapping sideways and aquaplaning at the same time. It was one of the few times I extended my concentration levels above and beyond what I possessed, but we finished 5th".
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Erling G-P
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« Reply #2 on: July 11, 2018, 05:07:05 PM +0100 » |
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Great find Kurt - both frightening and hilarious at the same time
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Wiltshire Tony
Director, UKGTL
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« Reply #3 on: July 11, 2018, 06:45:09 PM +0100 » |
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Great read, hilarious and frightening (sorry to copy Erling's adjectives but he took the best ones)
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The only UK based GTL community which races every Monday night. We are always looking for new drivers of all ages and abilities. GTL here since 2006.
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EvilClive
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I always play by the rules.... they are MY rules!
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« Reply #4 on: July 11, 2018, 07:43:55 PM +0100 » |
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.....................................that description could be applied to some of the cars have driven in GTL!!!
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Evil Waza, now a completely reformed character! **NOW AVAILABLE ON TWITCH @ evilclive67 Rank Only when I sweat
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Wiltshire Tony
Director, UKGTL
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« Reply #6 on: July 13, 2018, 10:19:42 AM +0100 » |
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Wiltshire Tony
Director, UKGTL
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"I'd rather be Sim-Racing" said Noddy
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« Reply #7 on: July 26, 2018, 12:43:02 PM +0100 » |
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It's donation time again folk's. We need your generosity to stay online so please give whatever you can afford
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The only UK based GTL community which races every Monday night. We are always looking for new drivers of all ages and abilities. GTL here since 2006.
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« Reply #8 on: July 29, 2018, 03:19:26 PM +0100 » |
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Probably will miss this one. Simply too hot at the moment for any kind of activities Have fun guys
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Wiltshire Tony
Director, UKGTL
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« Reply #9 on: July 29, 2018, 03:53:28 PM +0100 » |
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Probably will miss this one. Simply too hot at the moment for any kind of activities Have fun guys We now have rain in the UK so not so hot. Suggest you wear only a racing thong tomorrow night.
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The only UK based GTL community which races every Monday night. We are always looking for new drivers of all ages and abilities. GTL here since 2006.
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Bob M.
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« Reply #10 on: July 29, 2018, 06:47:25 PM +0100 » |
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Way too vivid a replay Tony........LOL
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Bob M.
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« Reply #12 on: July 30, 2018, 04:04:59 PM +0100 » |
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Looks like I will miss this one also. Miscommunication with the wife. I told here we were switching to Wedn. for racing last week so she made a Mon. doctors appointment for today to check on her broken wrist. So will see you all next Wedn. Have fun all!!!
Bob M.
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« Reply #13 on: July 30, 2018, 07:25:37 PM +0100 » |
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Guys, Is it ok if I join in tonight's long distance fun. Quite unprepared but eager to race as always.Cheers, Dan
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Wiltshire Tony
Director, UKGTL
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« Reply #14 on: July 30, 2018, 08:02:43 PM +0100 » |
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Guys, Is it ok if I join in tonight's long distance fun. Quite unprepared but eager to race as always.Cheers, Dan
No probs mate
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The only UK based GTL community which races every Monday night. We are always looking for new drivers of all ages and abilities. GTL here since 2006.
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