Season 25 Works Trophy, Round 7, Oulton ParkWelcome to the seventh round in the Works Trophy. Another round in England, this time further north into the Cheshire countryside to the very pretty Oulton Park circuit that looks much nicer in real life than it does in GPL.
The circuit is built in the grounds of Oulton Estate which comrised an old manor house, some lodges, farmland and a lake. The names of a couple of bends, Lodge Corner and Old Hall Corner, hint back at a more sedate existance. The first race at Oulton Park was held in 1953 on a makeshift rectangular circuit which was extended in 1955 to the full circuit we will be using tonight. The track is quite narrow and in places and the run-off is limited (particularly at Knickerbrook where a local B road skirts the boundary of the park) so to make it safer several chicanes have been added in recent years. Thankfully we don't need to worry too much about that, so we will be able to enjoy driving the 1967 version of the track which flows majestically through tree lined avenues, up steep hills, round double apex corners and banked hairpins. There has never been a round of the Formula 1 World Championship held at Oulton Park but there were a lot of non-championship Formula 1 races held there between 1954 and 1982. Most of these race meetings were called the "International Gold Cup". A name that lives on in the guise of the Gold Cup historic race meeting; a sort of Goodwood of the north. Same races but less posh totty, and rather ironically less flat caps!
As always, we will run Pro Damage, so resets are not allowed.
Race List =
IGORServer = UKGPL_GPG
IP address = 62.195.2.111
Race date = 20-10-2013
Race Time = race starts at 21:30 UK time
Qualifying Time = Between 30 and 60 minutes, starting no later than 21:00 UK time
Track =
Oulton Park 1967Variant = 67F1
Damage Model = PRO
Race length = 50 minutes (laps
34)
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