UKGPL Season 17 - Novices Trophy - Race 5 - 65 mod - Mexico CityThe fifth round of the Novices Trophy is at Mexico, in front of the lines of armed police with the dark sunglasses. After his win at Imola Clutch has a slender lead over Mike, but with the drivers following them able to drop their two worst results the championship is still very much open. Mexico has a very difficult T1 for a full grid, and accidents to the outside or at the chicane tend to come back onto the track, its also very tempting to try to go two or even three wide because of the wide straight, though there's only room for a single car at the chicane. Tyres are cold at the start, your control will suffer- and if you are on the inside be aware that there may be a car outside you, if on the outside don't get stuck on the armco.
Reserve drivers should not join until there are only 30 mins of qualifying left. However, all drivers should not go on track until there is 30 minutes of qualifying left. This helps all drivers join the server successfully. Please restrict chat to pit messages.
Please use the updated 65 mod for this race.The 65 mod V2 update is being used by UKGPL and 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.
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. UK(You will need to set up a channel called #ukgpl if you haven't already done so)
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Race date = 28-04-2009
Time = 20:00GMT 21:00UK
Track = Mexico City
Variant = 65F1
Damage Model = Int
Qually time = 30 minutes.
Race length = Long (20 laps)
Driver lists can be found on the
championship standings pageCHASSIS ALLOCATION If I haven't included you but your chassis has been agreed it's not important, otherwise pm me.
Ferrari Norbert Roguk Fabio
Lotus Al Vos Mike Scott Vee8
BRM Billy Hezemans Hurtubise JamesRye
BT11 Graham Maestro Clutch Nhance
Honda Bookie Tomd18
Cooper Asbjeurn* Ian* Steve B* Steve B2* Geoff* Bernie* Nicky*
BT7 Aulden Burt* Glyn
*drivers also assigned an Amateurs chassis
65 Mod
These 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.... Jim Clark got pole at Mexico in the Lotus 33, his time was 1'56.17. Richie Ginther won the race for Honda.
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[/quote]