UKGPL Season 24 65 Novices TrophyRace 8 ReimsWelcome back to the Novices Trophy for Season 24. This is the eighth round of 10
Back to La Belle France. Reims is basically several long straights with a couple of hairpins and a few cornfields. Catching a tow is what this track is about. It normally produces close racing which will, doubtless, be a modding nightmare...
Reims-Gueux was first established in 1926 on the public roads between the small French villages of Thillois and Gueux. The circuit had two very long straights between the towns, and teams strove to maximize straight-line speed of their cars; many slipstream battles ensued. Race organizers actually felled trees and demolished old houses in order to make the circuit even quicker. International racing came with the first official Formula One event occurring in 1950, the inaugural year of the Formula One world championship. The circuit layout was shortened and changed in 1952 to bypass the town of Gueux; and the circuit was then renamed Reims. The layout was changed yet again in 1953, it was made slightly longer and faster; two fast curves and a hairpin further up the RN31 highway were added. The circuit was last used by Formula One in 1966 and the last car meeting was held in 1969.
The field will compress at the bottom hairpin (unless they have all spun off into the cornfields...) and there will be drafting aplenty down the back straight. It will all compress again and so the field will be VERY tight. If drivers are not patient, there WILL be crashes. The first lap will be fully moderated within the red zone. The
red zone will extend to the exit from the first hairpin.
Please check the Season 24 pages for
details regarding rules and the
Novices Trophy pages in particular.
HANDICAPPING will be applied to any drivers in the top three who are within 20 points of the leader. Shouldn't actually make much difference here.
Johnny P is again limited to the BT7
RogUK is asked to limit himself to the BT7 or Cooper
Dave Curtis has the choice of BT7, Cooper or Honda
Race List | IGOR |
Server | UKGPL_3 |
IP Address | ping ukgpl3.dyndns.org |
Race date | 30-04-2013 | |
Qualification Time | ~20:45 UK time (minimum of 30 mins) |
Race Time | race starts at 21:30 UK time |
Track | Reims |
Variant | 65F1 the 2.02 Release of the 65mod should be used |
Damage Model | INT |
Race length | 18 laps |
RED ZONE | Start of Lap 1 to the exit of the first hairpin |
Password | see above |
Replay | available after the race here |
Qualifying may start before 9pm, if so, Reserve drivers should leave the server when 35 minutes of qualifying remains and only rejoin when 30 minutes of qualifying is left. This is to ensure that Full Time drivers get priority in joining.Please restrict chat to pit messages if necessary, and this includes the end of the race, until all running drivers have completed the necessary laps.
The Novice races are run under Int Long rules and all incidents in the red zone on Lap 1, at least, will be moderated. For this race, the
red zone extends to the whole of Lap 1. There is no limit on the amount of resets but EACH Shift/R MUST be followed by a Stop n Go.
65 Patch: The 2.02 Release of the 65mod can and should be used. You need a working installation of the 65 mod to install the 2.02 Update. All the 65 Mod files can be found
herePassword:
see aboveDriver lists can be found on the
championship standings page