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Season 32 Sports Car Trophy – Round 9 -  Bathurst

For the 8th round of the Sport Car Trophy we go to Mount Panorama, Motor Racing Circuit Bathurst (also known as Wahluu by the Wiradjuri people, or often simply Bathurst) is a motor racing track located in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia. It is best known as the home of the Bathurst 12 Hour motor race, held each February, and the Bathurst 1000 motor race, held each October. The track is 6.213 km (4 mi) long, and is technically a street circuit, as the circuit is a public road when no racing events are being run, and there are many residences which can only be accessed from the circuit. The track is an unusual design by modern standards, with a 174-metre (570-foot) vertical difference between its highest and lowest points, and grades as steep as 1:6.13. From the start-finish line, the track can be viewed in three sections; the short pit straight and then a tight left turn into the long, steep Mountain straight; the tight, narrow section across the top of the mountain itself; and then the long, downhill section of Conrod Straight, and the turn back onto pit straight to complete the lap.

Race List	=	IGOR
Server	=	UKGPL_8
IP Address	=	look at IGOR
Race date	=	13-02-2018
GPL mod	=	67GT
60fps patch used	=	60fpsV1
Track	=	panorama (http://srmz.net/index.php?showtopic=180)
Qualification	=	20:45  UK time -> 45min
Race	=	race starts at ~21:30 UK time
Race length	=	~50 min -> 22 laps
Damage Model	=	Int 1x shift+r allowed, followed by a stop+go.
Replay	=	here (ftp://ftp.ukgpl9.co.uk:32122/Season32/)

Driver lists and divisional rules can be found on the championship standings page (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=619&theme=6)

Only reported incidents will be moderated, there is no Red Zone.

Handicapping and chassis allocation.
This season the Sports Car Trophy will be using a token system which allows drivers to purchase any chassis of their choice for a given number of tokens as published on the championship standings page (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=619&theme=6). Drivers classed as Amateurs will be allocated an additional 10 tokens.  The token allocation will not be managed in SRou this season so (unlike the 67F1 Works and 67F1 Privateer divisions) the tokens available to each driver will not appear in the championship table (when the mouse pointer is hovered over the driver's total).  Rather, the available tokens will be published in the race announcement.  See below.


Available Tokens:
Note: These are the tokens available to each driver before the 10 tokens are added for making the race start.

Driver	Tokens	Status
Cookie	14	Pro
DLogan	11	Pro
Doni Yourth	30	Pro
EvilClive	10	Pro
FullMetalGasket	11	Pro
MagicArsouille	7	Pro
Phil Thornton	26	Am
Rainier	14	Am
Samb	19	Pro
bagrupp	17	Am
Gareth	10	Am
Geoff65	15	Am
maddog	10	Am
Greg Taber	11	Pro
Carlos Cendejas	0	Pro
kinghiro	12	Pro

GLA and FUN

Paying the price for cavorting through the snow yesterday.  While shoveling out, I jumped into a snowbank and while nothing immediately surfaced, it later became abundantly apparent that I twisted/compressed/extended/jammed/otherwise F'd Up the knee of my right leg.  I can walk and negotiate stairs quite well but taking a seat or rising from is hellish.  I don't think that it's severe enough for me to miss the round but certainly, I'll be the 'walking wounded'.

68 going on 12.  :)

Look on the bright side Doni - At least you get snow to play in :(

All we get is cold rain!!  :-\ :-\ oh! and mud, plenty of mud.

Sorry Tristan, you did 5 laps with the Mirage before you switched the car! so this has to be a DQ...

I've loaded the chassis the drivers used into the token calculator spreadsheet.  For the next race the available tokens will be as declared in the table below (the table will also appear in the next race announcement).  The calculated values are automated but selecting the cars is a manual process so please check your tokens to make sure I haven't made a silly error.  There was no token overspend for this round so no one is disqualified.

Available Tokens:
Note: These are the tokens available to each driver before the 10 tokens are added for making the race start.

Driver	Tokens	Status
Cookie	7	Pro
DLogan	11	Pro
Doni Yourth	25	Pro
EvilClive	3	Pro
FullMetalGasket	6	Pro
MagicArsouille	2	Pro
Phil Thornton	21	Am
Rainier	9	Am
Samb	14	Pro
bagrupp	10	Am
Gareth	10	Am
Geoff65	15	Am
maddog	10	Am
Greg Taber	11	Pro
Carlos Cendejas	0	Pro
kinghiro	12	Pro

Sorry but I did not know about this rule !!??...where it 's right , I don't see it !....
...When I come to the server Idon't see that the Mirage was selected ( I do few laps this afternoon... )...so I say to myself  : " ok just do some laps to test "...I did'nt know it was not possible , other way, I don't change  if I know that rule... :o
..but no prpblemo !... ;D

well done guys I had some fun anyway ...before I got engine problem ....do shift-r & s&g.....and explose the engine before the last corner of the last lap ....( what say the rules whan you do shift-r 200m before the end ?... ::)

Tris you did it allready at Brands Hatch where you switched from GT40 MK1 to Porsche!

i was uncomfortable and too tired to drive that race to the end

I was enjoying my comeback drive after an unfortunate tangle with Axel on the first lap. Only then I braked too late at the final turn, clouted the barrier and managed to lose a wheel (don't think I've done this before in the sports cars  ::)). Decided to call it a day after that.

See you all at the finale  :).

???? At BrandsHatch I go off track and retired , so I did'nt see I was disqualif.....and nobody explain me why ??!....and I still don't find where this rule is explained !...    ...one more time, I did'nt know about this rule !...( ...and I don't anderstand exactly the reason of sutch rule !?.... ) :angel:

Sorry Tristan, I hope you know that I hate to DQ you,
but I am not responsible for your not reading here,
so imo you were warned by the last race to not change car in Quali, maybe David can explain better in your own language.

You know what Axel? I think we may have fallen foul of being so used to that rule, that it wasn't actually written down for this series - I've just had a look through the various relevant threads and pages and switching cars in qually isn't expressly forbidden, unless I've missed a page somewhere.

As for the race I'm chuffed with a win - I'd plumped for the Lola as a best of both worlds type of car. It's relatively nimble while still being fast and having a decent number of gears.
It's only downside is how fragile the engine is...

It rapidly became clear in the race how Tris had out qualified me by so much - I was driving to limits I'd learnt about the hard way regarding revs in the Lola. Tris was driving his car as though it was a Ferrari or Porsche :D
The race turned into a simple Tortoise Vs Hare race from then on. With Tris flinging himself around the track as as fast as he could go (with the odd off to prove it) while I went as fast as I dared to push the motor.
About 3 or 4 laps from the end Tristan's engine finally gave up the ghost (In full sim difficulty I'd have given it about 3 laps total before imploding at that pace ;D) and I comfortably cruised past him.
As no-one was close to the 2 of us I was able to carry on without really pushing until the line.

It's a shame Axel crashed out on the first lap - I'm not entirely sure what caused that as the mirrors are so poor in these - but it could have made the race a bit more exciting with a 3 way fight to the end.

Well done to all finishers, Bathurst is always hard

Well if you have not driven a timed lap it's ok, isn't it ?

Yes Bastion.
The rule was always that if you don't do a lap in the wrong car you can exit and rejoin in a different car without penally.

This was to stop people switching car halfway through practice because it turns out everyone else chose a better car!

Argh,  :o
yes it is forbidden to switch cars in quali but the penalties are more lenient...

I did research in the depth of UKGPL rules and found: https://www.ukgpl.com/index.php/rules/contravene_online


So, for me this was surprising and I will restore the results of the last 2 races where Tris switched cars...

PS
Tris did 2 x shift+r so he gets a DQ anyway...