UKGPL Season 17 - Amateurs Trophy - Race 9 - SilverstoneThe penultimate round of the Trophy takes us to the Silverstone Circuit named after the nearby village, and hopefully the competitors will not get stuck in the traffic jams that have become a great British tradition on race weekends.
Half the circuit is in Northamptonshire and half is in Buckinghamshire, and it is built on the site of a World War II bomber base that opened in 1943. The circuit was first used for motorsport in September 1947 when 12 friends held an impromptu race on the deserted airfield. One of them, Maurice Geoghegan, from Silverstone village ran into a sheep writing off his car. The sheep didn't fare too well either and the race became known as the Mutton Grand Prix.
Silverstone hosted its first British Grand Prix in 1948 and has been held it every year since 1987. Hopefully that will continue.
Drivers should be especially careful on lap 1 as usual but hopefully this fast circuit will not compress the field once safely through Becketts.
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!
Please be in IGOR UKGPL chatroom by 8:55 p.m. UK 19:55 GMT
(You will need to set up a channel called #ukgpl if you haven't already done so)
IGOR and race passwords:
see aboveServer ukgpl6
IP address TBC
Race date = 23-06-2009
Time = 21:00 (UK time) 20:00 (GMT)
Track = Silverstone
Variant = 65F1
Damage Model = PRO
Qually time = 30 minutes.
Race length = 50% Grand Prix (40 laps)
Make sure that you have enough race fuel to complete the distance!Driver lists can be found on the
championship standings pageCHASSIS ALLOCATIONFERRARI Phil Thornton, Will Tway (reserve), Burtoner*, Asbjeurn*
LOTUS StormCloud, Dave Randall, Bartosz, Bernie*, Steve Bird*, Geoff65*
BRM NatanVix, Samb, Ginsters, Steve Bucket*, Ian*
BT11 CliveLoynes, John Roberts, Ken, Jethro, Fulvio
HONDA EvilClive, Tim, Iestyn (reserve)
COOPER Mike Beattie, Lorenzo, if he joins, otherwise any visiting speed merchant
BT7 Hristo
*drivers also assigned a Novices 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.... There was no Canadian Grand Prix in 1965.
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