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Season Break 38/39 - Fun + Test – 1965 F1 - Goodwood

This race is at Goodwood, which is situated near Chichester, West Sussex, close to the south coast of England, on the estate of Goodwood House. The circuit is famous for holding the annual "Goodwood Revival" Historic car meeting and for an accident that finished the career of Stirling Moss. In 1962, Stirling was competing in the International 100 race for Formula One cars when, towards the end of the race, he was attempting to pass Graham Hill’s BRM V8 on the outside of Fordwater bend when his car shot onto the grass and struck a low bank protecting spectators. At the time of the accident Stirling was two laps behind Graham Hill, who went on to win the race. Stirling was delayed by a stop for attention to his gear change mechanism and carburettors, and was in no position to challenge for the lead; nevertheless it didn't stop him trying to unlap himself.

This car/track combi had several problems that got solved by the new
Track Gap Freeze Fix Patch v.09 (http://srmz.net/index.php?s=1d55bf5d3d0f891eb7da6c3f35d87a26&showtopic=14247)
Put the .xml in the ../GPLSecrets/GEM+/Options/ folder and activate it in GEM for all mods!

Race list	=	iGOR
Server	=	UKGPL04_60fps
IP address Server	=	86.6.125.152:32766
Password	=	see above (#post_event_password)
GPL Mod	=	65
Damage model	=	Intermediate
60fps Patch	=	60fpsV2newmod
Track download	=	here (http://srmz.net/index.php?showtopic=13395)
Track directory	=	goodwd65
Qualifying starts	=	20:45 UK time - 45 minutes
Race starts	=	~ 21:30 UK time
Race length	=	30 laps
Replay	=	here (https://drive.google.com/file/d/16I3RIXfSxQ9hc4tVJHtbIvd3vDaCf8rI/view?usp=sharing)

Handicapping:
There will be no handicapping.  Drivers have a free choice of chassis. Unlimited number of Shift-Rs are allowed with no need to make a Stop and Go.

This is a fun race so incidents will not be moderated but please drive carefully and with consideration for others.

Please, excepting emergencies, no chat until Session Completed in qualification. No chat in the race until ALL drivers still racing have crossed the line.

Great choice!

Thanks for the heads up  :thumbup1:

Hope to have Bennett X 2 on the Goodwood grid.

Succeeded in joining the server, but the game CTD's as soon as I try to enter the car  :-\

I had this problem with the 65s a few weeks ago. I reinstalled the 65 mod and it seems to have fixed it. It only takes 5 mins to install so you have enough time to try it.

Will try now - thank you mate  ;D

No dice it seems, looks like i'm sitting this one out sadly.

That's a pity, but best to find these things out in a fun race rather than a league race. I'll run a few more 65 tests in the off season so you will have a chance to sort this out.

Sounds good! Thanks for the advice - better luck next time hopefully.

I was expecting 30 laps, but everyone else kept going.
Great & look as though no disco's???

No replay available yet?
Thanks for fun!

Should be there now Claudio.

Sorry about that, my mistake. I set the wrong number of laps. Thankfully I didn't do that in a league race :o

Jordan had a few problems but nothing to do with the track so it looks like another successful test for the new patch. Fantastic news  :jumpjoy:

Managed to get the crash/reset out of the way early on, so didn't have that to worry about later :)

GPL-related, was stable for me;  just a brain-freeze late in the race at T1. As a result, 31-lap event would have been preferred!

Thanks for the event; good to see a full turn-out.
Hope the individual niggles get sorted out.

I had a great battle with Claudio in the early stages and then a race long duel with Doni. I managed to catch up to Andreas and Doni after about 5 laps and I was lucky to pass both of them when they made tiny mistakes clipping the grass on laps 9 and 11. I pushed hard to try to shake them off but I couldn't. On lap 16 we were about to lap a Lotus when I touched the grass myself and spun out (not your fault Francesco, it was entirely my mistake). So I had to chase after the pair of them again. I eventually managed to catch Doni on lap 21 but Andreas was long gone. I set about hassling Doni, trying to force a mistake and I thought I had a chance on the very next lap when Doni put a couple of wheels on the grass on the exit of Lavant Corner and that gave me the opportunity to get alongside down the Lavant Straight. As we came to the s-bend at the end I wasn't sure where Doni was so I cut across the grass to avoid any chance of contact. Good job I did too. I checked the replay and we would have touched. Doni ran wide and spun off. In the race I couldn't be sure we had made contact (I checked the replay and we didn't) so I decided to wait for Doni and let him have the place back. I wasn't happy with my move anyway, it wasn't clean and going off-track to overtake isn't good form. So battle recommenced and I was all over the Cooper gearbox until the last lap when I squeezed past on the Lavant Straight after Doni made another tiny error in Lavant Corner. Great racing in the Cooper Doni!

It was a very fun race for me, although with some angst after half of it. I chose to use the BT 7, because I had never raced that car before, so Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning I was looking for a setting that was comfortable and allowed me to go fast (by my driving standards). I made a good start and I was in front of Phil, there was no point in covering him because he was faster than me and the race was just starting, so at the entrance to Madwick I didn't put much resistance, and I tried to follow him, but he was much faster than me and he went ahead. After lap 15 I realized that I was not going to reach the fuel, calculated as I always do for the total distance + 10%. There I made a huge mistake, because being as I was 15 seconds ahead of Pete, I should have stopped in the pits and loaded 2 or 3 gallons of fuel. I opted instead to shift at 8500 rpm and try to make it to the end without stopping. However, the fuel was not enough and I had to stop on the last lap but one. Anyway Pete had already passed me because before Lavant I met another car and misunderstood his maneuver and we had a slight collision, which I hope didn't prevent him from finishing the race. Thanks for organizing this, I didn't have the slightest hint of screen freeze....
Post data. I saw these cars run for real at Goodwood, the 2008 Revival and I can assure you they were going very, very fast, Fordwater was a place where, especially a BT11 and a Lotus25 were impressive. They were not toys, I can assure you.

I was able to join the server, but unable to race as my rig refused to calibrate the gearshift, either online or offline??

Of course 3 minutes after the race had started, everything was working faultlessly!! ::) bl**dy technology!  :-\

Glad to hear that there were no disco issues as that could herald the resurrection of a HUGE number of great tracks that have been ignored for so long. Lime Rock Mountain, Cilce, to name but 2? Can I suggest that if we are running a few FUN races to test this new patch that we do try some of the old classics to see if they are now viable for league races?

I'm still waiting for someone to do the M6 track so I stand a chance of finishing !

Do you want with or without traffic jam?

Fun race! Dug deep for that 1:19 qualy lap and was surprised to do it.

Start the race and I found a confortble pace running in third. Guys in front opening a gap as I was oppening from the battle for fourth behind me. From half way Andreas was the guy behind and started to close our distance. Less than 10 laps remaining he was just behind me but I was making my car wide and think I could hold him counting on the Ferrari aceleration and top speed, but 4 lap to the end the engine started to stutter. What?!! I never saw the race was 35 laps instead o 30  :D

A quick reset and I was running again, just in front od Doni and Phil with a heavy car. Luckly they were busi enough fighting for position (sorry if I was lagging too much).

That was a lot of fun trying to chase down Claudio. I love the Cooper but I couldn't get it into the 1.20s. I always bottle out through the walls of the chicane.

I agree about track choices. Let's test some rarely driven ones. I love Dijon. That would be great in the 65s.

When we make the track selection for each oAo season we should leave out circuits such as: Wigram; Zetweg1970; Vila do Conde; RiverGP; Suzuka; Sears Point (two of them); Magny Cours (3 tracks); Laguna95; Jacarepagua; Edmonton: Casa de Campo; Borovaya; Bikernieki; Armore and several others. It would be extraordinary to resuscitate them, several of them are real gems.

Only if its behind me  ;D

That was really fun. Great race!  :fencing:

Next race maybe Lime Rock without the chicane?
Bring it on!

Some boffo racing at Goodwood!

First, a great duel with Andreas and finally with Phil.  So what else is new, right?  :)

Off the grid, I followed Leo's Ferrari and wasn't too unhappy that he slowly edged away since his image was bouncing about quite badly.  No fun chasing a car that you never are quite sure where it is.  More on this later...

A couple of oversights...ahem, ahem...on my part lead to spins in Woodcote one where Phil was alongside on Lap22.  Feeling that he was responsible for my off, PT slowed to let me overtake.  Thanks, Phil, but it was mostly my own doing.

In the closing stages, we both caught up to Leo and on the last lap, I was close behind at Lavant.  There, his image again was very poor so I backed right out of it.  This let Phil get a run on me coming off the corner and the extra beans under the hood of the Lotus was all he needed to secure the place.   A great result regardless.

TY for hosting!

They cut it all down because it was goodwood, and plained it smooth with planes, during the War.  They raced cars on it, and now we race cars on it. 8)  Less than a mile from it, is the house the Goodwood Estate belongs to, built of good wood and stone.  The small private roads of the Mansion, have become a hillclimb for fast cars, and drivers.  Live coverage this weekend with access here  : 

https://www.goodwood.com/motorsport/festival-of-speed/