Had a look into the screen freeze problem:
Markus, Fulvio and Bastian all suffered screen freezes at the same time (0h41m24s).
Positions at the time:
Markus P1, at Pueblo Españo
Fulvio P5, at El Ángulo de Miramar (exit)
Bastian P7, at El Ángulo de Miramar (approach)
Nobody on a particularly unusual area of the track. So, if it was a discontinuity in the road surface, it is surprising that it didn’t happen to many other drivers who have crossed the same piece of tarmac.
Looking at GPL htlm export, the race numbers are:
Markus #16
Fulvio #3
Bastian #2
The race numbers of the other drivers who were still running at the time were:
Alain #17
Greg #7
Andreas #15
Enrique #6
Alex #19
Arf #9
I can’t see any correlation with race numbers (i.e. sequential numbers affected).
Had a look in the “Detailed Race Report”
41m00.440s
Bastian Grupp - spotters reporting:
medium problems with right front suspension.
41m23.440s
Markus Friedrich gets disconnected while racing in position 1.
41m23.440s
Bastian Grupp gets disconnected while racing in position 7.
41m23.440s
Fulvio Policardi gets disconnected while racing in position 5.
41m44.440s
Alain Maurice overtakes the disconnected Markus Friedrich for position 1.
So according to the report all 3 were disconnected at exactly the same time. Not sure if the order the drivers are listed in the report is significant. All the other non-finishers retired for mechanical reasons or crashes.
Don’t know why disconnections are sometimes associated with screen freezes and sometimes they are not. It appears in most cases when a screen freeze occurs, it affects multiple drivers, no idea why. No idea why specific drivers are affected.
In the Privateers race there were no problems. Different servers but nothing to suggest it was a server issue. But will investigate further.
Martin (Maddog) did warn us that the track was susceptible to screen freezes which is why we ran a
test race. After that we decided that it was probably worth the risk. Sorry it didn’t work out for Markus, Fulvio and Bastian. We should probably do more testing and investigation before we use the track in a league race again. Next use currently scheduled for Mixed Open Wheel – Round 10 – 8/6/2021.