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Season 34 – 1955 Grand Prix – Round 8 – Monza 10K
The eighth race in the 1955 Grand Prix series takes us to the Cathedral of Speed in Italy. The Autodromo Nazionale Monza is a race track located near the city of Monza, north of Milan. Built in the Royal Villa of Monza park in a woodland setting, the circuit has gone through numerous changes over the years. Perhaps the most striking feature in the park is the steep banked (sopraelevata) curves on the now defunct 10Km variant, first used in 1955. The original circuit (used between 1922 and 1933) also had an oval section but the banked curves were not as wide or as steep as the later 1955 variant. The banked circuit was used on four occasions for Formula 1 races; in 1955, 1956, 1960 and finally in 1961 when it was decided that Formula 1 cars were just too fast to be safe on the oval track. The banked oval section was last used in any capacity in 1969. From 1962 onwards, the Formula 1 Grand Prix was held on the "road circuit" which by the early 1970s was also deemed to be too fast for Formula 1 cars. Two chicanes were introduced for 1972 Italian Grand Prix, one at the Ascari curve and another on the approach to the Curva Grande. Tonight we will relive the dramatic race in 1955 on the full 10Km circuit complete with steep bankings and no chicanes. The full time drivers can start to practice as soon as the server is available. Reserve drivers can also join as soon as the server becomes available but must leave the server with 35 minutes of qualifying left, for a total of 5 minutes; this will allow any remaining full timers to join. If there is enough space on the grid, the reserve drivers will be able to rejoin when there are 30 mins of qualifying left. Please read the championship specific rules on the championship standings page.
Race list | iGOR | Server | UKGPL_4 | IP address | 46.69.108.161 | Date | 12-05-2019 | Track | Monza 10K | Mod | 55GP with 60fpsV2newmod | Damage | PRO long | Race time | ~ 21:30 UK time (BST, GMT + 1) | Qualifying | 45 minutes @ 20:45 UK time (BST, GMT + 1) | Race length | 17 laps | Replay | here |
If the official replay site is unavailable, the server replay can be downloaded from this temporary location. Please restrict chat to emergency messages only including at the end of the race until ALL drivers still racing have crossed the line. Password: see aboveDriver lists can be found on the championship standings pageHandicapping and chassis allocation.This season the 1955 Grand Prix cars will again 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. 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 table 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 | Alessandro Isacchini | 13 | Pro | bagrupp | 5 | Pro | Clive Loynes | 20 | Pro | Cookie | 22 | Pro | DLogan | 5 | Pro | EvilClive | 31 | Pro | fpolicardi | 0 | Pro | Gareth | 5 | Pro | Jeep | 0 | Pro | uli | 6 | Pro | francesco | 15 | Am | Phil Thornton | 22 | Am | Rich Welsh | 18 | Am | tagomago | 80 | Am |
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Clive Loynes
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« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2019, 10:07:41 PM +0100 » |
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Thank goodness for that! It's been soooooo long since the last gallop that I've almost forgotten how to join the server! Was it Control/Alt/Delete?
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« Reply #2 on: May 11, 2019, 09:12:47 AM +0100 » |
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Oh yes Clive, that's almost correct!! At your age it is understandable that your memory is a little cloudy after such a long break in the schedule, and we should do all we can to help. When the qualifying session ends and you see the green button light up, that is when you need to hit "CTRL-ALT-DEL". I hope that all is clear now
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Clive Loynes
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« Reply #3 on: May 12, 2019, 09:36:45 AM +0100 » |
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Oh yes Clive, that's almost correct!! At your age it is understandable that your memory is a little cloudy after such a long break in the schedule, and we should do all we can to help. When the qualifying session ends and you see the green button light up, that is when you need to hit "CTRL-ALT-DEL". I hope that all is clear now Just as I expected. Beware the Wazza giving advice!
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« Reply #4 on: May 12, 2019, 06:54:00 PM +0100 » |
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Practice server is up. Please check your connections.
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« Reply #5 on: May 12, 2019, 07:39:32 PM +0100 » |
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Practice server is up. Please check your connections.
ATM I see no UKGPL_4 at iGOR...
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« Reply #6 on: May 12, 2019, 08:22:10 PM +0100 » |
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Practice server is up. Please check your connections.
ATM I see no UKGPL_4 at iGOR... Me neither ;-)
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« Reply #7 on: May 12, 2019, 08:29:04 PM +0100 » |
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Sorry server locked up. Restarted it.
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« Reply #8 on: May 12, 2019, 08:31:30 PM +0100 » |
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Now I see it!
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« Reply #9 on: May 12, 2019, 09:35:48 PM +0100 » |
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Bad luck haunting me.At the end of the qualification GPL stop to work,i try to reenter immediately but infortunately was with a Lancia,no time to change the car.
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« Reply #10 on: May 12, 2019, 10:26:55 PM +0100 » |
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Bad luck haunting me.At the end of the qualification GPL stop to work,i try to reenter immediately but infortunately was with a Lancia,no time to change the car.
Hard luck Fran
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« Reply #11 on: May 12, 2019, 10:32:56 PM +0100 » |
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wowowowow happy finishing at Monza with my beloved gordini Spanish version of the paper Grats podium specially Clive with his win and thx all for racing
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« Reply #12 on: May 12, 2019, 10:48:17 PM +0100 » |
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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. Driver | Tokens | Status | Alessandro Isacchini | 13 | Pro | bagrupp | 0 | Pro | Clive Loynes | 10 | Pro | Cookie | 12 | Pro | DLogan | 5 | Pro | EvilClive | 26 | Pro | fpolicardi | 0 | Pro | Gareth | 5 | Pro | Jeep | 0 | Pro | uli | 6 | Pro | francesco | 15 | Am | Phil Thornton | 12 | Am | Rich Welsh | 18 | Am | tagomago | 90 | Am |
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« Reply #13 on: May 12, 2019, 11:00:27 PM +0100 » |
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Quite an exciting race for me, especially on lap 6 when 4 of us were heading for the second banking. I almost pulled out of Bastian's slipstream but I was trying to work out where Clive was. Luckily I caught a glimpse of a silver mudguard in my mirror and I backed off. It was quite hard slowing the SL down for the parabolica and when dicing with Bastian for second place in the closing stages I missed a gear and without brakes (red light on) and no engine braking I ran wide. Fortunately I had enough of a gap to retain third place but I had no chance of catching Bastian.
Grats to Clive on the win and to Bastian securing second place in the Lancia. Bad luck Cookie and Fran, you both deserved better than that.
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« Reply #14 on: May 12, 2019, 11:11:59 PM +0100 » |
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Strange, my clutch exploded at the exit of the Para (this is what I read in game comment) Yesterday I had tortured the car way more in practice without failure...
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Axel "Cookie"
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an aphorism of Stanislaus Jercy Lec
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