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Practice: 19:20 (UK London) (60 mins)
Qual 2: 20:20 (20 mins)
Race: 20:40 (38 laps)
Cars allowed: Rank 1 to 11 - Alfa Romeo GTA 1300 Junior, Lotus Cortina (Works or Mann), Ford Mustang BSCC.
                    Rank 12 to 23 and new drivers - Any of the above plus Alfa Romeo GTA 1600, Lotus Cortina (Works or Mann), Ford Mustang Trans Am.

Drivers please note the following:

This Championship will be formed of four parts (A to D). In each part you must choose a car model (Cortina, Alfa Romeo or Mustang) and stick with it for all the races contained within that part. When a new part starts you may either elect to keep your current choice or change it. Below are the track details of each of the four parts. The three events that separate the four parts are Mini only races.

PART A

Snetterton
Knockhill
Donington Park

PART B

Castle Combe
Cadwell Park
Thruxton

PART C

Oulton Park International
Crystal Palace
Mondello Park

PART D

Brand Hatch GP
Mallory Park
Anglesey
Silverstone GP

Track: UKGTR Crystal Palace Download this (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3356.msg54521#post_crystalpalace)

Time of Day Setting: 15:00
Weather: DRY
Start: Standing

Tyre wear: Normal
Fuel consumption: Normal
Pit-stops: None required

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Password: see above (#post_event_password)

Championship Standings (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=350&theme=34)

Notes:
(1) It's best if all drivers can make sure they are connected before the Qualifying session as drivers on track during qualifying will not see cars that join after they are on track until they go back to the garage.
(2) Please make sure you are fully aware of the SimRacing.org.uk Rules (https://www.simracing.org.uk/index.php?pid=7) especially the rules about in-game chat messages.
(3) You will need to install Power and Glory v2 from here (http://www.gtlw.co.uk/), 2.1 patch from here (http://www.gtlw.co.uk/) and enable terrain patch.
(4) P&G has no 'Pit Speed Limiter' function. You may go as fast as you like in the pits, but please exercise caution. Penalties will be handed out for causing contact in the pit lane. Use your best judgement when making your pitstop during the race.

Weather
A weather site will be consulted on the Sunday afternoon before the race and if rain is forecast for the race location then expect a wet weather race. Rain will be set at 80% for heavy rain, 60% for moderate rain and 40% for light rain.

I'm getting file not found when I try to download this track.  :(

Try this'n http://www.gamefront.com/files/21986235/GPLea_Crystal_Palace_v1_22_by_motorfx_for_GTR2.zip

EDIT: Download link now updated.  :)

Thanks Tony.

Hoping to give it a go tonight.

Don't you guys feel that the AI is fast ?
After a few laps in Stang and Tina, i'm clearly slower than them...  :'(

I won't be able to do this one:-((

It's summertime, and in my case that means less virtual racing and more wine-zipping by the grill :-))

I'm not giving up on P&G, no matter how long we have to wait for V3. I've tried r-Factor vintage
league-racing, and it's not a good alternative IMO. I experienced a never ending row of mismatches, far worse than in P&G.

Stig

Hopefully I can find the time to drive the Lotus Cortina tonight. And yes, the AI is incredibly fast here: there's a certain Mr. Clark that keeps challenging me for the quickest Cortina lap time ;)

I hadn't spot that race was planned a thursday... Will it be regular now ? ??? Sorry if i missed an info somewhere.

Always a Thursday Solmyr.

The rest of the series is here https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=350&theme=34 

You just have to figure out which ones are the Minis.

Oups !  ;D

Hoping we'll have a decent grid.  8)

LOL

If you get a decent grid at Crystal Palace then the front of the grid can see the back after two laps!

I seem to remember that pit spaces are in short supply also.  Or maybe that was in GPL. ???

20 car limit here

If we reach this number, it would be a great race ! :)

I tried a stupid move on Alex and ended up with nothing but a damaged car which soon became undriveable so quit out. Have fun guys.

Dang i was having a good race in 6th for the first 20 laps keeping the gap to the guys in front reasonably constant and with a huge 30+ sec gap to the followers, but then that damn turn 2 right hander caught me on the wooden slats and the car rolled onto its roof really slowly  :'(  i waited for a while to see if some kind soul would right me with a nudge but nobody showed.

 :(

Results and Replay posted

Thanks Matt

Dang?  You going to night school to learn Mustang language MJ?

I messed up the start because I was late to the grid, having tried to get a bit more than 50% engine life.  The lights changed to green as my car touched down and I had my work cut out not to fall too far back through the grid.

Thankfully the Mustang grunt took me past John and then I fluked a pass on Solmyr that was the making of my race!  I wasn't actually trying to pass, just not hit him!

From then on I did my best to keep Geoffers honest and many thanks to John for keeping Sol off my back.  LOL
My only chance to win was to get in front of Geoffers early and my poor start messed that up completely!

Into the last quater of the race my tyres were gone and according to XD my front left was on the rims as I finished.

Grats Geoffers.

I was happy to get back the 2nd laptime in qualif.

Then my start wasn't as bad as usually, but after that i did too carefully at the straight line braking... I saw Clive pass on my right like a rocket !

Then i pass the whole race or almost in a bad driving way, problems with my downshifting and braking style, and it became even worse when John began to pressure me and i had tires in bad health... during about 30 laps ! :) The Tina/Stang battle kept its promises : He was faster in the last part of the track (particularly the last turn), and i was faster in the straight lines... It was a fair nervous war.

Congrats to Geoffers and Clive, and thanks to all !

Ah, that explains how I managed to get to the first corner in front, I was expecting to have two Mustangs blast past me off the line.
Was really surprised how big a lead I built on the first lap, but then went to sleep a bit for a couple of laps & Clive closed the gap. Once I had got into the groove I kept the gap steady & as the Mustang tyres wore succeeded in pulling away. Ran the softest tyres on the Alfa & they lost grip from about half-distance so laptimes dropped off by about 0.5s+ per lap.

Congrats to Clive & Sol :clap:. Not a bad turnout either. :thumbup1:

Unofficial LapChart (http://www.justanotherpage.nl/Srou/PnG/GTR2_crystalpalace_2012_7_19_20_43/)

What a race! 40 minutes of non-stop action!
Hope I got out of the way fast enough for the "slightly faster cars" but had my hands full even at the back end of the grid  ;D
... and all with only a slight dent in my Cortina. Good stuff.

Pity. We had a good fight for quite some laps. Tried to give you some room in the esses by running over the curb but that didn't help I guess  ???

Good turnout.

ps. Pieter, zou jij het land kunnen invullen in jouw profiel? Alvast bedankt.

@ John : Watching the replay, i saw that i didn't let you enough room at a moment near the end of the race : you had put your nose along my back, and i didn't see it. As it's sometimes difficult to hear a Tina engine when we have a V8 Ford block 1 meter from our ears, i didn't spot your position by the sound neither. Sorry for that.

@ AlexvV : For me, there was no problem at all. :)

Thanks for giving me the space.  As I said earlier, I wasn't trying to pass, just not hit you.

No problem, Sol. It was unfortunate for me that the track wasn't quite wide enough for two cars at the only place the Cortina was faster! Good fun, nevertheless  :thumbup1: