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WELCOME TO THE UKGPL Season 22 - Pro Trophy  

For the second round we go to Mexico City, the well known Papy track.

This race is at the historic 2.747-mile race track "Autódromo Hermanos Rodriguez" in Mexico City,
named for the famous racing drivers Ricardo and Pedro Rodríguez.
This track first hosted F1 in 1962 when Ricardo was killed in practice for the non-championship event.
Despite this inauspicious start the course was a staple of the F1 championship between 1963 and 1970.

Drivers beginning season 22 with this race have a free car choice!
All others have to keep their chosen car for the rest of the season,
they will only be allowed to swap chassis in exceptional circumstances and only with the approval of the moderator.
Driver lists can be found on the Pro Trophy (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=341&theme=6) championship standings page.
Please check the Season 22 pages for details (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=335&theme=6) regarding rules!

There will be full moderation of lap one Red Zone and reported incidents for the rest of the race.
Please submit incident reports within a week after the race so that the moderators report may be out before the next race.

The Red Zone is from start up to the end of the esses (turn 13) on the straight before Peralta.

Full time drivers have priority access to the server until 21.00 UK time.

Please restrict chat to a minimum,

Race List	=	IGOR
Server	=	UKGPL_T7_2
IP Address	=	62.149.202.168
Race date	=	22-11-2011
Race Time	=	race starts at 21:30 UK time
Qualification Time	=	30-60 mins
Track	=	Mexico, papy
Variant	=	65F1 the 2.02 Release of the 65mod should be used
Damage Model	=	PRO
Race length	=	50 min -> 27 laps
RED ZONE	=	from race start to the end of the esses (turn 13) on the straight before Peralta.
Password	=	see above (#post_event_password)
Replay	=	you will get here (ftp://ukgpl3.dyndns.org/Replays/Archive/Season22/Pros/)

GLA

Hallo guy's ,
i see the password for this evening race for pro , when i want to enter with this password it say's wrong password heeeeeeeeeelp:)
greets

Sven the server for the race will be up at 9pm GMT ;)
Ciao

Thanks Fulvio!

Thanks Policardi .... ach those young men have no patience  :P

wrong password wrong password wrong password for 30 minutes with some wrong channel when I tried to use ip. used some hours on this ..I m really close to smash something now really close breath breath breath
edit:I m over the worst...I through a kithchen chair on the vacuumcleaner and it gave some good noise..and I through down some strong alcohol down my throat

....And bang goes the engine with 9 to go.

Had a lot on my plate today and a splitting headache, but i love GPL so thought i'd attend and see how i got on.

Qualified at the back, 4 seconds of the pole. Made some foolish set up alterations to be very old Nov setup and paid the price in the race. After some good initial dicing, the tyres started overheating all over the place duem to my untested set up changes. That combined with a last minute Diff change made the car very unstable. I started leaking positons as the car the drifted, unsteered and snap over steered.

The engine eventually blew up with 9 to go.

Some people were cutting the cones in the pits which made me think not everyone was using the Mexico multi season graphical update. No harm in that, but you should try it. It makes the track look great. Head over the SRMZ for a look.  ;)

Anyway, thats that one out the way. Not a fan really.  :)

What cones?!
I guess I don't have the update  ???

Anyway, had a minor slide/half spin early in the race after starting way back (Spent most of qually in race trim so didn't really get any fast laps in) and had to fight my way back up through the order from right near the back.

I caught Clutch, Juha and Fulvio (I think) who were having a bit of a bash at the time - after some work and about 2 laps I managed to pass them and press on. The majority of the mid-part of the race was very lonely for me, as I spent it watching my pit board every 2 minutes and trying to concentrate on catching Al and Natan who were some way ahead and also having a scrap.
It seemed to take forever but I eventually caught them with about 5 to go - Natan then convieniently span exiting the hairpin letting Al through, I couldn't make a safe pass so hung back.
My patience was rewarded as Natan made an error and ran wide a short while later letting me through.

3 laps to go now and I was just on the end of Al's slipstream, fast forward to the penultimate lap and I passed him in an unusual spot (on the run to the turn 4/5 chicane before the hairpin) before defending into the hairpin itself.
After that I managed to pull away smoothly - I think I'd managed to look after my tyres better than Al as he seemed to be struggling for traction far more than me. Although that may also be because I was running longer gears than him through the twisty sections  ;)

Nice to finish 6th after such a poor qualifying result for me - I really must start practicing more for these races now the competition has raised so much (Damn free choice of chassis  :P) - that said I'm really enjoying the midfield fight  ;D

Well done to all the podium and finishers  :angel:

Replay is available here (http://ukgpl3.dyndns.org/inc_replaysS22_js.htm). Just select the Pros series and analysis is available if you click on the Archive name.

That analysis is available directly from here (ftp://ukgpl3.dyndns.org/replays/archive/season22/analysis/S22_Pros_R02_2011_11_22_Mexico_City/index.html).

The Replay .rar file is available here (ftp://ukgpl3.dyndns.org/replays/archive/season22/pros/S22_Pros_R02_2011_11_22_Mexico_City.rar).

Here is my little story from the race at El Mexico ,

Qualified third place second for MagicArsouille and first place for beefpie  , thought .... that's not bad because midfield is a bit tricky to be at for the first turn .
Thinking about that ( the first turn ) we placed or self on the grid and ..... bang of we where .
Comming to the first turn i saw in front of me what i thought a little bang bang between MagicArsouille and beefpie and i said................ noooooooooooooooo and one second later i said......... yeeeeeeeeeeees  :P , beefpie could
continue with his race but Magic stood still so i took the second place .
Beefpie was to fast for me and i couldn't follow him , i was also a little bit afraid to overheat my tyres so i found myself a good rhythm .
The third place was at that moment for Goran  he stayed behind me at 8/10 seconds until i passed at one moment the pitbord and didn't saw Goran's name anymore but instead it was Magic who took third place .
There where about 10 laps to go for me and Magic was coming closer but not fast enough to catch me befor the race was done .
He he never thought i could finnish this race but i did it  :laugh:
First a big thanks for for the guy's who provide us with the server and a big congrats for beefpie for winning the race , also congrats for the drivers who ended/full the race at Mexico .
greets svenvangent 

 

No womder why I couldn t join .They misspelled the pw :o look here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udtsv15fWH0

Disaster Ferrari, furious controversy to internal team.
The Commander is still around in pit lane handling a shotgun, no trace of the drivers ...

I witnessed the Baressi Brothers Team Tango at T1 and I thought to myself.."there are going to be some very interesting words spoken between those two drivers hehehehehehe :o)!"



Grats to Joe for a taking the Honda to a well dominating win ( just a shame he was not wearing a  Waza fundoshi  :-\)

I had a poor start and got passed by Al off the grid. I regained the place a couple of laps later and set off after the leading bunch.
I steadily caught the Baressi Ferraris who were running in team formation, but because there were two of them running close together i could not find a way past until they did their formation exit. By then I had lost too much ground to the leading cars and although I eventually caught and passed Goran to get me up to 3rd place, I lost the bottom step of the podium when a recovering Tristan cam flying up through the field to steal that from me.

Still not a bad result as I was not feeling too confident about this race. Thanks to all who I diced with for some great racing.

I can't compete with anyone no more with my BT11  :'(
Even Juha in his BT7 got rid of me, I want a Lotus  ;D
Honestly I didn't pay attention to the rule before picking the BT11 at first race, I think Juha did the same...

Speaking of the devil, Juha was lost by the server at last but one lap, but he finished the race ahead of me. Can he have his position?
Ciao

Tom,

I may have misspelt the password - it is entirely possible because unlike you I can't see it on the forum  ;D

I did look up the password on the Events list in LM2 and it DEFINITELY said 'Aztek'....

Hi guys  ;D ....
  ......was a good race for me ,not in a way I was expecting but quite fun ..... the pole pos. have been made in the last lap I think .... well done Jo :).....
     .....I take  a perfect start and arrive in turn one a little beat in front of Jo.....I take  the line , but unfortunately ( after vision of my reaplay ) ....Jo spinn a little and touch my back rear wheel ... :o... then I go dircet in the rail ....aîe ! ....I'm lucky 'cause I can continu the race , but from this moment my car got minors problèms a little beat everywhere !!! (GPLRA).....but I don't realy feel it .... ;D
 ....Ilost one place in turn one .....then come turn 7 and ......"fu...!", I touch the pavement with my rear wheel and go straight in the grass .......ppffff! ....I restart  ......last !.....ggrrrrrr !!
.....the rest of the race was really fun , chasing till the end ...... at last , I'm happy to be on the podium .... :D

......Bravo Jo ....( exept maybe on the turn one !.....)
.....bravo Sven ......
   .....thanks to all and spécial thanks to the Org. ......                 .....ciao tutti !

Sorry Tristan, we were both in each other's blind spots at the time, have to say I was a little surprised to see your car appear out of the blind spot so close to my left side, I assumed that you would be taking a slightly wider line than that. Still, nice one for recovering for a podium and for fastest lap (and a new Race lap record!). :)

Thanks for showing up and making it happen as always everyone, grats podium finishers and survivors, commiserations to those who didn't make it, 'till next time. :)

Update:
a spectator said to have seen Mark75 perched on a tree, that Alex was trying to break down with bites and claw shots ...

Phew I think we could do with a new "Super Pro" division these days for all these fast boys ;) Drove as hard & consistently as I could all race with no mistakes & ended up 7th :hammer: So perhaps not the greatest result but enjoyable midfield racing nevertheless. Jumped both Raoni & Clive off the start but just didn't have the pace to stop Clive taking back the place & thereafter followed his Honda closely as it slithered around on the tail of the Barresi Brothers. After their unexpected fraternal fracas at T1 (I also imagined there would be some choice words after that one!) Clive scooted off & I spent pretty much the rest of the race fighting with Natan. That BRM was too quick for me on the straight but I eventually managed to sneak past into 6th when Natan made a slight error at the hairpin. Unfortunately Natan's slipstream had also been helping me to maintain a gap to FMG behind & without that nice juicy tow FMG soon filled my mirrors. With just 2 laps to go I delivered my fastest lap of the race (and new PB) in an effort to keep FMG at bay but the cad decided to deliver his (faster) fastest lap of the race at precisely the same time & nipped ahead. Congrats to Joe, Sven & excellent recovery drive from Tristan. 

There is hope yet Al because if I get my way there will be some form of promotion/relegation in the 65's. So finish last and you can drop down and mash the Inters next season! ;D

Juha's position has also been corrected after the server got all confused. Sorry FP, Pod.

Moderation published  ::)