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WELCOME TO THE UKGPL SEASON 22 HISTORIC (66) TROPHY 

For the ninth round we go to Germany. The Nurburgring does not need any comment just be aware anyway.

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 until after Hocheichen.

Reserve drivers should not use the server between 35 and 30 minutes of qualifying to allow full timers to join.

Please restrict chat to a minimum, (or maybe none).

Please do not rely on luck!
 
Race List =         iGOR
Server =            UKGPL_T7_2
IP Address =       62.149.202.168
Race date =       17-04-2012
Time =              The Race will start 21.30 UK time
Track =             Nürburgring  1967   German Grand Prix
Variant =           66F1 2L engines
Damage Model =  PRO
Qualifying time =  >30 minutes. You are free to start as soon as the server is up but reserve drivers should not use the server between 35 and 30 minutes of qualifying to allow full timers to join.
Race length =     Pro Long (6 laps)

The track can be downloaded from: Papy track


The cars:

Group I
T1F Eagle Climax
Lotus 33 Climax

Group II
Brabham BT11 2.5lt
Lotus 33 BRM


GroupIII
Ferrari 246
Brabham BT11 BRM
BRM P261
Brabham BT11 2.7lt


Drivers Restricted to cars from Group I

Al Heller



Drivers Restricted to cars form Group II or Group I

Göran Jonsson



All other drivers have free chassis choice.



Password: See above
(2) Driver lists can be found here: https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=339&theme=6 (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=339&theme=6)

Leading the race when :censored: :censored: :censored: :censored: :censored: Windows decided that was the perfect moment to go into some kind of power-save mode. Blank screen & frantic alt-tabbing ensued - finally returned to GPL just at the moment my undamaged car was retired for being stationary too long. The most annoying thing is all the power-save stuff is of course disabled & it's just something to do with the last Windows update Aaaaarghhhhhhhh  :hang: Oh well there's always next season... :'(

Sorry to Clive if I was at fault for the T1 bump... congrats to the winner & podium.

Right, I'm off to hunt down Bill Gates  :gun_bandana:

edit: bad spelling

Had a hard day at work and came home with a splitting headache.  After a couple of paracetamols and a sleep for an hour I managed to join the server for the last 10 mins of praccy.  Race didn't last long, I put a wheel on the grass after the big dip and hit the tree, race over.  Very disappointed because Nurby is one of my favourite tracks but if this was real life I'd have ended up with something much worse than a headache!!!

Grats to the winner whoever you are  ;)

Joined the server as it was mutating (I had completely forgotten about this race ) no practise at all with 66mod and just had enough time to grab a Steve Cloyd  set up and join the back of the grid .

Was determined to go easy from the start in the hope of finally finishing a 66 Histerical race .

Almost binned it on lap one in spite of being ultra cautious with an unknown set up , I passed a few spinners who soon caught me up again , afraid I held him / them up for a lap or so, me being so slow , and was fully expecting to be punted off track but they behaved like gentlemen (mostly anyway) .

It all came good in the end though when I crossed the finish line still in one peice and with all my own teeth (thanks to national health)  to gain my first (and only ? ) points tally

Grats to the pod guys , tough luck to those who fell by the wayside , now off for a well earned beer  ;)

Now where did I leave that bottle opener  :-\

Aww just to late to join this one.

My engine exploded after 200 meters  :(
First time, it happened with the Brabham 2700cc
It was my shorter UKGPL races !

Wow - interesting to see that the championship is a straight fight between GJ and Evil. Despite being second, Al can't do it! Evil needs a win and GJ needs a podium. Smart money is on the Swede but pundits have been made to look like turnips before  ;D

I think I might have to bring Arnold and Mabel Glutbucket out of retirement to augment my pit crew for this final race.  ::)

In the past their presence has strangely gifted me some excellent results at critical stages of the season, as other cars mysteriously retire or lose a wheel etc. or drivers simply fail to appear on the grid.

There have been whispers of dirty deeds, but nothing has ever been proven as witnesses suddenly decide perhaps they did not actually see anything when Mabel is "nice" to them in a darkened room.  :shifty: :scared:

Hmm I strongly suspected I'd "do a Webber" & lead all season only to falter at the final hurdle :P

But shouldn't the championship table now be showing dropped scores? According to those, Goran would have 310, Clive 294 & me 285 - or have I got that wrong ???   

**edit - I have got that wrong because we all drop a zero score, right?

You've got it! Scores on the doors are correct and be happy Al, I am just out of reach of the Novices trophy... <ahem>