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The UKGPL F2 Club Challenge Fun Races round 4


To celebrate the end of this great Season 22 and to do a first step to F2s for some of you.
We will do 6 x 2 fun races with all the new F2 cars.  
Which is the best F2 car for you?

There will be 2 intermediate short races of 25-30 mins on the same track.
You have to use a different car in each race - but up to you which one you start with.
 
This will be the schedule:

Date	Day	Time	Car	Track	Laps
15/05/2012	Tuesday	20:45 UK	McLaren  vs  Lola FVA	Oulton Park 1967	16 Laps
18/05/2012	Friday	20:45 UK	Protos    vs   Lola BMW	Snetterton	18 Laps
22/05/2012	Tuesday	20:45 UK	Cooper   vs   Lotus 41	Goodwood	18 Laps
25/05/2012	Friday	20:45 UK	BT23      vs   Matra MS5	Brands Hatch	16 Laps
29/05/2012	Tuesday	20:45 UK	Ferrari    vs   BT14	Mallory	x Laps
01/06/2012	Friday	20:45 UK	Matra 7  vs   Lotus 48	Silverstone	x Laps

The fourth race will be the Brabham BT23  vs the Matra MS5 at Brands Hatch 16 Laps

Race List	=	IGOR
Server	=	UKGPL_8
IP Address	=	tba
Race date	=	Friday 25/05/2012
Race Time	=	first Qualification (25mins) starts at 20:45 UK time (= 21:45 CET)
Track	=	Brands Hatch 67
Variant	=	The new F2 Mod
Damage Model	=	INT - Unlimited Shift+R is permitted but each must be followed by a Stop & Go of a minimum 0,001sec. ;)
Race length	=	~30 min -> 16 laps
Password	=	see above (#post_event_password)
Replay	=	you will get here (ftp://ukgpl3.dyndns.org/replays/Fun_Races/)

GLA and FUN

Who wants a drive should sign up here – everyone is welcome!

 ??? I dont have any BT24 inside my 67F2car folder

Yeah Nicky ;D

There is only a BT23...
But its one of my favourites!

I should be there

Brands should be a great challenge for these little beauties.  ;D 

When I first tried this when they were released I thought that they were a little tame and underpowered, but I must confess I am beginning to enjoy the very predictable handling and progressive physics model.

I guess we owe a big thank you to the Mod Team who developed this  :thumbup2:

I hope to be there tomorrow evening !

Hi guys. I know this isn't to do with this race, but is this the right game? (http://www.jsgaming.co.uk/images/gpl.jpg)

My Fridays have mostly become free so would like to participate in more races / games.
I have tried to play it but everything is way too sensitive.

Thanks.

Hi Quicksilver,  welcome to UKGPL hope to see you on track soon.

 and Yes that is the game.

Before you rush ahead and load the disc it would be very wise to go to :-

Announcements/ New drivers....

and read through all of the advice and stuff there. It really will make the whole process easier  ;)

ok chears ill have a wee look

I have to miss this one too...
:(

What a shame...

First race I had a semi freeze joining the grid, got it, but the screen kept flickering so I left...

Second race was fine but I had decided to take my new installation HDD, after 20 min the energy saving of windows shut my monitor off  >:(

The good thing is it happened in a fun race, as I had forgotten to switch it off... :wetfish: 

Screen freeze in qualy in the first race had me worried but two fun races nonetheless with another masterclass from Clive.

lmao!!  "Masterclass" ???!!

Well, the 1st race was not too bad. I quallied on race fuel, as normal, so I was confident about being able to run with Ron's pole time in the race. After that I was just plain lucky to pick up the win. I dumb mistake when I ran wide and let Ron get well away, meant that I had to fight my way back up through the field ( some good dices on the way ;D ). The fact that Ron was disco'd gifted me the win. Although I thought I might just be able to catch him in the remaining laps, I am not sure that I could have made the pass if I had caught him.


The least said about race 2 the better.  A clean lap netted me pole position and I was able to hold that up through Druids, which is always a vulnerable place on lap 1. Gradually I eased away fom Ron who was very quick in 2nd spot until he disco'd or went off and I found myself with a comfortable lead.  I was happy to stretch that out with some "safe" laps and then vanity got the better of me  ::) Prib had been teasing me with a possible 1:31 sec lap all evening and I wondered if I might just be able to squeeze a little more pace and record a great PB.
Well, with these F2's I find it is all about carrying the speed through the corners, because there is no huge kick of acceleration, so I started to explore the absolute limit of the tyres........ and I found that at Clearways  ;D.  After some grass cutting and barrier inspection I rejoined in 2nd spot some way behind Goran and just in front of Natan. I started to hunt down Goran and eased just a small gap to Natan, only to make exactly the same mistake a lap later at Clearways!! and I was back to 3rd!! masterclass???  Although I was faster than Natan and closed the gap easily he was not leaving any gaps that I could exploit safely. Even when I compromised my line and lost ground I could still close up quickly, but not find that opportunity to sneak through.

So, this MASTERCLASS must be in showing others how not to throw away a good position by fannying about with lap records, when you should be concentrating on cementing the place you already have!!!  Good job it was only a fun race eh???? ::) ;)

Grats to Goran on showing how it should be done and to Natan for some great defensive driving in the last laps.  I enjoyed some great racing last night.

Welcome to my world, I do that all the time and it just bites you back sometimes.  ::) Anything to entertain yourself while in front!  ;D