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Title: UKGPL Season 23 F2 Fun Race - Aintree - Jan 6
Post by: Cookie on January 03, 2013, 11:09:55 AM +0000
UKGPL starts the new year 2013 with some F2 fun
 
Aintree Motor Racing Circuit is a 3-mile (4.83 km) motor racing circuit in the village of Aintree, Merseyside, England. The circuit is located within the famous Aintree Racecourse and used the same grandstands as horse racing. The circuit has hosted the Formula One British Grand Prix five times, in 1955, 1957, 1959, 1961 and 1962 and saw Stirling Moss’ first GP victory in 1955.

We will do a nearly full Grand Prix distance in INT mode to burn some of the calories you accumulated in the holidays.   ;D
It’s a fun race, with 2x limited Shift+R but you are asked to observe the normal GPL rule of taking a Stop & Go after every reset.
You have a free car choice.
Please note the slightly earlier start time of 8.45 UK time.

Race List =   IGOR
Server = UKGPL_8
IP Address = tba
Race date = 06-01-2013
Qualification Time   = 20:45  UK time 20 mins
Race Time = race start at ~21:05 UK time
Track = Aintree  (http://srmz.net/index.php?showtopic=1284#entry8476)
Variant = F2 67
Damage Model = INT
Race length = 60 laps
Password = see above (#post_event_password)
Replay = you will get here (ftp://ukgpl3.dyndns.org/Replays/Archive/Season23/FunRaces/)

Have fun and luck!

EDIT:
As it is a fun race I changed to INT mode to make it possible to finish for more people...
BUT you will have only 2 x S+R with a Stop and Go!


Title: Re: UKGPL Season 23 F2 Fun Race - Aintree - Jan 6
Post by: bernie on January 06, 2013, 01:39:29 PM +0000
60 laps of Aintree  :eek:

you must be joshing  :o

No "pause game " option I suppose  :) 

Will give this a go for a laugh but expect to retire before half distance when I collapse in a heap on the floor  ::)



Title: Re: UKGPL Season 23 F2 Fun Race - Aintree - Jan 6
Post by: Hristo Itchov on January 06, 2013, 01:40:52 PM +0000
I have a feeling few are going to show up for this one LOL.


Title: Re: UKGPL Season 23 F2 Fun Race - Aintree - Jan 6
Post by: blito on January 06, 2013, 01:49:44 PM +0000
Race will finish about an hour too late for comfort - I have an early start in the morning so I may not participate, or at the very best would expect to retire to bed at about half distance!


Title: Re: UKGPL Season 23 F2 Fun Race - Aintree - Jan 6
Post by: garethhall on January 06, 2013, 02:20:25 PM +0000
will give it ago but two hours is a long time, there maybe nicotine and bladder issues  :laugh:


Title: Re: UKGPL Season 23 F2 Fun Race - Aintree - Jan 6
Post by: Phil Thornton on January 06, 2013, 02:48:14 PM +0000
will give it ago but two hours is a long time, there maybe nicotine and bladder issues  :laugh:
LOL not nicotine for me but a toilet break might be necessary for some of us :wheelchair:

You can stop in the pits and provided you stop exactly in your pit box (as we had to do for the long GT pit stops).  You won't get discoed and you should be able to take a comfort break.  Might loose a lap or 2 in the process though LOL


Title: Re: UKGPL Season 23 F2 Fun Race - Aintree - Jan 6
Post by: Wiltshire Tony on January 06, 2013, 03:08:16 PM +0000
Don't you guys have racing buckets?


Title: Re: UKGPL Season 23 F2 Fun Race - Aintree - Jan 6
Post by: bernie on January 06, 2013, 08:10:40 PM +0000
Don't you guys have racing buckets?

AKA wellies  ::)


Title: Re: UKGPL Season 23 F2 Fun Race - Aintree - Jan 6
Post by: Cookie on January 06, 2013, 08:49:03 PM +0000
We decided in the chat to reduce the distance to 50 laps = 90 min!


Title: Re: UKGPL Season 23 F2 Fun Race - Aintree - Jan 6
Post by: blito on January 06, 2013, 09:22:03 PM +0000
well that's me out on lap four.
I got caught out at lap 2 by another drivers utter stupidity and cost me my firstt reset, then 3 laps later the car starts handling badly following a half spin so I decided that I'm clearly not "in the zone" and quit.
One note to all involved, I saw plenty of evidence of moderatable offences in those first few laps tonight, causing collisions, bad rejoins etc. If we behave like that in the divisional races we can expect to be raped by the moderators!


Title: Re: UKGPL Season 23 F2 Fun Race - Aintree - Jan 6
Post by: BadBlood on January 06, 2013, 09:23:36 PM +0000
Drat and Double Drat.

Joined late because it is School Return tomorrow and 9pm is BED TIME... just made it to the line and found.... NO STEERING - aaaaagggggghhhhhh. Wondered if the direction keys would suffice but.... no :(

No choice. Early bath. Hope it goes better on Tuesday. Hope you all enjoyed it.


Title: Re: UKGPL Season 23 F2 Fun Race - Aintree - Jan 6
Post by: Arf Arf Arf on January 06, 2013, 11:13:14 PM +0000
One note to all involved, I saw plenty of evidence of moderatable offences in those first few laps tonight

There was some moderatable language in the chat during qually as well Mr B!!

Well that was quite an experience....as ever reasonably happy to finish 4th, but thinking about what could have been. I had an off on L1/L2 and had to Shift R, and the punishment chassis 2 took was amazing. I had loads of offs, including 5 consecutive laps just after the kink at the end of the main straight. Expected the car to give up, but I managed 30/35 laps before a silly little mistake avoiding the leader lapping me got me stuck in the grandstand and called up my last allowable Shift R.

Ronnie - presume you regret your setup? Had great fun chasing you down, spinning, chasing you down etc a number of times, but you were so easy to catch because you didn't have the speed on the straight. You me and Cookie has some good racing. Speaking of which, what happened to you Cookie? After we'd got away from Ronnie we had some close racing, and then I lost it on the kink and overtook you on the grass as I couldn't take a corner. I slowed and let you pass me back, but you span 2/3 corners later and I didn't see you again.

Well done to everyone that took part tonight

AAA


Title: Re: UKGPL Season 23 F2 Fun Race - Aintree - Jan 6
Post by: Phil Thornton on January 06, 2013, 11:45:53 PM +0000
After a disappointing start when I was rear ended trying to slow down for the carnage ahead I settled down to have quite a good race.  I had to make a S&G which put me near the back and without Prib I had no idea where I was apart from near the back!  Had a nice battle with Bernie and in the latter stages with Cookie.  Pleased to get 5th and I've no idea where my fastest lap came from.  I obviously did something right on that lap!  I'll have to check the lap with GPLRA to see if it is genuine and just where I made up so much time.


Title: Re: UKGPL Season 23 F2 Fun Race - Aintree - Jan 6
Post by: Cookie on January 07, 2013, 12:35:43 AM +0000
Yeah. Phil I think you did it in a tow... ;)

I hate these F2s, they have a very strange fuel consumption, if you have to push harder they seem to eat much more.

I was rearended in lap 1 by Arf but had no harm left, so I made some places up until about the half distance when I saw that my fuel will not be enough to finish comfortable. I had taken 6 litres more than the predicted...
This confused me quite a bit and I made some stupid mistakes so I lost place after place....

 


Title: Re: UKGPL Season 23 F2 Fun Race - Aintree - Jan 6
Post by: EvilClive on January 07, 2013, 08:51:13 AM +0000
I must apologise for the carnage at the end of the straight on Lap 1.
I think I was running in 3rd spot behind Gareth and Tris as we hit the braking zone for the blind flick through the hedges and......my screen went black!!!! :o :o :o

I thought I had suffered a disco and was frantically hitting the escape key. Then suddenly the screen came back to life and my car was against the greenery ,but surrounded by other cars ...oops!!  :thumbdown: :thumbdown: :no: The car had all 4 wheels and the engine was still running so I quietly slipped away from the scene of the accident.

Sorry to anyone who suffered from that, but I had a similar blackout in a GT race at Spa before Christmas and I am wondering WTF is going on. Al did mention that he had experienced something similar when he was running Windows XP and switched to Windows7.
Does anyone else have any thoughts?

After my recovery Tris and Gareth were long gone and although I managed to get myself up to 3rd place I could not close the gap. So I had a lonely race with only the occasional backmarker to pass. In the last few laps my brain was in meltdown and I made several mistakes, but fortunately none of them caused any lasting damage and the car got me to the finish and a podium.

I enjoyed the race but would have enjoyed it even more if it involved some more racing alongside other cars rather than watching prib each lap to see if the gap had changed.
Thanks to Axel for organising and grats to Tris and Gareth for their performance.


Title: Re: UKGPL Season 23 F2 Fun Race - Aintree - Jan 6
Post by: BadBlood on January 07, 2013, 09:12:21 AM +0000
Screen blackout - three things come to mind. Timed event (such as virus scan), screen saver settings (unlikely) and power plan configuration set to blank out the screen after x mins. That has caught me out before.


Title: Re: UKGPL Season 23 F2 Fun Race - Aintree - Jan 6
Post by: PaulV on January 07, 2013, 09:39:58 AM +0000

Hi ,


couldnt make last night as had some family over.  60 laps was just too much for me.

I see it was reduced to 50, still too much for me though. still struggling a bit with being able to concentrate as needed for the longer races.

hopefully this will improve as i learn more of the newer tracks. having had a long layoff from GPL I have lots and lots of tracks to learn.

glad quite a few made it and hope you all enjoyed it.

I had tried a bit of practice over the last few days, must say I like Antree as a race circuit. I hope perhaps it might pop up during the coming season.

Paul V.




Title: Re: UKGPL Season 23 F2 Fun Race - Aintree - Jan 6
Post by: Ronniepeterson on January 07, 2013, 09:41:19 AM +0000
Ronnie - presume you regret your setup? Had great fun chasing you down, spinning, chasing you down etc a number of times, but you were so easy to catch because you didn't have the speed on the straight.

I'm a total noob in these F2 things and picked a car at random. Clearly the Ferrari 166 was the wrong choice!!!. I was a sitting duck for sure down the straights. Even with a tow I felt like I was going backwards. Still I enjoyed the race so thanks for organising Axel.


Title: Re: UKGPL Season 23 F2 Fun Race - Aintree - Jan 6
Post by: MagicArsouille on January 07, 2013, 09:48:20 AM +0000
Yooo !
I choise to do one pit stop for fuel, but for that I must have a confortable gap ( thing possible  'cause lighter car ).....but I have to stop before the half of the race cause I'm out of fuel at this moment !!....Ihave enought time to do it but the track is not free  and I have to wait to do s-r......and when the track come  free I restart second ....then I know that I must do the 'forcing ' to joint Gareth....I reduced  the gap lap after lap and Gareth  under pressure make a mistake and I retake the lead .....but I have to pitstop again  ( F2'are glutton !! ).....so I do it and Gareth pass me again !!...still 10 laps to go , but I'm to far from the lead and I resigned myself to finish second.....still 4-5 laps to go and Isee Gareth pit-in !.....( it seems that I am not alone to have not enought fuel !).....then Ihave just to controle the few last laps ......thx everybody, was good fun :)

c u folks ;)


Title: Re: UKGPL Season 23 F2 Fun Race - Aintree - Jan 6
Post by: Hristo Itchov on January 07, 2013, 09:57:29 AM +0000
I'm a total noob in these F2 things and picked a car at random. Clearly the Ferrari 166 was the wrong choice!!!. I was a sitting duck for sure down the straights. Even with a tow I felt like I was going backwards. Still I enjoyed the race so thanks for organising Axel.

Ouch, Ronnie, you couldn't have picked a worse car, lol!  :death: And for such a long race!


Title: Re: UKGPL Season 23 F2 Fun Race - Aintree - Jan 6
Post by: Ronniepeterson on January 07, 2013, 11:03:29 AM +0000
Your all heart Hristo.

One of the other reasons I was so slow was my heavy fuel load. I did not realise stops were allowed for refueling in the F2 championship. I have a lot to learn before the season starts!


Title: Re: UKGPL Season 23 F2 Fun Race - Aintree - Jan 6
Post by: BadBlood on January 07, 2013, 11:27:56 AM +0000
I did not realise stops were allowed for refueling in the F2 championship.

They are not! LOL. This was just fun though.


Title: Re: UKGPL Season 23 F2 Fun Race - Aintree - Jan 6
Post by: garethhall on January 07, 2013, 12:30:58 PM +0000
Clive, was not me, i was well back, crap start and probably was the instigator to all the t1 crashes, so sorry to all for thatm do know who or what happened there, i hate f2 cannot get the car to do what i want and am slow gggrrrrr. last for about ten laps and lost my rear wheel on exit of last corner after a coll battle with bernie, could not be bother to take 2nd reset and called it a day, f2 is like 65, not imho.


Title: Re: UKGPL Season 23 F2 Fun Race - Aintree - Jan 6
Post by: EvilClive on January 07, 2013, 12:52:23 PM +0000
My mistake Gareth..it was Mark Jones moonlighting from the Antipodes.  ::)


Title: Re: UKGPL Season 23 F2 Fun Race - Aintree - Jan 6
Post by: Al Heller on January 07, 2013, 12:56:38 PM +0000
Screen blackout - three things come to mind. Timed event (such as virus scan), screen saver settings (unlikely) and power plan configuration set to blank out the screen after x mins. That has caught me out before.

Mine wasn't any of those. I had some weird issue with the screen randomly (i.e., once every few days) going black yet audio continuing - this went on for months & I checked & replaced everything (hardware, software, drivers, virus, leads - I mean everything...) I did have suspicions that it was something to do with RDP & was testing to see if it only happened on the days when I used remote access to/from that PC. Very frustrating when it happened during a race & again strange as it was also only a temporary glitch - screen would eventually go back to normal of its own accord (to reveal me mashed up in some barrier :P). It was certainly some kind of graphics issue as I used to see weird error messages appearing in the Catalyst Control Center log - on checking these errors online it seemed a lot of people were experiencing exactly the same issue & yet it seemed nobody had found a solution :( It was even more odd as I had an identical spec machine that never had these issues so I finally assumed it was the graphics card about to die. However just before forking out for a new one, I switched to Win 7 & hey presto, all black screen issues gone. I'm not sure Win 7 was necessarily the solution however the process of flattening my PC & installing a crisp fresh OS seems to have cured it. By the way, for me this random blackout issue would occasionally happen while browsing the net or playing other games too - I'm wondering if that's the same for Clive or is it only occurring during GPL?


Title: Re: UKGPL Season 23 F2 Fun Race - Aintree - Jan 6
Post by: BadBlood on January 07, 2013, 01:19:27 PM +0000
I like Antree as a race circuit. I hope perhaps it might pop up during the coming season.

Check the Novice calendar Paul ;)


Title: Re: UKGPL Season 23 F2 Fun Race - Aintree - Jan 6
Post by: MagicArsouille on January 07, 2013, 04:34:08 PM +0000
..huml..... sorry wrong name in my post !....it was not Gareth but Mark Jones .....:).......( sorry Mark :/ )


Title: Re: UKGPL Season 23 F2 Fun Race - Aintree - Jan 6
Post by: Rainier on January 07, 2013, 06:40:44 PM +0000
Yooo !
I choise to do one pit stop for fuel,

Beware Tristan, it was a fun race so I don't think it has any importance ...but for the official championships races, pit stop for refueling are forbidden, you could be disqualified ! (If I am not mistaken).


Title: Re: UKGPL Season 23 F2 Fun Race - Aintree - Jan 6
Post by: Phil Thornton on January 07, 2013, 11:16:46 PM +0000
Yeah. Phil I think you did it in a tow... ;)
Just checked the replay and compared my fastest lap with one of my "normal" efforts, and yes you are right Cookie.  It was the draft LOL :).  Hope you'll do the same again for me when the season starts ;)


Title: Re: UKGPL Season 23 F2 Fun Race - Aintree - Jan 6
Post by: MagicArsouille on January 08, 2013, 09:58:45 AM +0000
thanks Dave ...... Iknow , it 's just because it was a fun race and 'cause we have 2 possible shift-R ...:)
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