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UKGPL Season 24 Extra Trophy (69X)
Race 1 Mexico City

Welcome to the first round of the Extra Trophy for 69 Extra chassis. Mexico lets the men be sorted from the boys. This is a standard Papy track which has a really long start/finish straight and lots of tight twisty sections! Hmm, who chose this track?

Our 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. The grip of the 69X is useful on this track and should provide some close racing if we can avoid the deadly polos. However, be aware that it could be a little crowded when we get to the esses first time round. There will be crashes and patience is a must. The first lap will be fully moderated within the red zone. The red zone will extend to the whole of the first lap.

Please check the Season 24 pages for details (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=386&theme=6) regarding rules and the Extra Trophy (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=395&theme=6) pages in particular.

It is very important that drivers are FULLY familiar with the rules relating to Shift-R. EVERY Shift-R MUST be followed by a Stop-and-Go or the driver will be excluded.

Race list	iGOR
LIGHT Server	UKGPL_T7_2
IP address	62.149.202.168
HEAVY Server	UKGPL3
IP address	ping ukgpl3.dyndns.org
Date	25-01-2013
Race time	Race starts at 21:30 UK time
Qualifying time	Between 30 and 60 minutes, starting no later than 21:00 UK time
Track	Papy track - Mexico City (mexico)
Mod	69X
Damage model	INT
Race length	27 laps
Replay	Available here (ftp://ukgpl3.dyndns.org/replays/Archive/Season24/Extra/)

Reserve drivers please note; you must leave the server with 35 minutes of qualifying left, for a total of 10 minutes, to allow full timers to join. FULL TIME DRIVERS GET PRIORITY.

Heavy and Light drivers will drive on separate servers. Please ensure that you know which class you are and that you join the right server

LIGHTS on UKGPL_T7_2; HEAVY on UKGPL3

The Light and Heavy Driver lists can be found on the championship standings page (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R;group=395&theme=6)

Password: see above (#post_event_password)

hi ...
...I wont be able to race tonight, IGOR is not working anymore  ???, I try to joint by IP but don't work too ......ggrrrrr !... >:(.

...have a nice time folks .....

Hmmm. Join by IP should have worked Tris. What message?

Anyway, Heavy server crashed on Lap 1 - I was left alone - should I continue for a maiden win? No :( Felt guilty as the server is upstairs...

Restarted and then had some nice laps with Fabio but blew the engine and then crashed getting into the pits... one-S/R is tough... These are fun though but we might run one grid at some point as attendances fall (they always do).

My error after the 5 minutes of qualy.I was alrady on the starting line when the doubt of the fuel arrive in my mind,I go to check but in this way was impossible to join again the race....sig.

Thanks to a pile up at T1 I inherited second place and held onto it for a while.  About mid race Bob passed me and I got sideways at the Esses trying to stay with him.  Got collected by Hendy and had to shiftR.  Did a S&G and tried to make up for lost time but got discoed with 8 laps to go >:(.  Pity first half of the race was good, nice racing Hendy and Bob  :thumbup2:

Sorry for the contact Art and eD respectively. Good to see you both carry on although I noted Art had a blown engine later. Grats to the podium.

I was too tired to enter this. Looking at the lap times from the race and the track records above, something appears to be wrong?

Yep - definite car mapping issue.

Actually I think there was some substantial warp implied Ronnie, at least on my replay. And there was a lot in general tonight..So np of course, although I didnt blow the engine but crashed rather stupidly with 4 to go, caught out by some slow moving Ferrari I think, while trying in desperation to pass Bob. I had a lot of wings, which helped the laptimes but made life rather difficult during the race. So, was going bonkers trying to jump Bob, who was flying on the straight. I even did a 360 at L20, at the entry of the esses. Didnt touch a thing, nose pointed in the right direction, all my luck used up  ;D ;D, should have retired back then actually, so no complaints..

Sorry again to Bob for that bump at the last corner somewhere during the race, my fault, we had a lucky escape.

As for the start, will wait for the Mods to see and decide, although I am not quite sure Florian could have kept his side of the road at the speed he was going.

Everything else (and there was a lot...) I think was all right, thanks to Bernie and Nicky for letting me by. Grats to Goran for the win, and podium and finishers of course. See you next time guys.

Chout se the Lotus but my set up was to say the least "crap" actually used a steve cloyd jobby but found it unsuited to my driving style (they usually are )  changed a few things ( everything but the gearbox ) in the vain hope it would be better in the race , actually set my best time on race fuel so thought it would do me well but after a few laps it was awful , poor turn in mostly and slow out , just what you dont need . then I began to feel car sick everytime through the twizzy bits , felt like packing in but decided to keep going in the hope that everyone ahead would falter , a few did , the only cars I passed had sick engins or spun out . couldn't see the pit board cos the front wing blocked half of it out so no idea how many laps of torture were left till the flagman waved the chequered .

Qestion are there different physics betwixt the high and low wing cars or is they the same ???

grats to all those who finished and to the lucky ones who got to taste the champagne  :)

No difference in physics, just visuals.

Typical, I was in the lead, and couldn't spot Dave in my mirrors....all looking good......then......suddenly all looking at each other in chat. Bugger, server got fed up and chucked us all....(less the owner) out on our ears.

Managed to scrabble together a part way reasonable lap to take pole for the restart. Dave proceeded to do to me, exactly what I did to him on L1 of the previous start. Drove past me on the outside, so I had to leave him best into T1 for the first time. It was difficult staying with him for the early laps, the car was in no way interested in being pushed along. Managed to string together some fair laps, and with the assistance of some draft from Davids' Mac I managed (lord knows how) to post the fastest lap on lap 16. Then on L17 into T1, my 8yo decided he needed to tell me all about the TV program he was watching, continuing even after being told 3 times that I was racing....not practicing. Inevitably the break in concentration caused a spin at T1, but unlike Atillio, it wedged firmly against the outside rail....costing much time to turn around. Child exited, stage left, at a gallop.....his work done.  :-[

The Lotus was grubby to drive for a few laps after til the rears cooled off again. Dave had shot through and was out of sight.....just cruised to the end from there to pick up the points. Not sure without the spin I'd have been able to do much about passing Dave when I caught him, he wasn't making much in the way of mistakes. Well done mate, deserving winner.
Paul, speedshifting will always kill your engine....still need to sort those upshifts out!
Geoff.

As Hristo said, it's just a visual difference. I prefer to run with no wings (for visibility's sake). To run no wings online, start an offline session with the car you want to use, pick the gfx options you want (little drop down box on the car selection screen), then when you join an online server (with the same car) you'll have the wing option you chose selected.

You can also just set it from GEM+

Good boy ! I send him all my thanks  :D

It seems the good side of the tracks for the start was the left one.
Like Senna in Suzuka90, I will propose for the next races to change the pole position from right to left  ;) 

 >:( I think it was the down shifts that got me... :(

Not sure what happened to the server but it must have been some temporary Internet glitch as there was a mass disco except for me, but my data doesn't leave my house. My boys were not too impressed that I wouldn't let them use YouTube as 'we're hosting a race'. 'But DAD... you've come off...'

<sigh>

Bernie, I used the default setup for the M7 and it was fine for me.  I just changed the steering ratio to 5:1 and increased top gear a couple of teeth and that was it.  I had quite a lot of wing on so I was a sitting duck on the straights but it was great on the corners :D. 

Using a gamepad, sweaty hands can be a problem. I was 'air drying' my hands on the straights, or wiping them on my jeans. When I went to return my hand to the controller I accidentally hit the shifter with my thumb sending me back into 4th. Fortunately I didn't spin and was able to regain control.

Congratulation to the Podium!

My race went somehow...Use to like that Mexican-Track, but this time it was not so good to me.  ::)
Hope to do better next time.
So long
Andreas

Thanks for that Phil , I havn't tried the defaults much , the ones I have tried i've not been able to get up to speed with , though probably  down to my driving rather than the set up  :-\

Seems I  joined the wrong server for this race , might have done better with the heavy brigade (dont ask its an age thing )  ::)

Mods published

Thx for your job Paul!

That´s what I say!

Thank you for the thank yous... ;)