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UKGPL Season 24 Extra Trophy (69X)
Race 6 Sebring

Welcome to the sixth round of the Extra Trophy for 69 Extra chassis. Sebring. Looks easy, isn't. Should be good for these 69Xers. Sorry about the late post - just forgot!

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. ONLY ONE IS ALLOWED and a Shift-R MUST be followed by a Stop-and-Go or the driver will be excluded.

If two servers are required they will be as below but if only one grid is required, we will race on T7.

Race list	iGOR
LIGHT Server	UKGPL_T7_2
IP address	62.149.202.168
HEAVY Server	UKGPL3
IP address	ping ukgpl3.dyndns.org
Date	08-03-2013
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	Sebring (http://srmz.net/index.php?showtopic=6123)
Mod	69X
Damage model	INT
Race length	17 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)

well it's seem to be a possible confusion with the track, because I just see the server UKGPL3 on IGOR , and the track is not the good one .....there is 2 Sebring BADBLOOD , Sebring67 and Sebring....so in the first post is Sebring and on IGOR it's Sebring67.........so whitch one we gona use ???

thx :)

Tristan there are Sebring 64 and 67 available, but the link in the race post leads to the 67 version.

As Paul is not available atm we will do the 67.

ok thanks Cookie  ;)

Managed to nip 4 th tonight right before Dean. Haappy with that  ;D. The race was fun. Some E.69x (who can that be?) bumped me wide so I lost some spots early on but no damage.  Then some mister Mercaldo had an interesting rejoin gust in front of me but I managed to brake down. Then the big messups: First I loose my rear while looking how far behind mercaldo was then next lap I loose it again while calculating how H could be 7 secs behind me. Driving instead of meditating is always a winner. Lost a podium there but obviously I wasn t the only one out there doing mistakes so all in all I m very pleased with 4 th. The last two laps was exciting being chased by two cars behind me within sliprange, but they seem to mess for each other. Dean came up my behind last straight but a defensive positioning he did towards me during practice race worked just as well for me in the race as it did for him during practice so thx again for showing me Dean :) :) :thumbup2:

Apologies to Bob for that rearending, missed the right side banner and picked the next one instead.. ::) Glad it didn't mess up your result in the end.

Not the best of races for me, after that collision I had to wait to rejoin safely, was far behind and started making mistakes by myself out of distraction. Glad the next one is soon. Grats to TristanBot and podium.

Sorry for the confusion over the tracks. It was always Sebring67 which was the release with the GT Mod - just called it Sebring in the post for brevity. To be honest, I was at the National Theatre watching Othello and I forgot to post the races so BIG THANKS to Cookie.

Noted that we only had 4 in the Heavies - we will just put the grids together if it continues like that.

Doesnt it feel like meditation when you are in the zone? When I really manage to get into the flow, for me it does.

Ypu have a point :)

e-69x?? ::)   That might be a certain evil character??  Big apologies if there was contact, I have not looked at the replay Tom.

From memory I guess it was on the bend leading onto the straight? I think you went a little deep into the corner and I took the chance to try and pass. I did not feel any contact at that point, but I did notice that you were the wrong side of the haybales when I looked in my mirrors, so I think there might be some warp contact involved. Again, apologies if I di biff you off.

I am almost beginning to believe that I have cured my "disco" problems. I think that makes 4 races now without a sudden exit...............but maybe it is too soon to get too happy.

When I saw the choice of track I must confess that I did not think that it would be good for 69 racing, how wrong I was!! I had a storming race from 8th on the grid picking up places until I was up to a comfortable 2nd place at about half distance. Tristan was in a class of his own and was out of sight by then, so I was concentrating on holding the gap back to Bob in his Brabham.
Maybe I am wrong but it seemed to me that there were two sorts of set up in use. High wing angles for handling and low wing angles for speed, which made things very interesting ;D
A moments lack of concentration leading on to the straight and I tested the resilience of the haybales and that put Bob back into 2nd with Piero  threatening to pas me as well. I managed to close the gap to Bob again and with a lap to go I pressured him into a small error at the Esses and swept majestically into 2nd spot ..........................only to see smoke in the mirrors and get that sickening feeling that comes with a blown engine.
The last lap was torture as I limped around to the flag watching my 2nd place evaporate to 7th or 8th by the flag. :-\

I enjoyed some great racing and especially enjoyed finishing another race.

Grats to Tristan and the podium and thanks to Bob for some great racing.

I went deep indeed to leave room for you in case you were coming. From my rpy you slid sideways into me but no worries. It s not often we touch.