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Season 24 Historic Trophy (66) - Round 10 - Monsanto

For round 10 we go to Portugal. The Monsanto track is a bit bumpy especially outside the tarmac and the haybales are quite sticky, so be aware.
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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 up Riding school.

Race List = IGOR
Server = UKGPL_T7_2
IP address = 62.149.202.168
Race date = 04-06-2013
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 =             Monsanto Park  1959   Grande Premio de Portugal
Variant =           66F1 3L engines
Damage Model = PRO
Race length = 50 minutes (laps 26)
Password: see above (#post_event_password)
Replays Available here (http://ukgpl3.dyndns.org/inc_replaysS24_js.aspx)
Driver lists and token rules can be found on the championship standings page (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=390&theme=6)

The track can be downloaded from: http://srmz.net/index.php?showtopic=2717
The full time drivers can start to practice as soon as the server is available.  Reserve drivers can also join as soon as the server becomes available but must leave the server with 35 minutes of qualifying left, for a total of 5 minutes; this will allow any remaining full timers to join.  If there is enough space on the grid, the reserve drivers will be able to rejoin when there are 30 mins of qualifying left. 

Please restrict chat to pit messages including at the end of the race until ALL drivers still racing have crossed the line.

The race will be run under PRO rules so no resets are allowed.

For THIS RACE, 3 liters car must be selected
Group I
Mclaren M2B Ford
T1G Eagle Weslake

Group II
Lotus 43 BRM   
BRM P83


GroupIII
Ferrari 312
Brabham BT19
Cooper T81
Honda RA273


Drivers Restricted to cars from Group I
Hristo Itchov

Drivers Restricted to cars form Group II or Group I
Al Heller and MagicArsouille (aka Tristan Bot)

all other drivers have free choice.

Well that was hardly worth putting my racing socks on for!

I seem to have forgotten which way the bends go since venturing out last night.  Unfortunately,  got minimal qually time too.
Still, at least I was out the way - right at the back.

Did hang around for a while,  looked like there were a few battles emerging.


Cheers,
Dave.

I don't know exactly what happened to the server but we were disconnected 2 times during the qually.
Hope it will be ok for the race !

I was 3rd after 7 laps with Martin just behind me when I made a big mistake and should give up :(

straight into H who was sideways. I COULD avoid it if it wasn t for the fact that I misshifted and put 6 th instead of 4th for the first time in a hundred years and needed the hole track
 :censored:

Mmm, it seems I shoved H out of the way for someone else to pick up the win... Really sorry to ruin your race Hristo, there was quite a bit of warp involved on my side, watching the replay, don't think either of us did anything wrong really.

I then provided to stick myself into one of those man-eating hedges. Really annoyed, as this track is fantastic, and my pace was better than qually showed. It was fun until it lasted..

Trying to catch Martin for 3rd & snagged myself in one of the black hole haybales. Nothing gets out of those. Really silly mistake that was very costly on points. Should know better at this track - still good fun racing Andreas & Dave during the early laps.

I have failed to finish here, in 3 previous attempts!  But this time, I could tell my luck finally changed - the cars littering the track were quickly removed, and all challengers, unceremoniously vanquished.  Then, with the finish drawing near, it proceeded to come just slightly early.  My fuel tank developed a leak, and smoke came from my ears, and the track to remained unconquered . . . again!  ::) 

It's not so clear on my replay because of the momentary warp, but I wouldn't go as far as to say you did nothing wrong there, A. You went in too fast and thus went wide, right into my path. Even if there wasn't warp, I suspect there was still going to be a contact. I left you about 2 cars room on the inside and braked early. Normally you're more cautious early on in a race, so I was a bit puzzled by your erratic driving in the first 2 laps. Anyway, it's all irrelevant now as the rest of the main championship contenders also suffered bad luck.

Well, really not sure where you see me going in too fast and drifting wide into your path H, maybe you should look at it from my point of view  ;). I braked way early, and went around the corner at rather moderate speed, on my side of the road; I wasn't right on the white line, but there was plenty of room for two cars all the time on my left, the track cant be that wide! Why did you close the corner so early toward the apex? I actually have the impression you expected me to go deeper, and wanted to slot in just behind, for a better exit to the following left hander... As for my aggressive start, it wasn't planned, but those slipstreams were oh so tempting.. ;D ;D Good to know it didn't do serious harm to your championship though.

Could you email me a cut of your replay from around the time of the accident?

Sure, it looks pretty much the same as the server's one though..

Yeah, that was good racing once again. I am really happy to be just best of the rest.  :) Think this is one of the hardest tracks to master. Sorry to all guys that could not finish, especially to Martin.
Congratulations to the Podium!

Moderation published.