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THIS POST IS FOR BOTH GRIDS

Round 7 of the Formula 2 series will take place on the Papyrus original track at Mexico City.

We will maintain the Grid A & Grid B arrangement but both groups will now race together on one server, UKGPL8.

Drivers have been allocated to the grids as below
Group A
Arf, Cookie, Dean Logan, Doni Yourth, Evil, Greg T, Marco, Natan, Fulvio, Badblood, Billy, Boggy, Il Lupo & Newblood.
RACE ON UKGPL3

Group B
Phil Thornton, Piero Mercaldo, Rainier, Raoni, Robert Fleurke, Roberto Teso, Ronnie, Samb, Turkey Machine, Iestyn, Dave Curtis, Rog, Maddog, Bernie & Walter
RACE ON UKGPL_T7


ONE reset is allowed but the Shift R must be followed by a Stop & Go in the pit lane within TWO laps. If you Reset on the last lap a 15 second time penalty will be awarded. Drivers must complete 50% of the race distance to score.

Due to the mixed grid handicaps are suspended for this race.

Race List = IGOR
Server = UKGPL8
IP = See IGOR for race list.
Race date = 27 April 2014
Time = 21:00 UK time (21:00 GMT)
Track = Mexico
Race length = 21 Laps
Variant = 1967 Formula 2
Damage Model = Intermediate
Qualifying time = max. 30 minutes
Password: see above (#post_event_password)
Replays available here (http://ukgpl3.dyndns.org/inc_replaysS26_js.aspx)

GPL F2 Mod: The initial release of the F2 mod will be used. The mod can be found here (http://http://www.f2legends.net/F2Downloads.htm)

The Driver list, Championship Table and series rules can be found here: Formula Two Trophy (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=425&theme=6)

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

Moderating The red zone will be fully moderated, the red zone will be from the start to the Hairpin. Other moderation will be on reported incidents only or at the Moderators discretion.

Some drivers may not have noticed, there is a Mid-Season review started here : https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=12343.0

Quite an eventful race.  Got caught up in a shunt at T1 on L1.  I saw the incident develop ahead and I was working out how to navigate round the debris when I was hit from behind.  I suspect the guys behind me were unsighted and consequently were not able to anticipate the developing situation.  I managed to get going without a shift-R but I wasn't so lucky on my next lap when Billy bounced into me off the armco.  It wasn't much of a hit but it killed my engine (which was probably weakened by the lap 1 shunt) so I had to use up my shift-R lifeline.  By the time I had taken my S&G I was at the back but had a great battle with David and Marco.  I was confused by a flying Matra on lap 18 (ish).  There were no blue flags and nothing on Pribluda.  I think it was Iestyn who must have been dropped by the server.  I assume we were racing for position because the leaders were still a mile from lapping me (Iestyn is fast but I can't believe he was a mile ahead of Robert and Roberto). 

The last lap was very close.  Marco passed me into the hairpin and I had to push very hard to stay in touch through the twisty bits.  I was on his tail into the last corner and thankfully he went a bit wide and had to scrub off some speed.  That gave me a chance, stay tight and get the power down early.  I just managed to sneak ahead and get to the line a mere car length ahead of Marco.  Good racing ;D

Difficult quali with some bad traffic, but had a reasonable lap for P2. After start a lot of warp, let Roberto go, and Piero and Clive close behind. Was able to follow RT and we gained some advantage to Piero. After halfway Roberto spun out of the hairpin, and I could pass him left, with a little notch. From there on it was basically keeping focus and bring it to the finish. Lucky win.

Some guys were faster and some had about the same pace as me, just got lucky when Roberto spun, wouldn't have been able to pass him I think, he was really good in the 2nd part of the track.

Was fun to have a fuller grid, grid B rules though P1-P4, well done :P Also congrats to Dean for his grid A result! :)

Like to dedicate this win to my grandma who died yesterday, 98y old.

Very early beer for me.  Nearly made it as far as completing the 2nd lap...   On a positive note,   at least my PC boots now/did not crash once I was back at the game screens;  unlike the last couple of events.

Although I'd eased off for the L1T1 issues;  was not until I got there that I realised it slightly resembled a carpark.  So that was the reset used up there.

Then I'd been keen to signal my intention to pull into the pit lane, that I had not noticed the entrance has clearly moved/forgot to turn,  so that was the spare car wrecked on the pit wall.  I guess that probably also caught teamie Billy out too;  if so - apologies.


Oh well, lucky I hadn't wasted any time practicing.  Disappointed to not have managed to at least pass 50% distance though.



Woo - go group B!  (although you are all a bunch of ringers;  same with group A too!)

Cheers,
Dave.

Sorry guys for my bad start, i have no audio for first lap.........like electric car.......... :-X

What a wonderful series!  Matras, Brabhams, and umm . . . . .  just as I remember it all being, back in good old '67.  Though my memory ain't what it used to be :laugh:

Well, I created a moderator nightmare here by inadvertently 'doing a Lewis (Spa 2008)' and taking avoiding action around the tyres at T2 :-[. I was side-by-side with Natan through the braking zone, and felt he was still alongside. Looking back I could have tried to do T2 possibly two-wide (remembering the three-wide action on the exit there in the Works!). I then waited a little, so we were side-by-side into T3 and I got ahead at T4. Natan said 'NP' after the race, but GPL took exception and DQ'd me. I also joined with 60 fps on inadvertently at first so that's why my name appears twice. :-\

In the later laps, I managed to get down to a 1:48.47, with best sectors giving 1:47.9, although that gains 3 tenths with a slipstream in S1. And my gears were still too long, with a 9/31 rack. So, perhaps I can compete near the front when I get a decent setup together. I'll have to check the replay to know who I was racing after the DQ. Too many spins after that put paid to my efforts to catch Jethro and Arf; I was ahead of Clive and other recovering drivers from the T1 crash at the time I first span. Rob - congratulations, well driven and a nice tribute to your grandma. Looks like you'll be outliving us all then, possibly getting to 100!  :P

Grats to Robert on win
Grats to Podium

Missed this one was late home, saw there was 18 drivers, tried several times to join but no joy then told server is not excepting any more connections.

Prob my internet or pc as find it difficult at mo to even get on simracing org uk to read these posts.

The forums have been very problematic recently - not just you.

Looks like Iestyn is the culprit of that one, as it was two entries according to GPL.

As for me, quiet race by comparison, but let Arf and Evil through when I made a mistake, and could not reel them in for trying. I despise this place, so am glad to be rid of it for now.

BTW: seems to be a non-championship event according to the championship?

Due to the combined grids the scoring might be a bit more complicated to import within the LM2 system ;)

I just imported the event but have no idea how to get the result into the right driver slots...  ::)

Isn't possible manually?
If results are stored in a sql db it's very easy to do.

True Jethro, but with there being 19 slots taken (including server) there should have been one free. Also I think my error slot could have been overwritten by a late joiner if it wasn't being used (and server had 20 slots used, 19 drivers including server slot).

Paul will know how to ;)

Mod report now published.