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Welcome to the S27 F2 Championship - Round 5 - Pacific Raceways

Round 5 of the Formula 2 Trophy will be hosted in Washington State on the west coast of the USA. The track has been used on a couple of occasions in the past but please make sure you have the 67 version – download from the link. It is typical of tracks built for Can Am muscle cars with a long, wide straight, an essess section & a dog-leg turn. Similar to Riverside but rather more green. The back part of the course is quite narrow.


There will be no handicaps this season but, much like the 67-based series, tokens will be used!

Matra MS7 FVA :       16 tokens
Matra MS5 FVA :       14 tokens
Brabham BT23 FVA : 14 tokens
Lola T100 FVA :        14 tokens
Lotus 48 FVA :         14 tokens
Lotus 41B FVA:        12 tokens
McLaren M4A FVA :   12 tokens
Protos 16 FVA :        10 tokens
Lola T100 BMW :      10 tokens
Cooper T84 FVA :      6 tokens
Ferrari 166 :              3 tokens
Brabham BT14 LF :    0 tokens

Please check the Season 27 pages for details (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=448&theme=6) regarding rules and the Formula 2 Trophy (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=455&theme=6) pages in particular.

There will be two championships - Lights and Heavies (for slower drivers) who will contest separate championships but on the same grid.

You have ONE SHIFT-R with a Stop n Go of 0 seconds!
Only Reported incidents moderated outside the Red Zone
Full moderation of lap one Red Zone

Race List = IGOR
Server = UKGPL_8
Variant = 1967 Formula 2
Damage Model = Intermediate
Track = Pacific Raceways 67 -> folder paci67 (ftp://ukgpl3.dyndns.org/tracks/Pacific)
Race length = ~40min -> 30 laps
Race date = Sunday 05-10-2014
Time = 21:00 UK time (21:00 GMT)
Qualifying time = 45 - 30 minutes
Race time = ~21:30 UK time
Red Zone = First lap from the start to the exit of turn 3B (2nd hairpin!).
Replays = here (ftp://ukgpl3.dyndns.org/Replays/Archive/Season27/F2s/)

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

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 a full (19 driver) 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.  

A little miffed that I will miss this race, as I like Pacific Raceway and it would be a blast in the F2's.

I know that you will struggle to enjoy yourselves without me, but I'm equally sure that you will all try and be nice to each other too ;)

That's a shame Clive. Was looking forward to have another great battle here with you among others...

Which of the 2 tracks is it ? Title says "Pacific Raceways"

Track d/l points to "Paci67"  ?

seem to remember an altercation over this with the 65 Ams   ::)

I'm not an official, but the race post does state (in red!) it's the '67 version.  ;)
Although, I'm yet to turn a F2 wheel round here... (Not that it would help much anyway)

Cheers,
Dave.

pw cough cough :)

Done ;)

Pace is impossible to predict. All I have is Robert's target time in the various choices of cars.

Hello everyone,
I signed up, let me know if there are problems?

thanks  :)

My connection was really eractic.

Tried a few laps but cars just kept appearing out of no where. Apologies if I interrupted other drivers qualifying.
Decided it was too unstable to risk for the race.

Hope you have better luck.

First it said I didn t have mod installed..managed to fix it with 10 minutes to go of practice confused why it still said N/A. Wrong track.I spent some time practicing and looked forward to this.  The ******* picture on my pacific said 1967. 30 july 1967. gl going to bed bitterly disappointed. :hang:

Thank you Logan for another incident!

A ragged quali, and couldn't better my PR I just had set in the practise session before...still pole, but a few cars pretty close, like Ray and Iestyn ;)

First few laps were great with Iestyn pushing me, until he made a mistake...then it was all about surviving, miscommunication with lapped cars and I went off...also about 4-5 cars spun or wrecked, mostly exiting the fast Esses, just in front of me! Heads up all the time, just taking no risks, and was able to dodge all bullets checking up ;)

Last lap decided to let cars in front race eachother, was nothing to gain for me anymore, and didn't want to take risks...ragged race as well...well done Ray (some great laptimes) and Greg (great consistency) and finishers...commiserations as always for the retirements, and non-starters...

Very emotional and special win though, my sister Ineke is officially 20 years missing today, so glad to pull this off for her (remembrance) and my mother (told her I would like to win especially this race)...

Cheers guys and take care :)

PS: @ Iestyn...T100 WR on Lap 9  8) With 1/1000s you took it from me  :D But I took your Michigan Eagle time  :P

On Lap 1 I span avoiding others' incidents and found myself way back. The second if these forced me to shift-R, and soon the leaders were on my tail pipes. By Lap 7 I was lapped, and lost all motivation to be there, so went and did something more interesting instead.

Worst race i have ever done just could not concentrate, sorry to any drivers lapping i held up, seemed the only way to let you pass was to go on the green stuff.
Grats to Robert on lights win
Grats to Rainier on Heavies win 

This track gives me the same grief for all the mods when trying to join races online via IGOR. I simply use the ip address instead!

Sad to read of this Robert , we can only imagine the grief of your mother , family & friends , hope some day you may find out the truth of what really happened to her .

Appreciate it Bernie :)

Not sure I've had a worse race than that. Decent pre-race pace could not be replicated in qualifying. Start and lap 1 seemed OK, the rest was a race to forget. So unhappy with it, despite the good practice I had.

I do wonder what the point is sometimes. :(

A bitter-sweet victory for you, Robert.  Tears of joy mixed with tears of sadness for your long-lost sister.  I offer congratulations on your victory and deep sympathy for your pain.

Really? well interresting, but seem after all it was my own fault since I didn t start GPL to build the exe.(antivirus destroyed my gpl some days ago and my last copy was from before F2  ) Igor s mapping to gpl seemed to live a life on it s own too no idea what I did, but got it all sorted too late. Anyway with practice on wrong track I didn t have anything in the race to do