SimRacing.org.uk

Grid/server capacity: 28

Practice: ~19:20 (60 mins)
Qualifying: 20:20 (20 mins)
Race: 20:40 (20 laps)

Track: Mount Tremblant GP Download this (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3358.msg187122#post_mttremblant)

Cars allowed: American 1970's V8's pack Download this (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3358.msg54518#post_american_v8)
                            AMC Javelin
                            Camaro Z28
                            Dodge Challenger RT71
                            Ford XB Falcon GT
                            Plymouth SC 'Cuda
                            Pontiac Firebird

Time of Day Setting: 14:00
Start: STANDING
Tyre wear: Normal
Fuel consumption: Normal

Server: simracing.org.uk Mondays
Password: see above (#post_event_password)

Notes:
(1) It's best if all drivers can make sure they are connected before the Qualifying session as drivers on track during qualifying will not see cars that join after they are on track until they go back to the garage.
(2) Please make sure you are fully aware of the SimRacing.org.uk Rules.
(3) The AI control should be turned off so that you have control of the car at all times, including pitting. Your player file should therefore read
Autopit="0"
Force Autopit Off="1" // Forces autopit always off
No AI Control="1" // AI never has control over car
If you still finding pitting problematic, experience tells us that its less to do with positioning and more to do with approach speed. A slow approach to pit crew chief has proved most reliable.

Special Notes: The most popular car will be dropped for the remainder of this series.

Hi all,

When I downloaded this circuit appears a folder called St Jovite with two tracks, St Jovite GP and St Jovite North , which is ??

Many thanks

It's the GP circuit. I'll change the race announcement to state this.

Hello,

a big thanks to Tony and the site-admin for helping me to registrate.  :thumbup1:

I hope it will be ok for me to enter this race.
I know the cars and the track, but some practice will be needed to be ready&safe on this rollercoaster.

Looking forward to meeting you on track !

Many thanks Tony

Hi Maeckie, glad we got you past the security team.

Ironic that your first race with us will be in mods that I know you had a huge part in developing. Respect  :notworthy:

We hope you enjoy your time with us and look forward to seeing you on track in the near future.

Word of caution tho. We run a reduced set of the original GC cars so please check before race night that your fave is available.

Cheers

Tony

Great track, but it's going to be soooo difficult not to completely thrash the tyres in a few laps here..  ;)

Cheers,
Erling

Welcome Raz!  ;)

After nearly three years absence I hope to join you on Monday evening. Have got the game running on Win 7 and can connect to the Altbierbude server (LOCAL_IP_LOBBY.TXT contains 94.23.231.41) but not to the Simbin server (LOCAL_IP_LOBBY.TXT contains gtlsrv.race-game.com). Have tried new registrations, with and without passwords. Is the server definitely up and if it is, any suggestions for getting connected?

Phil

Hi Phil and welcome back. Matt will be gutted that he won't be able to attend this race.

You don't need to see the Simbin lobby so you should be good to go. Your lobby.txt file is correct. I have been messing around with the server this morning testing stuff for next years GTL season but I'll stop fiddling now so you can try again to join.

Any probs just post. I'm home all day today so will probably be able to respond quite quickly.

EDIT: Matt is attending this'n

Hey Phil!!! I can do this one as well for a change  :) Tony., this is the one week I can race  8)
I had the same problem when we moved away from altbier. I ended up buying the game from
steam for a fiver, then just starting the game from the GTL.exe as it doesn't need steam to run.

Now.....if you would just download Race Room as well  :whistling:

Well whatever lobby I'm connected to (it says "Welcome to the GT Legends Lobby" at the top) it's empty, no tracks listed, nothing to connect to.

That does sound like the Simbin lobby. The Altbierbude lobby has at least ten leagues running, including ours. Just to confirm, your lobby.txt file only has 94.23.231.41 within it?

I've just been on our practice server

Sorry, my bad. No, my LOBBY.TXT file contained gtlsrv.race-game.com because I thought we were now using the Simbin server, which is also why I hadn't bothered looking for our league on the Altbier server. With 94.23.231.41 in the lobby file I've just connected no problem.

One more question: before I binned xP (and switched to Linux) a year ago I backed up everything in my GTL folder. If I copy back my .plr file will all my old settings still be there? Not that I can remember what any of those buttons do.  :D

Many thanks for your help.

Glad your sorted. Yes your old .plr file will work if you copy it over BUT make sure that the lines

Online Server=***************
Online UserName=************
Online Password=*************

remain the same as your current .plr file or you will have to re-register to get to the lobby again, and you don't want to be doing that do you  ;)

My bestist is a 2:01. So what are the  :alien:'s doing?

A weekend away had to be aborted for various reasons, so I might get a few laps of practice in before the race. The track map looks the same as GPL use, so hopefully the geography will be familiar.....so only the cars to tame?  ::)

Edit!!! not that I consider myself an alien!!!  :o :o :o :angel:

My best trainee alien time so far is a 1:57.2 

10-12 lap test, 1;55.xxx (neither am I  :alien: )  ;)

1:56:4. One second slower that Ati (the real alíen)  ;)

hmmmm??? 1:55-1:57, that is a fast target to aim for in these tanks!!  Hope I get an hour later on today when the "fun warden" is asleep  :)

After installing the carpacks in a fresh GTL and solving initial problems:

All on 120 litres fuel:
1.56.1 Javelin
1.57.0 Challenger RT
1.57.6 Falcon XB
1.56.6 Firebird

Ati and Hayman were on the server as well.
Probably some more laps later.  

Are you doing a sunday-practice routine at a designated time ? 8)

Did a 155.9 in the 71RT, but using the same method of driving, shift points and brakes, I blew the engine in 9 laps.  The Hemi doesn't like to scream at redline going up through the gears or downshifting at full throttle.  Mostly run 158's to 2.00 and then it will last...........Undecided wether to use the RT or the Firebird, which for me is slower by almost a second.

See you Monday
Bob M.

Sorry to here about "initial problems", but glad your sorted.

We don't have designated Sunday practise but if you want to organise something please go for it. Be aware tho that Sunday evenings are a no no as GTR2/AC take over the server.

Those times are a wake up call. I'm at least 4-5 secs off pace  :o

Me too - more likely 5 - 6 seconds  :P

Well then I'm in excellent company  :-*

I'm in the server for a little practice... if anyone ....  ;)

Hello at all,

 I can run v8 race with you? Today I registered on SROUK for the first time, usually i join GC races  and  Ati told  me that's very funny join to races here on UKGTL. I hope you can accept me, thanks.

Yeah Ziu!!!

you are welcome!

Everything pretty much sorted and ready to go now, except that my Logitec Driving Force GT is ignoring all in-game FFB settings, whether I use the Logitec profiler or not. FFB is on full all the time. Not a show-stopper because I can just remove the power to the wheel, but then I have no FFB at all.  :-\

hi

looks like I cant do this race.  :'(
some nice pain in righthand-wirst.................

let´s see, maybe better 2morrow.

anyway, have fun all

greets hayman

@hayman: i try to be a good replacement for you tonight, hope your picking hand recovers quickly.

I´m on the server practicing, ready to exchange some paint ;)

Speed doesnt´t matter, i´m looking forward to the race and hope i can stay out of trouble.

Is it allowed that i can disqualify myself to start from the back ?

Hi   looks like I am not going to make it home in time to race. Every one have a good race.

If you stay off the track and don't take part in Qual you will start from the back.
People do this to make the race more interesting  ::)  :alien: alert!!

I was late for Qualifying,  logged in and there was 4 min. left, so I fueled my car and waited for the race.

At the Start of the race my car was in the pits entry in the wrong direction when the lights turned green I was DQ !! >:(   Any Idea guys  about what happened ?

hope to catch u in the next race !!!


Michel   

Was a very good race, I was actually catching the leaders for a change  8)
Had some fun dicing with Flash, but it was hard work as he was warping badly at times
so had to keep off line, eventually he became constant so pressed him, and he helpfully
fell off, so then I caught Geoffers (huh, this doesn't happen) then he fell off so of course
I caught Jose and Mackie  :o i had been doing some tyres saving while following $FLASH
and I think it paid off towards the end, mine were around 1/2 gone, and the car was
a bit tricky, but I think others who were in fighting pairs took more wear
Really good race. Thanks Tony, and thanks to all for coming out to play and making it
15? entries  :thumbup2: :thumbup2: :thumbup2:

Replay and results now posted.

Bye bye Javelin  :'(

Results (http://googledrive.com/host/0B0VLrTJJX8K-QWw0bGFrbGtBM00/index.html)

Wow! What a race!

Thanks tony for organize it.

Grats Raz for the win and phspok for a deserved 3rd place. 2 laps more and maybe...  ;) Very exciting race.

Grats all finishers!

Cheers

Thanks Jose  :thumbup1:

Thank you for this event !

It´s been a while since i raced on a Monday and i will try to make it again. Sorry for robbing the points ;)

Ati lead the way for the first laps, i was close behind him. We opened a small gap to the group of cars behind with Senyorlobo, Geoffers, phspok and Flash.
When we started to battle that gap was gone quick.
Ati went wide in Turn 2 and so i took the lead. Senyorlobo immediatly started to push hard.
I tried to save tires for a while and just defended my position. That gave the train behind another chance to catch up.
Tires degraded, but it was enough till the finish line 8)

Good stuff !!

Brilliant race, these events are rapidly becoming the highlight of my racing week, well done Tony.  :thumbup2:

Fantastic racing with Raz, Jose, Ati & Matt. Nose to tail stuff nearly all race until I fell off near the end  ::).

Congrats to the podium  :clap: :clap: :clap:, can't wait for next Monday!!!!

I uploaded 2 setups in online folder  ;)

-p firebird senyorlobo
-javelin senyorlobo

Cheers

I saw the replay, and 30 seconds before the start you was in the pit lane.
If when entering in the race does not appear in the grid, push ESC and try enter again. You have 30 seconds to get in and out several times if necessary.

That was a great track; really enjoyed 'driving' here  :)

Sobering though, if not downright humiliating to come online and see the laptimes posted by more than half the field.  How could you guys go that fast ?  :o

Made a decent start, from 10th and gained a couple of places, one when Clive spun in front of me. Promptly lost 3, when I was punted off at the next corner, but regained 2 of them when Kurt ran wide and Tony lost momentum.

First had Bob ahead, but he soon made it past Gregman and disappeared. That was the start of an almost race long duel with Gregman for me. We each had places where we were faster than the other, so Gregman would extend the gap in one part, and I would shorten it in another.  He didn't make any mistakes - none big enough for me to exploit at least.

In early laps Clive was close behind, until he fell off.  After 6-7 laps, we caught Bob rejoining after an off. When he went off again, both Gregman and I got past. In both Bob's moments, I almost lost it too - seems like when a Challenger spots one of its brethren in trouble, it wants to join in sympathy.. ;)

Bob replaced Clive as my close shadow for many laps, until he dropped back some 5 secs.  Gregman then finally made a mistake that allowed me to pass, and with Ati's exit, I was now in 6th. 5th place car was 15 secs ahead, so no chance of catching it, unless the driver made a major mistake.   Caught Hayman on lap 18.  He was all over the place, and in no mood to let me past. Made the last 1½ laps more exiting than needed, as it allowed Bob to get right up and personal again, but fortunately, I could hang on to 6th to the finish line.

Grats to the podium and commiserations to Ati, Kurt, Michel and any other who suffered problems.

Thanks to Tony for a great choice of track. :thumbup2:

Cheers,
Erling

Good quali,good race.Nice battle Raz Jose Geoffers  ;)  Two accidents,the second fatal  :o .Less practice Javelin,Challenger it would have been better for me.Grats and thanks all,see you next race.Great organization, great company,good track,good cars ! (sorry,google translator)

Ok Thx Senyorlobo, will try it next time it happens !!!