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Season 29 Privateers Trophy - Round 02 - Brainerd

Brainerd International Raceway (Donnybrooke 1971) is a 3.1-mile (4.989 km) road course, dragstrip and kart track near Brainerd, Minnesota, USA. The raceway hosts the National Hot Rod Association's Lucas Oil Nationals. It is a popular racetrack for the Trans Am Series. The spectator seating capacity of the circuit is 20,000.

Opened in 1968 as Donnybrooke Speedway there were no safety barriers, run-out areas, grandstands or even restrooms. George Montgomery and Bud Stall cleared the racetrack through a wooded area on the south side of North Long Lake. With the help of St Paul Sports Promoter Dennis Scanlan It hosted a 2 heat USAC Indy Car race in 1969. The heats were won by Gordon Johncock and Dan Gurney.

In 1973 Jerry Hansen bought the track and renamed it Brainerd International Raceway. It played host to CanAm races in 1970, 1971, and 1972. These races were won by, respectively, Denny Hulme, Peter Revson, and François Cevert.

Race List = iGOR
Server = UKGPL_8
IP = see iGOR
Race date = Sunday 18-10-2015
Time = 21:00 UK time (21:00 GMT)
Track = donbro71 (ftp://ukgpl3.dyndns.org/Tracks/Donnybrooke/)
Race length = 31 Laps (50 minutes)
Variant = 1967
60fps patch used   = 60fpsV2newmod
Damage Model = Intermediate
Qualifying time = 30 minutes

Replays Available here (ftp://ukgpl3.dyndns.org/Replays/Archive/Season29/Grads_Privs/)

Driver lists and token rules can be found on the championship standings page (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=510&theme=6)

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.  

This Season we don't have a Red Zone. Moderating will be on reported incidents only. If you haven't received a PM about an incident before the link below the results table is removed, you can be sure that you will not appear in the moderator's report.

The chassis token system is explained on the Privateers (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=510&theme=6) standings page. Please ensure you choose a chassis that is within your budget, which can be seen by hovering the mouse over your points total in the standings.

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

Password: see above (#post_event_password)

Please take care joining the track in quali, as you will enter on the racing line!

We ask the drivers to be careful at the start, stick to their own side until they know it is safe to move over, don't take unnecessary risks and if the car ahead slows, be prepared to slow too if it is not safe to make a pass!

After this race i'm schoked by the engine reliability.Could be possible that with dxtweak2 i have solved my problem with engine explosion?We look at the next race!
I am satisfied from the result also if a stupid error has cost me the first position.Anyway my compliment to D.Curtis for the fast laps and costancy without error.

If you are not over-revving the engine when you change up then it looks like dxtweak2 has fixed your pedals (and hence your engine reliability problems).  :jumpjoy:

Great result Fran.  On this form you have a good chance of winning a few races this season!

Whilst I think this is a good circuit (especially turn 1!), I really struggled with it.  I tried most of the chassis when practising, but found that I was only 1 second faster in the Lotus than in the Honda.  ::) So, to save tokens, I stuck with the Honda.  I was aiming for a 6th, but could only manage a 7th.  Oh well.

Congrats Dave, Fran and Philippe!

I enjoyed racing with you all very much today. I used a GH BRM setup for Nurb, and I had a very well behaved car on corner exit! I benefitted from others having bad luck at the start. I was slower during the first half of the race, and they caught back up to me quickly. I felt much more competitive in the second half. I closed in on some people that had overtook me in the early going. I raced side by side with Phil. I found out that it is difficult to keep to one side of track. I hope that I did not hog too much of the track. I'll watch the replay to see if I can improve in the future. I was near Bastian late in the race, but I had a spin that cost me some ground. I finished much better than I had predicted anyhow. The next race will be harder for me because I might use the Lotus, and consequently I'll make more mistakes.

Popped an  engine early on , took an age to re set and find the pits , re joined dead last , half a lap or more down on the next man , after that I lost the plot completely , just couldn't find a rythm and had a spinerama  fest almost every lap trying too hard to make up lost ground .

Grats to DC who was both fast and consistent,  well done to the podium and to all those who finished in one piece   :)

I think the Eagle-boys made a point tonight;   not sure exactly what - but that's probably it!

Not seen this track until the day of the event.  Luckily, I found myself with the house to myself for a couple of hours...
At first glance at the track layout -  some kind of possibly fast-ish right hand bend & some zigzags...  looks a bit like parts of Mexico... right?!
That's the setup sorted then.  Then had a quick look at GPLrank;  my fastest lap at Mexico =  Eagle!  Time to get some laps in :)

Did then have a potter round in the Honda with the 'same' setup [was unsure about spending the tokens on a unknown track]   but was 2.2 seconds slower;  so went with what Schuerkamp suggested.

Think my first timed practice laps put my in 4-5th.  Was happy with that.  Don't know where 2nd came from,  although missing a gear on the way to the finish line at the end of practice for a potential clincher did not help the cause.  ok, so maybe it would not have made up the full 0.8 s  :)

Was then a case of trying to have a tidy start, without slewing sideways & causing a bit pile-up. Tick!
Then trying to stay with Fran as we Eagles seemed able to break away slightly; then keep on doing so.

It seemed like a very long evening.  Following Fran [unlucky on the spin] as he did not seem to be making any mistakes.
Then alone in clear air & it's all slightly different.

Was expecting either the DSL to drop out again [one eye was on the other monitor with DSL status / pings / upstream bandwidth usage graph etc] or Windows to do something/lose sound & require another mouse-click.   Not for the 1st time today...

But just tried to keep it on-track & consistent; seemed to work out;  maybe the Eagle helped a bit of course.

Anyway, thanks for the run. 
Of course; sounds as if the times that the real men set over in Works-land were really in another timezone!  1:34 with Pribluda suggested 1:33 ?!  Eeek!


Cheers.
Dave.

This track does have similarities with Mexico - too many slow corners for my liking. As I can't drive the BRM or Honda much above walking pace the Coop was the best option. P3 on the grid was as good as it got. Ran wide in T1, managed to claw back a few places until the Masersti power unit let go about midway. Last few laps were interesting chasing Michael but the harder I chased the faster he went. Well done to Dave for taking the chequered flag for the team.

Mod report is up. Good job guys.