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Season 29 Amateurs Trophy - Round 3 - Snetteron

The third round the of the 65 Professionals championship is England at Snetteron. A classic airfield track. Care is required at the hairpin at the end of the long straight.

Race List = iGOR
Server = UKGPL_9
IP = see iGOR
Race date = Tuesday 10-11-15
Time = 21:00 UK time (21:00 GMT)
Track =Snetterton (ftp://ukgpl3.dyndns.org/tracks/Snetterton)
Race length = 30 laps (45 minutes)
Variant = 1965
60fps patch used   = 60fpsV2newmod
Damage Model = Intermediate
Qualifying time = 30 minutes

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

Driver lists can be found at the Amateurs Trophy Championship page (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=514&theme=6)

Drivers are permitted one Reset / Shift R per race, followed by a compulsory Stop & Go in the pit lane within two laps. If you take your reset on the last lap 15 seconds will be added to your time. A second Shift R will result in Disqualification unless it is the direct result of the first incident e.g. hot when respawning,

Until the number of registered drivers exceeds grid capacity drivers may join the server as soon as it appeasr in IGOR.

This Season we don't have a Red Zone. Moderating will be on reported incidents only.

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

HELLLLLLLP


Cant get the track to install , should I unzip the exe straight into my GPL directory or as I usually do , unzip it to a temp dir  ? (which for some reason  i cannot ) usually unzip to "temp" then run the installer from there but  cant get it to unzip !


What did I do wrong boys ???

A couple of basic tips - it's best to unzip stuff to a temporary folder, and see what you're getting, before blindly adding to whatever workings are working.  You can make new temp folders, and delete old ones.  Temp_1, Temp_2, . . .   If unzip doesn't produce the goods,try drag and drop to your temp folder.   If the files won't copy, try another unzip program?  Try downloading again, try taking an aspirin, try banging the wall with your head, as best befits your preference. :taz:

Bernie, assuming you downloaded GPLEA_SNETT67.exe:

Execute, point to  a temp directory....trackinstall.exe and readme.txt will be extracted...then execute trackinstall, choose GPL directory and the track will install...

Sorted Ta  :)

I'm sorry guys, but I stop gpl. I'm tired of repeat freeze screens, I was leading the race, I am desillusioned.
I will return when connections will again become stable.
I have never experienced these problems in 2013 and 2014. I run offline now.
Good luck all for the champ, you will remain my friends !

3rd race 3rd disco,  poss my internet, also seems to take an age for me to login here, moan over. Was enjoying the race while it lasted Grats to all finishers and Grats to Podium.

My screen freezed too in Round 16. Bad Race. It was man First Time with a freezed screen. I had nice fights with Guys but now I am out. That's life!

forum is dead slow to load here to , no probs with Igor or snetterton though one or two cars warping in front of me made life interesting to say the least  ::)

I had a screen freeze with 18 laps left to race. Despite the problems, I had lots of side by side racing, and it looked like more to come in the second half. I was surprised to see so many faster cars fall back to the back of the pack during the race. Each time, I intended to let them pull me along to get faster lap times, but did not work out.

Congrats Carlos!
 
Walter

This track is known for freezes...


I had a freeze in quali with 2min to go, but could rejoin in last sec ::)

Axel

I dont ever recall freezes at Snetterton ,

This was 1st time here for me using  60fps mod , I had no graphics problems at all,  but I am running with reduced mirror detail , shorter draw distance and no smoke skiddies & etc. for on line races .

How much this recent spate of crashes , screen freeze , disco's etc. is down to us using the 60 fps or not i do not know , but I suspect its a big chunk of the recent problems we have all been having  .

The quote comes from track black-list of the "no 60fps" junkies of GPLRacer forums!

I was having a great race until lap 2 ! following Martin at a safe distance who promptly lost it on braking for the hairpin , he half spun , I drove round the back of him but the old evil warp contact kicked me back end round ,I drove off on the grass to re join the track but couldn't see the hidden barrier and got stuck in no mans land , had to wait for everyone to pass ( thanks for waving Burt) before I could s/r then after the pit in I was almost a lap behind . pleased to be able to claw back to a reasonable position after another  lonely race .

Grats to the podium and all finishers . Shame about the disco's,  would hate to see any of these guys get to depressed and give up .

Not much to cheer abouts hereabouts.  A good start, with an undertaking to move up the field, while remaining on the track.  But a spin caused by a brief frame freeze, required a spin turn whilst being pinned at the hairpin, from cars on both sides!  Sorry to see a Bernie bump leading him astray.  I didn't know catch fencing had been invented as early as the 1960's?

With a spot of disco mania ahead, I perambulated up to fourth without much company, until gremlinitis slowed my progress - beached it on the banking, in the last corner.  A full tank of fuel, in such competitive company, gave my back foot to those dastardly upper handed rivals who remained, to take advantage.  The battle was lost. ???

Messed up my race myself, especially with 2 Dead ends in the last corner where I had to reverse.

In summary I lost about one minute, i should have won this race with a bit more concentration and less agressive driving :(

Thx for racing.

well that was my 1st ever gpl official race for over 5 years!, I had to say I was really rusty with bit of little practice before hand, that showed how well of the pace I really was! I managed to keep out of everyone's way and get myself to finish. I did have one moment after few laps where i rolled it, and had to do a SnG for the reset, at least I kept it all in one piece. I will need some time to catch back up.

Welcome back Rob.

Also congratulations to Carlos on his first win at UKGPL.

Snetterton has some deceptively tricky corners which made for some interesting racing.

Very nice to see you back Rob.  I hope you stay around  ;)