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Title: UKGTL Season 16 Old Geezer's 1960's Trans-Am - Watkins Glen - Oct 31
Post by: Wiltshire Tony on November 22, 2015, 06:46:21 PM +0000
Championship standings HERE (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=496&theme=5)

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Track: Watkins Glen 60's Download this (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3358.msg203765#post_watkins67)


Cars allowed: Mercury Cougar TA from the 1960's carset Download this (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3358.msg54518#post_american_v8) , Chevrolet Camaro Z28 from the 1970's carset Download this (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3358.msg54518#post_american_v8) , '66 Shelby Mustang TA, 340 Plymouth Barracuda and the 1968 Pontiac Firebird all from this carset Download this (http://www.mediafire.com/download/pe41p6divqam78y/Old_Geezers_add-on_car_pack.zip)

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Practice: ~19:20 (60 mins)
Qualifying: 20:20 (20 mins)
Race: 20:40 (30 laps)

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

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Title: Re: UKGTL Season 16 Old Geezer's 1960's Trans-Am - Watkins Glen - Oct 31
Post by: Wiltshire Tony on October 17, 2016, 04:40:00 PM +0100
IMPORTANT

British Summer Time (BST) has ended. All race times are now in Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 16 Old Geezer's 1960's Trans-Am - Watkins Glen - Oct 31
Post by: BillThomas on October 18, 2016, 06:05:24 AM +0100
Sorry Tony, have booked a long weekend at High Wycombe to see #3 Grandson's new flat.  8)


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 16 Old Geezer's 1960's Trans-Am - Watkins Glen - Oct 31
Post by: SpecialKS on October 23, 2016, 04:46:24 PM +0100
Possibly another miss for me too due to All Saints' Day on 1st November and a prolonged weekend in the Eifel mountains without computer and internet connection  ;D


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 16 Old Geezer's 1960's Trans-Am - Watkins Glen - Oct 31
Post by: phspok on October 23, 2016, 04:56:23 PM +0100
I should be there for this one  :D


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 16 Old Geezer's 1960's Trans-Am - Watkins Glen - Oct 31
Post by: Bob M. on October 27, 2016, 05:12:00 PM +0100
Well this is the final race of this series.  Hope you have enjoyed it as much as I have.  I provoked Tony into the idea because I like these cars and it is the 50th year of the Trans Am series and the type of cars that were raced.  Thanks Tony!!!
Watkins Glenn is a legendary track here in the USA, so it is fitting we run the final race at this venue.  The races in this area were first run in 1948 on public roads  until 1956 when the current space was bought for a permanent track and its configuration was used until 1970.  Almost every type of vehicle has been raced on the track from Grand Prix to trucks.  It was then modernized to the current track configurations in use today.  The earliest Trans Am race was 1968 and was won by Jerry Titus in a Mustang.  The fast time was Mark Donohue in a Camaro with a time of 1:15.8 in Qualification.  I'm sure our speedy guys will better that by a few seconds as this old guy is running close to that with full race fuel.   See you at the track.....

Bob M.







Title: Re: UKGTL Season 16 Old Geezer's 1960's Trans-Am - Watkins Glen - Oct 31
Post by: EvilClive on October 27, 2016, 10:07:02 PM +0100
I was surprised how much I enjoyed these monsters Bob.

Too much power and no grip seems to suit my driving style, so provided I can cobble together a setup that at least allows me to point the damned thing in approximately the right direction, I will be at WG.  ;D ;D
It would be nice if my years of experience in GPL at this track gave me an advantage, but as the track is pretty simple to learn and the cars are so different from the GPL options I will have to fight for every place I suspect.  :-\
Maybe Tony could be persuaded to do something similar next year..................... ???  ;)


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 16 Old Geezer's 1960's Trans-Am - Watkins Glen - Oct 31
Post by: Ziu Bacubacu on October 27, 2016, 10:19:40 PM +0100

Maybe Tony could be persuaded to do something similar next year..................... ???  ;)

Good idea Clive so i can ask a rematch to Geoffers  ;D


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 16 Old Geezer's 1960's Trans-Am - Watkins Glen - Oct 31
Post by: Geoffers on October 27, 2016, 11:33:05 PM +0100

Maybe Tony could be persuaded to do something similar next year..................... ???  ;)

Good idea Clive so i can ask a rematch to Geoffers  ;D

Hang on Ziu, its not over yet. I've got to get the thing to the finish and beat you. Not easy! ::)


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 16 Old Geezer's 1960's Trans-Am - Watkins Glen - Oct 31
Post by: Bob M. on October 27, 2016, 11:35:07 PM +0100
Clive & Ziu:
Next year we will have John/Jeeps Can Am cars, which are every bit as much fun as the Trans Am cars on some of the same tracks we used in this series.  Also Tony has a series featuring the Boss 302 on a variety of tracks from Ovals to street race's.  That's the great thing about GTL, so many mod cars and tracks to choose from!!!!!

Bob M.


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 16 Old Geezer's 1960's Trans-Am - Watkins Glen - Oct 31
Post by: Jeep on October 28, 2016, 01:14:35 AM +0100
Things are not looking good for me if you lot are already approaching Mark Donohue's times. I can't even get out of the 1:17's and my tyres are screaming for mercy by about lap 22. :( I'll have to go for one of my lightning starts and hope you all crash in your desperate attempts to get past me.  :tank:

But yes, a great series which I love and hate in equal measure, looking forwards to the Boss 302 next year.

TTFN
John.


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 16 Old Geezer's 1960's Trans-Am - Watkins Glen - Oct 31
Post by: Erling G-P on October 28, 2016, 09:30:20 AM +0100
I'm quite inept at driving these, but it's still been a lot of fun.  Can Am cars are going to be a blast, and I found myself unusually competitive in the Boss 302, in the one 'real' race we had with it, so looking forward to next season already  :)

Cheers,
Erling


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 16 Old Geezer's 1960's Trans-Am - Watkins Glen - Oct 31
Post by: Ziu Bacubacu on October 28, 2016, 11:27:48 AM +0100

Maybe Tony could be persuaded to do something similar next year..................... ???  ;)

Good idea Clive so i can ask a rematch to Geoffers  ;D

Hang on Ziu, its not over yet. I've got to get the thing to the finish and beat you. Not easy! ::)

Geoffers i lost this championship at Westwood, my engine exploded because my fault. The only possibility it s that you make a big mistake monday but i m not thinking about it, just i know that 17 points miss me because i m a donkey. I cannot beat you,one because you are the best driver Season16, second because Camaro Z28 is a wheelbarrow here.


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 16 Old Geezer's 1960's Trans-Am - Watkins Glen - Oct 31
Post by: Ziu Bacubacu on October 28, 2016, 11:40:08 AM +0100
Clive & Ziu:
Next year we will have John/Jeeps Can Am cars, which are every bit as much fun as the Trans Am cars on some of the same tracks we used in this series.  Also Tony has a series featuring the Boss 302 on a variety of tracks from Ovals to street race's.  That's the great thing about GTL, so many mod cars and tracks to choose from!!!!!

Bob M.

Drive Boss 302 not the same thing, if you remeber GCMCL we had many fun battles. Would be nice if the next time we can have more muscle cars choice and without any restriction just so we can have great battles. Tony these not is a criticism for you but the choice of muscle car is relative, if we think that exisiste a value stair for these car, this is a mistake.


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 16 Old Geezer's 1960's Trans-Am - Watkins Glen - Oct 31
Post by: Ziu Bacubacu on October 28, 2016, 11:44:24 AM +0100
Things are not looking good for me if you lot are already approaching Mark Donohue's times. I can't even get out of the 1:17's and my tyres are screaming for mercy by about lap 22. :( I'll have to go for one of my lightning starts and hope you all crash in your desperate attempts to get past me.  :tank:

But yes, a great series which I love and hate in equal measure, looking forwards to the Boss 302 next year.

TTFN
John.


I beat Mark Donohue time with Camaro Z28, but the problem is that with Mercury is possible go under 1:15.


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 16 Old Geezer's 1960's Trans-Am - Watkins Glen - Oct 31
Post by: phspok on October 28, 2016, 01:03:11 PM +0100
Well if Erling is not fast in these I will have another opportunity to get in his way  ::) :devil:


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 16 Old Geezer's 1960's Trans-Am - Watkins Glen - Oct 31
Post by: Erling G-P on October 28, 2016, 02:01:46 PM +0100
Well if Erling is not fast in these I will have another opportunity to get in his way  ::) :devil:


Not if you're faster than me - unless of course you intentionally slow down, just to annoy me..  ;D

Cheers,
Erling


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 16 Old Geezer's 1960's Trans-Am - Watkins Glen - Oct 31
Post by: phspok on October 28, 2016, 02:09:54 PM +0100
chortle, only done a few laps to decide which car is best of the ones I have left
Can't remember times, but I will be doing "some" practice this weekend...


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 16 Old Geezer's 1960's Trans-Am - Watkins Glen - Oct 31
Post by: EvilClive on October 28, 2016, 04:46:27 PM +0100

[/quote]

I beat Mark Donohue time with Camaro Z28, but the problem is that with Mercury is possible go under 1:15.
[/quote]

 ;) hmmmm, I think I have a spare Mercury waiting in my pit stall  ::). 

Might have to negotiate some practice time with "the boss", but that might be difficult as she has plans for me to do some decorating this weekend   :-\


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 16 Old Geezer's 1960's Trans-Am - Watkins Glen - Oct 31
Post by: Ziu Bacubacu on October 31, 2016, 08:51:42 PM +0000
The server put me out, already i drive a whreelbarrow now also the server is against to me......I don't know.   

Grats Geoffers for championship, but loose so for me is the worst thing. Very frustrated just F1 saved my bad year.


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 16 Old Geezer's 1960's Trans-Am - Watkins Glen - Oct 31
Post by: Wiltshire Tony on October 31, 2016, 09:24:34 PM +0000
The server put me out, already i drive a whreelbarrow now also the server is against to me......I don't know.   

Grats Geoffers for championship, but loose so for me is the worst thing. Very frustrated just F1 saved my bad year.

Wait till you see the results


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 16 Old Geezer's 1960's Trans-Am - Watkins Glen - Oct 31
Post by: Geoffers on October 31, 2016, 09:25:32 PM +0000
The server put me out, already i drive a whreelbarrow now also the server is against to me......I don't know.   

Grats Geoffers for championship, but loose so for me is the worst thing. Very frustrated just F1 saved my bad year.

Wait till you see the results

Indeed!!!!!!!!!!!!


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 16 Old Geezer's 1960's Trans-Am - Watkins Glen - Oct 31
Post by: Wiltshire Tony on October 31, 2016, 09:50:22 PM +0000
Replay and results now posted.


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 16 Old Geezer's 1960's Trans-Am - Watkins Glen - Oct 31
Post by: Wiltshire Tony on October 31, 2016, 09:53:48 PM +0000
Our 1960's Trans-Am experience reaches the final round and we have our Champion

Congratulations Geoffers :thumbup1: :thumbup1: :thumbup1:

2nd - Ziu  :notworthy: :notworthy:

3rd - Erling  :thumbup2:

Well done Gents and thanks to everyone who took part in Bobs superb Championship.


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 16 Old Geezer's 1960's Trans-Am - Watkins Glen - Oct 31
Post by: EvilClive on October 31, 2016, 10:03:27 PM +0000
I'm not sure that Ziu will be too pleased by this result!  

 To discover that he was dropped by the server, when he was running in about 5th place and he only needed 3 points to take the series????  I think he might feel a little miffed to discover that Geoffers had a DNF!!!

Although, I stole pole position with a fluke lap I was hoping that I might just have the pace to live with Geoffers in the race. Sadly he proved that I didn't!!!  I was definitely trying just that bit too hard and dropping precious tenths on each lap as Geoffer's car got ever more distant :-\

Finally I made a mistake on the final corner and the gap jumped to over 4 secs, and I resigned myself to 2nd place at best  :-\. The gap back to Matt in 3rd was a comfortable 8 secs so I decided to try and keep at least some rubber on my rims and eased off just a fraction. It was only a few laps later that I passed a discarded bumper on the Esses...................????  once onto the straight I checked the race order and......... Geoffers had pranged it??!!!

So now I had the lead and an 8 sec gap  :) From there to the flag it was just a case of being careful and the only drama was coming across Tony and Rog having a contratemps on the S/F  straight, which I was able to run around without getting involved.

All I can say is...Hard Luck Geoffers, that race should have been yours....even harder luck Ziu, because you might have snatched the series win just by finishing.

Thanks for a real fun series in these big beasts, the more races I did, the more I liked them.  ;)



Title: Re: UKGTL Season 16 Old Geezer's 1960's Trans-Am - Watkins Glen - Oct 31
Post by: Ziu Bacubacu on October 31, 2016, 10:20:51 PM +0000
The server put me out, already i drive a whreelbarrow now also the server is against to me......I don't know.    

Grats Geoffers for championship, but loose so for me is the worst thing. Very frustrated just F1 saved my bad year.

Wait till you see the results

For me it s more bitter to see this results, I lost championship because a stupid server. However Geoffers deserved it, he won more races than me.

Clive you see, what I said in past about these cars is confirmed, you used 2 times Cougar and you won 2 times that mean your style driving is adapted for Mercury. Mercury is good car but not for all drivers, for you yes. Today someone used Barracuda but not got your resulted. Erling used Camaro and beat me on qualy. If Ziu could use Barracuda pole was under 1:14 (joking  ;D) but maybe possible.  My issue with Camaro was that I needed gear3 more short just so I could be competitive my car was balanced, not perfectly but the gear is too important for personal style driving specially with these cars. The package change when we change track, but you and Mercury is good wedding. If in future it will possible to have a championship without restrictions with these cars I sure we will have a great battle.


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 16 Old Geezer's 1960's Trans-Am - Watkins Glen - Oct 31
Post by: EvilClive on November 01, 2016, 09:18:13 AM +0000
I have to agree that I did enjoy driving the Mercury at Watkins Glen. I did try a couple of laps with the Camaro and the Firebird just before the race offline, but I had no previous setups for those cars, and very little time to build one.
The Mercury ( with the same setup that I used before ) was about 1.5 secs faster than the default setup on the two other cars, so I took the easy option  ;D.


I agree with you Ziu, about the gear ratios. But I have found the gears a problem in ALL of the cars on all of the tracks. I need a 5 speed gearbox!!

 There always seemed to be at least one corner on a circuit where I felt that I wanted a different gear ratio. I guess that just like everyone else, I was either against the rev limiter, or it felt like I was chugging in too high a gear. Maybe with a 5 speed gearbox I would be 2 secs a lap faster, but then so would everyone else!! lol

Thanks for a fun series. Maybe we will wrestle with these cars again soon?


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 16 Old Geezer's 1960's Trans-Am - Watkins Glen - Oct 31
Post by: Erling G-P on November 01, 2016, 10:18:31 AM +0000
Contrary to Ziu, I quite liked the Camaro here, and for me it was faster than the Barracuda when I tested before the previous race, although that is probably just testament to my complete lack of ability with the latter car..  :)

Loved the track too - nice flow, fast curves and elevation changes are my preferences.

Surprised to qualify ahead of Ziu, if only just - maybe he hated the car too much to even try ?  Had high hopes for a good start, with my aggressive diff setting, but got slowly off the line, so Ziu muscled through, taking John with him. That was the start of some quite busy laps - while trying to find a way past John, I simultaneously had to fend off advances from Bob.  Finally got past, when John ran a little wide entering the righthander after the long straight.  Next lap he slid off in the same spot, which was the last I saw of him.

Bob however, remained a constant, bright yellow presence in my mirrors throughout the race, 2.5 - 3.5 secs behind, so only room for very minor errors. Tyres started to go around midrace, but Bob seemed unaffected, which was worrying. Tried every conceivable way to keep momentum up - as smooth as possible, with as tight lines as I could.  To my relief, it seemed Bob was finally struggling with grip too, as the gap went up a little late in the race.  Car in front was 7-8 secs ahead, and I couldn't close the gap despite my best efforts.

Surprise 3rd place, with the retirements up front, but of course happy to finish the series on the podium. Grats to Clive for the victory & Matt for 2nd, and of course to Geoffers for the Championship  :clap: :clap:

Commiserations to Ziu for losing the connection and possibly the Championship, but grats on 2nd place nonetheless  :thumbup2:

Forgot to add: Thanks to Bob & Tony for putting this excellent series together !!

Cheers,
Erling


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 16 Old Geezer's 1960's Trans-Am - Watkins Glen - Oct 31
Post by: Geoffers on November 01, 2016, 11:36:32 AM +0000
Well that was a bit of an anti-climax to a fine series from my point of view, really sorry Ziu got a disco early on, took the edge off the race.  :(  The worldwide TV audience must have been gutted!  :thumbdown:

Fine performance from Clive though, excellent pace, especially that qually lap. I was really having to try hard just to maintain the small gap that I had & it was only when Clive made a couple of small errors that I felt comfortable. Unfortunately I relaxed too much & let the car drift a little too wide through the uphill esses & clouted those straw bales which killed the car.

Congrats to Clive, Matt & Erling.

Happy to have won the series, although not how I would have liked. Big thanks to Bob & Tony for organising.  :thumbup2:


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 16 Old Geezer's 1960's Trans-Am - Watkins Glen - Oct 31
Post by: phspok on November 01, 2016, 12:20:08 PM +0000
I took the Cuda because for me it was slightly faster than the Mustang and the Z28, which were the only cars I had to use.
Made a decent start, gave Ziu "just" enough room up the hill, and settled into 3rd following Clive and Geoff for a few laps
was not quite as fast, and they gradually pulled away. kept the gap back to Erling at around 7 secs after he passed
John. Nearly stuffed it in the loop avoiding a recovering wayward west country gent  ::) Roger was very good to lift
and allow an easy pass, which he also did for Erling. Dang, and after what I payed him, harumph.
Roll on the BOSS series. I really enjoy these heavy metal cars.


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 16 Old Geezer's 1960's Trans-Am - Watkins Glen - Oct 31
Post by: Wiltshire Tony on November 01, 2016, 12:43:16 PM +0000
I'm not good with these V8 monsters but I do enjoy chucking them around a fast track like this one. Had a couple of exciting laps when I finally caught Jeep but at the final turn my skill ran out and I span, leaving Jeep to disappear into the sunset. Then a couple laps of madness when I lost control of the car at a couple of places allowing Roguk to catch and pass me. Felt like quiting at that point but with only a few laps to go I carried on to the end.


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 16 Old Geezer's 1960's Trans-Am - Watkins Glen - Oct 31
Post by: SpecialKS on November 01, 2016, 04:37:54 PM +0000
Results (https://www.avonrise.co.uk/srou/kurts/Watkins Glen 31102016)

8)


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 16 Old Geezer's 1960's Trans-Am - Watkins Glen - Oct 31
Post by: Jeep on November 01, 2016, 10:22:23 PM +0000
Well, another opportunity to demonstrate my ineptitude in these beasts. Qualy went much as I'd expected with a low 1:17. I had broken into the 16's in practice but couldn't get there in Qualifying so lined up in 8th just in front of Tony and ccstevecc.

I did get the start I wanted though and got myself up into 5th jumping Roguk, Bob and Erling on lap 1, even had a long look at Ziu but he slammed the door in my face coming onto the straight. 1st few laps saw the front 4 pull away and me with my mirrors full of Erling's Camaro and Bob lurking in wait for any stupid move which might give him a chance to make two easy places. The superior speed of the Cougar just about kept them at bay but I could see they were getting frustrated at every turn.

At the end of lap 3 I must have scared the crap out of Erling. I came off the last turn and was heading for the SF line when Ziu's Camaro suddenly stopped dead. I know now it was the server deciding to ruin his evening but at the time I panicked and threw the Cougar across the track right in front of him, he must have thought WTF!! Very Verstappen like I'm sure but sorry Erling, no desire to take you out even if it looked that way from where you were sitting.

Held Erling at bay for the next few laps until going into the loop a bit too hot and running wide, then next lap going even wider and onto the grass allowing Bob through. Quickly lost touch with them both and soon had an inquisitive Tony looking for a way through We had a good tussle for a few laps. Me making the most of the speed of the Cougar and him with his better set up trying to climb in the boot at every corner. Eventually he spun at the final turn at the end of lap 15 and it all became a lot more peaceful in the Jeep cockpit and much of the remainder of the race was quiet. Then on Lap 19 noticed I was promoted to 5th a quick scan of the XD display showed Geoffers had met an unfortunate demise. By this time there was nothing short of divine intervention which would get me back on terms with the leading 4 and my 5th was very safe with Tony making further mistakes behind allowing Roguk to move past him into 6th but a long way adrift of me.

Thanks Bob for a great series and Tony for making it all happen.  and congrats to the podium and also Geoffers for the title even if it was with a DNF.

TTFN
John.


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 16 Old Geezer's 1960's Trans-Am - Watkins Glen - Oct 31
Post by: Erling G-P on November 01, 2016, 11:43:00 PM +0000
At the end of lap 3 I must have scared the crap out of Erling. I came off the last turn and was heading for the SF line when Ziu's Camaro suddenly stopped dead. I know now it was the server deciding to ruin his evening but at the time I panicked and threw the Cougar across the track right in front of him, he must have thought WTF!! Very Verstappen like I'm sure but sorry Erling, no desire to take you out even if it looked that way from where you were sitting.

No worries John; realised it was just a reflex action - and quite a good piece of avoidance for that matter :)   Hairy moment though, and brought Bob right up and personal, when I lost speed.  Take a look at the server replay which is from my viewpoint, around the 270-mark, if you want to see what it looked like  :)

Cheers,
Erling


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 16 Old Geezer's 1960's Trans-Am - Watkins Glen - Oct 31
Post by: Wiltshire Tony on November 02, 2016, 09:01:39 AM +0000
Results (https://www.avonrise.co.uk/srou/kurts/Watkins Glen 31102016)

8)
Thank you Kurt  :thumbup1:


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 16 Old Geezer's 1960's Trans-Am - Watkins Glen - Oct 31
Post by: Bob M. on November 02, 2016, 06:16:15 PM +0000
First of all, big thanks to all who participated in this series.  Grats to Geoff, Ziu and Erling for leading the way in that order.  The Cups are in the mail, just keep waiting LOL!!!  And again thanks to Tony for putting  the information I gathered into a great series for all of us.  As I said before the idea for this series was a little selfish of me as I enjoy these cars a lot, part of my youth and memories past.
The race went well, had my usual bad start and then gained a few places due to other's problems.  Spent most of the race chasing Erling.  I just couldn't make up enough time on him to get close, as he stated 3 to 4 seconds between us for most of the race.  After about lap 26 or so the tires on the Plymouth fell way off and then it was just drive to the end and survive.  Again thanks all.....See you all a Goodwood, the only motor I have left is the Austin 100, so blink your lights and I will move over as you lap me.

Bob M.





Title: Re: UKGTL Season 16 Old Geezer's 1960's Trans-Am - Watkins Glen - Oct 31
Post by: Erling G-P on November 04, 2016, 12:47:04 PM +0000
....See you all a Goodwood, the only motor I have left is the Austin 100, so blink your lights and I will move over as you lap me.

Bob M.

That's no excuse at all; Clive made the Healey move pretty darn quickly last year..  :)

Cheers,
Erling


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 16 Old Geezer's 1960's Trans-Am - Watkins Glen - Oct 31
Post by: 55steve55 on November 06, 2016, 05:28:32 PM +0000
A late post but just to say thank you to Bob for organising this Trans-Am Series and to Tony for his expert input.

Despite driver error creeping in particularly early on this last race, I have enjoyed the season and would be more than happy to race these cars again next year.

And of course, well done to Geoffers for the Championship :clap: