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Season 30 Privateers Trophy – Round 1 – Monaco

Welcome to the opening round of the Works Trophy which will take place on the iconic street circuit at Monaco. Plenty of braking, plenty of gear changes & precious few places to overtake.

Race List = iGOR
Server = UKGPL_8
IP = see iGOR
Race date = Sunday 29-05-16
Time = 21:00 UK time (21:00 GMT)
Track = Monaco
Race length = 33 1aps (50 minutes)
Variant = 1967
60fps patch used   = 60fpsV2newmod
Damage Model = Advanced
Qualifying time = 30 minutes

Replays Available

Driver lists can be found at the Privateers Trophy page (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=549&theme=6)

HANDICAPPING
The tokens system remains for all drivers.
In the interest of having a competitive championship the faster drivers are requested to voluntarily select car that suits your ability, from Race 1. If you are consistently qualifying at the front of the grid,  finishing on the podium & recording fastest lap then you should be not be taking a faster car.
The championship will be reviewed after Race 3. Drivers may then be allocated to one of the following handicap groups
Group 1 BRM, Honda, or Cooper,
Group 2 as above + Brabham
Group 3 as above + Ferrari

Drivers are permitted one Reset / Shift R per race, followed by a compulsory Stop & Go 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. hit when respawning.
If you are the first car entering the pit lane to take your SnG aim to bring the car to a halt alongside the last pit stall - closest to the exit. As soon as your car is stationary you can go. You won't be penalised if you stop a little short or beyond the pit stall.
In the event that more than one car takes a SnG at the same time the following cars can perform their Stop & Go in line.
No overtaking in the pit lane.

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

Drivers are required to complete 50% distance to score points.

There is no Red Zone for this series, moderating will be on reported incidents only. Please remember that an additional 1 place penalty is awarded for Lap 1 incidents.

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


click here -> REPLAY (https://www.sendspace.com/file/2hhnc7)

Drivers may then be allocated to one of the following handicap groups
Group 1 BRM, Honda, or Cooper,
Group 2 as above + Brabham
Group 3 as above + Ferrari


If I correctly understand, it means Eagle and Lotus are forbidden for races 1, 2 and 3 !!??

I need to explain the handicap in more detail. It is difficult to set a handicap before knowing which drivers are going to participate regularly. The tokens system remains so nobody will be able to use the Lotus or Eagle for more than a few races. For races 1, 2 and 3 there is a voluntary handicap. The fastest drivers are requested to take a car which is suitable for their ability compared to other drivers. It won't be perfect but it should mean the series is more competitive for everyone. After three races if it is clear that faster drivers are leading the championship by taking better cars then there will be a compulsory handicap for them. If someone starts off in the BRM and is not competitive they can take a faster car next time.  We have a regular community of drivers at UKGPL and I am hoping the drivers will police themselves. The system of voluntary handicaps worked quite well in the Joe Shaw trophy with different winners for every race.

Sorry, I will be out of town for the opening race. Unfortunately no where near Monaco.  :laugh:

taking few things into account;
1) its a bank holiday tomorrow so I don't have to get up
2) Monaco
3) 50% rule
4) I suck

im gunna get drunk instead. not qualify and just cross the s/f line in a brm and use the tokens when I have a chance of some points.

some may question my commitment, lol  ::), I would say its picking the battles, honest.  ;)

nice password  :-*

GLA and grats in advance to finishers, a feat in itself, tell Max and Kimi et al  :laugh:

Have to give it a miss as nowhere near my PC for this  :-\

I'll be there, but it's a pig of a circuit, which I have never gone negative at, and I've never raced there.  ::)

Complete mess, just could not control the car properly. After the third contact I decided it was best to quit.

Can't clearly remember who I was involved with. Can only apologize. 

For me was not a battle against the walls of Montecarlo but a battle with my PC.I must decide to change it because in track like Monaco or Spa is a tragedy with also some freeze of few seconds.My engine broken is done also in this race but ,despite all this problem,i was able to finish.

It soon became clear when I joined for some practice - during the qually session,  that this was probably going to be a rather short outing.  However,  had the feeling that it would most likely seem to go on for hours and hours...
Luckily I managed to get my reset/stop&go out of the way near the start, so no worrying about full fuel loads later in the race :)


Snap!
If it was with a big white whiny thing, between the hairpin & the start/finish line - then that was me.  I don't have a reply to look at,  but apologies for being there at the time place at the same time.
But yes, don't know what happened but the car was hard to control initially.  Once I'd knocked the corners into place, it seemed to handle a little better.

Took the Honda as previously my PB was with that.  However, got nowhere near that.


Unfortunately something happened [hopefully after half distance!].   GPL lost contact with the server & screen froze/GPL crashed/I was kicked out.  
Although my DSL remained up, looks as if host response time hit 760ms for approx 1 minute,  but looks like it was my end/connection.  Suspect ADSL upstream maxed out for some reason;  further investigations to take place...


Sounds like that would have worked out better!



Unfortunately lost the replay,  but probably just as well.

Congrats all finishers.


Cheers all,
Dave.

Having such a miserable last season I decided to join Privateers (and 1965 Amateurs) this "year".

Monaco is one of my favourite tracks, I had many memorable races here, but I need practice to be on speed. So I was a bit rusty at the beginning of my training. Qual went better and so the race. Still I knocked the fences here and there, but survived both occasion with a bit of luck. Had a few low 27 laps, but never neared my PB...

Thanks all for the race.
Grats finishers!

I have seen the replay with the two incident where my car was involved:Sorry for the bump Martin but your car was invisible for me and the incident unavoidable.
What was bad are the consequence for you.

I was having a little problem in Lap 2 when I spun, so I lost some places,
but could fight my way back somehow.
Sorry Dave I Hit you once quite hard but I had time to let you reverse.
Grats to finisher, especially Jani and Ronnie.

No problem for me, I make the problem for you!  My little spin, and I cannot see who comes. I am happy you are Ok.  Next time You must push forwards, and not upside down. :D

Later I have a little motor problem.  For some years no problem with this, but now at Ukgpl a problem.  I take this from you, and give you my good motor.

Cool start to the season for the soggy team ( if the results stand )  ???

Well done boys at such a tough track to   :) :) :)

grats teamie :D

Should do.  :)  The only tangle I had was with Michael - I lost it at St Devote and ended up at 90 degrees - no way Michael could have avoided me.

Grats on a podium finish, Ronnie!  :)

Great race, Jani.
With the works, you would have finish second with only 6 sec more than Doni the winner !!
It will be very difficult to fight against you for the title.

My race started correctly and I was second (far from Jani) after Bastian spun.
I keep that 2nd position until my engine exploded (curiously, I was not really pushing hard) and after the stop and go on the pits, Bastian was closely following me.
He rear ended me at the hairpin before the finish line and I was like Jack Brabham in 1970.
Very sportively, Bastian waited for me during several seconds
I don't know if my brakes were damaged by the rearending or if I was too tired and lost concentration  but one lap later my Cooper definitively crashed, almost at the same place.   

Thanks mate.  And huge congratulations on your win!  :punk:

Thanks Dave!

Monaco is a special track, let's wait for another few rounds.

Works race was a different event, race times are not comparable :)

NP, didn't want to pass that way when we had the gap to the nex position behind us.
Hope no damage from me.

Cheers Bernie. Looking forward to you adding to the tally in future races.

I was doing quite well early on thanks to the mishaps of others but got tagged going into the final corner and ended up facing the wrong way.
GPL morphed into a pinball game as I tried to extricate myself as merely touching the barriers resulted in a major reaction. Apologies for the problems this caused other drivers trying to get past me.
But I did manage eventually to take the chequered flag albeit several laps down though the server seems to think I discoed.

Mod report now published.