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Season 30 Works Trophy – Round 9 –  Reims

The circuit Reims-Gueux was a Grand Prix motor racing road course, located in north-eastern France, established in 1926. The triangular layout of public roads formed three sectors between the villages of Thillois and Gueux over the La Garenne / Gueux intersection of Route nationale 31. The circuit became known to be among the fastest of the era for its two long straights (approximately 2.2 km in length each) allowing maximum straight-line speed, resulting in many famous slipstream battles.

As we head to the penultimate race of the season the championship is headed by Samb, Doni & Greg. With two postponed & missed races it is too early to call.

Race List = iGOR
Server = UKGPL_9
IP = see iGOR
Race date = Sunday 23-10-16
Time = 21:00 UK time (21:00 GMT)
Track= reims (http://gpltd.bcsims.com/include/downloadtrack.php?&track=reims&track_link=/tracks/reims_gpl.zip)
Race length = 23 1aps (50 minutes)
Variant = 1967
60fps patch used   = 60fpsV2newmod
Damage Model = Pro
Qualifying time = 30 minutes

Replays Available

Driver lists can be found at the
Works Trophy Page (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=548&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. 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
No handicap will apply for this race.

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

Hi all, back from remote mountain retreat training camp, well actually it was seaside caravan in Cornwall, and no internet available ( except free wi-fi in places )::).

Rested and relaxed, ready to go, no practice....so prolly off on T1!!!  ;) wot can possibly go wrong????

4 weeks race rusty for me, and that was Solitude...

The priv server will use 1h quali time to delay the race start for ~15min.

So there is a possibility to see the end of the Austin F1 race...

Engine again, lap 7 this time.  >:(

Good fun 'til then, thanks Clive, good to see you back.

Silly mistake from me again. Johnny passed me at the first corner and ran slightly wide. I did in sympathy, got a rear wheel on the grass, spun out of control and clouted one of the marshaling posts, ripping off a wheel......

Good luck to all still running, good to see you back Clive  :).

That you Doni or Max  ;)

Results and replay up.

My race ended rather early when I ran wide into T2. That hay field is rather attracted to metal...

Thanks for the welcome back guys...just an annual vacation soaking up the October sun in England  :-\

Did not have time to think about what car so, as I still have a sack full of tokens, I thought I would take the Eagle as it is a nice drive, but to handicap myself I got Mabel to fill the tanks to the brim. I was surprised ( and a little disappointed) to find that all of that weight knocked about 1.5 secs a lap off my pace  :o. Something that Dean and later Jonny capitalised on.  :(

Sorry to see you blow that engine Dean, I was enjoying our tussle.
Finished the race with 25galls of ballast fuel still in the tanks. That might be a way of handicapping drivers ?? insist they run with full tanks, although I'm not sure how we can check that??

Grats to Axel who set a fast pace up front and took a deserved win and JJ for a great recovery drive after he went off...I was hoping that he would make the same mistake again, but he didn't.

LOL  ;D ;D ;D
as I had no points yet I could not see my tokens, so I thought I had enough, but this was an error...

LOL!  Good one, Ray!  :)

I wanted to jump in here early to offer Ray apologies for the carve ups as I thought that you were another Eagle, the self-same one(initials, MM)that almost short-braked me into a shunt at T2 on Lap01.  I was furious at that!  'What are you doing?!?!'  I lost track of who was where after running down the escape road at the end of that opening round.  Case of mistaken identity.  After seeing your Weslake hand grenade in front of me on the pit straight, I raised my arm thinking, 'Good riddance!'  Once again, my apologies.

Ouch, poor Axel :( Finally a finish, a very fine consistent drive, and then again awarded no points...

Grats anyway on a fine drive, also grats to Jonny and Clive. Early race was fun, especially lap 1 with Dean, and after I took the long route (that I repeated later in the race). Setup wasn't feeling great, had pumped up the tires, but it did cost me traction and handling...

Thanks for racing and welcome back Clive! :)

  Ops Axel !!! .....well , congrats for your performance.

  But ......what tokens Axel?

No problem Doni and good to see you riding high in the standings!

Jonny, this is a kind of handicap in the rules here (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=548&theme=6) ;)