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Title: UKGPL Season 32 (2017-18) Historic Trophy (66) - Aintree - Dec 3 Post by: Phil Thornton on November 29, 2017, 10:30:38 PM +0000 Season 32 Historic Trophy – Round 6 - Aintree
The sixth race in the Historic series takes us to the outskirts of Liverpool in the north of England. Aintree is undoubtedly famous for the iconic Grand National horse race but for several years it reverberated to the sound of horses of a different kind. The circuit was built in 1954 and hosted the Formula One British Grand Prix five times, in 1955, 1957, 1959, 1961 and 1962. Stirling Moss, driving a Mercedes, won his first British Grand Prix at Aintree in 1955. It was the first time a British driver had won his home Grand Prix. The first British driver / British car victory in a British Grand Prix was also at Aintree in 1957, when Stirling Moss and Tony Brooks shared a Vanwall. Quite why Grand Prix racing stopped at Aintree is unclear. The close proximity of housing may have been a factor but the circuit would no doubt have needed to improve safety standards. The original track can still be seen, and driven on, today. The lack of any run-off areas in the section to the west of the Melling Road all too apparent. The section to the east of the Melling Road which is wide open and relatively safe is still in regular use for motorcycle racing.
Password: see above (#post_event_password) Driver lists and divisional rules can be found on the championship standings page (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=618&theme=6) Only reported incidents will be moderated, there is no Red Zone. Handicapping and chassis allocation. This season the Historics will be using a token system which allows drivers to purchase any chassis of their choice, 2 litre or 3 litre, for a given number of tokens as published on the championship standings page (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=618&theme=6). Drivers classed as Amateurs will be allocated an additional 10 tokens. The token allocation will not be managed in SRou this season so (unlike the 67F1 Works and 67F1 Privateer divisions) the tokens available to each driver will not appear in the championship table (when the mouse pointer is hovered over the driver's total). Rather, the available tokens will be published in the race announcement. See below. Available Tokens: Note: These are the tokens available to each driver before the 10 tokens are added for making the race start.
Title: Re: UKGPL Season 32 (2017-18) Historic Trophy (66) - Aintree - Dec 3 Post by: Rainier on December 03, 2017, 06:40:41 PM +0000 Nice pwd Phil.
I hope the race will not be a remake of "The Shining" ... Title: Re: UKGPL Season 32 (2017-18) Historic Trophy (66) - Aintree - Dec 3 Post by: FullMetalGasket on December 03, 2017, 07:35:58 PM +0000 Well, I was planning on using a trike..
Title: Re: UKGPL Season 32 (2017-18) Historic Trophy (66) - Aintree - Dec 3 Post by: EvilClive on December 03, 2017, 10:24:16 PM +0000 :-\ :-\ :-\ :-\ :-\ :-\ :cursing: :cursing:
Yup! Win 10 strikes again with another blue screen. I hope that my car did not freeze on the server and cause any problems, but there was nothing that I could do as my PC just crashed to a blue screen and locked. Did some more digging through the "Event Logs" trying to identify what had happened at the moment of the freeze and found something linked to Win security that apparently monitors the authenticity of software?? Further digging into it's schedule showed that it was set to start up at 21:43 each day?? Hmmmmmmmmmmmm. So, I have changed this time to 18:00, and now I guess I have to wait and see if that cures the problem? Title: Re: UKGPL Season 32 (2017-18) Historic Trophy (66) - Aintree - Dec 3 Post by: AnGex on December 03, 2017, 10:44:14 PM +0000 Clive, do you use XPAntispy to prevent Win10 to call home?
Title: Re: UKGPL Season 32 (2017-18) Historic Trophy (66) - Aintree - Dec 3 Post by: Phil Thornton on December 03, 2017, 10:49:42 PM +0000 I've loaded the chassis the drivers used into the token calculator spreadsheet. For the next race the available tokens will be as declared in the table below (the table will also appear in the next race announcement). The calculated values are automated but selecting the cars is a manual process so please check your tokens to make sure I haven't made a silly error. There was no token overspend for this round so no one is disqualified.
Available Tokens: Note: These are the tokens available to each driver before the 10 tokens are added for making the race start.
Title: Re: UKGPL Season 32 (2017-18) Historic Trophy (66) - Aintree - Dec 3 Post by: EvilClive on December 04, 2017, 12:21:08 PM +0000 Clive, do you use XPAntispy to prevent Win10 to call home? I don't have that, but I will look it up now ;) |