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Practice/Car change: ~19:20 (60 mins)
Qualifying: 20:20 (20 mins)
Race: 20:40 (38 laps)

Track: Monza GP (1960's) Download this (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3358.msg187122#post_monza60s)

Cars allowed: All cars included in this pack Download this (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3358.msg54520#post_lemansclassics)

CLASS P+2.0

Ferrari 330 P3/4
Ferrari 330 P4
Ferrari 412P

CLASS P3.0

Ford Mk.IV
Porsche 907K
Porsche 907LH
Porsche 908K
Porsche 908LH

CLASS S5.0

Porsche 917K
Porsche 917LH

Car restrictions: Three drives maximum per class. Check your status here (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15Tl-HdpSeXk40LZtdbnMeXBpTOn_wlo7i-U4Huou9oc/edit?usp=sharing)

Time of Day Setting: 14:00
Start: STANDING
Tyre wear: 2x
Fuel consumption: 2x
Pit stops: Required

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Password: see above (#post_event_password)

Notes:
(1) It's best if all drivers can make sure they are connected before the Qualifying session as drivers on track during qualifying will not see cars that join after they are on track until they go back to the garage.
(2) Please make sure you are fully aware of the SimRacing.org.uk Rules.
(3) The AI control should be turned off so that you have control of the car at all times, including pitting. Your player file should therefore read
Autopit="0"
Force Autopit Off="1" // Forces autopit always off
No AI Control="1" // AI never has control over car
If you still finding pitting problematic, experience tells us that its less to do with positioning and more to do with approach speed. A slow approach to pit crew chief has proved most reliable.

Special Notes: None.

IMPORTANT

Take care at turn 1 as the both the LH hedgerow and the RH kerb have car wrecking capability in places.

This one will be another one for me without any practice.  :whistling:

Won a ticket for Spa Classic this weekend  ;D. So an unexpected trip to Belgium. Weather looks promising but coolish (http://www.dmi.dk/vejr/til-lands/byvejr/by/vis/BE/2786318/Spa,%20Belgien/ (http://www.dmi.dk/vejr/til-lands/byvejr/by/vis/BE/2786318/Spa,%20Belgien/)) at least for Saturday.

CU on track

Nice prize Kurt, have a great time!

Echo that, enjoy!

Yeh, enjoy the weekend Kurt. I went last year, really good event.

Enjoy the weekend Kurt  :thumbup2:
Yes, I wish I was going to Spa to watch those iconic cars...............maybe next year ??  ::)

IMPORTANT

No. of laps reduced to 38.

Thanks  Tony: The Por917K I am going to drive will only go 19 laps before the fuel lite comes on.  Would have had to make 2 stops to make it I'm sure......

Thanks Bob M.

Hi Bob
Yes, someone else reported the same problem hence the reduction in laps.

Not the same competition like the Spa Six Hours which I visited three times (2012 - 2014) and without accreditation there's no chance
to get alongside the track (had the fortune to take pictures in La Source in 2012 and 2013 before the fences were installed).
But Eau Rouge is the most exciting bend in motorsports (oh - maybe the Corkscrew at Laguna Seca but you can't compare these two)
and I had the chance to watch some cars I've never seen before (for example the 1971 Siffert CanAm Porsche 917 - unfortunately only
on track, could not find it in the paddocks).

However - nice trip, nice atmosphere and nice weather.

Some pics here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/75520942@N08/albums/72157697063904835 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/75520942@N08/albums/72157697063904835) (btw: I love closeups  ;) )

CU tonight.

nice pics there Kurt  :thumbup1: :thumbup1:

You can take better photo's than me Kurt, thanks for sharing. Sounds like you had a great time.

Great pictures Kurt, and what a lot of amazing machinery!

Great pics Kurt!  Most of the cars shown are those rarely seen over on this side of the pond.  Thanks lots

Bob M.

Thanks guys.
@ Tony: closeups are the only kind of pictures I'm able to do with satisfactory results. Also a question of my limited equipment.
And there is this magic little tool called Photoshop. Pictures in motion are the high art, which I'm usually not able to manage.
I only started taking photographs about ten years ago after some first tries during the Eighties. With three professional
photographers in the family not an easy effort. Only for fun and without any claims.

Concerning Spa I just forgot to point out, that when you drive from Malmedy to Spa and you know that this old country road once was part
of the fastest racetrack of the world up to 1973, you really can't imagine...

Results and replay now posted.

Bit of a quiet race for me as after Bill's departure I had no one in my class to race with and I was too slow to keep touch with the S5.0 guys.

I did try pitting, just for fuel, which I had hoped would give me some hope of catching up with Bob but I received a pit lane speeding penalty and therefore had to pit again. This effectively put paid to me being competitive so just tootled around being lapped.

Had I known that you were lonely Tony, and if I had given the event some prior thought, I might have opted for a different car/class combination.

I was seduced by the promise of high speed for the Porker LH....they omitted to tell me about the lack of handling!! I was fighting a bucking beast for every lap, with spikes in the FF and snappy over/understeer which eventually got me on Curve Grande.

Not sure if others find the brakes on these cars as dodgy as I do, but I find that I am having to drop anchor a long way from any corner if I hope to get the beasts turned in?

Quite a boring race for me, as I was completely lonely except for the first few laps.

Apparently 3rd on the grid is the highest you need to aim for here, as the first three cars are placed on a line abreast. Thus found myself between Ziu & Clive, and surprisingly got the best start, to take the lead on L1.  Ziu slipstreamed past in the beginning of L2, leading to a hairy moment in the double righthander. His car obscured my brake marker on the track, and I got on the brakes too late. Watched in horror as I got closer and closer to his car, but only just avoided taking him out.  Instead slid wide, grazing the armco. Feared it damaged the car, as they seem very fragile, but luckily wasn't the case - not even the bodywork, as the pitstop would reveal.

Ziu quickly opened up a gap, and behind, Clive gradually slipped back, until his much too early demise.  Utterly lonely from then on, apart from catching Tony & Bob late in the race.  Pit window was "end of lap 19" for the 917s.  Bob had difficulty manoeuvring into his stall in front of me, and consequently blocked my way to the left around him.  Thus had to go right, earning a cut track warning in the pits for doing so!  ::)  Not a problem, as it was the only one I got.   Grats to Ziu - no donkey business this time, so his win was never in danger.  Grats to Bob for completing the podium and Tony for bringing it home (and the class win).  Commiserations to the victims of the track.

Clive: I too find the brakes not very good.  My left foot was aching after the race yesterday, from stomping very hard on the brake pedal, yet the only time I locked a wheel was when I was about to torpedo Ziu.   Initially I practiced with the 917K, but found it infuriatingly prone to losing the rear when braking into Parabolica.  Hoped the 917LH might be more stable, but found it nearly undriveable - and slower too, no matter what I tried with the setup. Thus went back to the 917K, which suddenly seemed a lot easier to drive  :)

Kurt: With three photographers in the family, you should have access to excellent advice regarding equipment and techniques  :)  Action photos of cars, where the car is sharp and everything else blurred, to show the speed, are just sooo difficult to get right. Never mastered it myself; just not enough opportunities to pratice.  Made more difficult also by all the safety fencing these days, making it very difficult to get a clear, unobstructed view of cars on tracks.  Your stills are very fine though   :)

Result (https://www.avonrise.co.uk/srou/kurts/60sMonza_21052018)

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Thanks Kurt  :thumbup1: