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Season 33 - 65 - Round 1 -  Crystal Palace

Welcome to the first round of the combined 65s championship.

For the first time we use the new 65 token system for your car choice,
so please read the rules and car ranking on the championship standings page (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=638&theme=6)


Crystal Palace circuit is a former motor racing circuit in Crystal Palace, London, England. The circuit was located within Crystal Palace park. The route of the track is still largely extant today but the roads are now mainly used for access to the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre located in the park, and to events within the upper parts of Crystal Palace Park. Some parts of the track are closed off and part is used for an annual Sprint Meeting, on the Spring Bank Holiday weekend.
In 1953 he circuit had been reduced in length to 1.39 miles (2.2 km), bypassing the loop past the lake, and pressure from the local residents led to an injunction which reduced motor sport events in the park to only five days per year. A variety of races took place, including sports cars, Formula Three, the London Trophy for Formula Two, and even non-championship Formula One races.
Average speeds continued to rise over the years, with the first 100 mph (161 km/h) lap average set in 1970 by that year's Formula One world champion, Jochen Rindt. Also in 1970, the injunction limiting race days expired and racing was increased to 14 days a year. However, driver safety was coming into focus in the early seventies and it became clear that racing around a park at 100 mph (161 km/h) was not safe. Expensive improvements were undertaken, but it was not enough to save the circuit. The last International meeting was in May 1972, the final lap record going to Mike Hailwood at an average speed of 103.39 mph (166.39 km/h).

The rules and driver lists can be found on the championship standings page (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=638&theme=6)

We race in intermediate mode.

- Pro driver have no shift+r available
- Intermediates and Amateurs have a single shift+r with a stop and go in the pits available!

Only reported incidents will be moderated, there is no Red Zone.

Race List	=	IGOR
Server	=	UKGPL_8
IP Address	=	look at IGOR
Race date	=	15-05-2018
GPL mod	=	65F1
60fps patch used	=	60fpsV2newmod
Track	=	Crystal Palace
Qualification	=	20:45  UK time -> 45min
Race	=	race starts at ~21:30 UK time
Race length	=	~50 min -> 55 laps
Damage Model	=	Int
Replay	=	here (ftp://ftp.ukgpl9.co.uk:32122/Season33/65F1/)

As this is a very short circuit there will be lots of overtaking,
so please be carefull use your mirrors and pribluda and look for blue flags!

GLA and have FUN

Available Tokens for Solitude:
Note: These are the tokens available to each driver before the 10 tokens are added for making the race start.

Driver	Tokens	Status
AnGex	17	Pro
bagrupp	2	Pro
Cookie	19	Pro
DLogan	19	Pro
Doni Yourth	19	Pro
EvilClive	19	Pro
Robert Fleurke	17	Pro
Gareth	10	Pro
Uli	19	Pro
MagicArsouille	19	Pro
Carlos Cendejas	17	Pro
dave curtis	57	Int
francesco	44	Int
miner2049er	59	Int
Phil Thornton	44	Int
Billy Nobrakes	45	Int

Which one is classified amateur?All the pilots of series 2?

Amateurs are real newbies only, so all Div 2 driver are Int until now...

That may be the case - but I'm looking like a real newbie around this track!
Whoever picked this poxy place?   :laugh:
I much prefer Monaco, or even (shudder) the big one!

See you ontrack later (only because there does not seem to be much scope for off-track here...)

Cheers,
Dave.

iam gunna miss this as well.
I have damaged my arm. tried to prac at monza for the ca66's, nope, adelade did a few laps...had to stop and tried crystal last night  did 5 laps before I had to stop. Tennis elbow I think, the thing is; I don't play the ruddy game and its on my less dominate arm. :( good luck all.

Started with default settings which were unmanageable. Didn't fancy having to deal with being lapped in a car which I could not control.

Did not start this season well...
Jump start and got DQ. :(
I go to boxes and see "ignore Black Flag" by then i was lost in the Race. Did nt knew what my pocision was.
Better leave Race.

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.

Driver	Tokens	Status
AnGex	17	Pro
bagrupp	2	Pro
Cookie	19	Pro
DLogan	19	Pro
Doni Yourth	19	Pro
EvilClive	19	Pro
Robert Fleurke	17	Pro
Gareth	10	Pro
Uli	19	Pro
MagicArsouille	19	Pro
Carlos Cendejas	17	Pro
dave curtis	57	Int
francesco	44	Int
miner2049er	59	Int
Phil Thornton	44	Int
Billy Nobrakes	45	Int

Good racing and pleased to see lapping cars didn't cause too many problems as far as I could tell which on such a short narrow track is quite an achievement.

Had a good battle with Mike for the first 10 or so laps but he was too quick for me to mount a challenge. I could just about keep up but nothing more.  All a bit academic in the end because I crashed loosing a wheel so I had to take my one reset and do a S&G. After that I couldn't get anywhere near him. Grats Mike.

Nice to be back here at the beginning of a new season. Shame that I couldn't take part on all races. In the summertime I have much more other priorities …

I'm happy with my third place and was well surprised to see that BT7 festival ;D
In the race I find a good flow, only disturbed by the backmarkers. The most of them did a good job THX to you and for me that was the only excitement in otherwise boring race ;)

GRATS to you Robert and Tristan, great speed there in front :) and Axel for well organizing

Hope to see you next race

Great to be back with UKGPL 65s!

Nice little track with character. Quali went well, in my first run ran a PB, and thought that would be hard to beat (also for myself). Start was OK, and held on to the lead. Had slightly more pace than Tris, but the gap stagnated at 3s or so. Then lapped traffic came into play, at some point it was rather hectic, but in general everyone did a great job being aware. I didn't have contact and kept it clean, also for the backmarkers. Tris seemed to have more problems than me lapping cars, or maybe he had to save fuel or so, as the gap grew a lot late race. Pushed for fast lap late race and beat both Hristo's old trackrecords.

I can understand it isn't much fun being lapped a lot, on the other hand a fuller grid is always nice. Also at longer tracks ppl won't be lapped as much. And many had slow cars saving tokens!? I think about 3 guys might have beaten me in a Lotus or so.

Good job Tris keeping me on my toes, and Uli for podium. Good job finishers, thanks to the lapped cars. Had some close calls, but no complaints ;) Commiserations to the DNF's.

Thanks to UKGPL and especially Axel for organizing! :)

Omg. Nice Racing by the way, i myself forgot about the new token system and spent way too much using my loved bt11,
being very late home additionaly.

The race was good, now i know why i could overtake so much...i spun in T3 and someone hit me....had some other contacts on that narrow track.
But much fun

Welcome back 65s!! Great, fun race but had a real sweat on by the end of it.

Qualified ahead of a couple of Pros but Clive made a great pass early on. Very opportunistic around the outside of T2. I think he put more faith in me than I would have done. :)

Once he'd gone I fell away from the leaders and had Phil for company for a while but I kept it pointing the right way and he fell back.

I got really confused the first time the leaders lapped me and lifted on the straight to let Bastian and AnGex through when it was for position, thinking they were Tristan and Axel. They would likely have passed me on merit later but we'll never know.

Really enjoyed the BT7 here, it just handles so well but I think I'll take something a little quicker for Solitude.


Thanks Phil.

Yeah, was confused myself there.  ;) But it was a nice gift.  ;D
All in all it was a good Race. Was the second best Cooper.  :D
Grats to the Podium!