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Season 33 - 65 Trophy - Round 8 - Killarney67

Welcome to the 6th round of the combined 65s championship.

Next are the 65's at Killarney, we use the last version of Francescos great South African track.

For the first season 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)

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	=	21-08-2018
GPL mod	=	65F1
60fps patch used	=	60fpsV2newmod
Track	=	killar67 (http://srmz.net/index.php?showtopic=11101&hl=killar67)
Qualification	=	20:45  UK time -> 45min
Race	=	race starts at ~21:30 UK time
Race length	=	~50 min -> 36 laps
Damage Model	=	Int
Replay	=	here (ftp://ftp.ukgpl9.co.uk:32122/Season33/65F1/)

GLA and have FUN


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	8	Pro
bagrupp	29	Pro
Cookie	17	Pro
DLogan	11	Pro
Doni Yourth	37	Pro
EvilClive	16	Pro
Robert Fleurke	24	Pro
Gareth	5	Pro
Uli	10	Pro
MagicArsouille	9	Pro
Carlos Cendejas	12	Pro
Arf Arf Arf	7	Pro
GregT	7	Pro
Ziu Bacubacu	24	Pro
dave curtis	39	Int
francesco	21	Int
miner2049er	34	Int
Phil Thornton	26	Int
Billy Nobrakes	38	Int
Jack O'Ferrall	35	Int

With despleasure i think to miss also the race on my track.
The virdict ,on my PC,is hard disk broken. A long time to reinstal all(not only gpl) so i think to do all in time for the race.

Hard luck Fran but you can buy that swanky new SSD now!  ;-)

Correction:i don't think to be ready for the race at Killarney.

When HDD is broken, you will hear noise of it, like loud clicks...
and it would say no Harddisk is found!
It did not seem to be, as you had the option to use the "last working" , so I think some system files are corrupted...

Buy a new ~250GB SSD and install W7 system on it, later you can recover the GPL folder from the old HDD without new install.

I thik tovteceive the PC tomorrow but i don't know at which hour.The assistence said that the PC have tried to load Windows from the other hd but without succes.On the second hd i have also all my work on the cars of gpl(and Kilarney). :)

At the moment i was able,with the new hard disk,to load the 65 mod.I hope to race this evening anyway take care to not put a wheel out of the track.
Is another level and a trap.

Good news Fran. See you on track.

Oh dear.
My steering wheel went lose and i was somehow try to fix it, lost the plug made it even worse and i hit someone wheel off-

whoever it was, shame on me. i'll go to bed and report tomorow

Not for the incident and not for the engine explosion but i have abbandoned the race for a black screen.Also during the qualy was the same.After some seconds return the normal screen.I have Norton antivirus.Could be the cause?Idon't understand why.

Do you mean our side by side contact on lap 1?  If so sorry about that.

If you have a new windows installation the power settings are probably set to default which means the monitor will switch off after a period of inactivity. Unfortunately windows doesn't think GPL counts as activity! I suggest you disable power saving for the monitor.

Is not a problem Phil,rather thank you for the suggestion.

Usual chaos for me. I've been having trouble with my old G25 H-Shifter, I can't get reverse gear any more so I thought I'd treat myself to a new Thrustmaster TH8A (https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjflI39iv_cAhXpBcAKHdnuAVAQFjABegQICRAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thrustmaster.com%2Fproducts%2Fth8a-add-shifter&usg=AOvVaw2e6eCNnTb9p1CIxoCziQBE) shifter. It works great and I can get reverse gear now.  I just need to fathom out how the forward gears work!

I'm OK circulating on my own but as soon as I'm in a race with other drivers there is so much to think about I start missing gears.  I must have spun or gone wide about 10 times in that race because of missed gears. However practice makes perfect so I'm just going to have to keep trying. The TH8A is a big improvement but I need to learn how to use it.

Phil i have windows 7 but where is the power setting?

In Windows 7 control panel:

Control Panel\Hardware and Sound\Power Options\Edit Plan Settings

You need to set "Turn off the display" and "Put the computer to sleep" to at least 3 hours.

Thank you.I forgot several things.Yesterday evening i was not able to join the race,after few minutes i have realized to forgot the bandwith patch.
There are so many things to reinstal GPL that is possible to go in confusion.
Now i have another problem witn the 66 mod.I start with the version 1 but when i click on the green button(not GEM)the game don't start and after few second crash.If i overwrite with V2 crash after clicking the green of GEM.I don't remember if there was something to do.

I didn't realise that there was  V2 for Killarney until I tried to join the race. Qualifying was seriously delayed. V2 looks rather more pleasing than the original so thanks to Fran for the track build. I needed a few laps to adjust to the braking points. Got the lap time to a reasonable level when I came across a Brabham rolling across the track. From Bastians post I now see what happened. Don't bother to report - it was accidental. The SnG set up a great battle with Jack. I managed to pass once off track & once on but gave the place back very quickly. Result & performance were nothing to celebrate but it was very absorbing. Topped off with a warm shower & a cold beer.

Billy remember to apply the file of Zalo posted on SRMZ.Contein all the correction.

Same here, I had been practicing on the original version that pulls you from pillar to post and had been playing with the toe in to minimise it.

Once I got it installed and on to the server I reset the toe in to normal and had a pretty good qually.

I was running with a group of Pros and let Clive past on the straight to chase Angex and I followed them for a while but I had some pace to spare and left them to their battle until Clive pulled over and it got spread out, then I started to wind it up a bit as I was losing concentration.

Had a spin and lost a couple of places but regained them after their spins and was running third on the last lap when I locked a wheel into the last turn and ran wide. Luckily I kept it facing the right way and made it back to the track just in time to stop Dean stealing my podium.

Backmarkers were great, though Billy made it interesting into T1 when he had a moment on the kerb.

Great track and a good, fun race.

Glad it was not so bad for you, i still feel ashamed.
Report follows next.

Hard but good and fun race , special battle whith Coockie ( thx mate ;) ).... I do some mistakes and lost 5-6s ...I was not expected to win , but just try to catch the Brm ....but Coockie seems lost focus and I can over  take him for the win....;) happy whith this, I should win again if I want to be on the final podium .... :angel:

thx all and Org..... ( lapped was perfect ! )....cu next  ;)

I believe I have now won the Championship for Int drivers.

Hopefully we will have more in 65s next season and perhaps run 3 divs as I seem to be in between the two levels. If not I would be happy to run in Ints with less tokens or perhaps in Pros with more tokens but I don't believe I'm consistent enough yet.

Food for thought.

Not the most satisfying race  ::)
I think the GPL random breakdown gremlins were lurking in my Honda last night :-\ I was running gears that were a notch higher than ideal to protect the engine, and still broke a camshaft!!! Just when I was beginning to get the feel for the car and track. Fortunately I was able to pull off the track before I got in anyone's way.

Grats to Ziu and the podium and to James for the Ams championship.