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Grid/server capacity: 22

Track: Grenzlandring '52 (without Chicanes) Download this (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3358.msg109873#post_grenzland)

Cars allowed: Aston Martin DBR2 (includes GTC-65 class fix) Download this (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3358.msg54518#post_aston_dbr2)
                       Ferrari 375+ Download this (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3358.msg54518#post_ferrari_375plus)
                       Maserati 450S (4.5 only) Download this (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3358.msg54518#post_maserati_450s)
                       Mercedes 300SLR Download this (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3358.msg54520#post_merc_300slr)

Practice: ~19:20 (60 mins)
Qualifying: 20:20 (20 mins)
Race: 20:40 (22 laps)

Time of Day Setting: 18:00
Start: STANDING
Tyre wear: x2
Fuel consumption: x2

Server: simracing.org.uk Wednesday
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: You might want this https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=15184.msg277055#msg277055

IMPORTANT

Race length reduced by one lap to 23 laps.

EDIT: Make that 22 laps  ::)

I honestly think that not many people will finish this, those chicanes are killers if you get them just slightly wrong. :o Horrible track! :cursing:

Oh gee!! thanks for the heads up Geoffers.  :-\   If you are finding them tricky, how are us mere mortals going to cope???  ???

I can change the track to the non-chicane format if that is the consensus.

I would be pleased  ::) - I remember that we did races at the non-chicane version some time ago.

I'm for the change also.  Did a few laps yesterday with the AI and if the chicanes didnt take you out the crazy AI did.  They can run much faster than I can and rear end you every time, not nice drivers at all

Bob M.

I have an non-chicane related question. The Aston Martin DBR 2 Installer asks me a question during install:
Select components to install: Use original car classes (or not I presume).
What's the correct answer to that in SROUK context?
Thanks in advance.

The installer says this "Note that by default, the installer will replace the mod's official .CAR files with ones that include GTC-65 in the car classes. During installation you can opt to use the original files instead; you cannot have both installed simultaneously." So best you DO NOT use the original car classes.

Chicane version now replaced with NON-Chicane version, e.g 1952 layout.

Thanks  :thumbup1:

Got track downloaded this time, but all the cars are new to me, not to mention the extra time I need learning RWD machinery, so I will skip this one.
However there's hope that I will show up on some Wednesday. :)

Have a good one guys. :)

Oh well, got DQ for ignoring S/G penalty I did not know I had got!! :(  Pit speeding I guess.

Lost concentration whilst thinking about why Geoffers had a DQ and crashed, ripping off a wheel.

Hi gifted a win due to other drivers misfortunes.

That was a bit flat; big lead with 2 laps to go, when I got DQ'ed for ignoring S/G I never realized I got, same as Geoffers  :(

Comedy of errors starting at the pistop where I overshot my spot and had to reverse to find it. Must've left in too much of a hurry because I got a S&G. Got another one while serving the S&G.... And to top it I saw Coyote getting a DQ and thought the best thing I could do was to stare at his car in the last corner. You guessed it: plonk, dead.
Grats to Roger & Bob!
 
By the way, who is Lawrence Clemo? Couldn't find anything online.

Results and replay now posted.

Sorry to the guy's who had unfathomable DQ's  ??? We have used this track before and never had such problems, so I'm puzzled.

Lawrence Clemo was a sim-racing enthusiast who enjoyed mixing it up at the tail end of the pack. He was a popular guy who would do caricatures of drivers if they sent him a photo.
He succumbed to his cancer in May 2010, so since then we run a race every year in his memory.

https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=7854.msg139217#msg139217

https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=7609.msg136663#msg136663

Be good to have you join us. FYI next week is American muscle cars from 60's & 70's https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=15272.msg278258#msg278258 and the week after we have our KAD Mini series https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=15238.msg278115#msg278115

The Maserati default settings do not have a working pit limiter as some discovered last night. There is a fix (which I forgot about).

In the file's Maserati450S_45.hdc and Maserati450S_57.hdc find the section headed [Engine] and change the line Speedlimiter=0 to Speedlimiter=1.

Good to see a decent grid for Laurie's memory, he was a truly nice guy in the simracing world.

Sorry to have left the action so early  :-\ maybe if I had hung around a little longer I might have sampled some champagne??? But given how intransigent the Maserati was about turning left ( turning right seemed to come naturally to my car!!! ??? ) that was never going to happen. lol

Grats to those who did survive this speedbowl and saw the flag.

FWIW I had rarely driven the 4.5 Masser before ( opting for the big brother whenever I had the option ) and expected it to be a little more benign around this track.  But to be honest, the 5.7 litre version seems like a pussy cat compared to what I was wrestling with last night  :-\........or maybe it's me ;)

Oh dear, I had assumed it was some British real world racing driver from days bygone. I read some posts and it seemed like a real nice chap. Kudos for maintaining the memory for almost a decade now.

It's not just you. Could. Not. Get. That. Biaaatch. To. Turn. In. The 5.7 is -for lack of a better word- easier.

No, not just you (and Dom); I've always found its big brother easier to drive, ironically.  Haven't tried it here - it's probably no better at turning left, but its straight line speed might be enough to make up for it.

Result (https://www.avonrise.co.uk/srou/kurts/Grenzlandring_LCMT_08052019)

 8)  (Result chart by Autosimanalyzer differs a bit to Tony's data due to it's handling of the DQs)

Every lucky streak finds an end sometime and also every streak of bad luck, Clive    ;)

What a weird end of this event  :o . Commiserations Erling and Geoffers but also to all who had to quit early.

Had a PB of 2:07.1 before joining the event and was totally surprised that a simple use of the tyre option changing to Dunlop_Vintage
would give me about 5 seconds.
So it was a very satisfying qualy, finishing in fourth place on the grid. After my usual bad start I was able to climb back to fourth.
But this track obviously requires a little bit more of attention as usual and just a short moment of inattentiveness lead to a completely
destroyed suspension and an early bath.

CU next week and thanks for organizing this event to all involved.

BTW - grats Roger and Bob for winning/finishing the race!