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I'm sorry but for 2 sunday i'm not at home.i think to race at Spa.

Link to track is in French?

Yes, just click the pic under Liens ;)

Is this race tonight or tomorrow as it says?

EDIT:  Says tonight on GPLWeekly.

EDIT 2: Says tonight here too now.  ;-)

But still says tomorrow on the calendar!   :P

Top of Post #1 says now:

Ohh, & in my Post too  :D

...my race is today & you Clive...have to wait  :P

Note: Lots of SPAM in VROC/iGOR chat at this time  >:(

UKGPL_8 will host this race tonight  ;D

If you are the first person in the room, you will have operator status. You can click the S button (secret) on the upper right side of the iGOR chat window and that will make the room secret so the bots won't see the room when they scan the list of rooms. That gets rid of them. :)

today collision with gplracer master of mods, soory

Damn, not my race.  :'( Sry
My opinion was Ferrari, but had fun in Honda in practice & a 2nd place in qual was ok...but in race - DOH - my pedals disappeared under the table again, got a tight knee & gave up  :(

What happened to Evil?
I spent the whole race waiting for something to appear sideways in my mirrors but it never happened!

Glad to have scored some points in this series although that was mainly because of retirements or problems. I think I was the only Privateers standard driver but this series has a lot of fast tracks & the Eagle meant I did not get completely stranded at the back.

Sorry to disappoint you Clive.  ::)

I was half asleep in the armchair and only realised that there was a race with 20 mins of practice left. I knew the track of course, but wanted to try out the Brabham again so the time was spent fiddling with the setup and I only got in the one quali lap that put me 3rd on the grid. But I was still half asleep and not fully concentrating....must've been the large Dinner? it wouldn't have been the two glasses of red wine would it??
It looked like the times were close and the race could be fun.
Unfortunately Pelle got things wrong at Bosh Curve and was parked in the middle of the track. I tried to squeeze past on the inside, but it seems that several others had the same idea and I was bumped into the barriers ending up last, and a long way behind.

I chased down Pelle and Billy `over the next two laps but just as I caught them Pelle went into the pits. I wanted to pass Billy and get after Andreas who I could see in the distance, with an occasional  glimpse of Mr Loynes ahead of him.

Billy had other plans!!

The Eagle was faster on the straights and even with slipstream I could not attempt a pass. I tired to slip past in the corners but Billy's defence can best be described as "robust" lol and I found myself grass cutting to avoid contact on several occassions lol. My concentration was not 100% and although I did make a pass into the Bosch Curve under braking. Despite my scrappy driving I managed to catch Andreas, but I was braking much later than his Cooper and almost rear ended him a couple of times. Eventually I got it so wrong I had to throw my car off the track and I decided that if I continued it was very likely that I would take someone out.. and the next car up the track was Clive Loynes!! 

So I opted to retire before I screwed someone's race. :-\

Much appreciated.

I had a nice quiet race with nobody to bother me at close quarters apart from John dropping back to distract me.  However, once he got the hang of staying on the grey bit, he cleared off and I didn't see him again until after his car had given up.  Not sure if that was just engine related or if he had given it some encouragement by smacking it on the wall!

I'm in luck with this fun champ.
in the previous race, in America I won because everyone who was ahead was wrong and I won.
this time I got a record time for me at zeltweg, the ferrari was amazing fast
Of course, other brabham and honda pilots do not have the same advantage
but it was a hell of a thing to have Greg halfway through the race 1s away, at the end of the race I was very tired.

Maybe I should have done the same. I apologize Clive. What happened sure wasn't what I wanted to happen. I didn't qualify well so I was too eager to pass. If it's any consolation, you thoroughly kicked my butt at Vallelunga.

Congrats Jonny and Axel!

I drove well except for the first lap. Jonny had to be most consistent to beat me. It took me about 15 laps to reduce a 4 second lead down to 1 second.

I enjoyed trying to learn to drive the Brabham better. After the past few months, I can no longer say it's the car I have the least experience driving.

Thanks for the fun guys.

Clive, apologies if my defence was any less than fair. I'm usually being lapped & pull over when there is a pro driver on my tail. I was generally watching the gap on Prib & concentrating on taking a predictable line into corners. I was half expecting you to draft past on the straight.

Absolutely no Probs Billy  ;)  Your defence was fair, and there was no reason why you should have gifted me the pass. It just took me a few laps to work out where I had to be to use my braking advantage. Being too close to your tail pipes gave me no chance to see the chances, and too far back meant that I was unable to take advantage  :-\. Like I said, concentration was definitely lacking in my car.

A race of ups and downs for me, Mainly downs unfortunately, Qualified 5th on the grid which was disappointing, I knew I had a lap time in me to move at least one possibly two places closer to the front but it wasn't to be.

The start went better than I dared dream. We set off at the flag and I settled in behind Clive Then at Dr. Tiroch Kurve Pelle, Clive and Greg went very wide and I was able to keep a tight line and came out of the turn just behind Pelle in 3rd, Pelle then had problems at Bosch Kurve and I suddenly found myself in 2nd with Greg up my chuff, A few small mistakes allowed jonny to pull a small gap but I was able to use the extra oomph of the Ferrari to open a small gap over Greg on the main straight and also the run down to Bosch. Meanwhile he clawed it all back through the corners. Then not sure what happened, I hadn't hit anything (So far) but I either completely forgot how to drive through Schikane or the fuel burning off upset the balance. Either way a few strange moments led up to me losing the rear completely and spinning off onto the grass. I recovered but not until both Greg and Cookie had already gone past. Greg was but a distant memory but Cookie looked catchable until I did it again. Then I had Clive showing an interest. Schikane bacame easier again as the fuel burned off and I slowly extended a gap back to Clive only for Dr. Tiroch Kurve to catch me out bringing Clive back into my mirrors.

Managed to pull out a gap again from Clive but shortly afterwards the engine let go exiting Dr. Tiroch and my race was over. All my own fault I had set my gearing to coincide with the crests on the exit of Dr. Tiroch and on the entry to the Rindt Kurve. A few times I missed the gear change and over revved then engine. I was also pushing a lot harder than I wanted to to stay in front of Greg early on and I think the combination of these probably caused my demise.

But loved it up until that point, I think Zeltweg71 is one of the best tracks out there.

Thanks guys.

TTFN
John.

The calendar suggests that next Sunday's race is Hockenheim but I already know that I can't download it and make it run! 

Which Hockenheim is it we are running next week?

Thanks in advance

TTFN
John.

Hockenheimring 1967

directory = hockenhm

http://srmz.net/index.php?showtopic=9311&#entry92229

PS

the Laechele update site seems down...

My track folder fully updated: https://www.sendspace.com/file/68dyqg

In the 67season.ini add this with the last event number XX

Thanks Cookie, Yes I've got them all, just wasn't sure which one we were using. :)

Thomas's site disappeared some time ago. It's now being hosted here...

https://www.autosimsport.net/thomas_laechele/

TTFN
John.

Thanks Axel, that seemed to work.

I installed the track from the my download and then copied your folder over the top of it in the tracks folder.

When I checked the season.ini the only thing that was different was the race length.   :thumbup1: