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Track: Aintree Download this (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3358.msg109873#post_aintree)

Cars allowed: Aston Martin DB4 GT Download this (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3358.msg54518#post_aston_db4)
                       Austin Healey 3000 (Standard GTL car)
                       Ferrari 250 GT SWB Download this (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3358.msg54518#post_f250swb)
                       Mercedes 300SL (Gullwing) Download this (http://www.mediafire.com/file/x24qm4qekj4mz15/mercedes300slCoupe.zip/file)

Car restrictions: Three drives maximum per make. Check your car allowance here (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19d942o8NrDxwBfA2CkGTPKyyKkMpYRC0_m592YHSyu0/edit?usp=sharing)

Practice: ~19:20 (60 mins)
Qualifying: 20:20 (20 mins)
Race 1: 20:40 (27 laps)

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

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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: Use countdown for this race please. Cars at the front of the grid may not see the start lights.

Off to the coast again for a couple of weeks. Enjoy your racing guys and see you soon.

Cheers, Dan

IMPORTANT

Number of laps reduced to 27.

Hope to join this race this evening, but I have been plagued by gallstones over the past few weeks and I am awaiting an operation date. In my life these are the only things more difficult to pass than Erling or Geoffers!!!
 Frequent visits to A&E for morphine injections to relive the pain and multiple incidents where the pain is bad, but not excruciating, suffered at home have made participation in online racing difficult lately.

If I feel OK at race start I will give it a go, but if I vanish suddenly mid race you will know the reason...it wasn't something that anyone did or said lol !!

Sorry to hear that Clive; do hope you get better soon, and that you'll feel up to tonight's race

Fingers crossed, Clive

Sorry Clive, I hope you can get fine soon. Anyway it s more difficult pass Ziu than gallstones  ;)

Clive:
Hope you can get them taken care of soon.  I myself get kidney stone attacks every year or so so know your pain.  They usually give me medicine to desolve and pass them, has worked so far.  The last time I had a bout with them and went to the emergency room, I had a nurse who had the problem also, she had given birth to 3 kids.  She said she would take the birthing any day over the stone problem and she was very serious......Good luck!!!!

Bob M.

Yep, sorry to hear about your gallstones Clive. Haven't personally experienced them but my wife had them a few years ago & I know they were very painful. Hope it gets sorted soon.

Thanks for your good wishes guys.  ;)

Lost concentration, ran wide, hit bail, lost wheel, left game.

Must use, more words.

Short race and NOT sweet!  Came around T1 and lost the front end.  Hit that little rock wall that kindof juts out at the end of the corner.  Dead silence and motor is dead also.  Not even any flames, just not my day............

Bob M.

Ahh, had I known you were suffering, I would have tried harder  ::)
Good race anyway. I do hope it doesn't get worse before you get treatment

Results and replay now posted.

@Kurt - The replay shows you not making the starting grid. Is this the case? If it is I'll credit you an Aston drive.

Yep - I got a DQ when I tried to join the grid as always ??? - never happened to me since I drive online, but I noticed that issue in other events with other drivers.

Thanks anyway.

Same thing happened to me here last year.  Must be something wrong with this track, if it keeps happening.

Yes, the track must have a bug. Shame as it's a good track to use. Kurt, I have adjusted your Aston no. of drives left to suit.

Thanks again, Tony  :thumbup1:

Good but tough race for me. 

New pb in qual landed pole with the slimmest of margins, so chuffed with that.  Aston refuses to spin its wheels even when dumping clutch at full revs, so bogs down at the start. Thus expected Geoffers to grab the lead, which he did, and I was probably lucky only to lose 1 place.  Got it back later on L1, when Geoff slid off on cold tyres in Canal Curve.  Went as fast as I could, trying to build a gap.  Expected Geoffers not to change tyres given the milder wear of the Merc, while the excessive wear of the Aston forced me to do so.

At the start of L14, the last before my stop, the gap was 17 secs, but I lost time running wide in Waterway on worn tyres, and damn near killed my car on the same stone wall that was Bob's bane.  A tyre change takes around 20 secs, so clear I would lose the lead.  While in the pits, Fulvio & Geoffers came roaring past. 1 lap later, Fulvio exited the pits right in front of me, so obviously he hadn't changed tyres.  Figured he'd be easy pickings on his worn tyres, and did get past without much drama in Cottage Corner.  Next corner however, I believe he failed to slow enough on those worn tyres and went up my inside as an escape route.  Hadn't expected the move, so we tangled, with me spinning off.  Fulvio kindly waited, but couldn't compensate the 10 secs or so I lost.

Beginning of next lap showed a 13-secs gap to Geoffers up ahead.  Drove like mad to regain the lost time, and the gap was coming down, but never expected to make it in time.  However, with 3 laps to go, I had pretty much caught up. My tyres weren't exactly pristine anymore, but Geoffers' were even worse it seemed.  He took a small grass excursion, which allowed me to zip past and hog the inside line into Canal Curve.  The Aston has a straight line advantage over the Merc, so if only I could avoid screwing up in the corners for the remaining 2 laps, victory should be in the bag.  Thankfully that's how it played out.  Grats to Geoffers on 2nd - and very impressive speed in the Merc (my offline pb was 2:03.9  :o), and grats to Matt on 3rd.   We should probably also thank Fulvio for providing some extra excitement..  ;)   Commiserations to those who met with misfortune; not least Kurt who didn't even get to start - know how frustrating that is.   

Glad also to see Clive make and complete the race - hope it wasn't in too much pain.  Took a look at the server replay, which has cockpit view from Clive's car.  Looked like you guys had some intense racing during the early laps - and I'm impressed with your slide catching abilities - there were a couple of times where I would surely have spun..   :scared:

Incidentally, I got a mail from 'Classic & Sports Car' yesterday with a link to an article about iconic car design details.  Check out the car in the first photo:  :)
https://www.classicandsportscar.com/gallery/10-best-design-details-ever?utm_medium=EMAIL&utm_campaign=ENews%20Bulletins&utm_content=CLAS%20ENews%20Digest%2028th%20August%202019%20(28.08.2019)::Hyperlink_20180116_175007319&utm_source=20190828

Result (https://www.avonrise.co.uk/srou/kurts/Aintree_28082019)

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Thanks Kurt  :thumbup1:

That was a fun but hard race.

Didn't really expect to be competitive seeing the times Erling was doing in the practice session, had only managed mid 2.02s in the Merc. So was very happy to do a low 2.01 in qually.

Got the lead at the start but messed up the Canal turn trying hard to build a gap before the Railway Straight, got on the gas too early & understeered off  ::). Dropped to 5th behind Fulvio who promptly presented me with 4th back by going mowing at Melling Crossing. Matt & Clive in their Healeys were still ahead & their battle allowed me to catch up & when they disputed T1 I was able to pick off Clive & a lap later got a better exit out of Tatts to pass Matt on the S/F straight. Pretty well kept pace with Erling out front but he was around 10s ahead by now & there was no chance of catching him on sheer pace. Keeping an eye on tyre wear, which was not dire, I decided that the only course of action was not change tyres & hope that Erling would. However I threw a spanner in the works by going off at Canal again & losing 2nd place to Fulvio & was now around 20s behind Erling, which I was pretty sure was too big a gap to be able to hold Erling off in the closing stages.

Pitted on lap 15 along with Fulvio & came out in the lead, but was surprised that Fulvio too did not change tyres & was ahead of Erling too, maybe if he could hold him up long enough the plan may just work. Noticed that Erling was soon past Fulvio though & that my time in the lead would be short lived. But whats this, the gap to Erling has suddenly shot up, he & Fulvio had tangled? Now I had a 13s lead with 10 laps left, could it be enough? At first the gap came down at less that a second a lap, but as my tyres lost the last shreads of their grip it started to come down quicker & a couple of mistakes meant the game was up & when I got a wheel on the grass at Village Erling went past. No way I could mount a counter attack on my worn rubber, so had to settle for 2nd.

Congrats to Erling, great drive  :notworthy: & also to Matt in 3rd  :clap: :clap:.

Sorry Erling for the tangle, it wasn't intended as a pass, only lost brake point and I tried to slide inside hoping to not ruin your race, but still you spun  :-[
In this race I did all I could to ruin my race. After a good qually that put me third on the grid I clobbed on my clutch and was passed by almost the field. Slowly regained my place after others misfortune and even 1st when Erling pitted and was clear that he had changed tires, so I tried to not change cause the wear was less than at Zandy. I don't know how Geoff passed me at pit, maybe less fuel? This time I didn't loose much time on pit setting.  ???
I exit the pit ahead of Erling but I knew that I had lasted few time ahead of him, then the big error from me that made loose big time both. :-[
So I settled for 3rd, but tires were becoming weird so I avoided a crash once at fast chicane, then at 2 lap to go had the same slide but hit the barrier and lost both front tires  :o
I disconnetted angry with myself after have seen that Erling had regained the lead that I had compromised.
An the cheer on top I missed a meeting to race this one cause I like theese cars and I was in good place on standings  :-X
Ciao