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Season 34 Historic Trophy – Round 2 –  Road America

For the second round of the season we go to Road America near Ekhart Lake, Wisconsin (USA).
This is a real track, often used at the end of 60’s for CanAm challenge.

Race List = iGOR
Server = UKGPL_9
IP = see iGOR  
Race date = Tuesday 05-02-2019
Time = 21:00 UK time (21:00 GMT)
Track = Road America Elkhart Lake (http://srmz.net/index.php?showtopic=11724)
Race length = 22 Laps (50 minutes)
Variant = 1966
Password: see above (#post_event_password)
Driver lists and divisional rules can be found on the championship standings page (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=667&theme=6)
60fps patch used   = 60fpsV2newmod
Damage Model = Pro
Qualifying time = 30-45 minutes
Replays = here (ftp://ftp.ukgpl9.co.uk:32122/Season34)

There is no Red Zone. Moderating will be on reported incidents only. Remember that lap 1 incidnts carry an additional penalty place.

The chassis token system is explained on the Historics Trophy standings page.

Please restrict chat to pit messages including at the end of the race until ALL drivers still racing have crossed the line.

A driver must have sufficient tokens for the chassis he drives in the race.  Any driver who does not have sufficient tokens will be disqualified from the result and his tokens will be set to zero.

The chassis a driver uses in qualifying are disregarded when determining his token spend.
Note:  This is to cater for the instances when a driver either does not start or inadvertently joins with the wrong chassis and subsequently rejoins the server in another.

Any tokens not spent at the end of the season are ignored and are not used to determine championship positions in the event of a tie.


PRO rules means Shift-Rs are not allowed at any time and the damage model is realistic.
 
Drivers must complete 50% race distance to score.


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	12	Pro
Cookie	14	Pro
DLogan	10	Pro
EvilClive	12	Pro
Gareth	10	Pro
GregT	10	Pro
Arf Arf Arf	10	Pro
Iestyn Davies	10	Pro
MagicArsouille	12	Pro
Billy Nobrakes	14	Am
francesco	20	Am
Mark65	24	Am
Phil Thornton	20	Am
Rich Welsh	18	Am
Rainier	18	Am

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.

Driver	Tokens	Status
AnGex	6	Pro
Arf Arf Arf	10	Pro
bagrupp	16	Pro
Cookie	6	Pro
DLogan	10	Pro
EvilClive	14	Pro
Gareth	10	Pro
Greg T	10	Pro
Iestyn Davies	10	Pro
MagicArsouille	14	Pro
Billy Nobrakes	14	Am
francesco	20	Am
Mark65	24	Am
Phil Thornton	24	Am
Rainier	22	Am
Rich Welsh	18	Am

Sorry i touched Phil or Billi at the start.
Dave didn't move from his start position so i had to go right.

Anyway, car was terible and i couldn't hold it long on the track.

NO !  You just have to be cautious at the start !
Moreover when starting on the last position of the grid.

Well, sorry.

On my client you just did not move when the flag dropped.
I cant tell you why.

You should not be sorry for me, as there was no contact, but maybe for Phil or Billy ?   

About the start, I can't remember. We should wait the replay.
Maybe I didn't react very quick, but what is sure is I started slowly as usual. knowing there often are accident at the first braking point.

To frankly speak, I am not always reasured when you start behind me ...
Same with Fran, who by the way made a very nice race, I alway tried to reduce the gap with him until I made a mistake and lost around 10 sec.
Grats Fran ! 

Thank you Dave but i not rember a touch during a start with you in front :laugh:

I think the start line problems were down to me gents. I hadn't engaged first gear (well my H shifter was in first but it wasn't in GPL) so I dropped the clutch and nearly sent the pistons skyward.

Sorry for the temporary road block!

You are right Francesco.

In the past, I was not reasured when you started in front of me (not behind) on the grid because I was often quicker than you in the race and it was very difficult to overtake you without big risks !
NOW, it seems you improve your driving way : you are quicker and make less mistakes  :thumbup1:

 

Had a roadblock there aswell. Think it was Arf who came across the track after a spin. Had noway to go but directly in the roadblock. Lost a wheel and that was it. Real shame while I was going good at the fronts.  >:( Tris was pushing from behind and I was starting to think to maybe let him by because he was sure very fast.

I have not checked the replay of the start. For some reason my  clutch does not work for 66 cars so I always have slow starts. I then realised Phil was not moving so I moved to the right. I think there was contact with Bastian. It was at least part my fault. As we both got away afterwards I was not intending to file a report. I seem to be really slow at this track. I was however kept amused by Arf. He was constantly having to overtake me as he found new places to spin off.

But in the 66 exist only the combined rank?No difference between pro and ama?

Wow!  An accolade Fran.  ;-)

You need to print that one Fran, and mount it in a glass case!

I've corrected the import so the championship tables are showing Pro and Am tables separately now.

Congratulations on leading the championship Fran.

:laugh: Funny.Frankly speaking is only one race went well,not always is so.For sure the new equipment(pedals and wheel)have gived me an help.
In this race i have done only one mistake during a breaking,i was into the green and i have lost roughly 3 second.After the exit i have seen the gap with Dave drop from 7sec to 4sec.

Seriously i don't like this subjective judgements. I don't see any penalties on my Racing Sites.
Any start crahes in recent history from me?

Of course i'm sorry Bill / Phil, i was just remembering it was a ferrari in fornt of me and this is according to the results only you and me in the ferrarri?
On a long straight of road america, i don't see the direct context of starting delayed to the breaking point maybe 10 seconds away?
More the danger that driver afterwards have to make a quick change of direction, as i did.

Well the reko will make a wise decision. At least nobody had to retire.

I am sorry for that. It's not a judgement but just a personal feeling.
Sometimes feelings are wrong.   

Sorry to hear about such feelings.
I will try to improve so that you do not have these feelings anymore.

 :thumbup1: :clap:

Yup, it was, sorry about that. My screen went blank twice during the race, and screwed me up. These weren't GPL screen freezes

If the screen blanks weren't bad enough, I couldn't see the screen and eventually gave up...Having recently had to get spectacles for the first time, for reading, I find myself in a funny place. The specs make a difference for reading a book, but are useless for a screen, which is further away. I don't really need them (yet...) for screen work (i use a PC all day at work without specs), but I am starting to really struggle to stare at a screen for 45 mins continually (which I don't have to do at work...) for GPL. Might need to go and talk to the optician about this...getting old is a bugger.....