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Downloaded the track last night & found out there are some very tricky corners. The turn at the end of the main straight is like driving a race car on a roller coaster. Advice 1) practice & 2) avoid a big pile up on lap 1.

The most dangerous place should be the exit of "cuvette de Couard" :

(http://a51.idata.over-blog.com/0/54/51/43/Cuvette-de-Couard--2-.jpg)

This track should be treated with great respect. I find it a cross between Monaco and Syracuse, witha touch of the Daytona banking thrown in for good measure.
 Do not be tempted to leap out of cuvette de Couard (the "bomb hole"), because you have far less than 50% chance of regaining control before the right hand bend that follows, a careful entry into it would be wise too.

Around the rest of the circuit there are walls and trees that can end your race too..............Just be careful guys if you want to reach the chequered flag.  ;)

That was the case in the real life too !
The picture under my nickname at the left was taken (...by me) at Montlhéry in 1971.

I never thought its you yourself, because you never crash  :)

oh - bugger!
Despite having a server up for a while (although I forgot to set it again after some power maintenance earlier today...) I've not actually driven here yet.

Tomorrow then!  (Unlimited resets for Privs... right? :) )

Cheers,
Dave.

Hi. I applied and I would like to run tomorrow. But I can not see the password.

Password not yet released.
At this time, you have to wait 7 hours.

(Look at the top of this topic)

did you vote for this series ?

You are registered - the password should be visible.

Great picture David! Looks like the track is quite accurate to your picture as well.

Going well in practice during the week with 2,34 lap, but just didn't work on race day. Nice track but some of the corners are just too brutal.

In the S3467 i have experimented all the worst,missing gears,game block and this evening the car that  didn't want to go out from the pit at qualy finished.Pushing the esc-enter i was out from Igor,another race thrown away.

Server replay available from: https://www.sendspace.com/file/2njuai (https://www.sendspace.com/file/2njuai)

At least you had a chance to race. I didn't, because I stupidly believed that when the race schedule says GMT, it means GMT and not London time. So I dutifully showed up at five minutes before 2100 GMT and I see that the race is practically over. But this really is my fault, I think, because this isn't the first time this kind of crap has been pulled on me.

Unlike some of you guys, the only way I can stay even marginally competitive in this game is to practice my ass off. That doesn't mean downloading the track on the afternoon of the race and doing two practice laps. It means putting in 10-20 hours of serious effort, culminating in a full-length race against a complete field of AIs. I do this with a religious zeal in every race I enter both here and in oAo, and I've been following that custom for more than three years now.

So when I show up and am as ready as I can be, perhaps you can appreciate my frustration when you've begun the contest an hour earlier than you said you would.

Hi Pepe

Really sorry you missed the race. I appreciate that it isn't any consolation but all the races for the rest of the season will be at 21:30 BST (GMT + 1).

Regards

Phil

I didn't miss the race. You missed telling me when the race would be. But I'll nonetheless treat your non-apology apology for what it's worth.

The timing would be down to me as I posted the race.

I have never really given this any thought as I am based in the UK & it's always local time for me. I think that most European countries change their clocks in March & October - I've really no idea if this happens in the Americas? Maybe the simple solution is to post all the races as "21.00 London time"?

Pepe, you have to pay closer attention when we switch to daylight savings time. The Europeans do it on a different date than we do. I'd guess the UK changed time within the last two weeks since this race started at what I'd call the usual time.

So this is my fault? The race board said the qualifying would start at 2100 GMT and it started earlier than that. Right, my bad for believing that when the web site says X I should have known that it meant Y.

The GMT/BST times are on the registration page (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=15373.msg280087#msg280087)

Too many fake news on Internet !


(sorry for my joke, I can understand your frustration)

Why do you keep defending this plain error that caused me to miss this race? The announcement for this race on the page previous to this clearly states the time and zone when this event would commence:

Server = UKGPL10
IP = see iGOR
Race date = Sunday 07-04-2019
Time = 21:00 UK time (21:00 GMT) [Emphasis added]

Does that look to you like BST?

You --- and by that I mean the organizer(s) of UKGPL --- ********. You know it and so do I. You provided misinformation that I followed to my detriment. Rather than apologize to the only person who apparently has been aggrieved by your obvious error, you double down by telling me that I have to know when you change your clocks or that I have to look at some page that has different information. Why should I have to do any of that? All of the information I needed to know was provided on the previous page here, including the password. You wouldn't make the same argument if we were talking about a mistake in the date or the track, but you curiously dig in by appearing to claim that I should have known that GMT in this case really means BST. That might have some force if you were the Red Queen and I were Alice, but that's not true either.

You owe me a median score for that race, which is 25.5, but I'll settle for 25 even though it should be rounded up. If you won't do that, no worries. This is your league and your rules, and you can run it and interpret them however you may choose.

sorry pepe,

it might be a failure (i didn't prove) but it is neither fair or necessary to judge the people providing fun to us voluntalry.
It's just one race of dozens this year.

I feel for you Pepe, I've been there myself after hours of practice!

But could you please moderate the language?

You're right. I apologize. You'd think after 25 years of posting in internet forums that I'd have learned not to type when I'm angry and frustrated. Apparently that isn't yet the case with me.

I agree with Bastian.
And don't forget the 2 worst results will be discarded, and there are only 3 races until the end.