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Season 34 Historic Trophy – Round 10 – RIVERSIDE

Final Round for this serie will takes us on Riverside International Raceway 66 :
The road course opened on September 21st, 1957, and operated until 1988. The dragstrip operated from 1959 through 1970, and from 1983 through 1986.
All time statistics tracks fatal casualties all  over the world shows  Riverside road course on the podium, just after Nürburgring and Brands Hatch.


Race List = iGOR
Server = UKGPL_8
IP = see iGOR  
Race date = Tuesday 11-06-2019
Time = 21:00 UK time  
Track = riside66 (http://srmz.net/index.php?showtopic=11142)
Race length = 26 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 = https://www.sendspace.com/file/8fg0c2

There is no Red Zone. Moderating will be on reported incidents only. Remember that lap 1 incidents 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	12	Pro
Arf Arf Arf	10	Pro
bagrupp	4	Pro
Cookie	7	Pro
DLogan	5	Pro
EvilClive	14	Pro
Gareth	5	Pro
Greg T	5	Pro
Iestyn Davies	2	Pro
MagicArsouille	8	Pro
Ziu Bacubacu	10	Pro
Billy Nobrakes	8	Am
francesco	6	Am
Mark65	24	Am
Phil Thornton	8	Am
Rainier	14	Am
Rich Welsh	18	Am

GLA and have FUN

ip : 92.116.136.194

Didn't want to miss the last race of the season although I didn't have any chance to practice. Severely off the pace. Prib times were 1.49 but couldn't put together a consistent lap. Concentration went astray once I had passed half way & I put a wheel on the dirt in the Esses. Whilst 66 is one of my favourite mods I have just been very slow (slower than usual).

I forgot to save a replay after the race, so I have not had a chance to review what happened through the race.

Definitely I owe David a huge apology for the incident that finished our race, on the last lap of an absolutely epic duel over many, many laps.

Although I had claimed pole with a PB in the 2 litre Brabham, I knew that the 3 litre cars would blow me away on that long straight. So the plan was to blitz the start, then use my speed through the Esses to build a safety gap on the first lap. If I could survive the straight on the first lap I felt that I could gain more space on each lap through the Esses......but I tried too hard on cold tyres into the hairpin and put a wheel in the sand. Axel and David swept past and I was back in 3rd place in an instant.
There was no problem in catching the pair ahead through the corners and the tow on the straight reduced my speed deficit, but that slipstream was a dangerous thing because my engine was being dragged to absolute max revs and the temperature was rising to dangerous levels.
I had to adjust my driving through the rest of the lap by using one gear higher wherever I could, to get the temp below 200C. I was happy to be towed along by the two faster cars for a few laps and any loss on the main straight was easily closed up through the corners, ready for another tow down the fast bit.

Axel ran wide into the sand just before the straight and David took the lead, so I followed him into second spot for a few seconds. But Axel was quickly back on the tarmac and the extra horsepower of the Ferrari allowed him to breeze back into 2nd on the straight. I delayed my braking as late as possible to put him under pressure at the banked corner and hooked up the inside line as he ran deep and high. I think he might have run a little too deep?? ( not sure as I have no replay ) because he was not on my tail as we crossed the S/F line.
The rest of the race was fantastic fun between our two cars with different capabilities. David had more power and speed and I could brake later and corner more quickly.
I felt that on a clear track I could go faster than David, but he was not about to give me that option and defended his position for lap after lap. There were a few minor slides or errors from David, but never enough to give me a chance to pass and the laps slowly counted down. Most of my small errors were because I was too close to David through corners and could not see the polos clearly. Any time I lost I could regain easily, but still no way past David as we entered the final 5 laps. My best chance was quite obvious to me, and that was braking into the complex before the straight where I could brake much later than David and exit more quickly, but that was pointless because he would simply pass me again on the following straight  :-\. If I passed him it had to be early in a lap so that I could build a safety gap before the straight, but David's power off the final corner was just enough to prevent me making an attempt into T1.

I started to really pressure the rear of David's car hoping to force a mistake. Then as we started the last lap and went through the Esses I think David just clipped some of the polos and upset his line. This caused him to put wheels on the sand, right before the dip at the bottom of the hill. I could see a gap and a chance to outbrake him into the long 180 right hander and fired into the gap. David wrestled his car back on to the tarmac much quicker
than I had expected and I hit his rear wheel  :-\ . My car was fired into the air and landed upside down ..out of race...By the time I had quit David had got going but I was saddened to see that he only had 3 wheels on his car  :(.
Ziu who had kept his Ferrari in the race was able to pass both of us and took the win.....to finish first, first you have to finish and not get hit by a competitor  ::).

Sorry to have ended such a great race like that David. You deserved the win for defending 1st place for so long, over many laps. Please accept my apologies.

No problem Clive, you had to try something and you deserved to win with your little 2 liters more than me with the big BT19.
The BT19 was nice on the Esses more than I was expecting but it was very slow on the last turn after the long straight.
Probably my setup was not perfect.

By the way it was a nice and fun race from first to 25th lap  ;)

We should congratulate Ziu for his win : In the past, it often happened to me to gain several places after the leaders had troubles and yesterday it was his turn.


I also felt sorry for Tristan who lost the championship because he was missing the 2 final races. I think he had troubles with his new computer.   

See you next season.   

Thank you for understanding David but it was a fantastic 25 laps of racing  ;D

I have just looked at the table  :o.

 I had not realised that I had most points and had won the season. For sure Tris should have been in the race and he only had to finish to take the top place. If it is problems with his computer, then that is indeed bad luck when he was so far in front.