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Season 35 – 1967 F1 – Round 4 – Rouen

The fourth race in the 1967 F1 series finds us at Rouen in France.   From its opening in 1950, Rouen-Les-Essarts was recognized as one of Europe's finest circuits, with modern pits, a wide track, and spectator grandstands. The circuit (which ran on public roads) had a few medium straights, a cobbled hairpin turn (Nouveau Monde) at the southernmost tip, and a few blind corners through a wooded hillside. The appeal was greatly enhanced by the climb from Nouveau Monde at 56 metres to Gresil at 149 metres.

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Race list	iGOR
Server	UKGPL_4
IP address	77.102.28.179
Date	08-09-2019
Track Directory	rouen
Mod	67F1 with 60fpsV2newmod
Damage	INT long (Works drivers - NO Shift R, Privateer drivers ONE Shift R)
Race time	~ 21:30 UK time (BST, GMT + 1)
Qualifying	45 minutes @ 20:45 UK time (BST, GMT + 1)
Race length	25 laps
Replay	here (ftp://ftp.ukgpl9.co.uk:32122/Season35/67F1)

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Password: see above (#post_event_password)

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

Pleased with my race although 3 unforced errors cost me a couple of places. Getting used to my new wheel so hopefully I can only improve from here.

The server seemed to be good, no complaints I hope.

Grats with your new steering wheel, but yes it does take some time to get used to a new one. I remember when Microsoft stopped their FF wheel & went to G25 & now G27.
Here, server seemed like my own race, perfect ;D

Grats Tris & Tim :thumbup2:...whatever I must admit, I was in a *Little* faster car today :laugh:

Qual:
A long summer vacation from GPL, I was surprised at how few mistakes I made in qual 8)

Race:
Start: I don't know what's wrong with my Rouen track, but on pole, it seems like the right wheel pair are standing on a curb & my start was awful. Haven't seen replay but I think Tris & Tim were aware something was wrong so it didn't end in crash before T1 :thumbup1:
The rest of the race, I was really hard on my Eagle, amazingly it kept the whole race & best race time think I was put on lap 5. I tried to say to myself, RELAX...but nothing helped :sweatdrop:

Thank you to all of you who gave plenty of room when I came up to you :yes:

Edit Discover now, my fastest lap was not on lap 5 (1m54.970s)…but on lap 24: 1m54.863s :D

The replay doesn't seem to be available at either site, so I don't know what happened at the start. I qualified in the very back of the pack with what I thought was a pretty good time (sub-1:02) for me in the BT24. Just two days ago I'd reached a new PB of 2:00.04, so nothing I did today was going to top that experience. At the green flag I moved forward cautiously only to see cars soon exploding and flying apart as if they'd run into a minefield. I doubt the race at that point was ten seconds underway. I slammed on the brakes with real enthusiasm, but nailed the car in front and turned myself tortoise in the process. One SHFT-R to use in the race and it was gone in the first 100 yards.

The remainder of the 24.989 laps for me was a contest not with the cars in front of me but with Dave Curtis. I overtook him on an early mistake of his, let him by when I mistook him for a car trying to lap me, snuck by him again on another miscue, and held on for dear life until the finish. When the dust had settled, I don't think I beat him by half a second. You guys at the front think that racing for the checkered flag is tough and stressful. How would you like to be racing not to be the guy who will be DLBF (dead last but finished)? Yeah, I tell you this because I know the feeling all too well: Driving to escape embarrassment is a hell of lot harder than driving to achieve glory.  :)

Sorry gents, I forgot to upload the server replay. I'll do it tonight.

I was very lucky to avoid the pile up at the start. I had to brake hard when the car in front of me slowed which had a concertina effect of on following cars. By the run down to Nouveau Monde there was nobody in my mirrors. Bad luck for the guys behind. The qualifying time were very close & it would have been a battle.
I was able to keep pace with the midfield cars in front & by avoiding any errors myself I picked up places from David R, Phil & Ricardo.
I would have expected to avoid being lapped by Pelle's pace in the Eagle was awesomely fast.
Server connection was solid all through the race.

In my case a quiet and solid drive. Tried a long time to get closer to Tristan, but couldn´t manage it. Pelle was outta space.
Thanx to all who were really careful during overlaping -very fair and with great overview!

Gratulations to Pelle, Tristan and all finishers. Nice track, always possibilities to gain or loose some time.
Thank you to all involved to make this happen!

Replay uploaded to temporary location. See link in race post.

 :offtopic:
https://formula1.markwessel.com/alltime

for the analyst types, very cool. 8)

:wetfish:

Thx...it was here ;D
*Replays can be found by clicking on the link in the top left corner of the UKGPL homepage.*

  Congrats super Pelle!!!!!
 
it was useless trying to reach Tim, it made me miss and run. congrats Tim 3ª and Tristan 2ª!!!
Yes this was a fun race.
My favorite car BRM  was perfect in Rouen, it glided smoothly in any situation, it was really nice est H16!
The race was a lot of fun, especially the battles with Fulvio.

 

happy whith the finish 2 nd but not very fun for me ...maybe my setup race was not best one and I was not feeling good whith the ferrari ...I was quite slow in this race :/ .....

thx all for racing.... well done Pelle & Tim .... c u next one ;)

That was fun!

Congrats Pelle, Tristan, and Tim!

Tim's speed is impressive. Jonny looks good too. Pelle and Tristan's performance was good as I'd expect. Two years ago I'd have said I was faster than Jonny but I wouldn't say that now. He qualified faster than I've ever gone with the BRM.

That was a good start for the first several cars. Somehow I had a little gap over Axel which allowed me to leave a little space between me and Fulvio after T1.

That was some nice driving Fulvio. You never made a big enough mistake for me to pass, although I did manage to lead you through one turn. The only other chance I got meant that I would have had to outbrake you at the end of the long straight. I wasn't sure I could do it, so I didn't try. Jonny gave me one opportunity too but I didn't think I could complete that pass either.

Positions 4-8 were contested through most of the race. I tailed Fulvio most of the race. Jonny fell back to us at one point. Running between Fulvio and Axel was hard work. I overheated my tires while between them, falling behind Axel at one point. Most of the race I was worried that if I wasn't careful Eduardo might pass me too. Every tenth of a second was important to stay in front of Eduardo's Lotus and keep up with Fulvio.

That was the first week I've been able to drive consistently in months. My arm still aches and it's weak, but it's useable now. :) I didn't really want to get into a race at Hockenheim. I just wanted to finish. I felt good enough this time that I wanted more than just a finish. It was fun trying to keep up with Fulvio.

I did as well as I could have hoped. I relaxed late in qualifying because my arm started aching but it had no effect on my starting position. I was only off my fastest lap by 0.5 seconds. My apologies Pepe for bumping you in qualifying. I misjudged what both of us were doing. I hope it didn't hurt your qualifying.

Thanks guys. Take care of yourselves.