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Season 36 – 1955 Grand Prix – Round 2 – Spa-Francorchamps

The second race in the 1955 Grand Prix series sees us remaining in Belgium with just a short hop to Spa-Francorchamps. Designed in 1920 the original triangle-shaped course used public roads between the Belgian towns of Francorchamps, Malmedy, and Stavelot. The track was intended to have hosted its inaugural race in August 1921, however the first car race was held at the circuit in 1922. Spa was the fastest road circuit in Europe at the time, and it had a nasty reputation for being dangerous and very fast- it was a circuit known to be one for the brave, and most drivers were frightened of it. The old Spa circuit was unique in that speeds were consistently high with hardly any let-up at all for 3–4 minutes. This made it an extraordinarily difficult mental challenge (& ridiculously easy to crash)..
 
Please read the championship specific rules on the championship standings page (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=872&theme=6).

Race list	iGOR
Server	UKGPL_4
IP address	77.102.28.179
Date	09-02-2020
Track	Spa '67 (http://srmz.net/index.php?s=448c71de31d5af327ee46f7dfc1fde15&showtopic=10443)
Mod	55GP with 60fpsV2newmod
Damage	PRO long
Race time	~ 21:30 UK time
Qualifying	20:45 UK time - 45 minutes
Race length	11 laps
Replay	here (https://drive.google.com/file/d/17Uix73sU3VNEB5dOQzsuSjPS01CoC_Ic/view?usp=sharing)

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

Password: see above (#post_event_password)
Driver lists can be found on the championship standings page (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=872&theme=6)

Handicapping and chassis allocation.
The 1955 Grand Prix cars will be using a token system which allows drivers to purchase any chassis of their choice for a given number of tokens as published on the championship standings page (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=872&theme=6). Drivers classed as Juniors will be allocated an additional 10 tokens.  The tokens available to each driver will be published in the race announcement. See table below.

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
bagrupp	20	Senior
Clive Loynes	15	Senior
Doni Yourth	20	Senior
Dulima	15	Senior
EvilClive	15	Senior
fpolicardi	8	Senior
GregT	20	Senior
JonnyO	20	Senior
Ziu Bacubacu	10	Senior
5117sebas	20	Junior
Durval Becho	20	Junior
enrique farina	30	Junior
francesco	18	Junior
Gareth	20	Junior
luiz covisi	25	Junior
PaulV	18	Junior
Phil Thornton	20	Junior
Ricardo Valim da Silva	20	Junior
tagomago	20	Junior

At the last moment, maybe I Will take a friend to the hospital in São Paulo.It will only confirm at the last moment.So my participation is not certain.

(http://boxes.gaiztor.com/img/20200209_fangio_640_480.jpg)

I hope your friend is OK JonnyO. Real life is always more important than GPL but it would be great if you can make the race  :thumbup2:

Stupid incident near the end of the race but ,i noticed,that on this track there are sudden drop of FR mainly at the eau rouge but also on other parts.Many time i was in difficult.

Sorry Francesco and all for T1 crash, but there was a little glimps by your car and even I was very cautious I touched you and so on... :(
Later I blew my engine at 4 lap even if I didn't overrev, but I suspect the T1 crash had brought some damage.
Ciao

I've never seen so many blown engines.

The clockwork on my Gordini packed up just after Les Combes on lap 1!

I have added results to GPLWeekly.

The second incident ,made by myself,was the worst.

Thanks all for racing  ;)

(http://boxes.gaiztor.com/img/20200209_spa.jpg)

Good race for me, enjoyed a close battle with Dulima. We gave each other room and swapped places a few times. Difficult to do safely in these cars.

Clive I notice you turned up late and missed starting a qually lap by 10 seconds. Pity about your engine too. Hopefully, that is 2 bits of bad luck over in one race ;).

Sorry to see your engine pack up Axel but at least you made it half way to bag some decent points.

Tagomago in wich way you post the images?i have understood nothing until now.

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
bagrupp	12	Senior
Clive Loynes	25	Senior
Doni Yourth	12	Senior
Dulima	15	Senior
EvilClive	10	Senior
fpolicardi	8	Senior
GregT	18	Senior
JonnyO	30	Senior
Ziu Bacubacu	10	Senior
5117sebas	20	Junior
Durval Becho	20	Junior
enrique farina	28	Junior
francesco	13	Junior
Gareth	20	Junior
luiz covisi	15	Junior
PaulV	8	Junior
Phil Thornton	15	Junior
Ricardo Valim da Silva	20	Junior
tagomago	15	Junior

I also had frame problems at the beginning, I think he was the big cause of the big one

The hands went apart and I saw Phill approaching back to back.

He passed me but I managed to stay close to him, the rest of the race, it was a great battle, very clean

I reached it with the help of the vacuum  and at the end of the last corner, it was there that, during the whole battle, I was thinking of pouting

So, in the end, I took a chance and ran out of brakes, thank god i didn't take Phill out of the race, I hit him and he didn't roll over, it would be a sad ending for both of us.

I returned the position that was rightfully his and cross the finish line.

Congratulations Greg for the victory and congratulations to the podium, Jonny had a great result with Gordini

GPL in the vein, see you next time!

Thanks Phil and well done on your podium.  At least it didn't cost me any Thornton Dollars!

Grats to the podium and all who made it to the finish, it looks like the GPL gremlins were on a bonus for this race?? So many engine failures  :-\

I was a little disappointed to see Clive Loynes arrive at the party a little late, but I suspect that real life was intervening and being the experienced and cunning protagonist that he is he played a tactical card to get his "starting money".  ;)
I had anticipated that Mr L would be running the W196 and looking for revenge for Zolder, so I actually spent a little time doing some offline practice for this race in the Lancia. That worked well in quali, where I almost went sub 4:00 without any slipstream, but the plan fizzled out in the race after 2 laps with a smoking engine  :(. I was looking forward to enjoying some slipstream in the race and possibly knocking 3-4 secs off that time, but that did not happen.
I had resigned myself to this race being a slipstream festival, where any places and points would be decided on the last lap. I did remember to save my race replay and I think I gave my engine a nudge towards oblivion on lap 1, with one bad downshift and maybe a couple of acceleration points where I was spinning the rear wheels and got too close to the 8500 rev limit....lesson learned hopefully  ::)
This old Spa circuit is great because it highlights the insane speed of these old cars, but IMHO it does not have enough braking zones to force some management of the brake fade. I had all the brakes I needed for stopping at La Source, with enough left over for a dab into Eau Rouge and then time to recover for Les Coombes. After that there are no brakes needed until La Source again, just keep your right foot planted on the go pedal  ;D
Well done to my Blue Moose teammate Doni, for keeping it together for 2nd place  :thumbup1:

........a big nightmare.my memory stick failed and i could only run with it!
it would be impossible without the F10 feature, because the glass has become a non-transparent plate.

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Probably had nothing to do with the little red car that I was sticking pins in!    :angel:

I just wanted to give the race background a bit of showiness with some photos that take you to the context of those years ... it's easy ... I have located a photo and uploaded it to my own ftp server ... then you just have to link the image to the forum  ;)

Ok Tagomago but

I don't have an ftp server(i don't know what is) but anyway you have this(http://) and in which way you put the link inside the 2 brackets?

lolol
When the engine went pop ( more of a pfuft! ), the thought did cross my mind that someone might have a wide grin on their face!!!

 Congrats podium!!!! Spa67 it may seem easy because it is a fast accelerator, but you are always on the razor's edge.

 

I was expecting at attack at that point so I took a very wide line to give you space (I'm not sure I would of had the lock to get around the hairpin if I had taken the inside line) but it is very difficult to judge such a critical braking point in these cars. So if you had pulled it off it would have been a move worthy of a podium place.
Thank you, very nice gesture. I nearly got stuck on a invisible wall that sticks out at the exit of the hairpin. Thankfully I could reverse off it!

Braquet img braquet *** Braquet /img braquet --> you've got to replace *** with the url of the image (http://boxes.gaiztor.com/img/20200209_spa.jpg)

Thank you Tagomago but i understand that is qiute complicated,is not a classic copy and paste of a jpg.
If i don't have an url there is no possibility to upload a jpg.Right?

I don't know if UKGPL has the possibility to upload images ...
If you have a web space ... you can usually access by ftp (file transfer protocol) ... upload your images and access them via its url in the form http://example.com/blabla.jpg

(Sorry for the OFF topic)  ;)

Fran the easiest way to see how an upload was done, you just use the "quote" button to answer.

Not clear Axel,i tried a copy grom the desktop but with the right key of the mouse there is no paste

You can't copy + paste a picture in the answer!
you need a hoster of pictures like (https://www.bilder-upload.eu) who gives you an url

(https://www.bilder-upload.eu/thumb/b7893d-1581435543.png) (https://www.bilder-upload.eu/bild-b7893d-1581435543.png.html)

Congrats Doni and Phil!

That was unexpected. I thought I might use the slipstream to stay with the leaders. I didn't expect to win. I did drive good. My mistakes were few and small. My apologies for the bump at La Source, Axel.

I'm glad to see Doni drive a good car. He often does like JonnyO did this race. Doni was doing 175 mph in the tow. :)



From my perspective it was much more impressive than that. I was covered in fire, smoke, and car parts. Axel's demise wasn't so spectacular. It's a shame you two didn't make it further.


:) Did it have 3 points like the trident I was using?

Thanks for the fun guys. Be careful with your speed shifts next time.

A well-deserved victory for Greg.  Great pace and skill that I just couldn't quite match.  Well done, GT.

A lucky P2 pour moi as both Evil and Axel fell to engine woes in the Lancias.  I'd be checking the warranty on those puppies.

Phil a fine P3 after a stirring duel with Dulima that wasn't settled til La Source on the last lap.  Good stuff there, gents.

The early laps were just a matter of hanging onto Evil, Axel and Greg in the slipstream.  This was relatively easy to do and indeed, when Axel's Lancia called it quits, Greg was left alone in the lead on the Masta and I sailed by like he dropped an anchor.  Later in the lap going up the hill after La Carriere, his exit speed there was substantially higher than mine and he retook the lead.  From there to the next lap on the Masta, he inched away to the point where catching the breeze off his Maser wasn't possible.  The tow was broken.  I settled into a comfy pace letting Greg streak away being content with P2 after the shambles of Zolder.

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