SimRacing.org.uk

Password: see above (#post_event_password)
(2) Driver lists can be found on the championship standings page (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R;group=761)

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Practise: 19:30 (45 mins)
Qual: 20:15 (15 mins)
Race: 20:30  45 mins

Cars allowed:
F1 1975 Cars
Modpack install required:-  (if not already installed)

Download Mod (version 1.2:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/hngms2664ytb92s/20191104_F1C75_Historic_F1_by_Bazza_v1.05_v1.2.7z/file (http://www.mediafire.com/file/hngms2664ytb92s/20191104_F1C75_Historic_F1_by_Bazza_v1.05_v1.2.7z/file)

Track: Watkins Glen - Boot Classic Configuration.
https://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/watkins-glen-international.20204/ (https://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/watkins-glen-international.20204/)

(https://i.postimg.cc/xdc0TT0n/watkins-glen-map.png) (https://postimages.org/)


Live Timing: stracker.simracing.org.uk:50041/lapstat (http://stracker.simracing.org.uk:50041/lapstat)

Time of Day Setting: 14:00
Weather: Mid-clear
Start: Standing
Tyre wear: Normal
Fuel consumption: Normal
Pit-stops: Not required

Server track settings:
SESSION_START=100
RANDOMNESS=0
LAP_GAIN=0
SESSION_TRANSFER=N/a

Damage: 70%

Password: see above (#post_event_password)

PLP App - Not used in this series. Cutting will be monitored on replay and penalties issued for excessive cutting.

Here is the 'hopeful' driver list for the race:-
(To be confirmed)

1)MJ - Brabham
2)Max Veloce - Mclaren
3)Stefan (Postal) - Brabham
4)Fabri - Ferrari
5)Bob - Fittipaldi
6)FMG - Hesketh
7)Kdiesel - BRM
8)Goldtop - Parnelli
9)SirBarone - Ferrari
10) L4de - Lotus 72
11)ibnsolmyer - Surtees
12)LesN - March
13) VVA - Tyrell P34
14) Cerebral Vortex - Mclaren
15) Olius - Lotus 72
16) Syd Drake - Tyrell

This track feels absolutely perfect on F1 1975.

The Tyrell boys getting some early laps in  :thumbup1:

Alrighty then! I have my pc up and running again. Already tried the car on the server and it seems to be ok again. Really nice track again  :thumbup1:

Good stuff Stefan, glad you can make the last round  :)

There was some secret test stuff going on at the track last night.  :detective: Some of Enzo's cars were being tested and evaluated by the Tyrell camp. Not sure Harvey Posthlewaite knows whats going on, but can bet Enzo has shifted some lira their way  :shifty:  yes fabri and vva i am looking at you :laugh:

I didnt know this track layout at all so bit of a learning curve for my brief practise last night. Nice smooth flowing curves in some sectors but then a couple of clumsy horrible corners as well  :P

The Ferrari and Tyrell teams have made cross-tests. Eng Forghieri managed to find an agreement for this thing, obviously the Drake knew nothing.

The strange thing with six wheels is very funny to drive. A fun that I missed from 14 races. Car is so easy to controll on the edge, as most of the cars in the pack.
Anyway I continue racing with Ferrari, I will try to bring home a decent result.

Tomorrow is going to be very interesting for me.
My Rift broke at the weekend and is currently on a lorry heading north for replacement..

As a result I get to see if my assertion that I'm a second faster in VR holds up to scrutiny.
I'm pretty low on the lap times currently but am not sure how many cars were actually on hards like me.
Even if I'm fastest on hards currently I know I'm slow, I can't hit apex's to save my life at the moment and everything seems tiny and far away  ;D

Might have to try the old secret weapon from GPL - booze!

An ongoing boiler replacement last few days has meant I’ve only had one half session on a track I don’t know that well  :'( not exactly great prep for a final race of the season with 2nd in the championship up first grabs  :(. I don’t even know yet if the plumber will still be here this evening, really hope not.

Race day season finale gentlemen, let’s make it a good one  :)

@SRW, are you okay for server duties this evening?

I'm back home for this, also for next Wednesday, so I'm happy to do tonight as normal.

Ok, cool I will leave it up to you then

thanks Pete, glad to hear you are back out amongst us  :)

I had my most competitive race by far this season. Even threatened top 6 in q. But as at almost every race I got caught in someone else's incident on the first lap, turn 1 of the first lap this time. I think someone braked way too late (or didn't brake at all), went through the middle of the cars, clipped me and then I think another car hit me, pushing me far off into the run off at t1, with yellow damage on all sides of the car. I fell to last place, but passed three cars on the track. Had some real good battles with Bob and Kimi. After catching up with postal we spent quite a few laps driving close together, me inching closer all the time, then losing a bit with minor mistakes. Until about two laps to go, I got out of shape coming out of turn 10 and lightly clipped the barriers on the inside of turn 11. Somehow that completely broke the steering. Luckily I was right on pit entrance so I went in, fixed the damage and got out a couple of seconds ahead of the leader. I really wanted to stay on the lead, and I saw Maxime had something like a 6 second lead, so I didn't let him trough. But in my eagerness to stay ahead I made several smaller mistakes throughout the lap, and Maxim was right on me on the s/f straight. I tried to let him pass at t1, but he slowed as well, so I stayed ahead, and finished the race on the lead lap, for the first time this season I believe.

You had the Tyrrel flying Syd. Nice job. And that car looks great on track too.

I was the other victem at T1. Made a very decent start but got rear ended and flew off track with damage to the car.
Luckely the car was still driveable and got into a fight with Bob and then had a great battle with Kimi, swapping places over and  over for quit some laps. Gained another place when Oliver's BRM hit the armco in the latter stages.
Other then the T1 incident great racing and another solid result by my team mate, clincing 2nd in race and overall.

It was a real joy driving this series. Thanks for organising this MJ and congrats to the top 3 in this championship!

First off....Massive congratulations to peerless FMG for winning the F1 1975 World championship   :clap:  :notworthy:

(https://i.postimg.cc/pXvnkxCX/James-hunt.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)

Secondly, thanks to all that participated weekly and made it a great little series, i thoroughly enjoyed that one, up there with my fave sim racing experiences ever i think  :thumbup1:  The combination of a fantastic looking and sounding set of cars, close competition and a Rift in open seaters made it awesome.  8)

Thirdly, i got second in the championship  :jumpjoy: probably my best ever overall finish  :) and i do believe that Team Legends may have secured the constructors/Team championship  :thumbup2: so well done to Stefan and i  :)

Great race and qually again last night, loved it.

Qually was very competitive and with only about 2 mins to go i really had to up my game as i was languishing down in about 6th despite a mid 1:40 time  :o  I took a late pitstop, put just enough fuel in and reduced my rear wing to 3 and went for it....got 3rd for a 2nd row slot ;D  I was pretty relieved as meant less fast cars to deal with on the opening laps on cold tyres.

Race start was good and slotted in behind the front 2 but vva mounted his customary assaullt while i was on cold hards and i had to drive quite defensively for a few laps. Once again the Rift helped massively as a quick glance left or right told me where his nose was without me moving across into it in braking zones etc. I think he also had Fabri nipping at his heels. After about 5 laps i started to pull away from them but just couldnt close the 5-7 sec gap to the front fast two. They were always tantalising just a corner ahead but neither seemed to make any errors or lose time.
It stayed that way for the whole race until about 5mins from the end when i flew out of T3 to see Tim recovering from an off of some sorts  :o  so now i was upto 2nd and closing fast on Maxime, but i think he had started to coast to the flag.

Big congrats to Maxime on the well earned win  :thumbup1: nice to see another name on the podium step  :)

Well done also to Syd who showed impressive pace in qually  :o great improvement in pace  :)

Thats it from me for a while, big thankyou to all who attended the races and series for the last few years  :cowboy:

The final Championship Table:-

1   FullMetalGasket   311.0   Hesketh 308b
2   Mark J      199.0   Brabham BT44
3   Fabri Fibra      187.0   Ferrari 312T
4   vva_avv      162.0   Tyrell(s)
5   IbnSolmyr      153.0   Surtees TS16
6   Postal      83.0           Brabham BT44
7   MaxVeloce      78.0           *Mixture*           
8   KDiesel      41.0          BRM P201
9   L4de              41.0          Lotus 72E      
10   Syd Drake      39.0          Tyrrell 007   
11   LesN              36.0          March 751       
12   Oly9              23.0          BRM P201
13   goldtop      18.0          Parnelli VPJ4                           
14   Bob      16.0                  Fittipaldi FD
15   Olius      12.0                  Lotus 72E                                 
16   CerebralVortex   10.0        McLaren MP23                                        
17   Christian Dauger 2.0          Williams FW04                  
18   Barone      0           Ferrari 312T                                           
19   ukrcnalex      0           McLaren MP23         

Brabham-Legends take the Constructors championship  :thumbup1:

1   Legends Racing      343.0   Brabham BT44
2   Black Night Racing   320.0   Hesketh 308b
3   Magnesium Team   212.0   Ferrari 312T
4   Drake Racing      185.0   *Mixture*
5   Veloce Corse      84.0           *Mixture*          
6   WSL Racing Team   52.0          Fittipaldi FD
7   Kerb Crawlers      32.0          Parnelli VPJ4   

Big thanks to Picnic Pete, Tony and Dave G behind the scenes for their help and support.  :)                               

Thanks for this series, it was a blast! 1976 tracks next? :)

Great serie indeed. Too bad i could not participate all rounds. Still we did enough to clinch the team championship  8)
Thanks for organising MJ and well done to the top championship drivers. Great driving by my team mate.  :thumbup1:

Thanks for the series Mark.
It was an absolute blast in these animals  ;D


Thanks to everyone who took part, The turn out was generally pretty good although I'm amazed it wasn't higher given how iconic the cars were and how much fun they were to drive!


PS. Who do I need to speak to regarding mod type access for here if I'm going to look after Wednesdays for a bit as suggested?

A very nice season, great tracks and a lot of good battles.
Maybe it took a few more participants, but we still had an average of 10/11 drivers, very constant and nice in driving. So no so bad.

Thanks Mark for the organization. Congratulations on winning Tim and Mark for the second place.

About me, a fairly difficult season in the Scuderia Ferrari, but I tried to do my best. Some decent races, like a second place in Montecarlo and little else.

Sign me in for another season, '76 or also (I suggest) the '67.

Me I suspect, drop me a PM and let me know what you're planning please :)

I would like to thank all the guys whom i raced with this season. It was perhaps my best simracing experience so far. I give five to MJ for being a fan of true old racecars, Fab for his ready-for-help status anytime. And all my new online friends! Was a big honour racing with everyone of you!
Looking forward to see you again!

Some footage of the final round.

First part, the start and battle with Bob. Second part a nice battle with Kimi.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lXrOCNM2CQ&feature=youtu.be (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lXrOCNM2CQ&feature=youtu.be)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cMPpJI456s&feature=youtu.be (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cMPpJI456s&feature=youtu.be)

Thanks for the kind words vva, was a pleasure racing against you too and good to see you pumping in so many laps on the practise server in the great looking Tyrell  :thumbup1: Wish there were more fellow historics racing enthusiasts like you around  :)

There are; they all do GTL  ;)

and there in lays the problem with this place  :( too fragmented over several sims and we all in turn suffer with low turnouts rather than joining together racing the same sim.

Well the few races I did were fun, so thanks for that  :).  The ones I missed heh, partly work, partly bad choices on my part prioritising other things, and the last couple meh a badly infected eye which made me stay away.


Hope we see some more historic races in the future...