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Season 38 1965F1 – Round 7 – Professionals - Sandown 1968

Round 7 finds us in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. To be precise in the suburb of Springvale, approximately 25 kilometres (16 mi) south east of the city centre. Sandown Raceway was first opened in 1962. The opening meeting, held on 11 and 12 March, featured the Sandown International Cup, which was contested by world-famous international drivers including Jack Brabham, Jim Clark, Stirling Moss, Bruce McLaren and John Surtees. A second Sandown International Cup was held in 1963. The race that became the Sandown 500 was held for the first time in 1964. The circuit hosted its first Australian Touring Car Championship race in 1965. A round of the annual Tasman Series was held at Sandown from 1964 to 1975. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s the race meetings continued to attract international stars along with the best of Australia's drivers. Australia's traditional Holden/Ford rivalry really surfaced at the track in the late 1960s and through the 1970s with drivers such as Norm Beechey, Ian Geoghegan, Allan Moffat, Bob Jane, Colin Bond and Peter Brock and continues to the present day. From 1968 to 1980 almost every major touring car race held at the circuit was won be those driving either a Holden or a Ford.

Race list	=	iGOR
Server	=	UKGPL08_60fps
IP address	=	Look at iGOR
Password	=	see above (#post_event_password)
GPL Mod	=	65F1
60fps Patch	=	60fpsV2newmod
Track Folder	=	sand68
Track download	=	here (http://srmz.net/index.php?showtopic=12594)
Qualifying starts	=	20:45 UK time - 45 minutes
Race starts	=	~ 21:30 UK time
Race length	=	39 laps
Replay	=	here (https://www.mediafire.com/file/gpze73989p5tmp6/UKGPL_8__60fps.2021.04.20.23.21.rpy.7z/file)

Handicapping:
There will be no handicapping.  Drivers have a free choice of chassis. Unlimited number of Shift-Rs are allowed with no need to make a Stop and Go.

Only reported incidents will be moderated.

Please, excepting emergencies, no chat until Session Completed in qualification. No chat in the race until ALL drivers still racing have crossed the line.

Driver lists and division specific rules can be found on the championship standings page (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=1322&theme=6).

Pro drivers:
Full time
MagicArsouille
Alain Maurice
AnGex
Arf Arf Arf
bagrupp
EvilClive
MikeBeattie
fpolicardi
Cookie
Baab

Reserve
Raoni Frizzo
Doni Yourth
Tom Johnson

Hmm......I think this track is for Hot lapping , though very pretty, I think the older version of Sandown produces better racing and passing opportunities, had some good races there with ADC in year past.

Anyway onto last night, I decided onto to qualify to avoid the T1-T2 bunch up, got onto a decent pace and was following the two cars in front until they had the inevitable touch and both left the track, was then trying to close the gap to the car in front until 12 laps in I had my first black screen, it last for about 10 secs and the secondary issue is that you can't use Shift-R when the screen comes back, so I was stuck in a fence and it took another 10 secs or more to extract myself. The black screen happened twice more in similar time gaps with more issues getting back on track.

This issue has started since for some reason McAfee will no longer recognise Igor as a permitted programme, I have reinstalled Igor several times and refreshed the link in McAfee, but it still does the same. I turn Live Scanning off which lets me activate Igor but the Black Screens, seem to just happen in the race, not Qually.

Anyway I stayed on to the end, didn't hit anyone and enjoyed my Hot lapping, but a bit piffed to end up 2 laps down with all the issues.

i had a terible last lap out at gplracer and i wasn't able to do a good  run anymore.
After two unlucky contacts i gave up.

The race results have been re-imported under this thread (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=25811.0).