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Title: UKGPL Season 38 (Spring 2021) 1967 F1 Sprint (Privateers) - Albi - May 2 Post by: Phil Thornton on April 27, 2021, 05:48:34 PM +0100 Season 38 – 1967 F1 PRIVATEERS – Round 8 – Albi
The eighth race in the 1967 Grand Prix series finds us in South West of France. Racing first started on the Circuit des Planques in 1933, the pits and startline being on a short straight before the road twisted down into St.Antoine. At St.Juery the cars had to contend with an extreme hairpin bend, followed by a railway level crossing. The 5.531 mile circuit was shortened in 1951 to 1.859 miles, before being closed in 1955 following the Le Mans disaster. Racing resumed at the nearby Aerodrome in 1959 which is the circuit we now know as Albi. The Chicane du Sequestre was introduced in 1988. Albi has never hosted a championship F1 race, but it held a Formula Two race in 1967 and we will be using the layout used then. Jackie Stewart won that race in his Matra. He was followed home by Jochen Rindt in a Brabham and Jim Clark, who had spun his Lotus near the Dunlop bridge.
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 Season 38 pages for details (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=1262&theme=6) regarding the rules and the 1967 F1 Privateers pages (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=1292&theme=6) in particular. The Intermediate damage model will be used. Drivers are only allowed ONE reset followed by a "Stop and Go" in the pits within two laps. This series is a joint championship with GPLBrasil so, please, read carefully these new and specific rules : Drivers will have a FREE CHOICE of chassis however, a bonus of 50 championship points will awarded to each driver that uses all 7 chassis. To qualify for bonus points, each chassis should be used at least once and no chassis can be used more than twice. A bonus point will be awarded for pole position. A bonus point will be awarded for the fastest lap. Any driver who uses the same chassis more than twice will not be awarded any bonus points. A driver must cross the start line in order to register the use of a chassis, participation in qualifying is not sufficient. It is not necessary to use 7 different chassis for the first 7 races. However at the end of the season, all 7 chassis must have been used to qualify for the bonus points. Points will be allocated from 1st to 12th as follows: 20, 15, 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Drivers must complete 75% race distance to score. All rounds count towards the driver's championship. For each race, only the top two drivers from each team count towards team championship. All rounds count towards team championship. Drivers are reminded that Lap 1 incidents do carry an extra 1 place penalty. Only reported incidents will be moderated. Chassis used before Albi race :
Title: Re: UKGPL Season 38 (Spring 2021) 1967 F1 Sprint (Privateers) - Albi - May 2 Post by: PaulV on May 02, 2021, 09:42:55 PM +0100 a freeze. going good too. was enjoying that. some good racing. but another one comes to an early end GGRRRRRRRRRR !!! hope all well for everyone else. Title: Re: UKGPL Season 38 (Spring 2021) 1967 F1 Sprint (Privateers) - Albi - May 2 Post by: Billy Nobrakes on May 02, 2021, 09:43:06 PM +0100 Screen freeze about 5 laps in.
Technically I had a mistake free race. Title: Re: UKGPL Season 38 (Spring 2021) 1967 F1 Sprint (Privateers) - Albi - May 2 Post by: bernie on May 03, 2021, 06:41:30 PM +0100 Nothing to report here , start 10th finish 10th , no spins, blown engines , disco's , screen freeze , rear endings , close shaves, crashes , punctures , overtakes . In fact nothing to laugh at at all ::)
Title: Re: UKGPL Season 38 (Spring 2021) 1967 F1 Sprint (Privateers) - Albi - May 2 Post by: dave curtis on May 03, 2021, 08:37:32 PM +0100 Nothing to report here , start 10th finish 10th , no spins, blown engines , disco's , screen freeze , rear endings , close shaves, crashes , punctures , overtakes . In fact nothing to laugh at at all ::) Good for you - wish I could say the same! Don't usually drive the Lotus (expensive when paying with tokens) but after a few practice laps we seemed to be getting on ok. Start of the race was fine; was happy to follow Leo around as there seemed to be a very slight gap opening up behind. On lap3 I missed a gear exiting Double Droite; revs skyrocketed & smoky engine time. Pulled over to reset; but with the stream of cars, that operation took ages & cost 12 positions. Made most places up due to spinners & disconnections. Was hoping to be a bit more competive this time out. It was closing up a bit at the end, another couple of laps & we would have had a 3-carriage Lotus train and would have become somewhat tasty. Congrats to the podium & to all who managed to avoid any misfortune. Cheers, Dave. Title: Re: UKGPL Season 38 (Spring 2021) 1967 F1 Sprint (Privateers) - Albi - May 2 Post by: Leo Menegucci on May 04, 2021, 01:03:03 AM +0100 It was not easy to keep Dulima and his Lotus behind me. Seems like he was just cooking somethig for the last laps. Guess I got my tires too hot trying to keep that fast pace and made a mistake at the Aerodrome hairpin. Spoiled those last laps highlights.
Let me tell you, few cars in GPL makes me grin like a BT24 drifting out of a turn :thumbup1: Title: Re: UKGPL Season 38 (Spring 2021) 1967 F1 Sprint (Privateers) - Albi - May 2 Post by: Pepe Higdon on May 04, 2021, 12:50:51 PM +0100 I wrote my season off long ago, failing to complete any of the first few races I ran. So toward the end of the season I return without expectations, merely hoping to finish at a track that I've not run before. I picked the Lotus so that if I didn't do well, at least I couldn't blame the equipment (the same logic that compelled me to buy a very expensive paddle when I was learning to play pickleball). I qualified 8th, 1.5 seconds off the pole, quickly found myself running 6th without having actually overtaken anyone, and stayed there for the remainder of the race, battling no other car at any point. Yes, a pretty boring race, but at least I've now got a few points on the standings board.
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