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Title: UKGPL Season 38 (Spring 2021) 1955 Grand Prix - Privateers - Dundrod - May 23 Post by: Phil Thornton on May 21, 2021, 10:42:30 PM +0100 Season 38 – 1955 Grand Prix – Round 9 – Privateers - Dundrod
This race announcement is for the PRIVATEERS. The ninth race in the 1955 Grand Prix series takes us to Dundrod in Northern Ireland. The Dundrod Circuit was first used in 1950 for the RAC Tourist Trophy Sports Car race and for the Formula One (non-championship) Ulster Trophy. The Sports Cars raced again in 1951 through to 1955 and the Formula 1 cars from 1951 through to 1953. The circuit comprised public roads closed for racing including a section of the B38 Hannahstown Road between Glenavy and Hannahstown, a section of the B101 Leathemstown Road from Leathemstown Corner to Dundrod and a section of the B153 Quarterland/Tornagrough Road from Cochranstown to the road junction of the B38 Upper Springsfield Road/Hannahstown Road at the Lindsay Hairpin. The last car race held on the Dundrod Circuit was the 1955 RAC Tourist Trophy race in which sadly there were 3 fatalities. The narrow, high-speed nature of the circuit, meant it was just too dangerous and since then it has only been used for motorcycle racing. For this race we will use the 1950 layout which includes the Leathemstown Bridge section.
Please restrict chat to emergency messages only including at the end of 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=1272&theme=6). Available Tokens: Note: These are the tokens available to each driver before the 10 tokens are added for making the race start.
Title: Re: UKGPL Season 38 (Spring 2021) 1955 Grand Prix - Privateers - Dundrod - May 23 Post by: dave curtis on May 23, 2021, 09:40:59 PM +0100 Well, that was a waste of a weekend!
(I still don't like these cars!) Hope all goes well for the remainers. Title: Re: UKGPL Season 38 (Spring 2021) 1955 Grand Prix - Privateers - Dundrod - May 23 Post by: francesco on May 23, 2021, 09:41:06 PM +0100 Dam,for fear of crashing with Menegucci I didn't closed the corner and ended up on the grass.This season is not my season.
Title: Re: UKGPL Season 38 (Spring 2021) 1955 Grand Prix - Privateers - Dundrod - May 23 Post by: PaulV on May 23, 2021, 09:43:11 PM +0100 OOOoopps... :o Dundrod was Exactly what I was expecting....... Time now for a nice cuppa. ;) see you next time Boys . :angel: Title: Re: UKGPL Season 38 (Spring 2021) 1955 Grand Prix - Privateers - Dundrod - May 23 Post by: Giovanni Centorame on May 23, 2021, 09:48:44 PM +0100 Stuck into a bush 2 corners after Leo, i lost an opportunity because the car was really really good. See you in Buenos Aires guys ;D
Title: Re: UKGPL Season 38 (Spring 2021) 1955 Grand Prix - Privateers - Dundrod - May 23 Post by: Christian Dauger on May 23, 2021, 10:03:33 PM +0100 Well many practice laps, not very conclusive, but anyway, carried away in the first incident of turn 1 ... could not avoid. :-[
I hope for better next time! Title: Re: UKGPL Season 38 (Spring 2021) 1955 Grand Prix - Privateers - Dundrod - May 23 Post by: bernie on May 23, 2021, 10:07:14 PM +0100 Binned it in a silly place reading prib to see who was behind , was leading by a good margin ( thanks to others retirements ) stupid mistake got a touch of the abb dabs ::)
Good luck to the finishers Title: Re: UKGPL Season 38 (Spring 2021) 1955 Grand Prix - Privateers - Dundrod - May 23 Post by: Rainier on May 23, 2021, 10:38:25 PM +0100 Bad luck, Bernie !
Only two cars at the finish ! Of course the two BGBs ;D I have decided to be extremely cautious during the 6 first laps to be sure to gain some points but after 3 or 4 laps there were only 3 remaining cars : those of Bernie, Philippe and me. Title: Re: UKGPL Season 38 (Spring 2021) 1955 Grand Prix - Privateers - Dundrod - May 23 Post by: JonnyO on May 23, 2021, 11:06:13 PM +0100 Congrats Rainier!!!!! Champion privaters!!!!! :thumbup1:
Title: Re: UKGPL Season 38 (Spring 2021) 1955 Grand Prix - Privateers - Dundrod - May 23 Post by: bernie on May 23, 2021, 11:22:45 PM +0100 Bad luck, Bernie ! Only two cars at the finish ! Of course the two BGBs ;D I have decided to be extremely cautious during the 6 first laps to be sure to gain some points but after 3 or 4 laps there were only 3 remaining cars : those of Bernie, Philippe and me. Well deserved win David and Congrats to the champ , I doubt I would have lasted much further anyway as my pacemaker was on overtime :sweatdrop: Title: Re: UKGPL Season 38 (Spring 2021) 1955 Grand Prix - Privateers - Dundrod - May 23 Post by: Rainier on May 23, 2021, 11:30:43 PM +0100 Congrats Rainier!!!!! Champion privaters!!!!! :thumbup1: Obrigado Jonny ! and thanks Bernie ;) Title: Re: UKGPL Season 38 (Spring 2021) 1955 Grand Prix - Privateers - Dundrod - May 23 Post by: Leo Menegucci on May 24, 2021, 03:11:43 PM +0100 Really frustrated with my own error as I love this tipe of track and wasn't even pushig.
Congratulations Rainier very well deserved champion!! :thumbup1: Title: Re: UKGPL Season 38 (Spring 2021) 1955 Grand Prix - Privateers - Dundrod - May 23 Post by: Phil Thornton on May 24, 2021, 06:00:06 PM +0100 A lot of retirements but all due to accidents as far as I can tell. The server seems to have been OK, no discos or screen freezes. Unless someone knows otherwise.
Title: Re: UKGPL Season 38 (Spring 2021) 1955 Grand Prix - Privateers - Dundrod - May 23 Post by: Phil Thornton on May 24, 2021, 06:11:17 PM +0100 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.
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