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Season 38 1965F1 – Round 7 – Amateurs - Sandown

Please note: this is a re-run of Round 7 using the stable version of Sandown.
We are running this race on a Sunday to avoid any clashes with the UEFA Euro 2020 fixtures.

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	=	UKGPL04_60fps
IP address	=	86.6.125.152:32766
Password	=	see above (#post_event_password)
GPL Mod	=	65F1
60fps Patch	=	60fpsV2newmod
Track Folder	=	sandown
Track download	=	here (http://srmz.net/index.php?showtopic=1422)
Qualifying starts	=	20:45 UK time - 45 minutes
Race starts	=	~ 21:30 UK time
Race length	=	39 laps
Replay	=	here (https://drive.google.com/file/d/16UYG4wBd_f3KF8EfYGln8XDNbo0li2E-/view?usp=sharing)

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).

Am drivers:
Full time
dave curtis
Rainier
Eric Bilodeau
Pete Bennett
francesco
PaulV
b_1_rd
Leo Galán Barlo
bernie
il_lupo_mannaro
BadBlood
philippe GIRARD
Rich Welsh
Billy Nobrakes

Reserve
Phil Thornton
maddog
leomenegucci
dkardokas

15/06 is the day of Germany - France  in Euro Championship  :-\

Opps. The Sunday races are finished so looking at the Euro2021 fixtures, rerunning the races on Sunday 20 June would be best. There are no matches with a 20:00 BST (CET +1) kick off. So that would be best for most drivers. Unless someone has a huge objection, I'll move the re-runs.

Sundays are not great for me :( but I'm happy to go with the majority.

(p.s. What is football? I heard about it once but got confused)

I'm not a huge football fan either but I will watch the free-to-air matches. I'd not bother if it was pay-per-view, but if England are in the final I'll probably go to the pub to watch it (assuming it is allowed and COVID doesn't stop it).

Soccer, Calcio, Fußball, Futebol, كرة القدم, футбол, piłka nożna, Balle au pied...   :D

I heard there is another sport named "football" in some countries where you can also use the hands   :o :o :o

How about a test race first using Lee's No Freeze patch at Sandown 68?

I'd rather use the Sandown version for the re-run. It is the track that was proposed in the preseason preparations anyway, I entered the wrong version in the registration thread.

However, a fun race with Sandown68 would be a good idea. It would certainly be a good test of the patch.

Germany has a football team ???

That would be Rugby Football or Rugby League ,Rugby Union , Irish Football, Aussie rules Football , except German Rugby Football where they have No Hans  ::) & Mercedes F1 Football where they allow Hanse  ;D

Another thing which confuses me is that we don't have Euros in the UK. We have pounds and pence. I didn't think we were in Europe either ????

I'll never understand team sports.

Practice server is up on iGOR if anyone would prefer test their connections instead of watching the football.

This is a more stable track but it will still be worth using the new Track Gap Freeze Fix Patch (http://srmz.net/index.php?s=b036569b520e9b887c4847479dc7bf14&showtopic=14247)

What does the part in red actually mean?

"As usual, you can put the patch in the mod's physics directory, the mod physics' Options directory, or the GPLSecrets/GEM+/Options directory.  Delete the original mod .exe and check the patch in GEM+ to rebuild the mod .exe."

You have to delete the executable GEM builds. In this case it is gplc65.exe. This is the only way to guarantee the patch will be applied. GEM doesn't always rebuild the executables.

It is the same for all the patches, including the Pit Stop patch. The guide (https://www.ukgpl.com/index.php/rules/fuel_and_tyre_stop) for the Pit Stop patch shows how to delete the executables.

Don't delete the gpl.exe. That is the original one that GEM patches. You can safely delete all the others.

No track showing in Igor , tried to join by IP get Cant load track message ?

Wrong track version! look in race post ;)

Ive seen that Axel , but the track d/l leads to the Sand 68 track , where to find the "stable track " ??????

Hope the race goes well tonight.

got home late and PC took too long to boot up.. so missed the start of the race.

Good Luck.

D/l the right track from database , managed to get one lap in at the end of qually , then got screen freeze   :'(

Ironic since the original track ran perfectly on my PC

Why not put the correct track in the race post ?

Hope you guys have fun  ::)

@bernie

Sorry you had trouble Bernie. The link in the race post above is to the correct track.

As Cookie has posted, please use the no-freeze patch from now on. It seems to help, everyone else managed to finish the race so I assume they all had the patch installed. We had already decided to rerun the race on the Sandown track before the no-freeze patch was released. I would like to run a fun race on Sandown68 to see if the no-freeze patch helps with that track too.

My strange problems with the 65 mod continued in practice. After about 25 minutes I had a CTD. This has happened in the last 3 rounds. Everything was fine off-line but CTD when on-line. I decided it was not the track because it had happened on 3 other tracks and I have installed the no-freeze patch. Anyway a CTD is not the same as a screen freeze. So in desperation I decided to re-install the 65F1 mod and to my relief it seems to have worked, I managed to complete the race.

The race itself started off quite badly. I made 2 or 3 silly errors and found myself in last place. However, once I calmed down and stopped worrying whether or not the reinstall was going to fix my problems, I settled into a steady rhythm and set about catching the pack. It was a very evenly matched field and without a few people spinning out I wouldn't have caught up. Pete was majestic up front and there was no way I was going to catch him but I did manage to claw my way back to second place. I had a mighty tussle with Leo, who I'm pretty sure was faster than me, but he made a mistake with 5 laps to go and gifted me a gap that I managed to defend until the flag.  I saw you going for the inside Leo and I knew you would have to judge it perfectly or you would give me the chance to retake you on the cut-back. As it turned out you went wide and let me off the hook. Great racing.

Definitely a fun track.
I've bitten the bullet and ditched the fancy load cell Fanatec pedals & hooked up the cheapo plastic ones that came with the Thrustmaster wheel. I am just finding them more consistent & don't having to worry about the random callibration issues.

I wasn't especially quick but fast enough to compete - with some.
Martin provided some good entertainment throughout. He was quicker but allowed me to catch up with his alternate racing lines over the kerbs and run off areas.
In the last few laps I was able to find a little more pace (into 1.11's) and catch up to (but not pass) David's Honda.

It was going to be an uphill battle, with a few wins needed, and only 39 laps to have any chance of a Championship.  Things got worse when there developed a terrible noise, to cause much trouble during the race.  Once under way it became clear, I was not firing on all cylinders, and quickly fell to the back of the pack.  I was helped there, when a cliff thew itself under my wheels!  I'd not remembered it being there the previous lap.

Decided to follow Billy awhile, to give warning of hazards such as cliffs and corners.  The noise problem next developed into gearbox trouble.  A boxfull of neutrals, at embarassing moments, and even reverse a couple of times!  Stopped briefly to chat to Billy about it. :(

Soldiered on, wishing I'd used earplugs, the way F1 drivers generally do.  Some good scrapping from what I recall, while proceeding in fits and starts, to somehow survive to the finish line.  The next time there's a noisy all-night party, I shall complain o the Stewards about it.  Racing is perilous enough already, wthout racing half-asleep because of all that noise! :D

Pete's speed had me overdriving the Brabham and with it came the mistakes. In the end it was a fun event and I even tryed a fancy move over Phil for 2nd position planning to battle with his high top speed honda till the end, but it wasn't my day.  :wheelchair:

Hope for more of this fun with you guys next season!  :yes:

Hi All,

Sorry for lateness in getting here. Yep, that was a blast at Sandown. Leo was going to be hard to beat on this track and I was looking forward to some close racing with him. I was sorry to see him slide off the track ahead of me on Lap 1 but I soon had a BRM in my mirrors keeping me busy. Thankfully my setup seemed to stick to the track really well so I could pull away and build up a lead. My tyres kept their cool despite me enjoying sliding the car round T1 on each lap :)

This has been a fabulous series and at the start of the year, my rookie goal was to finish it in one piece. A podium was only a dream but to end on the top step seems a little unbelievable. You guys have taught me so much about driving in GPL and I seriously look forward to racing with you again. I now need to plead not to be moved up to Works.

How about making it "each chassis once and no more than twice" for everyone next year? That's what I did and part of the fun has been selecting the best car for each track. Failing that, I'm happy to spend Season 39 in the BT7 just so that I can stay in this category.

See you on the track soon.

P

  Et bien j'ai jamais entendu parler de cette reprise. Pas géniale ça.