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Season 39 - CANM71 – Round 3 –  Roosevelt Raceway 1937

Following the end of the Great Depression, George Washington Vanderbilt III, George Preston Marshall and Eddie Rickenbacker raised money to build a new home for the dormant Vanderbilt Cup, which had last been run in 1916. 1908 Vanderbilt Cup winner George Robertson was hired to oversee construction of the facility. The land was acquired by lease of the land that was "Unit 2" of the Roosevelt Field airport, and was the site of the runway from which Charles Lindbergh took off in the Spirit of St. Louis. The original raceway was twisty and bumpy, not quite suited to the big-bore big-BHP racecars of the day, and a number of the drivers did not like the track. The 1937 layout was faster, with fewer corners and longer straights. Despite these adaptations, no GP motor car races were held there afterwards.

Please check the Season 39 pages for details (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=1531&theme=6) regarding rules and the CanAm 1971 pages (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=1611&theme=6) in particular.

Handicapping
The cars will be divided into five groups, each group containing cars of similar performance.
Drivers will be graded as either "Professional", "Intermediate" or "Amateur".
Drivers will be limited to cars from specific groups based on their grade
and must choose 2 cars and drive them an equal number of times.



Rolling Start!

In RL CanAm started rolling ;)
We do a rolling start to the exit of T4 to the back straight in one line following the polesetter ~100mph

(https://i.ibb.co/1Xr3H0D/bapom-roo37.jpg) (https://imgbb.com/)

Incidents will not be moderated as we race as gentlemen.
One Shift-R is allowed with no need to make Stop & Go.

Race list	=	iGOR
Server	=	UKGPL_8
IP address Server	=	TBA
Password	=	see above (#post_event_password)
GPL Mod	=	CA71
Damage model	=	Intermediate
60fps Patch	=	60fpsV2newmod
Track directory	=	roo37 (http://www.javinester.co.uk/gpl/roosevelt.html)
Qualifying starts	=	20:45 UK time - 45 minutes
Race starts	=	~ 21:30 UK time
Race length	=	25 laps
Replay	=	here (https://www.mediafire.com/file/1tzj4wb5q92o6dx/UKGPL_8__60fps.2021.10.08.23.20.rpy.7z/file)

Drivers will be graded as either "Professional", "Intermediate" or "Amateur".

Please tell me your car choice before the next race ;)

pro   Alain Maurice (FT)
am   Christian Dauger (FT)                                    
int   Claudio Navonne (FT)                                    
int   Cookie (FT)                                    
int   Doni Yourth (FT)                                    
int   Eric Bilodeau (FT)                                    
pro   EvilClive (FT)                                    
int   fpolicardi (FT)                                    
pro   GrandPrixYannick (FT)                                    
pro   MagicArsouille (FT)                                    
am   PaulV (FT)                                    
int   Pete Bennett (FT)                                    
int   Philippe Girard (FT)                                    
pro   Ziu Bacubacu (FT)                                    
int   Gareth (R1)    
pro    Enrique Farina (R1)                                
pro   Leo Menegucci (R1)                                    
int   Phil Thornton (R1)

Important

If we have a full grid we use the following procedere:

If at 21:05 UK time the server is full with >17 drivers

The Reserve driver have to leave for 10 Minutes to give waiting Full time driver the chance to join

GLA + FUN

Arff !.. :oops:..I just see now about the rolling start .... :wheelchair:

I did wonder  ::)   I was 2nd on grid and Yannick went past me off the line as he tried to keep up with you. I waited for Yannick to yield the place but it didn't happen. Never mind, it didn't affect the outcome of the race for me so not to worry. I hope others weren't caught napping.

Other than that, it was an honour and a pleasure to be racing so close with you and Yannick. Much fun :)   I'm VERY pleased with another podium.

ngl the rolling start went completely by me as well.

Well, 5th, that's not so bad.    ;)
Tail spin in the 2nd lap, I'm in last place, it will be a long time to come back, with Fulvio resisting well at the end, I wasn't sure to be able to pass you... ;)

Rather good fun in the fire-breathing CanAm 71's.  Got rather lucky in that both Axel and Zui ran into trouble along the way to promote me to a P4 finish.  Yummy!

Only bit of drama along the way was lightly scuffing the outside wall in the last corner on one lap.  No damage and hardly worth mentioning.

What is worth a chat is the flagrant disregard of the rules by Monsieur Bot.  For the second time since he's had pole position in this CanAm series...the first being Daytona..., he has roared off the start line with no heed to the 100mph speed limit.  Indeed, the replay cap shows him touching 160mph if I'm not mistaken here at Roosevelt.  At Daytona, he was 180+mph over the S/Fline in the tri-oval.  I think that it's high time that a penalty be applied.  I recommend a 60-second penalty from today's race at Roosevelt.  That will get his attention.  Or will it, I wonder?  It's debatable.

Gentlemen
we are driving here to have some exciting fun on Friday evenings.

We are all grown men and can read: there is no moderation.
Only if blatantly violated the framework I will intervene - such as multiple resetting or wrong car.

Of course it also belongs to apologize if one has allowed himself a mistake that has harmed another driver!

I still believe that no one here makes intentional fouls.

Hi guys :)
Sorry for the start, I'm a little bit confuse whith the rules of all mods where I drive , I will be more focus for the next races ...
well said Cookie !...anyway my bad start don't disturbe anybody, in fact I was focus to take a good start as I know Yannik like to take a rocket start to gain some place he was not able to have in qualifs ... :) ...
....yes the masters words are fun and gentleman driving and I try to do my best in that way, I can do some mistake sometime like every body but I allways try to don't toutch others car/pilotes in race ...( also because I know that Doni is watching me attentively ....:D  )

CU next ...thx for racing ;)

Ziu - sorry for the bump on lap 10. It looked as though you were sliding wide so I went for the gap up the inside but your tyres took grip again and I clipped your back end. So sorry. Entirely my fault. With such a wide track I thought that you would keep the wide line. You then went into a half-spin and only lost a couple of hundred yards. Once again, sorry, my fault. Yes, we're all gentlemen here. See you next time.

Nice battle Christian  :)

I accept your apologies  :)