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Season 39 - 69X – Round 4 –  Virginia International Raceway 1937

finds us at Virginia in the USA. In 1955, a group of North Carolina car enthusiasts began their search for a possible racetrack location. They soon found the perfect site on the state line on land owned by the Foote Family and Virginia International Raceway (VIR) opened for business in August of 1957. The group leased the property as Sports Car Enterprises. VIR’s first official event was a SCCA race that attracted stars like Carroll Shelby, Carl Haas, Bob Holbert, Augie Pabst, Bob Grossman, Don Yenko, Dr Dick Thompson, Walt Hansgen and Bruce Jennings. Shelby, who would later go on to worldwide fame by winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1959 and creating the iconic Cobra sports cars in the early 1960s, won that first feature race at VIR in a Maserati 450S.The lconic Texan uttered a quote about the track that is remembered to this day, “one lap at VIR is like a hundred at Watkins Glen.”

We use the new Version of this track!
http://srmz.net/index.php?showtopic=14242

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 1969x F1 pages (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=1601&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.


Incidents will not be moderated as we race as gentlemen.
One (1x) 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	=	69X
Damage model	=	Intermediate
60fps Patch	=	60fpsV1
Track directory	=	V.I.R v1 (http://srmz.net/index.php?showtopic=14242)
Qualifying starts	=	20:45 UK time - 45 minutes
Race starts	=	~ 21:30 UK time
Race length	=	26 laps
Replay	=	here (https://www.mediafire.com/file/kpit05mrztmnly7/UKGPL_8__60fps.2021.10.15.23.21.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)
int   AnGex (FT)                                    
am   Claudio Navonne (FT)                                    
int   Cookie (FT)                                    
am   dave curtis (FT)                                    
pro   EvilClive (FT)                                    
int   fpolicardi (FT)                                    
pro   GrandPrixYannick (FT)                                    
am   PaulV (FT)                                    
pro   Pete Bennett (FT)                                    
int   Philippe Girard (FT)                                    
pro   Ziu Bacubacu (FT)                                    
pro   Baab (R1)    
int    bagrupp (R1)                              
am   Billy Nobrakes (R1)                                    
int   Doni Yourth (FT)                                    
pro   Enrique Farina (R1)                                    
int   francesco (R1)                                    
int   Gareth (R1)                                    
pro   Leo Menegucci (R1)
pro   MagicArsouille (R1)                                      
int   Phil Thornton (R1)                                    
int   Rainier (R1)

Important

As we have now 23 registered driver, 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

Are there any representative lap times available for this new circuit.  GPLRank only has listings for the old Smogbike version.  I'd appreciate a posting of your typical times, chaps.

I need to practice to make a car selection between the Eagle and the BT24.

Doni, I posted some laps mid 1:50s, fuel for 26 laps, with the BRM. Not sure yet about the wing settings. Never drove the old version.

Thanks for that, Leo.  Now I have some gauge as to my performance.

Grats to our podium finishers!  Well done, lads.

Some good fun for me in the little BT24.  A stone in the corners without aero, it's at least a bullet on the straights.  After some early grief from those starting ahead of me, I found myself in a lofty P5.  I could pretty much hold my own on the lap but braking for the Horseshoe was a distinct vulnerability.  Soon, I was dropping places there and a hip check from Andreas on Lap05 sent me into the weeds with a considerable loss of time.  I could have used that in my chase down of Pete late in the going; came up a little short.  A P10 a reasonable finish considering.

Sorry Doni, I had the feeling that it was all good. So I was surprised when I saw you falling back... :-\