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Season 39 - 69X – Round 5 –  Mosport

Mosport hosted the 1969 Canadian Grand Prix


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	=	mosport
Qualifying starts	=	20:45 UK time - 45 minutes
Race starts	=	~ 21:30 UK time
Race length	=	36 laps
Replay	=	here (https://www.mediafire.com/file/mtm1f5ksw06taut/UKGPL_8__60fps.2021.10.29.23.23.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)
pro  Greg Taber (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

I did not understand why Dony purposely pushes me off the road   ??? :( ???

Firstly apologies to Leo for my tap on lap 2 at T3. There was no actual contact on my client replay (just warp contact) but it was my fault I shouldn't have been so close. I waited for you to recover but it put us both last after picking up several places on lap 1. Sorry if I ruined your race.

After that it was a steady drive. I had a lot of wing and top was geared quite low so in a tow I was bouncing off the limiter. In hindsight I should have geared it a bit higher. I tried to stay with Fulvio but he was too quick and I lost out in my battle with Dave C. That Matra was too quick for me tonight  :scooter:

Yuck. The Lotus 63 is a bath-tub and it kept sloshing about onto the grass.

Back later for a more comprehensive post but to reply to Philippe...

Sorry for the contact, PG, but you took me completely by surprise by slowing to a snail's pace over the crest of T4.  Why on Earth you would do that in a winged Ferrari against my totally obsolete Eagle is a mystery to me.  I thought that you would go roaring by with speed to spare.  Final analysis?  You bungled the pass, mon ami.

Grats to our podium finishers even if Bot had me off in T4 on Lap09.  Looks more like a lag issue than anything else as I gave him loads of room and it looked like a solid 50cm+ between us at point of contact.

As for Philippe's issue, I stand by my words.  Perhaps you had damage from shunting off at the Moss Hairpin a lap earlier?  That might explain why you slowed so dramatically for T4.  Want to see a similar issue, PG?  Go here...

https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=27102.0

Quite satisfying to start the Pease Eagle.  I managed to make the 110% cutoff time based on my pre-race testing having cut a 1m25.27s lap.  That's just inside the exclusion parameter.  Surviving those two incidents to get the Eagle home in P11...will be P10 once the DQ's are factored in for more than two resets; Zui with t two blown Cossies...is quite a plumb.  :)

I prefer to stop mod 69.  :-[
 It didn't work for snails like me.  :-[

I will of course continue the other championships, because I love GPL
 8) 8)

Don't give up... keep at it. I'm no expert at any of this but I learn something new in every UKGPL race, whatever the mod.

No problem Phil, I appreciate your sportsmanship. What is starting to be annoying is the behavior of some of the residente aliens. Crashes in the first turns every race, pushing others off track even at practices, and no recognition at all. 
 

Two hours before the race I was seriously thinking about not taking part, I couldn't get the hang of the Brabham BT26, I had never been to any circuit with it. I took an old Allison Hine setup, with very hard coils (so as not to touch the bottom of the car at Moss), changed the bars to my liking, changed the bump and rebound, lowered the car to the minimum and took out the bump-rubbers. And all of a sudden the car appeared. I could have been 2nd if I hadn't made two unforced errors that relegated me to 4th place. But I was very happy with my race. Congratulations to the podium, especially to Tristan for his phenomenal race, and many thanks to the organizers for organizing these races.

Yes, Doni is right...

Uhhh...  Would anyone care to translate the above for me, pls?  Thanks.

Edit: Oh...  I get it now.  He was trying to be clever.

Please stop this unkind discussion.

This series should be a fun series, without stress - for the joy of driving these virtual race cars.
My expectation was that everyone would look after themselves and show proper respect to the other drivers.

I don't owe anyone anything here and I do it for enjoyment. Everyone knows it's boring to ride alone or with AIs.

The rules are minimized, and if broken you get a DQ.

I was absolutely not in slow motion as doni claims. I slowed down normally, like everyone else in this place. I watched the replay, and I maintain that doni intentionally hit me.
I'm not used to creating controversies, but when I'm right, I say so.
as I mentioned above, I am withdrawing from mod 69, because I like to participate in the races in a good spirit.

Philippe believe me, nobody here hits you intentionally!

 

Philippe...  You are dead wrong on two points.

First, you did slow dramatically or at the very least much more than you should have allowing a skinny-tired, non-aero car to actually be faster than you over the crest of T4.  That should never have happened in a million years.

Second, you are wrong in stepping away from the series.  Please reconsider your participation.  If it requires me to take the burden of responsibility to keep you here, than I accept it.  Fair enough?

Philippe,
I decided against joining the race at Mosport. It is a circuit that I enjoy but my practice times were just too slow & I would have been a nuisance to the Pro drivers.

The track selection for the next 3 races of the season looks a lot more manageable for the Amateur drivers - less chance of getting lapped, especially at Nurburging. If am I free those evenings I will probably join the races - so you will have someone slower than you!

lol Billy  :D

I watched the replay, over and over again, I brake "normally", as usual. in principle, the following pilot should be careful. I didn't stop in the middle of the trail, either. I just slowed down normally. We can see it on the replay. for me, this is a spin !

Ok, I return with you next time, because everybody are my friends

 :thumbup1: