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Season 40 1967F1 PRIVATEERS – Round 1  - Surfer’s Paradise

Round 1 finds us in The Surfers Paradise Street Circuit
This is a temporary street circuit on the Surfers Paradise, in Queensland, Australia. The 2.98-kilometre (1.85 mi) beach-side track has several fast sections and two chicanes, having been shortened from an original 4.47-kilometre (2.78 mi) length in 2010. It is the third of three motor racing circuits that have existed in the Gold Coast region, after the Southport Street Circuit (1954) and Surfers Paradise International Raceway (1966–1987).
From 1991 to 2008, the circuit hosted an American Championship car racing event, the Gold Coast Indy 300. The circuit has also hosted touring car races since 1994, with the Supercars Championship currently contesting the annual Gold Coast 600 at the circuit.[1]

Race list	=	iGOR
Server	=	UKGPL10
IP address	=	217.155.118.41
Password	=	see above (#post_event_password)
GPL Mod	=	67F1
Damage model	=	PRO
60fps Patch	=	60fpsV2newmod
Track Folder	=	surferpa
Track download	=	here (http://srmz.net/index.php?showtopic=7203)
Qualifying starts	=	20:45 UK time - 45 minutes
Race starts	=	~ 21:30 UK time
Race length	=	40 laps
Replay	=	Here (https://antipastiracing.org.uk/UKGPL_Replays/index.php?dir=Season%2040)

Please READ CAREFULLY THESE NEW RULES :

A driver must cross the start line in order to register the use of a chassis, participation in qualifying is not sufficient.

Drivers must use 7 different chassis for their first 7 races.
Only when a driver has used all 7 chassis, will they be allowed to select a chassis for the second time.
Any driver who uses a chassis for the second time before all 7 chassis have been used once, will be disqualified from the race.
Any driver who uses a chassis he has already used twice will be disqualified from the race.

Points will be allocated from 1st to 12th as follows: 20, 15, 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

Drivers must complete 75% race distance to score.

A bonus point will be awarded for pole position.
A bonus point will be awarded for the fastest lap.


MOD PRO so no shift-R

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.

Please check the Season 40 details (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=1691&theme=6) regarding rules and the 1967 F1 Privateers Championship pages (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=1711&theme=6) in particular.

Hi Phil. I registered for this and im being told im not registered.

Im not showing on the championship page either. 

thanks, Paul.

I've processed your registration so you should see yourself in the champ tables now.

Tha
Thanks mate. Im in the process of building and testing my newest gpl pc... so far so good.

Really looking forward to season 40.

I'm surprised it's starting so soon in the new year. Thanks for all you do. I can only imagine how much time it takes.

But we'll appreciated.. cheers.

Hi Paul,

I hope you've got your PC up and running. Welcome back and I look forward to chasing you around Surfers Paradise later.

Pete

Hi Pete,

Wishing you and all my other fellow GPL buddies a good race tonight.

PC is built, tested and raring to go.. same as me.. LOL.

But sadly just for tonight it's on the workbench and not yet connected  to the rig. Now it's on Win 10 it's running brilliant but I know I will have a few issues sorting the wheel and pedals. So I won't be racing tonight. But it should be the only race I plan to miss this season.

I sincerely hope you have to chase me from time to time this season mate, make a change from watching your backside disappear into the distance.

Here's to season 40 chaps.... tally-ho !!!!!

Good news Paul hope you get it sorted soon mate  :)

Bernie... do you race in the attic? Me too... damn cold.

very sad i was ejected from the server at the time of the start, in the 1st race of the year.

Engine exploded at the beginning of the 2nd lap...
That's all, folks!
Cheers

fL

Ricardo,
I don't know if it was related but my internet disconnected at the end of qualifying. I didn't get to start.

Not sure how the rules work but presume it is OK to count the chassis (Cooper) which I qualified in as having been used.

Rule is :
A driver must cross the start line in order to register the use of a chassis, participation in qualifying is not sufficient.


About my race, I was 4th chasing Albert Hallu when my engine exploded on 37-38° lap.
During all the race, there was a hard fight between Pepe, Dulima, Albert and me.
Not easy to overtake here.

Cheers Bernie.. normal service will resume ASAP..

Sorry to hear a couple of you had problems at the start

I was pleased to get 5th after a lonely race and several helpful retirements , glad to get the rice burner home as I have never done well anywhere before in the Jap car .

Grats to the podium boys and all finishers , tough luck on the rest .

Very happy with my start to the season.  ;D

I was surprised how settled the BRM was around here. Super track and lots of fun. See you all next time.

Not so much the cold , its the Moon boots that kill me  ;D

  I think we got the wrong replay, we got the work's one

The Privateers replay will appear on the same website soon.

Race results imported/replay available now.

I qualified fifth in the Cooper but a great start off the line put me in third behind Pete and Eric, who began walking away from me at more than one second per lap. For the next 25 laps I managed a slow but steady pace that kept Eduardo, David, Albert, and Bernie (in various orders) behind me --- very closely behind me --- until I finally made a few mistakes. They all overtook me, stuffing me down to where I belonged all along. But compared to the atomic disaster that last season was, a sixth overall looks like the brass ring these days.

On to Zeltweg, a gently flowing track that on a good day feels like a ping pong ball floating down the river. On a bad day it feels like something else.

What a fantastic description.  ;D