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Title: UKGPL Season 40 (Spring 2022) 1955 GP - Privateers - Oakes Field - Jan 16 Post by: Phil Thornton on January 09, 2022, 11:57:14 PM +0000 Season 40 – 1955 Grand Prix – Round 1 – Privateers - Oakes Field
This race announcement is for the PRIVATEERS. The first race in the 1955 Grand Prix series sees us taking a boat to Nassau in the Bahamas. The first Nassau Trophy Road Races meeting for Sports Cars was held in 1954 on the Windsor Field Course. For 1957, the meeting was moved to another airfield location, the 5 mile Oakes Course, which was closer to the main population areas on the island. The new course, despite being quite bumpy in places, was relatively well-received, though there were a number of close shaves near the pits as it was too close to the racing line. To combat this, the race direction of the track was changed to clockwise in 1958. The circuit was also shortened to 4.5 miles by cutting out the original Blackbeard's Bend and Ecky's Twist, whilst a new left-right-left corner combination was built to connect the Sassoon Straight and Bethell's Pass, cutting out the tight hairpin which had previously taken the cars off the runway. Due to much needed track repairs and the lack of additional funding by the Bahamian government, as well as competition from more races running in December, the event was discontinued after the 1966 meeting. It is the clockwise 4.5 mile Oakes Course that we will be using for tonight's race.
Please restrict chat to emergency messages only including at the end of 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=1721&theme=6). Available Tokens: Note: These are the tokens available to each driver before the 10 tokens are added for making the race start.
Title: Re: UKGPL Season 40 (Spring 2022) 1955 GP - Privateers - Oakes Field - Jan 16 Post by: Phil Thornton on January 10, 2022, 08:29:00 PM +0000 I've sorted the registered drivers into Works and Privateers based on previous results. As Privateers Champion, Pete Bennett moves up to the Works. There is an even split of 14 Works drivers and 13 Privateer drivers. If anyone thinks they are in the wrong group please send me a PM.
Title: Re: UKGPL Season 40 (Spring 2022) 1955 GP - Privateers - Oakes Field - Jan 16 Post by: Pete Bennett on January 15, 2022, 12:35:27 PM +0000 Now on Weekly. (http://formulado.hu/weekly/index.php?p:events/season/UKGPL2022-8/)
Title: Re: UKGPL Season 40 (Spring 2022) 1955 GP - Privateers - Oakes Field - Jan 16 Post by: francesco on January 16, 2022, 10:26:45 PM +0000 Good race for me but with breath of D.Rainieron my neck.Seem that you was able to gain at the last curve,right?
Than an exit? Anyway a good race also for you. Title: Re: UKGPL Season 40 (Spring 2022) 1955 GP - Privateers - Oakes Field - Jan 16 Post by: Phil Thornton on January 16, 2022, 11:03:20 PM +0000 Grats Fran. You obviously had all your gears for this race ;)
Title: Re: UKGPL Season 40 (Spring 2022) 1955 GP - Privateers - Oakes Field - Jan 16 Post by: PaulV on January 16, 2022, 11:11:09 PM +0000 Congrats Fran.
Well, I was having my best 55 drive in a long time.. then touched the kerb and ended up behind the fence. No chance after that.. lol. The sand here is extremely sticky. But 23 points are better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. Title: Re: UKGPL Season 40 (Spring 2022) 1955 GP - Privateers - Oakes Field - Jan 16 Post by: francesco on January 16, 2022, 11:11:30 PM +0000 Quote Grats Fran. You obviously had all your gears for this race Yes was all ok.I don't remeber if this was the good server.The last or previous year i had problem with the Axel server if i remeber well.Remeber you that we have tested various server online? Title: Re: UKGPL Season 40 (Spring 2022) 1955 GP - Privateers - Oakes Field - Jan 16 Post by: Clive Loynes on January 16, 2022, 11:26:30 PM +0000 Well done Fran, a SBRC Double Header!
Title: Re: UKGPL Season 40 (Spring 2022) 1955 GP - Privateers - Oakes Field - Jan 16 Post by: francesco on January 17, 2022, 06:17:55 AM +0000 Quote Well done Fran, a SBRC Double Header! Thank ypu Clive.Title: Re: UKGPL Season 40 (Spring 2022) 1955 GP - Privateers - Oakes Field - Jan 16 Post by: Rainier on January 17, 2022, 09:22:35 AM +0000 Good race for me but with breath of D.Rainieron my neck.Seem that you was able to gain at the last curve,right? Than an exit? Anyway a good race also for you. Great race, Francesco. Congrats :clap: On one of my favourite track, I was doing my best to follow you and to put a big pressure but you made no mistake at all. I made only one mistake, it costs me around 4 seconds but even without this error I would not have been able to overtake you. Title: Re: UKGPL Season 40 (Spring 2022) 1955 GP - Privateers - Oakes Field - Jan 16 Post by: bernie on January 17, 2022, 05:46:53 PM +0000 Couldn't get into this track ,4 0r 5 corners are a challenge and feel great if you can get them right , but as most of the corners are featureless I found it impossible to remember which one was which and just where i was on the track . I made things worse by changing the diff ratio and ARB's for the race hoping for better exit speed but made the car much too sensetave to throttle response , if there were points awarded for spinners i would have been champion already ;D
Grats to Fran and the runners up looks like you all had a fun race ;D Title: Re: UKGPL Season 40 (Spring 2022) 1955 GP - Privateers - Oakes Field - Jan 16 Post by: Phil Thornton on January 25, 2022, 06:07:52 PM +0000 I've loaded the chassis the drivers used into the token calculator spreadsheet. For the next race the available tokens will be as declared in the table below (the table will also appear in the next race announcement). The calculated values are automated but selecting the cars is a manual process so please check your tokens to make sure I haven't made a silly error.
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