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UKGPL Season 44 - 1966 Can-Am -  Bathurst - Apr 16


The 6th race in the CanAm 66 series finds us at Mount Panorama Motor Racing Circuit Bathurst, a motor racing track located in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia. It is best known as the home of the Bathurst 12 Hour motor race, held each February, and the Bathurst 1000 motor race, held each October. The track is 6.213 km (4 mi) long, and is technically a street circuit, as the circuit is a public road when no racing events are being run, and there are many residences which can only be accessed from the circuit. The track is an unusual design by modern standards, with a 174-metre (570-foot) vertical difference between its highest and lowest points, and grades as steep as 1:6.13. From the start-finish line, the track can be viewed in three sections; the short pit straight and then a tight left turn into the long, steep Mountain straight; the tight, narrow section across the top of the mountain itself; and then the long, downhill section of Conrod Straight, and the turn back onto pit straight to complete the lap.


Please check the Season 44 details regarding rules and the 1966 Can-Am Championship pages (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=2361&theme=6) in particular.

You have to "drive each car once!"
Only one Shift-R is allowed !!!

As it has shown too difficult to remember for some driver where to start, we make it easy for the rest of the season.

Full 1st Lap ROLLING START

We do a ~100mph (160kmh) rolling, one line, full first Lap to the Start line !
No passing before the start line!
The polesetter is not allowed to slow down between the last corner and start line.
A DQ is the result for ignoring

Race list	=	iGOR
Server	=	UKGPL_8
IP address Server	=	look at iGOR
GPL Mod	=	CANM66
Damage model	=	INT
60fps Patch	=	60fpsV2newmod
Track directory	=	panorama (https://gpladdons.the-fastlane.co.uk/tracks_list.php?q=(ID~equals~45))
Qualifying starts	=	20:45 UK time - 45 minutes
Race starts	=	~ 21:30 UK time
Race length	=	23laps
Replay	=	here (https://antipastiracing.org.uk/antipastiracing/UKGPL_Replays/index.php?dir=Season%2044)

Please READ CAREFULLY THE RULES :

A driver must cross the start line in order to register the use of a chassis, participation in qualifying is not sufficient.
Drivers are reminded that Lap 1 incidents carry an extra 1 place penalty.
Drivers must complete 50% race distance to score.
MOD INT - only One Shift-R is allowed with no need to make Stop & Go
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.

WIP
10 races - 10 cars !

Driver  car 1    car 2    car 3    car 4    car 5   Tom Johnson     HUFF T359 0 T333 MK1 Phil Thornton T359 T427 T333 T305 M333 Axel "Cookie" CHAP T359 M333 M289 MK1 "Evil"Clive M289 M333 M1B HUFF CHAP Fulvio Policardi M289 M1B CHAP M333 HUFF Doni Y M289 M1B CHAP HUFF T333 Dimitar Dulichki M327 M1B 0 T427 Greg T T333 T359 M333 HUFF T305 Tris Bot T333 M1B T359 T305 T427 Alain Maurice M1B T359 T333 HUFF David Rainier T305 T333 T427 M289 Walter Conn M327 T359 0 T305 Matt Rowe T333 0 T305 HUFF T427 PaulV HUFF CHAP T427 M289 T305 Enrique Farina HUFF T359 CHAP M289 T305 Pete Bennett 0 M1B CHAP T333 M333 Bob_Simpson M289 0 0 M333 HUFF Fran Molteni CHAP M1B T359 GrandPrixYannick 0 0 T333 T305 Use the Track Gap Freeze Fix Patch V.09 for all on-line races. GLA + FUN

Full first lap  :o :o :o

This will be a lap to cool down and concentrate on the race start - as in RL ;)

Guys, I changed my nVidia Control Panel settings and now my GPL menu is blurry. Do you know a fix for this, as I cannot remember exactly what settings I changed.

If I remember correctly, I think you need Trilinear Filtering to be off.

Maybe you mean texture filtering? I can't find the one you suggest. :)

The name keeps changing but it is trilinear something. It is a toggle on/off so try it off and see if it helps.

Found it, but didn't fix the problem.

Looking at Matt's it could be triple buffering (begins with T  ::)). Sorry but I'd need to go on my computer to check.

Thanks guys, I found the solution:

The track menu and replay buttons are blurry, or they seem to degrade or melt
1- If you have an NVIDIA card, open the NVIDIA Control Panel and switch Antialiasing - FXAA to OFF.

 :sorcerer:

This is going to be a wild ride :o

Big overpowered machines taking air over the crests.... recipe for disaster.
Hopefully someone else's disaster  ::)

Yes, the rear end jumps 1m in the air when you start to brake down from 200mph...

I've had to reset my router. Could someone please see if you can connect to UKGPL07 today and let me know any issues. I'm not sure that I've put port forwarding back to where it was. Thanks.

I've put the port forwarding settings on this page (https://www.ukgpl.com/index.php/moderating/localhostingrouter) if you need it Pete. I've created the page for reference just in case the usual GPL sites are down, but it also includes a link to the patched iGOR for multiple hosting (the site I originally got that from has gone  :().

I connected & drove a couple of laps - seemed ok.
Admittedly, it was just me visiting.

Thanks, Dave. I know that Will and I can connect via Igor as well as directly but we're this side of the router.

I connected ok too

Thanks for testing. Ironically, I now can't connect to the server for THIS race in the CANAMS :(

I can connect to other servers on IGOR, but not this one. Not even via direct ip

Same here. I keep getting "Timed out" messages. I've checked that I have 60fps, tried direct connection but no success.

Me too. Perhaps Cookie has set the wrong maximum number of drivers or something. Never mind. Early night for me. See you next time

Pee & others - you aren't trying to connect with advanced trainer cars are you?
(From iGOR status, there is no max latency set;  max drivers is 20 / the usual look ok).

I'm not registered, didn't try connecting.


EDIT:  actially, just seen the remaining time status hasn't changed in iGOR (still says 25:13) so maybe something is going on.

Nope - just checked. NOT a trainer car

I get "Timed out" messages at least 10 times before I could connect ...

That race was a learning exercise ::). The start was a bit hectic, I was following Tris on the warm-up lap when he seemed to clip Doni who spun. I stopped OK but it was the tightest part of the track and unfortunately the cars behind were unsighted and I got rear-ended. The car flew into the air and miraculously landed on its wheels so I continued in the hope that no damage had been done. I was lucky enough to recover my rightful starting place on the run down Conrod Straight. I picked up a couple of places when cars ahead went off but as soon as the tyres were up to temperature I started to lose the car under braking. I lost it at Murray's Corner 2 or 3 times and found myself down in about 8th place. I decided I was being too aggressive on the brakes so I started to drive like I was going to Sainsbury's to do the weekly shop. I stopped crashing and slowly reeled in the cars ahead. I had great battles with Tris and Doni and in the final stages I closed in on Fulvio but I didn't have enough time to attempt an overtake. I crossed the line on his gearbox. Grats to Evil on the win and to Yannick for a very close second!

Sorry for your troubles, but I have no idea why you all could not join  ::)

I still suspect that GEM+ did not set your .exe to normal not AT mode...
Try again now I restarted the server for the next hour ::)

Had you tried before the race to connect to the server in the afternoon?

That has to be the closest finish ever in a UKGPL race, 0.001 sec and what looks like 15mm

(https://i.ibb.co/DDnsk8c/gplm66-exe-Screenshot-2024-04-16-22-58-13-87.png) (https://ibb.co/FbtNJ0Z)

I have been refreshing like a madman because that finish with Clive had me so excessively excited. One thousandth of a second.

One-frickin'-thousandth of a second!

For this race it would be between me and him, and in the first few laps we set the pace, driving low 2:02s. But then Clive let me through. I was a bit baffled by it. I certainly wasn't that much quicker. The big reason I was properly keeping up was the tow. After just driving two laps I saw the pace dropped by 1.5 seconds and it made way more sense for us together that he stayed out in front with his +100 BHP stronger engine. And the pace picked up again.

Few laps later, Clive tried again to let me through, which I refused. If I were in front it'd have given the chance for driver in 3rd, maybe 4th, to get a chance of catching up. The main thing for me early in the race was to build up a gap, the racing coming later.

With just a few laps to go I was still in Clive's tail and the gap was substantial enough that I began to properly push. Passing would be very difficult, but if I could take advantage out of a mistake out of a slow corner. That would be my best chance, as the low speed acceleration of his powerful car was the weak point.

It just so happened on the final corner that he somewhat overshot it and I took the chance to get him on the line. And as the flag fell, there was no fingernail between us! The moment had me so thrilled, we were actually looking exactly side by side. I thought we were witnessing the most BIBLICAL thing in the 26 years of GPL's lifespan... only to be one-thousandth, one-frickin'-thousandth, being between me and Clive.

Somehow, this has disappointed me a little. I kind of hoped that that one-thousandth of a second was not there. That someone would have to come up during the podium ceremony with a big chainsaw and cut the first place trophy in half and split it between the two of us. I really had my heart holding out for that to happen. But unfortunately it was not to be...

Great race, Clive. I had a wonderful time and a fantastic memory to come with it. Thank you.
Well done to all finishers. See you next race! :)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLURbyNXMAAQWij?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)

Grats to all who finished and to Tom for the final podium place.
I feel almost guilty taking the win when the margin was so close. Overnight I was hoping that it would be a complete dead heat ( if that is possible within GPL software?) and I was going to propose that we added 50+43=93 and divide it in half so that we got 46.5 points each lol.

Being completely honest here, I took that insane Lola Ford 427 for this track and fully expected it to be one of the results that I would drop with a DNF or very low placing. The car was a nightmare to control in the twisty bits or under braking, but boy oh boy did it fly down the straights. Pole position was not on my script and came as a shock. A car with just 2 gears and about 1,000,000 HP that handled like a super tanker should not have been there!!

If Phil thought that he had issues braking at the end of Conrod Straight with his nice little car...try it in this monster!! I found it impossible to brake after the crest and make it around the final corner. I had to apply a good stomp on the brake pedal before the crest, lift off and then carefully balance the pressure to avoid lock ups in order not to become a pile of twisted metal.

Huge kudos to Yannick for a tremendous race. Once we had completed the first few laps and the tyres were warmed I could see that we were only just easing away from the rest of the field and then something happened and we were 500mtrs clear. By then it was obvious that I had a big speed advantage on the straights, but Yannick was better on the twisty bits and under braking and able to close any gap. The battle lines were set!!!
Yes, I did try and get Yannick to take the lead, just to relieve the stress of being chased by a very fast driver in a much more nimble car lol, but huge respect to Yannick for not trying a dive bomb down the inside at the heavy braking points. Some drivers may not have been able to resist that opening. ::)

With 5 laps to go it was clear that the race would be decided on the last lap and most probably the last corner. If I could carry good pace onto the Conrod Straight and open the gas, the gap I could pull should have allowed me to cleanly negotiate the final corner and cross the line first. Simples  ;)
Of course, the more you focus on something like that, the more likely you are to screw it up...and I did! It was my error in that final corner that gave Yannick the chance to steal the win and he grabbed that chance with both hands. With only 2 gears ( and 1st gear good for 150mph!!) acceleration was not my most potent weapon and when I saw his car vanish from my mirrors and pull alongside, I thought he had pulled off  a brilliant move. I had my right foot nailed down waiting for all those horses to wake up, but if I'm honest I thought that he had just done it as his acceleration was much better than mine.
I have been involved in some close GPL finishes before, but 0.001 secs is insane after 23 laps of racing!!

If you want to see how lucky I was take a look at the Stream on Twitch from my cockpit, complete with mumbled curses!!
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2121587089

Almost certainly the worst drive I've put up in many a moon.  Maybe ever.  I qualified reasonably well but soon, everything went into the toilet.  Bot drilled me in the tail on the pace lap and I suffered damage in my spin.  Nice going, Bot.  Honestly, if stupidity were a virtue, this guy would be a saint.  Considerable mayhem resulted for others following thanks to this. 

On the first lap at speed, I bungled the braking coming off Conrod and hit Ricky in the tail.  We both spun off.  So sorry for that, Ricky.  Perhaps the damage I received on the pace lap contributed to that error.  Upon recovery, I was ahead of Ricky but guilt compelled me to ease off and let him pass cleanly along the Mountain Straight.  Over the coming laps, I made some progress and stuck with Ricky as we picked off a few places.  However, I was still making some horrid mistakes and frankly, I was not really in the game after the pace lap incident.  Mid-race, I just settled back and cruised it in.

Noted quite a few '64' laps for my fellow competitors with most being registered up on the Mountain.  After witnessing the appaling corner-cutting by some of the chicane at Suzuka in our F2 race, I guess that I just have to accept that some of us are ethical, some not.

Ripper of a finish with the smallest possible MOV in Evil Clive's favour.  I still recall the GP67 race at Estoril some years back where Clive and I staged a photo finish but not this close.  Nice job by Tom to round out the podium after the pace lap nonsense.

BTW, Bot performed two resets so...  'Hasta la vista, baby.'

I'm sorry to have missed this. I reckon that I could have sneaked in that gap and taken 2nd from Yannick.  ::)

NP for GPL as it computes minimum a 1/10000 sec difference

In theory, the entire grid could have squeezed Yannick into last place. I must build a wide track so that we can test this theory.

I'm also sorry to have missed this. But it could be worse as I'm in Spain .

I'm extremely confident that if I was at home for this race I would definitely have squeezed myself into last place. No problem.

Simples.

If 0.001 secs is equal to 15mm at the speed we were doing, then there would be room for 100 cars 0.15mm apart if we measure down to 0.00001 secs, if I have understood this correctly??

 Quite how 100 cars could exit the final corner and each close the gap to the car ahead to be just 0.15mm behind and 100cars wide, would require a rather wide piece of tarmac and some serious formation flying. Over to you Pete lol.

I'm still buzzing about the whole race and those 23 laps just fizzed past, so intense was the battle.