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UKGPL Season 15 - Pre-season test - 66 mod - Mexico City

For this race, we are going to test possible chassis allocation for the upcoming season. For those applied for this division, please take the assigned chassis. For the rest, use the general restrictions, also posted below.

Pre-Season Test 3 - Season 15 this Sunday at 9:00 p.m. London UK time (GMT).

Please be in IGOR UKGPL chatroom by 8:55 p.m.
(You will need to set up a channel called #ukgpl if you haven't already done so)
IGOR and Race passwords: see above

Server 3.ukgpl
IP address  87.194.135.42

Race date = 16-03-2008
Track = Mexico City
Variant = 66mod
Damage Model = Intermediate
Qually time = 30 minutes.


Password: see above (#post_event_password)
(2) Driver lists can be found on the championship standings page (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R;group=64;theme=6)

Chassis allocation:
T1F Eagle Climax - Hristo Itchov
Brabham BT11 2.5lt  - Lorenzo Galluzi
Lotus 33 BRM - Oliver Rakonjac, Mike Beattie
Mclaren M2B Ford - Paul Skingley, Remy Roesz
Ferrari 246 - Ken Murray
Brabham BT11 BRM - Kruger Enge
T1G Eagle Weslake - David Bryant
Lotus 43 BRM - Syd Drake
Brabham BT11 2.7lt - Clive Gardner
BRM P261 - Derek Howe
BRM P83 - John Roberts
Honda RA273 - Chris Bull, Amir Kamal
Cooper T81 - Artur le Marquand, Robert Burton
Brabham BT19 - Phil Thornton
Ferrari 312 - Terry Worth, Tim Robey

General restrictions for the rest:
Brabham BT19 Repco             6 and above
Ferrari 312                           0  to  5
Cooper T81 Maserati            -5  to -1
Honda RA273                     -11 to -6
BRM P83                           -15 to -11
BRM P261                         -20 to -16
Brabham BT11 2.7lt Climax    -25 to -21
Lotus 43 BRM                     -30 to -26
T1G Eagle Weslake             -35 to -31
Brabham BT11 BRM             -40 to -36
Ferrari 246                        -45 to -41
Mclaren M2B Ford               -50 to -46
Lotus 33 BRM                     -55 to -51
Brabham BT11 2.5lt Climax    -65 to -56
T1F Eagle Climax                -66 or less
Lotus 33 Climax                  -66 or less

I won't be able to make this pre season test.  I can't race on weekends, so my first bash gainst you lot will be at the first race :wacko:

Hi Syd,

An I ask you a favour please? Can you change my name from Arthur to Artur or just Art if it's easier.

Cheers.  :)

I so wish I had a £1 every time someone done that. I would be living it up in the Bahamas.  ;D

 ;D

Done.

I do not see how I have a been given a car with a -50 Rank considering I do not have a 67 Rank.

I would be prepared to take the Ferrari 246.


Also I think your ranking of the cars is way off in some instances.
The Eagle Climax is a pretty good car at anywhere but Monza and Spa and yet you have it for the aliens.
The Macca is definately one of the slowest cars.

It would be much better to work out pit stops for each race and have a free chassis choice.


paul

why am i down as a Cooper T81 if my gplrank is -11.4 I should be taking the Honda RA273/BRM P83?

And here I thought this was a test race, where we can test relative performance of driver/car combos. You shouldn't look for the general restrictions for regular division members.

Apologies to Syd, Phil and Ken.....I managed to cause plenty of accidents  :(. I think I should keep away from BRMs......

News page.

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No probs Steven it was great fun (I didn't need a shift R or it might not have been so great).  Syd needs to have a good look at the race pace (excluding incidents) and see what the chassis allocation looks like.  Seemed pretty good for me.  I managed to stay on the same lap as Lorenzo who was flying :laugh: I wouldn't expect to beat him in any chassis, not to get lapped was a result for me!

I think that I was doing OK until I came out of the hairpin on lap 2 and crashed to desktop before I reached the left-right wiggle.

I don’t think that it was a server or connection problem as when that happens you find yourself alone on the circuit before it all goes blank.  In this case I could hear the chasing pack coming into the hairpin as I disconnected.

I’m getting quite disenchanted with the whole struggle of getting my pc to run the 66mod.

I suspect that the sound card is still the culprit, which is really depressing as I thought that I had solved that particular problem.

Bugger it!!!!

The one thing I got wrong was under Network setup, server amount set to 384 instead of 132. I'm not sure if that could have knocked you out though.
Hristo had discos all throughout quali but after the race he said the same was happening on another server as well.

EDIT: Just realized that Fullscreen box might have been checked

Race was quite fun for me - I had an unfortunate incident with Ken; we both opted to go for the middle of the road at the same time. I bounced off and ended on the grass but luckily Ken was able to continue. I'm happy with this BRM Brabham but I was also happy with 246 Fez (naturally as I can do mid 49 lap in Mexico with it)

Lots of fun with Phil and Steven there...

Wondered who that was. I looked over my right shoulder twice (GPLShift enhanced look left/right) before easing in to the middle of the road to get a better sight of T1 and then I saw wheels tangling with mine. Sorry about that. Steven got me braking for T1 though, so I still ended up down the field. Then over the next couple of laps I kept getting involved with other drivers accidents. On at least two or three occasions cars came together right in front of me and I couldn't avoid running in to them. That left me way out of position as far as qually times where concerned and my problem now was that in a slow car I was up against slightly slower drivers in faster cars. I chased John for a number of laps and I was just left for dead on the straights, even with the tow. Eventually a little frustration crept in and I ran in to the back of him through the esses. I can see this sort of thing being a problem in handicapped races. Is there any plans to allow free choice if you elect to take a pit stop?

I got better drive off the line than Lorenzo, with possibly the greater choice of a low 1st in the 6 speed box helping, and he held station into T1. The next lap I took a wider than expected entry into T1 and he was able to get by on the inside. At that point the war was over and he pulled away into the distance, his FL 2 secs quicker than what I can achieve, underlining the talent of the guy :)

On the disco and FPS front, there have been some issues with selected PCs over with the ADC when using the 66 mod. I'm using Direct 3D instead of Open GL and haven't had any probs, what are the guys who are having the problems using?

As to the chassis choice, the variety of tracks will probably give some sort of equlibrium, the small cars good at the likes of Brands, while the 3 litres will rule at Spa, Monza and Reims etc. Looking at the WRs, the Aliens seem to be able to get them all round less than 2 secs apart. One thought is to give each driver the choice of two chassis ( a 3 litre and a 2-ish :) litre) before the start of the season and they pick one of those to run for the whole season.

But Hey I'm a new boy so I'll happily follow whatever you boys decide :D

Can't see a replay up yet? Is it coming?

Here it is (http://www.neurology-crew.com/gplserver)

 ;D

Bully

Err, I see the results have me down as driving the Lotus 33 Climax, just for the record I was actually in the Lotus 33 BRM.

Just in case future historians want to correctly chart my meteoric, but probably short lived career :D

Mapping was wrong but an easy fix. :)

Thanks

OK, after watching the replay it was Chris who got me at T1, not Steven. I don't know how I didn't see Kruger, he was alongside me all the way, I was obviously too busy looking back rather than sideways!!

I can also see one of the incidents I got caught up in was caused by Clive suddenly re-appearing at the wiggle, presumably in the process of crashing to desktop but leaving his car still spinning around in the game!!!!

...but I got you later after the hairpin, didn't I  ;)?