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Season 16  Division 1 - Round 2 - Watkins Glen


 

Div 1 Season 16 Round 2 is this Sunday at 9:00 p.m. London UK time.

Please be in VROC UKGPL chatroom by 8:55 p.m.
 Race passwords: see above

We are reverting to UKGPL server on VROC until further notice


Race date = 21-09-2008
Track = Watkins GLEN
Variant = 67F1
Damage Model = PRO
Qually time = 30 minutes.
Race length = 50 minutes (45 laps)
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=190;theme=6)

Division 1

	Single Stop Time		Double Stop Time
BRM	No Stop		N/A
Cooper	Stop and Go		N/A
Honda	2		N/A
Brabham	10		N/A
Ferrari	20		N/A
Eagle	28		N/A
Lotus	37		14

 First Pit Window is: 35 (to go on your pit board) to 23 (to go on your pit board)
 Second Pit Window is: 33 (to go on your pit board) to 12 (to go on your pit board)



Remember that, this season, only reported incidents will be moderated, so if you think you have a grievance...save the replay and submit a report when the unofficial results are posted.



















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The VROC racelist server has a new IP address.  You will need to update your vroc.ini file to read:

[VROC]
Address=70.86.214.94

At the Inter League race last week, Trellet thought our bandwidth settings on 1.ukgpl were a bit conservative.  I've upped the bandwidth settings to Fast and the server seems fine so I propose we go for that tonight.

Given the racelist problems and the revised BW settings, I've set up a practice race on VROC.  The password is set to tonight's race password.  Please make sure you can join so we don't have any last minute panic stations tonight :taz:

I can join. Seems okay except I was 1 year early as it was 1966.

That's the problem with running the mods with VROC.  It doesn't check the car set when you join.  IGOR can check to make sure you can only join a 66 race with 66 cars and a 67 race with 67 cars etc.

Team Pie eater was handicapped by arriving late at the track but after a concentrated effort by the whole team  managed to secure the usual medeocre position on the grid.

The race wasn't much better , the only exciting part seing Burt taking his agricultural lessons, As the fuel burned off , my Coop began to handle really well , so with 7 laps to go I decide a new PB attempt was on the cards , but in all the excitement I somehow forgot we were under "pro" rules and my attempt to take the esses "flat" resulted with a head on into the dreaded Armco!  resulting in retirement and me  ceding my hard fought  "next" to last place finish to the carefully guided BRM of JackO'.

At least this one should be an easy one for the Mods  :)



 



 

I met up with Burt too, he was sprawled all over the Loop..

I was determined to finish a first D1 race, but over-caution on the gearing was overtaken by extreme caution, the only overtaking I was to do this meeting!  I don't use Pribluda, so I found it difficult to check my pace as I dawdled around on my own, the result of this and the taller gears being that I was almost 1s off my Clubmans pace.

The only good that might come of my efforts would be if some of the other Clubmans drivers were encouraged to join D1 on their free Sunday- they disappear quickly after they lap you, and you can get on with racing Bernie and Burt...

Just a reminder that if you have any issues over this race, then you need to submit an incident report.

 I will only have Thursday evening ( and that is going to be a bit tight for time, if she who is packing the kitchen sink has her way) before scurrying off for a holiday lasting 2 weeks.

From my on track vantage point last night it looked as if most injuries were self inflicted, so it might just be a straightforward result  ;D ;D which would be just tickety-boo!!!

Not much to report here. I trundled around in the BRM and even managed to get ahead of Neil when he made his stop. There was little chance of holding him off for the remainder of the race though, in fact I didn't even hold him off for one lap!!

I think we are suffering from the exodus to iRacing??

Any thoughts to combining Div 1 and Clubmans?

I have an issue , the paddock pie van was overpriced  and the char was like fortnight tea

( two week )

 ::)

Qually went well for me and I managed to get second on the grid.  I knew I couldn't get anywhere near Neil's blistering time but being ahead of Ken's BRM was pleasing even if I did have a significant car advantage.

I always have trouble keeping the Ferrari in a straight line on cold tyres at the start so I had to take it easy to avoid pirouetting and causing a major start line pile-up.  As I tried to get away cleanly, Ken rocketed past in his BRM and I had a Honda all over my gearbox (didn't know until later that it was Clive).  Anyway on the entry to the loop on lap 1 and I'm trying to take it easy on the cold tyres but Clive's all over me and he has the inside line.  I decide to give him plenty of room in case he over cooks it (I would have, I don't know how he managed to anchor up and take such a tight line).  Trouble was I gave him too much room and I ran wide, off the track and into the straw bales which promptly removed my front nearside front.  End of race.

Bit disappointing after a good qually for me.  I'll have to up my game and be a little more aggressive on cold tyres if I'm going to compete with the big boys :o.  But I'll probably just end up crashing if I do :(.

Grats to Neil, Ken and Clive. 

Just dived in here ( like I did at the loop ) before I'm off on business for two days, then I'm back for Thursday and off on hols Friday.

Really sorry if I was responsible for you going off Phil especially after you qually'd so well, didn't register any contact and tried to keep it tight :-\. It shows that you have got the pace to be up the front of Div1 Phil !!!
I just thought that if I was to stand a chance of a podium I had to get past Ken's BRM before the pitstops, so I was keen to get on his tail asap.. But that did not happen anyway. :-\

Tough luck Phil , wondered what had happened when Prib reported your early demise, perhaps you should practise some getaways , more agression = more heat in the tyres = more grip .


Plus the possibility of you eliminating half the field would be good for me   ::) :D ;D ::)

I was thinking about the race throughout the evening except the last 30 mins prior to it so I totally forgot about it and it was rather late when it hit me that I missed it. So yeah... it has happened before as you probably know, lol. Makes it more interesting for the championship I guess.

I cant express how pissed off I am, had very good race, was up to 5th with about 11 laps to go chasing Storm, I had about 13 sec lead over Bernie, took my pitstop and just about came out in front of him which was awesome, timed it so well to perfection only to go off at the loop and flip the car over :( with about 9 laps to go :(