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UKGPL Season 18 (2009) Amateurs Trophy (65) - Round 4 - Oulton Park

The fourth race of the season is at Oulton Park situated near the small village of Little Budworth, Cheshire.  This is quite a narrow track with some long straights and difficult braking areas.  Turn 1 (Old Hall) will be busy on lap 1. There isn't a lot of room and anyone hitting the advertising hoardings on the outside will probably bounce back onto the track so please be careful.  The circuit occupies much of the area which was previously the Oulton Estate. The track is set in the grounds of Oulton Hall. The circuit was originally developed by the Mid-Cheshire Car Club, with the track attracting crowds of 40,000 during the 1950s. Oulton Park regularly hosted the International Gold Cup event which attracted many Formula One teams (Stirling Moss won it 5 times), but as the F1 calendar shrank to include only Grand Prix events, the Cup became less well-known.  The track is characterised by its rapidly changing gradients and blind crests leading into unforgiving corners. Among many British and foreign drivers it is considered one of the most challenging and thrilling circuits ever constructed.

Chassis allocations are below- the same chassis will be used for all races this season, unless there is an adjustment agreed by the moderator.  Good luck!

Reserve drivers should not join the race server until there are only 30 mins of qualifying left.
No drivers should go out on track until there is 30 minutes of qualifying left as this helps all drivers join the server successfully.

Restrict chat to pit messages, and at the end of the race avoid chat until ALL drivers still racing have crossed the line.

Please be in the 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 (#post_event_password)

Server = 5UKGPL
IP Address = TBC (ping myjamesonline.net)
Race Date = 06-10-2009
Time = 21:00
Track = Oulton Park
Variant = 65F1
Damage Model = PRO
Qually Time = 30 minutes.
Race Length = 50% Grand Prix (30 laps)

Password: see above (#post_event_password)

Driver lists can be found on the championship standings page (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R;group=222;theme=6)

Chassis allocations are below, and the same chassis will be used for all races this season unless there is an adjustment agreed by the moderator.  Good luck!

FULL TIME DRIVERS
Hristo Itchov - BT7
Evil Clive - Honda
Ken Murray - BT11
John Roberts - BT11
Samb - BRM
FullMetalGasket - Honda
MikeBeattie - Cooper
FPolicardi - BT11
TurkeyMachine - BT11
JamesRye - BRM
Natan - BRM
Miner2049er - Lotus
Clutch - BT11
Podkreceny - Lotus
Ruud Savelkoul - Lotus

RESERVE DRIVERS
Phil Thornton - Ferrari
Steve B_1_rd - Ferrari
Asbejurn - Ferrari

Please use the updated 65 mod for this race.
If you have re-installed UKGPL over the summer break or are joining us for the first time, please don't forget to use the updated 65 mod which is available here: Jamesonline.net/UKGPL (http://www.jamesonline.net/ukgpl/1965mod_PATCH_v2.0.2_Setup.zip)

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Sorry can't make it tonight.  Pity I like Oulton.  Good luck, hope there are plenty of finishers ;)

Me neither though I will start the server.

I cannot believe my race ended like that.

man that was hard.

I'd been practicing on the wrong track for a start and was nothing but a liability in qualy. Finally strung together a lap 4 secs off pole man.

Decided on a VERY cautious start, but made up a couple of places anyway. There was an accident and I juuust managed to avoid the carnage, including a neat swerve past a car stationary that was facing the wrong way. Then I was chasing a Ferrari and he was all over the shop (sorry dont know the name, but maybe it was Phil) so I pushed hard...too hard. I took a trip to the barriers and damaged the left side of my car (which I compounded by doing the same thing on the next two laps).

Anyway, I trudged around slowly and there was some attrition and somehow I brought my battered car home (albeit two laps down). I actually set my fastest lap 3 laps from the end where after sliding into the barriers and causing yet more damage I just decided to fully commit and if I crashed out then I wouldn't loose anything. I cant believe that there are so many versions of the darn track out there!

Anyway, massive congrats to Tim on a deserved victory (he should have won at Kylami too  ;D).

Jim

Not after hitting my own team mate in such a stupid manner I shouldn't  :whistling:

Today on the otherhand I was on fire   :devil:
Put myself comfortably on pole without a tow - then messed up the following lap trying to get dragged around by Fulvio, who promptly span aswell 2 corners later sending me lawn-mowing to avoid him  :ninja:
Had one more go at knocking my time further down (had 3 sectors in prib yellow when I got the pole) but gave up as I kept making silly mistakes and just did some laps on my race setup.

Had a good start when I finally spotted the flag *just* in time to see it drop :o only to then be scared half to death as the car (and my wheel) started randomly wobbling down towards T1.
Somehow I held the resultant Bad entry/slide and continued to T2 where I did it again as I was still worrying over my wheel - thankfully I think Natan realised something was amiss and gave me room on each occaision, only to be clobbered by (Jethro?) a few corners later as a result. Sorry about that Natan  :-[

From that point on it was a lonely race for me, was making huge gains over the P2 and 3 cars (Jethro and (Ken/John?)) as they fell over each other until they had a coming together with me approaching 20 seconds in the lead.
After that I had first Natan, then Mike following somewhat quicker behind. And only managed to pull out an extra 10 seconds by the end of the race.

All in all I'm very happy with the Waza, I've finally found a totally sweet base settup that's proving to be fast nearly everywhere while retaining a strong catchable/chuckable trait - I hope to claim a few more wins in HER name now  :angel:


All your Victories are belong to HER!  ;D



p.s. What happened to my fellow Waza's for this one?  ???

evil's outta action since he's away with the fairies in far-flung fields. He said it was unlikely he'd make today last week. H I couldn't possibly comment on......

Enjoy the US Mike? :)

I did yes thanks.

It was eventful.

LOL, I imagine things are rarely quiet in America. :)