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Practice: ~19:20 (60 mins)
Qualifying: 20:20 (20 mins)
Race: 20:40 (30 laps = ~60mins)

Track: Oulton Park International Circuit Download this (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3358.msg81636#post_oultonpark)

Cars allowed: Ford Falcon, UKGTL Jaguar MKII Download this (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3358.msg54518#post_ukgtl_jag2), Daimler V8 Download this (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3358.msg54518#post_daimler_v8), Lotus Cortina, Mini Cooper S, 1310 Mini Cooper S Download this (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3358.msg54518#post_mini1310).

Ford Falcon available only to new drivers and anyone 9th and lower in the championship standings.
1310 Mini Cooper S available only to new drivers and anyone 14th and lower in the championship standings.
 
This race will use the UKGTL Skin Pack 1.8.0.0 (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3358.msg54518#msg54518).

Time of Day Setting: 14:00
Start: STANDING
Tyre wear: x2
Fuel consumption: Normal

Server: simracing.org.uk BSCC
Password: see above (#post_event_password)

Notes:
(1) It's best if all drivers can make sure they are connected before the Qualifying session as drivers on track during qualifying will not see cars that join after they are on track until they go back to the garage.
(2) Please make sure you are fully aware of the SimRacing.org.uk Rules.
(3) Driver lists can be found on the Championship standings page (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R&group=267&theme=5)
(4) The AI control should be turned off so that you have control of the car at all times, including pitting. Your player file should therefore read
Autopit="0"
Force Autopit Off="1" // Forces autopit always off
No AI Control="1" // AI never has control over car
If you still finding pitting problematic, experience tells us that its less to do with positioning and more to do with approach speed. A slow approach to pit crew chief has proved most reliable.

Special Notes: None

Please read this

After the recent test race it was discovered that the Jag MkII has a delicate engine. If you drive it hard the engine will quickly expire. If you watch the revs and don't exceed 6000rpm you will be fine.
I have added another car to this series, the Daimler V8. There are two versions. The white car suffers in the same way as the Jag MkII however the red car has no problems.
I will continue to investigate if there is a fix for the Jag.

 ;) The Tina beckons. Those Jags were never that good when they were new!  ;D

Tony excuse my ignorance  ::) but which track version is the  International Circuit?  ??? The track we usually race on here is Oulton Island but you know me race any where in my 1310 Mini except of course it's too easily damaged so I'm also looking at the Tina for here.  8)

Bill, It's the longest version. It has a banked hairpin turn called Shell Oils Corner.


(http://www.911uk.com/images/info/oulton_park.jpg)

Watch out for Geoffers tho Bill. If he takes the 1310 Mini he'll be unstopable.

 :) Hi Tony have you got a link for the sound mod for the Escort please as I mentioned in a previous race I have the car but no sound. I think I have fixed the Mini skin problem I had at Porto. I have now installed the 1310 via the filefront link so fingers crossed it should be OK.

Have not had a chance to do a lap yet, hopefully the chicane after the band hairpin does not enjoy the same 'invisible brick wall' that the gtr2 version of this track has?

No Escort in this series Mike, but this is what your looking for https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3358.msg54518#post_ducfreak_sounds_elan_cortina

Driven the track and haven't found any brick walls. Going to be doing some praccy later so I'll see what I can find.

I know I could take the 1310, but I'm either going with the Cortina or the standard Mini for a bit of fun.

Thanks Tony.  Have raced here before in PnG, think I drove a Yank Tank.  Where the track goes left into the extended bit, seems a lot narrower than PnG and the exit from the banked hairpin seems awfully lumpy.  Have they had an earth quake here since it was built?

Sorry Tony still got problems with this. Filefront fails to find the download and the Humyo seems corrupted. I believe these files usually self install but this one doesn't. I have tried pasting it with no effect so I will see if I can locate it at No Grip. Sorry to be a pain.  ::)

Yes

Hope this works http://www.nogripracing.com/details.php?filenr=16147 This doesn't self install but it's easy to do. Just read the instructions!

EDIT: Here's the self extracting version from my Filefront account. http://www.gamefront.com/files/20122323/SRou_GTL_DucFreak_Elan_Cortina_Sounds_1_1_0_0_exe

 ;D Thanks Tony I have finally got it sorted.......................I hope!!

No probs

 :laugh: Hi Tony. Oulton Park is not available from File Front and the Humyo file fails to show a file when I down load it. If I copy it to the GTL Locations file it does not show in game. HELP.  ;D

Again sorry to bother you mate.  :)

Sorry about that Mike. Here you go http://www.gamefront.com/files/20123923/SRou_GTL_OultonPark_1.0.0.0.exe

Thanks Tony job done  :) Oh and its Mark actually but you can call what ever you like!!! Just don't call me stupid.  ;D ;D ;D :angel:

 :oops: sorry Mark

Well Tony, if he's a good singer, just Mark him down for a Mike  :laugh:

Stig/Hotkeys

I thank you  :D

 ;D I would steer clear of that boy if he plays with his own organ.  :angel:

Had a run last night. Not a good version of Oulton. The Esso hairpin is crazy, very challenging in the mini!
I've driven round Esso a few times for real, it's not that violent.
1310 would be quick if I could keep it on track. Nutered the setup with hard front soft rear,
lots of front brake bias and was still unable to do a complete lap on the black stuff after 15 laps.
so gave up.  :wacko:
Daimler lollops round in true mobile armchair fashion, managed a low 6 after a few laps.
Tina may be quicker. I will have a go.

Know what you mean Matt, but I wanted to be as true as possible to the original series so that's why I stuck with this version.

BTW your not eligible for the 1310 Mini.

I've managed a 2:04 in the Falcon.

Ahh yes of course, I can forget the 1310, it's a horrible thing anyway so I don't need much excuse to
avoid it. It's like and even worse than the PG IROC, it wanders around the track like it's a jelly.
Not sure they had those chicanes in the 60's, they are a relatively recent abomination, at least there
appears to be no silly "flip the car" kerbs. Standard mini will be strong here over the distance.
Would dearly love to take the Daimler 450, but the 2x tyre wear makes it heavily disadvantaged against
everything else, and it's not exactly the fastest car.

I'm going to miss this one....life interfering with my racing time again ::) Have fun.

From my experience here, to finish will be an achievement.  ::)

Go for it Bill

ahh well... here we go, hate this intro stuff  ;D

hey all, my name is Mark or mb but, mostly Mac to all i race with..... mostly at SimJunkies. i don't say much ie ...Teamspeak, i am a nice wee quiet guy for a scotsman...honest, apart from friday nights but, thats another story  ;) my humble abode is in Paisley, just on the outskirts of Glasgow. i have most the sim racers you have for pc, RFactor, GTR2, GTL etc,etc. Jeez ..... been simracing for, och i dunno how long ... over 6 - 7 yrs, and unbelieveably..... i'm still at it, It's the way i Chill .... that it for a brief intro  :laugh:

at a loss at simjunkies on a thursday, no racing happens on thursday uk time but, i see that you have a league running here on a thursday night so, that being said.... is it ok to come join you all on a thursday night? I race hard but, fair and usually crawl into a corner if i f*ck up someone else race ... and hate racing on with that horrible feeling, so i try to avoid it at all costs, thats not to say you get an easy ride from me if you happen to be racing against me and at my pace. i also don't care where i finish in a race, for me it's about having a race not winning it at all costs.

anyway, i think i have all i need installed to join you guys, if thats ok?

Cheers  ;D

Welcome Mac. I think you like this place.

Due to family expansion this week I missed the race .
Hopefully the baby will settle quick so daddy can have his racing night back  ;D

See you all next week.

Unfortunately a very short one for me.

Changed the car in free practice from Falcon to Tina and had one good lap only in qualifying, so I was hoping for a better race.

Unfortunately someone behind me had a jump start and kicked me in the ass so I got a stop & go penalty too. After that I did one lap, made a mistake in Cascades in lap 3, hit the wall slightly and could not get out of the sands again. After seven minutes of unsuccessful trying I gave up.

Sorry Legzy for bumping you in lap one on braking the banked corner.

So see you next time.

Congratulations!  ;)

Congrats!  Hope you can get some :sleep1:

Hi Mark, you sound like you'll fit in here just fine. Welcome, have a look around and if you need to know stuff just shout OK? Or you can pm for anything GTL.

Hope we see you on the racing line real soon.

Cheers

Tony

Great news Sandor. Don't leave it too long

Is 2x tyre wear really necessary? My car (Falcon) was absolutely undriveable for the last 10-11 laps. I mean I was 5-6 seconds a lap slower than earlier in the race without making any mistakes. I was barely hanging on and went from 4th to 6th and would have been worse if some people didn't make mistakes.

I thought so. It's character building. And I went from 4th to 8th. Not a good track for the Falcon as all those tight corners take there toll. It wasn't so obvious at Goodwood.

 :) I can vouch for Mac he's OK and races clean. Fast too.  ;D

MAN vs MACHINES

.. that sums up my race in short.

Due to some little real life calamity my praccy time today was zilch, so I was hurdled straight into qually while I still was coping with a heavy car (only just found out that the Daimler could just made it with one tank).
Start was fine. Saw a early departure but have learnt recently that you have to wait for the green light to appear even @ Zandy  ;)
Soon I discovered that the engine health was slowly deteriorating at such rate that I couldn't finish the race (the GTL Godz decided to give me an old engine with 80% life in it). Started to short shift (limiting the revs to 7000) and took care whilst double clutching shifting down. Easy for you aliens but a challenge for this undertalented wannabe racedriver.
So into gear box management mode from lap 1 I went...
Against all odds I met Bill on track but a classic 'does he go left or right... yes, left .. oh no, right' move I t-boned Bill's Falcon. Sorry about that.
Luckily I got a competitor but then the virusscanner (?) decide to minimise GTL. Frantically I maximized GTL again finding me just over the banking in the kitty litter...
Refuse to give up and managed to slowly and gently run the Daimler  :tank: around Oulton Park.
At the end I caught SeniorDan. Hope you didn't mind our little race even though one lap down.

Hope I didn't got into anybody's way but I was a bit busy (did I mention that the RD window was blocking my rear view mirror?) and thanks to all drivers who flashed their lights.
Strangely enough I quite liked the Daimler.. in a funny kind of way...  

Lovely write up Alex. Max respect for giving the Dame a go. Didn't think the red one had the engine wear issue  ???

I didn't either. I think the engine wear issue starts when you touched 8000 revs (max out the revs) but I was a bit busy to investigate any further  :-[

... but maybe it's my 'driving style' which probably suits wrecking ball racing more than the higher art of circuit racing.

Got stuck behind a stationary Sqrtr off the line, then had some fun chasing teamy Phil in our Pseudo minis
we were stuck behind Syd's falcon which eventually had us both off up the inside at Esso one way or another
nothing wrong with blocking I suppose but was dissapointing to have both of us lose 45 secs the same way when
trying to race for fun. Spent the rest of the race trying to hold Phil off, and get past Tony, who showed greyed
out on my HUD, but still showing a position.

Replay and results now posted. Thanks to Alex for the "un-official"  ;)

Can I draw your attention to our outstanding £26 for this quarter?

If any of you haven't raided the piggy bank yet we would certainley appreciate whatever you care to donate.

 :) Another good race for me. I expected to be a little closer to Ade, where that extra 2 secs come from I would love to know, but well done and excellent win mate.
I had a small battle with Geoffers whom put in a fine quali time of 2.00 against my 2.01 but I can only presume he was on an empty tank while mine was achieved on a full tank due to me not having the Daimler V8 installed so could not touch my default set up as the menu screen was flashing.  :o I have tried to install this car but the Humyo file seems faulty and its not on File Front.......Tony help!!!

Anyway start was clean then passed Geoffers on lap one.  :) Ade was gone but I pushed as hard as I could pegging him at about 5 secs. This resulted in a small offet at T-last giving Geoffers a sniff of P2 again so I decided to forget it an drive at 90%. Geoffers sat there behind me at 10 seconds for most of the race but I new his front tires would give up at some point (around lap 20 ish) and he dropped back to 30 seconds by race end.

I have now been recruited to race for Legzy's "Team Oldie Racing" so I'm off down his garage to inspect the metal.  ;D

Great racing you guys see you all next time.  :)

First apologies to Tibs for misunderstanding at the dreaded Chicane.  I over cooked it at the previous chicane and realised I couldn't overtake you in the first part of the strait and that I had no way to make a clean pass, so I stayed there expecting you to go through and I brake and drop in behind you.  But I guess you thought I was trying to involve you in a chicken situation.  By the time I realised this, it was too late and in trying to give you room and the line, misjudged the width of the Falcon and hit the solid barrier - losing most of my places.

Set a new PB in qualifying, battling with Tibs a couple of times for track.  The start was good avoided the first lap pile ups and all was well until the above situation.  Still I had fun learning to drive a Falcon, beginning to drift the rear out of turns to combat under steer when I over did it twice, on one lap and had two cut track warnings.  After that I had to modify my driving to avoid a stop and go.  Had a number of run off allowing Alex to catch me - not certain whose fault the accident was as I was fighting for control as I floored it to try and keep ahead to you. 50/50?  Thanks for waiting for me, I was trying to signal you to go as I thought I'd be able to catch you and it would be more fun.

After that driving got more and more difficult with tyre and front brakes wear.  I am normally good on tyres and brakes but the left front tyre was in the 60s I think - I stopped looking at it and the brake was down to a thin red line.  I've had a Yank Tank week of it and feel I might at last be coming to terms with the not so powerful ones.

Had a great start and found myself in the rarified air of 4th place. This cannot last I thought and lo I managed to spin off the track, hit the barrier and end up facing in the wrong direction. That set me back to 6th, which I managed to hold on to up till around lap 15 when Tibs and Legzy both began to loom large in my mirrors. With my tyres shot I was slowing down every lap and they both caught and passed me. A stop/go penalty followed and with no tyre wear left I was happy to make it to the flag.

The tyres actually still felt good at the end of the race, I lost the extra time by twice going off at Island (the turn before the hairpin) & on lap 26 I took too much kerb at the first chicane & rolled it!  ::) Those were really the only exciting bits of a pretty uneventful race, thought I might be able to give the Cortinas a bit of a battle but it wasn't to be. Still at least I finished this time  ;D

Congrats to Ade & Mark.