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Apologies for the late notice but due to a change in Calendars we have had a late change of plan

Fight, fight, fight! Off-season mayhem is back. Yes it’s the return of the return of Mods & Rockers. MvR 2 - The RECKONING!!!! Two teams of GPL’ers will go head to head – or tail to nose, as it were. The Mods are looking for revenge after last year's pasting...

Same as last time out - which was fun – which sees single chassis teams. Depending  upon which team you are picked for you will be driving to the 65 Ferrari or BRM. This time, the dust up will be at Castle Combe.

Team selection will work as follows. Captain of the Rockers will be me (Badblood). I shall nominate a Captain – it will probably be the first one to turn up!  The opposing Mods Captain has a momentous decision – you can either pick the chassis (Ferrari or BRM) or have first choice of driver. Its then like picking footy teams in the school playground – Captains take turns to select from the assembled cast.

No registration required. In the unlikely event of more than 20 drivers we will run two grids if possible – the intention is for everybody to get a drive. I will sort that out on the night, if necessary.

Those wishing to participate simply turn up in the playground (UK GPL chatroom) for 9pm on Sunday 3rd April. Tell your Mum you are going to be late! This is a team event so the race will be run on Pro settings with the usual points scoring.

PLEASE NOTE THE SERVER - This is a test event for this server so if it proves not up to the task I will have T7_2 in reserve.

If you don’t have the track – download here - http://srmz.net/index.php?showtopic=1071.

Race List = IGOR
Server = UKGPL_Test
IP address = tbc
Race date = 03-04-2011
Time = 21:00 UK Time
Track = Castle Combe
Variant = 1965
Damage Model = PRO
Chassis = Ferrari or BRM
Qualifying time = 25 minutes. Don't start until 20 mins left on clock to allow everyone to join
Race length = Long
Password: provided in chat

Only people in chat will be included so no password here (cos you wont have a team)

Track: Ccombe             Sun Apr 03 22:52:20 2011

PRACTICE TIMES

Pos No Driver                           Team     Nat      Time      Diff Laps
 1   1 Tim Muttram 65                   Ferrari  GBR 1m00.446s             15
 2  21 65 evilclive                     BRM      GBR 1m00.934s   00.488s   17
 3  11 Tommie65 van Ostade              Ferrari  HOL 1m01.009s   00.563s   15
 4  12 natan vix 65                     Ferrari  BEL 1m01.088s   00.642s   13
 5  10 Fulvio Policardi_65              Ferrari  ITA 1m01.562s   01.116s    7
 6  14 Ronnie Peterson                  BRM      ITA 1m01.905s   01.459s   17
 7   7 Martin 65 Hunt                   BRM      USA 1m02.193s   01.747s   13
 8  18 Bernie65 Darwin                  BRM      GBR 1m03.965s   03.519s   10
 9   9 Paul Whitfield 65                BRM      GBR 1m05.266s   04.820s   12
10  17 Skymole 2173 -m65                BRM      JPN 1m08.258s   07.812s   14
11  22 Frag Fritz                       Ferrari  USA 1m08.952s   08.506s   12
12  19 2 UKGPL_T7                       BRM      ITA   No time   No time    0

All times are official
Generated with GPL Replay Analyser


Track: Ccombe             Sun Apr 03 22:52:20 2011

RACE RESULTS (After 30 laps)

Pos No Driver                          Team     Nat Laps   Race Time       Diff
 1  21 65 evilclive                    BRM      GBR   30  30m49.833s           
 2   1 Tim Muttram 65                  Ferrari  GBR   30  31m13.434s    23.601s
 3  10 Fulvio Policardi_65             Ferrari  ITA   30  31m32.674s    42.841s
 4  14 Ronnie Peterson                 BRM      ITA   30  31m33.532s    43.699s
 5  11 Tommie65 van Ostade             Ferrari  HOL   29  29m37.957s   1 lap(s)
 6   9 Paul Whitfield 65               BRM      GBR   27  31m17.240s   3 lap(s)
 7  18 Bernie65 Darwin                 BRM      GBR   25  27m27.059s   5 lap(s)
 8  12 natan vix 65                    Ferrari  BEL   24  25m33.335s   6 lap(s)
 9  22 Frag Fritz                      Ferrari  USA   24  30m53.990s   6 lap(s)
10  17 Skymole 2173 -m65               BRM      JPN    7   8m52.818s  23 lap(s)
11   7 Martin 65 Hunt                  BRM      USA    0   0m00.000s  30 lap(s)
12  19 2 UKGPL_T7                      BRM      ITA    0 DidNotStart  30 lap(s)


Race results are unofficial
(Replay might have been saved before end of race)

RACE FASTEST LAPS

Pos Driver                                 Time Lap
 1  Tommie65 van Ostade               1m00.234s  28
 2  Tim Muttram 65                    1m00.569s  29
 3  65 evilclive                      1m00.630s  23
 4  natan vix 65                      1m01.159s  20
 5  Fulvio Policardi_65               1m01.357s  29
 6  Ronnie Peterson                   1m01.378s  29
 7  Bernie65 Darwin                   1m03.548s  22
 8  Paul Whitfield 65                 1m04.468s  19
 9  Skymole 2173 -m65                 1m07.702s   5
10  Frag Fritz                        1m09.570s   6
11  2 UKGPL_T7                          No time
12  Martin 65 Hunt                      No time


LEADERS

Driver                           Laps
Tim Muttram 65                   1-2
65 evilclive                     3-30

Number of lead changes: 1
Number of leaders: 2


LAPS LED

Driver                           Laps led
65 evilclive                     28
Tim Muttram 65                   2


HIGHEST CLIMBER

Driver                           Start Finish  Change
Paul Whitfield 65                    9      6       3 
Frag Fritz                          11      9       2 
Fulvio Policardi_65                  5      3       2 
Ronnie Peterson                      6      4       2 
Bernie65 Darwin                      8      7       1 
65 evilclive                         2      1       1 
Skymole 2173 -m65                   10     10       0 
2 UKGPL_T7                          12     12       0 
Tim Muttram 65                       1      2      -1 
Tommie65 van Ostade                  3      5      -2 
natan vix 65                         4      8      -4 
Martin 65 Hunt                       7     11      -4 


ON TRACK LAPS

Driver                           Laps/Total    Percent
Tommie65 van Ostade                 (19/29)      65.52
Tim Muttram 65                      (18/30)      60.00
Ronnie Peterson                     (16/30)      53.33
natan vix 65                        (15/24)      62.50
Bernie65 Darwin                     (13/25)      52.00
Fulvio Policardi_65                 (10/30)      33.33
Frag Fritz                          (10/24)      41.67
65 evilclive                         (8/30)      26.67
Paul Whitfield 65                    (8/27)      29.63
Skymole 2173 -m65                     (2/7)      28.57


RACE LAPTIME CONSISTENCY
(first lap excluded)

Driver                    Avg Deviation  Std Deviation  Avg Laptime   Laps
Tommie65 van Ostade               0.420          0.523    1m01.156s     29
Fulvio Policardi_65               0.596          0.804    1m02.767s     30
natan vix 65                      0.683          1.015    1m02.383s     24
Ronnie Peterson                   0.877          1.797    1m02.877s     30
65 evilclive                      0.899          2.042    1m01.546s     30
Tim Muttram 65                    1.409          2.667    1m02.370s     30
Bernie65 Darwin                   1.845          3.162    1m05.568s     25
Paul Whitfield 65                 3.668          5.248    1m09.335s     27
Frag Fritz                        5.869          6.533    1m17.026s     24
Skymole 2173 -m65                 6.235          7.569    1m15.783s      7

I suggest BT7 or banishment, for those who sneak onto the track, before the 20 minute mark. :thumbdown:  

Or for anyone without a note from their Mum...  :laugh:

I'm OK with BT7.  ;D

Practice server is up! Check out that lap record....

would like to , but , when I try to join I get this ....

OPENING CHANNEL
OPENING NETWORK DEVICE
10050:ERROR DETECTED ON NETWORK DEVICE
CLOSING NETWORK DEVICE
CLOSING CHANNEL

 :o :o :o

wtf ?

Strange - I'll restart it maybe. It definitely works because I had a mini race with Ronnie and Pedro yesterday so there are no firewall issues. Sorry for the problems. Could see connections from Mark Jones and Evil as well.

Sorry, I've to miss this one... >:(
Go rockers go!! :P

I did a few solo laps in the Fez at around 9:00pm Sat and had no probs, but with only a single car on track I would not have expected much different.
I quit to rejoin and try the BRM, but had got caught by the "mutating" thing as it switched to race mode. I was then required to be elsewhere, so did not get another crack at it.

I do not know if it had to do with this race but the server was in listening mode so I shut it down.

Göran

And now I have put it in listen again. I hope I did not ruin anything but I needed to put up the Riverside USGP1960 track.

Göran

Different server hopefully - UKGPL_Test.

I was very disappointed that Clive squeaked past my best...

...by 4 secs :laugh:

Ok Goran, T7 is ready listening as backup for Paul tonight.
Ciao

Thanks guys.

I've added the race result and in a very close but totally unfair way THE ROCKERS WON!!! (Admittedly if the last man is excluded, since the Rockers had one more, the Mods sneaked it but who said it was a fair fight?)

Thanks everyone who turned out - the server test was a bit truncated because Bernie couldn't join so we ran on T7 but great fun.

PS Well done team.

Congratulations Evil on a fine win! Just too bad this one isn't for the record books as I beat Hristo's lap record for once, albeit in Evils slipstream :D .

The Fez was hard to control when I last drove it at Christmas in a practice for the Rouen fun race, especially when releasing the brakes, and it was no different at Castle Combe today. I decided to shift the brake bias forward from the 50 % that my setup was originally equipped with to 54 % and hoped for the best.

In the race I was lucky not to be taken out at T1 so I could continue my chase behind Tim and Evil. Tim ran wide and spun later on in the lap after which I continued chasing Evil. I didn't want to risk everything so decided to slot in behind him and tried to pressurise him into making a mistake. Evil got really sideways at times but always managed to keep it on the island somehow and keep his position. A few backmarkers made his life even harder, but he still wasn't giving way. After I had a momentary lapse of concentration I lost a second and realised I had to floor it to have any chance of winning, because there were only a few laps left and Evil was still going at it. After one lap in quali mode and one lap to recuperate from that and try to pressurise him into making a mistake, I finally decided to have a real go entering T1 in the last lap. Unfortunately we banged wheels and after that my right rear wheel decided to go into retirement one lap early. I was left with my car and three remaining wheels in the armco. Thankfully Evil could continue and took a well deserved win!

Tommie.

:o :o :o Cooper for you in the PROs next season!  ;D

My best chance in this race, was to overtake a faster Ferrari or two early on, and try to stay ahead.

I'd just about squeezed past Fulvio on lap 1, when I came apon an unforeseen, bad sign of trouble.  It's always a bad sign, when a wheel is ripped off, even if it was a good sign beforehand!  My wounded BRM instinctively attacked the most convenient Ferrari, and poor Natan went for an unforeseen hay ride. ::)

I stayed at the track, to watch 2 of Ukgpl's finest, battle it out for the win, and plan next, to watch more carefully for signs of trouble. :'(

Thanks to Paul for a great fun event.

I guessed that it was going to be a close fight at the front even before the qually times showed HOW close!! Tim pipped me for pole when all I needed was someone to give me about 0.3secs with a tow to get back to the front....but no-one volunteered!!

The start at Castle Coombe is always risky as the wide track sort of encourages drivers to go for a pass on the approach to Avon Rise, which unfortunately really has only 1 racing line through it on the approach to Quarry..as someone found out last night.

Tim had taken the lead from pole and was as quick as I had expected with Tom watching us from behind. I found it easy to close on Tim with the help of the slipstream in the first couple of laps and started to press for an opening, fully expecting to have to work hard for a great many laps to get past. But then Tim went a bit too far sideways at Old Paddock, slid a wheel onto the grass and I grabbed the chance and nailed it down towards Tower.
That was when the hard work began!!  Just 2 laps into the race and I was in the lead, but I had Tom on my tail and he was quick. :-\

the rest of the race was as maximum attack trying to keep things as clean as I could and not too much sideways action ( a whole new concept for me  ;D)
The slipstream balanced out the slight power advantage that the BRM had and Tom was clearly looking for a way through. He was definitely quicker through Tower and Camp but I had the advantage through Quarry and Old Paddock. When I say advantage we are talking maybe a tenth of a second either way!!
For 27 laps we were glued together and I knew that just one small mistake would give Tom the race win. He got alongside once exiting Tower but the extra grunt of the BRM just saved me.

The backmarkers made life really stressful, not in any way their fault and I have no complaints, but when you are racing at 100% against someone as good as Tom the last thing you want to do is back off and lose momentum. Easing off to avoid catching the backmarker at the next corner is not really an option either :o.
As a result I passed Bernie on the grass exiting Old paddock and I think it was FragFritz that I passed in the braking zone for Camp with the whole car twitching left and right but I just held on.

Last lap and Tom got a run out of Camp and was slipstreaming me up towards Quarry. I tried to leave enough room over Avon Rise but at those speeds there is not much room for error and we touched...(sorry I Tom have not looked at the replay so not sure exactly who was at fault ) I escaped unscathed but Tom lost a wheel and was out of the race.  :-\
A shame to end a thrilling race that way but it was very intense for almost 30 laps.

Grats to all finishers and to the Rockers for a points victory, and to the Mods for a moral victory with one car less!!

Someone suggested in chat to be careful at T1 lap 1, you came as a rocket while I was lifting to let room to Natan. Sorry for the contact, but a 3 wide at T1 isn't that careful  ;D
I had a hard work to backup after the crash, but in the end I had a good fight with Ronnie that did two mistakes in a row and I could pass him.
Ciao

The pace you and Tome were going we were ALL backmarkers! Astonishing. I really do not comprehend how you keep it on the road at those speeds. It is also bloody difficult to get out of the way, because although you leaders drive at 100%, us backmarkers usually drive at 150% which is why we are so slow. :laugh:

Fulvio made the beginners mistake of turning up early and found himself promoted  ::)  (Cheers for help with the server)

Bernie couldn't get the transistors in his wireless sorted so we had to move over to an Italian Coffee Bar for the fight...

Some naughty boys turned up late without a note form their Mums...

Nobody got hurt too badly...

SO... The results (unofficial until review of course, although I am not modding this one) were:

Evil      Rockers   1st       50pts
FMG      Mods      2nd       41pts
Fulvio      Mods      3rd       33pts
Ronnie      Rockers   4th       26pts
Tommie      Mods   5th   20pts
Badblood                Rockers   6th   15pts
Bernie      Rockers   7th   11pts
Natan      Mods      8th   8pts
FragFritz                Mods   9th   6pts
Skymole      Rockers   10th   5pts
Maddog      Rockers   11th   4pts

So ROCKERS   111pts
   MODS      108pts

ROCKERS win by 3! Was it fair. NO! Actually it is worth noting that Bernie should have starred for the Mods but had a few pies stuck in his ears. This would have allowed John Roberts a role for the Rockers. Sadly John fainted when asked if he would drive a red car!

It is also worth noting that a certain rabid driver (slaver, slaver) who didn't quite make it past T1 (Tut tut) actually scored the 4pts that was the difference :laugh:

So all in all I think it is best if we call this one too close to call and you know what that means....

REMATCH! See you all next time.

You were good Fulvio - the sign I hit before we touched was bad! :(

"I really do not comprehend how you keep it on the road at those speeds."

LOLOL   That is something I am still trying to work out!!! when I looked at the laptimes that Tom and I were running, we were only marginally off lap record pace even allowing for the fact that we were locked in combat!!  :o

Great event Paul on a busy track which kept things interesting for all whether 1st or 11th. Some smoking speed shown by the top guys and commiserations to Tom, tough break. Oh and it has to be said, Martin, that start, you are a hero!

Results published and notwithstanding the fact that Bernie actually did more laps than the server could count, I am still claiming sixth and most places gained!

Well done all.

wouldnt expect anything less from a wazza  :whistling:

Weeeellll - I only have your word for it Bernie and, of course, I trust you implicitly but in this case it's my series, my replay and....




....my sixth place LOL

Sorry mate. Mind you we were teammates so it made no difference to the team points - just made me look better :D