Hi Gareth
Sorry to hear about your accident, hope you get better soon!
Regards
Phil

I'm having a major reorganisation in the break.

My trusty old G25 started to act up in the last couple of races so I've swapped it for a Thrustmaster T300.

My monitor bust too so I've replaced it with a cheap 4K tv.

I couldn't get the new wheel to work properly under Windows 7 so I "upgraded" to Windows 10. Thankfully Microsoft have stopped charging for Windows 10, you can install for free if you have a valid Windows 7 Product Key. Good job too, Mrs T was none too chuffed with the credit card bill as it is.

All that lot seems to have gone OK but unfortunately I couldn't test it in the 69x fun race yesterday, we had visitors.

Finally I'm changing ISP this week (on 28 Aug). I've binned my Sky box (that broke too) and I've changed to Virgin Media. Not sure if this will prove to be a good idea or not. I've been promised 200MB download speed compared to the 30 odd I get now. Hopefully (and more importantly) the jitter and latency will be improved.

Outcome of all this is that I will need to do some testing before the season recommences on 8th September.  I'm not available on Sunday but I'd like to host a fun race on 1st September. I'll probably go for a 67 race at Rouen (praccy for first race back).

I've loaded the chassis the drivers used into the token calculator spreadsheet.  For the next race the available tokens will be as declared in the table below (the table will also appear in the next race announcement).  The calculated values are automated but selecting the cars is a manual process so please check your tokens to make sure I haven't made a silly error. There was no token overspend for this round so no one is disqualified.

Driver	Tokens	Status
Bagrup	8	Pro
Clive Loynes	8	Pro
Cookie	9	Pro
EvilClive	14	Pro
Gareth	17	Pro
Greg T	10	Pro
Iestyn Davies	10	Pro
MagicArsouille	10	Pro
Ziu Bacubacu	22	Pro
AnGex	8	Am
Billy Nobrakes	8	Am
francesco	12	Am
Oly9	23	Am
Phil Thornton	29	Am
Rainier	14	Am
Syd Drake	8	Am
tagomago	20	Am

Yes it is one of the allowable patches. See this rules page.

Managed a decent finish in my little Brabham but only thanks to other people's misfortune. The Baby Brab was a sitting duck on the back straight.

I had problems with my steering wheel going out of calibration. After lap 3 I had to drive with my steering wheel at 45 degrees . I stopped at the hairpin a couple of times to move the wheel full lock in both directions to try to recalibrate it. It seemed to help a bit but not much.  A similar thing happened in the last SCx race. I think my trusty old G25 is packing up. Looks like I'll have to procure a new wheel in the summer break.

Grats to David on another outright win, you'll be in the Pros soon at this rate. Well done to Clive in his come-back season, P2 shows you've lost none of your speed on your sabbatical.

14 drivers registered. 4 not scored points are all Pro drivers. 5 Pro drivers scored points. 5 Am drivers scored points. AnGex currently 3/5 in Ams Championship. Looks a fair split to me. Moving AnGex to Pros would make split more unbalanced.

All the championship tables should be OK now. If someone thinks I've got any Pros and Ams mixed up, please let me or your Divisional Moderator know.

The race announcement says Pro and Am. It is the race results import that needs adjusting. I can do that tonight when I get home from work. It is a 5 min job.

Grats to Tim on what looked like a dominant win from my perspective. I had a decent race with David, Fran, Pepe and Dulima.

Don't forget there is a Summer break for the 67F1s now (much like the current F1 championship). We'll be back on the 8th September at Rouen. See you all there!

Season 35 – 1967 F1 – Round 3 – Virginia International Raceway

The third race in the 1967 F1 series finds us at Virginia in the USA. In 1955, a group of North Carolina car enthusiasts began their search for a possible racetrack location. They soon found the perfect site on the state line on land owned by the Foote Family and Virginia International Raceway (VIR) opened for business in August of 1957. The group leased the property as Sports Car Enterprises. VIR’s first official event was a SCCA race that attracted stars like Carroll Shelby, Carl Haas, Bob Holbert, Augie Pabst, Bob Grossman, Don Yenko, Dr Dick Thompson, Walt Hansgen and Bruce Jennings. Shelby, who would later go on to worldwide fame by winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1959 and creating the iconic Cobra sports cars in the early 1960s, won that first feature race at VIR in a Maserati 450S.The lconic Texan uttered a quote about the track that is remembered to this day, “one lap at VIR is like a hundred at Watkins Glen.”

The full time drivers can start to practice as soon as the server is available.  Reserve drivers can also join as soon as the server becomes available but must leave the server with 35 minutes of qualifying left, for a total of 5 minutes; this will allow any remaining full timers to join.  If there is enough space on the grid, the reserve drivers will be able to rejoin when there are 30 mins of qualifying left.  
 
Please read the championship specific rules on the championship standings page.

Race list	iGOR
Server	UKGPL_4
IP address	46.69.108.209
Date	28-07-2019
Track Directory	virginia
Mod	67F1 with 60fpsV2newmod
Damage	INT long (Works drivers - NO Shift R, Privateer drivers ONE Shift R)
Race time	~ 21:30 UK time (BST, GMT + 1)
Qualifying	45 minutes @ 20:45 UK time (BST, GMT + 1)
Race length	26 laps
Replay	here

If the official replay site is unavailable, the server replay can be downloaded from this temporary location.

Password: see above

Driver lists can be found on the championship standings page

There is no Red Zone. Moderating will be on reported incidents only. Remember that lap 1 incidents carry an additional penalty place.

The chassis token system is explained on the championship standings page. Please ensure you choose a chassis that is within your budget, which can be seen by hovering the mouse over your points total in the standings.

Replays can be found by clicking on the link in the top left corner of the UKGPL homepage.

Please restrict chat to emergency messages only including at the end of the race until ALL drivers still racing have crossed the line.

Unlucky Bill. We qualified a few hundredths apart so I was hoping for a decent race with you. Maybe next time 

I've loaded the chassis the drivers used into the token calculator spreadsheet.  For the next race the available tokens will be as declared in the table below (the table will also appear in the next race announcement).  The calculated values are automated but selecting the cars is a manual process so please check your tokens to make sure I haven't made a silly error. There was no token overspend for this round so no one is disqualified.

Driver	Tokens	Status
Bagrup	8	Pro
Clive Loynes	9	Pro
Cookie	9	Pro
EvilClive	13	Pro
Gareth	17	Pro
Greg T	10	Pro
Iestyn Davies	10	Pro
MagicArsouille	10	Pro
Ziu Bacubacu	18	Pro
AnGex	10	Am
Billy Nobrakes	14	Am
francesco	14	Am
Oly9	22	Am
Phil Thornton	25	Am
Rainier	22	Am
Syd Drake	14	Am

Should be OK now. Good luck Clive, these 66 machines are fun to drive, you might get hooked again 

LOL so was I, one day it will be for real!!!

(I've got to stay optimistic  )

Corrected the race results to credit Tris with the first lap which GPL dropped because he started from the pit lane. However this will become a DQ because Works drivers are not allowed a shift-R.

Very enjoyable race for me. I qualified in 3rd place due to a clock smash. I think one of my laps was 4 seconds faster because of a bit of warp. I got a decent start so I didn't hold anyone up but I got clobbered by a flying Brabham in T1 and I ended up last (apart from Tris) so I ended up in my true qualifying place after all.  After that I had good battles with Fran, Ricardo and David culminating in a last lap side-by-side dice in the stadium section. Good clean racing, thanks Fran, Ricardo and David it was fun.

Sorry to see my new team mate Tim drop out (with engine trouble?) after setting a super pole time in the Honda!