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1  UKGPL / UKGPL Announcements / Re: Season 33 Extension on: November 18, 2018, 09:58:29 AM +0000
My pedals from my old Microsoft FF wheel are half broken and the wheel itself doesn't have a USB connector,  I wondered what the best replacements were?  Is the Logitech G29 the best option for a new wheel and pedals set for GPL, or should I consider something else?
2  UKGPL / UKGPL Announcements / Re: Season 33 - End of season review on: October 21, 2018, 06:08:37 PM +0100
While it might be difficult to have a cup competition based on allocation straight after the last race, you could start a series or season with the cup competitions from the previous series or season, which would allow the moderators the entire break to set it up.

A one-race cup competition would provide an opportunity for slower drivers without burdening faster drivers with a slow chassis all season.  If we run separate series on the same grid you'll have a return of the situation where a lonely amateur just turns up and makes it past halfway to win a race.

3  UKGPL / UKGPL Announcements / Re: Season 33 - End of season review on: October 19, 2018, 07:14:04 PM +0100
A twenty race season is different from late sixties Formula One, which had twelve races in classic format, though this was only run once as the Spanish GP was not official in 1967 and Spa was cancelled in 1969.  If there is an anniversary 1969 series, will Spa be cancelled?

Three months is too long a break, with a 13-7 split in racing fortnights, another alternative might be to have the autumn series run every week- so the spring series would be four mods and twelve races and the autumn series two mods and twelve races?  This is seventy-two races instead of eighty, how about a non-championship cup race at the end of every series, with tokens allocated based on the championship result?
4  UKGPL / UKGPL Announcements / Re: Season 33 - End of season review on: October 18, 2018, 05:54:24 PM +0100
1. The token system seems too generous, it allows drivers to switch to nimble cars on slower tracks without penalty.  It could also be adjusted to demand, as already suggested.  A third improvement would be a token cost every time a driver switches chassis? 

I would prefer a more team based approach for at least one series, with an offseason wrangle for chassis, or team leaders signing drivers.  Perhaps a 65-69 series?

2. Six-seven drivers doesn't justify a separate series.  While we should encourage new drivers, this needs a new approach, and it seems doubtful we could start a rookie series for a twenty year old game.  Perhaps a greater presence on social media, and some form of amateur hour before races might help?

3. Yes.

4. The generous token problem is with all the championships, however the 66s suffer most.

6. As its the fifty year anniversary for the 69s will we run the classic 69 championship?

7. Yes.

8. When you have a grid of mixed ability it is difficult to race circuits like Syracuse?  While the 1955 series should have appropriate circuits, it doesn't seem necessary to force the sixties chassis onto them?  Jarama and Bugatti aren't raced enough considering they are genuine 1967 F1 tracks.  Otherwise the new Interlagos circuit could be tried out.  Though Spa is preferred, Zolder isn't a bad circuit if Spa were to be omitted for some reason.   
5  UKGPL / UKGPL Races / Re: UKGPL Season 33 (2018) 1967 F1 - Mosport - Sep 16 on: September 16, 2018, 08:15:49 PM +0100
The issue must be elsewhere, Igor has been okay for several of us?
6  UKGPL / UKGPL Races / Re: UKGPL Season 33 (2018) 1966 F1 - Charade - Aug 14 on: August 14, 2018, 10:45:01 PM +0100
Yeah, I regretted letting you through on the inside after the straight when I ran into the back of you and lost a wheel.

You might mention that you clipped the edge of the track and locked the brakes leaving a skid trail though, that could have contributed to the incident?  Its not a great place on the track suddenly to need to be 20 mph slower, I would have appreciated having the place you won returned instead.
7  UKGPL / UKGPL Races / Re: UKGPL Season 33 (2018) 1967 F1 - Imola - Aug 5 on: August 05, 2018, 11:07:54 PM +0100
Had you been slightly further back when I miscontrolled at Piratella on the last lap you would have been past me though, rather than forced to take avoiding action.  I only finished ahead due to poor driving.

My apologies to Clive, I should have been closer to the side both times, though at least the first time it was because of lack of skill rather than simple miscalculation.
8  UKGPL / UKGPL Races / Re: UKGPL Season 33 (2018) 1965 F1 - Mosport - Jun 12 on: June 13, 2018, 08:02:11 PM +0100
The server replay shows Billy's Braham as unable to make forward progress until just before you get pushed sideways by my car.  Had our cars been unimpeded by each other the corner would have been clear before you arrived.

Also, the revs on the server replay claim that I am in first gear attempting to make room on the inside by moving alongside the barrier, after which I switch to reverse without returning to the power- though what I experienced was the interlocked cars being flung apart before our collision.

You had done nothing wrong and were simply unlucky that my car finished up where it did.





 

 

 
9  UKGPL / UKGPL Races / Re: UKGPL Season 33 (2018) 1965 F1 - Mosport - Jun 12 on: June 12, 2018, 11:42:47 PM +0100
Sorry then Dean, you have a better appreciation of the situation than I have and I was unable to save the replay.

After the collision I was entangled with Billy and facing backwards for some time, however when the cars parted I was then broadside on.  I was late to reverse out of that situation, if there was contact with a car once I began to reverse, rather than be spun around by the after effect of the collision then the responsibility is entirely mine.
10  UKGPL / UKGPL Races / Re: UKGPL Season 33 (2018) 1967 F1 - Adelaide - May 13 on: May 13, 2018, 06:50:17 PM +0100
Nope, I have only succeeded with the 1966 cars not the 1965 D2 or privateers.
11  UKGPL / UKGPL Races / Re: UKGPL Season 33 (2018) 1967 F1 - Adelaide - May 13 on: May 13, 2018, 04:53:30 PM +0100
I haven't been able to register either, though it informs me that I voted?
12  UKGPL / UKGPL Announcements / Re: Season 33 1967 F1 Graduates Privateers - Registration on: May 12, 2018, 08:19:57 PM +0100
Tom with his head down, a rare sight, he's usually gleaming with the white hot heat of breathtaking leaps in technology.  "What's up with you then Tom, or are you just dreading the prospect of me leading the team to success in the new season?"

"No, there's this book-"

"Really?  That's a pity I was hoping for something more exotic and lethal, or at least a trip to the doctor.  Problem solved then, a quick spin out of the sandtrap of actual knowledge and back onto the racing line of sports promotion, and you'll be fine."

"I've portrayed you as a genuine prospect for years now, I'm hardly likely to be perplexed by facts.   No, this guy pointed out that if we ever did make contact with aliens it would set off a planetary catastrophe with every culture desperate to represent humanity.  Even rumours would be a disaster, we would fight each other to death.  There's nothing more human than to fight to utter destruction about nothing at all."

"Aliens aren't going to invade the open wheel competition Tom, we don't even allow adverts on the cars, no thanks to you.  Besides, we are a tight-knit group of elite professionals, even if the aliens could get round the Eifel mountains in under nine minutes, I'm sure we could sort them out in the pit stops."

"Jack, it's not about the aliens, its about the promise of the future, however illusory it is."

"It was an advance copy of the prime minister's memoirs then?  Hang on, that reminds me, there's been a request from the committee.  Apparently there's some objection to English drivers, we're supposed to be taking unfair advantage by abusing the race list.  Without naming names, no irony intended, everyone knows who it is, and with 'Harold Wilson' in charge of the country the foreigners feel it would be best if all the pilots use their full name for official records."

This puzzled him.  "But you haven't any other names Jack, your parents couldn't afford any?"

"Exactly Tom, however it is now my patriotic duty to have one, for reasons of national interest.  My new middle name is William, W for Winning.  Make it happen, Tom."

"You're not going to fool anyone Jack.  Remember Macmillan tried to have the British supersonic jet called Concord, only when it was finally rolled out Macmillan had gone and Benn was telling everyone that E stood for Excellence, Europe, England and Entente.  The Scots objected so he said it stood for Ecosse as well.  No-one thought to mention that Concord was where the Americans stored all their guns before the Revolution."

"Science fiction, Tom, I can't believe you're worried about science fiction.  Science fiction is for dodgy old geezers in overcoats, its not as if the posh tottie goes for it, there'll never be any Paint Me Like Your French Girls there, believe me.  There'd hardly be a bloodbath over who was to represent humanity.  The reverse, more likely."

And with a sad "Oui, monsieur" he slunk off, taking what was left of his new man room at the topness with him.  Loot says that E is for Economics.  He told me that Wilson is fool enough to believe that he is some sort of techno-Economics wizard and never to trust a man who believes that a new scheme will sort out finance.  He's worried that Britain is far too centred on the pound and might never recover if some unscrupulous clique was to do the dirty on us.  Take pounds, shillings and pence away, reorganise communities around the river banks and turn the constables into some sort of future police, people would have no interest in the Green Hell then, they'd be too busy waking up in one.

Still, its a new racing season, they don't like it up 'em, don't panic.
13  UKGPL / UKGPL Races / Re: UKGPL Season 32 (2017-18) Joe Shaw Memorial 2018 - Adelaide - Mar 20 on: March 20, 2018, 10:12:18 PM +0000
Adelaide seems like a tricky circuit and I hadn't an appropriate setup.  I've always struggled with low gear corners, and looking at old records even a decade ago when I was faster it was only by a couple of seconds.

I managed to get over halfway, however I was about to be lapped for the second time when I had a screen freeze.  
14  UKGPL / UKGPL Races / Re: Fun Race for 65's at Silverstone March 18 on: March 19, 2018, 05:52:02 PM +0000
I wish I had enough talent to have an extra-wide BRM, the second time Clive hovered off my right quarter I attempted to allow him the space to pass!  This ended sadly with me clipping the inside and a spin that seemed to take more than a dozen seconds to recover.

While this was only a trial of a new handicap method, of the slower cars there was only Doni's T77.  Pit stops force the fastest drivers into the fastest cars, is this not obviously an error?  Also, Robert might have problems passing with the BT7 however isn't pit stops just going to transfer the issue further down the field- as Clive experienced when his stops brought him behind me?

The old system of handicap by cars was not intended to mix faster and slower drivers, and you would have to combine it with personal handicaps if you wanted closer racing between drivers of unequal ability?  Asking faster drivers to use the BT7 or Cooper seems far more elegant than racing by spreadsheet?     

Robert's extra stop inspired the notion that perhaps the best 'fun' handicap would just be to have the leader forced to pit!  So, if you were ahead at the finish line you needed to pit on the next lap- unless you only passed the finish in the pits, or it was the last lap.  Then if Robert led an entire thirty-lap race he would need fourteen stops.  This might seem extreme, however he would only need to be 4.6s faster if each pit stop only takes 10s.  I'm not sure that a system only of use at pits with chicanes is viable.
15  UKGPL / UKGPL Races / Re: Anyone fancy a fun race in 55's on: March 12, 2018, 07:59:15 PM +0000
You could have 65, 66, 67x, 67 then 69?   The 67x mod isn't really an online mod?  You wouldn't have the RA 301 and T86 either, the '68 season' would be the Kyalami 68 cars?

The 1955 mod might be more exciting for specialists, it is already made though!  A while ago there was a suggestion that the 68 mod was unpopular because it would be another winged mod, though this was before the 69 extra mod.  It would include the first McLaren wins, that is somewhat exciting?

If you are going to handicap by previous driver lap times, why use stop-go when you could use chassis handicaps?  Over thirty laps won't there be an issue with faster cars closing and it not being clear what track position they have?

Perhaps it is just too ambitious to have a multi-season competition?
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