UKGPL Season 23 (2012) Novices Trophy (65) - Spa (1947-78) - Sep 11

[BadBlood]

I have Prib working with Windows 7 64 bit but I had to use the latest version of Pribluda - I'll check Rob but you are fast enough anyway

Thanks for the feedback guys.

[happyal]

What splits you getting Al? I am 57/51/52/61 ish.

Last night on the test server I was doing: 57/52/51/61 without a tow

168 is my top speed too without a tow.

[Johnny.P]

How do you find your speed on prib? Do you use the other view with F10 or another way?

[happyal]

How do you find your speed on prib? Do you use the other view with F10 or another way?

It at the bottom of the screen, right in the middle. Well it is on mine anyway.

[BadBlood]

Latest version of Prib is 1.1.2.0 and can be found here

The Pribluda website only hosts version 1.1.1.0 and is here.

Some good stuff on both sites! I couldn't get version 1.1.1.0 to work but 1.1.2.0 works well.

[Boggy]

Hi
Do you guys lift through eau rouge? I cant get below 58.5 and have to lift suppose it must be my setup!
Cheers
Boggy

[happyal]

Hi
Do you guys lift through eau rouge? I cant get below 58.5 and have to lift suppose it must be my setup!
Cheers
Boggy

Yes, I do lift. I've tried to do it flat and can never do it.

[Cookie]

With this Lotus 33 Eau Rouge is flat in 4th!
Not with my BRM...

[Johnny.P]

The masta kink seems flat out in the 65's but can it be done in the original 67's I wonder?

[BadBlood]

NO! 

Eau Rouge is hard but it is all about the line in. If you go wide, entry is easy but it compromises the exit, if you stay left, entry is hard and it is easy to hit the wall - which REALLY compromises your exit!

[BadBlood]

MASSIVELY frustrating race. A spinning Rog took me out at the start and then  the car was damaged. Lost 30 secs + 2-3 per lap. Couldn't live with Phillipe but he kept me interested but he took an odd line at Stavelot and I went wide to avoid him and touched the grass. Span at La Source twice because something was damaged and then had a mighty battle with Nige. Managed to turn into him so penalties coming. I have had a word with the Moderator and he is very strict

Shout outs to:
1. Al. First pole followed up with a win. WD mate.
2. Boggy - first race - hope you enjoyed it. There are more even tracks to come...
3. Billy - excellent podium my friend.
4. Nige. Sorry for taking you out. Enjoyed our battle - 2 place pen for me
5. Rog - sorry about hitting you on L1 but I was on the edge at the time...

[Johnny.P]

Decent qualifying but poor start (must work on those) and had a good few laps dicing with al- really good fun, but a glitch in the system gave me about 20 seconds of really low frame rate and lag.. Suddenly I was back in the race again but 28 seconds behind al in 5th. Sorry if I spoilt anyones race with my warping. A good run towards the end but couldn't catch billy. Well done al for pole and the win.

[happyal]

Thank you Paul for the kind words, also thank you again for moving this race and letting me take part. I love the Spa track and I was gutted to see that I would most likely miss the race, so I am very grateful to Paul for moving this race.

I have done so much practice for this race, I’m glad it worked out for me. After my old wheel started acting up I replaced it with a couple of different options. I finally decided on the Thrustmaster T500 F1 version (because it’s Ferrari branded), I got this wheel a few weeks ago, and basically had to relearn the track, car etc with this new wheel. My times where awful, but they slowly got better until I finally went negative in offline practice, it’s my first negative in a 65 car.

I started qualifying hopeful of a fast time. I did my first few laps on my own to set myself a base line, and then went looking for a tow. I never got a good tow so my previous time had to be good enough, I was pleasantly surprise with pole, as I really though that pole would be in the 38’s.

As for the race, it was brilliant, I thoroughly enjoyed the 3 way battle I had with Johnny and Giovanni. I got away OK, and led but Giovanni was right on my tail. I was still getting everything up to temperature when he flew past me. I settled in behind him, hoping to tow us both away from the chasing pack, but Johnny was too fast and quickly caught us both. Best overtake of the race happened on Lap 2, where I overtook Giovanni and Johnny overtook both of us, we were 3 abreast at one point.

Now Johnny was leading, and I was second. My plan was the same, I hoped that we could tow each other away from the pack, as both Giovanni and Billy where both within striking distance if anything went wrong. The plan was working quite well, I only overtook if I thought it wouldn’t cost us time, and Johnny was doing the same. We opened up a small gap to Giovanni, so I started to look where Johnny was slightly slower than me to plan my last lap attack. Got to say that he wasn’t really slow anywhere, there were a few places where I was slightly quicker, but with the tow he would have caught me back up in no time. I was thinking about what to do when I checked Prib and found he was nowhere to be found. No idea what happened, I checked my reply too and still don’t know, he just seem to have a flip out.

After Johnny disappeared from my rear I settled in and managed the gap. Apart from a couple of lapses, I cruised home to the finish. I’m very happy to win here, as I love this track. Also so happy to have my first pole position, I’ve been so close a couple of times so I’m happy to finally have one.

Congrats to all who took part, well done to the podium, and bad luck to Johnny, as his pace deserved better. Also well done to Rob Venn, 5th place in a Cooper around Spa is not a bad result. I won’t be able to make the next race, so I’ll see you all in Charade.

[Boggy]

Hi all
Yes thoroughly enjoyed first online race, had total disaster as I thought I had my setup but obviously not, so struggled to control car but managed to get away with one shift R with a car that spent all race trying to get away from me. I don't think I would have improved so the disco made no difference. Cant wait for next race and must sort out importing setup and checking before next one, well done to everyone
Cheers

Boggy

[roguk]

Grats to Al on a great win, and  Grats to podium.

Should not have raced, did little praccy and just used Imola set up with changed gears, Result of which i ruined others racing

 1 Paul big sorry ruining your race at start
 2 Boggy sorry hitting you when you was parked across track, braked hard but no way to stop.
 3 P Girard lap 10 i think sorry passing you there should have waited.
 4 in qually  sorry AL took you out.

Will have to re think GPL on line racing, the standard of other drivers is going up and mine is going down