UKGPL Season 24 (2013) Extra Trophy (69X) - Bridgehampton - May 17

[EvilClive]

Grats to Hristo on a great recovery and the win and hard luck Art...you almost got away and clear. Just a few too many laps left for Hristo to hunt you down.  lol

I tried to stay with Art in the early laps but I was struggling with a car that had 3 flat spots on each tyre and broken springs. I reckon it was sabotaged  A couple of near race ending offs when the car suddenly snapped right or left over an invisible bump and I decided that this was one of those races where I would play the percentage game and just drive for the finish and hope for retirements ahead. When Hristo caught me I confess I did not put up much of a fight and once he was past I returned to my own safe pace.
Even then I bounced off the track a couple of times and Dean loomed from behind and was almost within striking distance after each excursion. Luckily he had problems of his own and dropped back allowing me to cruise in for a safe 3rd place.
I cannot really say I was racing, because I had more of a fight with the circuit than I did with any of the other cars  lol.

Just for once I almost wish I could say that I had a freeze! 
I find this circuit just way too bumpy and my arms were aching from the FF after only a few laps, plus I find that the car is pulled across the track by invisible grooves in the tarmac at various points. Maybe it is the way I set my car up that makes it bad, but I would be interested to know if others find this track as uncomfortable as I do??

[DLogan]

...if others find this track as uncomfortable as I do??

Yes. I'd had a 1:26.7 here before with a now-missing setup  :'(, but couldn't get near that in qual. Tried a CF65 setup that I've had luck with at other tracks, changing a few things, mostly made it worse, so went for fairly soft setup for the race with a "just get what points I can" attitude. You tempted me into pushing a bit harder, seeing the gap ahead drop occasionally, but that just made me find more invisible bumps to go off track with .

Unfriendly place, so of course H likes it. 

[maddog]

I suffered a nasty attack of the glitches, on the sands of Bridgehampton.  It came from a little used partition.  The 69x comes with a conflict in my installations, so I put it amongst the graphically challenged, for a test as a guest in '69.  Things did not go smoothly.  

Bridgehampton by the sea, was built amongst the sand dunes, and the track builder decided to simulate the drifting sand, by adding anomalies to the track surface, to simulate the variable traction.  It wasn't until the last practice lap, conditions were right to grab a pole from David, from which to bolt down the track.

A glitch free start, meant a clean getaway, with a healthy margin by lap 4, when there came an argument with a sand dune.  Selected 1st gear, but realized I would strand myself without a paddle, on the dunes ridge.  So reversed, and then gave the smirking spectators a good sand bath, while regaining the track.  Relegated to 3rd, I was intent on forward progression.  

My task was to chase down leader David, and by midrace, I'd halved the distance.  This suddenly became 3 car lengths, after he turned around to check my distance.  I then thought the polite thing to do, would be to wave his guest through, and waited for his gesture.  It wasn't quite as I'd expected!  He waited for a bit, and then decided to head off into the distance, which seemed highly ungrateful.  I'll not be inviting him to tea!

Great fun to drive a '69 again.  I'll attempt to glitch around the final round, and hope to see a few more competitors there.

[Rainier]

My task was to chase down leader David, and by midrace, I'd halved the distance.  This suddenly became 3 car lengths, after he turned around to check my distance.  I then thought the polite thing to do, would be to wave his guest through, and waited for his gesture.  It wasn't quite as I'd expected!  He waited for a bit, and then decided to head off into the distance, which seemed highly ungrateful.  I'll not be inviting him to tea!

 
I don't like tea, but you can invite me for coffee

At the start, I was afraid to have a boring race with only 4 racers. But, thanks to Jonny at the begin and to Martin during all the races, it was a very hard and so a very pleasant battle.

Jonny get the fast lap, Martin the pole ...and the victory was for me ! Tasks were perfectly dispatched (from my point of view).

And Philippe get some interesting points for the championship, as I should be missing the next 69X race on 31/05 the championship is still open !   

[Hristo Itchov]

Results any time soon?

[Artiglietti]

I had to pm Paul for some other stuff today, he mentioned some major glitch during the import, we might well have to re-run this at the end of the season if they cant solve that  .

[Cookie]

Yes, I had some freezes just running the server replay...

Track: Bhampton             Sat May 18 01:46:42 2013

PRACTICE TIMES

Pos No Driver                           Team     Nat      Time      Diff Laps
 1  15 Attilio Artiglietti              BrabBT26 ITA 1m24.934s             24
 2   8 Hristo Itchov69x                 Lotus49b JPN 1m25.625s   00.691s    6
 3  12 evil 69x                         BrabBT26 USA 1m25.827s   00.893s   24
 4  11 Tristan Bot                      Matra 80 FRA 1m26.150s   01.216s   26
 5   9 Andreas Gebhardt                 Matra 80 GER 1m26.958s   02.024s   18
 6  22 marco mercaldo                   Matra 80 ITA 1m27.574s   02.640s   24
 7   6 Axel Cookie                      Ferrari  GER 1m27.782s   02.848s   20
 8  17 Dean Logan 69X                   Matra 80 CAN 1m28.109s   03.175s   17
 9  21 Ronnie Peterson                  Ferrari  ITA 1m29.339s   04.405s   22
10  19 Piero Mercaldo                   Matra 80 ITA 1m39.630s   14.696s    4
11  27 2 UKGPL_T7                       McLareM7 ITA   No time   No time    0

All times are official
Generated with GPL Replay Analyser


Track: Bhampton             Sat May 18 01:46:42 2013

RACE RESULTS (After 29 laps)

Pos No Driver                          Team     Nat Laps   Race Time       Diff    Problem
 1   8 Hristo Itchov69x                Lotus49b JPN   29  42m02.343s            
 2  15 Attilio Artiglietti             BrabBT26 ITA   29  42m19.135s    16.792s
 3  12 evil 69x                        BrabBT26 USA   29  43m04.185s  1m01.842s
 4  17 Dean Logan 69X                  Matra 80 CAN   29  43m22.218s  1m19.875s
 5  19 Piero Mercaldo                  Matra 80 ITA   28  43m13.274s   1 lap(s)
 6  22 marco mercaldo                  Matra 80 ITA   27  42m38.499s   2 lap(s)
 7  21 Ronnie Peterson                 Ferrari  ITA   18  28m37.999s  11 lap(s)
 8   6 Axel Cookie                     Ferrari  GER    3   4m37.217s  26 lap(s)
 9   9 Andreas Gebhardt                Matra 80 GER    3   5m04.995s  26 lap(s)
10  11 Tristan Bot                     Matra 80 FRA    3   5m12.327s  26 lap(s)
11  27 2 UKGPL_T7                      McLareM7 ITA    0 DidNotStart  29 lap(s)


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

RACE FASTEST LAPS

Pos Driver                                 Time Lap
 1  Hristo Itchov69x                  1m24.661s  28
 2  Attilio Artiglietti               1m25.070s  29
 3  evil 69x                          1m26.722s  27
 4  Dean Logan 69X                    1m27.462s  28
 5  Piero Mercaldo                    1m27.847s  26
 6  Axel Cookie                       1m28.904s   3
 7  marco mercaldo                    1m30.040s  16
 8  Andreas Gebhardt                  1m30.335s   3
 9  Ronnie Peterson                   1m30.915s   6
10  Tristan Bot                       1m38.174s   2

[Hristo Itchov]

I had to pm Paul for some other stuff today, he mentioned some major glitch during the import, we might well have to re-run this at the end of the season if they cant solve that  .

Rerun? No way, LOL. We can simply use the export which Axel provided ^.

[Artiglietti]

Yeah, but you need a server replay for an official championship race, according to the league's rules. We had a similar issue some time ago in works (S22 I think?) and we had to rerun..

[Hristo Itchov]

Yeah, but you need a server replay for an official championship race, according to the league's rules. We had a similar issue some time ago in works (S22 I think?) and we had to rerun..

So what if there is no replay, I don't see how that negates the result of the race...

[AnGex]

Rerun? No way, LOL. We can simply use the export which Axel provided ^.

Rerun? Sure, LOL. That was my first thinking of this "Race" ^.

[Marco Mercaldo]

Hey guys , next track is shottenring or hockenheim??

[Ronniepeterson]

Hey guys , next track is shottenring or hockenheim??

Schottenring

[EvilClive]

I had to pm Paul for some other stuff today, he mentioned some major glitch during the import, we might well have to re-run this at the end of the season if they cant solve that  .

aaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!! nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!  that is just plain nasty!!!!

[Hristo Itchov]

A rerun is out of question IMO. Just because of a replay? We have the results, just upload a client replay to serve as a server replay. Or at least put up a vote about it. I very much doubt most people would like to run this track again this season, plus I can't accept that after driving one of my best races the result has to be dropped as if nothing happened.