Billy Nobrakes
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« on: May 21, 2013, 10:44:42 PM +0100 » |
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THIS POST IS FOR THE LIGHT & HEAVY RACES Round IX of the Formula 2 Trophy is the seasons last visit to North America with a race at Mosport in Canada. It’s a Papy original so little else to be said. The series will run on two separate grids ~ The Lights will run on T7 & the Heavys on UKGPL 3. Please ensure you join the correct race. The Driver list is shown below & the Championship Table can be found here F2 Trophy Handicaps will apply – please observe this rule as a failure to take the correct car will result in an exclusion. In the Lights Hristo – Group II (BT14, Ferrari or Cooper). Dean Logan & Evil Clive Group III – any of the Group II cars or either Lola or either Lotus. In the Heavys – Rainier – Group II, RogUk & Dave Curtis – Group III. A maximum of one reset is allowed per race & must be followed by a compulsory Stop & Go in the pit lane within two laps of the Reset. If you Reset on the last lap a 30 second time penalty will be awarded. Incidents should be reported in the usual way. In line with other divisions the races will be subject to full moderation in the red zone which will be to the exit of “Moss” ( a favoured place for incidents so please take care) . The Moderator may chose to investigate any other incident, in addition to reported incidents & red zone incidents. Please note that for UKGPL has introduced a system of penalties within each series for drivers accumulating yellow cards – see here Penalty Points. Drivers incurring these penalties will receive a PM advising when a penalty has been applied & what race it should served. LIGHT | HEAVY | Arf Arf | Badblood | Cookie | Bernie | Evil Clive | Billy Nobtrakes | Fulvio | Bilto | Hristo | Dave Curtis | King Hiro | Geoff | Magic Arisoulle | Giovanni | Natan | Il Lupo | Phil Thornton | | Bartosz | Nigel Smith | Raoni Frizzo | Paul Villers | Ronnie Peterson | Rainier | FMG | Boggy | Skymole | Francesco | Al Hellar | Pierre D | Doni Yourth | Vosblod | Dean Logan | Adam Cooper | Dean 0 | Ed76 | Robert John | Tin Tin | Uli | Du Fossa | Jonny O | RogUK | | Maddog | Race List = IGOR Server = UKGPL3 & T7 Race date = Sunday 26-05-2013 Time = 21:00 UK time (21:00 GMT) Track = Papyrus oringinal Race length = 28 Laps Variant = 1967 Formula 2 Damage Model = Intermediate Qualifying time = minimum of 30 minutes
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dave curtis
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« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2013, 10:50:36 PM +0100 » |
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Ah, so I can still take the dear little lo-la. Great!
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« Reply #2 on: May 22, 2013, 11:22:20 AM +0100 » |
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wont be around for this , plan to be away sailing around bonnie scotland for the next week or three weather permitting
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« Reply #3 on: May 24, 2013, 12:47:28 PM +0100 » |
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Hope the weather improves for Bernie - it might not be Kiltworthy. I think everyone in Britain, is aware of the horrible weather we've been having this year. It seems to have somehow shrunk a Canadian track, on my computer. I've been and beaten the Ukgpl F2 track record, using the dry version of Mosport Rain. On closer examination, there is one detail that's different - the previous record came from a detuned 67 F1. Those Trainer physics were the best we had, until Modder's magic set the record straight. For old times sake, I think everyone should experience the old, F2 Training mode one more time, for this race. I'll suffer the new improved reality, and hope to see all you Heavies at the finish line.
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Hristo Itchov
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« Reply #4 on: May 25, 2013, 10:25:15 AM +0100 » |
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Yeah, the original F2 trainers were quite good fun to race with, I've had a couple of proper league-like races with them myself in the past and it was always good close racing. I remember some Monza battles where lap time differences between 5-6 people at the front were just 1-2 tenths, so good close racing.
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Geoff65
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« Reply #5 on: May 26, 2013, 10:54:13 AM +0100 » |
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wont be around for this , plan to be away sailing around bonnie scotland for the next week or three weather permitting Bon Voyage mate, mind you keep it wet-side down eh.....Enjoy!!
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« Reply #6 on: May 26, 2013, 03:34:29 PM +0100 » |
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T7 server is set for 28 laps Long race and listening on Igor in Consolle session with OpenGL-V2 Ciao
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« Reply #7 on: May 26, 2013, 10:29:27 PM +0100 » |
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Bon Voyage mate, mind you keep it wet-side down eh.....Enjoy!! ..technically, any bit that is in the water will be wet, be it the keel or the top of the mast I'm sure he knows what you mean though..... Anyway, very frustrating night. Joined with about 35 mins of qually to go, and had warp, latency drag, you name it. No way I could race like that. So rebooted PC, and modem, and came back in. Took best part of 15-20 mins, but when I cam back in things were fine, and I managed c. 8 laps of qually with no issues. Started the race in formation, and everyone was behaving. However, as we came round the second last corner I saw my latency bar go crazy, and everyone around me disappear. Sadly for Al he reappeared just in the right place to get t-boned by me. Really sorry Al, have already got a copy of my incident ready to submit to the mods to show what happened. I assumed that was me destined to another evening lapping alone, but twas not to be. Ended up having lots of laps right in the middle of it trying to chase down people, whilst I was hunted down myself. Had a long close battle with Jonny, but only after some total carnage on lap 9 involving 6 cars.. It looks like H and Ronnie had an incident ahead of a pack of me, Al, Fulvio and (a) Dean. Ronnie was coming back onto the track just as we all came down the hill towards the hairpin and everyone except (the) Dean was wiped out. I almost avoided it all by taking the grass, but Fulvio and Ronnie span round and into me. So, after a shift+R and a trip to the pits I was backj out and into the fight with Jonny, which seemed to last until his engine expired(?) and that was it. I was still ejoying a good fight with a few people when my engine popped, and that was it for me...
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dave curtis
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« Reply #8 on: May 26, 2013, 10:33:04 PM +0100 » |
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You are a hard bunch! Some pretty tight running initially, then all seemed to be going ok (for me/from where I was sitting anyway) until POP! about half distance. Probably explains what that high pitched whining noise had been up until that point It was all getting rather frantic at the last stages of the race. I was catching up from some way back & could see about 3 places potentially for grabs. Of course, there is the matter of catching & passing - as well as staying there of course! Was not to be in the end, but certainly enjoyable. Congrats to DR - well away up the front there. Cheers, Dave.
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« Reply #9 on: May 26, 2013, 11:05:17 PM +0100 » |
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Shunji Asunaru
I usually miss the practices and my start ... This time I passed the practices, beating my pb of 0.1 s and have the pole .
Fairly quickly I became 3rd behind Roguk I could run a little faster but I could not find a place to hang properly. I followed the advice of Sawaki Sensei "When the wise is not the way, it takes patience" So I put in the lotus position and I meditated. Even the return of Dave Curtis was unable to turn away from the teachings of my Zen Master .
Unfortunately when Roguk is off the track, Dave Rainier had 20s advance and Sawaki Sensei has provided nothing in such a case .
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« Reply #10 on: May 26, 2013, 11:23:14 PM +0100 » |
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Started the race in formation, and everyone was behaving. However, as we came round the second last corner I saw my latency bar go crazy, and everyone around me disappear. Sadly for Al he reappeared just in the right place to get t-boned by me. Really sorry Al, have already got a copy of my incident ready to submit to the mods to show what happened.
Not so much fun tonight. I seem to be the GPL warp-magnet lately Arf though I'm sure I saw Phil disappearing a couple of times later too? Well anyway that warp incident accounted for lap 1... then on lap 2, I came over the brow of 5a/Moss to find Fulvio doing a spin-turn in the middle of the track... wiped out twice in 2 laps Then a few laps later battling with Dean, we came over the hill at T4 gunning it two-abreast just as Ronnie was slowly rejoining after an earlier incident. To make matters worse, Dean's car was shielding my view of Ronnie as we crested the hill, so it was only when Dean suddenly darted to the outside (impressive reactions by the way) that Ronnie's car was unveiled right in my path. As Arf said, I think Dean was the only one to escape the mayhem unscathed. Well done to Tris & the podium.
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Hristo Itchov
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« Reply #11 on: May 26, 2013, 11:37:49 PM +0100 » |
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Appalling driving from some people in the mid-field, especially Ronnie. It just reinforces my view that he is simply unable to race other people in a constructive manner. Anyway, managed to recover up to 3rd, but an off and then fuel-saving mode meant I had to settle for 4th.
Grats to Tristan, Evil and Natan!
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« Reply #12 on: May 27, 2013, 12:03:18 PM +0100 » |
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Grats to Tristan on a clear win. I was stunned when I joined qually a little late to see the times at the front of the grid. I usually try and qually on race fuel, but the difference between 1st and 10th on the grid was only about 1 .5 secs.....dammed close!!! So I dumped the fuel and went for a banzai lap with about 5mins to go because 10th on the grid would mean a hard race and a good chance of getting involved in some hassle at Moss in the early laps Luckily I hooked up a reasonably clean lap and squeezed up to 3rd spot for the start. I knew that Hristo and Tris would set a cracking pace and I needed to be with them, so I did not want anyone leapfrogging me off the grid and there were a couple of fast cars behind me!!! The plan worked and I was tucked nicely into 3rd as we completed lap1, until I overdid the turn in to Moss and bounced over the kerb losing precious momentum and losing touch with Hristo and Tristan. The next few laps were on the edge as I chased the leaders. I closed in slightly and then Hristo looked like he bottomed out in the dip and tested the armco... I was through into 2nd, but Tristan had a good 200mtrs lead!! Slowly I reeled Tristan in until I was almost within slipstream range when we reached half distance. I always do a quick check on my fuel level at half distance ( the maths is easy at that point!! lol) and I got a shock!! I thought I had put an extra couple of galls of fuel in at the start, but now I had less than half my fuel left and still half a race to run!! So, I had to let Tristan go and concentrate on saving gas and short shifting, but still keep the pace fast to prevent anyone catching me, because I would not be able to put up a fight. It seems that those behind were involved in their own battles and it allowed me to cruise to the finish and claim a lucky 2nd spot. Hristo has only to finish at Nurby to win this championship, but ....until the fat lady sings??? Who let Mabel Glutbucket back in here!!? !!! Just for anyone else's info...It seems that the Lola BMW is pretty good on fuel consumption and on a par with the FVA's until you start to really push that BMW engine close to max revs for long periods. Then it really sucks up the fuel. I reckon that in this race, I would have been OK for gas if I had had the use of someone's slipstream for maybe half the race as I had expected. But because I was on my own and really pushing hard trying to catch Tristan and using revs at the top end in each gear, my consumption was 10%-15% increased.
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« Reply #13 on: May 27, 2013, 04:30:33 PM +0100 » |
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Sry for the spin ahead of you Al, but it was induced by another car out of control, Axel maybe? A very disapponting race for me in one of my fav track ever since my F2 Advanced trainer times. After a pretty nice start where I climbed some spots, I had to restart at the back after my spin induced at Moss. Later I was involved in the big pile up at T4 and spent my jolly at pit. Restarted a bit nervous and soon touched rail at Moss damaging rear susp. I did a ton of spin with a bad oversteering car and almost decided to retire in frustration, but then learned how to keep the car in the right direction and finished the race 2 laps down and gained a couple of places for other misfortune. Ciao Started the race in formation, and everyone was behaving. However, as we came round the second last corner I saw my latency bar go crazy, and everyone around me disappear. Sadly for Al he reappeared just in the right place to get t-boned by me. Really sorry Al, have already got a copy of my incident ready to submit to the mods to show what happened.
Not so much fun tonight. I seem to be the GPL warp-magnet lately Arf though I'm sure I saw Phil disappearing a couple of times later too? Well anyway that warp incident accounted for lap 1... then on lap 2, I came over the brow of 5a/Moss to find Fulvio doing a spin-turn in the middle of the track... wiped out twice in 2 laps Then a few laps later battling with Dean, we came over the hill at T4 gunning it two-abreast just as Ronnie was slowly rejoining after an earlier incident. To make matters worse, Dean's car was shielding my view of Ronnie as we crested the hill, so it was only when Dean suddenly darted to the outside (impressive reactions by the way) that Ronnie's car was unveiled right in my path. As Arf said, I think Dean was the only one to escape the mayhem unscathed. Well done to Tris & the podium.
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« Reply #14 on: May 27, 2013, 04:45:50 PM +0100 » |
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Appalling driving from some people in the mid-field, especially Ronnie. It just reinforces my view that he is simply unable to race other people in a constructive manner.
Please , I beg you, report the incident. Who knows, while I think you just got it wrong and punted me off track after having just got it wrong with Dean-O and punted him off track, the mods might think whatever your thinking? As a rule I just don't report this kind of thing myself but feel free to indulge yourself if you feel aggrieved. The aftermath is different. I tried to rejoin the track as slowly and tightly to one side as I could but I was downhill and out of sight of anything coming over the brow next. At the time I did not see anyone coming and I'm sure you did not expect me to be there. Yes there was a yellow flag in view to warn you, having watched the replay, but you still did not know what was over the hill. While I think it was an unfortunate rejoin as opposed to a bad rejoin, I do feel partly responsible for the trouble I caused the following cars. No problem from me if any of you want to report this. Regardless sorry. Grats to the podium.
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