UKGPL Season 31 (2017) Graduates Cup Privateers (67) - Monaco - Feb 26

[Samb]

Season 31 Privateers Trophy - Round 02 - Monaco

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1967 season, the UKGPL season will take place on 10 of the 11 original circuits. Round 2 starts the European season & probably the most iconic of F1 circuits, on the streets on Monte Carlo. Facilities such as the paddock, pit boxes, fences and grandstands are usually temporary and removed soon after the race is over but in modern times the pits, race control and main grandstands are sometimes permanently constructed in the area. Since the track surface is originally planned for normal speeds, race drivers often find street circuits bumpy and lacking grip. Run-off areas may be non-existent, which makes driving mistakes more expensive than in purpose-built circuits. Hardly passing places, so please be patient.

Note the Privateers division is run on Intermediate damage settings. Drivers are permitted 1 Shift R followed by a Stop & Go in the pit lane within 2 laps. Failure to make a stop will result in a DQ. If you require a stop & go on the final lap & are unable to complete a time penalty of 15 secs is added.

Race List = iGOR
Server = UKGPL_8
IP = see iGOR
Race date = Sunday 26-02-2017
Time = 21:00 UK time (21:00 GMT)
Track = Papyrus Original
Race length = 33 Laps (50 minutes)
Variant = 1967
60fps patch used   = 60fpsV2newmod
Damage Model = Intermediate
Qualifying time = 30-45 minutes
Replays Available here


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[Phil Thornton]

An eventful race for me, I managed to finish with the engine and gearbox intact for a change (although I did use my one shift-R with S&G).  Had a good battle with Dave C until I ran wide at Virage and we touched.  No probs Dave, it is Monaco, very tight and we wouldn't have touched if I hadn't run wide. The very next lap I clipped the bales at the chicane and spun where I was collected by someone and so I had to take my shift-R.  Sorry whoever that was, hope you didn't loose much time.  From then on it was an epic chase back up the field.  At one point I had P Higdon behind me with blue flags waving so I pulled over to a virtual stop before Tabac and he trundled by.  I pretty soon caught him up and retook the place to unlap myself.  I thought he must have been credited with an extra lap somehow and shouldn't have been leading???

Towards the end of the race had a mighty battle with Ronnie.  Eventually got him with 1 lap to go.  I could see Billy ahead I thought I might have a chance at passing him if I could put him under pressure but up the hill through Beau Rivage we came across MT.  Tried to squeeze past to lap him as I thought he was moving over for me but there wasn't enough room and we touched.  Sorry Mike I should have been more patient.  Billy got away again!!

[francesco]

Sorry to Billy for the start,i have not seen your car on the left.Anyway no consequence for you
Even though Bastian hate me,I have to make my compliments for the race and lap time.In the far past also for me was possibòle a time of 1.2849 with the Eagle but no more now.

[Pepe Higdon]

Although I did know Ronnie Nilsson and John Hammonds from the oAo league, this was still my first UKGPL race and, of course, it would have to be at Monaco. I qualified near the back of the field (as expected) and prepared for a short, embarrassing run. It was actually shorter and more embarrassing than I'd originally feared.  Mere seconds after the green flag dropped, I braked for a Ferrari that had gone pear-shaped ahead of me and, since no good deed goes unpunished, I was immediately rear-ended by Mike Turner, tossed up in the air, and came down eventually facing the wrong way and staring at the noses of the three BRMs who had qualified behind me. They must have wondered where I was trying to go. I could see no graceful way out of this situation without a SHFT-R, so I used it fifteen seconds into a fifty-minute race. "This," I thought, "was not quite the start I've been hoping for."

Seven seconds later, however, my race prospects improved dramatically. Although I did not know it at the time, my race position at 1:06 minutes into the race mysteriously improved from 12th overall to 1st. Yep, you read that right. Evidently when I had my initial accident near the start/finish line, possibly combined with the SHFT-R, I had somehow confused the track computer into thinking that I had completed my first lap in 9.03 seconds, which I'm pretty sure must be close to a track record. I wandered unconsciously along through the remainder of that lap, then saw the pit board at the beginning of the second lap tell me that I was in first place, with more than a minute lead over the pole sitter, Fulvio Policardi.

It is difficult for me to explain to you how much more difficult it was for me to try to process the information on that pit board. For a while I thought I had misread P11 as P1, but when I had a free moment (not all that often at Monaco, as you know), PRBLUDA confirmed that the entire field lay more than a minute in my dust. Further, I saw that I'd set a world record on my first lap, even if you added a minute to the lap time. By the time the third lap began, I realized that I'd been the beneficiary of the greatest clock smash I'd ever seen in the almost 20 years I've been playing this game. Slowly but surely the true state of the race began to unfold itself to me. No, I was probably not going to be credited with the fastest lap of the race; no, I would probably not be credited with having led a half-dozen laps; but yes, as the final horror of it all struck me, I was going to be disqualified because amid all the schizophrenia of those first couple of laps, I'd forgotten to do a stop-and-go. Rats, and double rats!

So I'm turning myself in for the DQ just in case the administrators haven't caught me. I don't have any illusions about my place in the GPL racing world. Even if I didn't do a nine-second lap at Monaco or lead the field for ten minutes, I did do something I don't think I've ever done before: I completed 32 consecutive laps at that track without myself winding up in a hospital or the car winding up in the harbor. If that's what it takes to begin my career at UKGPL, I'll take it every time.  

[Jeep]

First of all I had better get the apologies out of the way.

Sorry Pepe for the incident at Tabac when I clipped the armco and spun. I thought I had the brakes applied but looking at the replay I was creeping forwards, not sure if you could have missed me either way but sorry.

Second, sorry Dave C, When you spun at Massenet I thought keeping tight would get me through but your momentum carried you back across the track and I had no where to go..

On to the race.. Q went well, posting a lap in the mid 1:29s which was close to my PB in the Brabham and put me in 4th place on the grid. Start appeared very clean and I sat glued to Bastian's gearbox knowing only a mistake on his part would let me through. My chance came on Lap 4 when he caught the armco exiting Casino and we played chicken down to Mirabeau but I held the inside line and was through. Hung on to the front 3... 3!!!!! who was the other driver. Then saw Pepe had a hell of a lead and guessed GPL had thrown a wobbly at least on my display. Stayed with Alex in his Cooper then around Lap 8 exiting Tabac I lost power and the smoke in my mirrors confirmed the worst. Took a Shift-r and served my S&G which dropped me down to 7th. Gave chase on Dave in his Honda and slowly reduced the gap until lap 15 when he had an issue at the Gas Works Hairpin and I was right with him. Then a lap later I spun at Tabac resulting in the collision with Pepe. (Sorry again). A lap later came across Dave's Honda coming back across the track after an issue at Massenet and I hit him hard. The car wasn't handling to well after that and I had given up any hope of progressing any further up the order but on lap 26 found Andy recovering from an error just before the tunnel and was up to 3rd. Took it easy for the remaining laps as Fulvio was way ahead and nothing other then him throwing it at the scenery was going to get me another spot. Was pleased to see I bettered my qualy lap by nearly a second during the race.

Notoriously difficult place to lap or be lapped and a few really compromised there own laps getting out of the way. No need guys, just ease off on the next straight.

Thanks all and again sorry for the collisions.

TTFN
John.

[AndyL]

I had a very undramatic race, which is usually for the best at Monaco.
Sorry to Fabio twice in qualy - I thought you were pulling over to let me by. I managed a lap in the 1.29's for 5th on the grid. The start was good at the front with everyone slotting into their positions. There's no need to push here as so much will happen later. I wondered how I was running 6th without anyone slipping by at the start, but we know what happened now. I spent most of the race with Dave in sight behind. Those being lapped were very courteous. I spent a short time in 2nd after Fulvio's enormous tea break and later SnG, but he was soon back through. It looked like I could make the podium, but John was 11 seconds back with 11 laps to go, then 8 with 8. I blew the engine just before the tunnel and he was past. After my SnG, I had a lap down Francesco right on my tail as his hot Ferrari was a match for my cold BRM. He clipped the chicane to give me some breathing space to the end.
Grats to Bastian for a fine win, keeping it out of trouble.

[bagrupp]

Yes thx to all, especially to Walter for very clean lapping.
I was out of all (big) trouble, just kissed the armco slightly maybe 5 times and touched Fulvio on taking his s/g. Sorry for that.
Sorry for all that folks with engine troubles and faultless accidents. cya next race.

[Billy Nobrakes]

Rather uneventful race for me. At Monaco that is generally a good thing. Possibly because Pepe was hogging all the excitement. I wasn't ever going to be competitive in the Cooper so the plan was to finish - without a Reset. As mentioned the couple of cars I lapped were very considerate. No harm done from the start line incident with Fran.

[Michael Turner]

I wasn't expecting to finish the race so opted to save my tokens by taking the BRM. Starting at the back of the grid I  was taken by surprise by a near stationary Pepe as the incident on the start straight was some distance ahead and the road directly in front was clear.
I was even more surprised and amused when Pepe reset to see that his engine was still blazing away as he drove off.
Thereafter I was kept busy watching out for a constant stream of lappers and holding Walter at bay. On the final lap I ran wide at Tabac and Walter sneaked through but almost immediately had the misfortune to encounter the hay bales at Rascasse allowing me to take back the place.
All in all a surprisingly enjoyable race.

[Walter Conn]

Fun race for me with lots of cars around to race against. I am sorry to Pepe for the bump in Rascasse. I gave myself a S&G penalty for the contact. Really nice battle with Michael at the end of the race. Your consistency won the position. Good race. Good to see some new faces on the grid.

[Samb]

Mod report published. Well done chaps for attempting to survive the madness of Monaco  .

Apologies on my part for an error in the first race post. It states a missing stop and go penalty is a DQ. This was a carry-over error from a division specific rule from a previous season. This series has the standard UKGPL 30 second penalty for missing a stop and go. I've corrected the penalty stated in the Zandvoort race post.