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  • S3267P Road America: October 29, 2017
October 29, 2017, 09:38:52 PM +0000 - Road America (Full) - UKGPL Season 32 (2017-18) Graduates Cup Privateers (67)
Driver
 Team
Nat. Make Model Class Qualifying Race
Tyres Pos Time/Gap Pos Time/Gap Laps Stops Best Retirement
reason
Ballast
Jeep
 TEAM-GTLDK
Brabham BT24 (Repco) F1 1967 2 +0.007
105.167mph
1 49:21.632
103.337mph
21 2:18.183
105.466mph
Goodyear  
Cookie
 Antipasti Racing
Cooper T81b (Maserati) F1 1967 1 2:18.569
105.172mph
2 +2.629
103.245mph
21 2:18.550
105.187mph
Firestone  
Rainier
 Black Night Racing
Cooper T81b (Maserati) F1 1967 6 +1.463
104.073mph
3 +26.272
102.428mph
21 2:20.173
103.969mph
Firestone  
Phil Thornton
 Antipasti Racing
Brabham BT24 (Repco) F1 1967 3 +0.483
104.807mph
4 +31.283
102.257mph
21 2:19.300
104.620mph
Goodyear  
dave curtis
 Black Night Racing
Honda RA300 F1 1967 4 +0.973
104.439mph
5 +44.904
101.793mph
21 2:19.800
104.246mph
Firestone  
francesco
 Antipasti Racing
Brabham BT24 (Repco) F1 1967 5 +1.440
104.090mph
6 +1:05.049
101.116mph
21 2:19.909
104.165mph
Goodyear  
Pepe Higdon
 
Cooper T81b (Maserati) F1 1967 9 +4.204
102.075mph
7 +1:38.106
100.023mph
21 2:21.760
102.805mph
Firestone  
Billy Nobrakes
 Black Night Racing
Brabham BT24 (Repco) F1 1967 7 +2.532
103.285mph
8 +1:44.498
99.815mph
21 2:20.696
103.582mph
Goodyear  
Walter Conn
 REV
Lotus 49 (Cosworth) F1 1967 8 +3.919
102.279mph
9 +1:45.593
99.779mph
21 2:19.302
104.619mph
Firestone  
bagrupp
 Team Groundhog
Brabham BT24 (Repco) F1 1967 10 +8.609
99.020mph
10 (+2) +17L
96.381mph
4 2:21.165
103.238mph
Disco
Goodyear  
bagrupp
 Team Groundhog
Eagle T1G (Weslake 1967) F1 1967 11 DNS ---
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Goodyear  
4 UKGPL
 
BRM P115 F1 1967 11 12 ---
---
Goodyear  

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Three out of three wins for John Hammonds around the beautiful and challenging Elkhart Lake circuit. Axel Cookie takes a strong second place followed by the ever-consistent Dave Ranier in 3rd spot.

One incident to report this time out at the start of the race which is noted below:


Server replay time: 0h00m52s

Bastian Grupp makes an excellent start in the Brabham, passing Pepe and Walter and approaching rapidly on Billy Nobrakes' Brabham. Unfortunately, both cars were extremely close together and GPL pitched them both into a collision, causing Billy to take a reset. Bastian wasn't fully alongside Billy when the contact was made.

The server's replay shows contact between the two. Bastian's own replay doesn't show contact, but the gap side-by-side was very marginal before the collision boxes worked their magic. I felt Bastian was fortunate to not cause contact passing Walter as he left a similarly marginal gap between the two of them. In Billy's case, he wasn't so lucky and contact was made.

I can only emphasise how important it is to leave sufficient gap passing cars. As a rule of thumb; try to leave a car's width minimum, especially at the start. Anything less is asking for trouble.

Billy did nothing wrong. He maintained a straight line and was an unfortunate victim in this collision.

A simple side by side contact will be applied in this instance.

  • bagrupp (Bastian Grupp)penalty — Side-by-side contact. 1 place penalty (plus 1 for first lap incident). — 2 places lost

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« Reply #15 on: October 30, 2017, 07:59:18 PM +0000 »

Had to miss this one which was a shame as I would have taken the Eagle and won.

Had my injections for my charity trek to Peru and my arm was hurting a bit too much.

I'll miss the next one too as I will be on said trek but will return with a win in Monza.

What's that? Why, yes, if you wanted to sponsor my trek you can certainly do that here:
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/mikejamesperu

See you soon.
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« Reply #16 on: October 30, 2017, 10:21:28 PM +0000 »

Like Walter I had connection issues tonight. I wasn't sure if it was all me as I saw the odd car in a bunch disappear while the others remained visible but after watching the server replay I could see I definitely had a problem. Sorry to anyone who was spooked when running close..

I had considered splashing out on an Eagle as I was quite a bit faster in it than the Brabham but I had decided before the season started I'm driving the Brabham this season in all races..

I was expecting to see a sea of Eagles and Lotus on the grid for this one. Was very surprised to see only a single Lotus and no Eagles at all. Amazing Pole time by Cookie in the Cooper beat me by 7/1000sec.

I feel a bit like I'm walking on water at the moment, tonight's race was anything but straight forward though, managing to spin at least 3 rimes either losing positions or just losing ground on the person I was chasing. I was pretty near the tail of the field after my 1st spin at Canada Corner but was able to use the extra power of the Brabham to retake positions from the Cooper's on the straights. I figured a podium was possible as Dave in the Honda was a fair distance ahead and Cookie was well out on his own. Then suddenly it all changed. Cookie had to do a S&G and that meant he and Dave were losing time scrapping over 1st allowing me to eat into their advantage. Passed Dave and then promptly spun at T5 and after getting the position back put a wheel on the grass braking at the end of the Hurry downs and spun again. Gave chase and Dave returned the compliment exiting the Kink and I set off after Cookie. Needed about an extra 5 laps I reckoned to stand any chance of worrying him then with about 2 to go he went wide entering the SF straight and I was through and held him off until the flag.

TTFN
John.
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« Reply #17 on: October 31, 2017, 05:40:27 PM +0000 »

Next race I will paint a big target on the car, just to make it easier for other cars to hit me. Out of 3 starts this season I have been wiped out in lap 1 or 2 every time.
Like the majority of drivers I struggled with this track & made a number of mistakes. To keep matters interesting I spent most of the race chasing Pepe. On three occasions I got close but spun out. When I did finally profit from his error I ran off in T3. Must due due for a slice of luck next race. PS pepe, no worries about the Lap 11 thing, it was just part of the battle I just didn't anticipate your line.


I'm sorry, i guess i went for a too small space. Will look at it later. And I also forgot it....because it is to forget  wacko death
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« Reply #18 on: November 12, 2017, 11:58:42 AM +0000 »

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I also think I have some H-shifter work to complete.   Getting some very sloppy/unwanted gear-changes.  From looking at good old GPLRA,  I figure an extra 35 unwanted gearchanges on lap1 alone.
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D'oh! I eventually figured this out & just thought I'd share in case anyone else has similar...

I think that my G27 shifter has worn away slightly, so a couple of the gear positions now have more side-to-side movement than they should.
As a result, the pot positions end up where they should not.

I run it through a Leo Bodnar adapter  & have just realised there is a configuration utility (which has not been required before!).
Indeed, could see the free-play in there.  So just updated the horizontal values, so now when in 3rd/4th, the sloppy movement does not cross thresholds to quickly alternate between that and the position next door/2 gears away.

As a result of my belated findings,  this potentially means my 2x worn out G25 shifters [in the secret spares cache in the loft] may have some further life if running via the Bodnar too...

Now to fix my driving,  but unfortunately that's probably a lost cause.

Cheers,
Dave.

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« Reply #19 on: December 29, 2017, 11:54:52 AM +0000 »

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