UKGPL Season 33 (2018) - Zeltweg - Nov 4

[JonnyO]

I'm in luck with this fun champ.
in the previous race, in America I won because everyone who was ahead was wrong and I won.
this time I got a record time for me at zeltweg, the ferrari was amazing fast
Of course, other brabham and honda pilots do not have the same advantage
but it was a hell of a thing to have Greg halfway through the race 1s away, at the end of the race I was very tired.

[GregT]

So I opted to retire before I screwed someone's race.

Maybe I should have done the same. I apologize Clive. What happened sure wasn't what I wanted to happen. I didn't qualify well so I was too eager to pass. If it's any consolation, you thoroughly kicked my butt at Vallelunga.

Congrats Jonny and Axel!

I drove well except for the first lap. Jonny had to be most consistent to beat me. It took me about 15 laps to reduce a 4 second lead down to 1 second.

I enjoyed trying to learn to drive the Brabham better. After the past few months, I can no longer say it's the car I have the least experience driving.

Thanks for the fun guys.

[Billy Nobrakes]

Clive, apologies if my defence was any less than fair. I'm usually being lapped & pull over when there is a pro driver on my tail. I was generally watching the gap on Prib & concentrating on taking a predictable line into corners. I was half expecting you to draft past on the straight.

[EvilClive]

Absolutely no Probs Billy    Your defence was fair, and there was no reason why you should have gifted me the pass. It just took me a few laps to work out where I had to be to use my braking advantage. Being too close to your tail pipes gave me no chance to see the chances, and too far back meant that I was unable to take advantage  . Like I said, concentration was definitely lacking in my car.

[Jeep]

A race of ups and downs for me, Mainly downs unfortunately, Qualified 5th on the grid which was disappointing, I knew I had a lap time in me to move at least one possibly two places closer to the front but it wasn't to be.

The start went better than I dared dream. We set off at the flag and I settled in behind Clive Then at Dr. Tiroch Kurve Pelle, Clive and Greg went very wide and I was able to keep a tight line and came out of the turn just behind Pelle in 3rd, Pelle then had problems at Bosch Kurve and I suddenly found myself in 2nd with Greg up my chuff, A few small mistakes allowed jonny to pull a small gap but I was able to use the extra oomph of the Ferrari to open a small gap over Greg on the main straight and also the run down to Bosch. Meanwhile he clawed it all back through the corners. Then not sure what happened, I hadn't hit anything (So far) but I either completely forgot how to drive through Schikane or the fuel burning off upset the balance. Either way a few strange moments led up to me losing the rear completely and spinning off onto the grass. I recovered but not until both Greg and Cookie had already gone past. Greg was but a distant memory but Cookie looked catchable until I did it again. Then I had Clive showing an interest. Schikane bacame easier again as the fuel burned off and I slowly extended a gap back to Clive only for Dr. Tiroch Kurve to catch me out bringing Clive back into my mirrors.

Managed to pull out a gap again from Clive but shortly afterwards the engine let go exiting Dr. Tiroch and my race was over. All my own fault I had set my gearing to coincide with the crests on the exit of Dr. Tiroch and on the entry to the Rindt Kurve. A few times I missed the gear change and over revved then engine. I was also pushing a lot harder than I wanted to to stay in front of Greg early on and I think the combination of these probably caused my demise.

But loved it up until that point, I think Zeltweg71 is one of the best tracks out there.

Thanks guys.

TTFN
John.

[Clive Loynes]

The calendar suggests that next Sunday's race is Hockenheim but I already know that I can't download it and make it run! 

[Jeep]

Which Hockenheim is it we are running next week?

Thanks in advance

TTFN
John.

[Cookie]

Hockenheimring 1967

directory = hockenhm

http://srmz.net/index.php?showtopic=9311&#entry92229

PS

the Laechele update site seems down...

My track folder fully updated: https://www.sendspace.com/file/68dyqg

In the 67season.ini add this with the last event number XX

[EventXX]
name=Grosser Preis von Deutschland
shortname=Hockenheim GP
trackDirectory=hockenhm
numberOfLaps=77
day=9
month=7
startingGrid=4
trackShortName=Hockenheimring
flag=gerflg

[Jeep]

Thanks Cookie, Yes I've got them all, just wasn't sure which one we were using.

Thomas's site disappeared some time ago. It's now being hosted here...

https://www.autosimsport.net/thomas_laechele/

TTFN
John.

[Clive Loynes]

Thanks Axel, that seemed to work.

I installed the track from the my download and then copied your folder over the top of it in the tracks folder.

When I checked the season.ini the only thing that was different was the race length.