Not sure about the British car bit.  Wasn't that Tony Brooks in the Connaught?

LOL

Sorry Phil, I didn't read it properly.  In fact I had stopped reading at the British driver/ British car point.   

But you couldn't call him a gentleman!  ;-p

I'm hoping to take part in this but we have a Tesco order being delivered between eight and nine.  Just hope that they are not running late!

In Memoriam Stirling Moss:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQS4D3E2Ifg

I was conviced to have solved the problem with my steering wheel but was not so.Again another crash arrived at the first corner ,the wheel lose the contact with the game.In the afternoon i have found a wrong value for the damper(120 the max) decreased to 80 but seem not enough ,now is 30.I hope that the problem is it.

RIP Stirling.

Grats to Yannick and the podium. Clive in his reserved 2nd place  and a great drive by Phil to bring it in 3rd.
It was tempting to take something with more poke, like the Maserati or Lancia...maybe even the Connaught?  lol.  I have rarely even driven the Mercs or Ferraris, so did not even have a working setup knowledge to start from.

Then I thought I would give Clive a chance of glory, because deep down I am a gentleman  and I actually  had a moment where I felt sorry for him  , so I chose the Vanwall as the appropriate car for a tribute to Stirling at Aintree.

I could not anticipate that Yannick would spoil Clive's day lol and set some great times in the 250F  .  I was struggling with my intention to try and get the Vanwall on to the podium if I could, but finally towards the end of qualifying I was beginning to find some pace and technique to make the Vanwall competitive(ish).
So, we lined up on the grid with Yannick on pole and a couple of Mercs threatening to use their power. The lack of grunt in the Vanwall was exposed off the grid and Fulvio outdragged me to T1 in his Merc. But I was at least in touch with the leaders until...…as I exited Anchor my PC had a massive glitch...the screen froze momentarily and the FF spiked through the wheel. Apologies for the chaos guys, but there was nothing I could do and I headed for the grass, to get out of the way, as soon as I regained some control over my controls!!

I rejoined dead last, which was not part of the game plan! and then suffered another glitch about a lap later. After that I was able to set about chasing down the field and I had some great racing with Doni in the Connaught. Sorry for the bump Doni when the 2 cars ahead spun at Anchor and I just could not slow any more of turn tighter to avoid the touch. Later I caught Axel in his Lancia and chased him for many laps and later when we caught Fulvio I could see 4th place. But there were two very fast cars in the way lol.
Axel ran wide and I was able to slip through and focus on Fulvio's Silver Arrow and when he made a mistake I took the chance and fired the Vanwall up to 4th place.
Hopes of a podium were very distant at that point because Yannick, Clive and Phil were just too far ahead and there were too few laps left to even attempt chasing them. More important was to keep things tidy, ahead of Fulvio and hold on to 4th place lol.

Great fun guys...on to Goodwood and the 65's 

god, that was hard work and a felt like a really long race!, decent start, avoided everyone, few off's here and there, considering I only practiced yesterday and got it all working again, but I did managed to get my laptimes down in race from a 2:10s down to a personal best on last lap of a 2:05, putting me only 4-5secs of the leaders!

Here's the gplra report if anyone wants to look at it.
http://www.burtoner.com/55aintreemoss/index.html

RIP Stirling Moss