UKGPL Season 36 (2020) 1955 GP - Buenos Aires - Jun 14

[Phil Thornton]

Season 36 – 1955 Grand Prix – Round 10 – Buenos Aires
The tenth and final race in the 1955 Grand Prix series finds us in Argentina. Built in 1952 on swampland just outside Buenos Aires, the circuit featured a white archway dedicated to the memory of Admiral William Brown. The track featured four different configurations for Grand Prix racing. From 1953 to 1960, the Argentine Grand Prix was held on the "No. 2" layout, clockwise for the all these years except 1954, when it was run counterclockwise.

The 1955 Argentine Grands Prix was one of the hottest races on record, at 40C (104F) with track temperatures reaching 51C (122F). Fangio, driving for Mercedes, was the only driver to complete the 96 laps (taking three hours) without handing his car over to another driver. One of his legs was badly burned by a chassis tube heated by the exhaust, an injury that forced a three-month recovery. Ferrari drivers Nino Farina and Maurice Trintignant finished both second and third in two three-way shared drives with José Froilán González and Umberto Maglioli respectively.
 
Please read the championship specific rules on the championship standings page.

Race list	iGOR
Server	UKGPL_4
IP address	77.102.28.179
Date	14-06-2020
Track	ba55n2
Mod	55GP with 60fpsV2newmod
Damage	PRO long
Race time	~ 21:30 UK time
Qualifying	20:45 UK time - 45 minutes
Race length	27 laps
Replay	here
TeamSpeak Server	see above

Please restrict chat to emergency messages only including at the end of the race until ALL drivers still racing have crossed the line.

Password: see above
Driver lists can be found on the championship standings page

Handicapping and chassis allocation.
The 1955 Grand Prix cars will be using a token system which allows drivers to purchase any chassis of their choice for a given number of tokens as published on the championship standings page. Drivers classed as Juniors will be allocated an additional 10 tokens.  The tokens available to each driver will be published in the race announcement. See table below.

Available Tokens:
Note: These are the tokens available to each driver before the 10 tokens are added for making the race start.

Driver

Tokens

Status

Driver	Tokens	Status
bagrupp	10	Senior
Clive Loynes	0	Senior
Cookie	5	Senior
Doni Yourth	9	Senior
Dulima	5	Senior
EvilClive	11	Senior
fpolicardi	0	Senior
GregT	5	Senior
JonnyO	20	Senior
Leon Forst	8	Senior
Raoni Frizzo	0	Senior
Ziu Bacubacu	10	Senior
5117sebas	10	Junior
Alex Gromoff	10	Junior
bernie	6	Junior
Durval Becho	20	Junior
enrique farina	17	Junior
francesco	1	Junior
Gareth	10	Junior
luiz covisi	15	Junior
Oly9	10	Junior
PaulV	5	Junior
Phil Thornton	4	Junior
Ricardo Valim da Silva	0	Junior
Syd Drake	5	Junior
tagomago	20	Junior

[maddog]

I have applied to race in Argentina, although these 55's seem a tad modern to me : https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=19361.0    A Championship challenge will not be easy, from the rear of the grid.

[Phil Thornton]

Hi Martin
You are in, great to see you back. Good luck on Sunday 

[bernie]

Hey Martin ! Remember me ? 55 mod is new for me too 

[Phil Thornton]

Hey Martin ! Remember me ? 55 mod is new for me too 

Martin is very familiar with the 55s, he was one of the developers 

[maddog]

Hey ther Bernie Tupp, the man with the high speed attic!  A new set of cars to bend, wih a cosmopolitan audience.

[bernie]

Hey Martin ! Remember me ? 55 mod is new for me too 

Martin is very familiar with the 55s, he was one of the developers 

In that case,  shouldn't Martin be handicapped 

[francesco]

Good return in the races Martin,bought you a new steerig wheel for the event?

P.S: i start to apply your fun on all the Porsche.

[maddog]

Hi Francesco!  I use your fun on these 1955 cars.  Fran painted half of them.

. . . Martin,bought you a new steerig wheel for the event?

I have a wheel made for the Playstation.  The pedals are not good, so I have a handicap.   The race is a test.

[Clive Loynes]

Oh dear!

Seven hours until the password is released and the harder I try thr slower I get!   

[bernie]

Practice last night and I got down to the lower 1m42s's laps .

Then I woke up 

[tagomago]

Great training time with Martin, Clive and Bernie

Many thanks for fun 

[EvilClive]

Oh dear!

Seven hours until the password is released and the harder I try thr slower I get!   

Keep practising hard Clive.  If the trend continues you might end up going backwards?, which is just about the only chance I have of stealing the silverware 

[Phil Thornton]

While you are practising please check your connections to the race server. It is up on IGOR now. I had problems this morning and I had to re-install the 55mod. It seems OK now and I know Louis connected OK so hopefully the server is fine now.

[tagomago]

Server is working fine Phil