UKGPL Season 37 (2020) Mixed Open Wheel - Albi - Oct 13

[Philippe Girard]

I had achieved the essential by keeping a good rhythm, in front of david rainier and alain maurice in particular, my best friends!
Doni was faster behind me, and wanting to let him pass, I slowed down and he harpooned me.
result, reset and restart!
bad luck for me, I had planned to finish without lapping   
Bravo tristan, tom, axel.

[Billy Nobrakes]

On the plus side this race was rather more fun than Wiesbaden on Sunday.
I was being very consistent until I ran wide letting Tristan & Tom past. After that I just made sloppy mistakes every few laps. This enable Phil to catch up. His Cooper didn't have the pace to pass until he sneaked through a gap that I left for Uli to lap me. Totally legitimate move. I was looking forward to a chance to challenge for the lost place but missed my brake point a few turn later which allowed Fran to close up & draft past - another place lost.

[Doni Yourth]

Yes, sorry for that, Philippe.  I wasn't in a position to challenge so just stayed tucked into your slipstream.  I backed out of the throttle a little early for safety's sake but as you note above, so did you.  The result was grisly.

I had a blinder of a start jumping both Andreas and Philippe to take up station behind Uli as we approached T1.  Uli had an atrocious getaway dropping fully three positions to Alex, Axel and Bastian.  Axel and Bastian swept into T1 near side-by-side and I can only think that Uli figured that a shunt was at hand.  He stood on the brakes slowing to a crawl which caught me completely off-guard.  I drilled him hard.  Surviving that but now virtually stopped, Andreas could do nothing to avoid me.  A healthy butt-ram sent me into orbit and caused all manner of drama for everyone else trailing.  I couldn't quite hardly believe it but I landed back on my wheels so carried on in P14.  Groan...

The next laps were quite fun as I picked off some slower cars ala Phil's Cooper.  Got a bit of a fright on Lap05 when coming off the back straight and rounding Virage du Parc, I had a Honda cut straight across my bow from the grass verge.  A close thing.  This was Uli who'd fallen off the road and was recovering from P5.  This promotion had me up to P10 with some runners not far ahead.  Over the next laps, I closed to challenge Alain...going very well in the puny BT7...and Dave.  I slipstreamed AM for a pass and then Dave spun in the last corner to hand me P8 to start Lap12.  Well!  Far beyond my expectations considering the Lap01, T1 dramas.  A couple of laps later, I noticed a Honda next down in my mirrors.  This was Uli recovering from his earlier spin.  It was at just about this time that my vision started to fade.  I neglected to take my Restasis eye meds earlier in the day believing that I'd make it through the race without difficulties.  If I'm on the computer for anything over about two hours, the medication is essential but I had only a light day in front of the monitor.  I figured wrong.

By Lap17, Uli was right with me and I did not put up a fight in a pass scenario for the far hairpin.  I rode along in his slipstream til Lap21 when we caught a battle between Philippe, Andreas and Bastian.  Starting Lap22, Andreas got into T1 a little off-line and had to lift.  A gift for both Uli and myself.  A lap later and Uli passed Philippe.  My turn next.  Well, no as it turned out.  See paragraph #1 above.

Recovering from that shunt, I put in another lap before calling it quits with the eyes blurring over evermore.  Fun while it lasted.

Grats to our podium especially Alex for a fine job in the little BT7.  Great job.

[Alain Maurice]

Good morning all

Bravo Tristan, Tom and Alessandro, the best driver Bt7

Race mostly on my own, I'm not fast and wastes time every lap.
At the end of the race, I gain 2 places following the reset and stop & go of 2 playmates, I didn't ask for any.

I hope to be faster for the next one.

Thanks to the organizers ++

The formula of this championship is very fun

[uli]

Congratulation to you Tristan, ToM and Alessandro
nice to see my Teamie Axel finishing on fourth but missing Teamie Clive – hope you are well.
Welcome back here in the UK ToM. As I saw you have had big fun racing with Tristan.
I was sure that I would have no chance against the two fast Ferraris and expect that I would lose places at the start, because of my long first gear but an additional hit from behind was not calculated.
So my race for podium was even finished after the first corner – totally nonsense on a track where overtaking is so easy.
My first catching up was stopped in the green = P15 but from that moment on I had a nice race, got to know the most of my colleagues much better . . .
This time my race setup was much too conservative, too long gears, too cold tires, too much fuel and above all, not enough top speed – but that was a secure way remaining the engine intact and seeing the chequered.
I am already looking forward to the next, finally a real classic track

[Phil Thornton]

Update: I've got everything set up for the next round: 1966 Mod, EagleT1F, 60FPS, Clermont, reliable set-up, fuel. I'll try to arrive a bit earlier next time so that I can make sure I can join the server.

Pete, server is back up if you want to test your connection and find out what went wrong.

[Pete Bennett]

Thanks, Phil. Much appreciated.

Different problem tonight. First I was told in gem that I couldn't join the race without the track installed. Weird! It's there and working fine offline. So, I made a backup of the Albi67 folder and downloaded a new one (without any updates). Bingo, the track was found in Gem and I was able to join server with 60Fps and no message telling me that I was not qualified to join. Albi without updates gave me a missing sky and a patchwork racing groove but at least I could join the server at FPS in 65 mod, exactly what I was trying to do yesterday.

I then updated Albi67 folder with updated graphics (I left other track ini files alone) and now it all works just fine. I can connect as expected and drive on a track that looks up to date.

So, I'll leave well alone and keep my fingers crossed for next time. I'm still not sure if yesterday's problem was related to Gem, Igor, a dodgy Albi67 folder or my stupidity. Whatever the cause, I'll blame a Windows update.

Thanks once again for your help and for running the server for me to test. This community is awesome. I'll just pop back to iGor now to try once again just to make sure that my earlier success wasn't just a one-off. Cheers.

[Phil Thornton]

I'm pleased to see you got it sorted. Hope you have better luck for the next race

[Cookie]

I am really not happy with my result...

so I waited some days

now I learn - you cannot rely on everyone's sportmanship

[Rainier]

I am really not happy with my result...

I would be very happy to finish 4th 

I have no idea what happened to you but you can report an incident   

[Cookie]

Usually the fun of racing starts with such a tight ride,
I remember a race in Spa67 with Robert with BT7 all laps wheel to wheel.



https://www.ukgpl.com/rec_dvr_beh/rec_driver_beh.htm

[Alessandro Isacchini]

Hi Cookie, first of all sorry that you are angry
then, yours are strong words and if there is some problem or doubt there is a report, writing here in this manner maybe is not the best way for learn to be sportsmen, and if I am so, why I let you pass in the lap 3 left you all the space? and why you in the lap 26 tried to tighten the curve if I was there? I hat to go in the grass for avoid you and for this I was wide, why you don't leave me space like in lap 3?
I m sorry again Axl and I accept of course if the mods penalized me, simply in race I was convinced that I didn't have all the blame

Here other views of accident where is clear "my will to throw you out"

https://youtu.be/faM3jgx1NFQ

[Cookie]

I am just disappointed...

I never said you intended it!

My intention was to let you pass and sit behind you til last lap!