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Season 37 – 1955 Grand Prix – Round 8 – Roy Hesketh
After a stint on a large flat out oval in the USA, the eighth race in the 1955 Grand Prix series sees us taking a boat back across the Atlantic Ocean to the comparatively tiny Roy Hesketh circuit in South Africa. Located on the outskirts of Pietermaritzburg in KwaZulu-Natal, the circuit was named after a South African racing driver, the late Roy Hesketh who died in in an aircraft collision 1944. Doug Aldridge, Colin Dove, Ossie Fisher, George Finch and George Shrives got together as a Consortium from Pietermaritzburg in the early nineteen fifties to first build and then maintain and improve the circuit.
During its period of operation (1953-1981) the circuit hosted rounds of the South African National Drivers Championship, and national Formula Atlantic races. The South African National Drivers Championship was a Formula One motor racing championship which generally fielded cars recently retired from the world championship although there was also a healthy selection of locally built or modified machines, and from the late 60s Formula 5000 was added to grids with Formula Two cars joining in 1973.
The circuit also hosted the Easter races - a festival of motorcycle racing over three days. Mike Hailwood, Giacomo Agostini, Barry Sheene, Kork Ballington, Jim Redman, Paddy Driver, Mike Grant, Rod Gray and Syd Stacy were regular competitors at the circuit. Please read the championship specific rules on the championship standings page.
Race list | iGOR | Server | UKGPL_4 | IP address | 77.102.28.179 | Date | 15-11-2020 | Track | rhesketh | Mod | 55GP with 60fpsV2newmod | Damage | PRO long | Race time | ~ 21:30 UK time | Qualifying | 20:45 UK time - 45 minutes | Race length | 35 laps | Replay | here |
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 aboveDriver lists can be found on the championship standings pageHandicapping 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 Privateers 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 | Alain Maurice | 6 | Works | bagrupp | 1 | Works | Clive Loynes | 7 | Works | Cookie | 0 | Works | Doni Yourth | 27 | Works | Dulima | 17 | Works | Enrique Farina | 15 | Works | EvilClive | 10 | Works | fpolicardi | 2 | Works | Gareth | 0 | Works | GrandPrixYannick | 5 | Works | JonnyO | 20 | Works | Phil Thornton | 8 | Works | Raoni Frizzo | 20 | Works | Albert Hallu | 2 | Privateer | bernie | 5 | Privateer | covisi2016 | 2 | Privateer | Daniel_San | 10 | Privateer | francesco | 0 | Privateer | maddog | 15 | Privateer | maestro57 | 10 | Privateer | PaulV | 10 | Privateer | Ricardo Valim da Silva | 17 | Privateer | tagomago | 20 | Privateer |
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Clive Loynes
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« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2020, 10:59:48 PM +0000 » |
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I could put some of Doni's tokens to good use!
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EvilClive
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« Reply #2 on: November 12, 2020, 05:09:57 PM +0000 » |
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Hands off! Doni is MY Blue Moose teammate and we are the best of buddies. Ain't that the truth Doni
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« Reply #3 on: November 12, 2020, 06:02:45 PM +0000 » |
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Perhaps we should let team members donate tokens? After all they effectively did that in the 50's (e.g. German GP 1953 Ascari and Villoresi switched cars). (only joking - runs away after lighting blue touch paper )
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Clive Loynes
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« Reply #4 on: November 12, 2020, 07:06:38 PM +0000 » |
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Perhaps we should let team members donate tokens? After all they effectively did that in the 50's (e.g. German GP 1953 Ascari and Villoresi switched cars). (only joking - runs away after lighting blue touch paper )
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« Reply #5 on: November 12, 2020, 08:47:46 PM +0000 » |
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Ooooooooo Phil !!! now there's an idea for next season
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« Reply #6 on: November 12, 2020, 11:31:52 PM +0000 » |
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I'd be happy to loan some tokens to whomever. The interest terms would be quite reasonable. 100%/lap, all sessions. Takers?
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Clive Loynes
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« Reply #7 on: November 13, 2020, 10:34:56 AM +0000 » |
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I'd be happy to loan some tokens to whomever. The interest terms would be quite reasonable. 100%/lap, all sessions. Takers? I think that Evil should take up that offer. He would be skint by the end of qually!
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« Reply #8 on: November 13, 2020, 10:48:59 AM +0000 » |
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Oooh! but Clive, I only just noticed that you have fewer tokens than my own poor self. So, I will, if you will muhahahahaha. Hmmm, just took a long, close look at the points table and my chances do not look good, with only 3 races left. Can we add a couple of races to the calendar because of Covid??? ( it seems that everyone else is using that excuse, so thought it was worth a try??!! ) I might have to do some proper homework/practice and actually plan cars/circuits/tokens if I want to bother Mr Loynes, Dulima. JonnyO, Fran or Phil. Arnold!!, Mabel!! get off your fat a**s and roll the cars out of the garage. We have work to do!! But put the kettle on first for a brew and a Hobnob
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Clive Loynes
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« Reply #9 on: November 15, 2020, 06:56:13 PM +0000 » |
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This really is a difficult circuit. Just when I thought that I had sorted a setup for the race I realised that my downshifts were a tad aggressive and likely to blow the engine before the end of the race.
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« Reply #10 on: November 15, 2020, 08:04:03 PM +0000 » |
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Ive knocked 3 secs per off my PB by raising the ride hiegth to 5 inch allround . This effectively puts the Maseratti into "off road " mode , allowing it to cut across the grass , escp. going into the esses . Top Tip . Aim directly for the "keep off the grass" sign Works for me
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« Reply #11 on: November 15, 2020, 08:54:34 PM +0000 » |
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Sorry I was a bit late starting the server gents. I need to reset my computer clock it is 5 mins slow!
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« Reply #12 on: November 15, 2020, 11:03:27 PM +0000 » |
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I've loaded the chassis the drivers used into the token calculator spreadsheet. For the next race the available tokens will be as declared in the table below (the table will also appear in the next race announcement). The calculated values are automated but selecting the cars is a manual process so please check your tokens to make sure I haven't made a silly error. Unfortunately Albert didn't have enough tokens for the Mercedes W196 so he overspent and consequently is disqualified. Albert please have another look at the rules on the championship page. If you want me to translate them for you (into Portuguese?) I can do that with an internet translator but I won't be able to verify the translation, I'll have to trust the translator. Driver | Tokens | Status | Alain Maurice | 11 | Works | bagrupp | 11 | Works | Clive Loynes | 12 | Works | Cookie | 0 | Works | Doni Yourth | 22 | Works | Dulima | 15 | Works | Enrique Farina | 20 | Works | EvilClive | 8 | Works | fpolicardi | 7 | Works | Gareth | 0 | Works | GrandPrixYannick | 10 | Works | JonnyO | 15 | Works | Phil Thornton | 6 | Works | Raoni Frizzo | 20 | Works | Albert Hallu | 0 | Privateer | bernie | 3 | Privateer | covisi2016 | 2 | Privateer | Daniel_San | 10 | Privateer | francesco | 5 | Privateer | maddog | 10 | Privateer | maestro57 | 8 | Privateer | PaulV | 10 | Privateer | Ricardo Valim da Silva | 15 | Privateer | tagomago | 25 | Privateer |
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« Reply #13 on: November 15, 2020, 11:14:16 PM +0000 » |
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Unfortunately I had problems with the frames again, this makes it difficult to guide.
I went to the end of the grid and I've been doing my recovery run.
There were many good battles, but unfortunately I ended up playing Phill.
I ask forgiveness Phill, the time you missed and ran, i thought you would make the line out of the curve, at these times, we came back a little scared for the race.
And the pribluda goes unnoticed
When I saw it, you were already on top, I braked
But I couldn't avoid the touch. I'm glad you stayed in the race.
I was wrong for not returning the position, but in the heat of the race, hallucinated to get to Alain , I just thought about returning the position, down there in the brakes
Then it was too late.
Again, I'm sorry Phill, I try to be as clean as possible.
Congratulations Clive, for the victory and congratulations to the podium!
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« Reply #14 on: November 15, 2020, 11:17:33 PM +0000 » |
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Really, using the translator, it looks awful
I'll warn Albert
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