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« Reply #15 on: December 14, 2020, 01:08:00 AM +0000 » |
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Phill Thornton, watch the replay because I didn't get any hay , it was another pilot! It was me Too bad I got the same turn wrong so many times, the last but one left hander, and the last time was after have passed Phil smoking missing the battle with Alain in the latter part of the race. I thought to know the track before the race, but I didn't! Next season!
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« Reply #16 on: December 14, 2020, 09:21:34 AM +0000 » |
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Congratulations to Clive Loynes ( again!!!). Your consistency trumped my dumb mistakes through the season, but next season....oh yes! next season will be different.......maybe . Another terrific season and some great competition in the 55's. Grats to Jonny for the win at Monsanto and to all who finished. Going into the final race, there was still a mathematical chance for a few drivers to steal the trophy, if Clive failed to finish. The problem with that theory is Clive himself. He is just too damned reliable!! and we all knew, and more importantly he knew, that he just had to finish in a reasonable place to grab a few points to hold on to top spot. My only hope was to finish 1st and see what happened elsewhere. I took the fastest car available with the tokens that I had left, the Lancia, which I agree is a little fragile, but the size of my challenge doubled when I saw Jonny's Merc . Starting from 3rd I outdragged Clive off the grid and tucked in behind Jonny's silver arrow and was pleasantly surprised to find that I could stay on his tail on the long uphill straight. I followed Jonny for a few laps as we edged away from Clive in 3rd place, then I saw that my team mate had passed Clive and demoted him to 4th !!! I was too busy wrestling with a far from perfect setup to do the maths in my head, but I was certain that it opened up an opportunity . On the next lap I got a good run out of the T2 hairpin, up that long hill behind the Merc and a great run through the fast right-left corners. I think that I had the perfect line/speed on that lap ( no other lap felt as good as that one through there!) as I carried maybe 10kph more than Jonny and it simply carried me past him and into the lead. I pushed hard to try and break away, but ended up trying too hard and overdriving. In these cars pushing an extra 5mtrs in the braking zone is never a good idea and I had a few narrow escapes, until I scorched the rear tyres and they gave up the battle out of the final corner spinning me into the pit lane. Like Jonny has already said," you cannot give a Merc a 10 second lead and hope to catch up". The rest of the race was a long hard slog hoping that he would make a mistake(s). But his lead was enough to give him a safety cushion and I was not fast enough to make any impression on his lead. Thanks to everyone who organised and raced. Looking forward to next season already
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« Reply #17 on: December 14, 2020, 11:41:29 AM +0000 » |
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Most of us were round the bend to start this race, but the start went well enough. My Merc. went to work with more thunder than thud, which is a good sign, but a race is not without it's hazards. A few laps in, and my trusty steed decided it didn't like slow, right hand corners? I noticed this, while sideways and stationary across the track, approaching the startline. Somehow, I'd picked up a squirrely car! Seeing no squirrel's onboard, the next thought was a loose nut, or loose wheel due to excess sawing at corners. Found and tightened left screw clamp successfully, while at speed. Squirrelous behaviour continued. This time, taking both hands off the wheel, I discovered the right clamp fully on the loose! And so, from a meandering Merc. at nearing top speed, I tightened the right clamp, previously left. Problem continues, and with the dented bodywork to prove it! The upright driving position I use, won't let me drive straight by using my thighs, which is possible, when this sort of thing happens in a real F1. Risking a hellish accident once more, I confirmed having expertly re-clamped the right clamp onto thin air, rather than some non-squirrely lump! By pushing on the pedals with feet, and steering wheel with hands at each corner, 21 laps are survived. A great track to race on, and great bravery from all who participated, with or without a screw loose. Ye Racing apparatus needs a tuneup.
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« Reply #18 on: December 14, 2020, 12:45:31 PM +0000 » |
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A great track to race on , challenging enough to not get bored plus a nice long straight to get your breath back after each gyration , not that I did much of that . The start was a lottery with the tail end of the grid having no sight of the flag, so by the time we got moving the leaders must have already done half a lap ! after a few laps got settled down and passed a few stragglers , mostly blown engines and accidents , Rainier caught me up and a small mistake let him through , spent the rest of the race trying to keep up but my Maserati had a horrible misfire all through the race and the unpredictable behavior didn't give me much confidence to press on , so in the end I was just glad to finish in one piece . Grats to my friend Clive , team leader and coach for a well deserved championship hoping you can repeat and for better results for myself next season !
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« Reply #19 on: December 14, 2020, 07:16:20 PM +0000 » |
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Phill Thornton, watch the replay because I didn't get any hay , it was another pilot! It was me Ahh, was watching Pribluda carefully (so I knew when to get out of the way) as I trundled round in my smoking Maserati. Just after I passed you the gap back to JonnyO stopped reducing and got bigger which made me think it was JonnyO stuck in the hay bales. It was about half a lap before JonnyO started moving again on Pribluda. I have Pribluda on time difference which does seem to be a bit erratic, perhaps distance setting would be more stable?
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« Reply #20 on: December 15, 2020, 07:29:29 AM +0000 » |
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Good morning all
Well done Clive, Jonny and Evil for your championship.
Jonny for this victory.
I took the Vanwall because I had a setup and no time to ride better. My 1st gear was very long and I suspected that at the start it was going to be difficult but not to this point.
I lose several places before making a lot of mistakes. Bad race for me.
Thank you for the perfect organization and see you soon
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« Reply #21 on: December 16, 2020, 09:55:47 PM +0000 » |
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Many thanks to all for the kind words and congratulations. I think that that is my hat-trick of championship wins so do I get to keep the virtual trophy? A nice steady run to third place was what I had in mind but Doni was the fly in the ointment. It was difficult to get a traffic free lap in qually and when Jonny took the benchmark into the 7 second band it would have needed my Sunday best, which never happens on Sundays! In my prep for this race I was alarmed to find that I was destroying Lancia engines at quite a rate. I think that it must be down to the jump and the bumps. Anyway, as Jonny has already eluded, the secret of winning is to drive as slowly as possible to take the race/championship. The last thing that I wanted was a DNF. So after the start, when Evil made a good get away and I was left with my two main rivals right where I wanted them, I was feeling quite chuffed. Sadly that is always a recipe for disaster in my case. Feeling relaxed as we headed up from the Lake Hairpin, I lobbed in an extra gear change to be kind to the engine. Then my brain jumped out of gear and I didn't correct the situation after the jump. That left me understeering wide at the right-hander and into the straw bales. Thankfully all my wheels stayed attached but as I extractated myself from the grip of the bales, Doni motored past me. Now the numbers that I had in my head said that 3rd was ok but I wasn't sure about 4th! So I had to deviate from the plan and get a bit racy to get back past Doni. This I managed, I think it was on lap three by slipstreaming up the hill from the Clover Leaf Hairpin. Doni then obliged by having his own encounter with the straw bales, which left me in my preferred "comfortable" position. This allowed me to drop back into engine conservation mode. And so the rest of the race continued until the last few laps when Doni got his second wind and was once again large in my mirrors. He was very quick through the last left-hander and on a couple of occasions I thought that he might have a lunge into the Pits Hairpin. But he didn't. Perhaps as Jonny suggested he didn't want to be the bloke who settled the championship with a prang. I must also thank Fran for spotting me as I came up to lap him and for not delaying my progress. Congratulations to Fran for his Privateer's Trophy and for leading SBRC to the Privateer's Team Prize. Hope that Mable managed to get out of the way when Evil did his impromptu pit stop. I saw the marks on the road and never dreamed that it would have been him! It has been a really enjoyable season but I think that I may have to up my game for the next one, especially at the start of the season. Such was the level of performance of the SBRC Privateers, we also managed to take the Combined Team Award, so a damn good season all-in-all.
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« Reply #22 on: December 17, 2020, 05:22:13 AM +0000 » |
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Congratulations to Fran for his Privateer's Trophy and for leading SBRC to the Privateer's Team Prize. Thank you Clive,excluding the last 3 races,was a good season for me.At Roy Hesketh i'm not able to be fast, but in the others I had problems with the engine or the steering wheel. Thank you for the organisation of this championship.
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« Reply #23 on: December 17, 2020, 02:06:09 PM +0000 » |
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The new/revisiting drivers at this event seemed to take to 55mod quite well because it isn't such a trial on the brake management side. Perhaps a fun spec race in Gordinis might be an idea.
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« Reply #24 on: December 17, 2020, 05:13:14 PM +0000 » |
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there aint no such thing as a "fun" race This is GPL
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« Reply #25 on: December 17, 2020, 05:35:22 PM +0000 » |
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there aint no such thing as a "fun" race This is GPL I get your drift and totally agree! The moment you say that it's a "race" then all concepts of having fun, ie driving withing your comfort zone just for enjoyment are straight out of the window! The fun comes from winning!!!
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« Reply #26 on: December 17, 2020, 06:26:40 PM +0000 » |
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I disagree! Racing is fun - no need to win to have fun. It was not less fun when after a long 69x race in Monza10k Doni got me on the line for some hundreds of a second. When I moved to senior housing, I left all the trophies behind and only took this one with me. Ok, the picture shows my car after the first win, but the cup is from a special race ~1980 with a friend who won by 0,2sec. such a car in action (min 4:00) on my favourite track https://youtu.be/DVt7ysn7XfE
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« Reply #28 on: December 18, 2020, 12:56:18 PM +0000 » |
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« Reply #29 on: December 18, 2020, 06:57:09 PM +0000 » |
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I disagree!
Racing is fun - no need to win to have fun.
We shall just have to agree to differ on that one Axel.
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