Season 38 – 1955 Grand Prix – Round 1 – Works - Oakes Field

This race announcement is for the WORKS.

The first race in the 1955 Grand Prix series sees us taking a boat to Nassau in the Bahamas. The first Nassau Trophy Road Races meeting for Sports Cars was held in 1954 on the Windsor Field Course. For 1957, the meeting was moved to another airfield location, the 5 mile Oakes Course, which was closer to the main population areas on the island. The new course, despite being quite bumpy in places, was relatively well-received, though there were a number of close shaves near the pits as it was too close to the racing line. To combat this, the race direction of the track was changed to clockwise in 1958. The circuit was also shortened to 4.5 miles by cutting out the original Blackbeard's Bend and Ecky's Twist, whilst a new left-right-left corner combination was built to connect the Sassoon Straight and Bethell's Pass, cutting out the tight hairpin which had previously taken the cars off the runway. Due to much needed track repairs and the lack of additional funding by the Bahamian government, as well as competition from more races running in December, the event was discontinued after the 1966 meeting. It is the clockwise 4.5 mile Oakes Course that we will be using for tonight's race.

Race list	=	iGOR
Server	=	UKGPL04_60fps
IP address Server	=	86.6.125.152:32766
Password	=	see above
GPL Mod	=	55
60fps Patch	=	60fpsV2newmod
Track download	=	link
Track directory	=	nassau
Qualifying starts	=	20:45 UK time - 45 minutes
Race starts	=	~ 21:30 UK time
Race length	=	16 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.

Driver lists and division specific rules can be found on the championship standings page.

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	10	Works
bagrupp	10	Works
Carlos Cendejas	10	Works
Clive Loynes	10	Works
Doni Yourth	10	Works
Dulima	10	Works
Enrique Farina	10	Works
EvilClive	10	Works
fpolicardi	10	Works
Gaizka López C	10	Works
JonnyO	10	Works
Phil Thornton	10	Works
Raoni Frizzo	10	Works
romanov	10	Works
tagomago	10	Works

Yes you were correct Clive. Luiz (covisi2016) had registered but I hadn't processed his entry. Done that now so we are up to 22 drivers. I don't want anyone to miss out on Sunday so I'll provide 2 servers, one for the Works and one for the Privateers. We had to do this with the 65s yesterday, both races and both passwords will appear in the same thread.

I originally had Gaizka as a Privateer until I checked his ranking in GPL Rank  . To be fair, he hasn't got a GPL55Rank but I'm sure that will be addressed over this season.

Opps yes, I'll fix that.

Yes that's right, the "Combined" series is redundant when we use 2 servers.

Yes you are right Martin, I was making it too confusing. I've created 2 race announcements each with their own password.
This announcement has become exclusively the "Works", the other is exclusively the "Privateers".

Hopefully this is less confusing 

Please go to

https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=23372.msg447611#msg447611

for my opinion about splitting the league

Cheers