Season 38 – 1967 Sprint F1 WORKS – Round 9 – Reims
The ninth race in the 1967 Sprint series finds us at Reims in France.  The circuit is basically several long straights with a couple of hairpins and a few cornfields. Catching a tow is what this track is about. It normally produces close racing. Reims-Gueux was first established in 1926 on the public roads between the small French villages of Thillois and Gueux. The circuit had two very long straights between the towns, and teams strove to maximize straight-line speed of their cars; many slipstream battles ensued. Race organizers actually felled trees and demolished old houses in order to make the circuit even quicker. International racing came with the first official Formula One event occurring in 1950, the inaugural year of the Formula One world championship. The circuit layout was shortened and changed in 1952 to bypass the town. In the 1954 race, the long-awaited Mercedes W196 with its straight-8 fuel-injection engine made its debut with Juan Manuel Fangio transferring from Maserati to join an otherwise all-German line-up of Hans Herrmann, Karl Kling and pre-war driver Hermann Lang. It was a dominant return with Fangio recording a practice lap of 124.31 mph. He and Kling led away and continued to race side by side around the Reims track. The Ferrari drivers simply couldn't cope with the pace. There was no race at Reims in 1955 and when the Grand Prix circus returned in 1956, it was without the silver arrows. Fangio dominated again but this time in a resurgent Ferrari team who's drivers also claimed the remaining podium places.

Race list	= iGOR
Server	= UKGPL05_60fps
IP address	= 86.6.125.152:32666
Date	= 30-05-2021
Password	= see above
GPL Mod	= 67
60fps Patch	= 60fpsV2newmod
Track	reims
Track directory	= reims
Damage	= PRO
Qualifying starts	= between 20:45 and 21:00 UK time - until 21:30
Race starts	= ~ 21:30 UK time
Race length	= 23 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 Season 38 pages for details regarding the rules and the 1967 F1 Works pages in particular.

Handicapping
This serie is a joint championship with GPL Brazil so, please, read carefully these new and specific rules :

Drivers will have a FREE CHOICE of chassis however, a bonus of 50 championship points will awarded to each driver that uses all 7 chassis.

To qualify for bonus points, each chassis should be used at least once and no chassis can be used more than twice."

A bonus point will be awarded for pole position.

A bonus point will be awarded for the fastest lap.

Any driver who uses the same chassis more than twice will not be awarded any bonus points.

A driver must cross the start line in order to register the use of a chassis, participation in qualifying is not sufficient.

It is not necessary to use 7 different chassis for the first 7 races.
However at the end of the season, all 7 chassis must have been used to qualify for the bonus points.

Points will be allocated from 1st to 12th as follows: 20, 15, 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
Drivers must complete 75% race distance to score.
All rounds count towards the driver's championship.

For each race, only the top two drivers from each team count towards team championship.
All rounds count towards team championship.

Drivers are reminded that Lap 1 incidents do carry an extra 1 place penalty.

Only reported incidents will be moderated.


CHASSIS USED AFTER 8 RACES :

Driver	Once	Twice	Three+	Bonus
Alain Maurice	BRM Honda Cooper Brabham Ferrari Lotus	Eagle		Yes
AlexGPL67	BRM Honda Cooper Ferrari Eagle Lotus	Brabham		Yes
AnGex (Andreas)	BRM Honda Cooper	Ferrari Eagle		Not yet
Arf Arf Arf	BRM Honda Cooper Ferrari Eagle Lotus	Brabham		Yes
Baab	BRM Honda Cooper Brabham	Ferrari Lotus		Not yet
Bagrupp	BRM Honda Cooper Brabham	Ferrari Eagle		Not yet
Carlos Cendejas	Cooper			Not yet
Cookie	Eagle Lotus		Cooper	No
Doni Yourth	BRM Cooper Brabham Ferrari	Honda Lotus		Not yet
Enrique Farina	BRM Cooper Brabham Eagle Lotus			Not yet
EvilClive	BRM Honda Ferrari Lotus	Cooper Eagle		Not yet
fpolicardi	Honda Cooper Brabham Lotus	BRM Ferrari		Not yet
Frank Verplanken	Eagle			Not yet
GregT	BRM Honda Cooper Brabham	Ferrari Eagle		Not yet
JonnyO	BRM Honda Cooper Brabham Ferrari	Lotus		Not yet
K.Miele	BRM Honda Cooper Ferrari Eagle Lotus	Brabham		Yes
Lasse Albrecht	BRM Brabham Eagle			Not yet
MagicArsouille	Honda Cooper Brabham	Eagle Lotus		Not yet
Markus Friedrich	Cooper			Not yet
Raoni Frizzo	Eagle		Lotus	No
Renato Jungle	Ferrari Eagle			Not yet
Ricaramos				Not yet
Syd Drake	Eagle		Lotus	No

Jonny,
which race has been cancelled ? Bathurst ? Is it official ? I can't remember ...

So does the Bathurst result stand?

I'm unable to join this race as my GPL woes have multiplied. Nothing recognised now, rasterisers have disappeared etc. Guess I'll need to find the time to reinstall everything, because piecemeal app replacement has just made things worse....

Renato why did you slowed down and downshift on a flat out turn? I couldn't avoid you at all 

I try everythings , maybe 2548 times to connect !! ... no way !!....

Sorry about that Tris. Did you try to connect via iGOR or directly via GPL? If you tried to connect via GPL you needed to use the correct port number (32666)

Congrats Axel, Bob, and Frank! It was nice to see Axel get a win this season. It looks like we still have a battle between Frank and Bob for the championship.

I enjoyed this one. The only problem I had was a small lack of discipline. I guess I thought trying to do a 1:58 in the race was more fun than winning. It's a shame I had such a slow recovery.

I was happy when Bob got the lead with me in P2. It looked like it might be a great day for Team Baarf. Even though I did pass Bob once, I tried to leave him some room in front of me. I was a little worried I might need the slipstream so I couldn't leave him too much room. I was disappointed to see him go off the track but I was relieved when I saw that he was still running a few laps later.

Thanks for the fun guys. I appreciate it.