Season 39 – 1955 GP - PRIVATEERS – Round 5 – Dundrod

The fifth race in the 1955 Grand Prix series finds us at Dundrod in Northern Ireland. The Dundrod Circuit was first used in 1950 for the RAC Tourist Trophy Sports Car race and for the Formula One (non-championship) Ulster Trophy. The Sports Cars raced again in 1951 through to 1955 and the Formula 1 cars from 1951 through to 1953. The circuit comprised public roads closed for racing including a section of the B38 Hannahstown Road between Glenavy and Hannahstown, a section of the B101 Leathemstown Road from Leathemstown Corner to Dundrod and a section of the B153 Quarterland/Tornagrough Road from Cochranstown to the road junction of the B38 Upper Springsfield Road/Hannahstown Road at the Lindsay Hairpin. The last car race held on the Dundrod Circuit was the 1955 RAC Tourist Trophy race in which sadly there were 3 fatalities. The narrow, high-speed nature of the circuit, meant it was just too dangerous and since then it has only been used for motorcycle racing.

For this race we will use the 1955 layout which includes the Leathemstown Bridge section.
 

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Track download	=	Dundrod 1955
Track directory	=	Dund1955
Qualifying starts	=	20:45 UK time - 45 minutes
Race starts	=	~ 21:30 UK time
Race length	=	11 laps
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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
Albert Hallu	20	Privateer
Bernie	16	Privateer
Christian Dauger	3	Privateer
dave curtis	9	Privateer
francesco	8	Privateer
Gareth	10	Privateer
PaulV	20	Privateer
Pete Bennett	12	Privateer
Philippe Girard	14	Privateer
Rainier	10	Privateer
Ricardo Valim da Silva	12	Privateer

Congratulations to Bernie. Bravo.

I managed to blow my engine on Lap 4. That meant plenty of smoke and a max engine speed of 3,800 RPM. I have nothing better to do on a Sunday evening so I settled back for 35 minutes of super slow driving, taking in the gorgeous scenery of this track. With such a high casualty rate at this track i decided to hang on for as long as I could in the hope that I'd be rewarded with a few points. I can't quite believe it that I made the podium doing 6 minute laps for the majority of the race.

Ironically I blew the engine by trying to keep the revs down. Trying to find 5th gear in the Connaught was always going to end in disaster though. Silly me.

Congratulation to Bernie and not for me.An error during the brake at the Wheeler's caused me to lose a wheel on a pole.
Too many error this season.

Thanks for the accolades chaps , lady luck dealt me a huge handful of aces for this track , I had been testing pre race with the Masser but like others couldnt get 2 laps together without crashing out , like Dave C the big problem I had was remembering which corners were fast and which were slow escpecialy on the run from the hairpin ( they all look the same to me ) so on the last minute decided to take the Conny and not waste too many points . I had three or four brown trouser moments any of which would normally result in a disaster but I got away with it , why ? who knows , possibly my slow pace or was it because I was using the lite version of the track ?

Of coarse the win was due to good fortune more than good driving but I'm not complaining 

Grats to Albert and Pete for hanging in there . commiserations to those who tried hard but fell by the wayside 

Thank you David 

Nice of you to say that . I was hoping for a re match of the last race but it didn't turn out that way ,

I think I got your share of the luck as I re arrange the shrubbery at least 3 times and survived