Season 40 – 1968 LATE – Round 2 – Surfers Paradise

Welcome to a new season of the 1968 Mod. A slight change in the format, we will use the 68 Late car set, not the Early. The track selection has a theme. The first 5 races will be held on Tasman series tracks from Australia & New Zealand. The second half of the season will be staged on tracks in the USA.

There is no handicapping but drivers will have a limited choice of chassis for each round. The cars are divided into 5 groups, each group will have cars of similar performance level. We start with Group V and work our way up to Group I and then repeat. Group I is the fastest cars available in Formula 1 for 1968.

The second round takes place on the temporary street circuit on the Surfers Paradise, in Queensland, Australia.

The car set is Group IV. Drivers may use any of the following cars but you will be required to use a different one for Race 7.  

Honda RA 302
BRM P126/P133
Brabham BT24

Full time drivers can start to practice as soon as the server is available.  Reserve drivers can also join as soon as the server becomes available but must leave the server with 35 minutes of qualifying left, for a total of 5 minutes; this will allow any remaining full timers to join.  If there is enough space on the grid, the reserve drivers will be able to rejoin when there are 30 mins of qualifying left.  

Please read the season 40 general rules on the details.

Please read the specific rules for 68 series on the 1968 Early championship standings page.

Race list	iGOR
Server	UKGPL4_60fps
IP address	146.199.161.253:32766
Date	01-02-2022
Track download	here
Mod	68L with 60fpsV2newmod
Damage	Intermediate
Race time	~ 21:30 UK time
Qualifying	20:45 UK time - 45 minutes
Race length	41 laps
Replay	Here

ADVICE ON LAPPING. Some of the tracks in this series are short and narrow. The fastest drivers will be lapping backmarkers, perhaps more than once each race. For this year we have posted a multi-language guide to UKGPL rules on the Announcements page. This includes the etiquette for lapping. In summary the lapped car should remain on the racing line and avoid sudden or unexpected movements. To avoid holding up the lapping car the lapped driver can make way where safe to do so or gradually ease off the acceleration on a straight. Extra care should be taken by second or third lapping cars who may be closely following first lapping car.

Unlimited number of Shift-Rs are allowed with no need to make Stop & Go.

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

Yes it is the BRM P126/P133, the race post has been corrected. Thanks for spotting that Andreas 

That was a very close race, the top 5 or 6 were nose to tail for most of the race. I managed to keep the leaders in sight for the first half of the race but I think I had too short a second gear and I was tending to over-rev the motor on the twisty bits. The engine went pop about mid race and I had to do a shift-R which meant the leaders were long gone. The rest of the race was spent trying to fend off Bastian. He got within 25m of me at the flag but I held on  .

Great race from Pete to get P2 and a fine recovery drive from Tris.

Phew. Well happy with tonight. Happily at the back because I couldn't even remember if I had ever driven here.

After a couple of laps it dawned on me we had raced here before. Only joined at 20 past 9. Did 2-3 practice laps and just shortened the gearing a couple clicks, stuffed some air In the tyres add added enough fuel.

And that was that. I'm amazed  I even finished. But thoroughly enjoyed the drive in the BRM.  As Billy says the 68s are nice cars. And new PB. A decent time for me too.

Sorry to see a few guys getting tangled up early on in the race.
I had some good laps with David towards the end of the event but just couldn't catch Bernie,francesco or Evil.. and I was trying as hard as I could. Lol.

Thanks also you fast guys, as always I try to move over ASAP, as its a bit twisty and narrow. Just wanted to say thanks for being nice and sensible when boring down on me from behind.

Very often I'm sad to say (hehe) that you guys seem a little impatient.. but tonight everyone was a total gentleman racer.. cheers.

Incident at the start,my car was hit by another car.Shift-r and start to catch the other.When i was behind Bernie, for at last3 time, i have lost the contact in order to give way to the faster pilots, than Bernie described what happened.
Is possible to have the replay?

fun race, but forgot to adjust any wings.
So i was not competitive with much fuel in the race.
Lost much time when i let pass Tris, just went too wide myself, stupid.

with low fuel i could close up to phil, but it was too late.

Great fun Pete, but also big effort to not make big mistake for 41 laps. For me it happened at 40 lap when I slided too much in the last esses and rode the polo so I let by Tom without force a defence. He deserved the pass cause he was faster, but he didn't force any silly move. Great battle! 
I watched my replay and I saw that I have to apologize with Andreas for the diving bomb at T2 and following lock the track with my slide that made him go out of track to avoid me. 

You're welcome.
the worst thing is, when you make the mistake when you try to let pass him too safely, like me. i just run out of road