Season 40 1967F1 WORKS – Round 3  - Riverside International Raceway 1971
Round three in the 1967 F1 series finds us in California on the Riverside International Raceway.
The road course opened on September 21st, 1957, and operated until 1988. The dragstrip operated from 1959 through 1970, and from 1983 through 1986.
All time statistics tracks fatal casualties all  over the world shows  Riverside road course on the podium, just after Nürburgring and Brands Hatch.
  

Race list	=	iGOR
Server	=	UKGPL04_60fps
IP address	=	146.199.161.253:32766
Password	=	see above
GPL Mod	=	67F1
Damage model	=	PRO
60fps Patch	=	60fpsV2newmod
Track Folder	=	river71
Track Download	=	here
Qualifying starts	=	20:45 UK time - 45 minutes
Race starts	=	~ 21:30 UK time
Race length	=	28 laps
Replay	=	HERE

Please READ CAREFULLY THESE NEW RULES :

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

Drivers must use 7 different chassis for their first 7 races.
Only when a driver has used all 7 chassis, will they be allowed to select a chassis for the second time.
Any driver who uses a chassis for the second time before all 7 chassis have been used once, will be disqualified from the race.
Any driver who uses a chassis he has already used twice will be disqualified from the race.

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.

A bonus point will be awarded for pole position.
A bonus point will be awarded for the fastest lap.

MOD PRO so no shift-R

Only reported incidents will be moderated.

Please, excepting emergencies, no chat until Session Completed in qualification. No chat in the race until ALL drivers still racing have crossed the line.

Please check the Season 40 details regarding rules and the 1967 F1 Works Championship pages in particular.

Chassis usage so far:

Driver	Driven Once
Alain Maurice	Honda
AlexGPL67	Cooper	Ferrari
Baab	Cooper
bagrupp	BRM	Ferrari
Claudio Navonne	Eagle
Doni Yourth	Cooper	BRM
Enrique Farina	BRM	Lotus
EvilClive	Cooper	BRM
fpolicardi	Cooper	Ferrari
Frank Verplanken
GrandPrixYannick
GregT	Cooper	Honda
JonnyO	BRM	Honda
K.Miele	Cooper	Ferrari
Lasse Albrecht	BRM
Leo Menegucci	Brabham	Lotus
MagicArsouille	BRM	Ferrari
Phil Thornton	Cooper	Brabham
R_Jungle	Ferrari
RBald	BRM	Honda
Syd Drake	BRM	Lotus

Indeed an ectic start with many engines blown and some crash to avoid, I lost concentration and lost it at T3 rebounding from the haybail on Clive car. I'm very sorry Clive, I hope you could continue in your favourite car  , absolutely not mine   

A Honda that started in front of me got stuck at the start. I had to stand still, waiting for the blow, which finally came. In spite of everything I was able to continue (miracle) and I had a beautiful race with Enrique and Doni. And as I had a better car than both of them (they had Hondas), I was able to keep up with them with the Ferrari. Congratulations to the podium. And thanks for organising this!

Leo

I noticed to dropped off the server in practice a few times, in fact you only just managed to reconnect just before the race started. Is your ping high? I have set the max ping to 500mS but if it is causing problems for you I will not set a max ping. I have just changed ISP, I need to know if the performance of my server has changed.

Actually, despite my absurd mistake, I really liked this race.
   As I always say, I like to run to compete, and if victory is in that competition, welcome.
   After my mistake I fell in position 7 after having been at 4 for some time.
   I loved the handling that Claudio had in that Ferrari, and doni with his slingshot too, spectacular way of defending himself against Claudio and running without making a single mistake (I made the mistakes myself)
    a big round of applause for the great navone, who made my afternoon, and left me very happy, a 7th position that I loved, it's nice to run like this.
   congratulations to the podium, and a real shame what happened at the start, jonnie.... 

  No problem at all qualy or before the server.....and then at the start at 7000 rpm the stomp ends its life......if you fall into the GPL statistic, be satisfied.
  Congratulations to the podium!!!!

  Even so, very happy with the quality!

Cheers Clive!  Well, seems like I was really lucky last night, far enough up the grid that I avoided all the stranded cars, Alien Jonny blowing it off the line, there was no chance of running with him, then I managed to survive a couple of offs too. 

I did a bit of praccy for this one and was encouraged by my pace in the Ferrari, being able to match the UKGPL records, so thought it was worth taking a faster car...until I saw Jonny's pace in the Lotus!  I lead away from the start with Greg right on my case, where he would stay until I crashed at the esses at about mid distance.  The crash left me in Greg's path, I wasn't sure where to go and unfortunately he couldn't avoid me and we both went off, but luckily we could also  continue.  I didn't have any noticeable damage and set off after Greg with Leo (I think) now right on my tail.  Greg was flying now clearly trying to pull a gap but after a lap or two he also got it wrong in the esses and went off.  After another couple of laps Leo must have had a moment and I suddenly had 6 secs which I could then manage to the end.

So a lucky and rare win, the stars aligned n that!  Pleased to get some points on the board.  There were also some sterling drives further down the order by those in slower machinery, great effort guys.

Cheers for organizing

Bob.

Great job by our podium finishers.  Well done, chaps.

I never would have predicted a P5 finish for myself and to be sure, the misfortune of others figured large in that.

Things went sour early for so many.  Jonny's Cosworth failing a handful of metres into the race.  A finger of guilt needs to be pointed my way as I clipped Clay's Ferrari and sent him into a spin.  He was slow to get away thanks to Bot's lethargic launch.  Sorry for that, Clay.  I didn't even know that I nudged you til viewing the replay cap.  So many others had dramas thanks to that contact.  Sorry, gys.

A major development on Lap07 was Ricky spinning away a solid placing in his Honda in the Esses allowing me to move up a place.  I held my breath as I went by fearing a repeat of the Assen horror last season when he pulled across the road directly in front of my Cooper on the pit straight and I hit him broadside on the far side of 100mph.

I was running well til a slight gaffe on Lap08 as I dropped a wheel onto the apron in T9 and lost a second in what must be some sticky grass.  This let Clay close and for many a lap following, I saw his Ferrari getting ever bigger in my mirrors.  That he finished the first lap fully 10 seconds behind me and was now emerging as a threat is a testament to a brilliant recovery from that grid cockup.  I noted a white car not far behind Clay's Ferrari and figured that this must be Ricky in recovery mode.

The laps were reeling off and I was having to push quite hard to maintain the gap to Clay.  It was diminishing slowly and I could only hope that he didn't pick up the slipstream to close in over the last laps.  Made it to the flag with barely a second in hand and Ricky hot on his tail.  A quite satisfying and enjoyable result if rather a lot of work in a tension-filled race.