Season 40 1967F1 WORKS – Round 7 – Monsanto Park 1959

The seventh race in the 1967 Grand Prix Works series finds us in Portugal. The street circuit of Monsanto Park to be precise. Built on parkland, the circuit was considered difficult to drive because it crossed so many different types of surfaces, including tramlines at one point. The track hosted numerous races from 1954 to 1959, but only one race qualified as a Formula One event: the 1959 Portuguese Grand Prix, won by Stirling Moss. He won the race in the twilight hours, since the race was purposefully started late in the day to avoid the intense late summer sun.

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 download	=	link
Track directory	=	monsanto
Qualifying starts	=	20:45 UK time - 45 minutes
Race starts	=	~ 21:30 UK time
Race length	=	26 laps
Replay	=	HERE after the race

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

  What a great surprise Uli!!!!!! We will have our current champion this Sunday!!!!

  The grid will be much higher!

  Hi all.

  DOWLOAD MONSANTO track install
https://www.mediafire.com/file/n379ap2esoqgkww/monsanto_v101_GPL.zip/file

Hey Johnny, yes I'm looking forward to it, if I get permission too. At the moment it doesn't look like it. It still says "You are not licensed to enter this series"! I hope our admins notice soon enough that I signed up 3 days ago.

Hey Axel, thank you very much for the permission to start tonight. 

i'm sorry phil. i completly misjudged the outside line in Lap 2. Don't know if i hit the hey or you first.
i believe i baldy damaged your car. i report an incident.

For lap 1 i was on the brakes as soon as the honda went out of line, but i had no where to go and it flipped on low speed.
so sorry for AlexGPL67

   The starting grid should be expanded in the distance between riders, I like 20 m. On a track like Monsanto the number of retirements in T1 was very, very high. Disappointing!

Coming back at night to see the result I have a big surprise, a superb victory for our hero Doni!!!!! Congratulations my friend, this result certainly gave me a lot of joy, Doni is a true single-seater driver from the 70's, and seeing him win made me very happy!
  Now Farina with her great second place takes the lead in the championship, well done Farina!
  Closing the podium our current champion Uli who was returning this Sunday.

Well how 'bout that!  A surprise win on this most difficult circuit.  The Lotus worked a treat and I didn't put a foot wrong the whole meeting.  This won't happen too often I can assure you.  Drinks are on me, lads! 

Ricky a splendid run to P2.  Bravo, amigo!  And Uli taking P3 after the horror show of the first lap for him.  He surely must be as surprised and elated as I to stand on the podium after that start.

Dear me...  Four runners eliminated before a single mile in the books.  Alex, Clay, Jonny and Leo having their hopes dashed to bits.  So sorry, fellas.  With Bot spinning in the Clover Leaf and all behind having to take avoiding action, it left me clear to lead with only Ricky in close company.  Over the next laps, I gradually pulled away but it was never a comfortable walk in the park as I noted that Ricky was not all that far behind my pace in qualifying.  A single slip on my part and the results could have read otherwise.  There are so many places on this circuit where one can come to grief.

I rely exclusively on my pit board for data...Pribluda is for wimps...so as the laps reeled off, I half expected to see Ricky's name disappear off the board to be replaced by the likes of Bot, Jonny or Uli charging through.  Never happened.  Of course, I had no idea as to the mayhem that ensued on Lap01 down in the Clover Leaf.  Just eased away to a comfy lead by the end so pleased to have such a dream race meet.