Season 41 – 1955 Grand Prix – Round 8 – Privateers - Oakes Field

The eighth and final round of Season 41 takes us to Nassau in the Bahamas. The first Nassau Trophy Road Races meeting for Sports Cars was held in 1954 on the Windsor Field Course. For 1957, the meeting was moved to another airfield location, the 5 mile Oakes Course, which was closer to the main population areas on the island. The new course, despite being quite bumpy in places, was relatively well-received, though
there were a number of close shaves near the pits as it was too close to the racing line. To combat this, the race direction of the track was changed to clockwise in 1958. The circuit was also shortened to 4.5 miles by cutting out the original Blackbeard's Bend and Ecky's Twist, whilst a new left-right-left corner combination was built to connect the Sassoon Straight and Bethell's Pass, cutting out the tight hairpin which had previously taken the cars off the runway. Due to much needed track repairs and the lack of additional funding by the Bahamian government, as well as competition from more races running in December, the event was discontinued after the 1966 meeting. It is the clockwise 4.5 mile Oakes Course that we will be using for tonight's race.

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Track directory	=	Nassau
Qualifying starts	=	20:45 UK time - 45 minutes
Race starts	=	~ 21:30 UK time
Race length	=	16 laps
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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	14	Privateer
Bernie	12	Privateer
Christian Dauger	6	Privateer
Cookie	5	Privateer
dave curtis	24	Privateer
francesco	5	Privateer
maddog	18	Privateer
Moises Pereira	14	Privateer
PaulV	19	Privateer
Philippe Girard	6	Privateer
Rainier	10	Privateer
Ricardo Valim da Silva	14	Privateer

Thanks Francesco..    a great drive sir and a good win. was very close.  but was lots of fun  

All came together tonight. bettered my previous PB here by over 4.5 seconds.   well happy with tonight.  

moved my race rig back into the spare room last night after getting all the new carpets fitted for Xmas..  makes a big change to my driving not freezing to death out in the workshop.  

Im thinking the outcome of this years 55 season is going to be very close ?

I will check and let you know. 

Im not sure it was because I had better gear ratios, I think my speed was more likely due to lack of brakes !!   

Sorry Bernie for the contact between our cars.
You closed the door and I had no place to go.
Hopefully, you (and me) could continue to race and it had no consequences to the final championship result.

Congrats Francesco for the win !
Congrats Paul for the race and the great lap time
Congrats Philippe for the championship 

It could be called an oversight, but I'd not driven the Vanwall much.  So, I'd not noticed the Widescreen recently switched to, had made the cars low mirrors unviewable!  I had no time to reflect on my mistake.  The old 4x3 had not needed a Widescreen patch.

Sat on pole position as a guest driver, with the Championship at stake, somewhere, rearward and nearward.   This was not ideal, so I tactfully left the track once on lap 1, to see who was behind me, once they were in front.  It was Francesco, who had camouflaged his car in green.  I soon realized, this was not a team mate, but an Italian Demon, who quickly had me seeing a lot of dashboard red.  Whereupon he fled!  One of his new bullet proof gearboxes, working well.

My panoramic viewpoint was working well a couple of times, as a mirror substitute,  This allowed three more marauding Maserati's to briefly pass into view, before saying, "Adieu!"  Mirror problem solved. 

Many congrats. to Phillippe, Francesco, and Bernie, as the three fastest to survive, ye rigors of 1955.

Once again, I have the title, but this is due more to the regularity than to the speed.
Francesco has been unlucky this season, but next year he will get revenge.  

thank you to the organizers for these moments of relaxation thanks to the races.

Have a great christmas everyone

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