Season 42 – F1 67 WORKS – Round 10 – WIESBADEN

The 10th and final round of the Season 42 takes us to Wiesbaden in Germany.
The Wiesbadener Automobiel-Turnier was an event first organised in the early 1920s. Apart from the Hohe Wurzel hillclimb and a gymkhana, it also included races for sports- and racing cars titled Rund um den Neroberg from 1924-1929 and in 1931. Motorcycles were also catered for at least once, in 1927. The races were originally held on an eight-shaped 12.5 km circuit north of the city, which comprised 86 curves through undulating terrain. Large parts of this course seem to have vanished since. The sole documented fastest lap is Hans Stuck's 9.22,0 = 80.1 km/h (1928). In 1931, the race took place once more, now on a shortened, or possibly completely new, 4.6 km circuit. Bugatti-driver Heinrich Joachim von Morgen clocked the fastest lap in 2.41,4 = 102.6 km/h. The new course was used just once, because after 1931 the Neroberg races were dropped in favour of grass track races at the airfield of Erbenheim, just south-east of Wiesbaden. That same airfield was later paved and hosted a one-off auto race in 1958. The next races in Wiesbaden took place in May 1935 and 1936 as part of the Wiesbadener Motorsportkämpfe, which was more or less the successor of the Automobiel-Turnier mentioned above. The event included a long-distance regularity run, but also a speed event (Hochleistungsprüfung) on a 7.48 km street circuit in Wiesbaden, for touring cars, sports cars and motorcycles, although it should be noted there is a possibility these actually used some sort of time trial-like format.

Race List	=	IGOR
Server	=	UKGPL8_60fps
IP address	=	look at iGOR
Password	=	see above
GPL mod	=	67 F1
Damage Model	=	PRO
Race date	=	04-06-2023
60fps patch	=	60fpsV2newmod
Track download	=	Link
Track directory	=	wiesb
Quali starts	=	20:45  UK time -> 45min
Race starts	=	~21:30 UK time
Race length	=	~50 min -> 29 laps
Replay	=	here

Please use the Track Gap Freeze Fix Patch V.09 for all on-line races

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


Important
As we have now 21 registered driver (19 full time), we use the following procedere:
If at 21:05 UK time the server is full with >17 drivers
The Reserve driver have to leave for 10 Minutes to give waiting Full time driver the chance to join


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

The tokens system will be used with drivers being awarded tokens for starting the season and for starting each race. Each car will cost a number of tokens per race.

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

Drivers must complete 50% race distance to score.
MOD PRO so no shift-R

Only reported incidents will be moderated.

Please check the Season 42 details regarding rules and the 1967 F1 Works Championship pages in particular.

Please restrict chat to pit messages including at the end of the race until ALL drivers still racing have crossed the line.

Sorry for the mess. My wheel lost its center, it won't calibrate straight anymore

The last thing in the world I would have expected from this event was walking out of the park with a podium placing.  And that especially after the first lap dramas where I was bounced around like a pin ball!  LOL!

Great job by Jonny to score the win.  He'll have to come back in here and explain why he qualified in P2 yet started at the back of the pack.  A self-imposed handicap?  Greg scores a worthy P2 after a solid drive.  And me, a lucky P3.

I was asleep enjoying an afternoon nap to about 16:00 hours when I suddenly awoke realizing that the race start was barely half an hour away.  ACTION STATIONS!  Scrambled to get myself awake with a hot cup of tea and signed in.  Did not have the best qualifying effort to start P8.  Immediately lost a place to Fulvio when Bobbie B starting just ahead of me was slow to launch.  Got that place back down in Bahnhof when Roberto backed out way early.  Comes the difficult section of Coulinstraffe and what do I find?  The track is blocked with cars scattered all over the place.  Leo had cuffed the barrier on the left and was stuck.  Most everyone following was tied up in some fashion with some being lucky and some cursed and Jonny was one of those finishing Lap01 in P8.  I guess that I was one of the lucky ones as despite being knocked about, I emerged from this mess in P5 chasing Fulvio.  Over the next laps, I settled in to give chase closing in very slightly until Lap13 when I saw a flash of fire and then smoke from Fulvio's engine bay.  Groan...  What a cruel fate.  Bad luck there, Fulvio.  In the laps prior, Jonny had come roaring back to pass and was now on a mission to charge to the front.  Lap13 was also grisly for two other runners.  Bot and Clive fell victim to hard wall here each losing wheels.  I was impressed to see that not even having reached half distance, Clive set the 5th fastest lap of the meet in the less than competitive Honda.  Doing the Blue Moose proud there, Clive. 

After Fulvio's engine failed, I just put it on cruise control hardly believing my luck to be running P3.  Bobbie B was quite some distance behind but was gradually reducing the gap as I ran with plenty in hand.  He had a late-race drama to fall back and had to settle for P4.  A good job nonetheless.

Leo emerges as our S42 GP67 Champion despite his nil result here at Weisbaden.  Well done, Leo!

Greg takes the silver medal after good season.

Jonny takes the bronze edging me out by a single point.  Hmmm...  I'll get you for that, JJ. 

My thanks to the club for organizing and to Dave Rainier for keeping it all straight.

Note: I see that Jonny has explained his grid placing.  Bloody tourists! 

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