UKGPL Season 43 - 1971 Can-Am - Riverside International Raceway ’71 - Oct 31


The next race in the 1971 CanAm series finds us at the Riverside International Raceway ’71
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.
This is the 1971 layout, not the 66 version.


Please check the Season 43 details regarding rules and the 1971 Can-Am Championship pages in particular.

You have to "drive each car once!"
Only one Shift-R is allowed !!!

ROLLING START

As we all know CanAm allways made rolling starts...

We do a ~100mph (160kmh) rolling - one line - start to the exit of T8
No passing allowed!

Race list	=	iGOR
Server	=	UKGPL_8
IP address Server	=	look at iGOR
GPL Mod	=	CANM71
Damage model	=	INT
60fps Patch	=	60fpsV2newmod
Track directory	=	river71
Qualifying starts	=	20:45 UK time - 45 minutes
Race starts	=	~ 21:30 UK time
Race length	=	29laps
Replay	=	here

Please 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.
Drivers are reminded that Lap 1 incidents carry an extra 1 place penalty.
Drivers must complete 50% race distance to score.
MOD INT - only One Shift-R is allowed with no need to make Stop & Go
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.

8 races - 8 cars !

Class     Driver car 1 car 2 car 3 car 4 Works Tom Johnson     POR 0 M8B M8D Works Phil Thornton M8D SHA FER 260 Works Axel Cookie POR M8D M8B SHA Works EvilClive POR 0 M8B M8D Works Fulvio Policardi POR 260 M8D M8F Works Doni Y POR M8D M8B Works Pete Bennett FER M8B POR SHA Works Greg T POR M8B Works Arf Arf Arf 0 FER M8F Works Francesco FER 0 260 Works Alain Maurice POR 260 222 Works Claudio Navonne 0 0 Works DavidRainier SHA 222 POR 260 Works Walter Conn POR M8B Works Enrique Farina POR 0 FER 260 Works maddog 260 0     Use the Track Gap Freeze Fix Patch V.09 for all on-line races. GLA + FUN

Choked on a sip of tea at the end of the back straight and binned it. 

Shoulda stuck to alcohol :-)

What happened on Lap 1 - everyone went crazy out of T6 and then slammed the bakes on at T7... I tapped someone in front of me when I had to slam on the brakes, but got wiped out by whomever was behind me. It was supposed to be a rolling start until T8... That happened at F1 Portimao a couple of seasons ago, and caused chaos. Also happened at British Superbikes at Oulton Park a few weeks ago...

Arf - sorry. That was me.

I ballsed up the start as I forgot about rolling so I managed to lose two or three places within the 1st 100 yds. I then thought "damn! rolling start" but realised that I had NO IDEA where the 'rolling' line was. The cars in front seemed to zoom off so I floored it but straight into the back of you. As a self-penalising measure I waited until I was firmly at the back of the pack. Sorry if I wrecked it for you. Moderators - please penalise me as you see fit.


CHAT - yes, mine packed up too so couldn't even see my question to Phil. Strange GPL behavior. If it had worked, I may have read Cookie shouting ROLLING

Grats to the podium guys and commiserations to Enrique for dropping out with 2 laps to go.

Well Tom, that incident into T2 certainly raised the adrenaline levels and I missed you by the smallest of margins lol!

The excursion dropped me back down the field and the rest of the race was a vain attempt to chase down the leading pack. The Shadow has tremendous speed on the straight and was a dream through the complex after T2 ( provided that there was no other traffic  ) That speed through there was actually a curse when catching slower cars as the Shadow was absolutely nailed down under power, but things got a bit squeaky in the trousers if I had to lift 

One solid clip of the barriers out of the final turn compromised the handling for the last few laps and a couple of spins scuppered any chance of hunting down Axel, so I cruised in for a lucky 4th. 

I was so glad that just before going to the grid I added an extrab 2 galls of fuel...............I finished with 0.5 galls in the tank!!!  It was noticeable that pushing the Shadow at 100% drank way more gas than driving at a consistent 95%-98%, very interesting and maybe why EF ran dry?

Get well soon Fulvio

Good afternoon and sorry for writing so late, many problems with my family, I have moved away from the chat a little.
    As evil says, 2 laps to go, I ran out of gas, in a comfortable and nice 3rd place, I was very happy even though Axel was close, I was able to keep him at a safe distance, to keep that podium, but...... .. I never paid attention to the number of turns because my brain came with the number 25 and I put the gas on, for 25 turns........... ....
   And even worse, I forgot that we could do shift R once and I didn't do it either, maybe I could have gotten 4,.....    but anyway. I had a lot of fun, it was very, very entertaining, thank you guys and congratulations to the podium.
   evil....I think you took the wrong turn at the rolling start, and you passed me at the end of turn 7???......