Season 43 - 1955GP - Round 5 – Reims

The fifth race in the 1955 Grand Prix series finds us at Reims in France.  The circuit is basically several long straights with a couple of hairpins and a few cornfields. Catching a tow is what this track is about. It normally produces close racing. Reims-Gueux was first established in 1926 on the public roads between the small French villages of Thillois and Gueux. The circuit had two very long straights between the towns, and teams strove to maximize straight-line speed of their cars; many slipstream battles ensued. Race organizers actually felled trees and demolished old houses in order to make the circuit even quicker. International racing came with the first official Formula One event occurring in 1950, the inaugural year of the Formula One world championship. The circuit layout was shortened and changed in 1952 to bypass the town. In the 1954 race, the long-awaited Mercedes W196 with its straight-8 fuel-injection engine made its debut with Juan Manuel Fangio transferring from Maserati to join an otherwise all-German line-up of Hans Herrmann, Karl Kling and pre-war driver Hermann Lang. It was a dominant return with Fangio recording a practice lap of 124.31 mph. He and Kling led away and continued to race side by side around the Reims track. The Ferrari drivers simply couldn't cope with the pace. There was no race at Reims in 1955 and when the Grand Prix circus returned in 1956, it was without the silver arrows. Fangio dominated again but this time in a resurgent Ferrari team who's drivers also claimed the remaining podium places.

Race list	=	iGOR
Server	=	UKGPL04_60fps
IP address	=	146.199.1.65:32766
Password	=	see above
GPL Mod	=	55GP
Damage model	=	PRO
60fps Patch	=	60fpsV2newmod
Track download	=	Reims1967
Track directory	=	reims
Qualifying starts	=	20:45 UK time - 45 minutes
Race starts	=	~ 21:30 UK time
Race length	=	19 laps
Replay	=	HERE

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Working ok for me (at 15:25).

With 60fps you can't race with AI, just use 36fps and the AI work

Oh! For heaven's sake! This is getting ridiculous...

This time, for no apparent reason, I get to the grid to find that my Fanatec pedals simply don't register in GPL. Game over. AAARRGHHHHH!

R1 Aintree - Spin at the final bend and get CTD. GAME OVER
R2 Brands - Real life prevents me from racing. GAME OVER
R3 Brno - Was in the lead on Lap 3 and then stacked it into a hay bale. GAME OVER
R4 Monsanto - No internet. GAME OVER
R5 Reims - USB device not recognised. GAME OVER
R6 Tripoli - I'm going to the pub.

It might be advisable for some to exercise some restraint in future.  A Lap02 shunt in T2 that takes down multiple entries is not an example of same.  Grrr...

   sorry guys, total mistake, I didn't understand that Leo was by my side, my mistake and stupid


   

Apologies to Fulvio for lap 2 T2. I was slowing down, but you went much slower than I expected, and I clipped you from behind. I also got collected by someone else there, but whatever damage, the car felt fine. Later in the race I overcooked the brakes and went straight in at the last corner, had to reverse back from behind the barriers, and lost around 17 seconds. Slowly caught several cars until I got to Phil. He managed to stay in my slispstream, and even managed to overtake me back, but I got him again, and than on penultimate lap Phil braked too late and went into sand on the last corner which freed me to finish in 4th.
Congrats to podium.

That battle for 2nd place was as close as they come