UKGPL Season 44 - 1955 GP (Works) - Registration

[Phil Thornton]

Season 44 – 1955 GP Works Championship

Please check the Season 44 details regarding rules and the 1955 GP Works Championship pages in particular.

This season, races are to be run at 60fps – please use this patch 60fpsV2newmod. If you have issues read fester's post.

Drivers must complete 50% of each race to score.

The races will be run as follows:

Car set: 1955 GP only.
Date: Every second Sunday from 21st January 2024
Time: No later then 9:00pm UK Time (30-60 mins practice, race starts at 9:30pm)
Race Length: 50 minutes
Damage Model:  Pro
Server: TBA
Race List: IGOR
Divisional Moderator: Phil Thornton

Calendar:

Date	Day	Time	Mod	Track	Folder	Laps	Download
21/01/2024	Sunday	21:00 GMT	55GP	Assen 67	assen67	14	Link
04/02/2024	Sunday	21:00 GMT	55GP	Brands Hatch 1967	brands67	25	Link
18/02/2024	Sunday	21:00 GMT	55GP	Hockenheim 1967	hockenhm	20	Link
03/03/2024	Sunday	21:00 GMT	55GP	East London 1967	eastlndn	26	Link
17/03/2024	Sunday	21:00 GMT	55GP	Indianapolis 1999	ims	43	Link
14/04/2024	Sunday	21:00 BST	55GP	Roy Hesketh	rhesketh	35	Link
28/04/2024	Sunday	21:00 BST	55GP	Reims1967	reims	19	Link
12/05/2024	Sunday	21:00 BST	55GP	Nassau 1966	nassau	16	Link
26/05/2024	Sunday	21:00 BST	55GP	Spa 67	spa67	11	Link
09/06/2024	Sunday	21:00 BST	55GP	Zandvoort	zandvoort	27	Papyrus Original

Handicapping
A 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.

Only reported incidents will be moderated.

If you would like to enter this series please submit an entry in the poll.

[Clive Loynes]

Wow!
Fast out of the blocks there Phil!  You must have been knitting that together since the start of Season 43.

Could I just ask if there will be separate servers for works and privateers?


OK.  Just found it ?.

[Dimitar Dulichki]

Count me in here as well, please.

[Dimitar Dulichki]

I forgot to vote previously.  Now everything should be okay.

[Enrique Farina]

lwais in this mod, i'm in 

[Hristo Itchov]

I'd like to register for this championship, if there's room. Not sure if I can make all races, but I've never driven the 55 mod before so curious to see how it feels. Going to install it now and give it a go.

[Phil Thornton]

Welcome back Hristo, there will always be room for you. I think you'll find the 55 cars rather different from the rest of the mods. The brakes are very bad (arguably unrealistically bad) so you have to drive with a different approach to what you are used to.

[Hristo Itchov]

Welcome back Hristo, there will always be room for you. I think you'll find the 55 cars rather different from the rest of the mods. The brakes are very bad (arguably unrealistically bad) so you have to drive with a different approach to what you are used to.

Thank you, Phil! So I've been told about the brakes, ha!  Going to check the available cars for round 1 and try one of them to see what this is all about.

[Clive Loynes]

Welcome back H.

Good to see you.

[Hristo Itchov]

Welcome back H.

Good to see you.

Hey Clive, good to see you too! I did some laps with the 250F and played with its setup too. Very tricky to be consistent! I expect to be really bad at this, as I just can't be sure at which moment the brakes are going to disappear, plus the rears tend to overheat a lot if I try to compensate too much with sliding around and using the throttle in a rally style kind of way. And that's at Assen, which seems to give plenty of time for the brakes to cool down. I suspect it's just going to get worse on other tracks...

[Clive Loynes]

Welcome back H.

Good to see you.

Hey Clive, good to see you too! I did some laps with the 250F and played with its setup too. Very tricky to be consistent! I expect to be really bad at this, as I just can't be sure at which moment the brakes are going to disappear, plus the rears tend to overheat a lot if I try to compensate too much with sliding around and using the throttle in a rally style kind of way. And that's at Assen, which seems to give plenty of time for the brakes to cool down. I suspect it's just going to get worse on other tracks...

Hi Hristo, I doubt that it will take you long to master it.  I would say that Assen requires quite a lot of brake management.  The other extreme is Spa, where you can ignore the brake status unless you are following someone who keeps making you dab the brakes to save from hitting him.

I usually think that if the brake indicator is yellow then I have one more stab at the brakes to go before I'm rolling free.

[Alain Maurice]

Hello everyone.   

I am registering for this championship and thank you for its organization.

Be careful of overheating the brakes

[EvilClive]

Welcome back Hristo  . Great to see you and Dimitar in UKGPL.

If you are looking for "something different" then the 55's are the answer lol. Skinny tyres, dodgy handling and brakes that go absent just when you need them most!! It just adds an extra dimension to the whole simulation.
The brakes, for sure, are the BIG issue and IMHO it is a good idea to decide exactly where you are going to use them to the max, and also where you can lift and coast ( with downshifts) to save that precious braking. But why am I offering advice to an alien ?? lol

[Hristo Itchov]

Welcome back Hristo  . Great to see you and Dimitar in UKGPL.

If you are looking for "something different" then the 55's are the answer lol. Skinny tyres, dodgy handling and brakes that go absent just when you need them most!! It just adds an extra dimension to the whole simulation.
The brakes, for sure, are the BIG issue and IMHO it is a good idea to decide exactly where you are going to use them to the max, and also where you can lift and coast ( with downshifts) to save that precious braking. But why am I offering advice to an alien ?? lol

Thanks, Evil! I DO need the advice, especially judging from how much behind I am in lap times compared to what you guys did back in 2022 at Assen. Honestly I don't see how it's possible to achieve those times at the moment   

[bernie]

Welcome back Hristo , I see you didn't do to badly at Assen after all