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UKGPL Season 44 - 1966 Can-Am - Oakes Field Nassau - Jan 23The first race in the CanAm 66 series finds us at 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. Please check the Season 44 details regarding rules and the 1966 Can-Am Championship pages in particular. You have to "drive each car once!"
Only one Shift-R is allowed !!!ROLLING STARTWe do a ~100mph (160kmh) rolling one line start to the exit of British Colonial Loop
No passing allowed! | Race list | = | iGOR | | Server | = | UKGPL_8 | | IP address Server | = | look at iGOR | | GPL Mod | = | CANM66 | | Damage model | = | INT | | 60fps Patch | = | 60fpsV2newmod | | Track directory | = | nassau DOWNLOAD | | Qualifying starts | = | 20:45 UK time - 45 minutes | | Race starts | = | ~ 21:30 UK time | | Race length | = | 19laps | | 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 & GoOnly 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. THERE ARE MORE THAN 19 REGISTERED DRIVERS IN THIS SERIES, SO : The full time drivers can start to practice as soon as the server is available. Reserve drivers can also join as soon as the server becomes available but must leave the server with 35 minutes of qualifying left, for a total of 5 minutes; this will allow any remaining full timers to join. If there is enough space on the grid, the reserve drivers will be able to rejoin when there are 30 mins of qualifying left. WIP10 races - 10 cars ! | Driver | car 1 | car 2 | | Tom Johnson | HUFF | 0 | | Phil Thornton | T359 | 0 | | Axel "Cookie" | CHAP | 0 | | "Evil"Clive | M289 | 0 | | Fulvio Policardi | M289 | 0 | | Doni Y | M289 | 0 | | Dimitar Dulichki | M327 | 0 | | Greg T | T333 | 0 | | Tris Bot | T333 | 0 | | Colin "ArfArfArf" | 0 | 0 | | Alain Maurice | M361 | 0 | | Claudio Navonne | 0 | 0 | | David Rainier | T305 | 0 | | Walter Conn | M327 | 0 | | Matt Rowe | T333 | 0 | | PaulV | HUFF | 0 | | Y. Verheijen | 0 | 0 | | Enrique Farina | HUFF | 0 | | Bastian Grupp | 0 | 0 | | Pete Bennett | 0 | 0 | | Bob_Simpson | M289 | 0 | | Fran Molteni | CHAP | 0 |
Use the Track Gap Freeze Fix Patch V.09 for all on-line races.
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« Last Edit: January 24, 2024, 02:10:01 PM +0000 by Cookie »
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« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2024, 02:05:43 PM +0000 » |
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Hey guys, do we have a link for track download, please?
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« Reply #2 on: January 23, 2024, 02:33:10 PM +0000 » |
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« Reply #4 on: January 23, 2024, 02:52:11 PM +0000 » |
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Hey guys, do we have a link for track download, please?
As Phil has made all links to the tracks in the announcement threads available  , I thought it is not necessary to repost... |
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« Reply #5 on: January 23, 2024, 02:58:57 PM +0000 » |
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As Phil has made all links to the tracks in the announcement threads available , I thought it is not necessary to repost... Ah - I didn't look there; I'm not in this series. But good info for the other tracks  |
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« Reply #6 on: January 23, 2024, 04:02:46 PM +0000 » |
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Phil makes this for all series! A big thanks!  |
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« Reply #7 on: January 23, 2024, 05:02:55 PM +0000 » |
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If I can't find a track, I try to build it  |
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« Reply #8 on: January 23, 2024, 05:10:05 PM +0000 » |
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If I can't find a track, I try to build it Yeah, thanks! Be aware that this CANM66 at Nassau is one of the most challenging events for your pc! It took a while to get it smooth 60fps on the long straight, I will upload my optimized nassau folder: https://www.mediafire.com/file/pus7jahlhqh9kw8/nassau.7z/file |
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« Reply #9 on: January 23, 2024, 08:06:07 PM +0000 » |
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Sorry, beaten by the flu bug, Sorry to be missing the first race of the season.
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« Reply #10 on: January 23, 2024, 10:31:51 PM +0000 » |
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Sorry, beaten by the flu bug, Sorry to be missing the first race of the season.
Hope your better soon Pete. |
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« Reply #11 on: January 23, 2024, 10:36:57 PM +0000 » |
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 ROLLING START We start on a rolling line of around 100 mph (160 km/h) to the exit of the British Colonial Loop. No overtaking allowed! I apologize for my departure, I had forgotten these race instructions, sorry for this error. THANKS 
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Thank you all |
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« Reply #12 on: January 23, 2024, 10:38:03 PM +0000 » |
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Phew that was a tough race. My core tyre temperatures were fine but I think my patch temperatures must have been on the red quite a lot. It was very easy to miss my braking points and apply a bit too much gas. I settled into a secure 4th place in the early laps. It must have been chaos behind me because after about 4 laps there was a big gap back to 5th place. Lucky for me there was, I made a stupid mistake watching Evil's gearbox instead of my braking point and I sailed off into the bushes. By the time I got back on track, the first 3 were a long way ahead but surprisingly I managed to keep my place. I was able to gradually pull away from the 5th placed car but I couldn't make any inroads into Evil up in 3rd place. That was until the penultimate lap! Evil had made a mistake and hit the haybales. He was struggling to control his damaged car but he was still pretty quick. Unfortunately for him he went wide at T1 on the last lap and gifted me a podium. Unlucky Evil, you deserved the champagne.
Another demonstration drive by Greg and Cookie up front. Well done gents
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« Reply #13 on: January 23, 2024, 11:29:09 PM +0000 » |
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I first wanna thank Evil Clive for the setup tips, who were originally for CanAm 71, however, they worked decent enough with my McLaren MK1 here. I knew the car was not too fast, especially on the long straights, but I was able to stabilize it and make it as easy as possible to drive. The only problem I still had during the race, after few blind changes just before the start, was dealing with the raw power on acceleration. I need to work more on setting up the car there. I wanted to finish the race without any big mistakes and take as much positions as possible ahead of me, after I started from P15, I believe. Well, after the first lap carnage I was able to move up to P8. However, then I was under attack, or at least it looked like that, so I opened the inside line before one of the slow right hand corners and went into the grass. I was not really under attack, but because of the terrible mirror this car has, I had not enough information what exactly happens behind me all the time. So I ended up stuck behind some tree barriers and was searching for a spot where I can return. Fortunately, I was able to return after maybe 10 seconds, however, I lost 6 positions by doing this. I did not gave up though. And actually I started driving better and better without any mistakes and I was able to catch 3 cars and win back 3 positions. I even made a new personal best. At the end I really wanted to fight Fulvio, few laps before the end the gap was down to 2 seconds, after it was around 6. But I needed to overtake Fran Molteni first. When the later made a mistake, it was too late to challenge Fulvio for top 10. I really wanted the top 10 though. My full stream replay: https://www.twitch.tv/turboracing39 |
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« Reply #14 on: January 24, 2024, 12:34:00 AM +0000 » |
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I first wanna thank Evil Clive for the setup tips, who were originally for CanAm 71, however, they worked decent enough with my McLaren MK1 here. I knew the car was not too fast, especially on the long straights, but I was able to stabilize it and make it as easy as possible to drive. The only problem I still had during the race, after few blind changes just before the start, was dealing with the raw power on acceleration. I need to work more on setting up the car there. I wanted to finish the race without any big mistakes and take as much positions as possible ahead of me, after I started from P15, I believe. Well, after the first lap carnage I was able to move up to P8. However, then I was under attack, or at least it looked like that, so I opened the inside line before one of the slow right hand corners and went into the grass. I was not really under attack, but because of the terrible mirror this car has, I had not enough information what exactly happens behind me all the time. So I ended up stuck behind some tree barriers and was searching for a spot where I can return. Fortunately, I was able to return after maybe 10 seconds, however, I lost 6 positions by doing this. I did not gave up though. And actually I started driving better and better without any mistakes and I was able to catch 3 cars and win back 3 positions. I even made a new personal best. At the end I really wanted to fight Fulvio, few laps before the end the gap was down to 2 seconds, after it was around 6. But I needed to overtake Fran Molteni first. When the later made a mistake, it was too late to challenge Fulvio for top 10. I really wanted the top 10 though. My full stream replay: https://www.twitch.tv/turboracing39Nice video and comments DD  You can find virtual mirror for these cars, if you want. I don't recall the site to download, but I can send you the file, it's only 1,6 Mb. |
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