Season 44 - 1955GP (Privateers) - Round 2 – Brands Hatch
The second race in the 1955 Grand Prix series finds us at Brands Hatch in England. The first race to be held at Brands Hatch took place on 16th April 1950, it featured 500cc cars competing over a version of the "Indy" circuit (without Druids Hill Bend) in an anti-clockwise direction. During the 1950s the track was extended to include Druids Hill bend, Paddock Hill bend and the racing direction was changed to clockwise. It wasn't until 1960 that the full Grand Prix circuit was created. The British Grand Prix has been held at Brands Hatch on 12 occasions and the European Grand Prix has been held there twice.  The 1967 Grand Prix was won by Jack Brabham and the 1968 race by Jo Siffert driving a Brabham Repco BT19 and a Lotus-Cosworth 49B respectively.  There have also been numerous non-championship Formula 1 races most notably the Race of Champions in 1967 which was won by Dan Gurney in the Eagle-Weslake T1G.

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Track download	=	Brands Hatch 1967
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Qualifying starts	=	20:45 UK time - 45 minutes
Race starts	=	~ 21:30 UK time
Race length	=	25 laps
Replay	=	HERE

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Hi Phil,
           Just to let you know that the server IP according to iGor is 146.199.1.65.

Just incase anyone has to join manually.

Cheers,
            Bully.

Another incident with Bernie.Sorry,I don't do it on purpose.This time i have mitigating factor,i have a sprain on the right knee forcing me to use the left foot on the brake but i don't have the same sensibility of the right.This is the reason of my mistake on the first curve wich put me behind you and Paul.

Congrats Moses, welcome back C Bully (good pace), well done Paul! I had a fun race. I had a few distractions mid race which set me back to tenth place. Despite that, I had lots of fun today in the Connaught. I was happy to see my new team mate recover mid race and finish fourth.

Good race everyone and thanks organizers!

Well that was fun!

I did 1 run in qually of about 5 laps. Managed to pick up a slipstream and set a PB. Best place to it  1.49.86 during practicing all week I was not able to break the 1.50 barrier, so well chuffed with that. Sat and watched the rest of qually and I was comfortably ahead until about 5-10 mins left and Moses set 1.49.90, super close!

So onto the race, started in pole, I was expecting Moses to get away better in the Ferrari, but that didn't happen. I stayed in front until end of Lap 1 and I got a couple of wheel on the grass at clearways and Moses was through. I spent then next 5-6 laps chasing and eventually managed to make a pass on top straight, only to then miss the braking for druids and slammed the rear into the grass. Luckily no damage, but Moses was back through. So I got going again quickly and gave chase again. Then the next lap Moses went slightly off at druids and I was back through for the lead!

I managed to keep ahead this time, and we were both well ahead by this point just racing each other. I manged to pull out a 2 sec lead, but everytime I start to pull away I make a slight error somewhere and Moses is right on me again. So we continue on like this with 1-2 secs until about 4 laps to go and by this time the pressure just got to much for me and I make a big error at clearways again, spin off and have to recover losing about 10 secs. Moses was through again off into the distance. Undeterred I gave chase again, but on the very next lap I go off big time at druids and smash the back into the grass wall. This time there is damage so I just decide to take it steady last couple of laps and get home for second, and a good haul of points. We were about 40 secs ahead of the rest of the field so no dramas to get home for a comfortable second 

Anyway, congrats to Moses, consistency, as ever, was key. You had it and I didn't, so very well done sir!

Looking forward to Hockenheim, I'm not overly familiar with this layout, so need a good chunk of practice on this one!

Thanks everyone for a great race, I was a trembling bundle of sweat at the end of that race!

Thanks to the mods and organisers for allowing us to do this. What better way to spend a Sunday evening

See you next time 

Bully.