Season 44 F1 1967 PRIVATEERS – Round 6 – Imola
The sixth race in the 1967 Works Grand Prix series finds us at Imola. The track was inaugurated in 1953, and it had no chicanes, so the run from Rivazza all the way to Tosa, through the pits and the eventually notorious Tamburello was totally flat out, as was the run from Acque Minerali all the way to Rivazza was just a long straight with a few small bends; and the circuit remained in this configuration until 1972. Long time home of the San Marino Grand Prix (and once of the Italian Grand Prix) the circuit is fast, bumpy and dangerous. After the deaths of Roland Ratzenberger and Ayrton Senna in 1994, the track was remodelled to reduce speeds but we use the original, high speed layout.

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. 

Race list	=	iGOR
Server	=	UKGPL10
IP address	=	217.155.118.41
Password	=	see above
GPL Mod	=	67F1
60fps Patch	=	60fpsV2newmod
Track download	=	Imola
Track directory	=	imola
Quali starts	=	20:45  UK time -> 45min
Race starts	=	~21:30 UK time
Race length	=	~50 min -> 30 laps
Replay	=	here

Please check the Season 44 details regarding rules and the 1967 F1 Privateers Championship pages in particular.

Please use the Track Gap Freeze Fix Patch V.09 for all on-line races.

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.

The 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.

Drivers must complete 50% race distance to score.

MOD PRO so no shift-R

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.

Matt,
get a Robert Fleurke setup at groundhog/weekly,
if there is no Imola take a Nurburg as a balanced base (http://www.formulado.hu/weekly/?p:crank/files/)
I prefer an easy handling car here - Fez or BT24...

This track needs many laps routine and a good rhythm of shifting down!

Move his FBB from 49% to 53%, change his ramp angles from 30/85 (or whatever insane setting he's using) to something more moderate, and make sure his toe in/toe out aren't in the sixth standard deviation. You'll be OK.

Thanks Pepe

I think I did what you said. Less than 50 for Front brake is beyond my pay grade.
I am usually around 62-54 depending on car and track.

Funny I am doing this and do not claim to be alien, my brake bias is mostly 49 at some tracks 48

I simply was looking for a method of stable braking - SCX Ford MK4 360kph to 65kph Mulsanne....

I watched the braking replay in the SCX gearbox view (90° side) and learned wich tyre locks first,
so I reduced the BB to the value I had a good feeling and could smoothly go further into acceleration.

Of course a load cell brake where you can dose the braking helps a lot, and left foot braking.

2 years ago I would have proposed Masaki Asano setups for beginners, he had modified the Huttu setups for normal drivers...

Well, I looked into my archive and found 3 MA setups

https://www.mediafire.com/file/ckkztjuzwrdygs0/imola.7z/file

I've never heard of Asano. I used Schultze's setups from 2017 to last year, then began using knockoffs from Rob Fleurke because I couldn't get the tires heated sufficiently. Now I'm in a sort of no-man's land, ever trying to get at least to FBB = 50 with at least 60/45 ramp angles and always chickening out ten minutes before the race begins.

Are Asano's setups on the web somewhere? My initial Googling produced nothing.

I had this exact discussion when I got back into GPL in 2016 and joined an oAo team with Col Bentley as my team leader. I told him I'd read in one of the early GPL manuals that tweaking setups at best could make you a second or two faster than the default setup that Papyrus gives you on the original tracks. He didn't believe me, but he tried it. It's true. Setups don't make you fast, but they can make you faster if you're already fast. You get to be fast by coming out of corners better than the other guy. I'm afraid, like death and taxes, that's a fundamental law of nature. In the last oAo race at BA55N2 my usual exits from the last corner onto the S/F straight hit 128 mph. You were coming out consistently at 130 mph. That's why you lapped me, not because of ramp angles or FBB settings. As an aside, in their race at the same track a week earlier, Fleurke and Albrecht were doing 138 at that exact point (yeah, in Ferraris, not Coopers, but the point remains).