Season 44 F1 1967 WORKS – Round 7 –  MONT TREMBLANT (St JOVITE)

The seventh race in the 1967 Works Grand Prix series finds us at Mont-Tremblant. It is a 4.218 km (2.621 mi) race circuit located approximately 130 km (81 mi) north of Montreal, Quebec, in the city of Mont-Tremblant, Canada. It is the second-oldest existing race track in Canada, and was originally known as Circuit Mont-Tremblant-St-Jovite until it was renamed in the 1970s. Set in the shadow of the Mont-Tremblant ski hill, the twisting fifteen-corner track uses the natural topography and elevation of the land.


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	=	UKGPL04
IP address	=	146.199.1.65
Password	=	see above
GPL Mod	=	67F1
60fps Patch	=	60fpsV2newmod
Track download	=	Mont-Tremblant - Saint Jovite
Track directory	=	stjovite
Quali starts	=	20:45  UK time -> 45min
Race starts	=	~21:30 UK time
Race length	=	~50 min -> 28 laps
Replay	=	here

Please check the Season 44 details regarding rules and the 1967 F1 Works 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.

I was on the right side of the grid which proved to be the safest place because I could stay tight and avoid the squeeze on the left side of the grid at turn 2. I found myself in third place but I couldn't stay with Pat and JonnyO, they gradually pulled away and so I concentrated on trying to stay ahead of Clive and Tris. I held them off for 5 or 6 laps but then I had a slow 360 at Namerow and they were through.

After that I tried to circulate without errors but about half way I made a mistake at Le Diable. I lost time and that allowed Syd to get onto my gearbox. The rest of the race was a game of cat and mouse with Syd hassling me all the way. I had to be on the top of my game to not make mistakes. I held on and crossed the line a few metres ahead of Syd. Great racing Syd.

It looks like Evil and Tris ran into some bad luck and what was a hard fought 5th turned into a lucky podium for me in the last couple of laps.

I'm not sure what happened ahead of me on lap 1. I was passing under the bridge going into a blind left hand turn when suddenly there was a car in the middle of the road. No chance to avoid it, and after I hit that car someone hit me, and as far as I could see lot's cars after that piled up behind. Somehow, I don't think I suffered serious damage, outside of time I lost. For a few laps I could see Tristan a few seconds down the road, and there was a cooper behind me. But eventually Tristan pulled away, and cars behind dropped further back , and I was on my own. Than I saw yellow flags, and Phil was 2-3 seconds ahead. From that point on I was always closel, a few times even very close to Phil's car. I had one chance for overtaking at right hand loop, when I was on the inside but Phil held it well on the outside. Rest of the way Phil kept it tight and didn't give me another chance to attack.
Grats to podium.

I just wanted to post these 2 screenshots from Evil's online stream on Twitch, where apparently he wasn't reading his own chat, so myself and Dimi took advantage to fool around for a bit (use the horizontal scroll bar at the bottom of the second image if the chat isn't showing fully, or open images in new tab)

Hi    ..... too stupid , I didn't add enough juice! ...ran out of fuel 200m from the finish, the engine misfired 2 laps from the end!...c u next ....   

thx Org.

   This track is always challenging and I never really feel comfortable on it, so this 2nd is the result of a lot of luck, really. Firstly due to the many abandonments during the race, Dulima, Tristan, and especially Evil who mysteriously disappeared, perhaps abducted by a UFO. Congratulations to Pat, at the beginning I tried to keep up but he opened 50 meters per lap and trying to keep up almost took me out of the race, in fact I made a mistake 3 times during the race, this second place served to add a little excitement to the championship!!!!

Very satisfied with my race with the Honda here. It seemed, even before the start, that we were going to repeat the Zeltweg battle with Andreas, in which he took advantage of a mistake of mine in the Rindt curve and passed me after a hard fight that lasted the whole race. After the various spins and off-tracks of the first lap, I found myself with Andreas in front and Doni behind. It made no sense my dear friend to complicate your life when there were more than 20 laps to go, so I moved aside (if there had been only 2 or 3 laps to go things would have been different  ), and I set out to watch the fight between Doni and Andreas, hoping to make some profit. But I made a mistake at La Diable, and lost ground. As the car seemed to me to be in one piece (later the ReplayAnalizer told me the opposite), I drove all the laps flat out, until I finally got to Andreas (Doni had disappeared in the distance), and he returned my courtesy of Zeltweg losing the car in turn 10, and I was able to keep the place. Thanks Andreas for the fight, it's a pleasure to race with you. Congratulations to the podium (for me on another planet) and thanks for organizing this championship.