UKGPL Season 15 - Historic Division - Race 4 - 66 mod - Brands Hatch

A track where 2l cars have a chance against 3l cars.

UKGPL Season 15 - Historic Division - Race 4 is this Tuesday at 9:00 p.m. London UK time (8:00 p.m. GMT).

Please be in IGOR UKGPL chatroom by 8:55 p.m.
(You will need to set up a channel called #ukgpl if you haven't already done so)
IGOR and Race passwords: see above

Server 3.ukgpl
IP address  87.194.135.42

Race date = 13-05-2008
Track = Brands Hatch
Variant = 66mod
Damage Model = Intermediate
Qually time = 35 minutes
Length = 24 laps


Password: see above
(2) Driver lists can be found on the championship standings page


Chassis assignments:

Mclaren M2B Ford	Hristo Itchov, Lorenzo Galuzzi
T1F Eagle Climax	Neil Stratton
Lotus 33 BRM	Mike Beattie, Oliver Rakonjac
T1G Eagle Weslake	David Bryant, Remy Roesz
BRM P83	John Roberts
Ferrari 246	Ken Murray, Paul Skingley
Lotus 43 BRM	Syd Drake, Clive Loynes
Brabham BT11 BRM	Clive Gardner, Kruger Enge
BRM P261	Derek Howe
Honda RA273	Chris Bull, Amir Kamal
Brabham BT11 2.7lt	Bernie Darwin
Cooper T81	Artur le Marquand, Robert Burton
Brabham BT19	Phil Thornton
Ferrari 312	Terry Worth, Tim Robey

They mainly have a chance to shunt you up the gearbox at mid corner or whilst you are attempting to brake. 

seves you right for being border alien 

Well that was annoying.

Got in late, and only had time for a single qually lap. This put me on the back row of the grid, and a half spin on lap 2 saw Syd pull out a decent gap. But no matter, I reeled him over the next five laps as I found my rhythm, and improved on my qually time by almost 2 seconds. Then just as i was on his gearbox my PC locked solid. Very annoying indeed, as I haven't seen a lock up in GPL in ages. I just hope the car didn't carry on at Syd's end and punt him off.

Ah well, that's life I guess. Looking forward to Div 1 Monaco now... hopefully I can make it.

cheers
ak

Well I was totally outclassed there as expected.  After a couple of laps I was in last place and trailing Bernie by a country mile but I pressed on.  I was monitoring the leaders on Prib and they were all pretty close together.  When the leaders were within 10 seconds of lapping me I decided to pull in and call it a day rather than risk causing a pile up.  Sorry about that Bernie, you had a pretty lonely race, I just wasn't up to a repeat of our Monaco battle . 

Stayed on the server and watched the race.  Superb driving from Paul up front with some determined driving from Lorenzo in second.  Lorenzo's attempt on the outside at Paddock Hill bend was very brave indeed!  The only place Lorenzo seemed to be gaining a lot of ground was through Clearways, the rest of the lap Paul seemed to have the edge.  Great racing.

Pity about your spin at Dingle Dell corner Evil, you had Kruger under pressure until then

I was late on the grid "again" and only the default set up and a few laps to acclimatise .
Wondered where you went to Phil ,I enjoyed the "lonesome traveler"  act for a while but then it felt like I was doing a Test session instead of racing .

Not sure if I really deserve the 2.7 Brabby even though its a joy to drive because its practically flat everywhere , I just dont see how I can be anything but a back marker in this series , not much fun my being a mobile chicane :0(  

Started the race from pole (surprisingly) and made a good getaway with Lorenzo making pressure instantly. Some laps into the race, Lorenzo gets a tow at the S/F straight and goes for the inside of Turn 1. I was aware he's there so I keep it to the outside but just went too much and clipped the grass and spun. Luckily, I was reinstated to the track in the proper direction and had some speed to continue with but lost four places at least. I caught up with Mike and Evil who were battling each other. At some point, they went off so I was through, I don't remember overtaking them.

I was now right behind Paul and Lorenzo who were having some stellar battling and I had a front row seat. I was close but not close enough to meddle. Soon enough, they started pulling away and I had resurgent Evil to think about. Evil has his car set up differently and he was too fast in the third sector and always made substantial gains there. I could pull away in first two sectors only for him to regain that in third. He was making loads of pressure on me and I had to keep my eyes on the mirrors which lead to tons of little mistakes.

At one point, Evil spun in order to avoid hitting me (I appreciated that) and I heard later he got onto Ken.

I can't be unhappy about third as in all likelihood, even without the early spin, I wouldn't have been able to keep Lorenzo and Paul behind.

Tremendously fun race.

Grats Paul and Lorenzo.

Where can I find the server replay from Brands ?

I had a look on the replays page but it does not seem to be there ?

thanks

paul