UKGPL Season 16 - Novices and Amateurs - Race 2 - 65 mod - Watkins GlenThis will be the second championship race in the Novices and Amateurs Division, which uses the 65 mod. Watkins is a short and fast track- to avoid problems, for this race the Novices and Amateurs will run on separate grids, see the grid lists below. The Amateurs, as the bigger grid, will run on 3ukgpl.
Please be in IGOR UKGPL chatroom by 8:40 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 (and another server, to be assigned)
IP address 87.194.135.42
Race date = 23-09-2008
Track = Watkins Glen
Variant = 65F1
Damage Model = INT
Qually time = 30 minutes.
Race length = long (33 laps)
Make sure that you have enough race fuel to complete the distance!Password:
see above(2) Driver lists can be found on the
championship standings pageModeration: I'm hoping to be able to moderate the whole race, thanks to Bully I should have access to the server replay. However only incidents that are reported are certain to be looked at. Please can all drivers be very careful at the start of the race, many of the circuits are awkward at the beginning and Watkins Glen is no exception. The first turn is tight, and the armco on the esses tends to create multi-car pileups, allow extra room for warp on the first lap. Don't go off the Loop on cold tyres, as you'll kick yourself.
Penalties are to be worried about after the race, with the exception of penalties for restarts. The UKGPL rule is that you have to take a stop-and-go in the pits for each reset at the end of the lap, with the only exception being if your reset was caused by another driver. The penalty for not taking a stop-and-go is thirty seconds.
Novice drivers will be on their own grid for this race, so any reset will have a thirty-second penalty unless another driver has collided with your car, or you carry out a stop-and-go.Chassis assignments: Once you've begun to drive a car in the championship then you should continue with that car, there's no switching cars by track.
Novices Gridnorbert, LondonRC, happyAl, G Poole, vosblod, Asbjeurn Tverberg, b_1_rd, Samb, dtown14, kiwi, karlisss- other novices who haven't yet registered should contact me before the start, if you were unable to race at Mosport, please use your assigned chassis
Amateurs GridAny driver not listed above who has already registed, plus Bernie... if you were unable to race at Mosport, please use your assigned chassis
65 ModThese were the 65 drivers
BT7 Bonnier, Baghetti, Hulme (Bonnier drove for Walker)
BT11 Brabham Gurney Gardner Anderson Siffert (Siffert drove for Walker, Gardner and Anderson were privateers)
Lotus Clark Spence Rodriguez Mitter Russo Solana (and Maggs Hailwood Attwood Amon and Ireland for Parnell)
Ferrari Surtees Bandini Rodriguez Vaccarella Bondurant Scarfiotti
Honda Ginther Bucknum
Cooper McLaren Rindt
BRM Hill Stewart
The 1965 season was the last to use the controversial 1500cc formula which had begun after 1960, to the initial advantage of Ferrari. The 1965 cars are smaller than the 1967 cars and have less torque and hence more grip. It was claimed that they 'cornered on rails', however this allowed the Grand Prix series to retain the use of circuits which were otherwise to prove extremely dangerous.
The 1965 cars are ideal for those new to GPL as they allow the tracks to be learnt in light reliable cars, however these are also full Formula One cars, and quite fast.... Graham Hill won the '65 race from pole in his BRM P261, his pole time was 1:11.25.
David Wright's 'Legends' site
http://fp.gplegends.plus.com/ has the download of the most recent 2.0.1 version (under 'details') as well as being an exceptional guide to both 1965 and 1967, for those interested in Formula One history.
Unfortunately the current 65 mod download does not have default setups. Default setups can be downloaded from
http://www.neurology-crew.com/gplserver under '65 setups'. Though there may not yet be a setup for Mosport, the Brands Hatch default could work, perhaps with taller top gears. Note that you will also have to add enough fuel for the race!