UKGPL Season 16 (2008) - Spa (1967) - AtlasF1 - Oct 26

[Geoff65]

I don't know if you have any at all.....but I'll reserve for this race.....got a good finishing record at Spa.

[EvilClive]

Does anyone have any fuel consumption data for the big Fez at Spa ( or similar circuit)?
I ran the 312 at Watkins Glen but just guessed the fuel load + 20%, and did not manage a finish, so could not verify the figures.

[Phil Thornton]

I'll run a practice server tonight at 9:00pm if anybody wants to get a few laps in.  Be in UKGPL chat if you are interested.

[Arturo Pereira]

Hi guys

I am the AtlasF1 admin. As you know it seems RSC is down for the moment, but in spite of this, we will be at the chatroom as planned. We hosted a practice session at Spa yesterday, pro damage, 15 laps long, and everything went well, so I think we are ready to go

We thought about using  specific color for the helmets of each team, so if you agree, we can define this at the chatroom, right before the race.

Our list of cars and drivers is:

Brabham BT19: Arturo Pereira
Brabham BT11: Ran Finkels
Cooper T81: Zorco Kirilian
Ferrari 312: Natan Veksler
Eagle 102: Dick Clayton
Lotus 43: Patrik Lindqvist
Honda: Paul Skingley
McLaren: Claudio Navonne
BRM P83: Pablo Fernandez

Since RSC is down, email me or send me a PM if there is any last minute information we should know in advance

Good luck !!

[Phil Thornton]

Hi Arturo

Yes there has been some last minute changes.  Unfortunately 3.UKGPL won't be available for the race this evening so Mike Beattie has kindly agreed to let us use ADC's server (IP is 81.88.37.9).  I'll PM the passwords etc to you.  I had noticed RSC was down (it was OK last night).

Nice to see a couple of familiar names in the Honda and McLaren 

Cheers

Phil

[Jack O'Ferrall]

Hello Arturo, I noticed that you mentioned training for 15 laps in your post and I've got 14 (with 13 to score) as the race distance on the first post.  15 would be 50 mins, but I'm sure it was to be 50% GP distance...?

Thanks Geoff- I'm the only other reserve, we can squabble if the opportunity beckons!

Please can the UKGPL team assemble in time for the full 30 min practice session.  Also, even if on a direct connection, ensure that you are present in Igor chat, as if we haven't got a full team on 30 mins the reserves will be sent on.

[Arturo Pereira]

Hi guys

We raced a 15 laps race because I did not setup the server properly. We know the race will be 14 laps long and that we will need 13 laps to score points. Do not worry about this

About some familiar faces with the Honda and McLaren, we hired the best drivers we could get, considering our limited resources. We had a few engines failures yesterday but I guess some guys will treat the engines and gearboxes gently today

As it is usual, Spa does not forgive mistakes and also has some blind but fast turns which are extremely dangerous. I hope the flagmen do their homework properly :p

[bernie]

Hi Art

Nice to see you racing on both sides of the Atlantic . I'm sure you will do well , In spite of having Dick Dastardly signed up in the Eagle 

Not racing just a casual observer who will enjoy watching the replay 

Good luck from Wigan England 

(that should put the mokkers on it )   

[Storm_Cloud]

1st qualifying run was a safe banker lap and although my 2nd was interrupted by a spinner it was still a bit quicker. 3rd run disturbed by everyone wishing everyone else "GLA" whilst some of us were still driving so started midpack.

Got away okay and made a couple of places. At the exit of Eau Rouge the two cars infront touched and spun I clipped them and flipped. Race over.

[Arturo Pereira]

Thanks to all for a great race, in spite of some incidents

I qualified in 7th position I think and could avoid the crash after Eau Rouge by slowing down a lot and running over the grass.

After that, I was close to John Roberts and stayed there for about 10 laps. John was much faster at the long straights and I was faster at the rest of the track. Unfortunately, we were coming into Stavelot and I had to brake to avoid rearending John´s car. I spun but was lucky enough to be able to recover with the car in one piece. After I rejoined the race, John was in 4th and I was in 5th, about 10s behind.
FRom then on, I drove like crazy and could come into the last lap being right on John´s tail. I was running out of time to move to 4th, so I tried my move after Masta and before Stavelot. I got the inside line but entered the turn a bit faster than the usual and we teouched. I was launched into the air and got caught by the haybales, game over.
My apologies for the move John. I thought I had no more choices to try a pass. Glad to know you could make it till the checkered flag !!

Thanks to the UKGPL for a great race and be sure we will be looking for the next one

[Phil Thornton]

Thanks Arturo, please pass on our thanks to the ATLAS team.

There were some cracking battles at the tail of the field too.  I had a race long battle with Dick Clayton and Ran Finkels, swapped places several times great fun.

[john roberts]

FRom then on, I drove like crazy and could come into the last lap being right on John´s tail. I was running out of time to move to 4th, so I tried my move after Masta and before Stavelot. I got the inside line but entered the turn a bit faster than the usual and we teouched. I was launched into the air and got caught by the haybales, game over.
My apologies for the move John. I thought I had no more choices to try a pass. Glad to know you could make it till the checkered flag !!

it's a shame you could not finish the race Art , however i wouldn't have wanted you overtaking me

and don't worry I could feel you were faster me in the bendy stuff and was doing everything i could just to keep you behind .

john

[Hristo Itchov]

Well it was a rather monotonous race for me with the cars behind dropping back pretty quickly in the opening laps and then I was left on my own, so I tried to enjoy it as much as possible and look after the engine at the same time (had a blow up in practice, so I had fears about it). There were two mistakes on two different laps and they're noticeable in the laptimes, but apart from that it was a rather clean and fast run. I'm surprised how fast the Cooper is compared to the 67 version, hehe. Qualifying was a bit problematic with people coming out of the pits not paying attention to their mirrors or doing it too late which ruined 2 of my flying laps and I must admit I got kinda angry about that. Also in the end I noticed people started talking before everyone had finished their flying laps which wasn't nice either. Anyway, finally UKGPL wins one of these league challenges I think? 

[FullMetalGasket]

My engine blew 2/3rd's of the way into the first lap 
Not happy as it had survived several hours of testing with those gear ratios without so much as getting a bit warm, in fact I don't think I've ever blown the 2.7l 

What makes it worse is that I had a nice stable setup to allow me to pick up anything that was dropped from further up the field (Think I was up to about 10th when the 'ignition' let go  )

[Arturo Pereira]

it's a shame you could not finish the race Art , however i wouldn't have wanted you overtaking me

and don't worry I could feel you were faster me in the bendy stuff and was doing everything i could just to keep you behind .

john

Well, I could imagine that, and my intentions were not to stay on your exhausts for long. It was fun anyway John. No worries. For the first 10 laps, I could have tried a pass but I think I had little chances and so I decided to wait till the last lap. Another choice could have been if you had made a mistake, but I know you and that chance did not seem possible. I was pretty comfortable running on your exhausts, which allowed me not to use the throttle at 100% and so to save some fuel
It was great to race with you John, in spite we tried to make things difficult to each other. This is racing, right ??