UKGPL Season 17 - Amateurs Trophy - Race 3 - 65 mod - KyalamiThe third round of the Amateurs Trophy finds us at the South African circuit of Kyalami, first built in 1961 and first raced by F1 in 1966 following a major upgrade. A track of 2 halves the long straight should offer some great slipstreaming opportunities which could end in disaster entering the long and slippery T1 at Crowthorne, especially on lap one. There is a large run off area but that is not an invitation to use it.
Ensure you have the pit wall in place. The standard papy track has a pit wall but there are patches available that remove it. The absence of a pit wall will not stop you joining the race but anybody seen miraculously driving through the pit wall on the server replay will be disqualified.Instructions for restoring the pit wall are;
If you have installed the GFX update that removes the pitwall here is how to get it back for the race .
1. Rename or remove kyalami.trk and kyalami.3do files from your kyalami folder.
That will give you back a wall you can crash your car into. If you want the old papy Armco GFX back do this.
2. Rename or remove Armco_s.mip.
As always I would remind you to take care on Lap 1 especially under braking into Crowthorne and don't forget that this time around we have upped the ante and the Amateurs will race at Pro level with no resets allowed.
Chassis allocations are below- the same chassis will be used for all races this season, unless there is an adjustment agreed by the moderator. Good luck!
Please use the updated 65 mod for this race.The 65 mod V2 update is being used by UKGPL and the updated layout features are very welcome, with the ability to record best lap times at addon tracks and to have 65 specific tracks. The new collision boxes are also a great improvement. Though the new slipstream code will need extensive testing, the preliminary race seemed to show that it would be a definite improvement in racing terms, without the controversy over its extent, as with the 66 mod.
Thanks to all involved with producing the update. If the new slipsteam code works as well as it seems it might, perhaps it could help persuade the authors of the 66 mod to rework their code as well!
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 aboveServer ukgpl6
IP address TBC
Race date = 17-03-2009
Time = 21:00
Track = Kyalami
Variant = 65F1
Damage Model = PRO
Qually time = 30 minutes.
Race length = 50% Grand Prix (40 laps)
Driver lists can be found on the
championship standings pageCHASSIS ALLOCATIONFERRARI Phil Thornton, Will Tway (reserve), Burtoner*, Asbjeurn*
LOTUS StormCloud, Dave Randall, Bartosz, Bernie*, Steve Bird*, Geoff65*
BRM NatanVix, Samb, Ginsters, Steve Bucket*, Ian*
BT11 CliveLoynes, John Roberts, Ken, Jethro, Fulvio
HONDA EvilClive, Tim, Iestyn (reserve)
COOPER Mike Beattie, Lorenzo, if he joins, otherwise any visiting speed merchant
BT7 Hristo
*drivers also assigned a Novices chassis
65 Mod
These 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.... Jim Clark won the 1965 Belgian Grand Prix in a Lotus. Graham Hill took pole in his BRM P261 with a time of 3'45.4 . The 1965 distance was 32 laps.
David Wright's 'Legends' site
http://fp.gplegends.plus.com/ has the download of the 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. The 2.02 update is available here:
http://www.jamesonline.net/ukgpl/1965mod_PATCH_v2.0.2_Setup.zip
