Spec Race - Hockenheim - 31 Jan

[vosblod]

Sunday Drivers will close this season on 31 January at Hockenhiem 67.
Track can be downloaded here http://gpltd.bcsims.com/?dis=H&menu=Show_Letters (Track #14) & there is a good graphics add on here http://www.thomas-laechele.de/gpl/
Can't see that this has been used by UKLGPL - at least not recently. I managed to learn to stay on track after about 6 laps so shouldn't take too much time to learn - once you figure out how ridiculously early you have to brake for the Ost curve.
Usual Sunday drivers rules to apply; 2 x Intermediate Short races (my guess is 8 or 9 laps). Choice of chassis is the Lotus & Honda. Each driver must use both cars - but start with whichever you like. 65 Mod / Resets allowed. Qualifying will be slightly reduced to 20 mins Race 1 & 15 mins Race 2 (requested by those with early bed times).
There is Interleague on the same night but they start at 8pm. Suggest we congregate in IGOR for 9pm.
Thanks to Nicky Ickx for agreeing to host.
Hope to see you there.
... Bill

[norbert]

Downloaded Hockenheim, threw the Laechle update on top, was amazed by the graphics, but disliked very much the asphalt.
Little bit too much fairy tale nostalgia ( of course: you can't discuss taste ) but too dark as well.
Found that Francisco Caballeros asphalt, added after Laecheles update and allow overwrite, did the job quite well.
Find it here at SRMZ: http://srmz.net/index.php?showtopic=240 " 512 x 512 Tarmac Download "
Have fun and cu on track.

[NHance]

Don't want to be a pain BUT. On Billy's original list of events on the normal Forum on 6th Dec 09 this Hockenheim race was listed as Lotus V BRM - not Lotus V Honda as shown above. Don't matter to me as I have now got set ups for all 3.

Is this change to Honda definite

Norm H

[Nigel Smith]

Help! Having a problem downloading Hockenheim, well, installing it really. Have got the zipped file from the link, but when I try to extract to GPL it comes up with a blocked by windows message, and that the install.ini is incorrect. Tried all my usual methods but this is the first time I've encountered this, getting frustrated now :'( Times running short , can anyone help?

[bernie]

have you tried extracting to a "Temp" file first and then run the programme from there ?

[Nigel Smith]

will try that bernie and let you know

[Nigel Smith]

well, don't i feel stupid. Thanks Bernie. Ican only put it down to feeling crap and forgetting the simple things are the best

[Billy Nobrakes]

Don't want to be a pain BUT. On Billy's original list of events on the normal Forum on 6th Dec 09 this Hockenheim race was listed as Lotus V BRM - not Lotus V Honda as shown above. Don't matter to me as I have now got set ups for all 3.

Is this change to Honda definite

Yes Norm, you are quite right, original scheduling was Lotus v BRM. Can't remember why I changed it but we'll stick with the rice burner (Honda).

.. Bill

[Billy Nobrakes]

Here are the results from the Sunday Drivers event at Hockenheim.
Congratulations to the winners, Nicky and Clutch. Podium finishes for D-Rock , Dean 0,  Dean Logan and Steve Bird.
Special performance by Martin “Maddog” Hunt to claim fastest lap in Race 1 & then a DQ in Race 2.
Fastest lap all evening by Fulvio Policardi at 2 mins 01.7 using a set-up provided by Billy Nobrakes (& my best time with that set up was a dismal 2 min 06.91 secs )

In the Spec Challenge there were 10 drivers who completed more than half distance in both laps. As I suspected it might, the Lotus came out on top by an aggregate of 3 seconds.

There is a General Post up about Sunday Drivers for next season here . Please feel free to add comments here https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=7451.0

PS. Sorry about the formatting with the results – whatever I do the columns never line up – a bit like my lap times.

RACE 1

Pos Driver                          Team     Nat Laps   Race Time       Diff   
 1   Nicky Ickx65                    Honda    RSA    9  18m45.413s           
 2  D Rock                          Lotus    USA    9  18m51.736s    06.323s
 3   Dean-0-65                      Honda    USA    9  18m59.205s    13.792s
 4  C Clutch65                      Honda    GBR    9  19m10.480s    25.067s
 5  Phil Thornton65                 Honda    GBR    9  19m12.880s    27.467s
 6  N Hance65                       Honda    GBR    9  19m16.903s    31.490s
 7  Norbert Stemmler                Honda    DEN    9  19m25.321s    39.908s
 8  nigel smith65                   Lotus    GBR    9  19m25.934s    40.521s
 9  Martin 65 Hunt                  Honda    USA    9  19m39.798s    54.385s
10  Fabio 65 Locarno                Honda    ITA    9  19m43.783s    58.370s
11   Steve Bird65                    Lotus    GBR    9  19m57.598s  1m12.185s
12  Billy Nobrakes                  Honda    GBR    9  20m18.291s  1m32.878s
13  Peter Maestro57-65              Lotus    GBR    9  20m18.819s  1m33.406s
14   Dean Logan_65                   Lotus    CAN    4   9m07.522s   5 lap(s)

FASTEST LAPS

Pos Driver                                 Time
 1  Martin 65 Hunt                    2m02.845s   
 2   Dean-0-65                        2m02.960s   
 3  Nicky Ickx65                      2m03.054s   
 4  D Rock                            2m03.697s   
 5  Steve Bird65                      2m03.813s 
 6  Phil Thornton65                   2m04.643s   
 7  C Clutch65                        2m04.805s   
 8  N Hance65                         2m05.165s   
 9  nigel smith65                     2m05.358s   
10  Norbert Stemmler                  2m05.640s   
11  Fabio 65 Locarno                  2m06.507s   
12  Billy Nobrakes                    2m06.912s   
13  Peter Maestro57-65                2m07.486s   
14  Dean Logan_65                     2m07.864s   


RACE 2

Pos Driver                          Team     Nat Laps   Race Time       Diff   
 1   C Clutch65                      Lotus    GBR    9  18m43.742s           
 2   Dean Logan_65                   Honda    CAN    9  18m50.045s    06.303s
 3  Steve Bird65                    Honda    GBR    9  18m51.172s    07.430s
 4  Fulvio Policardi_65             Honda    ITA    9  18m53.403s    09.661s
 5   Dean-0-65                      Honda    USA    9  18m53.798s    10.056s
 6  D Rock                          Honda    USA    9  19m13.674s    29.932s
 7  Norbert Stemmler                Lotus    DEN    9  19m18.170s    34.428s
 8  Phil Thornton65                 Lotus    GBR    9  19m18.794s    35.052s
 9  Billy Nobrakes                  Lotus    GBR    9  19m33.197s    49.455s
10  Peter Maestro57-65              Honda    GBR    9  19m42.361s    58.619s
11  nigel smith65                   Honda    GBR    9  19m42.873s    59.131s
12  N Hance65                       Lotus    GBR    9  19m43.305s    59.563s
13  Nicky Ickx65                    Lotus    RSA    8  16m43.847s   1 lap(s)
14  Fabio 65 Locarno                Lotus    ITA    1   2m15.472s   8 lap(s)
15  Martin 65 Hunt                  Lotus    USA    0   0m00.000s   9 lap(s)

FASTEST LAPS

Pos Driver                                 Time
 1  Fulvio Policardi_65               2m01.727s   
 2  Dean Logan_65                     2m02.178s   
 3  Steve Bird65                      2m02.767s   
 4  Nicky Ickx65                      2m02.773s   
 5   Dean-0-65                        2m02.800s   
 6  C Clutch65                        2m03.442s   
 7  Phil Thornton65                   2m04.382s   
 8  D Rock                            2m04.429s   
 9  Norbert Stemmler                  2m04.973s   
10  N Hance65                         2m05.062s   
11  nigel smith65                     2m06.593s   
12  Billy Nobrakes                    2m06.982s   
13  Peter Maestro57-65                2m07.061s   
14  Fabio 65 Locarno                  2m10.345s   
16  Martin 65 Hunt                      No time


DRIVER   LOTUS   HONDA   Diff
Nicky Ickx   122.773   123.054   -0.281
D-Rock   123.697   124.429   -0.732
Steve Bird   123.813   122.767   1.046
Phil Thornton   124.382   124.643   -0.261
Clutch   123.442   124.805   -1.363
Norm Hance   125.062   125.165   -0.103
Nigel Smith   125.358   126.593   -1.235
Norbert Stemmler   124.973   125.64   -0.667
Billy  Nobrakes   126.982   126.912   0.07
Peter Maestro   127.486   127.061   0.425
Total   1247.968   1251.069   -3.101

[fpolicardi]

Hehe big tow from Logan or Nicky I think

Billy have you tried to put Insert Code command before and after the text? That icon with #.

Ciao