UKGPL Season 21 (2011) Specs - Monza (Full 10km) - Jul 8

[Hristo Itchov]

The Eagle is wiping the floor with the Ferrari in straight line speed although the Fez is a bit more reliable in the corners. I'm finding the difference almost 2 seconds per lap. I got the Eagle up to 200mph - its faster than Spa...

I confirm, same here!

If you want to get rid of all those people in pits and have fps drops, just try my Monza10k track folder

_http://oron.com/vm4gq4yr4n0u/monza10k.7z.html_

Greetings

Nice, thanks, Axel! Always wanted a fix for that...

[Geoff65]

Remember to keep some top gear up your sleeve for slipstreaming......as both of these will expire if over-revved for too long

[BadBlood]

Sadly I am going to miss this one as I am in bed with a temperature - and a very nice girl she is too...

Billy how can you have bumps of 1.0 to 1.1 - mine go up in single units between 1 and 5?

[Hristo Itchov]

Sadly I am going to miss this one as I am in bed with a temperature - and a very nice girl she is too...

Billy how can you have bumps of 1.0 to 1.1 - mine go up in single units between 1 and 5?

If that's the case then you probably don't have the latest patches installed or you start GPL from GPL.exe instead of the modded exes (or via GEM).

[EvilClive]

I think he means "bump rubbers" as opposed to the bump settings on the shock absorbers ?

[Hristo Itchov]

I think he means "bump rubbers" as opposed to the bump settings on the shock absorbers ?

That could be it as well, lol. I noticed a couple of people calling bump rubbers and bump setting of the shock absorbers just "bumps", which is rather ambiguous.

[BadBlood]

Ah yes - of course - I hadn't even notice that they WERE called Bump Rubbers - I never touch them... so I only knew about Bump and Rebound (the shame)

[blito]

Race 1 - I've just had the weirdest retirement! I was running quite well, up in 6th place, approaching Parabolica. I touched the brakes in exactly the same way as I had on each preceding lap but somehow this time they "grabbed" and the car slewed sideways and came to rest against the fence on the outside of Para.. It would not drive forward, or backwards, and I could not perform a shift+r but dont know why
Reason being given for retirement is "Susp"
not amused

[blito]

Race 2 - another retirement - this time over the top of the final banking whilst in the lead with one lap to go!!!

TBH, lets face it - this circuit is just shit.

[Hristo Itchov]

Race 2 - another retirement - this time over the top of the final banking whilst in the lead with one lap to go!!!

TBH, lets face it - this circuit is just shit.

You were never in the lead, trust me, Sam led for the whole duration. It's the server timing messing up seriously for some reason - I hope Billy can sort it out (and also post the actual fastest lap time of the race as well).

[blito]

I kind of guessed something had gone wrong somewhere ... I had passed a good few pile-ups on the way round but couldnt believe what prib was showing me even though the pitboard was also showing P1....  I get the feeling that this circuit is seriously messed up really......
Bit of laugh though, and everyone really should check the race 2 replay just see my car bouncing over the top of the banking

[Billy Nobrakes]

Race results may be delayed whilst I sort out what actually happened on Race 2.
The track is known to be a bit glitchy, although we have raced here before & I thought the banking make it a fun event.
Repalys have been posted if you want to look.

[BadBlood]

Sorry buddy - might have jumped the gun a bit. The replay shows that the server simply counted Hendy as having done a lap when he reset off the start. Same with Clive. It is a strange one but we may have to adjust results. I don't think either Clive or Hendy would claim this as their most distinguished race. Stop n Gos were a bit dodgy too.

As for my world record in Race 1 - Hendy was involved there too. He and I had a coming together at the bridge and when I reset I was on the banking... half a lap further up the road. Personally I am quite happy to be given a penalty equal to half a lap - say 1:15 or to be excluded altogether.

Replays are a bit buggy too. Keeps crashing if you have an out of car view.

Realistically Evil and Hendy sandwich Ronnie in seventh and ninth as their race time is actually the time to finish six laps but they might well have made seven laps which would put them just behind Geoff. That is before any time penalties or other modding effects.

[Geoff65]

Yeah, the last I saw of Clive, although I don't use prib so I had no idea who it was, I drafted past him on the North Banking I think it is. Yes, drafted PAST Evilclive, you read correctly. A highlight of my GPL online career. Then, held off his determined counter-attack until he was unfortunately wiped from my 6 on the exit of Ascari by.....yes?.....Someone elses accident.
Bad luck Clive, thought you might just follow me through the wreckage. But you chose to pull inside of me........right into the path of a wreck drifting my right to left. If that had have been real...........ouch. Upshot is, I think for certain he was behind me at the finish.
Apologies for the Noob effort of the week, allowing my car to rail ride in T1 after the start, then the inevitable meeting of the greenery, post Rail. The hedge then bounces me back onto the track with as much force as the bloody Womping Willow. Thence ensued crap all over the place........mostly bits of racing car. Sorry gents, got a good start and moved up a few places in the first couple of hundred metres, then it got so crowded in Curva Grande that I had no room to get the car turned properly, as on cold rubber......the Fezza seemed reluctant to turn without brutal persuasion. The short ending, a trip to the Curva Grande exit Hedge. Settled down and drove to the end....until the last lap exiting Sud Curve. I ran the Sth Curve high all the way round til I can see the exit nearing, then pull down low to keep the car off the exit Armco without wrestling it and losing drive off the banking onto the straight. On the last lap, Ray was sticking his nose in the Eagles skirts and drafting up close. I was holding him off.....just, without driving defensively.......using the racing line, but I couldn't pull down low when I needed to as Ray had pulled inside and disappeared from my mirrors, I had to leave him room or there might be a wreck......oops too high!!, flung against the left rail and bouncing back into Rays path. Which ended in a monumental high speed wreck. I'd worked my way back from last to 6th or 7th.......Sigh, next time. Fun races though. I love this track, has more of a real feel about the driving surface, than the original Papy track A lot slipperier in places than the Papy unit too. Congrats to podiums of both races......18's?

[bernie]

Don't get what this track is about myself , raced here (if you  can call it that ) a few times previous but not with 67's and my opinion has not changed . 2/3 of it just like driving on the M6 , utterly boring , can see why the RL drivers boycotted it in the 60's
Having said that I love Monza without the high speed oval bit , one of the better GPL tracks IMO

I'm pretty crap at qually and was well down the order in R1 but had a good race set up and hoped to make a place or two but the Gods of Monza thought otherwise and I got taken out on Lap 1 at Parabolicup by a wayward Geoff as he extracted his car from the bushes as I was passing , sorry if anyone else got involved .

R2 was a total disaster my Fezzerr set up was crap to say the least (even more crap than the driver so must have been bad ) , managed to avoid the T1 dodgems and was thinking   Hmmm ! "Thank you guys , this could be good for track position " but then I got to Lesmo's and realised why my set up was so crap .

Yes you guessed right , that old sucker punch "default set up" was loaded by error ,  49 laps worth of Gas and way overgeared did nothing much to help forward progress . In my enthusiasm to set the track alight I dissapeared over the top a couple of times and used S/R (thought these were PRO rules ) which re set me, both times, right in the middle of the banking  ! By this time though I'd given up and didnt bother with making Pit stops to atone for my sins