SR4L 1960's F1 League Rnd 10 Belgium

[DJCruicky]

That is a very strange place to have the pitlane exit. No mark or anything... I can imagine a lot of drivers will get drive-troughs for speeding

Sounds great DJ. But I think you should make the barb-wire fence and the posts non-collidable for all versions. Imagine a car plunge into those half-rotten posts in 300 kmh... They would be cut in half. Probably the driver would get his head cut off from the wire too, but at least the post can't make the car bounce back to track like it was a super-strong guardrail. Very dangerous when someone in front runs off track. At the moment, it's not a fence, it's like having a stone wall around the whole track. And when someone hit it, they go from 300 kmh to 0 kmh in 0.1 sec and no time to react for the driver behind.

Would be nice if those barb-wire posts could have the same resistance like the small white posts, or slightly stronger. But I guess that is not possible so imho it's better to have it non collidable. My opinion

Off with your head :o.
Non Collidable posts, it's not too late for me to do, but me not the boss round here. Mind you, I would think you would want MW and me to be-head ourselves on the posts. Only way you going to get a jump in points :o.

[Lecram]

Non Collidable posts, it's not too late for me to do, but me not the boss round here.

No need to. I think the barbwire and the people standing on the hills being non-collidable a little over the edge already.
I might change my view on that after the event though.. :

[Hedlund]

Your choice ;D I just thinkt that it's a shame that so many drivers can have their race ruined if someone in front runs off track into the fence.
But well, I need that luck I had at Monaco when Marcel retired both races, so... 8)



http://f1-history.deviantart.com/art/Coo...-397669610

[Hedlund]

Oops...just realised that the car in the pic has my number

[1959nikos]

Great find! What is this car, a Hillman?

[Hectari]

Another shot of it:



from this article http://www.speedhunters.com/2010/07/phot...ilm_speed/ Some great photos.

Also, race report from Spa in '68. 3 finishers.. seems about right haha! http://www.grandprix.com/gpe/rr165.html

[Lecram]

Amazing how a car/track combo can attract so many drivers... :o

[Hedlund]

He was very lucky to survive that. Where could it be? " ...he crashed into and over a concrete barrier..."
I'm instantly thinking of that first challenging corner after Eau Rouge. Les Combes? I love that corner. I love the whole track. It has such a nice flow

Here's another site with quali results too: http://racing-reference.info/race/1968_G..._Belgium/F
Pole lap was 3:28.6 seconds. Quite big gaps between the drivers too.

[DJCruicky]

28 laps. How many of us are left after just 3 laps. lol.
Nice pics. Got to love the Gulf Oil sign

[Hectari]

'Redman won the Spa 1000Kms in a GT40 with Jacky Ickx as his partner, but when he returned, a fortnight later, to drive a Cooper T86 in the Belgian Grand Prix, a horrifying accident awaited. At Les Combes, the left-hander at the top of the hill after Eau Rouge, his car’s front suspension broke.

“I went over the Armco, and as I did so my right arm was trapped between the car and the barrier. As it turned out, I was very lucky not to lose it. Big one, that. When the car landed, it hit a Vauxhall Cresta that someone had thoughtfully parked there. I suppose he probably thought it was out of reach…”

For all that, Brian adored the ‘old’ Spa circuit. “I thought it was the most difficult circuit, because mentally it was so hard, simply because the corners were so fast. I derived more satisfaction from a good race there than anywhere else. And generally it was a lucky circuit for me: I think I won five times there.”

Years later, the accident at Les Combes was to pay him a dividend of a kind. In the 1972 Spa 1000Kms, Redman was leading in one of the factory Ferrari 312PBs, but Ronnie Peterson’s similar car was closing. “After my shunt at Les Combes, I always took an odd line there, went in early, to give myself a little more room.

I saw all this activity, which always means an accident round the corner or something, and I backed off and just got round. It was raining at that part of the circuit, and the activity was people putting up their umbrellas. And Ronnie never made it – he went right round the corner on the barrier. We won.” '


The start of the accident: the suspension on Redman’s Cooper collapses at Les Combes


Excerpt taken from http://www.motorsportmagazine.com/race/r...an-redman/

Interesting what he says about the Porsche 917 '“I drove one in practice at Le Mans in ‘69, and it was the fastest I ever went there – 238mph. But the thing was all over the road; going down the Mulsanne Straight you were constantly having to correct the steering, and you just hoped that when you arrived at the kink you were on the right side of the road… If you weren’t, you had to brake!'

That's how I feel in the fast Howston models lol

[Hectari]

28 laps. How many of us are left after just 3 laps. lol.
Nice pics. Got to love the Gulf Oil sign

Haha yeah, ISI should take this tact when they don't have the license for a billboard.

[gorgias1976]

28 laps. How many of us are left after just 3 laps. lol.
Nice pics. Got to love the Gulf Oil sign

I wished we did sometime a similar race, to simulate how a real race was.

We would definitely take things easier during the race and be less aggressive.

[edwin]

28 laps. How many of us are left after just 3 laps. lol.
Nice pics. Got to love the Gulf Oil sign

I wished we did sometime a similar race, to simulate how a real race was.

We would definitely take things easier during the race and be less aggressive.

+1

[cosimo]

28 laps. How many of us are left after just 3 laps. lol.
Nice pics. Got to love the Gulf Oil sign

I wished we did sometime a similar race, to simulate how a real race was.

We would definitely take things easier during the race and be less aggressive.

+1

+1

[Lecram]

28 laps. How many of us are left after just 3 laps. lol.
Nice pics. Got to love the Gulf Oil sign

I wished we did sometime a similar race, to simulate how a real race was.

We would definitely take things easier during the race and be less aggressive.

+1

+1

Well, I guess we could make that a ''fun''-event for next Sunday. But then I think we should drive the un-patched version...

[Hedlund]

28 laps. How many of us are left after just 3 laps. lol.
Nice pics. Got to love the Gulf Oil sign

I wished we did sometime a similar race, to simulate how a real race was.

We would definitely take things easier during the race and be less aggressive.

+1

+1

Well, I guess we could make that a ''fun''-event for next Sunday. But then I think we should drive the un-patched version...

Add a few rain showers too

[DJCruicky]

28 laps. How many of us are left after just 3 laps. lol.
Nice pics. Got to love the Gulf Oil sign

I wished we did sometime a similar race, to simulate how a real race was.

We would definitely take things easier during the race and be less aggressive.

+1

+1

Well, I guess we could make that a ''fun''-event for next Sunday. But then I think we should drive the un-patched version...

Add a few rain showers too

You lot are crazy :o.

Old video, but worth a repost--.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_2lEju7hJ4&src_vid=aiVsdOk4Tns&feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_39400[/youtube]

[gorgias1976]

28 laps. How many of us are left after just 3 laps. lol.
Nice pics. Got to love the Gulf Oil sign

I wished we did sometime a similar race, to simulate how a real race was.

We would definitely take things easier during the race and be less aggressive.

+1

+1

Well, I guess we could make that a ''fun''-event for next Sunday. But then I think we should drive the un-patched version...

Add a few rain showers too

You lot are crazy :o.

Old video, but worth a repost--.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_2lEju7hJ4&src_vid=aiVsdOk4Tns&feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_39400[/youtube]

The video is such a great ans funny idea/concept. Sad that the reckless arcade driver ruins it.

[gorgias1976]

Are we finally doing the special 28lap event (as in the 1968 real GP) this weekend in Belgium? (would arrive back home from a weekend out by race time, no need to practice for a 28lap race, just taking it with more care on sunday)

[Lecram]

Are we finally doing the special 28lap event (as in the 1968 real GP) this weekend in Belgium? (would arrive back home from a weekend out by race time, no need to practice for a 28lap race, just taking it with more care on sunday)

Yeah, I'm not sure, some SR4L guys have races elsewhere sunday's. From what I read from you I suppose saturday is no good.

Maybe save that event for later, summer-break event? I'll keep it in mind..