SR4L Fun Race League Kyalami Rnd 3

[Fergy]

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Round 2 saw plenty of action at 70's Watkins Glen. Gorka dominated with 2 wins while Paul Ceglia picked up yet another win in race 3. Wim in his first appearance this season picked up a very handy 43 points while Vittorio, Rob Milliken, David Cruickshank all picked up valuable points. Marcel Wiegers will be out for revenge next race after some bad luck turned his night into disappointment. Teams are heating up, Will Race for Food increasing their lead, Lowland and Billy Cart Bangers both taking themselves out in separate incidents. The new double Dutch team of Wim and Cor scoring some good points. The battle for Team Trophies looks to be an intense one.
All in all a great night with plenty of action. Great turn out by members again with 19 drivers on track. I'm going to say it again, the sportsmanship here is outstanding and after reading the race reports and seeing apologies for incidents it just shows the stand you all set here. Keep up the good work.

Bryan Ferguson


Rules&Regulations

Please read the SR4L rules and regulations before racing this league
http://simracers4life.com/index.php?board=16.0

Mod&Cars
You will need to log into the SR4L League site and go to Drivers/Edit Data/Seasons
Choose the mod, SR4L F2 60's Fun Race League.
Choose your car and car number e.g. Spark F2 number 23.
Add your real name to Nick in Sim* Our league policy is race with your real name.

Car Choices:
EVE F2 MS7 is car number 22
EVE F2 MS7/1 is car number 23
EVE F2 MS7/2 is car number 3
Spark F2 is car number 23 or 48
Winged Spark is now available.

Points System

Drivers and Team points use the current F1 points system 25, 18, 15, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2 and 1 .
Qualifying bonues for Pole position = 1 point
Fastest lap of the race = 2 points
Most laps on lead bonus = 1 point
Finish 100% of the race = 2 points

Race Times&Details

Sunday February 17th

Prac 17:25
Qual 19:25
Race 20:00

3x15 Lap races. Reverse grid order race 3.

*All race times are GMT

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Weather Forecast



Changing weather tested but still not ready. Sunny days ahead

Teams

Go the League Site

Teams/Manage
Add
Add your Team name e.g Marcel Crashers
Choose the season, SR4L F2 Fun Race League
Save

Scroll down and Invite yourself and your Team Mate from the list.

You should see a yellow symbol that means you are waiting for your invite to be accepted.

Done.

Note* The Teams will be announced and will consist of 2 drivers only. I will endeavour to make
them as even as possible. This is purely trial run and again all about Fun.

Server Name

! SR4L Server 1

Server Settings

One pit stop required with a Tyre change
Fuel usage x5
Tyre wear Normal
Damage 50%
Auto Clutch on

[b]Drivers electing not to change tyres will be disqualified[/b]

Race Day Password

simracers4life

TeamSpeak

IP address 178.77.67.87
Password sr4l

Good luck at Kyalami,

Bryan Ferguson
Race Director

Paul Swire
Administrator

[Fergy]

Please note the new password.

[gorgias1976]

Pit lane entry/exit rules starting this race, isn't it?

[Navigator]

Why is my name in the rolling banner?
Do I need to see something special?

[Fergy]

Yes Pit lane rule is good to go

Comment of the week lands on the Scrolling honours list Wim Nikos had his run last week

[Navigator]

I don't get it? Comment? What'd I say?
Normally it's most nonsense that comes out of my mouth but it seems I had a good moment than?

[Lecram]

I don't get it? Comment? What'd I say?
Normally it's most nonsense that comes out of my mouth but it seems I had a good moment than?

ps. I don't know what Bryan is on about...

[Paul_Ceglia]

[1959nikos]

maybe its man and steering wheel mating

[Navigator]

Ssst on the wheel please.......
A few days ago I was ahead of "the big guys" and I could see they didn't really had given it a go. So I went "come on guys, my new wheel is not that great". ( meaning: not THAT great)
But I got some reactions I didn't get and all I can make up about the matter is that I must be pretty annoying.

Happens quite often when I open my mouth that I'm misunderstood or get into some sort of argument.
Must be me, so I better just drive and say "hi".

[Paul Swire]

This race is on my birthday so if I can still drive after the alcohol I have consumed, I would like a convoy behind me all the way to the finish please

[Paul_Ceglia]

I have a date with the wife on race day, Ill be able to make the first possibly the second. It will be our first night together without the little one since he was born so Im looking forward to a bottle of red and some great Italian food althought we eat good every night, it will be nice having some else cook for a change !

[Lecram]

At the moment, realroad resets at the start of the race. Can this be fixed? :-*

[Fergy]

Could be a faulty file, not sure. I'll save a new file and update it.

[Paul Swire]

Check weather settings on server.

Practice should be set to real road file. Quali and Race should be set to progressive.

[Fergy]

Race was set to realroad file, fixed

[Lecram]

Thanks Bryan

[1959nikos]

This is the layout we are using

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it was like that from 1961 to 1988.

An easy track to learn, no hidden dangers, large escape places.

Look what happened there though at the 1977 South African Grand Prix: (from Wiki)

Tom Pryce began his final race weekend, the 1977 South African Grand Prix at Kyalami, by setting the fastest time in the Wednesday practice session, held in wet weather. Pryce posted a time of 1 minute 31.57 seconds with the next best, the eventual 1977 World Champion Niki Lauda, a full second slower. The weather dried up prior to the Thursday session, and he slipped back down the grid to fifteenth place, almost two seconds slower than James Hunt's pole position time.[37]

The Welshman's DN8 made a poor start to the Grand Prix and by the end of the first lap was in last place. Pryce started to climb back up the field during the next couple of laps, overtaking Brett Lunger and team mate Renzo Zorzi on lap two, and Alex Ribeiro and Boy Hayje the following lap. By lap 18 Pryce had moved from 22nd to 13th place.[38]


The area just after The Kink is where Pryce and Jansen Van Vuuren collided and the Crowthorne corner where Pryce and Jacques Laffite's cars collided. Pryce was already dead.On lap 21, Zorzi pulled off to the left side of the main straight, just after the brow of a hill and a bridge over the track. The Italian was having problems with his fuel metering unit, and fuel was pumping directly onto the engine, which then caught fire. Zorzi did not immediately get out of his car as he was experiencing trouble in disconnecting the oxygen pipe from his helmet.[39]

The situation caused two marshals from the pit wall on the opposite side of track to intervene. The first marshal to cross the track was a 25-year old panel beater named William (Bill). The second was 19-year old Frederik Jansen Van Vuuren, commonly known as Jansen Van Vuuren, who was carrying a 40 lb fire extinguisher.[39] George Witt, the chief pit marshal for the race, said that the policy of the circuit was that in circumstances involving fires, two marshals must attend and a further two act as back-up in case their extinguishers were not effective enough. Witt also recalled that both Bill and Van Vuuren crossed the track without prior permission.[40] The former only just made it safely across the track, but the latter did not. As the two young men started to run across the track, four cars driven by Hans-Joachim Stuck, Pryce, Jacques Laffite and Gunnar Nilsson were exiting the final corner and coming onto the main straight.

"As we got to the top I suddenly sensed this marshal running across the track from my right, carrying an extinguisher. I took a big chance and I don't know how I got away with it. There was no time, I just reacted on pure instinct."

Hans-Joachim Stuck[41]Pryce was directly behind Stuck's car along the main straight, Stuck himself sensed Van Vuuren and moved to the right to avoid both marshals, missing Bill by what Tremayne reports to have been a matter of "millimetres". From his position directly behind Stuck, Pryce could not see Van Vuuren and was unable to react as quickly as Stuck had done. He struck the teenage marshal at approximately 270 km/h (170 mph). Van Vuuren was thrown into the air and landed yards in front of Zorzi and Bill. He died upon impact, his body being literally torn in half by Pryce's car.[42] The fire extinguisher he had been carrying smashed into Pryce's head, before striking the Shadow's roll hoop. The force of the impact was such that the extinguisher was thrown up and over the adjacent grandstand. It came to ground in the car park to the rear of the stand, where it hit a parked car and jammed its door shut.[41]

The impact with the fire extinguisher had wrenched Pryce's helmet upward sharply, and he had been partially decapitated by the strap. Death was almost certainly instantaneous. Pryce's Shadow DN8, now with its driver dead at the wheel, continued at speed down the main straight towards the first corner, called Crowthorne. The car left the track towards the right, scraping the metal barriers before veering back onto the track after hitting an entrance for emergency vehicles. It then hit Jacques Laffite's Ligier, sending both Pryce and Laffite head-on into the barriers. Van Vuuren's injuries were so severe that, initially, his body was only identified after the race director had summoned all of the race marshals and he was not among them.[43]

The eventual race winner was Austrian Niki Lauda, this being his first win since his near fatal accident during the 1976 German Grand Prix. At first he announced it was the greatest victory of his career, but when told on the victory podium of Pryce's death, he said that "there was no joy after that"."


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[Lecram]

That must have been horrifying. Shame such a beautiful sport has such ink-black sides.

[Fergy]

sad history here. This is from another era but sure shows how dangerous it was.

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