My third track project for Grand Prix Legends : "Albi67".
Albi is a very fast track , in the same spirit than
Monza. Aspiration played a big part there, with a long straight line.
The average lap speed reached near 180 km/h, one of the fastest track along
F2 season at that time.
Albi was already a classic entry for F2 cars, since
1960 completing of Sequestre track.
In 1967, Albi wasn't an entry for The first European Championship, but the best
Formula one drivers, wouldn't have miss it,
as earnings prices were high, with big starting primes.
Albi was included in the Trophées de France
classification for formula 2 cars, after Pau, Rouen and Reims that year.
Oil company and tyres manufacturers were very involved in prices, and BP was
a big sponsor for Albi.
The starting grid
After qualifiying, the 1967 race starting grid was
(pole position on right) :
Rindt (Brabham) 1'13''8 - Clark (Lotus) 1'13''7 - Stewart (Matra) 1'13''2
Rees (Brabham) 1'14''1 - Brabham (Brabham) 1'13''9
Widdows (Brabham) 1'14''9 - Irwin (Lola) 1'14''7 - Beltoise (Matra) 1'14''4
Servoz-Gavin (Matra) 1'14''9 - Ickx (Matra) 1'14''9
Gardner (Brabham) 1'15''5 - Redman (Lola) 1'15''1 - Courage (McLaren) 1'15''1
Schlesser (Matra) 1'15''7 - Hill (Lotus) 1'15''6
Rollinson (McLaren) 1'16''1 - Lambert (Brabham) 1'16''0 - Oliver (Lotus)
1'16''0
Hahne (Lola) 1'16''3 - De Adamich (Lola) 1'16''2
Siffert (Lola) 1'16''6
The race
Start done and Rindt (Winkelmann) goes ahead, but Stewart (Tyrrellracing) stay on his wheels, then Clark (Team Lotus), Widdows (Witley racing syndicate), Brabham (Mrd), Rees (Winkelmann), Irwin (Lola racing), Beltoise(Matra sports), Gardner (Mrd), etc...
Easily and quickly, Rindt and Stewart get a comfortable
advance, cause both Clark and Brabham, who finally overlap Widdows, had engine
problems. Beltoise is fighting to get off them, he will overlap Widdows soon.
Rees, Adamich, Gardner left the race. Rollinson make the first of many stops
to put water.
On fifht lap, Clark is spinning under Dunlop bridge, he fight hard but never
see leaders again. Brabham left, then Lambert.
After one third race lenght, positions are : Stewart and Rindt, alones ahead,
who simultaneously take the lead, behind them Beltoise, Clark tandem. The latter
is nearly behind his wheels, but he is conscious that he can't reach the leader.
Beltoise and clark will help each other.
Irwin is five then come 4 cars : Courage, Ickx (Tyrrel racing), Servoz-Gavin
(Matra sports), Widdows.
Redman and Oliver are fighting, but at a certain distance from the four above,
leading Joe Schlesser (Ford France) and Graham Hill (Team Lotus) whose engines
lack of horsepower. Both Siffert and Hubert Hahne (Lola BMW) have been already
overlapped by leaders.
Then we register The left of Oliver, Siffert
and Hill, the off road of Widdows (who lost his shifter !). Courage stops in
the pits.
After two third from the start, this is Stewart
who's alone ahead ! Rindt has been disturbed while overlapping Schlesser, and
his car has not sufficient maximum speed to keep contact with Stewart. Clark,
slowly but surely, get a little advance on Beltoise.
After a beautiful race, Ickx has overlapped Irwin fot the fifth. The latter,
Servoz-Gavin, Redman and Schlesser will be overlapped soon by Stewart. The 58
lap will see pit stop from the two Matra work team (Beltoise and Servoz-Gavin).
After several laps there, they will start again.
Now, position won't change anymore and classification is : Stewart, Rindt, Clark, Ickx, Irwin, Redman.
You can see the full result on the following Url : http://www.formula2.net/F267No33.htm
Final classification for Trophées de France
Roy Winkelmann Racing (Rindt, Rees) 33 pts
Team Lotus (Clark, Hill, Oliver)16 pts
Tyrrell Racing (Stewart, Ickx) 14 pts
Motor Racing Development (Brabham, Hulme, Gardner) 8 pts
Team Lola (Surtees, De Adamich, Irwin) 6 pts
McLaren Racing (McLaren) 6 pts
Ford France (Schlesser) 4 pts
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You will find more in the readme file.
Like for my another tracks I've spent a lot of
time to finish this project and to permit to all the GPL community to discover
this track.
I wouldn't want to see any addons for this
track or changes made without my permission.
Thanks in advance.
Like my others tracks this track free. However I would like to upgrade my computer
soon. So if you like the track you can send what you want at my mailing address
below. 1 Euro, 1 Dollar, more, even the video card that I dream about ;-)
Of course feel free to do it or no.
Alain Bosco
17 Rue Georges Ville
06300 Nice
France
You can also make a donation with Paypal with this button or with my email address a.bosco@free.fr
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ALBI67
Version 1.0 : 13/06/2003 First version.
Albi67v1.zip [Download] (2900 Ko)
Albi67V1Light.zip [Download] (2900 Ko) - Light version, with a shorter drawing distance, for smaller computers.