We drove the GPL Mod at Kyalami 1967. Instead of doing a nomal 60 Minute race (like we are used,to) , we raced 80 laps like they did back in 1967.
It was the second full distance race in THR history. And it was a blast.
What a race... That was great, but really exhausting!
pitman right after crossing the finish line.
We saw great performances and many fights for positions over the most of the 80 laps.
Every participant did a really good job. We only had two smaller incidents in the first lap and the stream looks amazing, with these many cars.
The top had a good start into the race and Simone outpaced margar and pitman was able to overtake Davide.
On lap 5, margar went alongside Simone on the start-finish straight and passed him into the first turn. At the beginning of lap 28, Mark Zeidler was 4.5 seconds ahead of margar, but was unlucky when he hit a car, which was a lap down and spun in T1. Mark lost several positions.
Flashor put pressure on pitman, but pitman was able to escape that and settled his fourth place. However, pitman could not stop the car of Mark Zeidler, who then overtook him again and regained third place.
The podium of the GPL - 68 laps at Monza
margar17
Simone Porcu
Mark Zeidler
There are many untold stories from this race. But the spectators got their money's worth. Congratulations to the winner, the podium finishers and every participant of this great experience!
Prize for the winner of the race
For winning the 3rd anniversary celebration race, Margar will receive a product from our shop! I will reach out to him in the next days.
Some differences between F1 in 1967 and our THR race
F1 1967
THR 2020
Starters
18
26
Finishers
6
20
Race Total Time
2:05:45.9
01:43:12.230
Fastest Lap Time
1:29,9
01:16.490
We were faster cause of the MOD which could not be 100% correct. The other reason is that we were more risk-taking, because we didn't have to fear bad injuries or death in case of accidents.
Thank you!
Many thanks to every participant. It was a great way to celebrate THR´s 3rd anniversary and we will have the next full length GP when we turn 4 years old!
On Saturday the 15th of December 2018 we had our first THR race. This means that THR will be 3 years old in a few days and we have experienced a lot in these three years:
First Race
Our first race was held with the GPL Mod at Silverstone and we had 4 Racers on track. Our race format in the first weeks was to run as many 20-minute races in a row as we were able to. Our first regular driver was Ben Barson. Thanks a lot for showing that the community idea was not that bad.
Our AC server
The first races were hosted on Duderei's home server. But we quickly moved to a professional hoster. The first entry in our STracker Database is from 2018-12-25. After that we changed the hoster 2 times until we moved to a rented LinuxMachine (Thanks franglais) which runs the ServerManager and 5 AC-Servers.
Races in THR
Over the 3 years, 691 different drivers have raced on our servers. They drove 41,344 laps and a lot of kilometers.
We had around 145 official events and many uncounted races around them. We have completed 13 championships and 2 are still running. Our former champions can be seen on the Wall of Champions.
Discord
The Discord Server has been set up on 2018-12-07. Our first member besides Dude and me joined on 2018-12-14. Currently we have 1,025 Members. Some of them are very quiet or bots, but no matter what time of day, there are always around 150 members online. What I find crazy is that I have written nearly 18,000 messages in Discord.
Website
The Website followed a little later. The first entry is from 2019-01-17. It contains 171 pages and 237 news and I wrote more than 61,456 Words. Funfact: You will need around 4 hours to read them all.
To represent our races I have made 104 posters. Our Website has more than 71,000 visits and more than 270,000 views.
The most successfull page ist the news page with 37,764 views, followed by the GPL Mod page with 27,995 views.
Youtube
Nearly 1 year after our foundation we started our Youtube-Channel on 2019-02-17. At first we started with a short PromoVideo which was made by Bo Stamper. Another year later we started to stream our races and with the help of Klopstick and Ted we produced another brilliant PromoVideo which has been watched 1.133 times since then. To celebrate the start of our fifth GPL championship, Greg produced another stunning video which has been watched 357 times until today.
The channel contains more than 159 videos/streams and has 280 followers. It was visited 19,455 times and more than 1.000 hours of our videos were viewed.
Social Media
Besides of the above we have a Facebook site, which get not much attention from our side, but has 306 followers, cause of the website news which get posted on Facebook automatically. Also an unused Twitch Channel, an equally unused Instagram Account and some other cool things which I might have forgotten.
Shop
We opened our own THR shop on 12/21/2022. The idea behind the store was to send prizes to our championship winners / participants.
Since the opening we have donated 10 prices to our members and on top of that sold around 25 products. It doesn't sound like much 😉 but those who have ordered are very satisfied with the quality of the products.
By the way, we have a 15% discount for the next to days. If you plan to buy something and need help with it: https://thracing.de/thr-shop-help/
Organizational but cool things
In the last year we have implemented some very cool things:
ServerManager > We use it beyond its proper limits, but it works great.
THR Race Control > Active THR members form a group which checks all first lap incidents and the ones which get reported.
Change of our race format > Coming from 20 minute races, we implemented a weekday qualifying and switched to 60 minute races.
WKDY Races > We implemented races which happen on Wednesdays. The combinations of track and car are community based.
THR Academy > It is in it´s early stages, but we want to support newcomers who are not yet familiar with the vintage cars.
THR is present at Simracing.gp > Simracing seem to be an interesting alternative to our own server, but currently it is limited. Let´s see where it goes.
etc., etc.
Special Thanks
I want to send out a very special thank you to the members of the Orga - Group. You take work from me and support me in thoughts regarding the developement of THR and you help me to find good decisions. You are a great help for me!!!
I would also like to thank the members of THR Race Control. Most members do not see how much time the members of Race Control invest. It's great that you guys take the job so seriously!
Many thanks also to the Flashor, franglais and Greg who plan and set up the WKDY races. We had a lot of fun in the races, keep up the good work!
A special thanks also to Greg for creating such great THR videos last year. I always enjoy watching the promo videos and the hits and comments show how good they are!
And I bet I forgot to mention other supporters. Therefore, I thank everyone who has supported THR's work.
The most important part of THR > YOU
But the most important thing is the community that has grown up around THR.
I could never have imagined where we have arrived today (after 3 years), but it is still fun to invest time in THR. It is fun to be connected with you and to race with you.
It was/is an honor to meet some people who are very well known in the world of simracing. For example Sergio Loro, Bazza, Dave Esotic, Fat-Alfie, Ilja aka x4fab, Chris Haye, Sir Spats Gaming, LilSki and many others.
THR eats tons of hours, but it still feels like a success story. I think we have established ourselves very well in the simracing scene. I know that this only works cause of our members and it works cause I got support from you. It is also nice to see, that you help each other in Discord and that you respect each other. I appreciate that very much!
I would also like to thank those who have made a donation via Paypal or started to be a Patreon of THR! That's phenomenal!
@Drivers: Thank you very much for helping me, for racing with us and for being a part of [THR]!
Your [THR] pitman
I plan to celebrate the 3rd birthday and here is how:
click on the image to find detailed information
Detailed information on both races will be published in the next days. The servers for the first THR anniversary race are open... - THR |1| for testing the different GPL cars - THR |Quali + Race| for you qualifying laptimes
It would be awesome if we manage to have 2 races with full starting grids and a lot of race action and fun. Besides of that, it would be great if THR continues to grow like this and we can celebrate the next anniversary in a year!
Upcoming Schedule
We will postpone the GPL and TCL championship for the birthday races and as usual we will have a short christmas break.
Congratulations to Simone for the great race and congratulations to the podium
Stex68
It was painful to race with a lumbago, but I'm really glad I did it....
pitman
A very good race. Thanks again to everyone who made it happen.
Steve Hayward
Congrats to the winners and podium finishers of the race!
And many thanks to every participant. It was a pleasure to have you on track! (There are some open incidents which might inflict the results afterwards.)
Yeah, I'm switching cars for the rest of the series. Jag's crap.
Maddie Shepherd
First lap was impressive
Mark Zeidler
nice race guys
Duderei
Congrats to the winners and podium finishers of the race!
And many thanks to every participant. It was a pleasure to have you on track! (There are some open incidents which might inflict the results afterwards.)
Worst result but most fun! thanks Ian! Congrats to the podium!
Phil Noobson
I lost it after the main straight because I had to fiddle around to get my glass of water, next time I'll race with my camel bag 😉
Simon Meisinger
Congrats to the winners and podium finishers of the race!
And many thanks to every participant. It was a pleasure to have you on track! (There are some open incidents which might inflict the results afterwards.)
Thank you all. I really enjoyed the race. This time somehow i had avoid all the crashes.
Evgeny
Guys, I'm loving these combos
Dani Martinez (Chechum)
no worries, Evgeny and me practiced enough times going side by side through there
Alex787
That was an excellent race and i would like to thank everyone who made it happen.
Steve Hayward
Congrats to the winners and podium finishers of the race!
And many thanks to every participant. It was a pleasure to have you on track! (There are some open incidents which might inflict the results afterwards.)
As announced last night, we want to start a new series in THR today.
New members are joining THR constantly, cause they love vintage content as much as we do. But some of them don't feel ready to compete directly in our championships.
That's why THR is now offering a THR Academy Series that anyone can join.
The goal of the series is to learn how to master vintage cars on iconic tracks. The experienced members are invited to support the series and its drivers.
Questions can be asked in this Discord channel: #thr-acadamy In this channel we also provide setups and discuss about what you want to learn. This can be advise from experienced drivers, sharing driving techniques, best practices, practice methods, reference material, etc.
Both the Academy and the series are new. And that's why we're taking the opportunity to try out something completely new for THR:
In the last few days I have registered our THR community at simracing.gp
The look and feel is unfortunately not yet adapted to THR, but I have already submitted our graphics. I also created the first races of the THR Academy Series.
The registration is done via your Steam account and you will be asked for the following Discord password: THRgoesSimracingGP
After the registration you can book your slot for each race, by selecting the car and skin. (unfortunately simracing.gp does not offer custom skins at them moment)
The event format is: 10 min Practice 20 min Qualifying 30 min Race
If you like to practice the car/track combination before, you can use our server THR |3|. To join you need this password: THR_Academy
The THR Academy is under construction. It is possible that not everything will run smoothly at the beginning, but we will develop.
I wish us all a lot of fun and success. THR pitman
Congrats to the winners and podium finishers of the race!
And many thanks to every participant. It was a pleasure to have you on track! (There are some open incidents which might inflict the results afterwards.)
Congrats to the podium, that was a funny race for me, intense but funny
Rolf Biber
Fantastic battle, Alex
Dani Martinez (Chechum)
Damn, that was intense. Thank you @gilvil77 and @Andi Stangl / AnSeb for my upcoming nightmares of being pursued by a pair of Alfa Romeos eternally.
ValentinK
Intense race indeed and so professional and close! Thanks @gilvil77 and @ValentinK
Andi Stangl
Congrats to the winners and podium finishers of the race!
And many thanks to every participant. It was a pleasure to have you on track! (There are some open incidents which might inflict the results afterwards.)
