1972 Interlagos 500 Kms [April 14th]

The Event

The Interlagos 500 Kms race was one of the classic events on the Brazilian calendar since the late 1950s. Initially an all-national race, it had an International edition in 1972, at a time when Brazil was starting to become a major motor racing country thanks to the blossoming of talents such as the Fittipaldi brothers and Carlos Pace on the international racing scene.
This 1972 edition gathered an interesting field combining some Brazilian, Italian and Portuguese entries, with a few other well-known Europeans such as Reinhold Jöst and Herbert Müller also making the trip. The race was a strange mix between the Indy 500 and a European-type sportscar event, as it was held not on the excellent 8-km road course of the Interlagos complex, but on the rarely used outer loop "roval" (road-oval) section. As for the Indy 500, the grid had a 3-3-3 shape and the race was a non-stop solo-drive 500er, although it was kilometres rather than miles. The race was open to all Sports-Prototypes, which included the former 5-litre Group 5 cars such as the Ferrari 512M, Lola-Chevrolet T70/Mk3B GT or Ford GT40 which were now banned from the World Championship for Makes, but also the 3-litre (Porsche 908, ALFA-Romeo T33/3, Abarth 3000, etc.) and the 2-litre Prototypes (Chevron B19, Lola T210, Porsches 906, 907 and 910, and even a French works GRAC). Local machinery from Brazil and Argentina were also present, many of them powered by American V8s, and there even were a couple of modified ALFA-Romeo GTA sedans !

For more details about the race, see the following links :
Complete results and entry
Pictures and summary (in Portuguese)
Pictures
Brazilian motor racing history

The Downloads

We will use the "Classic Sportscar and Grand Touring 1970" carset of the WSC 1970 1.0 mod for rFactor.

The "roval" layout of the Interlagos track was made by the one and only JP Campmajo from the GPC79 version of the full road circuit. It will appear in the "HSO Tracks" folder of the track menu in-game.
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The Race

Sunday April 14th

8:00pm - Qualifying
8:50pm - Drivers’ briefing & Warm-up
9:00pm - Race Start (156 laps, flying start after one formation lap, grid 3-3-3 pole left)

IP : 91.121.135.76:34700
Password : hso72

A training server will be running 24/7 with the same password
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The Cars

Three classes of cars are entered :

- 5,000cc Group 5 Sportscars (5.0 Ferrari 512M, 5.0 Ford GT40, 5.0 Lola-Chevrolet T70/Mk3B)
- 3,000cc Group 6 Prototypes (3.0 ALFA-Romeo T33/3, 3.0 Ferrari 312P, 3.0 Healey-Repco XR37, 3.0 Porsche 908/02 & 908/03)
- 2,000cc Group 5/6 Sports-Prototypes (1.8 Chevron-Cosworth B16, 2.0 Porsche 906, 2.0 Porsche 910)

The field is limited to 33 cars, 11 in each of the three classes.

Only one driver per car is allowed.

The faster drivers and the newcomers to the league will not be allowed to drive the Ferrari 512M.

There will be one overall scratch classification, but class results will be recognised as well.

Entry List

5,000cc Group 5 Sportscars

#4 Lola-Chevrolet T70/Mk3B (Racing Team VDS) : Paul Nadeau
#5 Lola-Chevrolet T70/Mk3B (Ecurie Bonnier) : Ricard Suanya
#6 Lola-Chevrolet T70/Mk3B (Sid Taylor Racing) : Free
#9 Ferrari 512M (Escuderia Montjuich) : Imre Bende
#10 Ferrari 512M (GeLo Racing Team) : Márk Holdampf
#17 Ford GT40 Mk1 (Trevor Graham Racing) : Christopher Snow
#18 Ford GT40 Mk1 (William Wonder) : Mick Claridge
#25 Ferrari 512M (North American Racing Team) : Mike Becnel
#29 Ford GT40 Mk1 (Auto Enterprises) : Curtis Kenyon
#30 Ferrari 512M (Scuderia Picchio Rosso) : Teemu Toikka
#58 Lola-Chevrolet T70/Mk3B (David Piper Auto Racing) : Antoine de Mautor

3,000cc Group 6 Prototypes

#15 Porsche 908/03 (Porsche Salzburg) : Carl Larrad
#22 Porsche 908/03 (Porsche Salzburg) : Rocky Calabrese
#34 Healey-Repco XR37 (Donald Healey Motor Co.): Jonatan Acerclinth
#35 ALFA-Romeo T33/3 (Autodelta) : JP Campmajo
#36 ALFA-Romeo T33/3 (Autodelta) : Frank Verplanken
#37 ALFA-Romeo T33/3 (Autodelta) : Yves Plaçais
#38 ALFA-Romeo T33/3 (Autodelta) : Ben Paulet
#45 Porsche 908/02 (International Racing Team) : Alberto Ibanez
#47 Porsche 908/02 (Racing Team AAW) : Tom Mountjoy
#55 Porsche 908/02 (International Racing Team) : Balázs Kiss
#57 Ferrari 312P (North American Racing Team) : Jean Louis Petillot

2,000cc Group 5/6 Sports-Prototypes

#16 Chevron-Cosworth B16 (Baker Motor Co.) : Guillaume Siebert
#27 Porsche 910 (Nick Gold) : Andre Cunha
#28 Porsche 910 (John L'Amie Racing) : Free
#39 Porsche 906 (Rainer Brezinka) : Free
#40 Porsche 906 (Greg Loomis) : David Jundt
#46 Porsche 910 (Christian Poirot) : Free
#49 Chevron-Cosworth B16 (Chevron Racing Team) : Mike Bishop
#60 Porsche 910 (Guy Verrier) : Free
#62 Chevron-Cosworth B16 (Chevron Racing Team) : John Nelson
#74 Chevron-Cosworth B16 (Chevron Racing Team) : Patrick Marucco
#77 Chevron-Cosworth B16 (Worcestershire Racing Association) : Tiago Malafaya

Wow so cool ! ALFA #36 please

Arf, j'ai oublié de finir ce que j'avais dit
Je prendrai l'Alfa #35 comme à l'open au Glen tiens

*4 VDS Lola Please

#57 Ferrari 312P please

Piper Lola please

Track Download link is not working
Alfa Romeo GTA Please

Any Swiss drivers on the cars(Siffert, Rega, etc.)?

Sounds interesting

Chevron #77 please

#37 ALFA-Romeo T33/3 (Autodelta) : Yves Plaçais svp !

Mais je vois que Carl a noté une Alfa Roméo GTA ??????

Edit : Thx, Carl !

#37 ALFA-Romeo T33/3 (Autodelta) .... Noooo Yves beat me

I would like #25 Ferrari 512M (North American Racing Team)


This will be awesome! Looking forward to it.

Carl Larrad wrote:

Track Download link is not working

Fixed now

Yves Plaçais wrote:

#37 ALFA-Romeo T33/3 (Autodelta) : Yves Plaçais svp !

Mais je vois que Carl a noté une Alfa Roméo GTA ??????

Edit : Thx, Carl !

Its Cool Yves Its about time i chose something different other than Alfa

Could i have the #15 Porsche 908/03 (Porsche Salzburg Please

I can give you my ALFA if you want Carlos, I know how dear they are to your heart . I was considering taking a Chevron anyway.

I'm out of town on business at the moment so cannot look at the track. I see a layout online. Is it banked at all?

Looks like Portuguese Nascar with wings. No right turns!!

#74 Chevron-Cosworth B16 please

Mike Becnel wrote:

I'm out of town on business at the moment so cannot look at the track. I see a layout online. Is it banked at all?

Looks like Portuguese Nascar with wings. No right turns!!

Layout here. First turn is banked, the other ones are regular corners.

Carl, if you want the Alfa, you can take mine, I don't particularly care.

@Ben: The #62 entry is racing under the banner of "Chevron Cars", not "Chevron Racing". Did you mean the #44?

Currently testing, not sure what to drive since none of the Porsches and Ferraris have a Swiss on board

Although one of the smaller Porsches has a Swiss driver(Willy Müller) and Bonnier is racing under the Swiss flag.

Frank Verplanken wrote:

I can give you my ALFA if you want Carlos, I know how dear they are to your heart . I was considering taking a Chevron anyway.

JP Campmajo wrote:

Mike Becnel wrote:

I'm out of town on business at the moment so cannot look at the track. I see a layout online. Is it banked at all?

Looks like Portuguese Nascar with wings. No right turns!!

Layout here. First turn is banked, the other ones are regular corners.

Carl, if you want the Alfa, you can take mine, I don't particularly care.

Cheers Guys you don't have to do that .. I Would like to test a few cars 1st ... The Alfa is very dear to my Heart but i also had a nice race at Nords with the 908 ...

The track is not loading for me. I get errors loading a bunch of files and then the game crashes. Also, the track installs to the GPC79Tracks folder. Nevermind about that part.

But for now, I'll choose the #22 Porsche 908/03 please. Subject to change after I test.

#6 Lola-Chevrolet T70/Mk3B (Sid Taylor Racing) : Teemu Toikka
Please

Ok, make sure your texture detail is set to High, otherwise you won't be able to load the track.