1973 Indianapolis 500 [May 31st]

Well I got $15,000 from Mike, Erm I mean McLaren don't know about the rest though

Richard Coxon wrote:

Well I got $15,000 from Mike, Erm I mean McLaren   don't know about the rest though

That little extra aerial on my car was the wire transfer interface. Seems to have slowed me down .2 sec per lap...and that is my excuse and I am sticking to it!!!

There is a 2nd place trophy on the way...a bit shorter than Richard's

I have sent Peter Blom the manufacturer's link if he wishes to make a 3rd place trophy.

Next season I will likely buy all 3 and ship all 3. Just went through a divorce so this year it was not an option given I am upgrading RL cars right now

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Just went through a divorce so this year it was not an option given I am upgrading RL cars right now

Be sure to also upgrade the GF

Alberto Ibañez wrote:

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Just went through a divorce so this year it was not an option given I am upgrading RL cars right now

Be sure to also upgrade the GF

I am on #3.5 now. The .5 ended so quick it does not count.

Yves Plaçais wrote:

Alessio Campigotto wrote:

3 times in the pits for damage, after the third time I took Yves with me so decided to end my race there even though damage was repairable.

Thank you admins and PaddockTV for making such a great event And congrats to the winner, whoever that may be

Désolé, Alessio
Je me suis fait piéger par l'aspi entre les virages, je ne pensais pas qu'il y en aurait autant.
Je voulais juste te suivre pour te doubler après le T2.

10000000000 excuses.

Not a problem Yves, I believe it was my fault anyway as I'd gone wider out of T1 too give more space on the inside and ended up merging into the wall. The car slowed down which gave you nowhere to go sadly

Great Video Jason really captures the spirit of the race  
Congrats Jason and Team HSO for your awesome achivements with this mod .

Congrats mostly to Mike for Pole and Richard for this most Historic Win.
There can truly be know more sweeter victory than winning Indy well done mate
Well done also to all finishers

Congrats Richard !!, I knew that car was too good for me to crash it, you took it to the win, great job !

Thanks guys

I am happy for you Richard! Survived and had no mistakes from what I saw in Jason's video. Good job!

I should have known better and went racing way too early in the race.

Thanks for organizing this! I look forward to more with these cars.

VOD is available :

Race part 1/2 :


Race part 2/2 :


Very sad to could not connect to the server after problem encounter. The race was very interessting and battle for victory awsome. I remember Mike hiting a car in T4 and continue like if nothing was done. Sorry everybody it was my last race on rFactor and I really did't want to finish like it. Jason and HSO team release a really nice work, Spooter guide is .... and cars and track very beautiful.

Thank you for choosing Paddock TV and nice race for everybody.

Thank you very much for covering our qualifying and race! 
I agree, the connection issue was unfortunate, but what we did see was great, and your presentation was first class!  Hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. 

A special thank you, and mention for you Hadrien, because it's not easy to broadcoast in a language that is not your native, well done, and thank you very much for making this so special!

Still thanks to Hadrien for the broadcast, great work.

You made our event so much more special Hadrien, again thank you a lot  

Maybe we will have another opportunity to have it broadcasted in the future, if we conver the mod to rfactor 2

Trophy has arrived

Thought I would pose in the teams/sponsors colours

Where's the milk, Richard?  

Way Kool trophy!  Grats, again, man.

I finally was able to load the replay cap and scope some of the race focusing on some of my mates for the most part.  I could only do so after turning all the grafix way, way down.  So was this why I couldn't hang onto the server for the race after first successfully joining?  Groan...

I'll be ready next year for sure!

Damn where did you get that jacket and cap from? They are so cooool

Again congrats, well deserved

Wow that arrived quick!! DHL! Looks great Richard, congrats! Love the sponsor correct jacket and hat.

Excellent, yeaaaaah.
Have you smell the trophy, is it clean? We all know what Mike was able to do with it.
Maybe have you some sticky fingers now.

Ben Paulet wrote:

Excellent, yeaaaaah.  
Have you smell the trophy, is it clean? We all know what Mike was able to do with it.
Maybe have you some sticky fingers now.

Thanks, was very quick and smells lemony fresh!

@Alberto, the jacket is about 10 years old, my mum bought it off the internet for me one christmas. It's made by Dakota, 100% real leather and still looks as good now as the day I recieved it

Available here perhaps? http://www.grandprix-dakotashop.com/en/

Bravo Richard !

Et sympa d'avoir la photo du vainqueur avec son trophée !

J'ai un petit service à te demander : peux-tu m'envoyer ton setup de course, histoire de voir ce qu'il manquait au mien ? Merci !

Et bravo aux organisateurs pour cet open !

Jukka Maattanen wrote:

Available here perhaps? http://www.grandprix-dakotashop.com/en/

I think thats the place, but mine in slightly different, mine has Firestone where they have Grand Prix, under the heuer logo.

I will send to you Yves, but I didn't use your setup in the end, I went with another.