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Thunder & Lightning race garage
Thunder & Lightning Race Garage is the home of the Thunder and Lightning race team. We're all good friends who love racing, love Gran Turismo and love GTPlanet. Our goal is to race as fast and clean as we can, respecting all drivers on the track regardless of tag or origin. We organize race events that reflect the T&L vibe and the personalities that contribute to that vibe both as closed battles among the T&L members and as open competitions with a theme or a twist. We develop our own tunes and sometimes make them public. In the garage you will find information about the drivers, our competitions and our tunes.
Race Events
All you need to know about T&L race events, invitationals and inter-forum races
Tuning
Thunder & Lightning Tuning
Garage TZT Tuning (New Addition)
Achievements
Accolades, divisional promotions, WRS results and event race wins
the crew
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GTP_fairplay_plz [DE] (Division 1 Silver)
Hi mates! It´s a pleasure to be part of this great team. Ok, something about me: My first name is Kai and I'm from Germany. I love racing of nearly all kinds. I also love to ride motorcycles and watch every Moto GP race (I watch nearly every kind of motorsport)
Since I started driving with you guys in GTPlanet, I have got to know this game in a completely new way. Thanks a lot for some great racenights. I'm looking forward to some more to come. Regards
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GTP_FLASH48 [US] (Division 2 Bronze)
My name is John. I live in Alaska, where it gets cold sometimes! The only racing I have done, is cross country snowmachine racing! Thats been a few years ago though. I still snowmachine with my sons, I can still keep up with them. I started the GT games with number 2. Prologue is the first racing game I have played online, and happy to be with THUNDER & LIGHTNING RACE TEAM!
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GTP_Graffen [NO] (Division 2 Gold)
My name is Bjørn. I live in Trysil, Norway. My hobbies are MC/ skiing, all kinds of motorsport and gaming on PS2 and PS3. I have raced mostly WRC and Colin Dirt. I met Jon and Rune in Oslo at the GT academy national final, and they said that I should become a member of GTPlanet. So here I am. Thanks Jon and Rune - its a new gaming world for me.
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GTP_mr_geez [PL] (Division 2 Bronze)
Hey guys. My name is Maciek from Lodz, Poland. I've been racing in Gran Turismo since the beginning of the series (I feel like I'm, at an AA meeting at the moment). Hobbies: movies (a lot of!!), books (Brett Easton Ellis recently) , Miami Vice (call me Sonny Crockett) , sports (work related stuff and NFL, NBA, soccer) , racing (F1, super GT, Le Mans 24h , moto GP and few other series) & women (the one and only at the moment).
Extra info: I prefer Jack Daniels with 7up (77 connection) over anything else..
Let my racing do my talking..
cheers.
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GTP_Hun [PT] (Division 2 Bronze)
My name is Mário, I'm 44 years old, I'm from Portugal and I live (and work) in Lisbon. Married and with children, I'd like to mention that one of my kids is 11 years old and is already a GT5P player. Recently using a GTP tag (GTP_madbigdog), I told him to run the new qualifier, so maybe one day he'll also be in the registry.
Other things: I'm a long time biker, ride my XJR everyday, rain or shine. And I'm a go-kart addict, every time I can I jump into some kart racing with friends. As in GT, there's always someone faster than me, but I usually get a podium finish.
While online I try to run clean and as fast as I'm able to. Usually I race late in the night. Meet you there!
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GTP_JvM [FI] (Division 2 Gold)
My name is Jukka. I was born in 1986. I live in Helsinki, Finland, where I've lived my whole life. I have been playing GT from the first game. From then on there was no doubt that I would have every following game of the series. However, GT5
was the first GT that I have played with a wheel, and oh boy it's a different game!I'm also interested in many kinds of motorsports. F1 is the one that I follow the most. And of course, very interested in cars in general too.
When I joined in GTP I thought it was a really great place. But I would have never imagined being invited to a so nice and great a team as T&L, which this brilliant little group of people from around the world really is. Easily the best thing happened to me around here so far.
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GTP Marchbrown [NO] (Division 1 Silver)
Jon is my name. I'm a family man with two lovely kids. They've just started their racing career and love to borrow dad's wheel. I've been playing the GT series from the start, and also like racing in real life. Mostly karting, but I also had a try in many other motorsports.
As I live in the high mountains of Norway I get a lot of sliding practice during the winter. So of course I'm into oversteery cars
. My home town Geilo is a ski-resort so skiing, kiteing and flyfishing in our rivers is also a big part of my life. Winning isn't everything for me - I'd rather have a fair, fun and close battle on the track
Karting at stealthwinners birthday
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GTP_Synwraith [GB] (Division 1 Bronze)
My name is Maz, I'm 29 and from London, England. However I was originally born in Iran but have spent over 20 years in the UK. I've been a follower of the Gran Turismo legacy from day one and played all main versions of the game to death. I am a huge motorsports fan, and a wannabe motorsports writer in addition to my current occupation as maths teacher and teacher trainer. I mistakenly fancied my own abilities at this game a bit too much until I discovered this forum and found out what the term 'expert' truly meant. GTPlanet is an exceptional community and I am proud to have earned my tag racing amongst the best around. I also love the Nordic/Irish/Germanic connection in this team as I'm a frequent visitor to Iceland and a fan of old Viking sagas. Movazebe Rad-o-Bargh baash, meaning "Beware of thunder and lightning" in my native language!
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GTP_Stealthwinnr [NO] (Division 1 Silver)
My name is Rune. I have been racing the GT series since GT2, and of course the different rally games over many years. At least the ones with a bit of realism in them, like the older Colin McRae games. Marchbrown and I have been driving these games together for many years now. I drive a truck in the summer and work in the ski resort in Geilo during the winter.
My racing experience is not that extensive, but I have tried some go-kart races with friends. I also try to use my motorcycle as much as I can during our short summers up here in the mountains. I would really like to take it to the track (hopefully next summer), just as I also want to try racing cars on track....
I enjoy racing a lot more than tuning, but I love the big reward when you get a car that works perfect on the track. Hope to race you all soon
Me on my old bike. Me during wintertime with my board
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GTP_PrudentBear [GB] (Division 1 Gold)
My name is John, 31 years old from Yorkshire in England. I studied maths at university, earn my living as a programmer and am currently living in Cheshire with my girlfriend.
Obviously I like cars or I wouldn't be hanging around in a place like this - I currently drive an EP3 Honda Civic Type R. It's a bit of a compromise but as an all rounder and in terms of bang for your buck, I can't fault it. Once I have a garage I intend to buy a banger for work and a proper sports car for the weekend. I prefer cars to motorbikes as my mode of transport but when it comes to watching racing I much prefer bikes and you will find me at the British round of the MotoGP as well as a couple of rounds of the British Superbike Championship (usually Oulton and Cadwell Park) and some road races at Oliver's Mount in Scarborough. I usually attend the Goodwood Revival each year which is simply a fantastic event. I'm a bit of a mountain biker too which is why I might not be online as much during the summer months.
I've been playing Gran Turismo since the first game and various other racing games before and since, starting back in the early 80s. I was lucky enough to get to the UK national final of the GT Academy competition last year where I finished 5th, narrowly missing out on a place at Silverstone.
It's been great racing you T&L guys and all the other GTPers up until now and I'm sure it will get even better when we finally have GT5.
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GTP_Theewar [IE] (Division 2 Gold)
My name is Warren and I am the Irish side to the team[for now at least]. My background consists of jet-ski racing, a bit of karting and a lot of track days with both four and two wheels - but mostly on two wheels. I earn my living as a driving instructor. After spending 5 years driving trucks and seeing the lack of good drivers on the roads, I figured I could make a change and here I am. Anyway I sometimes create a good setup for a car, and every now and then I win races. Anything I can do to help anybody please feel free to ask me here.. Keep it lit and remember you have to go slow to go fast.
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GTP_Tzayed [US] (Division 2 Bronze)
I am originally from Central New Jersey, about an hour from NYC. Since 2004 I have been living in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania at Lehigh University, about an hour north of Philadelphia and 1.5 hours west of NYC. I did my undergrad in a program called Integrated Business and Engineering, with a concentration in Mechanical Engineering, and I am currently getting my masters in Industrial Engineering, and I am also a teaching assistant in several entrepreneurial project courses.
My car history is: 2002 Honda CR-V, 2003 Mercedes ML 350, 2007 Honda Civic Si, 2004 VW R32, and currently a 2007 RS4 sedan. My father was a VW/Honda/MB dealer, and his father, his father, his father in law, and his father were all car dealers in New Jersey, going back to the 1910's. So cars have been a huge part of my life. If you are curious, I picked up the Audi during the recession, at a dealer inventory auction, with 15K miles, for less than half price. Haven't had nearly enough time to learn her capabilities, but I am learning fast.
For racing experience, I've done about 10 auto crosses with my R32, and two sessions of training in Formula Fords at Pocono Speedway. I'd be doing more track days now, but I'm not willing to use the Audi quite yet.
So..... there's my introduction. Hope you learned more about me! Can't wait for my first T&L event as a real T&L!
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Our Goals..
The T&L crew contains drivers of all ages and nationalities. The one thing in common is the sheer joy of racing. Establishing the T&L garage is inn recognition of GTPlanet - and what this society stands for. The T&L garage wishes to exploit the opportunities and take part in the development of this unique social group.
GTPlanet provides rules and regulations for the benefit of good racing. But it also creates a social environment for all the participants. This fact gets strengthened by establishing smaller social groups inside the forum. T&L racing garage will work in the spirit of togetherness among the team members, but also in the spirit of the GTP community.
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Hi mates, it´s a pleasure to be part of this great team
