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GTP WTAC Week 41 : Mazdaspeed Power
*** Nothing really detailed this week. Mazdaspeed is Mazda's tuning/racing arm and I just wanted to use two examples. Obviously we aren't using the most famous creation from Mazdaspeed, the 1991 Mazda 787B. But we do get two modern versions produced for the performance enthusiasts and race teams. First is the 2005 Mazdaspeed Atenza. The Atenza, sold as Mazda 6 outside of Japan, is a 4-door sedan built since 2002. It was meant to compete with the Subaru Legacy, Honda Accord, and Toyota Camry in the crowed worldwide sedan market. Mazda decided to differentiate itself for the others with a more robust setup designed to appeal to performance driving lovers. This version is AWD (All Wheel Drive), features a 6-speed manual transmission, and has 275 HP and 280 ft. lbs. of torque. The other car is a Mazdaspeed touring car version. Be careful to choose the Mazda6 Touring Car as the Mazda Atenza Touring Car actually has less HP. ***
1. Track : Apricot Hill Raceway (forward)
2. Cars : Mazda Mazdaspeed Atenza '05 & Mazda6 Touring Car
IMPORTANT ! This is a combined times challenge: you'll need to run both cars; rankings will be made based on your combined times.
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3. Cars specifics:
- Transmission: either
- Tires: S3 / S3 (Mazdaspeed Atenza) & R1 / R1 (Mazda 6 Touring Car)
- TCS : at your disposal
- ASM : off
- Active Steering : off
- Driving Physics : Professional
All in-game quick-tune options are at your disposal (Press Triangle when selecting your car to add the car to your favorites and tinker with any available settings).
Hybrid cars, the use of CFW tuning or any other way of cheating (such as the Action Replay for PSP) is forbidden...
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4. Duration of the challenges : this challenge will start Monday Feb. 28th 4:00 pm GMT+2 and will end Monday March 7th 3:59 pm GMT+2 (one week !)
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5. Time submission :
You'll have to post your Ghost Replay Data + Photo before Monday March 7th 3:59 pm GMT+2. If you miss the deadline, your laptimes won't be in the website.
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6. Rules :
You'll have to follow the Host and Compete in a GT Planet Time Attack Challenge (GTPTAC) You'll have to follow the Host and Compete in a GT Planet Time Attack Challenge (GTPTAC) ! Just to remind you :
Clean or Dirty lap :
- Colliding with or using walls, fences, cones or other obstacle is forbidden. All times submitted must be 100% wall free.
- Two wheels (except when airborne, where the vertical projection of the car onto the track counts) must be in contact with the tarmac which does not include all green/grassed/sanded/graveled areas.
- NO SPARKS! (this does not include 'bottoming' the car out on the tarmac or rumble strips; but does include walls/barriers)
Rumble/ripple strips :
- having two wheels/tires on a corner's inside rumble strips and two off track is considered unclean
- having two wheels/tires on a corner's outside rumble strips and two off track is considered clean.
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7. LeaderBoards
The leaderboards will be on the website
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8. Current session points leaders:
Place - Competitor - Points
1st #l-l red ice######lll.8
2nd #-l Dan360#######7
3rd #l-l pvr77#######.ll6
4th #l-l Detroitbb####.#l5
5th #l-l easyasashii###.lll4
6th #l-l MVR08#######.2
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... so this might be my submission time... unless I got lucky this weekend ! 
I've only done light tuning (change ride height, set toe and camber to 0) so that could be the problem.
