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Turnaround race?


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A bit harsh...... oh, wait a minute..........
yes exactly what I meant... meh...
What Club is that? It's a jungle out there and hard to keep track of all the different Clubs. :)

In your absence I will paint and number my Z8 tonight to resemble your M series Championship car.
So you will be there in spirit;
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My M5 is painted to the Morrocan flag colors in honor of my teammate @Mamaghi
 
can't sleep, might jump in
I'm stuck in an airport
:lol:
Sorry bb.



Race results from todays three races;

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That's gamer on the right hand side and that's me dressed as gamer in gamer's car on the left.

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wait.. gamer to the right and gamer's car to the left? o_O

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Hey gamer,
I was surprised you came. Happily surprised that is.

Results will be up in ten minutes. Guess who won at Sierra?
I was to answer Dusty of course, but since you asked I felt something might have been different this time...
OMG, @Zolon32 well done mate!!!

btw I am quite disappointed with my lousy start at the Nordschleife, but I am fairly happy with the rest of my race there. Except for my stupid:banghead: unforced error at Kallenhard during lap 2. Have I told you I love this track?

Edit: just watched the replay and it was Adenauer Forst not Kallenhard
 
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This coming Wednesday's turnaround race has been created in the Community and can be accessed by any member at any time with
the proper settings already locked in;


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Today (Friday) at 10pm GMT I will go for a full practice race with the DB9 Coupe '06 just to once again try it out and
see that everything works properly.

Since this race will be run in the Community the results should be saved to the Club.
That could be an interesting read.

See you there and then maybe.
If you missed the introduction and the 'rules' with the little tutorial to this race, here they are again (#806).
 
By the way the last two Z8 events I've had the voice chat turned off because I read somewhere it would help when PD's servers are acting up.

But it all seemed fine in Mik's room last night when we raced at Matterhorn Short so I'll be turning it on again for the turnaround race.
Might be useful too for those blind corners.
 
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This coming Wednesday's turnaround race has been created in the Community and can be accessed by any member at any time with
the proper settings already locked in;


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Today (Friday) at 10pm GMT I will go for a full practice race with the DB9 Coupe '06 just to once again try it out and
see that everything works properly.

Since this race will be run in the Community the results should be saved to the Club.
That could be an interesting read.

See you there and then maybe.
If you missed the introduction and the 'rules' with the little tutorial to this race, here they are again (#806).


I'll be there too. Practicing the turnarounds with multiple cars will be interesting.

I agree with the decision to have voice on. With a working headset now, finally, it will make this much more fun for me too.

See you in a "few" hours.
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This coming Wednesday's turnaround race has been created in the Community and can be accessed by any member at any time with
the proper settings already locked in;


View attachment 291700


Today (Friday) at 10pm GMT I will go for a full practice race with the DB9 Coupe '06 just to once again try it out and
see that everything works properly.

Since this race will be run in the Community the results should be saved to the Club.
That could be an interesting read.

See you there and then maybe.
If you missed the introduction and the 'rules' with the little tutorial to this race, here they are again (#806).


Will be there Jocke, right now waiting for Aston Martin delivery truck.;)

Love to drive the Nurb in both ways...:D :cheers: :D
 
I agree with the decision to have voice on.
The room is also set to 'Club Only' so hopefully no one will join us that doesn't know before hand what we are "up to".
It would be a shame if the race ended after only one lap because the driver didn't know he had to turn around.
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I'll be sure not to put the number four on my DB9 then, if you know what I mean. :dopey:
Jocke, does this mean there won't be an event on the Tuesday.
Nothing planned anyway. But if we're online Tuesday why not race something anyway? :)
Love to drive the Nurb in both ways
You've done it already, Smiles? :eek:
they are a lot cheaper than the rest. Not sure why!
Because they've been driven by Harsk?
 
It's the Nordschleife. He's driven round it in reverse gear with his eyes shut. :)
That gave me an idea. On race day Wednesday we should all wear our shirts and pants inside out and eat our breakfast sandwiches from the center out.
Also speak the words backwards when we talk to our families and later in the evening sleep in our beds standing up.
Anything I'm missing.. ?
 
Following the steps from our
video taken from @MannYhAvitZ excellent Youtube Channel the practice session for Wednesday's race worked like a charm.



Wheeler had already performed a solo run and set a benchmark time for us to beat.
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Later Smiley, gamer and I joined and we had a run between the four of us.
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The one (and only?) thing we noticed was that the cars ghosted on lap 2, the 'wrong way-lap'. This due to the fact that the penalties were set to Strong.
So we changed that, turned off the penalties and went for one more race.
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This time the cars didn't ghost and everything went smoothly. Well Smiley wondered if the on screen wrong way sign could be removed and I don't really know the answer.
Perhaps by disabling all on screen data will also make the sign disappear. The downside to that though is that you won't be able to see the map and when to expect oncoming traffic.

Since we got the ghost issue out of the way some pictures could be taken of some instances where me met on track;


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Thanks guys @Wayne Gratiot @SmileyWRX @gkgamer
Now we know it really does work and it was very interesting. Like I mentioned to Wheeler in the room not every racing game out there let's you go in the other direction,
not even offline. So it's quite lucky that GT6 does.

Where to take it from here? Turnaround night races? Different cars? Different tracks?
Turnaround rain / snow / dirt races? Extended turnaround races with more laps and even pit stops?
I'll be starting another Club very soon and these scenarios could / will definitely be explored there among other things.


Another practice race or two before Wednesday, anyone? :)
 
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I just had a solo practice race because I wanted to try and beat @gkgamer's best turnaround time so far of 23:18.686.
It's a really good time.

I thought I would pull it off too, but after two thirds completed I had a BIG off and damaged the engine.
And I also got damage at the second turnaround when I hit the wall. Need more practice turning around.

In spite of my troubles I still set a personal best time of 23:33.166, a full 0.849 seconds faster than the other day (#836). :)

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I had a new paint scheme as well;

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I will practice some more later on today at 9pm GMT. Maybe we'll see each other then. :)
It's a lot of fun this..
 
I just had a solo practice race because I wanted to try and beat @gkgamer's best turnaround time so far of 23:18.686.
It's a really good time.

I thought I would pull it off too, but after two thirds completed I had a BIG off and damaged the engine.
And I also got damage at the second turnaround when I hit the wall. Need more practice turning around.

In spite of my troubles I still set a personal best time of 23:33.166, a full 0.849 seconds faster than the other day (#836). :)

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I had a new paint scheme as well;

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I will practice some more later on today at 9pm GMT. Maybe we'll see each other then. :)
It's a lot of fun this..

The two normal laps were ok but the reverse lap was a disaster. I think @SmileyWRX outpaced me by >20" on that one.
The 22' mark is definitely reachable.
 

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