Just nailed a 1:31.099 only 0:01.865 back from our leader.
Now that's redneck fast
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Don't feel bad Severn. I'm the same way. After today I won't have time again till saturday night. After our family get together.I'm real sick of real life getting in the way of my virtual racing... This city boy needs to set some things straight! (and also I'm dying on the inside that I've only been able to put like an hour into GTA... I've got a killer first couple of corners but end up losing it somewhere else down the line
I'm real sick of real life getting in the way of my virtual racing... This city boy needs to set some things straight! (and also I'm dying on the inside that I've only been able to put like an hour into GTA... I've got a killer first couple of corners but end up losing it somewhere else down the line
Well, have fun. I'm sitting at a 1:16.4 with not much improvement in sight. 10th in Canada, and 1st is in the mid-low 1:15's.Yea, actually I've had a few lower 1:18 laps that were red due to either screwing up the chicane and have next lap disqualified, or (most commonly) just hitting Eau Rouge a little bit too far over the left line... same amount of speed carried through (can hit it flat out pretty easy now), but technically just over the "off track" line...
Have the flat-out left hander down as well... and I absolutely love it when I hit that last chicane right, braking just before the white line, let it oversteer into the left under half braking, take it a little wide into the right turn to straight it out flat out in 2nd gear... it feels reeeeal good when I hit that right and see how much time I made up in that chicane alone.
Problem is I haven't had enough time yet to string them all together in one lap yet
Prepare to rage.
Gotta stop for the day. Need some sleep before work. More gt academy Sunday morning. Hope I don't forget what I've learned by then. .
Severn I knocked you down a spot on our friends list. I'm sure it won't stay like that for long.
Finished up with a 2:18.853 that's good for 306th
but rest assured whenever i get a free saturday, i'm down to rub shells with some turtles
appericate the awesome Turtle Words 👍I really really like this league. i like the longer races, and honestly, it's more realistic to me to manage a race, than to run 4 laps drifting the car all over the place destroying the tires without penalty. the tire model for sliding vs. heat vs. blistering is completely wrong on this game. anyways....
i haven't been on GT5, because of life. in fact, this whole year, the few times i've turned a gaming console on was to play with turtles
i guess there was some issue back of people getting there panties in a bunch or something (i don't really follow this thread often unless it's raceday and i'm planning on running). One thing i've learned in racing (real or sim) and the internet is, the more serious things get, the more sensitive people get (probably everything in general). Because i'm very sarcastic and never serious, i offend people who are sensitive. nowadays, i hardly post anything on the internet at all. not here, not facebook, not anywhere. if i had any advice, i would say racers don't make jokes about other racers, because feelings will get hurt eventually. i would say officials put on your tough man filter because people are going to say things about you and your league that you will not like. it's part of being a manager at anything in life. you're reaction will have direct result on your product.
all that being said, i really love the camaraderie of this league, not too serious, but still wanting to do well. the only issues i thought could be better is the way the divisions are and amount per each affects the races and race start time (10:30 vs 10:00). i do not know the right answer, but this is just me speaking out loud. i would not want any kind of official sign ups being days ahead of the race like other leagues. maybe if there were signups like a 9pm on this forum or something. then at 9:45, the divisions (maybe more divisions, keep reading) could be split up, and people could be directed to the proper room via room number on a forum post. why? i think having 4 rooms with 6 racers, or 2 rooms-1 with 8 and one with 16 were not good ideas. that should be 2 with 12. racing with only 6-8 ppl while another room was full seemed kind boring, i guess because racing more ppl seems more thrilling. if there were more divisions, it would be easier to balance out rooms.
also, when people join in for the second race with reverse grid, they start up front. i don't know why, but it just feels weird having people start up there, then moving out of the way, and 50/50 of the time there's a clusterF. i'd prefer to do a 2-4 min qualifier pre grid to iron that out. it would feel more like an authentic start.
like i said, i'm just speaking how i feel. i do not know if there is a 'right way' or better way or any solution to pull more racers. but, the more officials know how racers feel, the more info they can have to make good decisions, so long as the feelings are set aside.
i'm racing here this weekend http://hyper-fest.com/
I joined TRL because Psycho was the first guy I got a message from here on GTPlanet. I have a feeling that new members, if not up to snuff with "competitive" racing, might get discouraged by being slower than they thought they were. Still, once GTA is over, it'd be pretty cool to welcome a newbie to the community.
I thought it was pretty obvious...Maybe it's that he is seconding what Derp said or something I don't know
) around Autumn Ring in a ragtag of BMW's Friday evening. It's unknown yet if the race will take place on the full circuit or the mini (Dolph messed up the schedule as he was making it 
). In any case, check out post# 795 in the FLEX thread for some info. Also, be sure to check out post# 783 to see the future schedule. Hope to see you Friday night!
FLEX plug time!
Join us as we race topless (though in only one car; thanks, PD
