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[zer05ive]

Here are the room settings for tonight
Let's see how it works
@GamingPete

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This is awesome! I'm sure having all the data together will help @GamingPete with the banners. Thank you for all your efforts in collecting and calculating the info needed. 👍

I promise to have a Lineup Coordinator entry in the $hell database soon. In the meantime, I've added your chart to the lineup post as a placeholder until the banners are ready.

 

[Rockhound18]

Two things...

Firstly, Im going to miss another Sunday as my trip has been extended into next week... But things are going well here in Victorville.

Second, as some of you I'm sure saw me mention over the weekend, I'm a big Vettel/RBR fan, so I just couldn't pass this up with him moving on... It just came in the mail today.

 

[BayouSimDrifter]

Any of you SNAILS with PS4 pick up Drive Club yet?

 

[Wolfsatz]

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THE PRACTICE ROOMS ARE OFFICIALLY OPEN !
If you are assigned to D1, D2, D3 or D4 please join, with your best racecraft, the BLUE ROOM:
1472-6681-3415-7081-5995
If you are assigned to D5, D6, or D7 please join, with your best racecraft, the RED ROOM:
1472 6681 3415 7081 5880

 

[GumballCGT]

Dangit! I was gonna join the practice room but wasn't sure if it was tonight since I knew the practices changed awhile back.

 

[Dragonwhisky]

Dangit! I was gonna join the practice room but wasn't sure if it was tonight since I knew the practices changed awhile back.

So, it is tonight, get in there and tear it up!

Two things...

Firstly, Im going to miss another Sunday as my trip has been extended into next week... But things are going well here in Victorville.

Second, as some of you I'm sure saw me mention over the weekend, I'm a big Vettel/RBR fan, so I just couldn't pass this up with him moving on... It just came in the mail today.

They using the old runways at George AFB? I used to be stationed there about a hundred years ago.

 

[Handlebar]

Too tired to look at anything, much less racing. See y'all Friday.

 

[CoachMK21]

Division 5 Data Summary
October 5, 2014
Week 1​

Race Results & Data

Top 5 Scores
1st - @euclid58 - 88 points - Gold - 2 | Silver - 1
2nd - @llNovall - 81 points - Silver - 2 | Bronze - 2
3rd - @ExoSphere64 - 77 points - Gold - 1 |Silver - 1 | Bronze - 1
4th - @RACECAR - 76 points - Silver - 1 | Bronze - 1
5th - @CoachMK21 - 75 points - Gold - 1

Pole Lap Honors:
Round 1 : @euclid58 - 1:38.292
Round 2 : @euclid58 - 1:41.434
Round 3 : @euclid58 - 1:54.227

Race Winners:
Round 1 Race 1 : @CoachMK21 [gap to 2nd = 1.967]
Round 1 Race 2 : @USERID_77a23 [gap to 2nd = 6.503]

Round 2 Race 1 : @euclid58 [gap to 2nd = 1.082]
Round 2 Race 2 : @ExoSphere64 [gap to 2nd = 1.333]

Round 3 Race 1 : @euclid58 [gap to 2nd = 4.456]
Round 3 Race 2 : @USERID_77a23 [gap to 2nd = 6.783]

Fast Lap honors:
Round 1 Race 1 : @CoachMK21 - 1:38.128
Round 1 Race 2 : @euclid58 - 1:38.236

Round 2 Race 1 : @CoachMK21 - 1:41.070
Round 2 Race 2 : @CoachMK21 - 1:41.160

Round 3 Race 1 : @euclid58 - 1:53.807
Round 3 Race 2 : @USERID_77a23 - 1:53.433

Fast Race:
Round 1: 11:40.370 (@CoachMK21)
Round 2: 12:02.160 (@euclid58)
Round 3: 11:28.365 (@euclid58)

Highest Gap, first to last:
Round 3, Race 1: 0:51.893

Smallest Gap, first to last:
Round 2, Race 2: 0:08.382

Complete Results

Thanks to @nmcp1 for this great idea and @fizzer for some additional stats.

 

[ptslopoke]

Dangit! I was gonna join the practice room but wasn't sure if it was tonight since I knew the practices changed awhile back.

there is still time!

 

[GTP_Nail]

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THE PRACTICE ROOMS ARE OFFICIALLY OPEN !
If you are assigned to D1, D2, D3 or D4 please join, with your best racecraft, the BLUE ROOM:
1472-6681-3415-7081-5995
If you are assigned to D5, D6, or D7 please join, with your best racecraft, the RED ROOM:
1472 6681 3415 7081 5880

Really nice having a concise neat place to get all the info...I still love the banners...but this really works

 

[chevron]

Any of you SNAILS with PS4 pick up Drive Club yet?

Waiting for plus edition, haven't heard enough 'good' things about it to warrant a purchase... That and it only supports two of the currently available wheels, of which I own none.

:/

 

[GTP_Nail]

So, it is tonight, get in there and tear it up!


They using the old runways at George AFB? I used to be stationed there about a hundred years ago.

Runways..that reminds me...

Modern sports car racing is the direct descendant of Sunday afternoon SCCA races at many active USAF Base Runways in the early 50s. This was a direct result of its support by one of the most unlikely people you can imagine.

Can you identify this guy.... he was instrumental in the early termination of the War in Pacific....and wanted to Nuke the Russians in Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

He...was also a sports car owner and enthusiast (he owned an Allard J2); He loaned out facilities of SAC bases for use by the Sports Car Club of America,[50] as the era of early street races began to die out. He was awarded the Woolf Barnato Award, SCCA's highest award, for contributions to the Club, in 1954.[50] In November 2006, it was announced that he would be one of the inductees into the SCCA Hall of Fame in 2007.[50]

And he was one mean SOB.....

Edit: Curtis LeMay, Commander of the Strategic Air Command and then Chief of Staff USAF. Avid sports car nut and part time amateur racer....some say the "Rich Uncle" of sports car racing.

 

[goofytyler]

Runways..that reminds me...

Modern sports car racing is the direct descendant of Sunday afternoon SCCA races at many active USAF Base Runways in the early 50s. This was a direct result of its support by one of the most unlikely people you can imagine.

Can you identify this guy.... he was instrumental in the early termination of the War in Pacific....and wanted to Nuke the Russians in Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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He...was also a sports car owner and enthusiast (he owned an Allard J2); He loaned out facilities of SAC bases for use by the Sports Car Club of America,[50] as the era of early street races began to die out. He was awarded the Woolf Barnato Award, SCCA's highest award, for contributions to the Club, in 1954.[50] In November 2006, it was announced that he would be one of the inductees into the SCCA Hall of Fame in 2007.[50]

And he was one mean SOB.....

His name is Curtis LeMay

 

[Rockhound18]

They using the old runways at George AFB? I used to be stationed there about a hundred years ago.

You got it! It's kind of sad though, all the base housing was too expensive to demolish, so they just put up chain link fence covered with black tarps to hide it, but you can still see the structures rotting and collapsing through a few gaps.

The city of victorville took ownership of the base land and turned it into a logistics airport. Our stuff ended up here bc the city made some sort of deal with GE to build us our 747 hangar and offices in exchange for a boatload of annual tax revenue. We used to run flight tests out of Mojave and Edwards AFB.

They also do some commercial AC maintenance work here now too. I actually got my first in-person Dreamliner sighting there this week, right next door to our hangar... Too bad it's powered by rolls engines and not some of our GEnx's haha:

 

[handcuff]

Would like to race with you guys. Been a GT fan since the original. Prefer racing unmodified/stock.

 

[nmcp1]

Would like to race with you guys. Been a GT fan since the original. Prefer racing unmodified/stock.

@handcuff

Here's your official S.N.A.I.L. Welcome Post!​

Thanks for your interest!
Here's what you need to know (and do) in order to join:

We run a clean league by enforcing a strict penalty system based on the S.N.A.I.L. OLR (which is a modified version of the GTP OLR). We also expect all of our drivers to know and follow The Good Racecraft Guide.
Please become versed in both if you aren't already. Once that is complete, please follow the steps below to complete your entry into the league:

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4. Send a PSN friend request to the Race Director or Primary Host from your assigned SNAIL Division. Sunday night you will need to sort the online lobbies by friends and join the lobby named 'snailracing.org Division_(x) based off your Division placement from JLBowler. That lobby will be where you race Sunday.

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6. You drive fast and clean on Sunday 👍

Again, the original post has everything you need to know about what to expect on Sunday night and what you will need to have completed in order to be competitive. If you have any questions, please feel free to post your question on the thread.
If you have a preference for car/wheel colour and racing number, please follow the instruction contained here.

During the week we run a number of different events, we encourage all SNAILs to join as many as possible.
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[GamingPete]

@Rednose58 i really like what you came up with there,
maybe we can find a way to combine it into the banners somehow?

all 3 pics by @Falango aka the photo god lol

 

[Rallywagon]

You got it! It's kind of sad though, all the base housing was too expensive to demolish, so they just put up chain link fence covered with black tarps to hide it, but you can still see the structures rotting and collapsing through a few gaps.

The city of victorville took ownership of the base land and turned it into a logistics airport. Our stuff ended up here bc the city made some sort of deal with GE to build us our 747 hangar and offices in exchange for a boatload of annual tax revenue. We used to run flight tests out of Mojave and Edwards AFB.

They also do some commercial AC maintenance work here now too. I actually got my first in-person Dreamliner sighting there this week, right next door to our hangar... Too bad it's powered by rolls engines and not some of our GEnx's haha:

My buddy from my Army days is a project manager for Boeing and ran a team working on some such portion of the 787. He got to post up a lot of really cool pics and videos throughout the build process and testing.

 

[MajorBlixem]

@GamingPete Great banners!!! Looks very professional!

 

[GTP_Vertigo]

My buddy from my Army days is a project manager for Boeing and ran a team working on some such portion of the 787. He got to post up a lot of really cool pics and videos throughout the build process and testing.

My father is a design engineer for Honeywell. I've got to see all the building and testing of all the guidance system in the boeing. It was very interesting to say the least.

 

[Rallywagon]

Speaking for cool guidance systems! Did you guys see this yet? It was posted up in the Tesla thread in the auto news section.

 

[Rednose58]

@Rednose58 i really like what you came up with there,
maybe we can find a way to combine it into the banners somehow?

Here is an idea: Is there a technical guy that can make it into an animated gif file and then set it to alternate from one to the other every 3-5 seconds or so....?

 

[racingchamp30]

For the Red practice room on Thursday nights, i would like to host the practice room starting next Thursday night if no one else takes up the hosting position.

 

[MajorBlixem]

This just a test to see how the banners will look as an animated gif file:

 

[MajorBlixem]

Hmmm not sure about this...

 

[zer05ive]

@Rednose58 i really like what you came up with there,
maybe we can find a way to combine it into the banners somehow?

all 3 pics by @Falango aka the photo god lol

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Awesome banners! The lineup post has been updated!

@Falango - Congrats on the banner photo triple crown!

Here is an idea: Is there a technical guy that can make it into an animated gif file and then set it to alternate from one to the other every 3-5 seconds or so....?

I made a gif of @GamingPete's banners once, but even on the slowest setting, they flipped way too fast. There's probably an easey way to make it flip much slower though.

EDIT: Looks like MajorBlixem already figured that out 👍

 

[Dragonwhisky]

If they could flip on a 30 second or more timer it would probably be better. Thinking the static images are more than sufficient though.

As a web site page banner that would be way cool though. Maybe even ask @Jordan for some GTPlanet placement on occasion?

 

[MajorBlixem]

I can make the banners flip even slower if needed

EDIT.. I agree with Dragon.... don't think we need the gif. The banners look good by themselves.

 

[Dragonwhisky]

Here's another thing to think about with animated gifs. It's been my experience with the gif thread, the more gifs there are on a single page the longer the page takes to load. On my phone I stay away from that gif thread completely. Not like it's a completely crappy phone either. Samsung S4.

The talent level in this league continues to astound me.

 

[Nicktune]

West Surrey Racing, 1983 Ayrton Senna

Nice pick!I really enjoyed that car in the seasonal events a few weeks ago.I ended up in 38th place. Fun car!