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Hey buddy what tires did you run on this ?
◆ SNAIL [Spec] Racing - Join now to win a Digit Racing EDGE Masterclass enrollment!!Open
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JLBowler
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I don't know what he tested it with but it would run on racing hard tires.
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Snail tires, Racing Hard (RH)
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- MajorBlixem
Holiday Event Reserve List
If you are available to race on Sunday in the Holiday Event please sign-up for the Reserve Driver List. Just in case a regular driver can't make it due to unforeseen circumstances.
Just tag me
Also more details about tonight's practice and race format has been posted in the dedicated thread
LOL...we see you're secrets
If you are available to race on Sunday in the Holiday Event please sign-up for the Reserve Driver List. Just in case a regular driver can't make it due to unforeseen circumstances.
Just tag me
Also more details about tonight's practice and race format has been posted in the dedicated thread
LOL...we see you're secrets
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- MajorBlixem
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- Ontario
- MajorBlixem
Not 100 yards in front of last turn
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- Ontario
- MajorBlixem
- 2,289
- Ontario
- MajorBlixem
- 2,289
- Ontario
- MajorBlixem
We might have to move to Plan B if the hand-over tapping is not working! We will judge how things go in practice and go from there
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- wackedboy
- wackedkid47
I am a former Snail Racing Driver and would wish to come back to drive again!
PRESENTS:
Check out our very own @vovik05 putting SNAIL in the news!!
Don't miss GTPlanet's feature of our very own @CoachMK21!
Congrats to @Neovre for making his debut at Le Mans
(where he scored an incredible P5 finish!)
Congrats to all the SNAILs who competed in the
2015 GT Academy USA Finals!!
2015 USA Finalists
Back Row: @LoCoArMeN*, @vovik05*, @Ryan Lynch*, @Ricky Wilson, @TRL_Importlife, @Tyler Utley*, @gtr3123
Front Row: @ConnorWolf, @Crystalline_T
Not Shown (qualified for, but unable to attend finals):@GTP_Compton3, @Matt Sierras, @msgt-sd
* - advanced to Silverstone finals!!
And good luck to the SNAILs who are competing in the 2016 GT Academy Mexico Finals!!
2016 Mexico Finalists
@Enzo_Goiko (second from left), @Ness (second from right), and @pakicote (far right)
Welcome to SNAIL
From our humble beginnings, SNAIL (aka Sunday Night American Interactive League) is now the largest console-based sim racing league in the world. Our mission is to provide our members with clean, intense, and competitive racing - regardless of skill level! We believe that providing full grids of evenly-matched competitions is the most realistic way to race, improve skill, and refine racecraft! Our league night is Sunday at 9:30pm Eastern / 6:30pm Pacific, but we also have a a wide variety of other events held on other nights of the week. If this sounds like something you'd like to be a part of, please keep reading to learn more about us and how to join.
What Makes Us Different
SNAIL is the only sim racing league in the world that's able to combine five key features into one consolidated package. First of all, we provide you with evenly-matched competition to drivers of all skill levels. In fact, the intense level of competition that we produce has established SNAIL as the "go to" place to prepare for GT Academy. And if you want to keep track of your improvement along the way, you'll be glad to know that we keep the most comprehensive race data available on GTPlanet. We also feature an interactive process that allows all of our members to have a say in which cars and tracks we race. And last but not least, we're the only league that awards our members with valuable prizes just for racing with us!
Evenly-Matched Competition
Have you ever watched a professional race where drivers with completely different skill levels were competing on the same track? Of course not! That wouldn't be fun to watch, let alone fun to participate in. Unfortunately, that disparity of pace is something you'll often find in organized online racing. When this happens, you'll be lucky to have just a few drivers that you're truly competitive with. Everyone else will usually either be faster or slower than you. We prevent that from happening in SNAIL by dividing our drivers into separate divisions based on speed and skill. This results in full grids of evenly-matched competition and creates the closest and most intense sim racing experience around!
Prepare for GT Academy
If you'd like to compete in GT Academy, there's no better place than SNAIL to hone your skills to the elite levels necessary to make it to the finals. You need to be the best of the best to make it to Silverstone, and that's exactly what the drivers in our top division are. Half of last year's and half of this year's Silverstone Finalists have raced in SNAIL. And since our race format (which features multiple sprint races) is almost identical to the format used at the GT Academy national finals, they were able to use their SNAIL experience to help them advance to Silverstone. Click here if you want to advice from last year's eventual champion and click here if you want advice from last year's runner-up.
Valuable Prizes
Have you ever wished you could win free stuff just for having fun? If so, then you might want to know that our members win valuable real-world prizes just for racing with us! These prize are based on participation and not on race results. Some examples of prizes our members have won include GranStand sim racing products like this, this and this, ButtKicker products like a Gamer2 and a Wireless ButtKicker Kit. You can also join Team SNAIL and earn even more prizes, such as shirts (e.g. S.N.A.I.L. shirt, F1 shirt, GT Academy shirt), video capture devices (e.g. Hauppauge PVR), sim racing equipment (e.g. Playseat Evolution), and even gift cards (e.g. Amazon and PSN).
Spec Racing
SNAIL has always been a one-make series, but when we decided to prohibit tuning in all of our races, we became the first "spec" racing league on GTPlanet. Spec racing ensures that success is determined primarily by driving skill and not by differences in power, gearing, suspension, weight, or aerodynamics. Because variables in the car are eliminated, spec racing is the truest measure of driver skill! It also produces intense battles for position because all of the cars are equally strong or weak in the same areas of the track. Plus, you'll never spend hours tuning cars or wondering if someone is truly faster than you or if they just have a better tune.
Race Format
Our league night lasts for two hours and is split into three rounds. Each round consists of two races that last 10 to 12 minutes on a predetermined car and track combo. At the beginning of each round, a brief qualifying session determines the order of the starting grid. The first race is set to 'Fastest First' to reward the best qualifiers and the second race is set to 'Reverse Grid' in order to promote on-track action. Points are awarded based on our "perfect" points system. After a round is completed, we move on to the next round and repeat the same process with the next car and track combination. Once all three rounds are complete, we tally up the points and then let our interactive format kick in.
Interactive Participation
Our unique format allows everyone to have a say on which cars and tracks we race. It's also used to strike a balance between familiarity and variety of our car and track combos. In other words, the progression of cars and tracks that we race is slow enough for us to learn them well, but fast enough that they don't get "old". At the end of every league night, everyone votes on which car and track combo they enjoyed the least. The combo that receives the most "elimination votes" is dropped from the next week's lineup entirely. The combo that receives the second most votes is also dropped, but only partially. This is where our prizes come into play:
Prizes
A prize is awarded to the divisions winners with the three highest scores*. The division winner with the highest score gets Prize A. The division winner with the second highest score gets Prize B. The division winner with the third highest score gets Prize C: (NOTE: We now have a new process for breaking ties in the elimination vote)
Prize A: The right to select the new car and track combo to replace the combo that was voted off
Prize B: The right to replace either the car or the track of the combo that received the second most votes
Prize C: The right to "freeze" either the car or the track of the combo that received the second most votes
Promotion and Relegation
Although we split our drivers into separate divisions based on performance and skill level, we realize that our drivers are constantly improving and deserve a chance to climb the ladder of success. That's why we promote and relegate drivers before every season based on the results and data compiled during the previous season. This is also done to ensure that our races are as competitive as possible for all of our league members, top to bottom. Regardless of which division you're in, you will almost always be fighting to gain or defend a position on the track. Simply put, no other Gran Turismo league in the world can offer this much competitive racing to so many different skill levels.
Comprehensive Race Data
It's not always accurate to promote and relegate drivers based on championship points alone. That's why the massive amounts of data we track are invaluable to our league. You'd be hard-pressed to find a sim racing league anywhere in the world that tracks driver data and race results more comprehensively than we do. In fact, our SNAIL Data document contains so much information that we have to archive old data to avoid exceeding the GoogleDoc's maximum capacity! You can use this data to track the points championship for each season and compare yourself to other drivers in categories such as fast laps, total race pace, total points, average points per race, and power rankings.
Rules
We expect all drivers to follow our OLR Rules and pursue good racecraft at all times. If you're not sure what good racecraft is, watch this video. It can be summed up in one simple 'Golden Rule' of motorsports: It is the responsibility of the overtaking driver, meaning the car that is attempting to execute the pass, to make sure that the pass is made cleanly and incident free. If you don't agree with this rule or don't think it applies to you, this is not the league for you. If you ever feel like a driver is not following the rules, please wait until league night is over, then file a Racing Incident Report. Our Stewards will review the incident and issue the appropriate penalties.
Settings
Lobby Settings
Course Settings
Tire Settings:
Based on Dealership PP (not the PP after an oil change)
below 349 PP -> Comfort Mediums
350-399 PP ---> Comfort Softs
400-449 PP ---> Sports Hards
450-499 PP ---> Sports Mediums
500-549 PP ---> Sports Softs
550-599 PP ---> Racing Hards
600 PP & up --> Racing Mediums
How To Join Us
Step 1: Post a reply (by click the 'Reply' button at the bottom of this post) stating, "I have read the first post and would like to join." (Do not start a conversation with anyone, just post your request on this thread).
Step 2: Watch the thread for a reply to your post and follow the instructions provided.
Step 3: Purchase the three cars listed in the lineup for our next races.
Step 4: Wait to be assigned to a division and then join that division's lounge on Sunday night.
If you are not sure which division you are assigned to, please check the Offical Driver List
For a list of helpful links and FAQ's, please click here.
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Welcome back. It’s been 5 years since I welcomed you originally. https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/threads/◆-snail-spec-racing-presented-by-buttkicker-feel-what-youve-been-missing.235094/page-1418#post-9148669
@nmcp1 will be along shortly with your official welcome message.
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- wackedboy
- wackedkid47
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- Central NJ
- nmcp1
Please follow the directions contained in the first post of this thread to join SNAIL. 👍
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- Dallas,TX
- ARL_TexasJDC
Hopefully a little redemption from last weeks GR.2 pick
Blue Moon Bay Speedway Infield BII
Ferrari 458 Italia GR.4
Tires: SS (per OLR chart)
HP: 374
Lbs: 2976
CR: 350,000
Track has 1 appearance: July 15, 2018
Car doesnt look like it's ever been used on GTS or maybe I missed it on the data sheet
My time was 0.56.628
PS. Car does not hit the rev limiter
@JLBowler @basswerks1
Blue Moon Bay Speedway Infield BII
Ferrari 458 Italia GR.4
Tires: SS (per OLR chart)
HP: 374
Lbs: 2976
CR: 350,000
Track has 1 appearance: July 15, 2018
Car doesnt look like it's ever been used on GTS or maybe I missed it on the data sheet
My time was 0.56.628
PS. Car does not hit the rev limiter
@JLBowler @basswerks1
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- wackedboy
- wackedkid47
- 2,879
- Central NJ
- nmcp1
@wackedkid47
Here's your official SNAIL Welcome Post!
Thanks for your interest!
Here's what you need to know (and do) in order to join SNAIL Racing League:
We run a clean league by enforcing a strict penalty system based on the SNAIL 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:
1. You start a conversation and add @CoachMK21, @JLBowler, @nmcp1,@zer05ive ,@Rednose58,@MajorBlixem & @SAMHAIN85 as participants.
The conversation title should be "Request To Join".
2. SNAIL Administrators will respond with specific instructions on what you need to accomplish to join the SNAIL [Spec] Racing.
3. Place the following links (URLs) in the favorites (or bookmarks) in your web browser for quick reference. Please make every effort to read and understand the following links. Over the years a great deal of time and effort has gone into creating this league and we would like nothing more than to have you but we ask that you take the time and effort to do your homework. 99.9% of any question you may have about SNAIL can be found in the posts below.
4. 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.
Welcome to SNAIL
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JLBowler
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Hey guys..... seeking a little help. I got my wheel yesterday; & all I can say is wow. Love the more "immersive" experience. Only problem I am having with it is that the USB cord attached to it is too short. So now; I am looking for a USB extension cord to help add length w/o diminishing input & effects. I am looking for something inthe 8-10' range so that I can sit on my couch across the living room from where the TV & system are set up. Also; with the thrustmaster T150; what would you guys suggest as "decent" peripherals when it comes to the Force Feedback for GT Sport. I know everyone has their own opinions on this; however was playing yesterday with the "factory" settings; and could absolutely not pull off the sharp corners without completely flying off the track. I did look it up on the 'tune; & see where some people were saying to move everything to 1, but to me that sounds a little low & seem as if it would "wash" everything out. Any assistance with either of these issues would be greatly appreciated.
DesertPenguin
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- DesertPenguin_
I use a small USB extension cable and have no issues with input. I'm also using a G29 which is a bit different to the T150 but my settings are 3/10. It's low enough to move around easily but still tough enough to feel something.
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- SAMHAIN85
Congrats on the wheel @jerseyjoeaw !
I dont know about cable extenders, but have you given any thought on buying a rig setup? I know space can be limited but itll definitely help with keeping it between the ditches and increase the enjoyment out of the sim experience. If you're needing an 8-10' cable extension then I imagine you're sitting at least that far from the TV. I wouldn't be able to drive like that, it would feel like driving a school bus from the back row if you know what I mean. And pair that up with using a TV smaller than a 40" and Id feel like I need binoculars.
Maybe look into a GrandStand setup. At one point SNAIL members were offered discount codes for them. I'm not sure if were still partnered with them. @zer05ive will be able to give you more information on that.
Heres @MajorBlixem 's GrandStand setup. As you can see all you have to do is pull it up to the TV and grab a chair.
As a controller user for many years I am so glad to have finally made the plunge for a wheel and rig a little over a year ago. Good luck with whatever you do
I dont know about cable extenders, but have you given any thought on buying a rig setup? I know space can be limited but itll definitely help with keeping it between the ditches and increase the enjoyment out of the sim experience. If you're needing an 8-10' cable extension then I imagine you're sitting at least that far from the TV. I wouldn't be able to drive like that, it would feel like driving a school bus from the back row if you know what I mean. And pair that up with using a TV smaller than a 40" and Id feel like I need binoculars.
Maybe look into a GrandStand setup. At one point SNAIL members were offered discount codes for them. I'm not sure if were still partnered with them. @zer05ive will be able to give you more information on that.
Heres @MajorBlixem 's GrandStand setup. As you can see all you have to do is pull it up to the TV and grab a chair.
As a controller user for many years I am so glad to have finally made the plunge for a wheel and rig a little over a year ago. Good luck with whatever you do
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Actually am looking at getting a GT Omega stand here i the near future. Just looking for a cheap alternative to use temporarily. Right ow; have the wheel set up a 3' X 3' folding card table... Also lacking a good chair at this moment. Do have a few dining room chairs; however very uncomfortable to sit o with the pedals. would hate to have to slide the whole tale & couch forward anytime I wanted to play.
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- Ontario
- MajorBlixem
Nice picture @SAMHAIN85 ! LOL...
After a couple of years of daily use the Grandstand is as sturdy as the day I received it.... highly recommendable!
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