(still might hit limiter with draft though)
I went an extra lap on the first stint hoping you were going to pit first. Since you were behind, I was afraid you were going to follow me into the pits and that's usually what triggers the pit bug -- as it did in Daytona when you followed me in the pits and left first because it held me. After one extra lap I said forget it as I didn't feel comfortable and I was losing time to you as you seemed to do better on warn tires. I was relieved when you didn't follow and a lap or two later figured out you were going to try for one stop.
At that point I had mixed feelings. I figured I had a 90% chance of winning at that point (barring a mistake on my part), but I knew the close racing was done for the night except the one inevitable pass when our strategies intersected for a last time and so we had settled into a distant time trial war. I like my chances better in a time trial war as that's what I'm good at (good being relative of course), but I need more practice in hand to hand combat as it were. Ask Hydro about time trial wars in the TMR event or Speedy about the time trial wars in the Daytona EU event. I seem to be involved in those more often than not for some reason.
I guess I'm more of a "Vettelish" driver where if you give me a 2 second gap I like my odds, or if you give me better tires and X laps to make up Y seconds I thrive, but you can rough me up and frazzle me pretty easily in close quarters.
Why am I giving away my secrets and insecurities?
). I knew if I kept following your strategy I would never get past, so I decided to take matters into my own hands. Following you would have dropped my chances of winning from 10% - 0%.). All my 4 races in 3D3, which have been my only online races, I have always gained decent positions from the start. In the EU race that's what helped me jump you and maybe 1-2 more faster people in the start (or the race would have been very different lol).
Tomorrow night my goal is to get close to the D3 gold time offline which was 1'38.277. So far my T2 times are off by 0.5 so I've got work to do on that sector, but my T1 and T3 are fairly close. Once I do that I'm going to move completely online.Oh by the way mohitraina, if you haven't or anyone else who might not have noticed, w/ the new GTP site upgrade everyones multiple PSN logins are not readable and if your forum handle isn't close to your GTP_racing name no one can tell who you are and w/ everyone talking to someones first name it's really hard to keep track of whatz who..... Observation from the penut gallery
. I was also thinking today we could add a 3D3 driver's registry with your GTP ID's/First names at the bottom of the OP for anyone who's ever taken part in one of our races. Maybe jazz it up with Marc's fancy driver logos he uses for the race pics.
I was doing the same thing, except I bought a new Drinky, since my WRS #22 version had the Chassis Reinforcement installed, and I wanted one without it. Now watching Bob break it in on a rainy Nurb...just beautiful.
Cool on the do-it-yourself tune and I'm not there yet although I can tweak others tunes a little. I'll test your tune once I get dialed in a little if you want to share (but that's up to you). My first goal for AsaparaWhat? was to get a "belated" D3 podium finish for week #22 offline which I've accomplished tonight with a 1'38.993
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Are we doing grid start this time? If not I vote a mandatory "rolling start" 1 day course for Vagabond as a condition for participating.
And even if Lefty isn't on pole he's required to sign the special rolling starting invisibility clause.
When the race countdown completes the lounge will shift to race mode and you will find yourself on the starting grid. Apply full brakes and no throttle and remain stopped in your grid spot until instructed to exit. At the end of the timer a start Marshall will instruct the pole sitter to exit the grid and proceed to the reformation area:
The last turn marker (25m) prior to turn 1:
The pole sitter should come to a complete stop at the reformation area as shown in the photo. The start Marshall will then verbally release each driver from the grid individually in qualification order. Each subsequent driver should park in single file a car length behind the car in front. When all cars are lined up the pole sitter will be instructed to begin the formation lap at a safe speed and all drivers should follow maintaining a safe gap.
Lookee -
The way I understand this is that there are two laps prior to starting the race. One to drive around to the last corner marker and form up in start order, then one formation lap.
At the end of the timer a start Marshall will instruct the pole sitter to exit the grid and proceed to the reformation area:
When all cars are lined up the pole sitter will be instructed to begin the formation lap
?? On wednesday, we didn't do that, we left the grid then started the race next lap without a formation lap. That's why I zoomed off - to drive to the reformation point.
Lookee -
The way I understand this is that there are two laps prior to starting the race. One to drive around to the last corner marker and form up in start order, then one formation lap.
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?? On wednesday, we didn't do that, we left the grid then started the race next lap without a formation lap. That's why I zoomed off - to drive to the reformation point.
