- 442
- Omaha, NE
- TRL_Agro
Fightings going on for top 10 there... Meeh hope it`s OK for a more "normal" person like me to post my tries here... Would perhaps even be relieving for other "normals" to see they`re not alone??
Tried again last night in my WedsSport celica...Improved 0.9 sec, so down to 1.36.982...Very normal time that placed me as provisional 1060... Guess I am downed a few hundreths when I fire up on my system in a few hours.
Frustrating it was thar after making that "normal" time, I drove away from it with another 0.9 sec at the end of the backstraight, but in the following righthanders that me-ghost had much more grip and came after no-ghost-me...Happened 3-4 times, and then I decided it was too late for more driving, and went to bed...But soon I will have another go...I tune the car by myself, I never use tunes from here, but I look at them to get a few ideas. I run high numbers on the LSD, to get good acceleration on the straights...Been fiddling a lot with that...
Isn`t it funny.. For You alien guys posting here it would be a disaster to be in the 1060ies rank...To me it`s very good...There is only around 1100persons out there who is better than me...
Over time I also noticed something strange (or in fact it is not strange, but still surprising) - When a TT ends one should think that the difference between rank 1 and 1000 should be, let`s say 1 sec. And the difference from no 1000 to no 10.000 should be, let`s say 5 sec..But...Think again...
The gap from no 1 to no 1000 is a stunning 4-5 sec (typical on a track like Brands) - But the gap between no 1000 and no 10.000 is typical only 1-2 sec when ranking period ends...
This is surprising...The explenation is, of course, that the "alien elite" is extremely small, around 100 persons or something...Just look at how fast the time increases when starting with no 1 and going just a little under...The gaps accelerates...At some point around rank 500 or something the acceleration stops. At this spot You reach the top of the "grey masses". Nothing new about it really...
For every second faster you get, it becomes exponentially harder to gain further time. Going from a 38 to 36 is easy. Going from 32.5 to 32.2 is much more difficult.