Anyone else enjoy the countdown?

[SohnVonStig]

I got on at 11pm last night and so the hour countdown and got all excited.

I decided I'd run 17 minutes on each track (3 mins between for switching) with the remaining time going to the cape.

I loved the pressure of having that deadline, it forced me to just drive. I stopped looking at split times, didnt run against a ghost and just drove as hard as I could as clean as I could. Despite the added time pressure, I actually was more relaxed and didnt spin or crash at all.

Never restarted, just kept driving. I wasn't really worrying about beating my times but had no problem matching them within my self-induced time limit.

In short, I thought the time limit was exhilarating and actually considerably improved my driving by forcing me to trust my instincts. Couldn't worry about the previous sector, just HAD to keep moving.

Just wondering if anyone else felt the same way

 

[blindsidefive0]

I got on at 11pm last night and so the hour countdown and got all excited.

I decided I'd run 17 minutes on each track (3 mins between for switching) with the remaining time going to the cape.

I loved the pressure of having that deadline, it forced me to just drive. I stopped looking at split times, didnt run against a ghost and just drove as hard as I could as clean as I could. Despite the added time pressure, I actually was more relaxed and didnt spin or crash at all.

Never restarted, just kept driving. I wasn't really worrying about beating my times but had no problem matching them within my self-induced time limit.

In short, I thought the time limit was exhilarating and actually considerably improved my driving by forcing me to trust my instincts. Couldn't worry about the previous sector, just HAD to keep moving.

Just wondering if anyone else felt the same way

Ha - I was the opposite. I was enjoying goofing off with Forcedndkshn (Sp?) online, cleaning house with him at Nordschleife and GP/D (as long as some noob in an AWD race car wasn't smacking us off track...). Once I got over the disappointment of 3wide's arrival and hijacking of the final Playseat, it was actually a relief...

Well - how did you do? Did you get close to your old times? Improve anything?

 

[SohnVonStig]

Ha - I was the opposite. I was enjoying goofing off with Forcedndkshn (Sp?) online, cleaning house with him at Nordschleife and GP/D (as long as some noob in an AWD race car wasn't smacking us off track...). Once I got over the disappointment of 3wide's arrival and hijacking of the final Playseat, it was actually a relief...

Well - how did you do? Did you get close to your old times? Improve anything?

I matched everything almost exactly. Tsukuba I ended up being off by .003 on the last lap I ran (lap 15)
Rome I ran .011 slower after throwing away a .5 second lead on my best time (hit the kink perfectly, but botched the hairpin)
Cape ring was the closest tho, I was actually running .4 faster on my last lap which I had started with 1:34 remaining and was hoping they'd let me finish :/ but unfortunately it just went black when the time hit zero.

Didn't touch it all weekend, I think that knowing I was through calmed me down a bit too. If I had I'm sure I could have easily bettered those times.
I'm soo pumped for round 2 tho, I learned a whole ton from round 1.

 

[Forcednduckshn]

Ha - I was the opposite. I was enjoying goofing off with Forcedndkshn (Sp?) online, cleaning house with him at Nordschleife and GP/D (as long as some noob in an AWD race car wasn't smacking us off track...). Once I got over the disappointment of 3wide's arrival and hijacking of the final Playseat, it was actually a relief...

Well - how did you do? Did you get close to your old times? Improve anything?

Haha yeah me and blindside decided to have fun "pwn1ng n00bs" last night..both got punted hard on multiple occasions though! <sigh> It was nice to just finally have some real fun doing wheel2wheel online, it's such a blast! (And was feeling good knowing I had locked down a DFGT earlier in the evening, so I was just max-relaxin not even thinking of the deadline)

 

[SohnVonStig]

Haha yeah me and blindside decided to have fun "pwn1ng n00bs" last night..both got punted hard on multiple occasions though! <sigh> It was nice to just finally have some real fun doing wheel2wheel online, it's such a blast! (And was feeling good knowing I had locked down a DFGT earlier in the evening, so I was just max-relaxin not even thinking of the deadline)

You two should definitely join us tonight in the Weekly Community thing on here. We always have tons of fun

 

[blindsidefive0]

I will absolutely try to join tonight, but I have 2 things in my way

1 - pwn1ng n008s in my n008 go-kart league. It starts at 7 and will continue until about 9 or 10.

2 - "working" on my marriage

I think #1 shouldn't be too much of an issue, but if I get home and am confronted with #2 (not the worst thing in the world...) then I'm out.

 

[Forcednduckshn]

You two should definitely join us tonight in the Weekly Community thing on here. We always have tons of fun

Will do!

 

[SohnVonStig]

I will absolutely try to join tonight, but I have 2 things in my way

1 - pwn1ng n008s in my n008 go-kart league. It starts at 7 and will continue until about 9 or 10.

2 - "working" on my marriage

I think #1 shouldn't be too much of an issue, but if I get home and am confronted with #2 (not the worst thing in the world...) then I'm out.

Haha, I'll friend you both when I get home from work.

 

[Forcednduckshn]

I will absolutely try to join tonight, but I have 2 things in my way

1 - pwn1ng n008s in my n008 go-kart league. It starts at 7 and will continue until about 9 or 10.

2 - "working" on my marriage

I think #1 shouldn't be too much of an issue, but if I get home and am confronted with #2 (not the worst thing in the world...) then I'm out.

you could "work" on your marriage while playing GT5...if she let's you do that, she's a keeper

 

[Forcednduckshn]

👍

Haha, I'll friend you both when I get home from work.

 

[SohnVonStig]

you could "work" on your marriage while playing GT5...if she let's you do that, she's a keeper

Amen to that, although I'm not sure who would be doing the work there.....

 

[blindsidefive0]

you could "work" on your marriage while playing GT5...if she let's you do that, she's a keeper

Uh...ya. Driving abilities severely diminished...

 

[chriz00]

The countdown did put pressure on me and did help me go quicker (was doing Rome at the time) ...but that ****ing kink, ****!

Probably would've gotten a 1:21.xx but kept messing up, ehh, still made it through with a 1:22.1xx. 👍

 

[SohnVonStig]

The countdown did put pressure on me and did help me go quicker (was doing Rome at the time) ...but that ****ing kink, ****!

Probably would've gotten a 1:21.xx but kept messing up, ehh, still made it through with a 1:22.1xx. 👍

Haha I know how you feel, my issue was after I got the kink down I couldn't find the braking point on the hairpin (consequence of running 10 laps only). Thats what I get for running cape for the last 3 weeks...

 

[Forcednduckshn]

Uh...ya. Driving abilities severely diminished...

Ability to multitask and work "under pressure" strengthened!

 

[Dr_Watson]

My wife told me to keep playing... I must have married the right one.

 

[SohnVonStig]

My wife told me to keep playing... I must have married the right one.

does she have a sister?