C.R.A.P GT300 Endurance Series - Heavy Damage, ABS1 Only
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- Victoria
- Mr_Paincake
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- 111
- Quebec
- KurtKrDu
According to the 4hr rules which don't have any particular disconnect contingency, except for having serious mechanical failure when a disconnect takes place, I've blown my engine or something 
On Lap 8 of 26, 1'20.xxx ahead of Heathenpride, with a fastest lap of 8'14.xxx behind my belt, i got disconnected. Hoping the end of the race will go great for the rest of you. Let us know how it goes!!!
On Lap 8 of 26, 1'20.xxx ahead of Heathenpride, with a fastest lap of 8'14.xxx behind my belt, i got disconnected. Hoping the end of the race will go great for the rest of you. Let us know how it goes!!!
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- 3,984
- Frankfurt am Main
- GTP_mcfizzle
- LotsaMcfizzle
Great race everyone. Very well organized and a quality group of drivers. It's a shame Kurt got DC'ed. He was obviously the class of the field as I watched splits increase every single sector. The day started off well enough for me, turned my fastest lap at the time in qualifying and was able to make a pass for second place on knukken on the long straight at the end of lap 1. From there things went down hill for a while.
I don't know why, inattention I supposed, but I took damage on lap 4, spun on 5 giving second to Heathen, and then took damage again on 7 causing me to pit in earlier than planned. Each time it was for something stupid like getting a tire in the grass and the rear end whipping around.
Things then went well until I took damage in the middle of the race taking the first two turns too aggressively and clipping the inside barrier. After that I watched my splits stay pretty even with Bob. I would gain a little and then he would get it back the next lap. My pit strategy was going to give me an advantage I thought, the last two stops I would only need to take in 25 liters each, but my dog having to potty and me being home alone added about 15 seconds to the second to last stop.
Around lap 22 the gap with Bob was staying steady when I spun in the carousel thinking that was the end of any chances I had. The very next split I gained around 5 seconds and I realized he must of taken mechanical damage as I was quickly eating into his lead. I made the pass around the second carousel and into the lead. Lap 23 I pitted for the final time, taking 25 liters again and came out around 3 seconds ahead of Bob. I was nervous as we were pretty even when it came to lap times and feared another spin in the carousel as I almost lost it a second time the lap before. Luckily I was able to push hard and extend the lead a little. Somewhere in the last couple laps he took mechanical damage again and I was able to pull away. It was a great race between us I thought, very nerve wracking.
My fast lap was somewhere around 8'16'400 if I recall correctly. My body held up good for the full race but I did crash pretty quickly following. Once again thank you to everyone who took part and great work by Heathpride.
I don't know why, inattention I supposed, but I took damage on lap 4, spun on 5 giving second to Heathen, and then took damage again on 7 causing me to pit in earlier than planned. Each time it was for something stupid like getting a tire in the grass and the rear end whipping around.
Things then went well until I took damage in the middle of the race taking the first two turns too aggressively and clipping the inside barrier. After that I watched my splits stay pretty even with Bob. I would gain a little and then he would get it back the next lap. My pit strategy was going to give me an advantage I thought, the last two stops I would only need to take in 25 liters each, but my dog having to potty and me being home alone added about 15 seconds to the second to last stop.
Around lap 22 the gap with Bob was staying steady when I spun in the carousel thinking that was the end of any chances I had. The very next split I gained around 5 seconds and I realized he must of taken mechanical damage as I was quickly eating into his lead. I made the pass around the second carousel and into the lead. Lap 23 I pitted for the final time, taking 25 liters again and came out around 3 seconds ahead of Bob. I was nervous as we were pretty even when it came to lap times and feared another spin in the carousel as I almost lost it a second time the lap before. Luckily I was able to push hard and extend the lead a little. Somewhere in the last couple laps he took mechanical damage again and I was able to pull away. It was a great race between us I thought, very nerve wracking.
My fast lap was somewhere around 8'16'400 if I recall correctly. My body held up good for the full race but I did crash pretty quickly following. Once again thank you to everyone who took part and great work by Heathpride.
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- 385
- Hawkes Bay
- davidb_165
My race was ok 
. I spun in front of Cobani on the first lap at the Karousell and I got a little tap for it (my fault, I was the spinner 
, and hope I didn't damage you Cobani) Unfortunately, I got that light rear damage that feels like the car is undriveable. Crashed again trying to limp back to pits and ended the first lap about 1:40 behind the leaders.
Took a pit and got back to good running. For a while (after Kurt had DC'd) I was making a few seconds on the leaders per lap, but it was never about catching them, merely trying to get the place in front of me.
Had some good passes in the pits with Knukken and ANFD. Wasn't clear who was actually in front because it depended on how much fuel was on board each car.
Managed to pass HP and have a couple of laps in 3rd place, but I knew that was just fuel strategies at work.
Ended up 5th, which is one better than qualifying position, although it was really 6th if Kurt hadn't disconnected.
Still, very enjoyable race. Glad it wasn't any longer. I found myself counting down the laps toward the end: "2 to go, 1 to go, 3/4 to go, 1/2 to go, come on...., 1/4 to go, done"
Thanks to all drivers and the organisers.
. I spun in front of Cobani on the first lap at the Karousell and I got a little tap for it (my fault, I was the spinner , and hope I didn't damage you Cobani) Unfortunately, I got that light rear damage that feels like the car is undriveable. Crashed again trying to limp back to pits and ended the first lap about 1:40 behind the leaders.Took a pit and got back to good running. For a while (after Kurt had DC'd) I was making a few seconds on the leaders per lap, but it was never about catching them, merely trying to get the place in front of me.
Had some good passes in the pits with Knukken and ANFD. Wasn't clear who was actually in front because it depended on how much fuel was on board each car.
Managed to pass HP and have a couple of laps in 3rd place, but I knew that was just fuel strategies at work.
Ended up 5th, which is one better than qualifying position, although it was really 6th if Kurt hadn't disconnected.
Still, very enjoyable race. Glad it wasn't any longer. I found myself counting down the laps toward the end: "2 to go, 1 to go, 3/4 to go, 1/2 to go, come on...., 1/4 to go, done"
Thanks to all drivers and the organisers.
- 951
- Netherlands
- SCAR_Cobani
How nice is that!
👍I wish to thank Heathenpride for hosting this event, as well as all the others who participated in racing and organising. 👍
I knew in advance that the time the race was going to start was to be my biggest enemy. Although I tried to be as awake as possible, the midnight starting time broke me up big time.
My quali started with damage on my out-lap, must have been the nerves!
Starting 7th I decided to follow the car in front, David, at a bigger gap then normal. I got caught out by the little spin at the Karousell and the tap did not give me damage ( I believe
, little hard to recall at the moment )I tried to avoid, sorry for the damage done.
During the first few laps I made some mistakes with gave me damage and and my race was just to inconsistant.
As the hours went by and my Red Bulls did not help me, I found it harder and harder to keep controll of the car. At times I actually 'forgot' where I was on the track. All down to the sleepiness and lack of focus because of that. I gave it my best shot and continued because I was on my own. If I was in a direct battle on track, I would have pulled out of that fight, for I would not want to bring damage to any of you guys.
Running pretty much alone for the greater part of the race, I finished! And I'm proud of that!
Respect for all who finished or tried to finish, that alone is a big achievement. 👍
I intend to watch the replay and especially my last two laps, as I vaguely recall being three quarters assleep.
Cheers gentlemen 
and congratulations to all!
- 2,563
- Adelaide
- Heathenpride
Good write-ups guys, cheers 👍
I have reviewed the rolling start, all is good so thank you all for being respectful of the start procedure.
All up I am very happy with the way it went and have received positive feedback so I see the event as a success 👍
My race consisted of crashes, 5 in total. I crashed in qual after being in front of the lead time (but before Kurt finished) so I was on track for a decent start but I lost it at Knukkenburg (Aremburg, but I call it Knukkenburg as Knukken once ran to answer the door and his car, sans Knukken, T-boned me haha) and hit the wall which put paid to my qual.
The start went off without a hitch and I was stuck in 9th and well off the pace as I had to try get up front. Apologies to Mr_Paincake who I helped in to the sand without knowing, only discovered after the race
Other than that I clawed my way to second and then Kurt DC'd which caused me to lose concentration (I nearly fell off my chair) as he was pulling time no matter how fast I went, that man can drive.
It was uneventful for a while in 1st but I then crashed which normally would spell doom but it was towards the end of the track and on Bob's pit lap so I exited pits first... until I crashed again and gave the lead to Bob who held it (IIRC) until the closing stages,
I was in 3rd and holding Knukken(berg) by perhaps 45 seconds but when lapping Rosenlundaren for the second time he hit the grass at Adeneur Forst which I mistook for him letting me past, unfortunately he tried correcting and T-boned me coming back on track, unfortunate as I was in 3rd and well placed to make a charge with 30 seconds behind but pit stops and fuel in my favour.
At first I thought Rosen had aggressively tried to reclaim position but on race review I see this is not the case and I owe Rosen an apology as I was quite miffed, I should not have been however and next time I will await review prior to passing judgement so I apologise Rosen
All up, a brilliant event I felt, I loved it and cannot wait til the next one.
POINTS SYSTEM
Kurt and I will work out a points system, I am in favour of using the F! system but please stand by for confirmation and apologies for not having it in place prior, that one thing slipped my mind.
NEXT RACE
Will be with weather and time (weather as per weather on the actual Nurb on that day) and will be held in January with the 3rd event held mid Feb in preparation for the online 24hr race.
Thank you very much to all drivers for sticking it out and and showing true sportsmanship
Note also that the DC contingency will be re-thought with the plan being to adopt the same as the 24hr race but that is not yet confirmed so stay tuned.
Please send any feedback to me via PM.
Thanks again everyone, what a great race 👍
HP
I have reviewed the rolling start, all is good so thank you all for being respectful of the start procedure.
All up I am very happy with the way it went and have received positive feedback so I see the event as a success 👍
My race consisted of crashes, 5 in total. I crashed in qual after being in front of the lead time (but before Kurt finished) so I was on track for a decent start but I lost it at Knukkenburg (Aremburg, but I call it Knukkenburg as Knukken once ran to answer the door and his car, sans Knukken, T-boned me haha) and hit the wall which put paid to my qual.
The start went off without a hitch and I was stuck in 9th and well off the pace as I had to try get up front. Apologies to Mr_Paincake who I helped in to the sand without knowing, only discovered after the race
Other than that I clawed my way to second and then Kurt DC'd which caused me to lose concentration (I nearly fell off my chair) as he was pulling time no matter how fast I went, that man can drive.
It was uneventful for a while in 1st but I then crashed which normally would spell doom but it was towards the end of the track and on Bob's pit lap so I exited pits first... until I crashed again and gave the lead to Bob who held it (IIRC) until the closing stages,
I was in 3rd and holding Knukken(berg) by perhaps 45 seconds but when lapping Rosenlundaren for the second time he hit the grass at Adeneur Forst which I mistook for him letting me past, unfortunately he tried correcting and T-boned me coming back on track, unfortunate as I was in 3rd and well placed to make a charge with 30 seconds behind but pit stops and fuel in my favour.
At first I thought Rosen had aggressively tried to reclaim position but on race review I see this is not the case and I owe Rosen an apology as I was quite miffed, I should not have been however and next time I will await review prior to passing judgement so I apologise Rosen
All up, a brilliant event I felt, I loved it and cannot wait til the next one.
POINTS SYSTEM
Kurt and I will work out a points system, I am in favour of using the F! system but please stand by for confirmation and apologies for not having it in place prior, that one thing slipped my mind.
NEXT RACE
Will be with weather and time (weather as per weather on the actual Nurb on that day) and will be held in January with the 3rd event held mid Feb in preparation for the online 24hr race.
Thank you very much to all drivers for sticking it out and and showing true sportsmanship
Note also that the DC contingency will be re-thought with the plan being to adopt the same as the 24hr race but that is not yet confirmed so stay tuned.
Please send any feedback to me via PM.
Thanks again everyone, what a great race 👍
HP
- 300
- Sweden
- RosenlundarenSWE
This was the first endurance race for me so it was kind of a test to see if the concept is something for me.
First I like to thank everybody who took part of the race! And the organizers gets a big Bravo! I think it is really amazing to meet like this and it is world wide!
The race.
I acheived my goal, which was to fulfill the race, no matter position in the end. So far so good. 👍
But I have to polish my skills... I was too slow. I think my fastest lap ended on 8.46.xxx and that at least 20 sec too slow if I shall compete with the midfield. But I'm not so worried about that. I hadn't set up the suspension, it was all stock accept for the down force that I sat to a maximum just before the the qualy and I think that made the car slower on the straights (?) but gave better grip in the corners. Better set up and training is the medicine!
The other skill I have to improve is my capacity to keep the car on track! The reason to my repeated visits to the barriers and a following attendance to the pit was sloppy driving...I need to keep the focus up for a longer time and learn to notice when it is lacking so I can slow down for a while, regroup and hit the corners again.
About the crashes I tried to make place for passers. Apologies if I made any trouble for anybody.
Heathen and I had contact in the end of the race. Heathen was just behind, going faster than me so I was waiting for a good place to let him pass but before that I hit the grass with two wheels, lost control of the car and we had a small crash. I damaged my left rear. How did it go for you Heathen? I haven't looked at the replay (didn't save it) but I believe it was a racing accident.
So will I attend in future endurances? Yes! If you don't think I'm to slow and sloppy, I like to race you again.
cheers
First I like to thank everybody who took part of the race! And the organizers gets a big Bravo! I think it is really amazing to meet like this and it is world wide!
The race.
I acheived my goal, which was to fulfill the race, no matter position in the end. So far so good. 👍
But I have to polish my skills... I was too slow. I think my fastest lap ended on 8.46.xxx and that at least 20 sec too slow if I shall compete with the midfield. But I'm not so worried about that. I hadn't set up the suspension, it was all stock accept for the down force that I sat to a maximum just before the the qualy and I think that made the car slower on the straights (?) but gave better grip in the corners. Better set up and training is the medicine!
The other skill I have to improve is my capacity to keep the car on track! The reason to my repeated visits to the barriers and a following attendance to the pit was sloppy driving...I need to keep the focus up for a longer time and learn to notice when it is lacking so I can slow down for a while, regroup and hit the corners again.
About the crashes I tried to make place for passers. Apologies if I made any trouble for anybody.
Heathen and I had contact in the end of the race. Heathen was just behind, going faster than me so I was waiting for a good place to let him pass but before that I hit the grass with two wheels, lost control of the car and we had a small crash. I damaged my left rear. How did it go for you Heathen? I haven't looked at the replay (didn't save it) but I believe it was a racing accident.
So will I attend in future endurances? Yes! If you don't think I'm to slow and sloppy, I like to race you again.
cheers
- 300
- Sweden
- RosenlundarenSWE
Oh, I wrote my post on the side and posted it and didn't see the new posts.
- 300
- Sweden
- RosenlundarenSWE
- 300
- Sweden
- RosenlundarenSWE
I was in 3rd and holding Knukken(berg) by perhaps 45 seconds but when lapping Rosenlundaren for the second time he hit the grass at Adeneur Forst which I mistook for him letting me past, unfortunately he tried correcting and T-boned me coming back on track, unfortunate as I was in 3rd and well placed to make a charge with 30 seconds behind but pit stops and fuel in my favour.
At first I thought Rosen had aggressively tried to reclaim position but on race review I see this is not the case and I owe Rosen an apology as I was quite miffed, I should not have been however and next time I will await review prior to passing judgement so I apologise Rosen
I'm really sorry for that incident.
You know, I'm well aware of that lappers can be in a hurry to catch up with the driver ahead, or are busy making distance to the one behind, and I on my part are trying to make my route, so when that situation rises I try to make the best of it for both parts. Unfortunatelly (bad driving on my part) it didn't work out so well this time.
Apologise taken and given!
- 831
- ANFD
First of all, I'd like to thank HP for doing such a great job of organizing this event and communicating the many dozens of details so well. It really adds to the pleasure when things are set up so well from the beginning. I discovered that there are a couple things about this game that totally elude me, even after thousands of hours with it .... (more on this later).
I am very pleased with my performance for the first 10 laps ... perfect execution Then all hell broke loose and I seem to have had a series of small strokes 
Realistically, if I had driven a perfect race, the best I could have done was a sixth place finish just based on how fast some of the guys were. That being the case, I set 5th as my goal. I intentionally started last, took my time and ran laps 2 through 4 within 1 second of each other. I easily was getting 5 laps on a set of Mediums with tire to spare and my strategy was working perfectly. By lap 10, KREASER and Kurt had disconnected and I found myself in 4th ... I was obviously quite happy with this
Then a simple little brain fart put me in a wall and my race started downhill from there. In a panic I stupidly changed my strategy thinking to make up lost time by fitting Hard tires and stretching the pit stops. Trying to make up time with the harder tires was an obvious mistake as I walled it again on my first out lap. This set in motion a series of downward spirals into a cesspool of grief whereby I found myself back in 7th but a lap ahead of Rosen in 8th. Having resigned myself to this as a finishing position I was so disgusted with myself that it was almost a relief when I got disconnected on lap 20 
The worst part of the whole affair is that I have no one to blame but myself. No one bumped me even the slightest. Every damaged car I passed was well off line and I pretty much drove a contest with the track alone. Once I had the first wreck, I totally lost focus and crashed at least 3 more times ... which brings me to one of the things that eludes me .....
After re-entering the room I went to spectate mode. I was amazed to see at least two drivers lapping competitive times with moderate damage ( at least 2 wheels and engine damage) and they ran multiple laps without even bothering to pit ???? I watched Cobani running down the long back straight with 2 wheel and engine damage at the same speed as my car was running with NO damage ???? What's up with that ??? When I have that much damage, I can barely make it back to the pits yet alone drive for 2 or 3 more laps as I witnessed.
The second part that eludes me relates to the parking lot of cars after the Qually lap. HP instructed us to stay "on track". I could see all the other guys parked next to me. While "on track" like this, there is no text bubble to activate a text box for communication so I can't figure out how everyone was texting that they were ready to go. HP was asking me if I was there and if I was ready and I couldn't find a way to answer him other than to drive back and forth to let him know I was still "in the car". So ... what am I missing here ? Am I so old that my brain has stopped functioning ??
I am very pleased with my performance for the first 10 laps ... perfect execution
Then all hell broke loose and I seem to have had a series of small strokes Realistically, if I had driven a perfect race, the best I could have done was a sixth place finish just based on how fast some of the guys were. That being the case, I set 5th as my goal. I intentionally started last, took my time and ran laps 2 through 4 within 1 second of each other. I easily was getting 5 laps on a set of Mediums with tire to spare and my strategy was working perfectly. By lap 10, KREASER and Kurt had disconnected and I found myself in 4th ... I was obviously quite happy with this
Then a simple little brain fart put me in a wall and my race started downhill from there. In a panic I stupidly changed my strategy thinking to make up lost time by fitting Hard tires and stretching the pit stops. Trying to make up time with the harder tires was an obvious mistake as I walled it again on my first out lap. This set in motion a series of downward spirals into a cesspool of grief whereby I found myself back in 7th but a lap ahead of Rosen in 8th. Having resigned myself to this as a finishing position I was so disgusted with myself that it was almost a relief when I got disconnected on lap 20 The worst part of the whole affair is that I have no one to blame but myself. No one bumped me even the slightest. Every damaged car I passed was well off line and I pretty much drove a contest with the track alone. Once I had the first wreck, I totally lost focus and crashed at least 3 more times ... which brings me to one of the things that eludes me .....
After re-entering the room I went to spectate mode. I was amazed to see at least two drivers lapping competitive times with moderate damage ( at least 2 wheels and engine damage) and they ran multiple laps without even bothering to pit ???? I watched Cobani running down the long back straight with 2 wheel and engine damage at the same speed as my car was running with NO damage ???? What's up with that ??? When I have that much damage, I can barely make it back to the pits yet alone drive for 2 or 3 more laps as I witnessed.
The second part that eludes me relates to the parking lot of cars after the Qually lap. HP instructed us to stay "on track". I could see all the other guys parked next to me. While "on track" like this, there is no text bubble to activate a text box for communication so I can't figure out how everyone was texting that they were ready to go. HP was asking me if I was there and if I was ready and I couldn't find a way to answer him other than to drive back and forth to let him know I was still "in the car". So ... what am I missing here ? Am I so old that my brain has stopped functioning ??
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- 1,309
- knukken
Thanks for organizing this race. This was my first enduro over 2 hours.
I can't remember when or where things happened, but it was a good race. I had fun. Don't have keyboard, so I'm keeping it short.
Had 2nd in quali, started good and tried to keep up with Kurt. When I started lap 3, I had to let kreaser pass because I tried to have a comfortable pace. When I got to Nord, I crashed in the corners and had to wait for traffic to pass and ended on 8th place.
David and ANFD did not block when I tried to pass, and I thank you for that. That's what makes a race good or bad.
Fuel strategy? I didn't have one... Knew I had to have 2 long stops to stretch my legs. When I did my 3rd pit, there was only 3 litres left, and I had enough tires left to do 1 more lap. That was frustrating. On my second long stop, ANFD I think it was, stopped too. I managed to get out before him.
I got damage at least 3 times, and made lots of mistakes and had many spins without getting damage. All in all a good race. I finished 3rd, but would ended 5th if HP hadn't crashed, and Kurt hadn't DC'd
Wuld I do it again? DEFINATELY!!
If tou are consistent, and can have a good pace, I recommendyou to try it!
I can't remember when or where things happened, but it was a good race. I had fun. Don't have keyboard, so I'm keeping it short.
Had 2nd in quali, started good and tried to keep up with Kurt. When I started lap 3, I had to let kreaser pass because I tried to have a comfortable pace. When I got to Nord, I crashed in the corners and had to wait for traffic to pass and ended on 8th place.
David and ANFD did not block when I tried to pass, and I thank you for that. That's what makes a race good or bad.
Fuel strategy? I didn't have one... Knew I had to have 2 long stops to stretch my legs. When I did my 3rd pit, there was only 3 litres left, and I had enough tires left to do 1 more lap. That was frustrating. On my second long stop, ANFD I think it was, stopped too. I managed to get out before him.
I got damage at least 3 times, and made lots of mistakes and had many spins without getting damage. All in all a good race. I finished 3rd, but would ended 5th if HP hadn't crashed, and Kurt hadn't DC'd
Wuld I do it again? DEFINATELY!!
If tou are consistent, and can have a good pace, I recommendyou to try it!
- 951
- Netherlands
- SCAR_Cobani
@ANFD
Damage can be tricky, sometimes a right and left damage can get a car going straight again. As for the top speed. I recall of the top of my head that there was a 10 km difference. How people can drive multiple laps with damage I don't know.
As for texting: as you wait and hit the handbrake, press the start button It opens up a whole new world
Damage can be tricky, sometimes a right and left damage can get a car going straight again. As for the top speed. I recall of the top of my head that there was a 10 km difference. How people can drive multiple laps with damage I don't know.
As for texting: as you wait and hit the handbrake, press the start button
It opens up a whole new world
- 831
- ANFD
@ANFD
Damage can be tricky, sometimes a right and left damage can get a car going straight again. As for the top speed. I recall of the top of my head that there was a 10 km difference. How people can drive multiple laps with damage I don't know.
As for texting: as you wait and hit the handbrake, press the start button
The difference in top speed on my car with engine damage was about 40 mph (64 kph)
Believe me, I was was pushing buttons like a mad-man ! When I pushed the Start button, my car released the hand-brake and started driving in Auto-free-run mode so I had to stop immediately and reset the brake
- 194
- The Peninsula
- >PM_Me
Thank you HP for organizing this epic race.
My first 4 hour stint, and I was having slight fatigue towards the end with a numb-butt as well. Whole race was quite calm and I was driving at 90% and picking off those who were overcame by damage one by one. Only got overtaken by HP and towards race end, McFizzle.
My ZR1 Corvette is far off the pace of the faster GTRs. Lap times averaging in the mid 8:20s. Started at 5th, moved up to pole after Kurt got DC'ed and HP reacted violently to the news by crashing himself.
Stayed in the lead from lap 8 until 22, when my Vette decided she doesn't want to win this all-GTR race (the other Vette of KREASER was DC'ed earlier), so she went frolicking in the grass at Eschbach and heavy damage followed. I lost concentration and as a result, Fizz which was 15 secs behind took over the lead and owns the race.
Lesson : A single damage can lose one the race
. Stay focused.
Race Snapshots below
60 pictures LONG POST !
26 laps. Nurb 24h. Daytime. No weather.
404HP, 1100Kg.
Fastest lap : Kurt (8:14)
Finish time : GTP_mcfizzle (3h 46m)
Note :
After viewing a few hours of replay footage, I got nauseaus and almost threw up. Due to the other cars are not animating smoothly (camera view jumping left-right) because of the network lag. As such I will have to cut short the snapshots for my well-being. Apologies.
Kreaser jumped the race start and bumps Knukken. Wheel damage to both.
Mr_Paincake slipped on the accel and bumped Rosen while lining up. Damage to both cars. At this point 4 cars shows damage, I assume this can be brought up to the stewarts and the race restarted ?
Lining up to order.
A runthrough of the armchair drivers crazy enough to spend a weekend sitting 4 hours in front a a TV set... harhar
Pole position Kurt (wurks race organizer)
2. Knukken from Norway (CRAP member). It's snowing there btw.
3. GTP_mcfizzle
4. Kreaser. Bravely brings a Corvette to a GTR fight. (CRAP member)
5. BobZ in the other Corvette ZR1. (CRAP member)
6. DavidB (CRAP member)
7. Cobani. Slightly off his usual pace. Conservative tune maybe.
8. Rosenludaren from Sweden.
9. CRAP Bossman HeathenPride (HP). Messed up his qualifying by crashing, probably to make the race more interesting as he got bored leading every race. Har.
10. MrPainCake. As he shall demonstrate soon...
11. Completing the field is ANFD, real life long range tourer. 4 hours is nothing! 👍
Race start. Kurt leads the front pack through the GP Circuit.
After a gap comes the 2nd pack. HP got stuck behind a damaged Rosen. ANFD waiting to pounce from behind...
Pain gets knocked into the sand from a 3-way fight through Dunlop-Kehre. Oh the Pain... heavy damage since the starting grid. It's gonna be long lap.
ANFD's slow-and-steady strategy scores his first victim, Pain.
Aremberg. Kurt holds a comfortable pace in front. Closely trailed by Knuk and Fizz.
Kreaser holding 4th from Bob and David.
HP up to 8th.
Not forgetting Cobani chasing David's 6th spot.
Rosen at 9th spot. Struggling with damage. Pain having a ball as well.
David spun into the Karussell. Cobani wandered a bit too close and Heavy Damage to both.
HP makes easy work of david's damage.
Rosen getting the hang of seeing how well the GTR drives on grass with damaged shock absorbers. ANFD picks off another car.
MrPainCake enjoying some. Getting devoured by a damaged R35 Godzilla.
How far Kurt is ahead before Lap 1 is done. Half the field suffer from car damage.
David first of the early pitters to emerge to do Lap 2. Hopefully less incident as the field thins out.
Cobani decided to skip Lap 1 pitting to repair engine damage. Now having to man-handle the car, not going too well.
HP moves up another notch! Takes Cobani.
ANFD eventually moves up to midfield and swapping a few positions. Was looking fine until lap 20 when PSN booted him, what a waste of consistent driving.
Kreaser driving like a man possessed chasing Knukken! His car keep doing these slides throughout the race. I suspect my console is not getting his data correctly. [Lag]
Knukken drops to 4th by lap 3. Kreaser just done his fastest lap of 8:18 with FULL DAMAGE.
[I seriously think this game's network code has some issues updating car data. If you can confirm please Kreaser, I see your car running full damage for Lap 2 after bumping into a lot of things, yet it done a flying lap. Either the game has issues or your driving is EPIC!]
Knukken slips and suffered more setback. Kreaser holding 3rd behind Fizz and Kurt.
BobZ passes Knuk for 4th spot.
HP is next up to 5th. Knukken is mustering up a lot of patience right now.
Kreaser ended up with some knocks and the Vette shows it's true twitchiness. Bob moves up to 3rd.
Kreaser struggling with the heavy damage Corvette, holding up Cobani and Knukken close behind. The Vette jumping around the track. [Lag]
David Cobani spun at Karussell. A very close Knukken had no time to avoid. Heavy Damage !
[Thanks David for catching this, must be the orange paint]
ANFD easily picks off a limping Cobani.
HP slipstreams Bob and moves up to 3rd behind Fizz and Kurt.
Lap 4. First of the scheduled pit stops.
Kurt leading with no worries in the world. 30 sec gap by lap 3.
Knuk, David and Kreaser met up again for a bash...
Kreaser losing the Vette, again.
Fizz had 2 full donuts before the final straight.
As HP took advantage and moves up to 2nd behind Kurt.
Pain had enough of himself and parked aside for the remaining 22 laps.
Bob sneak past a damaged Fizz up into 3rd.
Kreaser car limp directionlessly into walls as his console was disconnected by the game on Lap 7.
Kurt's car suffered the same fate on Lap 8. GT5 Disconnect Service. Losing the lead to HP.
HP's reaction to losing Kurt was to suddenly veer into a wall. Damage.
Bob took over the lead from HP. Lap 8 to 22. With Fizz close behind.
..and he fell asleep with 5 laps to go. Went wall riding and damaged the car.
McFizzle slides past Bob for an easy win.
Despite the skirmishes and knocks, Fizz rides home with the checkered flag. Congratulations!
Thanks for reading. See you next time.
My first 4 hour stint, and I was having slight fatigue towards the end with a numb-butt as well. Whole race was quite calm and I was driving at 90% and picking off those who were overcame by damage one by one. Only got overtaken by HP and towards race end, McFizzle.
My ZR1 Corvette is far off the pace of the faster GTRs. Lap times averaging in the mid 8:20s. Started at 5th, moved up to pole after Kurt got DC'ed and HP reacted violently to the news by crashing himself.
Stayed in the lead from lap 8 until 22, when my Vette decided she doesn't want to win this all-GTR race (the other Vette of KREASER was DC'ed earlier), so she went frolicking in the grass at Eschbach and heavy damage followed. I lost concentration and as a result, Fizz which was 15 secs behind took over the lead and owns the race.
Lesson : A single damage can lose one the race
. Stay focused.Race Snapshots below
60 pictures LONG POST !
26 laps. Nurb 24h. Daytime. No weather.
404HP, 1100Kg.
Fastest lap : Kurt (8:14)
Finish time : GTP_mcfizzle (3h 46m)
Note :
After viewing a few hours of replay footage, I got nauseaus and almost threw up. Due to the other cars are not animating smoothly (camera view jumping left-right) because of the network lag. As such I will have to cut short the snapshots for my well-being. Apologies.
Kreaser jumped the race start and bumps Knukken. Wheel damage to both.
Mr_Paincake slipped on the accel and bumped Rosen while lining up. Damage to both cars. At this point 4 cars shows damage, I assume this can be brought up to the stewarts and the race restarted ?
Lining up to order.
A runthrough of the armchair drivers crazy enough to spend a weekend sitting 4 hours in front a a TV set... harhar
Pole position Kurt (wurks race organizer)
2. Knukken from Norway (CRAP member). It's snowing there btw.
3. GTP_mcfizzle
4. Kreaser. Bravely brings a Corvette to a GTR fight. (CRAP member)
5. BobZ in the other Corvette ZR1. (CRAP member)
6. DavidB (CRAP member)
7. Cobani. Slightly off his usual pace. Conservative tune maybe.
8. Rosenludaren from Sweden.
9. CRAP Bossman HeathenPride (HP). Messed up his qualifying by crashing, probably to make the race more interesting as he got bored leading every race. Har.
10. MrPainCake. As he shall demonstrate soon...
11. Completing the field is ANFD, real life long range tourer. 4 hours is nothing! 👍
Race start. Kurt leads the front pack through the GP Circuit.
After a gap comes the 2nd pack. HP got stuck behind a damaged Rosen. ANFD waiting to pounce from behind...
Pain gets knocked into the sand from a 3-way fight through Dunlop-Kehre. Oh the Pain... heavy damage since the starting grid. It's gonna be long lap.
ANFD's slow-and-steady strategy scores his first victim, Pain.
Aremberg. Kurt holds a comfortable pace in front. Closely trailed by Knuk and Fizz.
Kreaser holding 4th from Bob and David.
HP up to 8th.
Not forgetting Cobani chasing David's 6th spot.
Rosen at 9th spot. Struggling with damage. Pain having a ball as well.
David spun into the Karussell. Cobani wandered a bit too close and Heavy Damage to both.
HP makes easy work of david's damage.
Rosen getting the hang of seeing how well the GTR drives on grass with damaged shock absorbers. ANFD picks off another car.
MrPainCake enjoying some. Getting devoured by a damaged R35 Godzilla.
How far Kurt is ahead before Lap 1 is done. Half the field suffer from car damage.
David first of the early pitters to emerge to do Lap 2. Hopefully less incident as the field thins out.
Cobani decided to skip Lap 1 pitting to repair engine damage. Now having to man-handle the car, not going too well.
HP moves up another notch! Takes Cobani.
ANFD eventually moves up to midfield and swapping a few positions. Was looking fine until lap 20 when PSN booted him, what a waste of consistent driving.
Kreaser driving like a man possessed chasing Knukken! His car keep doing these slides throughout the race. I suspect my console is not getting his data correctly. [Lag]
Knukken drops to 4th by lap 3. Kreaser just done his fastest lap of 8:18 with FULL DAMAGE.
[I seriously think this game's network code has some issues updating car data. If you can confirm please Kreaser, I see your car running full damage for Lap 2 after bumping into a lot of things, yet it done a flying lap. Either the game has issues or your driving is EPIC!]
Knukken slips and suffered more setback. Kreaser holding 3rd behind Fizz and Kurt.
BobZ passes Knuk for 4th spot.
HP is next up to 5th. Knukken is mustering up a lot of patience right now.
Kreaser ended up with some knocks and the Vette shows it's true twitchiness. Bob moves up to 3rd.
Kreaser struggling with the heavy damage Corvette, holding up Cobani and Knukken close behind. The Vette jumping around the track. [Lag]
[Thanks David for catching this, must be the orange paint
]
ANFD easily picks off a limping Cobani.
HP slipstreams Bob and moves up to 3rd behind Fizz and Kurt.
Lap 4. First of the scheduled pit stops.
Kurt leading with no worries in the world. 30 sec gap by lap 3.
Knuk, David and Kreaser met up again for a bash...
Kreaser losing the Vette, again.
Fizz had 2 full donuts before the final straight.
As HP took advantage and moves up to 2nd behind Kurt.
Pain had enough of himself and parked aside for the remaining 22 laps.
Bob sneak past a damaged Fizz up into 3rd.
Kreaser car limp directionlessly into walls as his console was disconnected by the game on Lap 7.
Kurt's car suffered the same fate on Lap 8. GT5 Disconnect Service. Losing the lead to HP.
HP's reaction to losing Kurt was to suddenly veer into a wall. Damage.
Bob took over the lead from HP. Lap 8 to 22. With Fizz close behind.
..and he fell asleep with 5 laps to go. Went wall riding and damaged the car.
McFizzle slides past Bob for an easy win.
Despite the skirmishes and knocks, Fizz rides home with the checkered flag. Congratulations!
Thanks for reading. See you next time.
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- ANFD
Once again, Bob has graced us with his clever wit and photographic excellence. Really cool of you Bob to take the time to entertain all of us with your great pictorial race recaps. I hope everyone realizes how much time and work it takes to do what you have done here 👍👍👍👍
I had planned to make a YouTube video from this race experience and had my wife shoot some video of me while racing as well as some screen shots but since I got disconnected I didn't get to save the replay. Also, I'd be too embarrassed to chronicle my poor performance
I had planned to make a YouTube video from this race experience and had my wife shoot some video of me while racing as well as some screen shots but since I got disconnected I didn't get to save the replay. Also, I'd be too embarrassed to chronicle my poor performance
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- RosenlundarenSWE
Great report Bob! Thanks alot!
I can't recollect any damage on my car at the start, but Hey! went to sleep after the race and after three hours my daugthers thought that I should catch the day...so lack of sleep can mess up my memory.
I can't recollect any damage on my car at the start, but Hey! went to sleep after the race and after three hours my daugthers thought that I should catch the day...so lack of sleep can mess up my memory.
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- Netherlands
- SCAR_Cobani
Great report Bob! Thanks alot!
I can't recollect any damage on my car at the start, but Hey! went to sleep after the race and after three hours my daugthers thought that I should catch the day...so lack of sleep can mess up my memory.
What he said! 👍
Bob, I have done some race reports myself and that was only looking at my own race. What you're doing is great! So much time and effort must be needed to get this kind of race report, absolute brilliant Bob! 👍
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- Hawkes Bay
- davidb_165
Excellent write up bob. Reading it and some of the other comments makes me think the replay view is a bit eager to show damage versus what rreally happened. It would explain why anfd was surprised to see cars running at full speed with heavy damage.
Also, the contact at the karousell between knukken and myself as reported might actually be cobani. We were both in orange cars. It's just that I don't remember it happening, but that's not conclusive evidence that it wasn't me. Just that I might not have perfect recall
Also, the contact at the karousell between knukken and myself as reported might actually be cobani. We were both in orange cars. It's just that I don't remember it happening, but that's not conclusive evidence that it wasn't me. Just that I might not have perfect recall
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- ANFD
Excellent write up bob. Reading it and some of the other comments makes me think the replay view is a bit eager to show damage versus what really happened. It would explain why anfd was surprised to see cars running at full speed with heavy damage.
I wasn't watching the replay view however ... I was watching the live race coverage from Spectate Mode
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- Adelaide
- Heathenpride
Thanks Rosen, it was great fun for sure
I think you did well mate, it is not as easy to race 4 hours as some might think, you kept on going and did yourself proud
I got full damage mate and lost 3rd
but that is OK because like I said before it was clear that you were making space but the wheels on the grass did you in You are 100% correct, a racing incident 👍So will I attend in future endurances? Yes! If you don't think I'm to slow and sloppy, I like to race you again.
Excellent! You have some time to train now too, you can get your times down no problem over the next 3 months!
ROBERT:
Another brilliant review up to your lofty standards! I am glad you did not vomit preparing it, wouldn't want that!
Once again I will say that you drove incredibly in that 'vette, that car is as twitchy as a car can get and you did it on a DS3 so you deserve an epic 👍 and a nice cold beer, I shall fedex one now
I am not sure if you are still collecting cars and paints etc but if you are I am sure the others won't mind sending you some stuff for your efforts, drop a post and let us know
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- The Peninsula
- >PM_Me
Cheers gentlemen. Thanks for the feedback. Hope you enjoyed it.
No need to send me anything HP. I've got most of the stuff in the game (and no time to use most of them), so thanks for gift offer.
Just to clarify I did use a DS3 to test the Vette, no way to stay consistent lap after lap. So I broke out my old PS2 DFPro wheel for these rare serious moments. Was happy to be able to finish the race with you fine drivers. Then I went for a late Sunday morning nap...
Well done to all those who hung on for 4 hours. You gents deserve a medal. 👍
For those planning on doing a replay review:
With the GT5 replay controls, on long endurance races we can only skip to the next lap, nothing in between. The problem is a Nurb lap last 8.5 minutes long, so you gotta play it no matter what, just to check where did the guys overtook and taken damage. Then line up for multiple shots, because you try to avoid coming back in case you missed something. In the end it takes up quite some hours. So be prepared.
PD is responsible for this Game Design issue. Hopefully will be better in the next iteration.
No need to send me anything HP. I've got most of the stuff in the game (and no time to use most of them), so thanks for gift offer.
Just to clarify I did use a DS3 to test the Vette, no way to stay consistent lap after lap. So I broke out my old PS2 DFPro wheel for these rare serious moments. Was happy to be able to finish the race with you fine drivers. Then I went for a late Sunday morning nap...
Well done to all those who hung on for 4 hours. You gents deserve a medal. 👍
For those planning on doing a replay review:
With the GT5 replay controls, on long endurance races we can only skip to the next lap, nothing in between. The problem is a Nurb lap last 8.5 minutes long, so you gotta play it no matter what, just to check where did the guys overtook and taken damage. Then line up for multiple shots, because you try to avoid coming back in case you missed something. In the end it takes up quite some hours. So be prepared.
PD is responsible for this Game Design issue. Hopefully will be better in the next iteration.
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