Do you ever drink and drive?

[count_dynamo]

Does a bottle of Orange Juice on the Mulsanne or in the pits during an enduro count?

is there any grown-up juice mixed in?

 

[HP]

I've been known to quaff a 6er or two whilst on gt5 but avoid vehicles IRL when drinking.

I remember entering a Sarth enduro and went out the night before, unplanned, and got blitzed hard, got home and drank another 16 beers then started the race at 5am totally wrecked... naturally I came last and now I avoid drunk enduro'ing

 

[HighPlainsDrftr]

I do ok up to a 6-pack =/-1 or 2 and then performance* drops real fast. If I have consumed more than 3 or 4 I usually won't even start GT.

* In my mind.

 

[another_jakhole]

Mmmm, tonight, soon

 

[shmogt]

This would be a interesting real study. If you can drive fine drunk in a game can you technically do it in real life. I saw a video once of what was easier to drive drunk in real life playing gran theft auto or play sober in real life but drunk in the game. Was hilarious when the guy was actually drunk playing because he just swore more and beat more people.

 

[Slash]

Mt. Dew. Any of them. YES. Or any other kind of pop.

 

[TankAss95]

As in alcohol... no.

I have played against some drunk guys online though. Absolutely hilarious.

 

[Timminz]

Haha, I've been here before that 5 or so seconds between hitting the restart button and getting control of the car is just enough time.

Same

I've been known to take sips on long straights lol

Same

I do ok up to a 6-pack =/-1 or 2 and then performance* drops real fast. If I have consumed more than 3 or 4 I usually won't even start GT.

* In my mind.

Same.

You guys are starting to make me think I have multiple personalities, and that they all post on this forum.

 

[add]

It wasn't untill i did that I realized this is what is wrong with the ingame Bobs and AI

They are all DRUNK

I'm having a BLAST racing them

It makes the A-spec a lot more challenging
Belgian Triple Trappist is what I'm having

 

[add]

It wasn't untill i did that I realized this is what is wrong with the ingame Bobs and AI

They are all DRUNK

I'm having a BLAST racing them

It makes the A-spec a lot more challenging
Belgian Triple Trappist is what I'm having

 

[Vend1go]

was lap timing with my friend and we both were a little drunk , it was very exciting D

 

[THEPUNISHER]

yes i drink water .

 

[count_dynamo]

i realized yesterday i have a small "window of opportunity"
so i.....visited the magic garden so to speak, and then went for some practice laps - drifting and time trials. By the time i was getting a good buzz going, i was killing previous lap times i had spent a long time trying to get, and destroyed my drift scores i also spent a long time working towards. by killing i mean obliterating. soon after (possibly 15 min or so) everything went down the s*****r
going to try the same thing again this weekend and see what the results are
anyone have a smilar story?

 

[AlexGTV]

Pure taurine. Creates the optimal awareness and reaction time needed to drive on the edge.

 

[Furinkazen]

I once had a racer in my series who could not compete citing as official reason "intoxicated"

 

[Eric1512]

I have a irish member on the team, so he has. We gave him a drivers test at the top gear track. Good times!

 

[wrxsilver]

Cocktails after work, stop by the dealership, wastefully spend money on six figure cars, and almost every time, before I get 100 miles on the dang thing, I scuff the paint on some guardrail or mix paint with some other ego starved, rich fool. Good thing I have it like that, ballin with endless amount of money making ability, because the combination of drinking, spending money like I live in a rap video, and then impared driving, is costing me millions, not to mention time missed being a responsible, productive citizen!!!! (.....oh....and sometimes I step on my poor cats tail whilst on my way from the couch to the kitchen to mix another vodka tonic before the next race begins...lol)

 

[tpark103]

Drinking and Driving is a bad habit! I spill all the time. My PS3 is very sticky!

 

[karelpipa]

Pointless thread is pointless.
And has a very misleading title.

I knew instantly what he had trying to say in title.

When i'm drunk and tryin to play GT5, its almost impossible to be any good.

 

[Katiegan]

Personally I don't drink alcohol, only on New Year's and stuff, and that's only a glass or so of WKD. Mountain Dew and Monster are good drinks to have whilst driving... although I'm mainly guilty of eating whilst driving. Last night I hosted a shuffle room and I just had to have a pack of Wotsits. A few people got pretty impaitent that I wasn't starting the race so I had to stuff a load of Wotsits in my mouth and race.

 

[McClarenDesign]

... so I had to stuff a load of Wotsits in my mouth and race.

The jokes practically write themselves.

 

[Lewis_Hamilton_]

Playing while intoxicated is fun, makes the racing a lot more involving and exciting, but it does impair the skills somewhat.

[/Captain obvious]

 

[masterrawad]

I don't, but I remember some bloke on youtube drinking a whole can of Budweiser while driving his Veyron on Autumn Ring. as if the alcohol would take effect instantly.

 

[Morgoth_666]

I'm pretty sure Döttinger Höhe is German for "time to take another swig of whiskey while you climb the hill."

 

[fbccars924]

3/4 pint of jack and my midget on the nurb followed by some caffiene in the form of a suzuki capacino make for some good laughs then we switch over to cod black ops zombies and die.

note: Midget ftw

 

[McClarenDesign]

Playing while intoxicated is fun, makes the racing a lot more involving and exciting, but it does impair the skills somewhat.

[/Captain obvious]

And, when it's Lewis, gives the rest of us a friggin chance.

Drink up!

 

[daveydeez]

i realized yesterday i have a small "window of opportunity"
so i.....visited the magic garden so to speak, and then went for some practice laps - drifting and time trials. By the time i was getting a good buzz going, i was killing previous lap times i had spent a long time trying to get, and destroyed my drift scores i also spent a long time working towards. by killing i mean obliterating. soon after (possibly 15 min or so) everything went down the s*****r
going to try the same thing again this weekend and see what the results are
anyone have a smilar story?

if you mean you were "puffing the magic dragon", then yes i know what you mean. its like you get in that zone where you're super concentrated and everything is going right, then you get too lit and start making mistake after mistake. i do this almost every night, haha.

 

[Enzo_Guy]

I used to be quite the notorious drunken racer (and quite the alcoholic). I don't drink and drive in the real world, never have and never plan to, but on GT5 it is pretty entertaining. I'm not a bad driver normally, perhaps a notch or two above most because I have a good bit of experience behind the wheel in real life, but when I was drunk I was borderline untouchable! The same people I go door-to-door with sober were 5-10 seconds behind me after 8 shots! I guess I think too much and hesitate for that split second while sober, drunk my instincts take over and my driving just goes to another level.

I got my arse planted in rehab and haven't drank since, so obviously I don't do this anymore. I was knocking back a fifth of liquor of more 7 days a week and I play GT5 5-7 nights a week, there's plenty of experience to judge me being faster against. It's alright to have a few, I just caution people not to let it get to be a problem like it was for me. Thankfully I didn't "hit the wall" as most would say, I caught my addiction early and managed to cut it off before it did any serious damage to my life. I'm not one of those sobriety-preaching ex-alcoholics that thinks liquor is the devil, I'm a realist and I know drinking is fun so that's why I just warn people to be smart and realize alcohol has its appropriate times and places, don't overstep those boundaries.

To this day it actually remains a running joke amongst my online friends about how fast I was drunk, "drunk Enzo" has almost become this sort of mythical figure that no one could beat in a race. Maybe one day I'll be able to hone my abilities sober to the level they were drunk (now there's a sad statement haha).

NOTE:
If anyone here is struggling with alcohol issues or just needs someone to talk with about such things, shoot me a PM. You'll remain 100% confidential and I'd be more than happy to just listen. I'm not some counselor that's going to tell you what to do and I don't give those annoying stereotypical responses you'd expect from some nimrod who read about addiction in a book and thinks he knows everything now. I've seen it, done it, and lived it myself; anything I can do to help someone like me, even if it's just listening to someone unload all of those troubles and events that seem to never stop coming, makes me happier than anything!

 

[TomBrady]

Of course. Both alcoholic and non alcoholic drinks. I take sips on the straightaways.

 

[kennylmao]

Only did it once and was banging more corners at the Ring compared to when I wasn't drinking. Though not really related, yesterday I fell asleep while doing laps for some pictures. Guess I was really that sleepy.