Elegance Automotive Guild - Remembering TurnLeft.

TurnLeft
there's just so many places you can win/lose time that getting them all right demands a whole lot of memory and concentration đź‘Ť.
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There's only a very small margin for error here, I just reviewed my replay and took some photos, I'll send them to you soon, I made a few errors that cost between 1-2 seconds but getting rid of them without making any more here is going to be a mammoth task.
 
danbojte
@TurnLeft Do you think we don't understand at first try? :lol: đź‘Ť
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Sometimes, and @Thorin Cain will confirm this with great joy, I :dopey: don't understand things that seem so obvious to others, so when you say "Do you think we don't understand at first try" could you elaborate and help fill in the blanks in my mind, might not be waked up enough :rolleyes: or just had one too many hockey stick hit my head :lol:.

RMan72
There's only a very small margin for error here, I just reviewed my replay and took some photos, I'll send them to you soon, I made a few errors that cost between 1-2 seconds but getting rid of them without making any more here is going to be a mammoth task.
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This is why I never use this track to test when I tune cars, I just can't seem to get consistent laps, and to get there it would have be the only track I'd have to use.
 
TurnLeft
could you elaborate and help fill in the blanks in my mind, might not be waked up enough :rolleyes: or just had one too many hockey stick hit my head :lol:.
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TurnLeft
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1. What is the EAG Grand Tour, it is simply an in house competition for those who try our restored cars. The rewards are the pleasure of driving and competing with others for the bragging rights of being the fastest.

2. For every car we tune we will have a time trial race on a given track.

3. Each car will be given a selected track.

4. To participate you have to use the car as tuned and post your time on this thread, everyones lap time will be compiled and entered on a score list which will be updates regularly below. You may enter as many times as you want.

5. Only lap times that have no penalties are valid, we are counting on every participants honesty to forward their true lap time.

6. You are to use Arcade Mode - Time Trial - Track Grip at Real.


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1. What is the EAG Grand Tour, it is simply an in house competition for those who try our restored cars. The rewards are the pleasure of driving and competing with others for the bragging rights of being the fastest.

2. For every car we tune we will have a time trial race on a given track.

3. Each car will be given a selected track.

4. To participate you have to use the car as tuned and post your time on this thread, everyones lap time will be compiled and entered on a score list which will be updates regularly below. You may enter as many times as you want.

5. Only lap times that have no penalties are valid, we are counting on every participants honesty to forward their true lap time.

6. You are to use Arcade Mode - Time Trial - Track Grip at Real.
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:lol: The rules are repeated. :cheers:
 
lilcat89
I had a pretty good first lap going this morning until I locked up after the bilstein bridge. Ended up with a 8:52.6, but I think if I don't lock up there, I can find a couple of seconds.
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đź‘Ťđź‘Ťđź‘Ť, nice going, I was just starting to enter the times for the next update, it's starting to get pretty hard for me to keep up with you guys :crazy: but don't let me slow you down, I hope one of you will get it down under the 8:50.000 :cheers:.
 
RMan72
Just took her to La Sierra and did 11:05.389 with a few little errors that's almost 14s quicker than my C1 time on CM's. She is packing a few more horses but she's definitely a quick one
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I was wondering when you were about to go do that :lol:, I was thinking of maybe running them up one against the other but it might be a little unfair.
 
@RMan72 & @danbojte
Your pictures have been added to the Photo Gallery
EAG Mercedes 300SL '54 Photo Gallery

@danbojte
Corrected post, I hope that you did understand, if you want I can write it up 3x :lol:.
EAG Grand Tour Guidelines

@RMan72 , @Brewguy44 & @lilcat89
The Trophy Room is now officially opened, there will be a slight difference from the last time, I'll use the same trophy for the same event

EAG Mercedes 300SL '54 - Trophy Room

THE FOLLOWING TEXT IS FOR Dan
The Trophy Room is now officially opened, there will be a slight difference from the last time, I'll use the same trophy for the same event.
The Trophy Room is now officially opened, there will be a slight difference from the last time, I'll use the same trophy for the same event.
The Trophy Room is now officially opened, there will be a slight difference from the last time, I'll use the same trophy for the same event.:lol:

Thanks for the heads up my friend đź‘Ť.

@RMan72 , @Brewguy44 , @lilcat89 & @danbojte + me
The new updated leader score has been posted

EAG Mercedes 300SL '54 - Grand Tour Nurburgring Nordschleife

If I forgotten someone or made a mistake, please help me and notify me by posting here. Thank you, :cheers:.
 
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I've never been very good at drifting :grumpy:, in fact you could say I s_ _ _ (<bad word :scared:) at it. The best I ever got was a silver and a few bronze and a whole lot of frustration. So after seeing @Brewguy44 do it with the 300SL I said to myself "why not try it, you won't have to tell anybody you only got boooos", well that didn't happen, I just got my first ever GOLD :cool: at DRIFTING, and yes I will give myself a trophy for that one :lol:. I never thought I would be part of making a drifting car , never even thought about it.

PS, I have a better score than @RMan72 :cool: & @danbojte :lol:, it figures, it's not about being fast around a track but how slow you can do it by having your wheels spin unfruitfully. :cheers:
 
Brewguy44
I don't make rubbish beer!!!

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TurnLeft
I've never been very good at drifting :grumpy:, in fact you could say I s_ _ _ (<bad word :scared:) at it. The best I ever got was a silver and a few bronze and a whole lot of frustration. So after seeing @Brewguy44 do it with the 300SL I said to myself "why not try it, you won't have to tell anybody you only got boooos", well that didn't happen, I just got my first ever GOLD :cool: at DRIFTING, and yes I will give myself a trophy for that one :lol:. I never thought I would be part of making a drifting car , never even thought about it.

PS, I have a better score than @RMan72 :cool: & @danbojte :lol:, it figures, it's not about being fast around a track but how slow you can do it by having your wheels spin unfruitfully. :cheers:
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Very well done buddy :D Congratulations on your first Drifting Gold :bowdown: I suppose I'm going to need to give that a go now too.
danbojte
Second lap time - 8:48.382

Great release my friends, very pleasant. It is another "beautiful".

:cheers:

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Thank you my friend :) Now about that time.....would you guys give me a chance to get on the board before you all go chasing 8:30s :lol: But seriously, Nice time Dan, nice photos too:tup: :cheers:
 
So, I haven't been around much since yesterday so I haven't had time to post anything about the thrashing @TurnLeft put on me & @Brewguy44 at the Nordschleife with the AEG M.B. 300 SL. When I was invited to join them on the track I didn't realize we would be racing. I thought, since the cars were brand new to all of us, that we would just be playing follow the leader or cat & mouse. Then I realized that these guys were playing for keeps and the lights turned green!!

I had a terrible launch and quickly lost my starting position of 2nd place, putting me in 3rd by the first turn! :lol: I had only one lap of "experience" with the Benz 300 SL and it was showing right away. From last place I watched both TurnLeft and Brewguy negotiate the turns with a lot of grace. Their turns were smooth, yet fast. My turns were anything but. My rear tires were sliding and I was starting to lose time to my opponents before we even got to Aremberg. Things were not looking good.

While CM tires do not provide a tremendous amount of grip, the 300 SL isn't the most powerful car in any of our garage's, so you shouldn't experience a whole lot of trouble unless you really overdrive the car through the corners, bends & kinks. Most of the first lap was rather uneventful. TurnLeft and Brewguy kept driving very well while I continued to catch up to them only to quickly drop back 6 or 7 car lengths. Since the three of us are pretty much equally skilled drivers and the car doesn't have a boatload of torque or power, I thought it would be very difficult to pass. First of all, the Nordschleife is a very narrow track which makes passing difficult to begin with, but with the lack of torque, I figured the only way BrewGuy was going to get around TurnLeft would be if he pushed TL mentally and forced TL to screw up a turn. Then, I could see BG slipping past him.

When we hit the long back straight the positions remained unchanged. Thankfully, even though I wasn't on BG's bumper I was close enough to him to draft. I inched closer to BG's rear end and our combined aerodynamic advantage pushed us BOTH closer to TurnLeft. Could it happen? Could our draft work well enough to get one of us around TL? It seemed like TL was doing his best to keep his lead by keeping BG out of drafting him, but we continued to gain. Finally, just before we reached the top of the hill, both BrewGuy and I passed TurnLeft, on his left!!! :D :P :cheers:

I would be lying if I said I wasn't screaming and cheering myself on during this whole draft down the straightaway. Initially, I didn't think anything more than just trying to draft BG and possibly pass him before we reached the bridge and kink. When we both drove past him I had a new decision to make. Do I keep my foot to the floor and pray that my CM tires hold? Or do I concede 1st place to BG and slip into 2nd place? My foot stayed to the floor and my tires held my car steady and true! A quick peek in the rear view mirror revealed both BG and LT sliding into the grassy area. 1st place was all mine and only I could screw it up from this point on...and that's exactly what happened.

Slowly I applied my brakes near the bottom of the hill, scrubbing just enough speed away to take those short left & rights. I started applying even more braking force as I was approaching the end of the run, just before the right hander that appears before the entrance to the pits. Apparently, I didn't apply enough brakes because I went head-first right into the red & white wall! :mad: :banghead: My car spun 180 degrees and came to a stop and I was facing two fast approaching Mercedes Benz 300 SL's. TL shot past and BG ran into my obstructing car. By time we got straightened out, TL was already making the right-hand turn onto the start/finish straight...

To be honest, I didn't know we were running two laps at that point. Once I saw TL go around the first turn on my mini-map I realized I wasn't done embarrassing myself just yet. :lol: The rest of the race wasn't very exciting. But that first lap, the way it finished, is one to be remembered. It was probably the best pass I've ever pulled off while racing real people. I don't race real people often and when I do I get very, very nervous. When I got into 1st place I was so freakin' excited...and I threw it all away.

In all fairness to TurnLeft, I seriously wouldn't have been surprised if he reclaimed the lead on lap #2, even if I hadn't crashed at the end of lap #1. He was driving much, much smoother than I was. The same for BeerGuy...I was behind both of them long enough to know that they both drove better than me last night. My hats off to both of them. :cheers:
 
Pete05
Just had to share this video I watched a few weeks ago. Rather timely I think but not advisable for those with a heart condition :scared:

http://www.motorsportretro.com/2015/01/flat-mercedes-benz-300sl/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Motorsport Retro Issue 196&utm_content=Motorsport Retro Issue 196+CID_6d87c383c2d39e48785702f24e7dcf89&utm_source=Email marketing software&utm_term=Continue

And that has to be my entry for the longest link address ever :crazy:
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Thanks for that Pete :cheers: That was a cool video, I would have loved to have been in that passenger seat :scared: Man he (I'm assuming it's a he) was certainly getting a move on. I liked the warning about water on the brake pedal :lol:
ALB123
So, I haven't been around much since yesterday so I haven't had time to post anything about the thrashing @TurnLeft put on me & @Brewguy44 at the Nordschleife with the AEG M.B. 300 SL. When I was invited to join them on the track I didn't realize we would be racing. I thought, since the cars were brand new to all of us, that we would just be playing follow the leader or cat & mouse. Then I realized that these guys were playing for keeps and the lights turned green!!

I had a terrible launch and quickly lost my starting position of 2nd place, putting me in 3rd by the first turn! :lol: I had only one lap of "experience" with the Benz 300 SL and it was showing right away. From last place I watched both TurnLeft and Brewguy negotiate the turns with a lot of grace. Their turns were smooth, yet fast. My turns were anything but. My rear tires were sliding and I was starting to lose time to my opponents before we even got to Aremberg. Things were not looking good.

While CM tires do not provide a tremendous amount of grip, the 300 SL isn't the most powerful car in any of our garage's, so you shouldn't experience a whole lot of trouble unless you really overdrive the car through the corners, bends & kinks. Most of the first lap was rather uneventful. TurnLeft and Brewguy kept driving very well while I continued to catch up to them only to quickly drop back 6 or 7 car lengths. Since the three of us are pretty much equally skilled drivers and the car doesn't have a boatload of torque or power, I thought it would be very difficult to pass. First of all, the Nordschleife is a very narrow track which makes passing difficult to begin with, but with the lack of torque, I figured the only way BrewGuy was going to get around TurnLeft would be if he pushed TL mentally and forced TL to screw up a turn. Then, I could see BG slipping past him.

When we hit the long back straight the positions remained unchanged. Thankfully, even though I wasn't on BG's bumper I was close enough to him to draft. I inched closer to BG's rear end and our combined aerodynamic advantage pushed us BOTH closer to TurnLeft. Could it happen? Could our draft work well enough to get one of us around TL? It seemed like TL was doing his best to keep his lead by keeping BG out of drafting him, but we continued to gain. Finally, just before we reached the top of the hill, both BrewGuy and I passed TurnLeft, on his left!!! :D :P :cheers:

I would be lying if I said I wasn't screaming and cheering myself on during this whole draft down the straightaway. Initially, I didn't think anything more than just trying to draft BG and possibly pass him before we reached the bridge and kink. When we both drove past him I had a new decision to make. Do I keep my foot to the floor and pray that my CM tires hold? Or do I concede 1st place to BG and slip into 2nd place? My foot stayed to the floor and my tires held my car steady and true! A quick peek in the rear view mirror revealed both BG and LT sliding into the grassy area. 1st place was all mine and only I could screw it up from this point on...and that's exactly what happened.

Slowly I applied my brakes near the bottom of the hill, scrubbing just enough speed away to take those short left & rights. I started applying even more braking force as I was approaching the end of the run, just before the right hander that appears before the entrance to the pits. Apparently, I didn't apply enough brakes because I went head-first right into the red & white wall! :mad: :banghead: My car spun 180 degrees and came to a stop and I was facing two fast approaching Mercedes Benz 300 SL's. TL shot past and BG ran into my obstructing car. By time we got straightened out, TL was already making the right-hand turn onto the start/finish straight...

To be honest, I didn't know we were running two laps at that point. Once I saw TL go around the first turn on my mini-map I realized I wasn't done embarrassing myself just yet. :lol: The rest of the race wasn't very exciting. But that first lap, the way it finished, is one to be remembered. It was probably the best pass I've ever pulled off while racing real people. I don't race real people often and when I do I get very, very nervous. When I got into 1st place I was so freakin' excited...and I threw it all away.

In all fairness to TurnLeft, I seriously wouldn't have been surprised if he reclaimed the lead on lap #2, even if I hadn't crashed at the end of lap #1. He was driving much, much smoother than I was. The same for BeerGuy...I was behind both of them long enough to know that they both drove better than me last night. My hats off to both of them. :cheers:
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So that's what you guys got up to while I had to run off to work :( I wish I was there, sounds like a lot of fun.

Thanks for sharing the details of your race, another great read ALB :bowdown: I could feel the tension building as you described the events unfolding on the back straight and sorry, I had to let out a chuckle when you crashed :guilty: It so sounds like something I would have done....wait....I did on Saturday :banghead: (Similarly, I don't think it would have changed the outcome in my case either :() I'm glad you guys managed to get together for a bit of fun in the new car. I've been so busy running about I've not really had much chance to play with the finished article yet. Besides collecting her 1st win at Brands Hatch on my final testing runs :D I'm going to try and get out to the Ring in a bit...But first a visit to see our friend Ridox. I hear he has some Skylines and an Evo about ready for battle :)
P.S - I know there is another one too but I'll leave
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Thorin Cain
Thanks for that Pete :cheers: That was a cool video, I would have loved to have been in that passenger seat :scared: Man he (I'm assuming it's a he) was certainly getting a move on. I liked the warning about water on the brake pedal :lol:

So that's what you guys got up to while I had to run off to work :( I wish I was there, sounds like a lot of fun.

Thanks for sharing the details of your race, another great read ALB :bowdown: I could feel the tension building as you described the events unfolding on the back straight and sorry, I had to let out a chuckle when you crashed :guilty: It so sounds like something I would have done....wait....I did on Saturday :banghead: (Similarly, I don't think it would have changed the outcome in my case either :() I'm glad you guys managed to get together for a bit of fun in the new car. I've been so busy running about I've not really had much chance to play with the finished article yet. Besides collecting her 1st win at Brands Hatch on my final testing runs :D I'm going to try and get out to the Ring in a bit...But first a visit to see our friend Ridox. I hear he has some Skylines and an Evo about ready for battle :)
P.S - I know there is another one too but I'll leave
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No problem TC, happy to share quality vision like that. He/she certainly wasn't lacking bravery. It's almost like the car was setup to slide off throttle! Oh, and you can have the passenger seat without any argument or protest from me. I don't do passenger very well at all. It's the control freak in me.
 

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