FIA Formula Two Championship

[TAKITALA]

Without the chance to set the car up to my personal liking, i will never race in a competition using the FGT.

That car is the pinnacle of the race-able cars in the GT5 game, and people willing to race than, must to be able to set such a car and all ready should have a preferred general setting to apply before the fine setting from practice.

If i´m looking to close door to door racing, i will opt for a Golf or CR-Z trophy.
The FGT car, is not only for a battle of driving skill but also car setting and race management.

Cheers.

 

[GTP_J_Turner]

I understand where you are coming from but if you have a good setup for this car at this BHP then why not share it with everyone so that we can all work on getting the best tune for this car. My tune isnt perfect i know. But its all ive got so until someone shares another one then thats what we've got. Uf you want ti use you own setup then fine im not going to stop you. There will be plenty of others who also use there own setup. and im sure they will be at the front somewhere...

 

[GTP_J_Turner]

Room open for free practice

 

[paulmac2k9]

Coming I know im a little late but the race starts at 9pm yes?

 

[PAWEL17]

Race 1 was a lot of fun, had some good racing with bronco.
Then Race 2 was a disaster, i got hit multiple times by JT's lag, and couldn't pass him, let alone catch the front runners.
Hopefully more stable connection next week.

By the way, in race 1, i was drafting Bronco, and instinctively geared up to 7. I passed him, then realised i was in 7th, so i gave the position back. It was the only incident.

I was also hoping that with 21 drivers signed up, we could get atleast 16 people. But nope.

 

[Dragonwar233]

Besides the lag it was a very clean race on my end, although there were some incidents in turn 1 involving some drivers and there were quite a few DCs.

I had two good battles with Paw and Paul, overall it was fun racing.

I was able to hit low 30s and 29 with some draft with JT's tune, it worked pretty well for me. I definitely could of got some podiums if I hadn't spun in the first race and received heavy damage due to lag in the second race.

I'm willing to host next week if I have the best connection, I know I have 10mb download but I'll have to check the upload.

 

[paulmac2k9]

Sent the race 1 results Turner .

 

[arzy]

More reports from the race, please! I wish I could have been there but this thing called Real Life came and owned me. I'll try to make it for the next week race.

Arzy

 

[Dragonwar233]

Well, looks like this series has died after just 1 round, the creator hasn't been online all week or updated this...

 

[paulmac2k9]

I sent him race 1 results we will see whats going on soon hopefully.

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In BST that is 2pm to 3am so no race tomorrow then.

 

[buraspo]

can't join tonight , see you in Spa
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I sent him race 1 results we will see whats going on soon hopefully.



In BST that is 2pm to 3am so no race tomorrow then.

oh, didn't notice that at first

 

[IMMORTALPILOT]

I hope we drive today.
I join JT then soon for practise.

 

[ArtMannn]

is the PSN up?

 

[IMMORTALPILOT]

Iam online but looks that we are not drive today.
JT is not online.

 

[GTP_J_Turner]

Apologies for all the confussion. My internet has been patchy lately. Should be sorted now. Round 3 and 4 will be tonight, same times if we can get enough people together on this short notice. Will update results and OP as soon as i can get to a computer. Hopefully see you all tonight.

Also, race 2 is under review after my initial viewing of the replay showed multiple corners being cut by some drivers. Unfortunatly i cant review race 1 as i got disconnected half way round my final lap.

 

[PAWEL17]

Racing tonight? In a couple of hours?
Thankfully i checked here, i was about to go to sleep.

 

[IMMORTALPILOT]

Ok iam there tonight then.

 

[paulmac2k9]

I cant be there as I have other duties to attend to.

 

[PAWEL17]

I doubt many people will come anyway.

 

[GTP_J_Turner]

Rounds 3 & 4
Nurburgring GP/F
Tue 17th April
8:15pm BST - Room open
8:30pm BST - Free Practice
9:00pm BST - Qualifying
9:15pm BST - Race 1 - Laps TBD
9:40pm BST (approx) - Race 2 - Laps TBD

Room to open shortly.

 

[Dragonwar233]

Apologies for all the confussion. My internet has been patchy lately. Should be sorted now. Round 3 and 4 will be tonight, same times if we can get enough people together on this short notice. Will update results and OP as soon as i can get to a computer. Hopefully see you all tonight.

Also, race 2 is under review after my initial viewing of the replay showed multiple corners being cut by some drivers. Unfortunatly i cant review race 1 as i got disconnected half way round my final lap.

Oh I think I accidentally cut a lil every once and a while but I think almost everybody did. Although I remember one big cut I had but that happened because my rear hit the grass and because I was turning it forced my car to cut the corner. However I lifted off the throttle and didn't gain anytime from it.

 

[GTP_J_Turner]

Race 1
1st – IMMORTALPILOT - 25pts
2nd – PAWEL17 - 18pts
3rd – GTP_PaulMac - 15pts
4th – buraspo - 12pts
5th – ADR_BRONCO - 10pts
6th – chattimusmaximus - 8pts
DNF – JT977
DNF –

Race 2
1st – IMMORTALPILOT - 25pts
2nd – ArtMannn - 18pts
3rd – buraspo - 15pts
4th – ADR_BRONCO - 12pts
5th – GTP_PaulMac - 10pts
6th – PAWEL17 -8pts
7th – JT977 - 6pts
8th – TAKITALA - 4pts

Standings
IMMORTALPILOT - 50
buraspo - 27
PAWEL17 - 26
GTP_PaulMac -25
ADR_BRONCO - 22
ArtMannn - 18
chattimusmaximus - 8
JT977 - 6
TAKITALA - 4

 

[GTP_J_Turner]

Oh I think I accidentally cut a lil every once and a while but I think almost everybody did. Although I remember one big cut I had but that happened because my rear hit the grass and because I was turning it forced my car to cut the corner. However I lifted off the throttle and didn't gain anytime from it.

I havn't checked everyones replay yet but thanks for letting me know. I wont be penalising everyone for little mistakes. Was just alarmed at the first cars replay i watched cut the same chicane every lap and may have resulted in really fast lap times (the 2nd chicane at Monza is not designed to be taken in 4th gear...).
I had my car between the lines throughout the races and i obviously paid the price by being 5 seconds a lap slower.
But at the end of the day, i probably wont penalise anyone as it would just take to long to go through everyones replays. Just have to live with people cutting and judge ourselfs.

 

[PAWEL17]

So.

Race 1
1st IMMORTALPILOT (as usual)
2nd PAWEL17 (Yours truly)
3rd ADr_Bronco
4th Takitala

DNF JT

Race 2 - Cancelled

We got screwed over by last night's PSN "outage"

Maybe next week we do 3 races?

 

[IMMORTALPILOT]

Yes lets drive next week 3 Races.

 

[BrandonW77]

I understand where you are coming from but if you have a good setup for this car at this BHP then why not share it with everyone so that we can all work on getting the best tune for this car. My tune isnt perfect i know. But its all ive got so until someone shares another one then thats what we've got. Uf you want ti use you own setup then fine im not going to stop you. There will be plenty of others who also use there own setup. and im sure they will be at the front somewhere...

If you want the cars to be evenly matched then why don't you use the "tuning prohibited" option? Then you know for sure everyone has the exact same setup. If you did this I'd be very interested in participating but as it stands you won't have the close racing you desire because everyone will be on different setups.

 

[GTP_J_Turner]

This season has always been a bit of a work in progress. There are a few things that will be changed for the next season and tuning is a major issue.

As for last night, got disconnected again. My internet obviously hasnt been fully fixed yet. Must be something in the setup wrong. If you guys want to finish this season next week with 3 races you can. I wont be there (working night shift on Monday and internet probs) and i'll look at a revamp for season 2.

 

[PAWEL17]

I forgot this was on Mondays, as last race was tuesday, and know one updated anything here.
Thankfully nothing was organised.
Can we get a race scheduled? Get people back, and do some more races.

 

[GTP_J_Turner]

I think this has lost a lot of interest. It happens when no one (except one) can win. Everyone used there own setups dispite the number of times i asked for input into a 'base setup' which would have resulted in closer racing. Then after watching replays of race 2 discovered why i was 5 seconds slower at Monza as many drivers cut chicane 2 taking the corner in 4th or 5th gear. I cant compete with that level of driving. I started the series to promote close, fair and fun driving in the FGT. I forgot that a lot of people dont care for that much and must win everything at all costs.

I may bring it back in a tuning prohibited version, but right now i dont feel like i can at the moment.

JT

 

[PAWEL17]

Fair call JT. The concept was a good idea though.