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- Gothenburg
- GTP_SkyBridge
I have actually the same comment, the corner before the hairpin (under the bridge), Cod lost it and went from far left to far right and I ran into him. Well, I guess that is racing
FIA GT World Championship [S2] | Aboe and SK8RBOI Are Champions!Finished
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- 750
- Long Beach, California
- SSJGZWarrior
We are completely sorry for the inconvenience there Rasta it's not our best interest to send a driver away like that. Tell me where you able to see the cars on track? or was the lobby only showing you 4 names on the left hand side of the screen?I'm broken yesterday evening. prepared for the race and, unfortunately, but I could not go because I have not seen all the drivers on the track, something terrible! what a bad luck
- 750
- Long Beach, California
- SSJGZWarrior
- 750
- Long Beach, California
- SSJGZWarrior
- 103
- Paris
- oompapowa
Well, the host at Monza was Brutaka. My problem was: 14 drivers on the list, but only 9 on the track, on starting grid there were blank spot like drivers were ghosts... I thought it was because host is in US and I'm in France but Brutaka was host for suzuka too. Didn't do anything to solve it and had no problem for that race, not any lag, mystery...
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By the way, I will take some shots from the replays. Who is the owner of the flicker account?
- 2,217
- New York
- CodDemon101
- 47
- Belgium
- TWR-GRECO
Rasta I had the Same issue for months. I looked everywhere for the solution and I found it..
You need to go to your internet options on you PS3 or ps4 and you must do it manually (not automatically obviously) and you need to activate the PPPoE option. You will be requested to enter you user d and password of you Internet subscription. IT's usually not easy to find the log and pass because they were given to you on the day they opened your internet access. Call your internet provider to get it if you don't have it anymore. It has changed my gaming experience for ever. Hope it helps :-)
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- New York
- CodDemon101
- 47
- Belgium
- TWR-GRECO
You were lucky Cod cause I had the issue even though I'm always using Ethernet.. But it's solved now, I'm happy!
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- Long Beach, California
- SSJGZWarrior
- 126
- France
- Husq_GTPlay
I had the same message box but no problems 
- 103
- Paris
- oompapowa
I had the same message box but no problems
I had one PS3 freeze yesterday, but that is maybe because of me hitting multiple times play/pause and taking shots...
- 190
- Gothenburg
- GTP_SkyBridge
Race report:
Qualification: 5th
Sprint: 6th
Endurance: 9th
Sprint: Did pretty good qualification and got 5th. As usual my lack of torque means that I lose 2 places directly and after first few corners I was 7th. I felt confident with the car but knew that the overall speed was not that competitive. After 10 min very tight racing in the group with Jethro, @smsdry and @crelou things were looking good. I was very fast through the "S"-es where my low weight and center of gravity helped a lot. I saw that Crelou was also slick in his Viper as well as Husq. The Audis were struggling as hell in the 1st sector but when on the straits it was hilarious. After a couple of laps driving smsdry, me and crelou I started pushing. Tried twice at the hairpin to out-brake the Audi but he gained back the position at the acceleration. Luckily he made a mistake at 130R and the second to last lap. Last lap crelou gave me a run for the money and tried overtaking on the outside of the last chicane. Unfortunately the kink in the track sent him in the grass as I was on the racing line and could not move in during braking.
Endurance: My strategy was to make a 2-stopper and try to come between 4-6. First couple of laps I lost many places and was running 11th. After 15 min I went into the pits for mediums. After that I was catching the guys in front who were still running on used RH. A couple of mistakes and unnecessary hit on troublesome CodDemon got me damage and ruined my strategy. After that it was just avoiding mistakes and I brought the car home in 9th. Cod, your left rear was looking gross, it wanted to go completely another trajectory than the rest of the car.
Looking forward to the twisty and slow Laguna Seca where I should be good. There is no place where the Audis can stretch their legs and even if they do, too dangerous to overtake (no places really). Guys, quite clean racing and bumper to bumper battles, really enjoyable, keep it up!
Qualification: 5th
Sprint: 6th
Endurance: 9th
Sprint: Did pretty good qualification and got 5th. As usual my lack of torque means that I lose 2 places directly and after first few corners I was 7th. I felt confident with the car but knew that the overall speed was not that competitive. After 10 min very tight racing in the group with Jethro, @smsdry and @crelou things were looking good. I was very fast through the "S"-es where my low weight and center of gravity helped a lot. I saw that Crelou was also slick in his Viper as well as Husq. The Audis were struggling as hell in the 1st sector but when on the straits it was hilarious. After a couple of laps driving smsdry, me and crelou I started pushing. Tried twice at the hairpin to out-brake the Audi but he gained back the position at the acceleration. Luckily he made a mistake at 130R and the second to last lap. Last lap crelou gave me a run for the money and tried overtaking on the outside of the last chicane. Unfortunately the kink in the track sent him in the grass as I was on the racing line and could not move in during braking.
Endurance: My strategy was to make a 2-stopper and try to come between 4-6. First couple of laps I lost many places and was running 11th. After 15 min I went into the pits for mediums. After that I was catching the guys in front who were still running on used RH. A couple of mistakes and unnecessary hit on troublesome CodDemon got me damage and ruined my strategy. After that it was just avoiding mistakes and I brought the car home in 9th. Cod, your left rear was looking gross, it wanted to go completely another trajectory than the rest of the car
.Looking forward to the twisty and slow Laguna Seca where I should be good. There is no place where the Audis can stretch their legs and even if they do, too dangerous to overtake (no places really). Guys, quite clean racing and bumper to bumper battles, really enjoyable, keep it up!
- 5,095
- France
OK guys, some news:
- My Mac suddenly crashed Saturday, I had to erase my Hard Disk and reinstall an old OS X. I lost several softwares like Photoshop CS6 and Logic Pro X, etc. However, I just downloaded Chrome and I'll work on google docs Standings etc this week.
- My free time will be very affected this week and the week after cause I move in south of France this week-end for a new job, so don't be alarmed if datas are updated a bit late.
- I lost a bit of this thread (I mean, I don't have time to read all that you guys wrote since saturday) so it would be cool if someone could sum up in one post all that happened please? (Is new race format fine?, do we have some newcomers?, does the 1.12 update an incidence on our series? etc. All in all, all that could help me to work quick and good)
Thank you
- My Mac suddenly crashed Saturday, I had to erase my Hard Disk and reinstall an old OS X. I lost several softwares like Photoshop CS6 and Logic Pro X, etc. However, I just downloaded Chrome and I'll work on google docs Standings etc this week.
- My free time will be very affected this week and the week after cause I move in south of France this week-end for a new job, so don't be alarmed if datas are updated a bit late.
- I lost a bit of this thread (I mean, I don't have time to read all that you guys wrote since saturday) so it would be cool if someone could sum up in one post all that happened please? (Is new race format fine?, do we have some newcomers?, does the 1.12 update an incidence on our series? etc. All in all, all that could help me to work quick and good)
Thank you
- 745
- Lon Lon Ranch
- aboe_83
An opportunity lost...
Quali: 1st
Sprint: 2nd
Enduro: 2nd
Foreword:
Konnichi wa!
Suzuka saw the ushering in of the revised race format and it all seemed to flow quite well, from a host's point of view anyway. Everybody seemed to be aware of the new system and there were no hiccups of note, so all in all - success!
However, Update 1.12 (as like a few of its predecessors) bought with it a new bug
This one centred around sound issues - no engine sound and also no tyre & turbo sound. This meant a few people had to rejoin to 'fix' the issue but other than that, things seemed to me to be just fine.
Quali:
Surprising to get a maiden pole at a track where the Audis seemed to have the advantage. First lap was solid enough but also cautious enough to make sure it counted. Second lap was only a couple of tenths quicker and well over a half second slower than had been managed in practise. Can only assume the Audi drivers - eol especially - had issues the second time round. eol himself was a full 8 tenths slower than he'd managed in practise, so it was definitely a case of luck being with me this time. With the other 'big hitters' sitting out of this one, pole feels more like a default than an achievement, but it was still tough to get ahead of the Audis, so am pleased overall.
Sprint:
Having experienced beforehand the straight line advantage of the Audis in a few practise races leading up to race day, it was no surprise to see eol thrust past my helpless Viper at the start - I held onto the lead for a measly 7 seconds
The Viper - with reasonably high downforce - completely pwned the Audi through the esses. Unfortunately for my poor old Vipey, the opposite was also true of the straights - it really was like being sat stationary whilst watching the Audi breeze past. Have never experienced such a huge deficit in straight line speed so far this season than at Suzuka (bearing in mind that my Monza experience was sorta cut short by incidents). Aero would have played a part - sure - but I need me some of that DRS the Audi seems to have atm
It was fun to race against eol here and be able to put him under some pressure at least but it was always looking like second place at best due to the Audi's ability to swoop past at whatever available straight was next. Not that that actually mattered in the sprint - eol, after taking the lead at the start, never relinquished his lead even once. It was a solid drive - he coped with the the little pressure I could manage to put him under and cruised to a well deserved maiden win. Nice work 👍
Enduro:
With the new format meaning that the results from the Sprint race determine the grid positions for the Enduro, I was sitting in second - my highest start position for an Enduro so far this season, I believe.
The formation lap went smoothly - there were no reports of damage anyway, so all good.
My start, though, was not so good - I did manage to keep second going into T1, but coming out of the esses, I decided to take a wider line to give myself an opportunity to power through Dunlop. This was a mistake - it allowed Cod, who'd already jumped Gabguss, the opportunity to get a nose up the inside meaning I couldn't turn in where I wanted to without having caused a collision of some kind. The extra wider line meant I lost out through Dunlop, where I eased off the power to let him complete the pass before the upcoming Degner 1. I later lost out to Gabguss as well, meaning I was down to fourth with little chance of hanging on to eol's draft. He was disappearing off into the Japanese sunset while I worked back up to second. The first half of the race was, for me at least, relatively incident free. Apart from lap 9, where I braked too late into the chicane and gave the position to Gabguss.
Then came the pitstops. Gabguss ahead of me pitted just one lap before I came in on lap 15 (again, the same lap as my team mate crelou - we at SRT really seem to have this sorta 'double stacking' system down right now). He retook second after my stop but was battling with yuc through the esses. Dunlop (but moreover, my shoddy driving) was to be my nemesis again, as I tried to make a pass on the inside having seen him lose some time. As I went through Degner 1, I lost control slightly and that was enough to spin out and find myself on the gravel Thankfully, there were no cars close by so I made my way back onto track immediately and begun the pursuit of Gabguss and second position. Managed to close up the gap and make a pass with just over 10 minutes to go but the battling had cost me some 7-8 seconds to the leader.
After regaining second it was a case of holding it all together to bring the car home for a reasonably good result. In hindsight, though, with some of the other guys not present, it feels like a missed opportunity to bag a couple more victories.
Well done to eol on doing just that though - nice double 👍
Some consolation is that I did manage to get the fastest lap in the second half of the race (1:56.855), so that was cool... but surprising as well
Also, well done to crelou for negotiating a tricky start to the race to fight back well to get another solid points finish 👍
EDIT: Well done to newcomer El Greco (Ross76) for sticking in there right till the end. Seems like you had a difficult first race meeting - I told you it was Sparta, didn't I?
Onto Laguna and, as Skybridge has already pointed out, it should be a little more difficult for the Audi's to stretch their legs around here so it could potentially be a much closer race.
Kanpai!
Quali: 1st
Sprint: 2nd
Enduro: 2nd
Foreword:
Konnichi wa!
Suzuka saw the ushering in of the revised race format and it all seemed to flow quite well, from a host's point of view anyway. Everybody seemed to be aware of the new system and there were no hiccups of note, so all in all - success!
However, Update 1.12 (as like a few of its predecessors) bought with it a new bug
This one centred around sound issues - no engine sound and also no tyre & turbo sound. This meant a few people had to rejoin to 'fix' the issue but other than that, things seemed to me to be just fine.Quali:
Surprising to get a maiden pole at a track where the Audis seemed to have the advantage. First lap was solid enough but also cautious enough to make sure it counted. Second lap was only a couple of tenths quicker and well over a half second slower than had been managed in practise. Can only assume the Audi drivers - eol especially - had issues the second time round. eol himself was a full 8 tenths slower than he'd managed in practise, so it was definitely a case of luck being with me this time. With the other 'big hitters' sitting out of this one, pole feels more like a default than an achievement, but it was still tough to get ahead of the Audis, so am pleased overall.
Sprint:
Having experienced beforehand the straight line advantage of the Audis in a few practise races leading up to race day, it was no surprise to see eol thrust past my helpless Viper at the start - I held onto the lead for a measly 7 seconds
The Viper - with reasonably high downforce - completely pwned the Audi through the esses. Unfortunately for my poor old Vipey, the opposite was also true of the straights - it really was like being sat stationary whilst watching the Audi breeze past. Have never experienced such a huge deficit in straight line speed so far this season than at Suzuka (bearing in mind that my Monza experience was sorta cut short by incidents). Aero would have played a part - sure - but I need me some of that DRS the Audi seems to have atm
It was fun to race against eol here and be able to put him under some pressure at least but it was always looking like second place at best due to the Audi's ability to swoop past at whatever available straight was next. Not that that actually mattered in the sprint - eol, after taking the lead at the start, never relinquished his lead even once. It was a solid drive - he coped with the the little pressure I could manage to put him under and cruised to a well deserved maiden win. Nice work 👍
Enduro:
With the new format meaning that the results from the Sprint race determine the grid positions for the Enduro, I was sitting in second - my highest start position for an Enduro so far this season, I believe.
The formation lap went smoothly - there were no reports of damage anyway, so all good.
My start, though, was not so good - I did manage to keep second going into T1, but coming out of the esses, I decided to take a wider line to give myself an opportunity to power through Dunlop. This was a mistake - it allowed Cod, who'd already jumped Gabguss, the opportunity to get a nose up the inside meaning I couldn't turn in where I wanted to without having caused a collision of some kind. The extra wider line meant I lost out through Dunlop, where I eased off the power to let him complete the pass before the upcoming Degner 1. I later lost out to Gabguss as well, meaning I was down to fourth with little chance of hanging on to eol's draft. He was disappearing off into the Japanese sunset while I worked back up to second. The first half of the race was, for me at least, relatively incident free. Apart from lap 9, where I braked too late into the chicane and gave the position to Gabguss.
Then came the pitstops. Gabguss ahead of me pitted just one lap before I came in on lap 15 (again, the same lap as my team mate crelou - we at SRT really seem to have this sorta 'double stacking' system down right now
). He retook second after my stop but was battling with yuc through the esses. Dunlop (but moreover, my shoddy driving) was to be my nemesis again, as I tried to make a pass on the inside having seen him lose some time. As I went through Degner 1, I lost control slightly and that was enough to spin out and find myself on the gravel Thankfully, there were no cars close by so I made my way back onto track immediately and begun the pursuit of Gabguss and second position. Managed to close up the gap and make a pass with just over 10 minutes to go but the battling had cost me some 7-8 seconds to the leader.After regaining second it was a case of holding it all together to bring the car home for a reasonably good result. In hindsight, though, with some of the other guys not present, it feels like a missed opportunity to bag a couple more victories.
Well done to eol on doing just that though - nice double 👍
Some consolation is that I did manage to get the fastest lap in the second half of the race (1:56.855), so that was cool... but surprising as well
Also, well done to crelou for negotiating a tricky start to the race to fight back well to get another solid points finish 👍
EDIT: Well done to newcomer El Greco (Ross76) for sticking in there right till the end. Seems like you had a difficult first race meeting - I told you it was Sparta, didn't I?
Onto Laguna and, as Skybridge has already pointed out, it should be a little more difficult for the Audi's to stretch their legs around here so it could potentially be a much closer race.
Kanpai!
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- 190
- Gothenburg
- GTP_SkyBridge
On the other side, Laguna is very narrow so the incidents should be flowing
- 745
- Lon Lon Ranch
- aboe_83
On the other side, Laguna is very narrow so the incidents should be flowing
As long as the incidents are flowing in a direction away from me - it's cool! Joking aside, I hope everyone can -and does - drive carefully enough to avoid getting into any incidents, ofc.
- 2,217
- New York
- CodDemon101
Welcome! You will need to be graded first, so look at driver grading on OP#1 to see what you need to do and practice. Then tell us when your ready to be graded and we will have a steward for you.Hello Guys I have signed up
We don't like to use reserve driver
we call them third driver for a team. So let's say there is vacant spot and your are third driver in a team all three of you can race but top two score points for team
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- Long Beach, California
- SSJGZWarrior
welcome as cod said you will need to be graded, look at the original post for driver grading, practice, then let us know when you are ready. Also, please read the rules and regulations extensively.Hello Guys I have signed up
- 3,817
- @ Suzuka Circuit in GSR Spirit. ^_~
- GTP_CAMikaze
As in Brands Hatch narrow?On the other side, Laguna is very narrow so the incidents should be flowing
Nissan could use a reserve driver on call in case one of us is unable to be there on race day in the PRO class.
- 2,217
- New York
- CodDemon101
Season 3 has officially started to be planned...
- 3,817
- @ Suzuka Circuit in GSR Spirit. ^_~
- GTP_CAMikaze
Oooooo... Any idea as to how many rounds are planned for S3 and is there a chance the Indy Road Course will be used?
Any idea as to how many rounds are planned for S3 and is there a chance the Indy Road Course will be used?
