**Flyin' Miata Super Cup Season 2 Official Thread | CLOSED | Season 3 Link Inside**

[filphil89]

I'm in. lol brt

 

[PoTtHeD]

on the last lap on the first turn you were leading and went off into the grass on the side, i followed but didnt slow as much. you came back on the track right in front of me, i nudged you and kept your momentum going which caused for a bad left turn into the tunnel. it was sloppy on both our parts, but you were still right with us at the end! fun stuff

Yea no worries dude. I thought it was my fault until I watched the replay. I thought i went too fast but I apexed at 70 MPH around there, the same speed I did the whole race. Yea the replay def shows you hitting me. But its all good, I had a blast anyway!!!!! Heres hoping we have one like that next week!!!!

 

[GrahamTurismo]

Why so many green cars?

I picked a green before most I think

As did I, but I changed [back] to pink because too many shades of green just annoyed me.

 

[Motor City Hami]

As did I, but I changed [back] to pink because too many shades of green just annoyed me.

But why did so many start with green. Isn't green bad luck in racing. That's what I'm always told at the track.

 

[Talon]

As did I, but I changed [back] to pink because too many shades of green just annoyed me.

Yeah same here. I didn't even make it into the A room for the preseason race, so I think it would be logical to allow color changes at least until next week.

And I've never heard that Motor City.

 

[filphil89]

That seems to be the rumor in this area too

 

[CodeRedR51]

Changes are allowed, I'd just like to keep it at a minimum. Can't believe we're having so many issues with colors when there are so many possibilities....

 

[SohnVonStig]

It was brought to my attention this evening that I drove an illegal car in sundays race
I drove the - Roadster 1600 Nr-A (NB) '04 as opposed to the approved Mx-5 Miata 1600 Nr-A (NB-J) '04
From what I can tell I just was driving the non-japanese model which has zero performance differences, however feel that I'm obligated to change cars Whether it be to a real nb or to an na I don't care feel free to slap me on the wrists...

 

[filphil89]

I don't think that's illegal.

 

[spdu4ea]

It was brought to my attention this evening that I drove an illegal car in sundays race
I drove the - Roadster 1600 Nr-A (NB) '04 as opposed to the approved Mx-5 Miata 1600 Nr-A (NB-J) '04
From what I can tell I just was driving the non-japanese model which has zero performance differences, however feel that I'm obligated to change cars Whether it be to a real nb or to an na I don't care feel free to slap me on the wrists...

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There are 3:


470. S Mazda MX-5 1600 NR-A (NB, J) ‘04
477. S Mazda MX-5 Miata 1600 NR-A (NB, J) ‘04
493. S Mazda Roadster 1600 NR-A (NB) ‘04

 

[SohnVonStig]

Yaaay So I was a good boy after all!

 

[CodeRedR51]

Doesn't matter which one, only difference is the name.

 

[filphil89]

so we thought about the 91's. lol

 

[CodeRedR51]

so we thought about the 91's. lol

Good luck.

 

[Egghead43]

Why so many green cars? In real life, I can count 3 or 4 of us with bright green cars out of 5,000 in the class in the country. I know why I chose light green, but why so many others with green? Just curious.

I had a green car last season, and I've got a bunch of Isotope Green cars in my garage already, so there it is.

I picked a green before most I think, but I'm not really happy with it at all. I'd love to change it if that's alright?

Most, maybe...but not all.
As I stated way back on page 5:

I know signups aren't open yet, buy I'm calling shotgun on Isotope Green for my new Miata 👍
Just built it up today, but haven't driven it yet.

 

[SohnVonStig]

Practice room's closed Time to beat right now is a 1:01.87x with no draft, I believe (I ran .885, Welsh ran the .878). I know counter and egg both ran .8 somethings earlier but cant remember what they were exactly...This track is going to produce even tighter racing than GVER which will be awesome! 👍

ps - I''m going to stick with my next color, which I can assure you noone else will have.

 

[spdu4ea]

I'm going to attempt to switch to gold chrome/gold chrome, but I haven't got that chip yet...

 

[SohnVonStig]

I believe dolf beat you to that speed

 

[SPANK]

Practice room's closed Time to beat right now is a 1:01.87x with no draft, I believe (I ran .885, Welsh ran the .878). I know counter and egg both ran .8 somethings earlier but cant remember what they were exactly...This track is going to produce even tighter racing than GVER which will be awesome! 👍

ps - I''m going to stick with my next color, which I can assure you noone else will have.

So hard to pass! But sooo fun!

 

[SohnVonStig]

Especially with how squirly the nb gets Its driving on the freakin EDGE I have a feeling that the race will end up being a 16 person snake for the first few laps

 

[Wardez]

This is for who ever thinks the NB's slower in the straights:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w911hQPv2Io#t=2m18s

The NB is a faster car - everywhere!

I was only able to keep up with them because it was an NB and has better braking. That is the only thing that's better, stoppage. My NB was fully broken in and to spec.

And again, after you try to race 16 cars on ARM, talk to me. Winners win through a crap shoot. Pure luck.

These tracks aren't selected and de-selected based on what he thinks what car does what on them. He's just looking to see what tracks can produce the most even racing on them according to what's run in the series.

 

[Motor City Hami]

Changes are allowed, I'd just like to keep it at a minimum. Can't believe we're having so many issues with colors when there are so many possibilities....

I wasn't trying to start an issue with my question about green. I was just curious what attracted everyone to picking green. It's just odd. I raced remote controlled cars, nationally, for 20 years and don't think I raced against more than 5 other obnoxiously bright green cars. I bet I raced over 1,000 different people and only 5 chose the same color as me. Same thing as with SCCA. In 6 years of racing, I haven't been on a track with another bright green car. Check that, I haven't been at a track with another bright green car (except for my old Honda that I sold and it hasn't been repainted yet). I have only seen pictures of two other Miatas in the country. One of my competitors calls it eye bleeding green. If I am following on your bumper, the whole inside of your car will look like it's glowing green when you look in your rear view mirror. It's a very cool affect. Just reminds them that I'm still there, attached to their bumper.

It just seemed odd that so many of us picked bright greens and I was just curious what attracted people to it with so many colors to pick from in the game.

 

[jbell]

1472-6118-3701-4254-1664

Practice room up.

 

[SohnVonStig]

This is for who ever thinks the NB's slower in the straights:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w911hQPv2Io#t=2m18s

The NB is a faster car - everywhere!

I was only able to keep up with them because it was an NB and has better braking. That is the only thing that's better, stoppage. My NB was fully broken in and to spec.

Maybe I'm just tired and groggy....but the NB is faster everywhere...but its only better at stopping? I'm confused.......

 

[Talon]

^ How does that not make sense to you?







And Egghead, that car has no green in it dude, it's as yellow as a banana.

 

[SohnVonStig]

Wait....everywhere as in every track!!!! I gets it now!!! The only reason it is faster on every track is improved braking! Okay well that doesn't seem fair then...the nb's an anti handicap....

edit - anti handicap? REALLY?!?!?! I AM tired. Damn you all for keeping me up til 4 am.

 

[Talon]

That's a new one... I might use that just to confuse people.

Edit: Turbo, after the last twenty pages of this thread, you're surprised about the color conversation?

 

[BlackIce90]

This thread hasn't even been alive for 1 month and its already at 60 pages and almost at 1200 posts.................. I think this thread deserves to be on the front page of GTP News. Probably broke all sorts of records.

 

[SohnVonStig]

I'd say it did that with the real life sponsor

 

[BrosifDuder]

First off, I need to apologize to anyone I may have hit, bumped, nudged, blocked, or ran into during Sunday's race as I genuinely was not aware of the events occurring.

Secondly, all this talk about the battle at the front has me even more frustrated about my connection/lag issues during the race. I have never experienced a problem before so I definitely need to look into what may have caused the issue this past Sunday. Now I know how frustrated Turbo and Wardez were at Laguna last season. It was very odd only being able to turn mid 19s when running by myself despite my corner and trap speeds being right on target and my driving style not changing from when I was running bottom 18s. Even when bump-drafting and staying inline for an entire lap all I could run was mid to high 18s. For anyone who was running near me, did you notice my car acting odd on-screen or did it appear that I was lagging?

Congratulation to the guys up front and to Egg and V-DUB for coming from behind. Egg, I dove into the pits with you so that we could work together for the rest of the race but when I exited I was twice as far back as when we entered. I wouldn't have been able to hang with you anyways. Wardez, sorry for my pit exit, I saw you coming and lifted to make sure I wasn't at the T1 apex when you got there but somehow I managed to fail miserably.

Sorry again, everyone, and hopefully I can figure out what the hell happened with my connection on Sunday as the experience was deflating, to say the least.