Great to see your series back up and running Nick 👍
Hopefully I'll catch a race soon
A real race car driver eh?
Why am I not surprised
Would be nice to get paid to do it...
Haha! Autocross, Carting, Just started Time Attack/Time Trial. It's fun
It would be great to meet up with you at a time attack or NASA TT sometime in the future!
In a field of 64 drivers I was leading after day one by two tenths, but hit the last cone on the course on day 2 to cone away a nearly .7 s win! Too bad, but it was a blast, and finished 2nd beating 8 former national champions Here's a little article on SCCA.com, and that pic is of me in the s2000 I was competing in (which was a borrowed car, first time driving it... haha) Here's the pic:
I assume you still have the S2k? Funny thing is, I'm about to sell my E46 so I can pick up a S2k myself. I actually went out and sat in one (a 06' AP2) today to reassure myself that I could fit reasonably well (I'm about 6'/185lbs), and fortunately the thing fits me like a glove really. Of course I would like a bit more elbow room against the door, but it's really not bad at all if you keep yours hands on the wheel like your supposed to.
The S2k should be fun as hell though, especially once I start throwing some nice mods at it
TTYL, and hopefully I'll join you for some GT5 next week
👍Thanks Brock!👍
I actually just missed winning the SCCA STR Solo National Championship by .002s in Lincoln this past Sept! Have a look, I made SCCA.com ->> http://www.scca.com/news/index.cfm?cid=46250:
) which would entail the use of the AEM EMS (maybe I could find a used one for cheap) and a custom dyno tune. Those two mods would really transform the characteristics of the motor and make the response razor sharp, with an incredibly captivating soundtrack and driving experience 
Ok, I'll quit pervin now lmao
Wowww...congrats on the accomplishment man! That is truly something to be very proud of, although I'm sure missing out on the Championship by the slimmest of margins has to be somewhat bittersweet, especially for the competitor in you
Edit: What the heck is up with you getting shafted by the slimmest of margins??? First it was missing out on the semi's of GT Academy by the most miniscule amount, simply because you got stuck in the fastest region...now you lose out on a auto-x Championship because of some quite uncommon mistake (at least I'd imagine it is for you). WTF!!!!
Btw, are you still gonna persue auto-x'ing still or have you moved onto the roadcourse for good?
but I am now at the point where If I am off the leading pace at any track, it is not more than .5, and it is either because I am making mistakes, or not taking a proper line through a corner. I am then able to analyze it, fix my line and technique in each corner to get back to meet or exceed the ultimate pace. It's knowing the secrets of the GT5 physics engine, how to feel where the grip is and "how to drive in GT5" that I was not yet an expert at in the GT Academy. I know that if I was as fast then as I am now in GT5, I would have surely made it through to Orlando in any region. But, it wasn't meant to be, and I think everything happens for a reason. Another year of practice in the simulator and real-world, and at 29 years old, I have reached a new level in my driving IRL and in the simulator, to the point where I think I could have a legitimate chance at winning in Silverstone, if I ever made it. I could not say this about myself last year. 👍Thanks for the advice. Regarding the VAFC, I think I will be doing a set of the BC stage 2 N/A cams pretty much right off the bat. For the money the gains are pretty damn impressive (like 15rwhp without any tuning...with significant TQ gains in the mid range). I'm not sure if I will bother with the VAFC though, as I'd like to get the OBX individual throttle bodies (supringly they're only like $700 or so
. The car will be a monster with that setup, 250whp on the right tune, if not more. The sound would produce multiple ear-gasms. I have nothing to add other than I'd give my left ball for an S2K.
That is all.
Oh yeah; S2K's are how Mazda should have built the Miata.
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Agreed. But, the chassis is very rigid, and safe so I like that for a street car. Race car? They can get under 2600lbs pretty easily, Sub 2400 lbs with a little more work. A 2000lb s2000 would be epic
). But it's just not fun when others cheat like this. It's like exploiting a glitch in a first person shooter like Call of Duty or Halo.... Though I want to keep the competitive fun factor high, which is why I run penalties.
Yeah, 2 wheels off is enough to get a penalty, and to be honest, the track is no fun running wide. It is not one of the most renowned tracks in the world for being easy. It is brutally hard to hit all those corners with such varying speeds perfectly every lap. Going wide not only negates the effort needed to do well, but also the overall design of the track.
DapperYeah, 2 wheels off is enough to get a penalty, and to be honest, the track is no fun running wide. It is not one of the most renowned tracks in the world for being easy. It is brutally hard to hit all those corners with such varying speeds perfectly every lap. Going wide not only negates the effort needed to do well, but also the overall design of the track.
Sand traps, we need movable sand traps!
Owens, Garvey,
Yeah, it really stinks. I feel like I'm sort of caught between a rock and hard place with it though, because some great, clean, fast drivers are doing it; I don't want to come across as this nazi and start booting people, but people don't seem to be responding to "warnings." I also just want to focus on my own driving and having fun, with minimal to zero babysitting and without having to drop the hammer on these folks (many of which are my friends and I've had good battles with for a while now.)
I don't know, the jury is still out for me. People should just stop being idiots and keep the car on track. PD should have just made a proper penalty system. And the rest are paying a price for it now if you want a competitive driving experience.
I think maybe what I will end up doing is a warning system. 1 warning, then the 2nd offense is a boot for the night. If you're booted, don't take it personal and you are welcome to come back the next night. Unfortunately, this might mean some wicked fast guys have to sit out if they continue to do it. I can see if you make a mistake and go wide. If that happens, hit the brake and fall back in line to negate any advantage, whether you are out in front or behind. It's all on the honor system.
Like I keep saying, I really don't take this too seriously (really, real life racing is wayy more fun, but I have blast doing GT too
Another anecdote, I mowed the lawn at Cape Ring in the 2nd round of GT Academy. There I was fighting for a shot at living the dream. This is different; keep it on course. If this fails, then I'll just open "all courses elements" as in-bounds. I don't want to, but if it levels the playing field, like I said earlier "I'll take what I can get."
I'll make a decision before the next lobby. Stay tuned.
Nick
Nick,
I know I was one of those guilty of some pretty sloppy/dirty driving (in terms of keeping things on track) last night at Spa so I just wanted to apologize for that. I'm still rusty as hell and don't have the feeling back yet, so I was bit of a mess to say the least (I only did a handful of laps at Spa prior to the RX7 race also...which didn't help)
Anyway, now that I got thoroughly dusted last night by quite a few folks, I'm going to put my head down over the weekend so I can try to return to my prior form (or maybe better). I need to get my speed up for the GT500 Championship I'm racing in anyway. And being that this will probably be my last hurrah with GT5 to, I might as well go out in peak form instead of slowly fading away...I feel a bit like Schumacher in this moment (it's either do or die)
Yeah, 2 wheels off is enough to get a penalty, and to be honest, the track is no fun running wide. It is not one of the most renowned tracks in the world for being easy. It is brutally hard to hit all those corners with such varying speeds perfectly every lap. Going wide not only negates the effort needed to do well, but also the overall design of the track.
Sand traps, we need movable sand traps!
I'm up to date on DLC and 2.01 plus my iRacing subscription runs out next Tuesday, so you'll be seeing a lot of my in your lounge until Christmas.
Some of the 2.01 settings help manage the lounge too. I'm looking forward to it!
No worries Brock! You're a guy that will lead by example so I'm glad you posted, thanks for that. And I'm sure you will get right back up to speed VERY quickly! And stop saying you're going to retire, stay on if no other reason than to run my recomended/stock tuning championship
I myself even started running the last corner wide towards the end of the run. I was practicing with it last night; I really don't want to open that corner up but I think it may be inevitable. I am going to experiment with strong penalty on it tomorrow (likely won't be on it tonight.) If the strong penalty cures it, I'll use that setting for Spa.
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. Its a bit annoying, but putting penalties off isn't a real option either I guess. Although I would prefer it ..I went off a couple of times, but I try not to sometimes it just happens
Setting penalty to strong won't help, FAK always puts on stong it just doubles the time from 5 to 10 seconds.
Also Eau Rouge is doubtable for me, specially because I come from a WRS background. In WRS red and white rumble is clean, but ingame its dirty in that particular corner, Brock knows this
I won't be back till probably next tuesday btw
Yea, I was beggining to hate Eau Rouge, especialy being that I didn't really know the in's and out's of the penalty system beforehand...and just how ridiculously strict it was My race fell apart basically within 25 seconds of the start, as I had gotten a nice run on Trio and Forced going through Eau Rouge, but ended up carrying a bit too much and had to suddenly swerve to avoid contact. Then of course I got the bs penalty for trying to avoid a collision, which completely ruined my race.
Oh well, I deserved it considering how unprepared and sloppy I was
