FRL (Furi's Race Leagues): Phase #1 On PS3 2011-2015... Phase 2 Incoming...

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Furinkazen
Serious question.

Who here will keep playing GT into december?
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I thought I would be more tempted to make the jump to PS4 and Project Cars, but maybe I'll wait until Assetto Corsa comes out. Just found a couple of things in GT that will hold my attention a little longer, and maybe we actually get the Course Creator after all, so ... who knows?
 
FlyingFox
I did but am very busy today to reply sorry. Just taking a break at home.

What I mean is more of this race that Snow is sorting.
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I'll do my best. Like I said, if attendance is high enough, I don't see why we wouldn't keep it going. I was also thinking about trying out some alternative methods of running the series. E.g. there wouldn't have to necessarily be a pre-defined season, but more like a ranking-system (e.g. the last 5 results determine a driver's ranking). Maybe car-switches could also be allowed in some form, so that nobody needs to drive the same car forever. This would work well with people entering at a later point, etc.

I guess I'll be sending out invitations along with trying to put together a thread, but which day would people prefer for the HTCC...? Saturday ok (until Furi wants his spot back for his next project)? ;)

I have the BoP ready, so it's basically just a matter of getting the thread up and a bunch of people together.
 
snowgt
I'll do my best. Like I said, if attendance is high enough, I don't see why we wouldn't keep it going. I was also thinking about trying out some alternative methods of running the series. E.g. there wouldn't have to necessarily be a pre-defined season, but more like a ranking-system (e.g. the last 5 results determine a driver's ranking). Maybe car-switches could also be allowed in some form, so that nobody needs to drive the same car forever. This would work well with people entering at a later point, etc.

I guess I'll be sending out invitations along with trying to put together a thread, but which day would people prefer for the HTCC...? Saturday ok (until Furi wants his spot back for his next project)? ;)

I have the BoP ready, so it's basically just a matter of getting the thread up and a bunch of people together.
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We'll work something out... :) Also sundays post-WSC pal ;)
 
snowgt
I'll do my best. Like I said, if attendance is high enough, I don't see why we wouldn't keep it going. I was also thinking about trying out some alternative methods of running the series. E.g. there wouldn't have to necessarily be a pre-defined season, but more like a ranking-system (e.g. the last 5 results determine a driver's ranking). Maybe car-switches could also be allowed in some form, so that nobody needs to drive the same car forever. This would work well with people entering at a later point, etc.

I guess I'll be sending out invitations along with trying to put together a thread, but which day would people prefer for the HTCC...? Saturday ok (until Furi wants his spot back for his next project)? ;)

I have the BoP ready, so it's basically just a matter of getting the thread up and a bunch of people together.
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Well I'm in mate no danger.
 
Gonna be keeping an eye out on eBay for 2nd hand PS4's in the coming weeks. If I can pick one up before Christmas for £200 or less I'll be happy :)
 
So, multiple people just added some statistics of theirs to the signatures now that TOCA's all done with. I'd probably do the same, but I have no goddamn clue about my stats, and I can't really be bothered to look them up. :P

Instead, I decided to do something different. The 'different' basically means a post dedicated to reminiscing all my wins in the series, because those I remember clear as day. Sure, there were "only" 6 of them, but in my honest opinion, you grow to appreciate winning much more when you don't get them every weekend. (cough @Spurgy 777)

So, we shall begin.

#1: S2 Indy R4: Right off the bat, this race shouldn't actually have happened, but due to some weird issues that I never really understood, the previous round at Tsukuba was reduced to 2 races and Indy got one extra as a result. Works for me, as I'm terrible at Tsukuba, most of the time at least, and the Honda wasn't too great either so I switched to a Mazda for the rest of the season.

So anyway, after enduring 3 races of getting punted around and still having a season-best finish of a meager 5th, things changed in that 4th race. I started fifth, had a great start (probably not that unusual due to the Mazda's great acceleration though) and was at front already after the first turn. Never relinquished the lead since - it was a pretty clear victory overall, with the only threat coming from @DK a few seconds back. I think he said afterwards that it was a close battle of laptimes all race long.

#2: S2 Nürb GP/D R1: After a terrible Laguna Seca, my sights were set on Nürb, generally one of my stronger tracks as people may remember from the BST V8 Challenge for example. The race wasn't actually too different from my previous win. I had pole, but started second for some reason (GT5 at the time was known for shuffling the grid randomly). It didn't take too long to claim the lead and gradually pull away from the field, though, with 3 guys fighting it out for second place. I think Vtec, the "forever runner-up" better known for his immaturity, got second place. Sadly @Akmuq, who quickly became a main rival of mine due to our disagreements about the Mazda's superiority over the Honda, wasn't there to witness either of these epic domination shows.

#3: S5 Tsukuba R2: Did I say I was terrible at Tsukuba? I did, but the Mazda, with an awesome setup for S5, worked on every one of the tracks, to the point where I never had a podiumless weekend all season. Now, for a person like me, who doesn't really have the intimate knowledge of overtaking, getting a win at Tsukuba in a reverse grid race isn't exactly a cakewalk even in a great car. However, for some reason I was able to punt, shove and push my way through the people (not to be taken literally) until I was in second, right on the tail of my teammate, R35 (who was replacing the lazy @neljack who didn't have the courtesy to show up). Since I was going faster, I decided to flash my beams - and sure enough, he let me pass.

From there, it was another win with a large gap for TOCA standards. R35 obviously gained notoriety for wrecking Spurgy and Dax on the final laps when they were charging from behind. And it may have resulted in a DQ or two afterwards, and all. But still, it was a huge moment for me, to win in only my second race on my return trip (note: there were a lot of them later as I've been a bit of an on-off driver, hehe).

#4: S5 Laguna Seca R1: Despite what that earlier Nürb race description says, Laguna Seca isn't a terrible track for me, in fact it's probably my strongest in GT. It was definitely proven in this one, where I qualified second to Spurgy and was the only one to keep up with him throughout the early laps. Never really had the opportunity to make a move, but just hung there, you know? Well, until the moment where I thought I'd lost it, when Axman (thanks @raceorama123432 for inviting him, BTW :D) got lapped about midway through the race, and I went and slammed right at the back of him as he drove far slower than most drivers in that corner before Corkscrew.

But not so fast, ladies and gentlemen! Less than a few corners later, one atom of Spurgy's right rear tire touched the sand on the outside of the fast left-hander after Corkscrew, which sent him careening across the track in a huge spin. And with that, I had my second win of the season, even though he closed the gap pretty frighteningly quickly on those last laps.

#5: S9 Grand Valley East Reverse R2: Season 9 was my second return trip after an absence of nearly three seasons. It was also easily my most controversial season in the series, but let's focus on the good sides. I was in a Mazda again, but not up to speed in the same way as before, just scraped by with about 1 top 5 finish per weekend in the early season when the fields were the strongest. At race 1 of this event, I got wrecked, thus starting pretty high up on the grid.

The race was epic - apart from a certain Dj_Repetition acting like a stupid kid, but he fortunately later fell off while the big boys did the racin' for the win, hehe. Unlike all my previous wins, I wasn't even leading at the start of the last lap. Pikey_Mikey was, but I was quick to slipstream past him for the lead at turn 1, then he made a mistake that cost him further positions. Unfortunately, from there on out, the car right behind me was the black Mazda (ironically the paint scheme I had in S5, though I don't remember if there were red tires) of @Yeratel84, who had just creeped forward from the back of the pack. Luckily, the last turns didn't really offer him much of a passing opportunity, and I took the win in a Mazda 1-2 run, with the closest gap yet. Sure, it doesn't feel that glorified to beat him when I needed to start that far ahead to have a chance, but the way I see it, a win's a win, even in a reverse grid series.

#6: S13 Suzuka R3: Me, back in GT6 after a year's break? Anything can happen. And what's that, I actually drove for FAS (albeit as a reserve)? Double anything can happen! And sadly, DC's happened in races 1 and 2, so naturally I was anxious about whether something would fail yet again in the third race.

Well, I was on pole, there was no false start check so I blasted right off into the lead in my Citroen. I don't know what was going on back there, but Yera got up to third on the first lap already, though @BRRT_Angel held him back for a lap or so while my lead grew to 4 seconds. Yera got to second later and caught up some, but then faded back again. I thought I was safe.

THINK AGAIN! The slow noob @Ninners worked his way past Keke about midway through. And suddenly, the gap was shrinking fast again! Those stupid Audi's are at their strongest near the end, with their better tire wear. And boy, Nin kept coming closer and closer. It got so close that I panicked and nearly spun off after touching some grass at the Spoon curve (I think it's the Spoon?) on the final lap, cutting the gap to nearly nothing. Thank god to his ballast, or he'd probably have passed on that back stretch. He still got horribly close, but I was able to take the defensive line to the last chicane and cruised to victory there. It was my only win in a non-Mazda, and only the second win of the season for a non-Audi.

Also, it started a trend of three consecutive R3's where I edged out Nin with just a tiny gap. Seriously, what are the odds that we later pretty much arrived to the finish side by side in both Nürb and Silverstone? The positions kept getting worse though. From 1st and 2nd to 3rd and 4th to 7th and 8th. Looks like we skipped two positions entirely.

Granted, I'm blabbering now. It's just so fun to reminiscence! Especially recent events that are still much better ingrained to my brain than those ancient old races from 2011, back when we couldn't even fast forward the replays!

Well, that's my story. Maybe others will have something to tell too? :sly:
 
Great post Carb! I might just do the same...

1. S2 Laguna Seca R2: I spent the first couple of seasons as an on-off driver back when I took school work somewhat seriously and therefore had accumulated very little points in the first half of 2011. During Toca 2 the Honda was (wrongly) presumed to be the worst car on the grid by everyone except me. When vtecsyndrome changed to a Mazda, a couple of racers commented that the last chance of a Honda win during the season was gone. I, ever the massive ego, said this was false and promised everybody a win at Laguna. This was my first weekend back from a holiday and I regard as the first GT-weekend of my full-time career. I put in some top notch practice and manage to destroy all previously posted practice times before an alien by the name of Jamie-C shows up and threatens me, beating my times by a second. Onto the weekend though, and the first race is a tense, slightly boring race with not a lot of overtaking but good quality racing. I finished 8th or so after going off from 4th. On the reverse grid race, I made a belter of a start and managed to find every open space as I carved through the field and by lap 2 I overtook Tom(in his first toca round IIRC) around the outside of Rahal, which slowed him down immensely and bunched up the field to let me get away and all I did was manage the gap and make a mistake or two along the way for my first GTP win.

2. S3 Monza R1: First two rounds of TOCA 3 were impossible to really compete with the BMW's in any FWD car and the **** slow Inifiniti. After both Cape and Autumn Ring, measures were made to equalize the cars and so I had the opportunity to put the car on pole. This race was surprisingly stale for a Monza draft-fest as me, neljack and sumo got into a lead group which I sprung out of the draft to win on the line.

3. S3 Tsukuba R1: I seemed to have a habit of poles and race 1 wins this season, this was the one track where j felt the FWD was genuinely faster than the BMW and it showed from my pole. But to be honest, this race was a crapshoot purely because of vtec's over-eagerness and terrible driving. Capable of matching the leader's pace, but seemingly lacking all sense of racecraft. Took me out of the lead in 3 separate occasions, as well as Carb and Dax each. I managed to sneak up the inside of Sumo on the exit of the final turn and win by about half a car-length. Not a normal pole-to-win job.

4. S3 High Speed Ring R1: Another weekend another pole-to-win, I've always had the line and the ability to carry speed at HSR and got a comfortable pole. After a couple of laps jousting at the start I got a lucky break of draft as dax spun behind me(rain, banking and rwd banter) which meant I could take victory while everyone jousted behind me.

5. S3 High Speed Ring R2: Had a bad start when I was caught up behind a little crash which meant I immediately lost the draft. Managed to catch upto Knelly, which gave the two of us the speed to just about catch the pack in the final two laps where I diced through the field and managed to pip carb on the line by 4 thousandths of a second.

6. S3 Nurburgring R2: Started at the back after a race 1 podium and managed to slowly pick my way though the field as everyone battled. I was lucky with my timing in getting to the front as I passed Knelly on the corner before the back straight before him and DK came together battling for 2nd at the chicane, the very next turn. This, followed by a Dax-Sumo coming together the next lap at the same place meant that I had broke the draft and, as everyone was battling, bolted away. Quite literally everyone was in the battle for second and it was probably one of TOCA's best races. I won by a huge for toca margin.

7. S4 Le Mans R2: Scene of the epic VW straight line dicking of every other car in race 1, almost killing Toca, there was a feeling that this was the last ever race. Dax had a brilliant start to the season, dominating the first two rounds, but I had struck back emphatically at Monza in round 3 and then the first race of the Le Mans round and there was a chance of a good season-long battle. As the race started, all 3 VW's crashed on the first lap so there was a genuine feeling that we could have a somewhat fun race. We had a slightly spread out race because of wet weather with Biffy(very fast) in the lead from neljack, then gokartman, dax and me. As the rain came down heavier, it was clear inters would be needed and neljack pitted, along with me and dax (3 of us were within a second). Out of the pits, I got passed and gapped neljack, but the rain didn't look to be intensifying as much as I expected. Biffy and kartman still held a comfortable gap but on the final lap, it got really slippy for the two out front on their slick tyres, kartman passed Biffy before the two collided in the Porsche Curves as I was bearing down. They were so slow at this stage and I managed to sneak passed them in the Ford chicanes to take victory.

8. Toca S8 or 9 (the one where everyone won a race) Grand Valley East Reverse R3: This was sometime in 2013 after I was pretty much done with GT5 after my legendary Sprint Cup win and I didn't have the same edge that I used to have. Although I do recall using Lancer to draft to an obnoxiously fast pole position. Did decent in race 1, not so great in race 2 because the BMW I was in had no power because specs and I got wall crushed and finished in 4th last. Race 3(after not allowing Furi to discipline someone in the room by typing football chants in the chat with neljack) I RWD launched to pull miles away, everybody battled with themselves and I won easy.

Think that's it, gotta say I had more fun in WSC, may eventually recap that but typing these out filled me with nostalgia. 👍
 
Luke
You awful person.

That would make it the first time I raced both you and Tom.
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And the first time you raced me altogether.

BTW, people were really saying the Honda was the worst? I thought the Lexus easily took the cake. :P
 
Luke
Thats was just dan. In reality, they were the two quickest cars.
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The Lexus was a bullet on straights, just no-one could bother tuning it for corners.

Still fancy the odd ToCA2 revival some night, same specs just on GT6, won't be totally bang on ofc but might be just a genuine bit of fun.

I do remember absolutely dumping you at Madrid Mini in S2 :lol:
 
Furinkazen
I do remember absolutely dumping you at Madrid Mini in S2 :lol:
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You weren't the only one.:lol:

I still maintain it's a decent track.


Also, did Tom do a Liuzzi at the start of a Monza race before? I vaguely recall that. I'm fair certain neljack did in Dax's GT series before. :P


I remember testing all the cars after Toca legends and the Lexus and Honda did the same time at Autumn Ring, Mazda a couple tenths slower and BMW about the same.
 
Luke
You weren't the only one.:lol:

I still maintain it's a decent track.


Also, did Tom do a Liuzzi at the start of a Monza race before? I vaguely recall that. I'm fair certain neljack did in Dax's GT series before. :P


I remember testing all the cars after Toca legends and the Lexus and Honda did the same time at Autumn Ring, Mazda a couple tenths slower and BMW about the same.
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4.2, Both of us in our 🤬 tuned VWs (back of grid at Monza ffs) got half decent starts, Tom lagged into one of the red Hondas and I was from 13th to 6th in 1 chicane :lol: @chrisjohnson93 had that terrible Mini Countryman up to 3rd or 4th by Ascari before going off :lol:


BTW got some news on some saturday racing soon :D
 

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