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Wednesday night racing - 7:30 EST

Group 2 BOP RM tires
Group 4 BOP RH tires
N200 one make TUNING ALLOWED. SH to SS We have several tuned cars to choose from.
First race will be a N200 car, 4th person to join chooses the track.

P.Mallard
 
Saturday Geezer Races
8:30 AM ET (Qualify for the first race start @ 8:50) - (PS1)

Cars:

Gr.2 - 2008 Cars Only - (One Make) - (100x100) - Tires: RH - No Tune
Gr.4 - One Make - (100x100) - Tires: RH - No Tune
Gr.3 - BoP - Tires: RH - No Tune
Gr.X - Mercedes 300 SEL 6.8 AMG 1971 - One Make - (100x100) - Tires: RH - Tune Open

Race and Track conditions:
Weather: Sunny and Clear Day
Laps: 5 to 9 depending on track length
Grid: Stand start
Tire: consumption during race will be set @ 4x for all cars
Fuel: consumption during race will be set at 60 liters and 5x for all cars
Qualify: 5 minutes, no fuel or tire consumption, grid set by best lap for the 1st race. Then, grid based on last race results.
Penalty System: off
Boost: ON Strong
Slipstream: ON Real

First Race/Qualify

Gr.X (Merc) @ Lago Maggiore GP

4th place chose next combo (car n track)

Final race @ Blue Moon (people in lobby decides what to do)

See ya there!

PS1 - By 8:50 we will start a qualification time to set the grid for the first race, then the grid order as above. If you are not on the lobby by 8:50 you will only race on the second race. Even though we don't leave geezers behind, during qualify DO NOT exit your car or you will be out of the first race (game policies) .
PS2 - Lobby is friends only, if you are a Geezer (+60 yrs) and would like to participate, send a FR to PSN: GT-RaceAce


 
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Its been a while, but I was finally able to achieve another Diamond time (which is my 7th) in the Hamilton Time Trial Challenge:

At Brands Hatch, this morning I just ran a smoking 1:22.883 lap which edged out Hamilton's time by 8 hundredths of a second!!!:D:D:D

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This lap was fast enough to currently put me on the top of my friend's list!:D

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Two days ago I ran a 1:23.025 lap so I knew I was close to beating Hamilton's diamond time of 1:22.965, and then this morning I ran a 1:22.966 which was one-thousandth of second off Hamilton's time,:ill: so I knew I was there...........and then, after another 70 miles of trying,.................................. the 1:22.883 lap was mine!:D

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I was using the manual gearbox, no traction control and a brake setting of BB+2
I tried both BB+1 and BB+3 quite a lot, but finally decided that BB+2 seemed to be the best for me. I probably drove about 1000 miles at this Brands Hatch TT.
The final right-hander was tough for me to get right. Especially since I get so little practice with it, since I only infrequently make it all the way there before abandoning the lap!!!:grumpy::dopey::(

Great fun!:)
GTsail
 
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GTsail
Its been a while, but I was finally able to achieve another Diamond time (which is my 7th) in the Hamilton Time Trial Challenge:

At Brands Hatch, this morning I just ran a smoking 1:22.883 lap which edged out Hamilton's time by 8 hundredths of a second!!!:D:D:D

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This lap was fast enough to currently put me on the top of my friend's list!:D

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Two days ago I ran a 1:23.025 lap so I knew I was close to beating Hamilton's diamond time of 1:22.965, and then this morning I ran a 1:22.966 which was one-thousandth of second off Hamilton's time,:ill: so I knew I was there...........and then, after another 70 miles of trying,.................................. the 1:22.883 lap was mine!:D

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I was using the manual gearbox, no traction control and a brake setting of BB+2
I tried both BB+1 and BB+3 quite a lot, but finally decided that BB+2 seemed to be the best for me. I probably drove about 1000 miles at this Brands Hatch TT.
The final right-hander was tough for me to get right. Especially since I get so little practice with it, since I only infrequently make it all the way there before abandoning the lap!!!:grumpy::dopey::(

Great fun!:)
GTsail
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Congrats on hitting those Diamonds! Why don't you join us one of these days bub? We have tons o fun just hang'n out with friends and racing. Hope you join us.
 
Daduce1947
Congrats on hitting those Diamonds! Why don't you join us one of these days bub? We have tons o fun just hang'n out with friends and racing. Hope you join us.
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Normally, on Saturday's, if there's wind, I like to be out on the water windsurfing, so finding the time for Geezer racing can be tough:(:D
Though right now a full wetsuit is required:

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The above picture is from a lagoon in Florida and shows Port Canaveral in the background.
:cheers:
GTsail
 
Wednesday night racing - 7:30 EST

Group X
Group 2 BOP RM tires
Group 4 BOP RH
N100 one make SH
N100 Starting track and car to be determined
 
For the last week or so, I've been working on the Suzuka Hamilton TT, and have been making decent progress.:crazy::D
Yesterday, I threw down a 1:58.522 which puts me only 14 thousands behind Hamilton's Diamond time of 1:58.508, so after many miles I'm almost there, however, I'm also behind @nordschleife51 's time as well::drool::drool::drool:

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Friends listings:

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And then today, after another 75 miles, the Diamond is mine!!!:D:D:D:):):)
After a smoking 1:58.476 lap!!!
So I now have 8 Diamond laps!

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This lap now puts me atop my friends list:

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All this came after many slightly slower laps as you can see from my replay listings:

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For my setups, I ran many different brake and TC combinations, but finally settled on using BB+1 throughout the entire lap. I'm using a manual gearbox and no TC. I found that a BB+2 setting was nearly as good if you use it for just the initial esses, however, even though the BB+2 setting helps you turn better than Hamilton, you also seem to get slightly slower acceleration, and I found that I was more often inconsistent when running the BB+2 setting. I ran about 750 miles over the last week in order to achieve this lap time. Previously, about nine months ago, I had probably run about 750 more miles in my first effort to get close to Hamilton's Diamond lap time.
Great fun!!
:cheers:
 
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Wednesday night racing - 7:30 EST

Group 3 BOP RM tires
Group 4 one make RH tires
N100 - N300 one make TUNED or UNTUNED. SH to SS We have several tuned cars to choose from.
First race will be a N*** car, 4th person to join chooses CAR AND TRACK.

P.Mallard
 
I ran Assetto Corsa 1 for the first time in a long while. It took about 50-60 tries in 'alien' mode before i could get a clean race, because, um, AI? Ugh. But, once I got them figured out enough to get a clean first lap, we were off to the races. I love the Mugello track. One of my favourites worldwide.

 
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Saturday Geezer Races
8:30 AM ET (Qualify for the first race start @ 8:50) - (PS1)

Cars:

Gr.2 - 2008 Cars Only - (One Make) - (100x100) - Tires: RH - No Tune
Gr.3 - One Make - (100x100) - Tires: RH - No Tune
Gr.4 - BoP - Tires: RH - No Tune
N400 - One Make - (100x100) - Tires: SS - Tune Open

Race and Track conditions:
Weather: Sunny and Clear Day
Laps: 5 to 9 depending on track length
Grid: Stand start
Tire: consumption during race will be set @ 4x for all cars
Fuel: consumption during race will be set at 60 liters and 5x for all cars
Qualify: 5 minutes, no fuel or tire consumption, grid set by best lap for the 1st race. Then, grid based on last race results.
Penalty System: off
Boost: ON Strong
Slipstream: ON Real

First Race/Qualify

N400 911 GT3 RS (991) '16 (This car is originally N500) @ Sardegna C

4th place chose next combo (car n track)

Final race @ Blue Moon (people in lobby decides what to do)

See ya there!

PS1 - By 8:50 we will start a qualification time to set the grid for the first race, then the grid order as above. If you are not on the lobby by 8:50 you will only race on the second race. Even though we don't leave geezers behind, during qualify DO NOT exit your car or you will be out of the first race (game policies) .
PS2 - Lobby is friends only, if you are a Geezer (+60 yrs) and would like to participate, send a FR to PSN: GT-RaceAce
 
pmallard
All the best to you Luiz, how is your wife? PLF
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she got no virus. she had a apendicite crisis yesterday and she had to go on a surgery. she and I were tested, she was ok I was not so I could not stay with her. She is recovering and I think she will be good to go tomorrow. I am thinking in staying in the farm next days but if I get worse there is no help, so we are still thinking. Tomorrow I will open the room.
 
Luiz Frota
she got no virus. she had a apendicite crisis yesterday and she had to go on a surgery. she and I were tested, she was ok I was not so I could not stay with her. She is recovering and I think she will be good to go tomorrow. I am thinking in staying in the farm next days but if I get worse there is no help, so we are still thinking. Tomorrow I will open the room.
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As Cory said,, don't really want to clip the 'LIKE' but just a recognition we've seen the post. Joining ALL others who are wishing your dear Wife all the best, a speedy recovery from the surgery AND that YOU do not get sick. Nasty and mean virus if it gets after your organs. See you in just a few [2] hours bud.
 

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