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Wouldnt rely on replays to know if damage was gained or not - seen a fully "damaged" car (engine damage and all) on a replay still going round doing near fastest laps before. 
I picked up left and right front suspension damage and the car was horrible to drive even back to the pits, replay probably shows my car moving around a lot on the end of that lap if nothing else - maybe a 3 stop would have been better to switch to, but I figured an extra 2-3 laps per stint shouldnt hurt too much. Didn't find out till later into the stint that it hurt a lot, and by that time obviously was too late to change strategy - I still wouldn't have gone with a 3-stop though, never tested it and know its not optimal round laguna.
Mostly frustrating to pick up damage and have to drastically change strategy from your (adam) mistake... While you lost maybe 5-6 seconds but no damage. You'd have been in the wall if my car wasn't there, eurgh. You basically won the race as a result; I was cruising in first stint.
And yeah woooo, monaco next, eurgh.
I picked up left and right front suspension damage and the car was horrible to drive even back to the pits, replay probably shows my car moving around a lot on the end of that lap if nothing else - maybe a 3 stop would have been better to switch to, but I figured an extra 2-3 laps per stint shouldnt hurt too much. Didn't find out till later into the stint that it hurt a lot, and by that time obviously was too late to change strategy - I still wouldn't have gone with a 3-stop though, never tested it and know its not optimal round laguna.
Mostly frustrating to pick up damage and have to drastically change strategy from your (adam) mistake... While you lost maybe 5-6 seconds but no damage. You'd have been in the wall if my car wasn't there, eurgh. You basically won the race as a result; I was cruising in first stint.
And yeah woooo, monaco next, eurgh.
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Last lap slalom through the A.I. controlled GT 500.
Well done Adam. That scooby must be a really pain to drive.
i was in your back
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Fair enough. I basically did you a favour though, hinting you should do a 3 stop! 
Wasn't suprised that you were cruising, 4wd helps massively out of that last hairpin and the corkscrew. Like I said before, it was a mistake and I couldn't help it. If I was behind a car which had just made a mistake and I received damage from it, obviously I would feel hard done by but there's nothing you can do - that's racing.
Wasn't suprised that you were cruising, 4wd helps massively out of that last hairpin and the corkscrew. Like I said before, it was a mistake and I couldn't help it. If I was behind a car which had just made a mistake and I received damage from it, obviously I would feel hard done by but there's nothing you can do - that's racing.
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Okay, so here's how my race went:
I had a great start off the line. I made sure I didn't pass Pinoy before the start line, and took the position from him going into Andretti. I don't think he liked this very much, though, because at turn 6 (70 mph left-hander after the slight right) he dive-bombed me, sideswiped me and took the position without ever giving it back. I don't know how I didn't get damaged from that, but that was a dirty pass if I ever saw one.
He pulled away for a couple of laps while I found my rythym, but not before long, I was starting to reel him in. However, I lost it off of turn 4 and hit the inside wall on turn 5, damaging my right rear. I pit on lap 7, I think, and carried on, trying to push even harder now.
I was able to pass Silent_4_Hill (who apparently was on Sports tires) and Wafflepants easily, however on lap 11, again, I lost it off turn 4 and crashed inside turn 5. I have never done this before, and I go and do it twice in the same race, with heavy damage none the less. Pretty much the same thing as last time: I pit again, pretty much ruining my race at this point already, come out and try to push. By this time, Hortus the GT300 leader was right behind me, and I was doing everything I could to either maintain the gap/pull away and not get lapped. I'm able to pass Silent and Waffle again.
around lap 25 or so, I pass Wafflepants again, this time putting him a lap down to me. However, he's able to stay right behind me this time, and on lap 26, it looks like he tries to dive inside me. Me, not expecting a backmarker to try to pass me there, turn in normally, and I spin out. Luckily I wasn't damaged, but that still should not have happened in the first place. I try to carry on as usual, but he's still behind me. On lap 30, going into turn 7, I brake early to let a GT500 car by, and Wafflepants runs right into the back of me, this time damaging me. By this time, I am absolutely pissed.
The rest of the race is pretty much a blur by now. I finished 4th after Pinoy disconnected, but this was still the single worst race I've had here so far. :/
I had a great start off the line. I made sure I didn't pass Pinoy before the start line, and took the position from him going into Andretti. I don't think he liked this very much, though, because at turn 6 (70 mph left-hander after the slight right) he dive-bombed me, sideswiped me and took the position without ever giving it back. I don't know how I didn't get damaged from that, but that was a dirty pass if I ever saw one.
He pulled away for a couple of laps while I found my rythym, but not before long, I was starting to reel him in. However, I lost it off of turn 4 and hit the inside wall on turn 5, damaging my right rear. I pit on lap 7, I think, and carried on, trying to push even harder now.
I was able to pass Silent_4_Hill (who apparently was on Sports tires) and Wafflepants easily, however on lap 11, again, I lost it off turn 4 and crashed inside turn 5. I have never done this before, and I go and do it twice in the same race, with heavy damage none the less. Pretty much the same thing as last time: I pit again, pretty much ruining my race at this point already, come out and try to push. By this time, Hortus the GT300 leader was right behind me, and I was doing everything I could to either maintain the gap/pull away and not get lapped. I'm able to pass Silent and Waffle again.
around lap 25 or so, I pass Wafflepants again, this time putting him a lap down to me. However, he's able to stay right behind me this time, and on lap 26, it looks like he tries to dive inside me. Me, not expecting a backmarker to try to pass me there, turn in normally, and I spin out. Luckily I wasn't damaged, but that still should not have happened in the first place. I try to carry on as usual, but he's still behind me. On lap 30, going into turn 7, I brake early to let a GT500 car by, and Wafflepants runs right into the back of me, this time damaging me. By this time, I am absolutely pissed.
The rest of the race is pretty much a blur by now. I finished 4th after Pinoy disconnected, but this was still the single worst race I've had here so far. :/
My D2 Race report Started 2nd, finished 1st
Despite being gutted at missing out on D1 at one of my favourite tracks where I was entirely capable of lapping some competitive times, I was looking forward to this D2 race, although for me, the start of the race was the most action-packed part of it.
Starting behind Owens, I was eyeing up a juicy battle with him for the lead, but as we came to the line, I was a bit late on the throttle and Lynchy was right by me, and had me on the inside down at the first corner, into 3rd I went. In the next few corners I was right behind him, keeping the pressure on although not making any risky overtaking moves, and into the fast left-hander before the back-straight, Lynchy and Owens made mistakes, with Lynchy going off-track and Owens recovering the car just as I was shooting up to his inside up at the entry to the corkscrew. I backed off however as I just wasn't in the right position to overtake there, and Owens seemed to slide going into the corner, and span out as I narrowly got past on the outside. After that I was rapidly pulling away from 2nd place and managed to gain a meaty lead which gave me the breathing space to just drive some consistent fast laps around the track. Talking of laps, my fastest was a 1'21:700, which wasn't the fastest I could do, but my consistency around the track was great and it was a worthwhile compromise.
Soon enough I'd caught up to the back pack of the GT300's and smoothly got round them all, and all I can say is thank you to the GT300 racers as they were very generous with giving me room to pass, sometimes a bit too much as it looked like some would be giving me room around the corkscrew or the fast left-hander, where I would just back off and wait for a chance to pass on the straights, as those corners were just too tight for that in my eyes and I didn't want to ruin anybody's race unnecessarily. I reached Hortus eventually who had a sizeable lead in GT300 by the looks of things, around the time my tires had started to reach a kind of "cliff". My times would be quite smooth and be within 2 seconds of each other until the last few laps of my stint where they would suddenly 'go' and I'd be feeling like a sitting duck being so slow around the corners. I pitted on Lap 17 (Going for a 2-stopper), and in my second stint I mostly lapped some back-markers of GT500 and a lot of GT300's. I pitted again on Lap 33, but going in I had a little twitch in my hand which caused me to cut the little corner at entry to the pits and almost went into the barrier, which seemed to mess with my GT5 a bit. Going in, my cursor had shown up with nothing else there, then the fuel and tires menu quickly appeared then vanished, I was petrified that I'd get stuck in the pits seeing this happen and what has happened to others. Thankfully that didn't happen, but I wasn't able to change fuel load, so I was praying that I'd be able to make it to the finish without having to pit again. Coming out, I was 13 secs ahead of Lynchy, who started to gain a little bit until I got into a solid rhythm again and, judging by the rate at which his times behind me increased, his tyres were starting to really degrade. I had also caught up to Owens in this time, and I did want to overtake him, but I didn't really have the energy or the will to really hammer it around those corners again to catch up, and he seemed to be on fresher tyres, so I let him go unscathed
All in all a smooth win for me, and proof for myself that I can be fast and consistent, now I just need to sort out my Qualifying technique..
Well done to the winners in D1, but also unlucky to the disconnecters, including Wardez, that is just rotten luck. I didn't have the same problem, but not so long ago, one of the main Telecommunications and Internet providers in the UK, BT, came to perform some 'maintenance' on a telegraph pole on my street, and ended up knocking out just our internet completely, and it took them about a week to send another guy to fix it
You pay these guys a lot of money for decent service, yet they can't even achieve anything near that quality..
That's me done, is it another two-week break now? It's my 18th on Friday, so I'll probably be going on a night out in town to have some perfectly legal and respectable 'fun'...
Started 2nd, finished 1stDespite being gutted at missing out on D1 at one of my favourite tracks where I was entirely capable of lapping some competitive times, I was looking forward to this D2 race, although for me, the start of the race was the most action-packed part of it.
Starting behind Owens, I was eyeing up a juicy battle with him for the lead, but as we came to the line, I was a bit late on the throttle and Lynchy was right by me, and had me on the inside down at the first corner, into 3rd I went. In the next few corners I was right behind him, keeping the pressure on although not making any risky overtaking moves, and into the fast left-hander before the back-straight, Lynchy and Owens made mistakes, with Lynchy going off-track and Owens recovering the car just as I was shooting up to his inside up at the entry to the corkscrew. I backed off however as I just wasn't in the right position to overtake there, and Owens seemed to slide going into the corner, and span out as I narrowly got past on the outside. After that I was rapidly pulling away from 2nd place and managed to gain a meaty lead which gave me the breathing space to just drive some consistent fast laps around the track. Talking of laps, my fastest was a 1'21:700, which wasn't the fastest I could do, but my consistency around the track was great and it was a worthwhile compromise.
Soon enough I'd caught up to the back pack of the GT300's and smoothly got round them all, and all I can say is thank you to the GT300 racers as they were very generous with giving me room to pass, sometimes a bit too much as it looked like some would be giving me room around the corkscrew or the fast left-hander, where I would just back off and wait for a chance to pass on the straights, as those corners were just too tight for that in my eyes and I didn't want to ruin anybody's race unnecessarily. I reached Hortus eventually who had a sizeable lead in GT300 by the looks of things, around the time my tires had started to reach a kind of "cliff". My times would be quite smooth and be within 2 seconds of each other until the last few laps of my stint where they would suddenly 'go' and I'd be feeling like a sitting duck being so slow around the corners. I pitted on Lap 17 (Going for a 2-stopper), and in my second stint I mostly lapped some back-markers of GT500 and a lot of GT300's. I pitted again on Lap 33, but going in I had a little twitch in my hand which caused me to cut the little corner at entry to the pits and almost went into the barrier, which seemed to mess with my GT5 a bit. Going in, my cursor had shown up with nothing else there, then the fuel and tires menu quickly appeared then vanished, I was petrified that I'd get stuck in the pits seeing this happen and what has happened to others. Thankfully that didn't happen, but I wasn't able to change fuel load, so I was praying that I'd be able to make it to the finish without having to pit again. Coming out, I was 13 secs ahead of Lynchy, who started to gain a little bit until I got into a solid rhythm again and, judging by the rate at which his times behind me increased, his tyres were starting to really degrade. I had also caught up to Owens in this time, and I did want to overtake him, but I didn't really have the energy or the will to really hammer it around those corners again to catch up, and he seemed to be on fresher tyres, so I let him go unscathed
All in all a smooth win for me, and proof for myself that I can be fast and consistent, now I just need to sort out my Qualifying technique..
Well done to the winners in D1, but also unlucky to the disconnecters, including Wardez, that is just rotten luck. I didn't have the same problem, but not so long ago, one of the main Telecommunications and Internet providers in the UK, BT, came to perform some 'maintenance' on a telegraph pole on my street, and ended up knocking out just our internet completely, and it took them about a week to send another guy to fix it
You pay these guys a lot of money for decent service, yet they can't even achieve anything near that quality.. That's me done, is it another two-week break now? It's my 18th on Friday, so I'll probably be going on a night out in town to have some perfectly legal and respectable 'fun'...
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Just want to keep you guys updated:
We have almost finished final results for this weeks race. Just need to look at a few D2 incidents....
Last weeks race Suzuka is all done and just waiting to be updated to the sheets on here.
Soooo hopefully by monday we should be all updated with new scores etc.
Well done all for making this series 1 of the best, looking forward to the last few races, should be a cracker
We have almost finished final results for this weeks race. Just need to look at a few D2 incidents....
Last weeks race Suzuka is all done and just waiting to be updated to the sheets on here.
Soooo hopefully by monday we should be all updated with new scores etc.
Well done all for making this series 1 of the best, looking forward to the last few races, should be a cracker
I've got decent points in the last few race so i'll be looking to catch the people in front of me. Hope i at least get 8th - 10th 👍
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- KamyKaze1098
I won't be racing this next race. 
It's a shame as I like to run city courses. Will be back to Daytona which I don't like very much. At least not with GT 5's draft. It will be an huge draft fest.
Dennis one tip... People who can't attend to a race should post in the race thread so it's not missed in the crazyness of posts of the main thread. What do you think??
It's a shame as I like to run city courses. Will be back to Daytona which I don't like very much. At least not with GT 5's draft. It will be an huge draft fest.
Dennis one tip... People who can't attend to a race should post in the race thread so it's not missed in the crazyness of posts of the main thread. What do you think??
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I won't be racing this next race.
It's a shame as I like to run city courses. Will be back to Daytona which I don't like very much. At least not with GT 5's draft. It will be an huge draft fest.
Dennis one tip... People who can't attend to a race should post in the race thread so it's not missed in the crazyness of posts of the main thread. What do you think??
sounds like a gd idea kamy
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Completely off topic, and its pretty unusual coming from me as im not the biggest football fan. But I have to comment on my hometown.
Liverpool are literally, having a nightmare.
Liverpool are literally, having a nightmare.
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I dont like men running around in shorts so dont really care LOL but yea liverpool are doing rubbish
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Hahahaha, yeah, tripping over grass and all, pretty lame.
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Paginas1
Sent a pic with race results to your mail. Wardez might have a good lap. Wardez you remember your best??
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Hey guys, I wont be able to participate further in the series. I really enjoyed racing with you guys even though I was really slow! Its sad to have to leave but I have too much going on IRL right now. Might be back for season 3! Have fun!
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Yay. I'm on the podium.
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At least after Suzuka. Adam probably knocked me off that in Lauguna.
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At least after Suzuka. Adam probably knocked me off that in Lauguna.
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- WilliamsJIM_Adam
Yay. I'm on the podium.
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At least after Suzuka. Adam probably knocked me off that in Lauguna.
No chance! I only scored 65 points at Laguna and you must have scored at least 16.
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That's a shame!
Hope to see you around for season 3! 👍
What did your team mate say about your decition? C-Falcon89 can not be happy with that..
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