Lotus Elan Gentlemans Racing Club Round 9

[viperin]

G'Day all and welcome to Round Nine of :

Lotus Elan Gentlemans Racing Club


"Twin Peaks"

Results​

Do you remember the Lotus Europa Special you needed to use to win your Lotus Elan ?
Well time to dust it off and get Racing


Round 9 Settings

GT Mode -> Home
Select Lotus Elan from Garage
Return to GT Mode -> Main Page
Select ......Original Courses
Select Trial Mountain, Normal
Enter - Family Cup
AI Setting @ +7
Go to settings option ( Red Toolbox) -> Turn all Driving Aids Off
Check : Port & Polish, Engine Balancing, Sports Exhaust,Twin Clutch,Sports Flywheel,Standard Gearbox, NA Stage 1 & N3 Tyres fitted.

Total HP with Oil Change 142 HP


Race Rules

Do as many Races as you wish with minimum A Spec Points = 125
You may, of course, go for higher points for a greater challenge.

Record Best Race Time

Then :

GT Mode -> Home
Select Lotus Europa Special '71 from Garage
Return to GT Mode -> Main Page
Select UK Hall, Lotus --> Tuning
Equip Europa with :

Sports Exhaust
NA Tuning Stage 1
Close Ratio Transmission
Sports Medium Tyres ( S2 )
Total HP with Oil Change - 158 hp

Return to GT Mode Main Page

Select ......Original Courses
Select Trial Mountain, Normal
Enter - Family Cup
AI Setting @ +7
Go to settings option ( Red Toolbox) -> Turn all Driving Aids Off
Check : Sports Exhaust, NA Stage 1, Close Ratio Transmission & S2 Tyres fitted.

Do as many Races as you wish with minimum A Spec Points = 125
You may, of course, go for higher points for a greater challenge.

Record Best Race Time

When you are happy with both Races PM me with :

Best Aggregate Time ( Total of both Races )

by :

12 Midnight GMT Sunday 8th. January 2012



Good Luck


edit :
just to clarify what is actually part of the track here, I am okay with using all of the Track if you wish eg yellow hatched and beyond white line areas are acceptable.
Basically just keep two wheels roadside of the kerbs and I will be happy 👍

If the AI go somewhere you can too ( preferably into the dirt so I can win ).

 

[oldmodelt]

This has been a few months coming. Ever since I had the 2nd reversal colon resection in August to get rid of the colostomy bag and tie up the loose ends, so to speak. I have been thinking about getting back into the pool to swim. I wasn't able to until November per my doctors orders to wait until all my holes were healed, ie., plugged up. You think about this stuff while I was doing the endless laps around the Health Club track (14 to a mile). And up and down my street (1/2 mile down to the corner and 1/2 mile back) where I live. I swam in high school and even though I have stopped swimming for years sometimes it's always been fun jumping back into it from time to time.

But now I have a special motivation. Being 55 now and down 60lbs to a svelte 195 as I type this post I know that the life clock is ticking and I'd like to see how I stack up against the best in my state. This April 2012 they have the Masters SCY (short course yards) State Meet. If you want to see how you compare this is the place you go. Illinois has a very deep talent pool of swimmers. So I will get to swim against some very good guys who have been doing it for a while. My age group I'll be competing in is the 55-59. They do it in 5 years brackets. So even though I might be seeded to swim in a heat with multiple ages of similar times I am placed according to my age group. It's nice not having to compete against you young bucks that have no creaking in your joints.

Hopefully, they will have it at the UIC pool which is downtown Chicago about a 1/2 hour drive from where I live. They should post the info soon after the new year with the name of the swim club that wins the right to host it. Here is the results from last years meet. http://www.ilmsa.com/files/meets/results/2011/ilmsastate-20110410.htm

I am trying to figure out dates for a couple of tune up meets before the state meet. They have a Superbowl meet in Feb. And one about and hour from me on 1/8/2012. I might try that one first. If all goes well I will try to do about 8 events over 2 days. 50 Butterfly, Backstroke, Breaststroke, Freestyle. The 100 Freestyle, Backstroke, 100 IM and maybe the 100 Butterfly or the 200 IM if I think my shoulders won't fall off. But God willing, I will swim something.

I have found that in the past that the more people who know what you are doing the more likely you are to follow through. I will be around the forums and occasionally online.



Mark

 

[oldmodelt]

I write this to say thank you to all here at GTP who have raced with me since I have joined many years ago. My previous post mentioned that I will not be as active because of some RL duties/commitments/events that I have for the next 3-5 mos. But I felt guilty not submitting a time last week and so when I woke up early this morning I ran (as fast as a 55yr old after 2 surgeries, a bad rotator cuff and 2 very sore knees after 2 hard swim workouts) to the PS2 and got in this week's races. I am not eligible for any points this week as my Europa has a P&P and Engine Rebalancing done to it many ages ago (HP 160).

I, as I suspect many of you think about things during these races. I would like to think my thoughts are more profound than others but that is probably just wishful thinking on my part.

The main reason I run these races is that they are fun. My spouse does not see why I enjoy these races. She's more of a knitting while watching tv type of person (SH you are a lucky man). That's why I thought of the recent posts that Smallhorses had with a gamer on one of the other threads in this forum. What is the point of submitting fake times when we are here to have fun and compare our skills (or lack of them) against each other. And I don't have to get up in front of you guys in a swimsuit, suck in my gut while trying to get enough air so I don't pass out.

But during the last 5 years these racing games have been a part of my life. A release from the daily junk (good & bad ) that we deal with. So I popped the game in and raced with the rest of you. Albeit a good deal slower. But if Michael Jordan can dream he can fly. 💡 Then I'm a race car driver.

And I don't have to suck in my gut while I'm doing it. Although to the 80 yr old ladies I appear to be quite the catch.

Scars and all.

Time submitted.

 

[viperin]

Thank you oldmodelt for sharing those thoughts.
Brilliant stuff. You have expressed what all this is about ( fun and companionship ) very eloquently 👍
Thank you.

I do not do "New Year Resolutions" but reading about how hard you are working to get back to some competative swimming after your major trials with surgery etc. has certainly inspired me to at least attempt to match your weight loss and get a bit fitter.
I hope to at least become a bit less of an old fat bleeder in short order

Some other news :
I will be tied up at deadline time and for a few hours after picking up some relatives from our local Airport.
Please bear with me posting results a bit late but it cannot be avoided.
If you want to, please feel free to add 3 hours to the deadline time.

Thanks.

 

[DJ Baker]

T,

It has always been a pleasure to compete with you here & on the various TT forums.
Best wishes in all of your future challenges. 👍 Keep us posted.

 

[shotamagee]

Well Viperin, you did a good job of balancing the performance of the two cars, my times were pretty close to one another.

Times submitted.

 

[northmeade]

times submitted, time for a pint

 

[oldmodelt]

The results from my first meet of 2012 are in. I am very happy with my times. Considering that I'm coming off the 2 surgeries, months of low key rehab and I'm 5 years older (but wiser). I went back and counted the number of swim workouts since the doctors let me back in the water in November. Total of 12. None more than 1500 yards. I was doing about 1 a week until the last couple of weeks.

No race paced workouts or meet situations that could have helped me. Felt crappy during my first race, the 50 backstroke. Totally ran out of gas during the 2nd, the 100 IM. During the 3rd race, the 50 freestyle I was cruising. I looked at the heat sheet and my time from 5 years ago was fast enough to land me in the fastest heat. So here I am in heat 6, lane 6 with these young bucks. I'm thinking, WTF, I'm gonna get creamed. But I nailed the start and was doing great (i think) until I made my flip turn and discovered that they had moved the wall on the turn end after the start of the race.. Totally missed it and finished about a second off my 2007 time. 2 seconds off my backstroke and less than 3 off my IM time from 5 years ago.

After the 100IM I was so gassed that I decided to skip the 50 butterfly on 10 mins rest. Didn't think it was wise to tempt the rotator cuff Gods that control our bodies or my right shoulder. All in all, plenty places to improve on but I have 3 1/2 months to do it. I'll put the link up with the results when they are posted. But right now I'm going to run over to the pool an try to put in some easy yards.

 

[viperin]

G'Day all.
Results posted.
Unfortunately oldmodelt & Crooooooow did not receive any points ( due to one racer having too many horses and the other not enough !!! ).
Well done everyone else & thank you for your patience with delay in posting

times submitted, time for a pint

I'm with you, time for a home brew IPA I think 👍

After the 100IM I was so gassed that I decided to skip the 50 butterfly on 10 mins rest. Didn't think it was wise to tempt the rotator cuff Gods that control our bodies or my right shoulder.

Did you know that the Butterfly Stroke is an Aussie invention ?

Invented by Sadists I might add

 

[Smallhorses]

Firstly, glad to hear that oldmodelt is getting the better of his bowels and starting to live life to it's fullest again! Congratulations on the swimming results, and hope they're the first of many to come! 👍

Secondly, again many thanks to viperin for all the effort he's put into organising, illustrating and scheduling the races for this series, it's been a cracking one to race in, and I've thoroughly enjoyed enjoyed each and every round, even Chamonix, and that's saying something!!! 👍

Thirdly, I looked at shotamagee's comments about times in both cars being close, and I knew I'd got some work to do, initially my Elan time was in the 3'38 realm, but I persevered through a couple of different lineups until I came up with a great one for 126 points and gradually reduced my time from 3'35 into the 3'33s. I finished with 3'33.887 and 100% OLR clean.
Then I set about, with only 1 hour until deadline, working on the Europa. Wow. That was tough work, I went through 10 or so lineups, some too tricky, others with too low a points total to count until I came up against a 128 point lineup. After the stability of the Elan, the wayward Europa took some taming, but finally I came out 50 minutes later with a 3'33.370 race and was composing my submission PM to viperin while watching the replay. To my horror I realised I'd inadvertently brushed the wall in the fast chicane over the crest after the big hairpin at the end of the backstraight, didn't feel it, but a puff of dust on the replay seemed to confirm it, and so, with just 8 minutes remaining I set off again. Talk about heart palpitations! This run seems 100% clean, though there's some question about the Holden Monaro that gets left for dead off the line nudging my back end through the first turn, it's either mighty close and no contact or so minor that neither of us felt it, but difficult to tell from the replay. Anyway, it wasn't my fault, as I was clearly in front, so I'll put it down to a racing incident from a disgruntled Aussie pilot having his 5.7L V8 trounced off the line by a little British 4-banger! My consistency shone through though, and the run that I submitted was just 9/1000ths slower than my previous effort at 3'33.379.
As ever I'll shoot some video of my runs back-to-back for anyone that's interested.

 

[shotamagee]

My times were both OLR clean 3:36's; .602 for the Elan & .334 for the Europa, so well done Smallhorses, you won this round pretty comprehensively.

 

[Smallhorses]

Not sure if anyone was interested or not, but while I was shooting my Nurb' replay for round 10 I queued this one up for shooting too:

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[viperin]

Not sure if anyone was interested or not, but while I was shooting my Nurb' replay for round 10 I queued this one up for shooting too:

Top class.
Always interested in seeing how the pros do it.
I feel a lot better watching your replays, although being way slower at least my lines are identical