Lotus Elan S1 '62 - Championship Series #1 - Division Z champion Cobrius!

[watermelon punch]

Lotus Elan S1 '62 - Championship Series #1

Complete - See Results Here

Championship Series #1: 3 races, approximately 15-20 minutes per race
Future events will be planned based on interest & polling!
Duration: Approximately 2 hours, including vision check, warm-up, qualifying, & racing
Scheduled start time is required arrival time. Races will begin after vision check, warm-up, & qualifying.
Event will be held in lounge of PSN: wat3rm370n (please add on PSN)

Tracks:
Race #1: 12 laps @ Cape Ring Inside
Race #2: 12 laps @ Rome Reverse
Race #3: 12 laps @ Deep Forest Raceway

Restriction: Lotus Elan S1 '62 / 118hp / 630kg / Comfort Soft Tires
Tuning: no aero / tuning allowed within restriction
Damage: Light
Penalty: Weak
Aids: all off, except ABS & Driving Line
Tire Wear/Fuel: On
Track Grip: Real
Grid Start: Fastest first for 1st race, reverse grid order for 2nd & 3rd races
Rules: Adherance to GTP OLR rules,
with potential post-race penalties to address contact incidents or flouting of the rules. (We keep it clean!)

Points:
1st: 25, 2nd: 22, 3rd: 20, 4th: 17, 5th: 15, 6th: 13, 7th: 11, 8th: 10,
9th: 9, 10th: 8, 11th: 7, 12th: 6, 13th: 5, 14th: 4, 15th: 3, 16th: 2
(1 point if the car is parked or in the pit to give up instead of driving to the end. Zero for pre-finish exits.)

Post in this thread to sign up!
Please list the following:
GTP Name / PSN Name / car colour
Division(s) in which you can participate (sign up for both if you like)

Registry:

Division Y
30 July Saturday 4:00pm US EDT / 1:00pm US PDT / 9:00pm BST/GMT+1 / 10:00pm CET
Posted in the GTP Calendar - Click to see your time zone

* watermelonpunch / wat3rm370n / Kenya Orange
* KWAKAMAN / KWAKAMAN39 / Lotus French Blue
* ID_racing / ID_racing / Matt Black
* Epicentre / Epicentre-nl / Lime Green
* 200MphFord / Thisguy70 / TBD
* dansoxfan / dansoxfan / British Racing Green
* IMZIZ / IMZIZ / Carnival Red
* jackargent / jackargent / TBD
* GTsail290 / gtsail290 / WR Blue Mica
* Johnnypenso / Yuritardid / British Racing Green
* cobrius / cobrius / matte light blue

Division Z
31 July Sunday 2:00pm US EDT / 11:00am US PDT / 7:00pm BST/GMT+1 / 8:00pm CET
Posted in the GTP Calendar - Click to see your time zone

* watermelonpunch / wat3rm370n / Kenya Orange
* ID_racing / ID_racing / Matt Black
* Epicentre / Epicentre-nl / Lime Green
* CC570 / CC570 / Bahama Yellow
* si_berian_tiger / si_berian_tiger / British Racing Green
* dansoxfan / dansoxfan / British Racing Green
* jackargent / jackargent / TBD
* GTsail290 / gtsail290 / WR Blue Mica
* Johnnypenso / Yuritardid / British Racing Green
* cobrius / cobrius / matte light blue


If you would like to participate, but do not yet have the Lotus Elan S1 '62, let us know, and someone will likely be able to help you out. Need tips on tuning? Just ask!

Note: At the moment, the Online Dealership has the Lotus Elan!

Pre-event group practices are encouraged! Post in this thread if you would like company practicing!

Planned by members of the Vintage Car Race Club.
Join the VCRC to get involved in more vintage events!
You need not be a member to participate in this series.

 

[watermelon punch]

Division Z Results:

Championship Points
1.) (70) cobrius / cobrius / matte light blue
2.) (69) dansoxfan / dansoxfan / British Racing Green
3.) (59) watermelonpunch / wat3rm370n / Kenya Orange
4.) (50) CC570 / CC570 / Bahama Yellow
5.) (49) jackargent / jackargent / dark purple

Cape Ring Inside
1.) (25) cobrius / cobrius / matte light blue
2.) (22) dansoxfan / dansoxfan / British Racing Green
3.) (20) CC570 / CC570 / Bahama Yellow
4.) (17) watermelonpunch / wat3rm370n / Kenya Orange
5.) (15) jackargent / jackargent / dark purple

Rome Reverse
1.) (25) dansoxfan / dansoxfan / British Racing Green
2.) (22) watermelonpunch / wat3rm370n / Kenya Orange
3.) (20) cobrius / cobrius / matte light blue
4.) (17) jackargent / jackargent / dark purple
5.) (15) CC570 / CC570 / Bahama Yellow

Deep Forest Raceway
1.) (25) cobrius / cobrius / matte light blue
2.) (22) dansoxfan / dansoxfan / British Racing Green
3.) (20) watermelonpunch / wat3rm370n / Kenya Orange
4.) (17) jackargent / jackargent / dark purple
5.) (15) CC570 / CC570 / Bahama Yellow

Division Y Results:

Championship Points
1.) (75) ID_racing / ID_racing / Matt Black
2.) (62) Johnnypenso / Yuritardid / British Racing Green
3.) (57) watermelonpunch / wat3rm370n / Kenya Orange
4.) (51) jackargent / jackargent / dark purple
5.) (48) Epicentre / Epicentre-nl / Lime Green
6.) (43) cobrius / cobrius / matte light blue

Race #1 - Cape Ring Inside
1.) (25) ID_racing / ID_racing / Matt Black
2.) (22) Johnnypenso / Yuritardid / British Racing Green
3.) (20) Epicentre / Epicentre-nl / Lime Green
4.) (17) jackargent / jackargent / dark purple
5.) (15) cobrius / cobrius / matte light blue
6.) (13) watermelonpunch / wat3rm370n / Kenya Orange

Race #2 - Rome Reverse
1.) (25) ID_racing / ID_racing / Matt Black
2.) (22) watermelonpunch / wat3rm370n / Kenya Orange
3.) (20) Johnnypenso / Yuritardid / British Racing Green
4.) (17) jackargent / jackargent / dark purple
5.) (15) Epicentre / Epicentre-nl / Lime Green
6.) (13) cobrius / cobrius / matte light blue

Race #3 - Deep Forest Raceway
1.) (25) ID_racing / ID_racing / Matt Black
2.) (22) watermelonpunch / wat3rm370n / Kenya Orange
3.) (20) Johnnypenso / Yuritardid / British Racing Green
4.) (17) jackargent / jackargent / dark purple
5.) (15) cobrius / cobrius / matte light blue
6.) (13) Epicentre / Epicentre-nl / Lime Green

 

[KWAKAMAN]

Love racing. But cant really commit to a place atm. Maybe pencil me in as a reserve - if im on i will race.
If not taking reserves - i understand.

I can help out with gifting cars if i have a free slot.

 

[watermelon punch]

Happy to have you penciled in... Committing being difficult is completely understandable. I know exactly how it is. If it comes to it I'll put you in a reserve spot... but that may not be necessary!

 

[KWAKAMAN]

Only be in Division Y(i think). Will check my lotus paints and pick a genuine colour later.
My neigbour had i of these in real life years ago. They are abit scary when your a passenger...lol.

 

[watermelon punch]

haha! I can only imagine being a passenger in real life! Yikes! It's rather scary with me driving it in the game - haha! Expect many poofs of smoke behind my Elan! I tend to slide sideways when I get a bit daring & forget about having my elderly great aunt in the car.

 

[ID_racing]

I´m in for Division Y, maybe also Division Z, but Sundays always seem so unpredictable over here. I´ll let you know as soon as possible

GTP: ID_racing / PSN: ID_racing / Matt Black

 

[Epicentre]

For now I'm in for both days. Got nothing on my schedule next weekend and the Civic race was fun. Color has to be picked, but thinking about the lime green metallic again .

I will try to get a total newbie to come to here to, he just bought GT5 yesterday .
And I think I have 2 or 3 Elan's, for those that haven't gotten one yet.

I do like to have some tuning tips about this one, for that little push in the right direction.

 

[watermelon punch]

We're cool with total newbies - send 'em on over! The more the merrier!

I'm still working on my set-up... still hoping to find some magic numbers. haha.

If at any point I'm in my lounge, anyone's welcome to join as I'll likely be working on the Elan.
As well as trying to get some numbers on lap times to set the laps for the races. I haven't tried the car on Cape Ring Inside yet at all, as that only made the top 3 with the last polling I received.

 

[CC570]

Division z for me.

 

[KWAKAMAN]

Ooh la la.....Lotus French blue for me please.

 

[200MphFord]

Division Y if i can make it, my sundays are usually really busy. Looking forward to this.

 

[watermelon punch]

Oddly, in the PMs, the Sunday option was more popular. haha. It always works that way. I also usually manage to schedule during religious service times for people. But I think with all of us in different time zones... At any given time, somewhere in the world, someone is eating dinner, someone is working, someone is sleeping, and someone is in religious service. I guess it's unavoidable. But rather interesting to think about, as in Europe people are sleeping right now, in California it's dinner time, and in Australia it's lunch time. The mind boggles.

I don't think I have seen Lotus French Blue. I know my car was originally a bright light blue. I'm hoping someone will keep their Elan the standard colour of Bahama Yellow, as it's quite nice. It's featured in the photomode I have posted in the OP... but it's not loading right now because my web site is timing out at the moment for some reason.

Division z for me.

A man of few words, as usual.
But I'm hoping you'll share some tuning tips, CC!!! haha.
Because I know you've been tinkering with this car for awhile now! You're ahead of us all, I suspect!

Thus far I have found that if I use suspension to really pin down some stability, then I get this awful understeer problem that I can't cope. But then if I use the LSD settings higher, the car becomes very unforgiving about throttle & steering at the same time, which tends to be a problem for me.
One thing I have found is that the ride height weirdness seems to apply to the Elan as well. By tilting the ride height, higher in the back & lower in the front, I tend to smoke the tires a bit less on Cape Ring North & Deep Forest!! But too much tilt, and the understeer is just ridiculous... and could be a disaster to have that kind of understeer on Rome Reverse, (at least for me).

 

[ID_racing]

I don't think I have seen Lotus French Blue. I know my car was originally a bright light blue. I'm hoping someone will keep their Elan the standard colour of Bahama Yellow, as it's quite nice.

I think the car comes in these original colors:

Burnt Sand
British Racing Green
French Blue
Royal Blue
Cirrus White
Carnival Red
Lotus Yellow
Bahama Yellow

If anyone has other colors, I´d like to know!

Thus far I have found that if I use suspension to really pin down some stability, then I get this awful understeer problem that I can't cope. But then if I use the LSD settings higher, the car becomes very unforgiving about throttle & steering at the same time, which tends to be a problem for me.
One thing I have found is that the ride height weirdness seems to apply to the Elan as well. By tilting the ride height, higher in the back & lower in the front, I tend to smoke the tires a bit less on Cape Ring North & Deep Forest!! But too much tilt, and the understeer is just ridiculous... and could be a disaster to have that kind of understeer on Rome Reverse, (at least for me).

My standard tuning setup gave me once again a horrible oversteer, when I set out for a couple of testruns at the Cape ring. Seems like something weird has been going on with the latest GT5 patches in regards to my online tunes. I tried the ride height quick fix, but it didnt really solve the problem, so I think I need to tune the car from scratch. My best laptimes at the Ring was 1.08.2xxx, but I can see at least 1.07.9´s with better balance.

 

[watermelon punch]

@ ID_Racing: You're a fountain of paint chip knowledge!!
I do like that Bahama Yellow. But decided to use my Kenya Orange paint chip, because I'd suspected it would look quite nice on the Elan, and I was right.
(I wonder if anyone will go with British Racing Green. )
And thank you thank you again for the matte pink paint chip! I collect all the pink paint chips.

I only did the tracks to get ballpark ideas for setting the laps for each race. And of course, to work on my tuning set-up.
But thus far my best times are (without any real practice):

Cape Ring Inside: 1:09.x
Rome Reverse: 1:35.x
Deep Forest: 1:41.x

As usual, I think Cape Ring Inside will be my worst track.
I think I could do much better on Rome Reverse, with a bit more practice.
Deep Forest I may be going wrong somewhere. In just practice tuning laps, I almost went into the pit by mistake! So I'm wary about taking that last turn aggressively. lol

 

[si_berian_tiger]

Division Z please!

British Racing Green (I think).

 

[watermelon punch]

Welcome the tiger!

British Racing Green (I think).

Always a good choice. I was hoping someone would choose it. haha.
I believe the car in the OP photomode pic is British Racing Green, that the car actually comes in that colour. It's quite spiffy.
And I have heard that cars in British Racing Green go faster. LOL

Look forward to seeing you on the track... It's been awhile!
(Hope too that you make it for Low HP League RoC... that Toscana track is something else! haha.)

 

[dansoxfan]

Hey guys, I can do saturday division y. possibly sunday division z. not sure on what color yet, I have to check my garage tonight.

 

[watermelon punch]

Added Dan!
The colours it comes in are quite nice. Here's hoping CC570 keeps the Bahama Yellow.

wat3rm370n (kenya orange), cc570 (bahama yellow)

And after some laps, I got down to 1:34.4 @ Rome Reverse. Maybe can find a little more there somewhere.

 

[IMZIZ]

Will try to make the Saturday division, but mid-day on a weekend is difficult for me. I'm cautiously optimistic at this point.

Color: Carnival Red (but I assure you, the fact that I am using red again is purely coincidental)

 

[watermelon punch]

Hope to see you on the track IMZIZ!

As usual, it's difficult to schedule for both US PDT & BST/CET time zones. *sigh*
It's midday for you... but quite late for ID_Racing.
Last time for the Saturday Spitfire race, I rescheduled my dinner time, and 2 racers were getting sleepy. It's one thing or another.

As for the red... ahem. I won't comment because according to ID_Racing, it's a colour the car comes in... Though I haven't seen it in that colour yet!
I've only purchased 2 so far. I think I saw more Bahama Yellow Elans in the UCD - but I passed on them because they were super-high mileage - and I already have that trophy. haha.

 

[ID_racing]

I've only purchased 2 so far. I think I saw more Bahama Yellow Elans in the UCD - but I passed on them because they were super-high mileage - and I already have that trophy. haha.

Watermelon, you can win the Lotus in the professional series, british lightweight b-spec race. Might get lucky colourwise..

 

[jackargent]

Put me down for the Sunday definite & the Saturday maybe.

Colour yet to be decided.

 

[watermelon punch]

whoo-hoo sofa driver! glad you could make it jack, as always!

Watermelon, you can win the Lotus in the professional series, british lightweight b-spec race. Might get lucky colourwise..

Thanks for reminding me of this!! I'd totally forgotten, because I won my aspec british lightweight with some prize car I had, and the my bobs couldn't make better than bronze with it. Can't remember what car... but it looks like a job for the Elise I bought to do the seasonal.

 

[dansoxfan]

Definately have one. Color, British Racing Green.

 

[GTsail]

If you still have room for another vintage racer, I would like to join the Lotus Elan Championship as well

Please sign me up for Division Y (Saturday):

Usernames: GTsail290/gtsail290/WR Blue Mica

I might have time for the second division as well, but this is only tentative.

..... I think I saw more Bahama Yellow Elans in the UCD - but I passed on them because they were super-high mileage

Thanks for leaving it there watermelonpunch, because its the Lotus Elan that I picked up! It has 199k miles, so I'm sure to be at the back of the pack with such a worn engine!

Respectfully,
GTsail

 

[cobrius]

Hi, I could totally do this on Saturday and if I feel the need for revenge I could probably do Sunday too. So please sign me up for Saturday, and leave Sunday open for now.

cobrius / cobrius / matte light blue

 

[watermelon punch]

Welcome aboard gtsail290 & cobrius!

btw: I'm putting the maybes in brown, as you can see.

Yeah, I like having 2 divisions so I can sort of see it as a grudge match!
haha - j/k There's no saying I'm going to do better the 2nd time 'round. lol
I keep hoping with more experience/practice, I'll do better, but it doesn't always work out that way.

Thanks for leaving it there watermelonpunch, because its the Lotus Elan that I picked up! It has 199k miles, so I'm sure to be at the back of the pack with such a worn engine!

I saw yet another Bahama Yellow Elan with high mileage.
But when I say high mileage... Well the one I'm using for the race is over 50,000 miles I think. But the ones I have been passing on have had over 300,000 miles!!
I think I only ever bought one car with over 300,000 miles on it... and that was the Nissan PAO because I wanted the Terracotta paint chip.

 

[IMZIZ]

Hey, watermelonpunch -

Looks like I won't be able to make it on Saturday after all. I've been called upon for parental duties at the time.

Birthday party season amongst small children seems to be in full effect... guess a lot of parents were trying to keep warm through the winter months.

 

[watermelon punch]

Sorry you can't make it IMZIZ... I do believe in the US, statistics say more people are born between late June & early October, than any other time of year. I suppose the holidays are romantic? Starting with Halloween? LOL

All I know is that we're entering peak watermelon sweetness season here.

Perhaps you can make it next time. Thinking about having another next weekend actually, if anyone's interested.