Mazda Cosmo Sport '68 Twin Ring Motegi Tour *CONGRATS to LITCHI!*

[snowgt]

I could probably do either Tuesday or Wednesday. I'm out of the country after that.

 

[watermelon punch]

I love this car, fell in love with it the first time I saw it, & it handles great too. I'm so up for this, especially as it's on a real world track & not on Toscana.

I'll be available for Wednesday the 20th, sign me up. By the way, I prefer the '68.


👍

Perhaps we'll have a bonus race on a Toscana Tarmac just to cause VBR to be aghast, and Audiman2011 to rejoice.

 

[VBR]

Perhaps we'll have a bonus race on a Toscana Tarmac just to cause VBR to be aghast...

Thy evil wench!

It's gotta be the '68 car, as it has a cute smile. The 67 car doesn't have that wide open mouth grin.

 

[watermelon punch]

It's gotta be the '68 car, as it has a cute smile. The 67 car doesn't have that wide open mouth grin.

Oh yeah I forgot about that!!

 

[snowgt]

Is it really a 17hp difference?

snowgt: do you have these logged in your database for difference?

The '67 is the one in the OCD.
The '68s are the ones I was proposing.

Yes, 17hp difference. In lap times, that means about 1 second on a 4km track and 10 seconds on the Ring.

The big difference on the Ring comes also from the fact that the '67 runs into the limiter at 208km/h whereas the '68 can reach speeds of 235+. That won't come into play as much on the Motegi tracks though.

 

[watermelon punch]

Thanks:tup:

I'm more leaning toward the '68 now just because of the smile.

Sounds like the performance difference is not much.

 

[paulmac2k9]

Loss of 17bhp is the end of the world!!! More power!!

I can make Wednesday and Friday 100% (Am off on Wednesday and can have a late night on Friday 👍)

 

[watermelon punch]

Okay so the schedule is set for Wednesday, since that seems to be agreeable for all interested so far. 👍

And we'll go with the '68 since so many seem to have their hearts set on it.


Also: Now that's settled, somebody give me some lap times to compare to my own, so I can set the laps to keep in the schedule. 👍

And you can of course now visit GTAuto for your paint work.

And... On the VCRC / MCRC thread...
I made a list of cars & tracks we've used for events in the past:
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?p=5473934#post5473934
And there's a list of links to past events if you haven't noticed that before:
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?p=5474360#post5474360
(Feel free to use that thread to bounce ideas. )

 

[John Wells]

Great I can make Wednesday, will let you know what colour:tup:

Should be a fun race

 

[AudiMan2011]

Car colour selected;

Nero Donatello

 

[watermelon punch]

Now that John Wells has discovered the GTAuto paint shop ... who is going to leave their Cosmo factory Swan White??

EDIT: Scratch that... heard from John Wells that he's going with factory Swan White. 👍 👍

 

[snowgt]

Count me in for Wednesday, please.

 

[jackargent]

My Mazda shall be Matt pink/amaranth pearl

 

[snowgt]

I'll be clad in Stormy Blue Mica.

 

[cobrius]

Mine is Starmist Crimson and I have some laptimes:

Motegi West Course 49.6
Motegi High Speed Ring 48.1
Motegi East Course 1.52.2

Theese times is my best after 10 laps or so on each.

And I took the pedals apart, cleaned them up from hair and dust and now it seems to work alright again. I tried to bend the spring a little but I think the spring was stronger than I.

 

[Phouchg]

I tried to bend the spring a little but I think the spring was stronger than I.

I experienced exactly the same thing ^^ The guy who made that vid must be some kind of super human.

 

[watermelon punch]

Thanks for the lap times Cobrius. 👍 Very helpful.

Mine is Starmist Crimson

That's the colour I used for my cube!

And I took the pedals apart, cleaned them up from hair and dust and now it seems to work alright again. I tried to bend the spring a little but I think the spring was stronger than I.

I experienced exactly the same thing ^^ The guy who made that vid must be some kind of super human.

Perhaps the video guy's pedal was older, and there was "metal fatigue"?
(I'm being silly as I'm not even sure what that means, it just sounded good. LOL)

 

[Doodle]

I can't make this. Too early.

 

[dylansan]

If only I could go to this. I have the perfect color:

which is pretty well approximated by Samba Green Pearl.

 

[watermelon punch]

Very cool!

And sorry dylan & doodle about the schedule barrier...

 

[Litchi]

Hi. I'll be there if someone offer me the car, i don't have this one

Litchi / GTP_Litchi / Black & Gold

 

[VBR]

My colour will be: Honey Yellow (Mazda paint chip), & stock wheels.

I've been testing this car tonight, & must say it's an absolutely awesome car to drive on these tracks. Great combo, love it, looking forward to Wednesday!


👍

 

[watermelon punch]

Welcome Litchi
I will be checking accts later tonight to see where I have spare cars.
I'll let you know then. (If not, I believe jackargent has spares as well, so no problem.)

VBR
Honey Yellow is def a nice Mazda colour. I've painted several cars that colour.

And yeah, totally this car is positively perfect at Motegi. 👍👍
Been wanting to race the Cosmo for a long time now. And after racing on Motegi recently in SNAIL PCR, and in Lo PP Shuffle... I really got a hankering to have an event with the Motegi tracks - which I have loved since GT4 & was so happy when they were finally released for GT5. And so I started thinking of cars. I thought of the Cosmo, because of how nice it is for FR cars. And when I tested it, I was blown away at what a joy the Cosmo is on the Motegi tracks, that I had to immediately set something up.

 

[Litchi]

cheers

 

[watermelon punch]

@ Litchi - have a 0 miles 68 on the VCRC acct waiting for you.

 

[Litchi]

Alright, I'll add VCRC later today. Don't worry about the 0mi, it's not a big deal

 

[watermelon punch]

Alright, I'll add VCRC later today. Don't worry about the 0mi, it's not a big deal

Well I don't want to be the petty American that gives the fast French guy the car with the engine sporting 100k in mileage.

 

[Litchi]

ahahah

 

[watermelon punch]

Now: I'll be in the VCRC lounge for awhile now testing/practice for cubes or cosmo. (Depending on who shows up & what they want to do.)

@ Litchi - cosmo sent 👍

 

[Phouchg]

You should give him the 100k one.. Litchi is a bit too good for me.