****Old Muscle Car Madness Championship****
- Thread starter reefer
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- Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland.
- iamtooma
Thanks for the video Blue. My first time seeing the Legends on an oval track. There was no catching that winner - great pace, and good patient technique; quality video too. Great.
I'll look out the short video I took at Knock Hill RT a couple of years ago; it really catches the sound well, getting the approaching sound, and the backfire as they slow and brake for the next corner - worth playing it through your sound system, it's in stereo. Knock Hill is a tight and tricky wee track, and I would sure like to see it featured in the virtual world too; very different from the ovals, yet the Legends are right at home on it.
- 185
- Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland.
- iamtooma
Oh dear, I've only joined in for one race and there's discord in the thread!
"The Rule" - Treat other drivers the way you'd want to be treated yourself.
The other rule should be I think - if you know you've accidentally knocked someone off the track and that it could have been avoided then you give them the place back at some point if the chance arises. Sometimes if you end up loitering around waiting for the unfortunate driver to get back on track you can end up causing more accidents. At times it might be best to wait until the end of the race, apologise and report yourself to Joe for review.
Racing knocks and bumps go on all the time, I find it's best just to shrug them off. I myself don't hold grudges, there's always another race. And there's more to life than GT6 anyway.
I, like Blue, also try to avoid the contact whenever I can. There's more fun in racing than winning, although winning is good too I expect!
Yes it was good following you @bloodyboyblue in race two, your pace made me faster.👍 Although trying to keep ahead of you if I knew you'd got a grudge against me would make me faster still.
Oh that's a shame. I'm sure Joe would have let you off. The wing was probably making you understeer more anyway!
I did seem to being doing a lot of that.
Yes I did, they are all very good. 👍
Behind a "toy" wheel playing a racing game on his PlayStation?[/QUOTE
"Behind the toy wheel" - had a good laugh at that Paul - men will be boys - lol. Prevents wars.
Where can I get the track we are racing on next. Need to get to know it before race day or I will be hopeless come the race
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- Ontario
- bloodyboyblue
- 185
- Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland.
- iamtooma
KNOCKHILL RT, Fife, Scotland.
I just came across this User Created Track by Fido_le_muet,
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/resources/knockhill.1943/
I just came across this User Created Track by Fido_le_muet,
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/resources/knockhill.1943/
- 185
- Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland.
- iamtooma
- 1,999
- Ontario
- bloodyboyblue
- 754
- Glasgow
- joe__kerr
I've had a few private messages asking what happened re John. So I thought I'd best post here so everyone could see.. never a trust a philosopher to remain quiet
I've basically had enough. Eventually all it took was one straw. I've come across the “we’re the smartest people in the room and we should rule over the rabble!” too many times before. It never works. I'm not offended by a contrary view. I disagreed with almost everything he said but I disagree with lots people say so I guess I'm not so 'user friendly'.
“Sit, be still, and listen,
because you're drunk
and we're at
the edge of the roof.”
- Rumi
I'm not so much contributing to the crazyjohn discussion anymore as I am dropping out. As Colin says, onwards and upwards. Cheers for all the private messages.
Yes, Tom_Ascar, it's often the case that the wrong car gets penalised. I don't believe anyone in our group would deliberately try to gain an advantage by grass cutting jocke's wonderful Esses. And I'm not bothered if it happens unintentionally. Let's test it out though.
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- 1,009
- Bo'ness
- buybon355
Can't see any of the remaining racers trying to gain an advantage by shorting the track on purpose but is worth trying out. Need to look not only at the esses but what effect it had throughout the rest of the lap. Thing is, if you go into it it full chat, get ghosted with a 3 sec penalty you've not actually lost any time!
- 754
- Glasgow
- joe__kerr
@fadmad:
I tried your tune at Motoyama for a 1:20.5ish, I think.
Tried your suspension, my power, tranny and dif settings and got a 1.19.5.
My tune returns 2:19.3ish
My tune with jona's gearbox returns a 2:19.0 (I just changed the final to 3000, much faster and safer under throttle than 3350.)
..all just numbers tho..
Anyway, good tune mate, just feels a bit soft for me and was easier to lose than mine.
Of the many tranny permutations I've tried a simple reset to default, 5000, 112, and final gear to around 3200 is safe and solid enough under accels. Having a short, long or flipped gearbox is still fast but much easier to lose. (A long gearbox was actually the fastest under test conditions at the one-mile drag strip. It didn't translate onto the track though)
Loved your brakes too
I tried your tune at Motoyama for a 1:20.5ish, I think.
Tried your suspension, my power, tranny and dif settings and got a 1.19.5.
My tune returns 2:19.3ish
My tune with jona's gearbox returns a 2:19.0 (I just changed the final to 3000, much faster and safer under throttle than 3350.)
..all just numbers tho..
Anyway, good tune mate, just feels a bit soft for me and was easier to lose than mine.
Of the many tranny permutations I've tried a simple reset to default, 5000, 112, and final gear to around 3200 is safe and solid enough under accels. Having a short, long or flipped gearbox is still fast but much easier to lose. (A long gearbox was actually the fastest under test conditions at the one-mile drag strip. It didn't translate onto the track though)
Loved your brakes too
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- Bo'ness
- buybon355
Had another run at motoyama last night and it wasn't pretty! Love the track, and it's great to race at, but I just can't do the times. Normal laps are in the early 20's.
I haven't tried any other tunes yet, but took the car to apricot hill and it was doing exactly what I wanted and expected, so I think the tune is decent enough, clearly just my skill level that needs to improve.
Not got any time to do any more testing until Saturday night, but will jump in early if there's a room open and get some mileage in.
The replays from here are awesome too by the way.
I haven't tried any other tunes yet, but took the car to apricot hill and it was doing exactly what I wanted and expected, so I think the tune is decent enough, clearly just my skill level that needs to improve.
Not got any time to do any more testing until Saturday night, but will jump in early if there's a room open and get some mileage in.
The replays from here are awesome too by the way.
