Racers Reunited: GT Career Mode Challenge

[Famine]

Rozzer specs:

Mercedes-AMG GT Safety Car - Gr.X; Mileage Exchange 4,000Mi
Your "best" police livery
Tyres - Racing Super Soft
Power - 115% (max, Level 1)
Weight - 85% (min, Level 5)
Brake balance to suit (I've had a better time with a front bias, at -2)
NO OTHER TUNING PERMITTED

You'll want to get a few laps in with this too. It's significantly faster than the BMW M4, but appropriately more lairy too. It's especially unstable at the final left-kink before the double-right and will try to spear you into the pits. On purpose. I guess it just wants to go home...


Each race will be five laps long. This should allow us to get everyone of the regulars into the safety car at least once - 8 minute races, with a quick turnaround, will allow us to get in 9 races (or enough to finish, then some mucking about in safety cars) between 20.30 and 22.00, including a five minute Carling session for qualifying.

For Carling we'll start as close to 20.30 as we can. It's best to do this as a two-lap race.

* Head off the line in 15-second intervals (although I think the cars should ghost when off power, I'm just not sure).
* Keep as high a first-lap pace as you can.
* Maintain the 15-second gap as long as you can, then gas it towards the finish line on lap one.
* Your second lap is your ONE attempt at Carling.
* Anyone who pops in during that race: back of the grid.
* Whoever qualifies last in Carling (not the latecomers) gets the safety car first.
* Grid order is Carling finishing order. Safety car starts last.
* If you can finish a lap under Carling conditions (and it can be done), you are on pole. Unless someone else does, then it's fastest lap time first.
* The Safety car must wait FOR FORTY SECONDS before starting the race
* Subsequent grid order is reverse finishing order of the previous race, with whoever finished lowest and who hasn't driven the safety car in the safety car. And last. And waiting 40 seconds.


If you're not familiar with Carling:

As everyone's cars will be a fairly random mix of all sorts, we're going to do initial qualifying by carling, because it's pretty random and a bit of a giggle. Carling, or car curling, is quite simple. As you start your qualifying lap, you must cut all power - no throttle use is permitted at all. Then, using any method you want, you must simply get the car as far as you can before it comes to rest.

There's a number of techniques to Carling that centre on how you preserve your momentum. Some like to hold it in gear, some in as high a gear as possible, and some like to change gear to maximise acceleration on downhills, and minimise it on uphills. There's also the handbrake-neutral - pulling the handbrake briefly puts the car in neutral - and the clutch-neutral for wheel users. Kerbs may slow you down, while also being the shortest line through a corner. It's quite an interesting little test of... something, I guess. You may like to practice

I forgot to mention that you should haul the handbrake on when you stop. If you roll backwards your finish position will be where you roll to, like the long jump.

 

[buybon355]

So now I remember why I haven't spent much time on this track. Glad damage isn't on.
I'll need to dress up my Merc SC in a cops livery

 

[Famine]

So now I remember why I haven't spent much time on this track. Glad damage isn't on.
I'll need to dress up my Merc SC in a cops livery

Penalties are now properly off - it looks like I had a detection setting of "Strict" rather than "Default" and that was overriding the wall collision penalty setting.

They wouldn't be relevant anyway, but they're annoying to look at.

Good news for @Venari. I was considering a late switch to the BMW i3, but you can't change the gearbox settings at all. So despite having the right power/weight, it maxes out at 96mph - which it will do EVERYWHERE on racing super softs

 

[Famine]

I have a lobby up for them as wants to practice.

 

[IfAndOr]

All being well I'll probably pop in after a spot of lunch.

Are we doing the Carlinging in our BOPs or all be the same in the Rozzer?


I'm back to the Mini VGT. Adding a little downforce has made it go around the corners. Adding some more weight then slows it down because it's going around the corners.

 

[Famine]

Are we doing the Carlinging in our BOPs

Yes.

 

[JockeP22]

Rozzer specs:

Mercedes-AMG GT Safety Car - Gr.X; Mileage Exchange 4,000Mi
Your "best" police livery
Tyres - Racing Super Soft
Power - 115% (max, Level 1)
Weight - 85% (min, Level 5)
Brake balance to suit (I've had a better time with a front bias, at -2)
NO OTHER TUNING PERMITTED

You'll want to get a few laps in with this too. It's significantly faster than the BMW M4, but appropriately more lairy too. It's especially unstable at the final left-kink before the double-right and will try to spear you into the pits. On purpose. I guess it just wants to go home...


Each race will be five laps long. This should allow us to get everyone of the regulars into the safety car at least once - 8 minute races, with a quick turnaround, will allow us to get in 9 races (or enough to finish, then some mucking about in safety cars) between 20.30 and 22.00, including a five minute Carling session for qualifying.

For Carling we'll start as close to 20.30 as we can. It's best to do this as a two-lap race.

* Head off the line in 15-second intervals (although I think the cars should ghost when off power, I'm just not sure).
* Keep as high a first-lap pace as you can.
* Maintain the 15-second gap as long as you can, then gas it towards the finish line on lap one.
* Your second lap is your ONE attempt at Carling.
* Anyone who pops in during that race: back of the grid.
* Whoever qualifies last in Carling (not the latecomers) gets the safety car first.
* Grid order is Carling finishing order. Safety car starts last.
* If you can finish a lap under Carling conditions (and it can be done), you are on pole. Unless someone else does, then it's fastest lap time first.
* The Safety car must wait FOR FORTY SECONDS before starting the race
* Subsequent grid order is reverse finishing order of the previous race, with whoever finished lowest and who hasn't driven the safety car in the safety car. And last. And waiting 40 seconds.


If you're not familiar with Carling:

I forgot to mention that you should haul the handbrake on when you stop. If you roll backwards your finish position will be where you roll to, like the long jump.

Should be an ace event.
I noticed Zo had an open lobby last week, probably best to avoid that tonight as any outsider will be utterly clueless as to what goes on.

 

[Famine]

Should be an ace event.

Hopefully fun and a bit silly. If you're not laughing your anus off following my car, I'm doing it wrong

Edit: Although if someone else is in one as well, we're going to be in a lot of trouble and I have no backup plan as the i3 didn't work...

I noticed Zo had an open lobby last week, probably best to avoid that tonight as any outsider will be utterly clueless as to what goes on.

Yeah, it's set as Friends Only, but I don't think that will be an issue. Probably.

 

[IfAndOr]

utterly clueless as to what goes on.

That's me and life in general.


Right, lunch over. Tootling along shortly.

 

[Venari]

Grumble grumble grumble Merc livery grumble grumble.

 

[Famine]

Grumble grumble grumble Merc livery grumble grumble.

We're not in the same frock again are we?

 

[daan]

And I didn't even get to say, "Right, Stirling, oot the car."

 

[Famine]

Oh Zod, I've died. My body doesn't work any more. That truck is mental. MENTAL.

Sorry to those who didn't get to drive the SC. I wasn't expecting ten drivers, but it was much amusing. We got 7 races in even with a random disconnect, which was nice.

If people want, we can continue at another time/date - and though Tokyo is a good proving ground I probably should have realised that it favoured power and tiptoes, so we can do it again at another street circuit (I like St. Croix B) another time too.

This week's entry list was:
Nissan Skyline R34 GT-R
Mazda RX-7 FD
Toyota Supra RZ
Subaru WRX Gr.B Road Car
MINI Vision GT
DeTomaso Pantera
McLaren F1
Jaguar XJ13
Ford Raptor
And... a F1500T-A


Mad. Barking mad.

My truck looks really low res in replays though, which is annoying.

 

[JockeP22]

Rozzer report

THE CULPRITS

Race 1
Paul 24.940


Race 2
------------


Race 3
Andreas 24.423
Mark 24.833
Jocke 24.971
Colin 24.695
Colin 24.960


Race 4
Jocke 24.380
Paul 24.540


Race 5
Andreas 24.813
Andreas 24.854
Paul 24.966
Mark 24.461
Mark 24.742


Race 6
Jocke 24.818
Suts 24.885
Sparks 24.873
Mark 24.920


Race 7
Andreas 24.901


Only three BOP:ers had a clean rap sheet, @Zolon32, @daan & @Famine 👍

Nice to race with Paul again.
Fun event, Andrew.

 

[Sparkz_360]

Wacky Lineup.
Lineup seems normal to me, wait is that a Monster Truck?!

Bloody fun night, definitely memorable. (If only i could save all the replays... )​

 

[Sparkz_360]

Japanese Battle

Who will come out on top?

Since no one has a plan for next week, i was thinking of bringing this back for next week since a lot of you couldn't turn up (England was playing that night...) i'm hoping more numbers can turn up to make this more enjoyable.

Report to post 349 for the all important information.

 

[daan]

(I like St. Croix B)

Yes, let's go there.

 

[IfAndOr]

My truck looks really low res in replays though,

Really high vis though!

Nice to race with Paul again.

I'm glad I raced too. It was a bit of a hoot.

Rozzer report

THE CULPRITS

I'd never thought I'd ever say this but it seems like I need to gain a bit of weight.

 

[daan]

Only three BOP:ers had a clean rap sheet, @Zolon32, @daan & @Famine 👍

That's because my car was BOPped to within an inch of its life. I actually sneakily gave my car an extra 1% power after 3 races to try and keep up...

 

[Famine]

That's because my car was BOPped to within an inch of its life. I actually sneakily gave my car an extra 1% power after 3 races to try and keep up...

I thought I had mine dialled in during this run. 1'25.low with 1'25.101 opt, then a 1'25.0 with 1'24.9 opt, then bam...

So I wound the power down 2% and went for another run...

I ran with that config minus 1% power.

Drafting will have some effect, so I'm not hugely bothered about the 1'24s in the races last night, but you can see how the cars that didn't break into 1'24, or only rarely did so, ran pretty much as a pack until the abject chaos of the rozzer ploughing through the field If you picked up more than two penalties, or broke out by more than 0.25s, definitely look at dropping the power or increasing the weight by a couple of percentage points.

Last night's results, after seven races and the information above from my CI @JockeP22...

Results
@buybon355 - 4; 20; 2; 16; 14; 16; 5; Total 77
@daan - 1; 7; 1; 6; 10; 2; 7; Total 34
Famine - 14; 4; 3; 7; 3; 3; 3; Total 37
@IfAndOr - 1; 6; 5; 0; 14; 4; 6; Total 36
@JockeP22 - 5; 3; 0; 14; 1; 16; 4; Total 43
@AndreasR - 20; 18; 16; 5; 12; 12; 6; Total 89
@Sparkz_360 - 12; 1; 9; 3; 2; 10; 1; Total 38
@Sutsagrd - 2; 5; 8; 1; 4; 14; 2; Total 36
@Venari - 18; 2; 5; 4; 8; -1; 20; Total 56
@Zolon32 - 16; 16; 4; 20; 12; 5; 9; Total 82

On a wider track where cornering cars don't get stuck behind power cars, it should be a lot closer Not that I'm saying that because I finished 8th FOUR TIMES...

Incidentally, @Venari managed to score -1, by being 10th AND getting a penalty (I think that was the race I put him into the pits ), but then went on to be the only Rozzer to win a race.

Chaos

 

[buybon355]

I must say, I was dubious about this, but turned out to be a whole heap of fun.
The walls and narrow track magnified my shocking driving - apologies to all I hit.

Great mix of cars, and yes, the pack was very close for most of it. Taking out the feds on a couple of occasions was a good laugh too, although I think we need to figure out how to prevent the cops from ghosting through the pack.

Good fun though, a real laugh

 

[Famine]

I must say, I was dubious about this, but turned out to be a whole heap of fun.

Heh, good. Yes, I was a bit antsy - we've done it once before at a UKGTP, in GT6. The field of cars was pretty bonkers (although not as bonkers as an 80s F1 car, a truck, an XJ13, and so on) but it did sort of work out okay. Everything's fine and the racing is close because everyone's tuned their own cars to their own ability, then for the last lap and a half there's something 12.5% faster coming from behind that wants to kill you.

I think we need to figure out how to prevent the cops from ghosting through the pack.

I got that once, although it was probably deserved for the absolute beatdown I gave @Zolon32

I think it's a lobby setting I've overlooked - I think ghosting was set higher for Carling (the noises people were making during that made it sound pretty tense!) and I didn't set it lower again. I'll need to do some testing.

 

[Sutsagrd]

Brilliant fun last night. I did better than I thought thanks to my amazing Pantera but it did need all the width of the road to corner hence my awful driving when side by side with many esp BB and Simba...sorry.
I think it’s a bit overpowered but compensated for my awful driving. I think my one foray below 1:25 was my one and only clean lap where I didn’t hit the barriers!!!
I thought I’d be rubbish in the safety car and yes I was...not helped by that pesky meddling Monster Truck!! It really was the mystery machine...I’ll get you next time scooby @Famine

 

[JockeP22]

And... a F1500T-A

Mad. Barking mad.

I had set the car as slow as I could and it almost didn't work as it was a bit
too quick over one lap.
There were a few instances where I had to lift on the throttle
while approaching the finish line, to keep it over 1:25.000.

Power was set to 50%, weight to 138%.
Comfort hards, full ride height, full downforce, very low torque/acceleration
and top speed and fifth gear were set as low as possible.

I hit the rev limiter on each and every straight and I honestly couldn't help but
imagine that I was the reincarnation of Yuji Ide out there.

Just have a listen to Ide murdering that Honda engine at 0:02, 0:40, 0:50, 1:03 and again at 1:09.
I don't believe I've witnessed a more shocking lap since that 2006 weekend.
Ide did lose his super license not long after this.

 

[Famine]

I hit the rev limiter on each and every straight

And in most of the corners too

 

[Sparkz_360]

I think i was targeted.... @IfAndOr

@Famine Has been apprehended.

@buybon355 I think he was avoiding something in the road....

@Sutsagrd Lose control while i attempt to get past

KNOCK KNOCK @Sutsagrd

Damn Godzilla... @AndreasR

 

[Zolon32]

Regs for Sparkz's night of fun...


Japanese Battle

Who will come out on top?



So I have cooked up a nice recipe for the 3rd of July (assuming I’m free, someone can always cover me) we all have a choice of the following:


· Mazda RX-7 Spirit Type A (Or FD for the Mazda nerds)

· Mazda RX-7 GT-X (Or FC)

· Mitsubishi EVO IV

· Mitsubishi Evolution Final Edition (Or simply EVO X)

· Nissan R32, R33 & R34

· Subaru Impreza WRX STI Type S

· Subaru BRZ

· Toyota Supra 3.0GT Turbo A

· Toyota Supra RZ

· Toyota 86



Here comes the fun part.

We will have three laps to post our fastest lap in a slow but rather fun GT86 (Hachi-Roku) around Suzuka, this way it’s fair (at least whilst posting our lap times.


Now we all have 12 cars to pick from, so who ever sets the fastest lap gets to pick any car from the list above and so on and so fourth.



Now whoever comes first with i.e the Supra, the winner is banned from using that car, however the person who finishes last, uses the car that won the race. If you finish second you get to pick your next car out of the 12, 3rd does the same so does 4th and (you get where this is going). This is so that the grid is full of different cars.




Will try and get three races in (or more), need to test all of this out (good thing I got a week to do so).


5 laps


I’m thinking of doing SH compounds for the AWD and SM compounds for the RWD, again still got testing to do.


Should be a fun night.


(And yes I will be tuning most of these cars accordingly.)


(From 3 laps)

Subaru- 2:31 (SH) (Not tuned)

RX-7- 2:28 (SM) (Not tuned)

Supra- 2:29 (SM) (Not tuned)


@Sparkz_360 will you be using BoP? If not, what power/weight regs do you plan to have in place?

Cheers, Zo.

 

[swiftsmith]

@Zolon32 what do I need to do to get involved in this?

 

[Zolon32]

@Zolon32 what do I need to do to get involved in this?

Just send a friends request to Sparkz_360, then look for his room on Tuesday. Welcome aboard.

 

[IfAndOr]

Actually @swiftsmith Sparkz goes under the name Sparks_360 on PSN. It's S not Z. 👍