Don't get me wrong I've come to like the track in the last few days, but I have yet to fully comprehend what it takes to be really quick on it.
I think I've pretty much reached my personal plateau. I tried for about an hour last night to improve upon my 1:40.79. It would be nice to (1) have a faster time than Alan, even if he's disappeared and (2) be less than a 1/2 second off of Henrik who clearly seems to be the fastest wheel user at the moment. I went a few different ways with the setup changes but I wasn't able to find anything that was clearly and obviously quicker. Clearly, the key to starting a very fast lap is how you handle the fast, down-hill, triple apex right hander. And I think ultimate speed is less important than how and when you brake and how you approach the final (tight) right hand apex. If I hit it 'just right' I can carry as much as 200-kmh before braking. But over-all, those extra few kms mean very little if you brake off-line and start to slide. Or worse still...leave the track.


Of course, saying this and getting your braking and the final apex of that complex 'just right', are two different things. And when it comes down to it, over a lap, I'm losing almost a full second to mhm and even more to Hailwood. I'd like to think that I've been able to take nearly ideal lines through every corner on this track, at some point and I know what they are, although I have not necessarily been able to string them all together on a single lap. But perhaps I'm missing something else. Last night I was in the same boat as Manny and Vompatti--pushing, pushing, pushing to get it just right and going just over that limit and losing it.

And in the end, crossing the line and realizing what I thought was a GREAT lap was somehow still in the low 1:41s and several tenths off my PB.
How does those leader boards work? If I drive offline time-trial, will it upload my time? Because there is one of my time and I have only driven offline but now I improved my time and the old time is still there. Or is there a delay in uploading times or do I have to do it manually?
Keep in mind, you have to run (in any mode) connected to the PSN for your times to upload. If you set a time while NOT connected to the PSN that time will NOT upload to the leaderboard. Ever. But setting a fastest time in any mode, online/offline, arcade mode, challenge mode, time trial, quick race, etc, will post your time...so long as you don't have a 'red' lap. Redlaps count on your own PS3 as fast laps but they don't upload to the leaderboard as official times. In other words, when I run Time Trial with this car, it shows my Personal Best at Mont Tremblant as a 1:40.73, even though my leaderboard time is slightly slower because my Personal Best time was set with a red lap (having gone off track slightly at the final chicane). I think it's actually a great system. It still allows you some freedom to have some great side by side battles without getting a penalty every time a wheel leaves the black surface but it prevents blatant corner cutting and gaining an advantage for people trying to stack the leaderboards.
After a 'record' lap is set, it generally takes ~ 30 minutes to upload to the leaderboard.
JEFF i seek Qualifying rure clarifikation,
Because in the qualifying colisions are off, are we alowed to pas cars and go flat out and if necesery, if there is not a 5 sec gap in the last sectore of the race track then we slow down how much is needed..
???
Yes, new_soul, you CAN pass somebody during the
2nd lap of qualifying. The reason I set the 5 second gap is because, unless somebody makes a mistake, it should be enough time that cars don't overlap (except maybe at Spa or Riviera--particuarly long tracks). And I find racing with collisions off and having cars pass through one another is very distracting. And even though Eutechnyx claims otherwise, some really odd behavior can result from driving 'through' another car. But by all means, if on your qualifying lap, if somebody makes a mistake or is just too slow, simply go through them. On the 'formation' lap, people should maintain grid position. On your second lap, fair game.