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The Sacred Valley awaits us...

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Ah, Grand Valley. A classic track, and one of my favorites. The east variant adds an interesting uphill section to an otherwise mostly flat track, which makes it more fun to drive than the full course. And on a fast GT race car, it's even more fun.

Turns 1 and 2: We start off flat out, hitting upwards of 250 km/h at the end of the main straight. Turn 1 is flat-out, just a kink to the left. Brake just after the 100m board down to second gear for the hairpin of Turn 2. Make sure to keep the car straight while braking so it doesn't fishtail, which is prone to happen with most RWD cars on this particular corner. Get on the power as early as you can, and shift up to third gear for the exit.

Turns 3 and 4: A short, flat-out kink to the left is Turn 3, then tap the brakes at the top of the hill down to fourth gear for Turn 4. Be careful not to get on the power too early here. It's easy to get too eager with the throttle and end up overshooting the corner, and sending yourself into the wall.

Turns 5, 6 and 7: Another small tap on the brakes, but we stay in fourth gear for Turn 5. Stay off the throttle and let the car glide, then go down to third gear for Turn 6. Try to treat this section as a double-apex corner. Once you exit Turn 6, brake down to second for Turn 7, the slowest corner on the track, and hug the inside kerb on entrance. Get on the power early to have as much straight-line speed as possible when entering the tunnel.

Turns 8 and 9: Probably the toughest section of the track, as I lost most of my laps here. You want to enter it in fourth gear, tapping the brakes, then let the car glide and downshift to to 3rd just before the apex. Then get back on the power and shift to fourth gear again for the left kink of Turn 9.

Turns 10 and 11: Turn 10 can screw two laps over if you get it wrong. Keep left as you exit Turn 9, then brake down to third gear for Turn 10. You want to be on high revs on 3rd for Turn 10, but if you get on the power too early you'll end up in the gravel, or fishtailing on the exit kerb, which will lose you speed on the main straight. Turn 11 is a flat-out right-hander, so sweep in from the outside as you exit Turn 10 and keep the gas planted down as you dash towards the finish line.

After about 20 laps, my best time was a 1:02.189. Fairly satisfactory, if I do say so myself. Sub-1:02 is definitely possible, though.

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CozmicDragon
The Sacred Valley awaits us...

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Ah, Grand Valley. A classic track, and one of my favorites. The east variant adds an interesting uphill section to an otherwise mostly flat track, which makes it more fun to drive than the full course. And on a fast GT race car, it's even more fun.

Turns 1 and 2: We start off flat out, hitting upwards of 250 km/h at the end of the main straight. Turn 1 is flat-out, just a kink to the left. Brake just after the 100m board down to second gear for the hairpin of Turn 2. Make sure to keep the car straight while braking so it doesn't fishtail, which is prone to happen with most RWD cars on this particular corner. Get on the power as early as you can, and shift up to third gear for the exit.

Turns 3 and 4: A short, flat-out kink to the left is Turn 3, then tap the brakes at the top of the hill down to fourth gear for Turn 4. Be careful not to get on the power too early here. It's easy to get too eager with the throttle and end up overshooting the corner, and sending yourself into the wall.

Turns 5, 6 and 7: Another small tap on the brakes, but we stay in fourth gear for Turn 5. Stay off the throttle and let the car glide, then go down to third gear for Turn 6. Try to treat this section as a double-apex corner. Once you exit Turn 6, brake down to second for Turn 7, the slowest corner on the track, and hug the inside kerb on entrance. Get on the power early to have as much straight-line speed as possible when entering the tunnel.

Turns 8 and 9: Probably the toughest section of the track, as I lost most of my laps here. You want to enter it in fourth gear, tapping the brakes, then let the car glide and downshift to to 3rd just before the apex. Then get back on the power and shift to fourth gear again for the left kink of Turn 9.

Turns 10 and 11: Turn 10 can screw two laps over if you get it wrong. Keep left as you exit Turn 9, then brake down to third gear for Turn 10. You want to be on high revs on 3rd for Turn 10, but if you get on the power too early you'll end up in the gravel, or fishtailing on the exit kerb, which will lose you speed on the main straight. Turn 11 is a flat-out right-hander, so sweep in from the outside as you exit Turn 10 and keep the gas planted down as you dash towards the finish line.

After about 20 laps, my best time was a 1:02.189. Fairly satisfactory, if I do say so myself. Sub-1:02 is definitely possible, though.

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From your racing instructor you did a great job in analyzing the track. I raced in the SCCA 33 years I have been a racing instructor for 20 years. Welcome aboard I hadn’t seen your name pop up. Again great job on the analysis of Grand Valley!!
 
CozmicDragon
The Sacred Valley awaits us...

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Ah, Grand Valley. A classic track, and one of my favorites. The east variant adds an interesting uphill section to an otherwise mostly flat track, which makes it more fun to drive than the full course. And on a fast GT race car, it's even more fun.

Turns 1 and 2: We start off flat out, hitting upwards of 250 km/h at the end of the main straight. Turn 1 is flat-out, just a kink to the left. Brake just after the 100m board down to second gear for the hairpin of Turn 2. Make sure to keep the car straight while braking so it doesn't fishtail, which is prone to happen with most RWD cars on this particular corner. Get on the power as early as you can, and shift up to third gear for the exit.

Turns 3 and 4: A short, flat-out kink to the left is Turn 3, then tap the brakes at the top of the hill down to fourth gear for Turn 4. Be careful not to get on the power too early here. It's easy to get too eager with the throttle and end up overshooting the corner, and sending yourself into the wall.

Turns 5, 6 and 7: Another small tap on the brakes, but we stay in fourth gear for Turn 5. Stay off the throttle and let the car glide, then go down to third gear for Turn 6. Try to treat this section as a double-apex corner. Once you exit Turn 6, brake down to second for Turn 7, the slowest corner on the track, and hug the inside kerb on entrance. Get on the power early to have as much straight-line speed as possible when entering the tunnel.

Turns 8 and 9: Probably the toughest section of the track, as I lost most of my laps here. You want to enter it in fourth gear, tapping the brakes, then let the car glide and downshift to to 3rd just before the apex. Then get back on the power and shift to fourth gear again for the left kink of Turn 9.

Turns 10 and 11: Turn 10 can screw two laps over if you get it wrong. Keep left as you exit Turn 9, then brake down to third gear for Turn 10. You want to be on high revs on 3rd for Turn 10, but if you get on the power too early you'll end up in the gravel, or fishtailing on the exit kerb, which will lose you speed on the main straight. Turn 11 is a flat-out right-hander, so sweep in from the outside as you exit Turn 10 and keep the gas planted down as you dash towards the finish line.

After about 20 laps, my best time was a 1:02.189. Fairly satisfactory, if I do say so myself. Sub-1:02 is definitely possible, though.

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Always very interesting to read you entry's analysis .
:cheers:


Here is my submission to last school


I never felt confident with this car ,just clear the first lap and then try to stay on track.


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Just try to start from the hard ones today and check a bit the Audi at GT3 race.
Deffinetly need to spend time on free run at this .
My lap times was between 2.03 and 2.08 ( first 2.10) which is a far away from consistent lap times.
The weight is huge :crazy: and the car bumps up and down at turns especially when cross over the high kerbs of the track not to mention that you are an easy straight target for the following AI.
Of course there is no way to win that ,after all it will be a shame for my mates carrying such a huge weight ,just want to have a decent time with the 200 kilos penalty .
I don't know if there will be a 5th round and it will be tragic racing at suzuka with even more weight :confused:
The hole thing seems like truck driving :lol:

Also for some reason i can't see the order we have on this challenge and the points we have , can't open it .


PS
Hope that nobody cuts the Veedol curve and make it straight down to the coca cola curve ......
 
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smoothbore12
Always very interesting to read you entry's analysis .
:cheers:


Here is my submission to last school


I never felt confident with this car ,just clear the first lap and then try to stay on track.


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Just try to start from the hard ones today and check a bit the Audi at GT3 race.
Deffinetly need to spend time on free run at this .
My lap times was between 2.03 and 2.08 ( first 2.10) which is a far away from consistent lap times.
The weight is huge :crazy: and the car bumps up and down at turns especially when cross over the high kerbs of the track not to mention that you are an easy straight target for the following AI.
Of course there is no way to win that ,after all it will be a shame for my mates carrying such a huge weight ,just want to have a decent time with the 200 kilos penalty .
I don't know if there will be a 5th round and it will be tragic racing at suzuka with even more weight :confused:
The hole thing seems like truck driving :lol:

Also for some reason i can't see the order we have on this challenge and the points we have , can't open it .


PS
Hope that nobody cuts the Veedol curve and make it straight down to the coca cola curve ......
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You had a great drive good buddy. The Cadillac was a hard drive for everybody.
 
skeagracing
You had a great drive good buddy. The Cadillac was a hard drive for everybody.
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Thanks Master , was difficult but the knowledge of the track helped the outcome which wasn't that hard at the end .
The 458 gave me more trouble but also more joy since i went " flying " ,this was go slow and win the race .


Irrelevant :
There more rumors that Sony will delay the new ps5 and of course all the upcoming games for it due to the new virus which spread all over and brings a financial up & down and not only.
So we have more than enough time to explore the gt6 ..... For me is almost certain that Santa won't bring new driving experience this Christmas.
I see you at the morning guys.
 
smoothbore12
Thanks Master , was difficult but the knowledge of the track helped the outcome which wasn't that hard at the end .
The 458 gave me more trouble but also more joy since i went " flying " ,this was go slow and win the race .


Irrelevant :
There more rumors that Sony will delay the new ps5 and of course all the upcoming games for it due to the new virus which spread all over and brings a financial up & down and not only.
So we have more than enough time to explore the gt6 ..... For me is almost certain that Santa won't bring new driving experience this Christmas.
I see you at the morning guys.
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With this Virus going around and I don't think there will be any new consoles with games this year, an as you said in your post so we have more than enough time to explore the GT6 is right. Hey my friend I still have PS4 and GT Sport but I have no intention to ever playing that game again, GT6 to me way better than GT Sport.
 
nostradavor2
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Was fun but very arcadish. I think for me maybe 0.5 better is max.
Had to post it before I get ban. Sometimes I go down there in forum weirdos department, have to forbid myself to to that anymore. Next time Ill play I'll do @skeagracing race 👍 Tried it today few times but got 5 phone calls and I can never keep driving after pausing the race :boggled:
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I do that same thing that I used to do on race weekend. I hide myself 100% until the green flag drops. I would fall a sleep and a crew guy from my team would wake me up in my race car at the pit when the pace car would go to the ready line so we could line up behind the pace car. For me GT6 is "100% real road racing it is not a game"!! @nostradavor2 good for you!!
 
skeagracing
I do that same thing that I used to do on race weekend. I hide myself 100% until the green flag drops. I would fall a sleep and a crew guy from my team would wake me up when the pace car would go to the ready line so we could line up behind the pace car. For me GT6 is "100% real road racing it is not a game"!!
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I do the same but I couldn't do it now because I'm an idiot. One of girls I hang out is a nurse and she has huge Cane Corso that people are afraid of and she'll probably got mobilized to work in improvised hospitals and kbows only I can take car of that dog so I had to accept if it happens so. was to pissed off anyways to finish the race.

They are closing everything here. will kill thousands of families with their decisions long term politically and economically.. way worse than virus can. and than again virus is natural selection, destroying families by politicians is another. When hordes of migrants entered Europe we "couldn't" close boarders.. bow virus is here so. we can lock and destroy everything. I'm really pissed with this so better if I shut up about this things on GTP so I can continue to race with you guys.
 
nostradavor2
I do the same but I couldn't do it now because I'm an idiot. One of girls I hang out is a nurse and she has huge Cane Corso that people are afraid of and she'll probably got mobilized to work in improvised hospitals and kbows only I can take car of that dog so I had to accept if it happens so. was to pissed off anyways to finish the race.

They are closing everything here. will kill thousands of families with their decisions long term politically and economically.. way worse than virus can. and than again virus is natural selection, destroying families by politicians is another. When hordes of migrants entered Europe we "couldn't" close boarders.. bow virus is here so. we can lock and destroy everything. I'm really pissed with this so better if I shut up about this things on GTP so I can continue to race with you guys.
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Amen good buddy!!
 
Of topic ? Might say so but i think everyone will have to deal with it sooner or later.
Its about this new virus story.
First of all i don't know if it is from animals or from some lab,if is part of a " plan" from some high elit of people or whatever and basically i don't give a damn about it .... Perhaps the truth about it will be revealed a long time after i pass away to more green area :D

Deffinetly what will follow this ,is a financial crisis through the global stock markets and what comes under these circumstances.
By the way for me its just " air " money ,air coming ,air goes away but that's irrelevant to the case.

Here we take measures , one of them is to limit any transportation with out a serious cause,they close almost all stores keeping open what has to deal mostly with food and supplies ,gas stations, drug stores , food delivery , transportation of goods ,car garage for repairs etc.
The problem is just ONE and is damn serious .
The Collapse of the health system in each country .
Since virus has very high spread character ,that means he can affect a very high amount of people including also those who work at the health system.
A Collapsed health system means for example : you have an acident with your bike , you must do a sergury for something that occurs suddenly ( like i did ) ,your kid is seek with high fever ,you need to do some tests for something that bothers you , or you need to put out a tooth that kills you in pain and all this common things that happens every day ........ And you realise that you can't do Nothing for what till yesterday seems natural and common.
Nodoby will treat you , everything is full and unfortunately they have to choose who's gonna live or die , who's worth to live or die and that has nothing to do with the virus itself.
Also this situation includes a tired to death people which works in health system without exceptions in every area .
Thats The big problem and not how many they will die from the virus and keep in mind that these type of viruses are " transforming " and might turn to more dangerous, lethal or whatever and they don't expect anybody's permission to do so.
No need to panic , just use common sense but definitely we live surrounded from people that they have permanently take " divorce " from common sense and thats what they try with all this extreme measures to prevent .
China was under war with the civilians and treat them worst than wild animals in many cases and for sure ,we will find out at the future what brutalitys happen there.
But it worked for them or at least it seems so.
A health problem certainly " move " out someone from many activities that was common in his life and he feels bad about it and it happens ,yes ,but not in the majority of the people .
Thats all from me and report from our small Greece .


PS
Don't know if you are aware from an expression many people use : if we all do it ,things might change but am not gonna start alone.
Guys believe it or not that time is here ......and it will be in our lifes and nowhere near to a theatre next to you.
Happy racing time lovely mates !!!!! ( That to be on topic :lol: )

Time to grab the Audi
 
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I agree with you Babis on everything except there's not 1 but 3 problems. Collapse of health system is definitely currently most worrying(specially I do understand you guys with kids are in not great position) but also financial crisis that will struck us and also migrants are big ones too. We forgot to defend our Europe and I don't know if is too late, people are tired or idiots.
 
nostradavor2
I agree with you Babis on everything except there's not 1 but 3 problems. Collapse of health system is definitely currently most worrying(specially I do understand you guys with kids are in not great position) but also financial crisis that will struck us and also migrants are big ones too. We forgot to defend our Europe and I don't know if is too late, people are tired or idiots.
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Deffinetly i agree with you and as i wrote other " collapses " will follow .
For the first we can do things about it ,for the others will follow we just can't , simple as it sounds .
After all except the virus ,both the other two hit my country :lol:
So am very aware of that , just want to live longer and have my lovely persons around me as long as it takes.
And who knows ? Maybe through this people will realise that They got the power and not the rich one's or high standing politicians etc.
I have a philosophy in my life : how you can kill the most dangerous and unbeatable enemy in the world ?
Let it starve to death ,and if you is his food ,avoid to put you in his menu !!!

Think about it and then answer me how the damn can i ride the Audi ultra with 200 kilos penalty ?:lol:

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In Italy they happens every day small stories that is beyond any imagination ,.
People affected by the virus and are about to say goodbye to this world they can't breathe , worst they're Alone with no-one next to them ,they realise that are close to the end and Doctors try to connect them with their people just to say the last goodbye ........... This crisis will reveal many heros too trust me on that.
 
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As i said above sorry for the double post ..... Oh man i didn't say that :banghead: i said about the Audi
Well here is my entry but definitely can afford some improvement since after couple of races i went to free run to chase my luck .
GT3
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Next follows the free run lap


Don't be surprised from the vid title :lol: the car feels like some criminal loaded with stuff and is in a rush to deliver the goods :lol:
Just check the up and down bumping in some places .
The lap is 2.01.134

I check and the no tune for some laps a bit yesterday and today and am very close to @CozmicDragon

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skeagracing
My take on all this is I have 6000 rounds of ammunition and 4 guns that will carry me through all this in case there is an insurrection.
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You could loan some of it to our army. It's so "strong" that I wouldn't be surprised if I saw them with wooden sticks.
I can see insurrection happening in Europe, don't think it'll happen in States. Anyways you are by far coolest guy here :D
I'd buy myself few guns if it was legal here too :indiff:

Babis I was expecting your time to be close to mine not dragons, you are avoiding your promotion to div1 :lol::P

I hope I'll have time to race tomorrow or maybe even today but after that am also afraid that will have too much time since there probably won't be any jobs to do for some time :banghead:

Also Noel one question.. Do we have to run RS tyres or we can try push our luck on some worse rubber?

And Bryce, you got info about Ibuprofen here before WHO announced it so can I get some trophy? :lol:

I just saw invitational event is drifting:irked: Im so good at it that I might try get more than 1 point.. That's my goal :lol:
 
I will never promote to dv1 but you can use ps pad and promote you at div 2 :lol: Tinkerbell.
The only gain i see at no tune is to be at 1.01 high .

Of the record .............. I love you guys , be cool , safe and avoid crowd and " risky" business .
I hope @lfm58 to be ok and i understand totally his fears and everything that comes from the disaster that hit his country .

Time to go for some drift today to see if i can surpass @bjl23 at the end of this round.
 
nostradavor2
You could loan some of it to our army. It's so "strong" that I wouldn't be surprised if I saw them with wooden sticks.
I can see insurrection happening in Europe, don't think it'll happen in States. Anyways you are by far coolest guy here :D
I'd buy myself few guns if it was legal here too :indiff:

Babis I was expecting your time to be close to mine not dragons, you are avoiding your promotion to div1 :lol::P

I hope I'll have time to race tomorrow or maybe even today but after that am also afraid that will have too much time since there probably won't be any jobs to do for some time :banghead:

Also Noel one question.. Do we have to run RS tyres or we can try push our luck on some worse rubber?

And Bryce, you got info about Ibuprofen here before WHO announced it so can I get some trophy? :lol:

I just saw invitational event is drifting:irked: Im so good at it that I might try get more than 1 point.. That's my goal :lol:
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You will run the school using the tires that I selected which are the racing soft or RS tires. The rain tires in the game were never developed and you will have a much harder time with any of those rain tires. Want to keep it all the same. Next school we will go with a different tire let me know what tire you want to use for the next school?
 
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skeagracing
You will run the school using the tires that I selected which are the racing soft or RS tires. The rain tires in the game were never developed and you will have a much harder time with any of those rain tires.
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i didn't mean to run it on rain tyres but on sh or ss.. I actually had one race today and won with stock car (no. oil change even) on ss so I don't want to overkill the grid..
 

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