Toyota Championship Finished - All Stats -----> #733Finished 

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@JockeP22 your race reports are best I've seen here in GTPlanet :cheers:

My strategy was nonstopper. That means that I had to shortshift and that's means slower laptimes.
I was little worried my strategy at the begin of the race because @SmileyWRX ja @gkgamer were able to follow me quite close.
Then 2nd lap I did lift up my speed and managed to got good gap to gkgamer. Then laps 3-5 I did shortshifting more to make sure that my fuel will last to the end of the race.
Then final lap (6th) I speed up again and trying to beat my PB, but didn't.

Shame these connection/visibility/network issues. They seems to more issues after v.1.17 update at least in my part.

Ok now I can tell my PB laptime from practice (12 min quali run/online room): 10'32.508
 
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Actually I was hoping that Smiley and I could stay close to each other not far from Jammy, and maybe get closer to him in the straights with some bump drafting. Unfortunately I made mistakes and Smiley did also on different places. That lead us to exchange the 2nd spot a few times before I made my biggest mistake of the race, and it was not a driving error.
I shouldn't have pitted at the end of lap#3:banghead:
I am glad I could get back on the podium on our last pass through Dottinger-Hohe, had a good fight with qken.
Finally I am a bit disappointed as I couldn't get the fastest lap, on fresher tires and emptied tank. I ended within 0"5 from Jammy's time, but that would have been undeserved since it was quite a lousy lap.
Anyways great fun in the early morning for me, I am just a bit tired today at the office.:odd:
 
MannYhAvitZ
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Maybe I'll use it for an avatar later.
 
Dimse91
never back down!
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Dimse91
Would love to have one
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Sure thing, but is it U.K. or Lithuania? I'm confused.
MannYhAvitZ
I'm saving this picture and making it as my wallpaper
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Have you seen the movie, Manny? Memoirs of an invisible man with Chevy Chase. It's a good one.
Dimse91
Had a really hard push on Jocke! But on lap 4-5 our tires was not so good and you buddy started slpping and gave me a chance not to lose position
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Great battle. But I was so careful because I didn't know if you saw me on the track or not.
o_OPaTricKO_o
This is sooooo well done Jocke
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jammy21
your race reports are best I've seen here in GTPlanet :cheers:
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rallymathie
very nice work
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Dimse91
Next car will be GT500
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I will open that event today and leave it open.
gkgamer
I shouldn't have pitted at the end of lap#3
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Your decision to pit made me do it too. I may not have done it otherwise. lol
rallymathie
Damn , i wasnt there :(
next time
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I thought about you all the time, Mathieu. If you had been there it would have been complete. 👍
But remember that the seven best results count, so you might be okay anyway.
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I enjoy reading about your race experiences. Here's mine;


I had a good qualifying lap and it was looking like a possible third place on the grid until I made a small error,
and because I kept thinking about that error I made more of them. Precisely what you shouldn't do as a driver.

Because some were invisible (a most annoying occurence) the driving got a little apprehensive as a result.

Even though I wrote this before I still didn't have a planned out strategy for the race regarding fuel;
JockeP22
*One thing I noticed, guys. 15 minutes of full race mode takes about 25% worth of fuel.
So 60 minutes should leave almost 0% in the tank!
The race is 60 minutes long so who will risk it and not pit and who will play it safe?
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After a while I was beginning to think to myself 'maybe I don't have to pit after all'.
But as I saw gamer enter the pits I became unsure and spent the following five minutes pondering whether to pit myself or not.

I decided on yes and went in for tyres and 20 litres worth of fuel towards the end. When I saw Patrick and buybon dismiss the idea of pitting
I cursed my decision as it seemed to have been unnecessary. 'Two places lost', I thought.

Final lap had begun and all of a sudden I started gaining on bb somewhere around Metzgesfeld (I'm looking at a Nordschleife track map,
don't know the corners by heart) and passed him on his left side with a much higher top speed.
I thought it was because of my new tyres compared to his old ones, but of course it was him running low on fuel.

Approaching Pflanzgarten I could see Patrick ahead and I put my head down thinking only of one thing. Passing him cleanly before the end. :mischievous:
When we both entered Döttinger Höhe I couldn't have received a better opportunity. As we started travelling down the long straight
I kept going in fifth gear in his 86 slipstream for as long as possible and finally jolted out of it while engaging sixth. It was a clean but
uneventful pass. I was pretty sure I would mess up at Tiergarten (as I often do while under pressure), but I kept it together and
Patrick and I finished within 0.385 of each other after sixty minutes of racing and two completely different strategies.
 
I am totally disapointed with my season openner.
I was competly incompetitive. I couldnt follow you guys. As we have been on GP part of Nurb i was in the middle and easyly i can follow leaders, but when we once get in the woods, suddenly i was alone in the dark, in cold Schwartswald ;)
Ok, i dont like to race N24, niether other up and down races like Sierra etc. but how i was that slow?!? Maybe i am nit that good driver like you are guys…
But…i love racing! No, i adore racing!!!
Thats why i will be on the track on next race and next after and so on…
@JockeP22 is doing really impressive job and we all have to respect that!
I would like to think that N24 was my worst race. with drop points.
See you guys on round tracks! ;)
 
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I think I did a good race . A 4th place , I am very pleased with in this company . The only thing I can be a bit annoyed about is that I had two pretty big mistake on the 3rd lap and lost 11 sec . Had I not done this , I had managed to take the 3th place. But instead, so i had a wildly chasing Mr @gkgamer with fresh tires and that won me over with 0.3 sec !!! Fantastic fun was it and are already in front of the next race .
 
JockeP22
👍

Sure thing, but is it U.K. or Lithuania? I'm confused.

Have you seen the movie, Manny? Memoirs of an invisible man with Chevy Chase. It's a good one.

Great battle. But I was so careful because I didn't know if you saw me on the track or not.

:bowdown:

:bowdown:

:bowdown:

I will open that event today and leave it open.

Your decision to pit made me do it too. I may not have done it otherwise. lol

I thought about you all the time, Mathieu. If you had been there it would have been complete. 👍
But remember that the seven best results count, so you might be okay anyway.
_____________________________________


I enjoy reading about your race experiences. Here's mine;


I had a good qualifying lap and it was looking like a possible third place on the grid until I made a small error,
and because I kept thinking about that error I made more of them. Precisely what you shouldn't do as a driver.

Because some were invisible (a most annoying occurence) the driving got a little apprehensive as a result.

Even though I wrote this before I still didn't have a planned out strategy for the race regarding fuel;

After a while I was beginning to think to myself 'maybe I don't have to pit after all'.
But as I saw gamer enter the pits I became unsure and spent the following five minutes pondering whether to pit myself or not.

I decided on yes and went in for tyres and 20 litres worth of fuel towards the end. When I saw Patrick and buybon dismiss the idea of pitting
I cursed my decision as it seemed to have been unnecessary. 'Two places lost', I thought.

Final lap had begun and all of a sudden I started gaining on bb somewhere around Metzgesfeld (I'm looking at a Nordschleife track map,
don't know the corners by heart) and passed him on his left side with a much higher top speed.
I thought it was because of my new tyres compared to his old ones, but of course it was him running low on fuel.

Approaching Pflanzgarten I could see Patrick ahead and I put my head down thinking only of one thing. Passing him cleanly before the end. :mischievous:
When we both entered Döttinger Höhe I couldn't have received a better opportunity. As we started travelling down the long straight
I kept going in fifth gear in his 86 slipstream for as long as possible and finally jolted out of it while engaging sixth. It was a clean but
uneventful pass. I was pretty sure I would mess up at Tiergarten (as I often do while under pressure), but I kept it together and
Patrick and I finished within 0.385 of each other after sixty minutes of racing and two completely different strategies.
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I'm from Lithuania, just on PSN there are no Possibility to pick Lithuanian nationality, so picked UK :)
 
8th is better than nothing for me. My qualifying was, as I said, 7 seconds slower than my qualifying lap on Tuesday somehow. And the first few laps of the race were ok, and like bcd I'm competitive on the GP part of the track but then I'm terrible on th first few nordschleife corners and eventually get slightly faster as it goes on. But I made more mistakes on lap 2 and 3 and thought I might as well pit when gamer did since I was at the back, but I had no idea where the pit entrance is since I generally avoid racing at the ring so I crashed entering somewhere I shouldn't. Then I was mad and made lots of mistakes and spun multiple times on the lap after pitting and was considering quitting, but then lap 5 and 6 were my two best laps of the race, if only I was slightly closer to the pack.
 
Hey guys. I opened up the lobby for race #2 a couple of hours ago.

tora signing2.jpg


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#2
Toyota GT500 07/04/2015
Twin Ring Motegi Road Course
Supra GT500 Base Model ´05 only.
Start (track clock) is 6:20pm. Time progression: 1.
Race duration is 40 minutes.
Damage is Heavy. Tyre / Fuel is Normal.
Minimum pit stops: 1.

And I have just received the best news possible for my team. Somehow, how impossible it may seem
I have managed to sign Toranosuke "Tiger" Takagi as my driver for the Motegi race on Tuesday.
Tora became one of my favorite drivers when I discovered Formula 1 towards the late nineties.
He was a true underdog that had to pack his bags many times throughout his career.

tora signing.jpg

Me and Tora went to Red Bull Ring to take some photos.

Tora hasn't raced anywhere since his last season in 2008 and he is 41 years old at this point, but I still managed
to persuade him to sign on for this one-off race on Tuesday with us.

His number will be #37 in celebration of Toyota's birth year. Toyota Motor Corporation was founded on August 28, 1937.


I took this from several different sources around the internet;


*He started out racing Rotax karts between 1990-1991 and later moved up the ladder to
Japanese F3 for two years where he picked up three podiums driving a Tom's Toyota for the Itoham team.

*Next career move was four years of Japanese F3000 and Formula Nippon between 1994-1997.
He also found time to race a Porsche 993 during the 1997 Porsche Supercup Season.
All in all he won six races between '94-'97 and finished runner-up in the 1995 Japanese F3000 season
driving for Team Nakajima Planning.


*A huge step up for 1998 saw him sign on for Team Tyrrell in Formula 1 and the following year
landed a drive with Team Arrows.
It was around this time that I started following Tora's career.

He didn't score any points in F1 but he outqualified his teammates by 22-10 and finished ahead of
them 10-7 when both finished a race. In the fastest lap category he led by 19-13.
Helped a bit perhaps by having the dreadful Ricardo Rosset as a teammate for one season.

He finished in the top 10 four times in Formula 1 so had todays scoring system in F1 been used
back then he would have scored points.


*When his time in F1 had ended he went back home to Japan in 2000 for another season of Formula Nippon
driving for Nakajima Racing and this time he dominated the field by winning 8 of 10 races and
becoming champion for the first time in his career.

*The following two years were quite busy for Tora, between 2001-2002 he raced in the Champ Car series
in the United States with a Reynard Toyota, totalling 37 races and 82 points.
He was also promoted as one of Toyota's official test drivers in 2002.


*2003-2004 saw Tora move from Champ Cars to the Indycar Series racing with a Toyota engine for Mo Nunn.
In his rookie season he finished tenth overall with one podium finish, but the following year saw him slip
in the standings down to 15th overall.


*By 2005 Tora's international career was over and he went back home to Japan for good.
He continued racing in Formula Nippon and Japanese Super GT500 though (between 2005-2008) and met with
immediate success, becoming 2005 Japanese Super GT500 champion for Team Cerumo driving a
Toyota Supra (what a coincidence, eh? ;)).
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bcd73
suddenly i was alone in the dark, in cold Schwartswald ;)
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bcd73
See you guys on round tracks!
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qken
A 4th place , I am very pleased with in this company .
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bloodyboyblue
considering quitting, but then lap 5 and 6 were my two best laps of the race
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Great to hear about your experiences, guys. I'm glad it went reasonably okay and amazingly there are no driver complaints post-race about other competitors.

Well, except Manny that is. Who didn't approve of my driving at all. :lol:


I forgot to mention this but on two separate occasions during our race at Nurburgring (at night) I didn't know where I was!
I shifted down thinking I was approaching a bend but in reality it was a place where you normally go flat out.
Unbelievable. Luckily I was alone at that time.

But I recall an interview with ex-F1 driver Jacques Villeneuve where he mentioned how he had forgotten where he was during
a race at Elkhart Lake. I think he even went off and crashed the car because of it. I didn't do that at least. :lol:


Dimse91
I'm from Lithuania
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Excellent. 👍



*Championship standings and race results will be added.
 
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JockeP22
Hey guys. I opened up the lobby for race #2 a couple of hours ago.

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images

#2
Toyota GT500 07/04/2015
Twin Ring Motegi Road Course
Supra GT500 Base Model ´05 only.
Start (track clock) is 6:20pm. Time progression: 1.
Race duration is 40 minutes.
Damage is Heavy. Tyre / Fuel is Normal.
Minimum pit stops: 1.

And I have just received the best news possible for my team. Somehow, how impossible it may seem
I have managed to sign Toranosuke "Tiger" Takagi as my driver for the Motegi race on Tuesday.
Tora became one of my favorite drivers when I discovered Formula 1 towards the late nineties.
He was a true underdog that had to pack his bags many times throughout his career.

View attachment 342690
Me and Tora went to Red Bull Ring to take some photos.

Tora hasn't raced anywhere since his last season in 2008 and he is 41 years old at this point, but I still managed
to persuade him to sign on for this one-off race on Tuesday with us.

His number will be #37 in celebration of Toyota's birth year. Toyota Motor Corporation was founded on August 28, 1937.


I took this from several different sources around the internet;


*He started out racing Rotax karts between 1990-1991 and later moved up the ladder to
Japanese F3 for two years where he picked up three podiums driving a Tom's Toyota for the Itoham team.

*Next career move was four years of Japanese F3000 and Formula Nippon between 1994-1997.
He also found time to race a Porsche 993 during the 1997 Porsche Supercup Season.
All in all he won six races between '94-'97 and finished runner-up in the 1995 Japanese F3000 season
driving for Team Nakajima Planning.


*A huge step up for 1998 saw him sign on for Team Tyrrell in Formula 1 and the following year
landed a drive with Team Arrows.
It was around this time that I started following Tora's career.

He didn't score any points in F1 but he outqualified his teammates by 22-10 and finished ahead of
them 10-7 when both finished a race. In the fastest lap category he led by 19-13.
Helped a bit perhaps by having the dreadful Ricardo Rosset as a teammate for one season.

He finished in the top 10 four times in Formula 1 so had todays scoring system in F1 been used
back then he would have scored points.


*When his time in F1 had ended he went back home to Japan in 2000 for another season of Formula Nippon
driving for Nakajima Racing and this time he dominated the field by winning 8 of 10 races and
becoming champion for the first time in his career.

*The following two years were quite busy for Tora, between 2001-2002 he raced in the Champ Car series
in the United States with a Reynard Toyota, totalling 37 races and 82 points.
He was also promoted as one of Toyota's official test drivers in 2002.


*2003-2004 saw Tora move from Champ Cars to the Indycar Series racing with a Toyota engine for Mo Nunn.
In his rookie season he finished tenth overall with one podium finish, but the following year saw him slip
in the standings down to 15th overall.


*By 2005 Tora's international career was over and he went back home to Japan for good.
His continued racing in Formula Nippon and Japanese Super GT500 though (between 2005-2008) and met with
immediate success, becoming 2005 Japanese Super GT500 champion for Team Cerumo driving a
Toyota Supra (what a coincidence, eh? ;)).
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Great to hear about your experiences, guys. I'm glad it went reasonably okay and amazingly there are no driver complaints post-race about other competitors.

Well, except Manny that is. Who didn't approve of my driving at all. :lol:


I forgot to mention this but on two separate occasions during our race at Nurburgring (at night) I didn't know where I was!
I shifted down thinking I was approaching a bend but in reality it was a place where you normally go flat out.
Unbelievable. Luckily I was alone at that time.

But I recall an interview with ex-F1 driver Jacques Villeneuve where he mentioned how he had forgotten where he was during
a race at Elkhart Lake. I think he even went off and crashed the car because of it. I didn't do that at least. :lol:



Excellent. 👍



*Championship standings and race results will be added.
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Is it 5:30AM in Sweden right now?
 
jammy21
Ok, I'll ask if Kimi or Valtteri could drive behave of me in Motegi. I'll let you know in couple of days...

Edit: Or Mika or Heikki
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What about Keke and J.J.?

I would be honored to share the track with Mika. He was one of my favorite drivers too.
The McLaren years were spectacular to witness.
 

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