Hey all, long time no post. I just haven't had any time to devote to TT's in the last couple months. I barely have time to do any of the weeklies either. School, work, and life aren't leaving much time for VR shenanigans at the moment.
Last night I had a little time for the weekly races, finishing up about 11:30PM. After that, I checked the current TTs and saw the M3 was still up for another
half hour. Initially I wasn't going to enter (I broke my 50-something gold streak with the unusually challenging Vette at Dragon Trail a couple weeks ago when I forgot to go back and work for gold, ugh), but I took a stock M3 to Gardens reverse for a quick few laps to see if the gold was "easily" achievable, and it was. Don't want to shoot myself in the foot.
With that knowledge I entered the TT with
12 minutes to go. I didn't know what would happen at midnight, but I knew I could put in 6-7 laps and I just had to get a sub 1:50.9 to get the gold. Long story short, I was able to get a 1:50.6 pretty quickly, but invalidated
FOUR 1:49 laps by eating too much sausage in the chicane (which also invalidated the
next lap too, grrr). All in all I got about
two clean laps in for gold!
It turns out once the clock strikes 12 you simply get booted from the TT! Just a black screen and your time is displayed.
Wish I would have had a LOT more time for this one. My previous experience with the E36 has been bad. I haven't used it since it debuted, but for some reason here on SH tires it's a total blast to drive. I love how controllable oversteer is and how chuckable the car was. I know with more time low 1:49s were very possible, but oh well, I'll have much more time to play... next year, haha...but I got that gold!
Hope you guys are having as much fun as always in the TTs. I've missed being a part of these discussions, but since I haven't been participating I haven't had much to say. Congrats to
@330_D for topping my friends board, and to
PCourty for a new PB! Seems like the M3 is right up your guys' alley!
I would like to dip into both of the current TTs, but time will tell.
Keep it up everyone!
