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@A_Higher_Place you may recognise this alien on the kart leaderboard 🤯
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146k participants is a lot, but not most by a long shot. Recently we've been around 180k a lot - see Main Table under spoiler.
True, but it‘s not even halftime yet, so that‘s pretty remarkable. Which is why it‘s hard to judge for me if the additional tenth I found tonight will be enough for top 100, but I‘m happy with the result either way.

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It was undeniably fun, but I think I am done now unless we get the Lambo VGT again on Thursday … at Lake Louise ;)

Time is close to my optimal, 49.0 seems out of reach. But let‘s be real, this is 24 hundredths from the world record, how on earth am I supposed to improve from here?



CU on Thursday
 
Broke with my usual routine of waiting until the last day to run the expiring TT. Don't know what orifice this dropped out of on lap 19 of the 29 I did this evening.

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For one reason or another, I'd thought I had to get a 16.0xx lap in for gold and was erroneously thinking my mid to low 16s weren't sufficient. After that 15 popped I ran off several more thinking I could better it and only got within a tenth of a 15 one other lap. Backed out after lap 29 and saw this on the screen and was all "Wuuut?! Dayum!" Maybe it was the 1.5hr nap I had after dinner. @Nicktune it's a single data point at the moment but hey, it appears to have worked here rather well. If that position holds up after tomorrow, it oughta' be my best TT finish to date.

I'm thinking the manufacturer of this car should read "Mitsupushi".
 
Time is close to my optimal, 49.0 seems out of reach. But let‘s be real, this is 24 hundredths from the world record, how on earth am I supposed to improve from here?
Great lap 🙌, looking at your lap I see a tenth on the second corner (druids) if you take a shorter trajectory by touching the kerb a little at the apex. Are you using the TC at 1?
 
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Great lap 🙌, looking at your lap I see a tenth on the second corner (druids) if you take a shorter trajectory by touching the kerb a little at the apex. Are you using the TC at 1?
Why are you doing this to me? Now I have to go back 🤣
But seriously thanks for taking the time and the suggestion. And yes, it‘s TC 1
 
@Gomario JSP

A short track and a tolerant car compared to others TT, there are twice as many players who manage to pass under the 1% average WR bar.

I would say that every thousandth counts 😂

Since yesterday, I have already lost 10 places 😅

Really you have no heart 😭
Yes, very demanding this one...... the real problem is that a 7 is in there.... I think this was .440 split on S2 ..... and the fastest split was .379 .....so 🤣🤣

But indeed extremely hard to even have a mid top 100 here!

Brutal competition, and you can count one place drop from @NAXEHT too 🙈🤣🤣
 
I got stuck on 1:15.787 with Evo (with OPT at 1:15.5xx).
I guess I could progress the most having the last hairpin (T4) better as this is where Ghost goes of the leash over the bridge.

Happy to hear any trick or technic allowing you to be quicker on the Throttle. I tried slow in fast out but without bigger success, neither attacking apex from wide, ghost runs away in the middle of turn.
 
I got stuck on 1:15.787 with Evo (with OPT at 1:15.5xx).
I guess I could progress the most having the last hairpin (T4) better as this is where Ghost goes of the leash over the bridge.

Happy to hear any trick or technic allowing you to be quicker on the Throttle. I tried slow in fast out but without bigger success, neither attacking apex from wide, ghost runs away in the middle of turn.
I stayed in 2nd for the braking and rotation, take the tight line and either feed the throttle gradually in 2nd, or stamp on 3rd. Both methods work I think. Sometimes you will mess up the exit and invalidate the lap but you need to gamble a bit.
 
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