VCRC Nissan SKYLINE '62 -Sprint Race Event- Congrats to Phouchg!!!

[watermelon punch]

Well I'll be, it's there now. It wasn't on Tuesday when I looked, weird :/

I've also noticed that having a lot of friends (I think I have near the limit right now), it takes a long time for the "community" list to load fully. So I could be clicked on the VCRC, but not actually be seeing its stuff until the entire list info all loads.
Of course I don't know if this applies to you, but it might be why you didn't see it before.

 

[tezgm99]

Yeah, I have no idea. I was able to get yours easy enough, melon. Then I went to VCRC and nothing showed up until now

 

[Phouchg]

I've also noticed that having a lot of friends (I think I have near the limit right now), it takes a long time for the "community" list to load fully. So I could be clicked on the VCRC, but not actually be seeing its stuff until the entire list info all loads.
Of course I don't know if this applies to you, but it might be why you didn't see it before.

That happened to me.. took a long time for it to load.

 

[tezgm99]

I made a few mistakes, particularly at Nords....not that I like that track anyway, but I'd have been a fair bit closer without those

 

[Phouchg]

That was fun! Love these old cars, the racing get so tight and you can afford no mistakes. Think I got 2nd, 1st, 1st and 3rd which would probably mean the most successful night ever for me.

 

[AudiMan2011]

Hugely impressive for my first VCRC races with 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 1st in the 4 races. I would definitely do more races like this.

 

[Phouchg]

cool we had the same positions over the night ^^

edit: had some real nice fights with you in some of the races. especially high speed

 

[Phouchg]

How many km did everyone have on their cars? mine had 62431 km on it. 95 BHP and 301 PP.

Edit: didn't realise I had had made the last post as well, sorry

 

[watermelon punch]

RESULTS

Points:

1.)

Phouchg / xNikodemusx / yellow (23pts)
2.)

AudiMan2011 / Street-King-07 / Starlight Black (21pts)
3.)

watermelonpunch / wat3rm370n / Tomato Red (16pts)
3.)

TyrrellRacing / GTP_Tyrrell / dark blue (16pts)

4.) tezgm99 / tezgm99 / Amaranth Pearl purple (13pts)
5.) John Wells / johnwells69 / tan (8pts)
5.) cobrius / cobrius / yellow (8pts)
6.) jackargent / jackargent / dark pink & blue (3pts)
7.) Cote Dazur / cotedazur06 / blue (1pt)

Race #1: 8 laps @ Lemons Country Circuit (Toscana tarmac)

1. AudiMan2011 / Street-King-07 / Starlight Black
2. Phouchg / xNikodemusx / yellow
3. watermelonpunch / wat3rm370n / Tomato Red
4. TyrrellRacing / GTP_Tyrrell / dark blue
5. cobrius / cobrius / yellow
6. tezgm99 / tezgm99 / Amaranth Pearl purple
7. John Wells / johnwells69 / tan
8. jackargent / jackargent / dark pink & blue
9. Cote Dazur / cotedazur06 / blue

Race #2: 10 laps @ High Speed Ring

1. Phouchg / xNikodemusx / yellow
2. AudiMan2011 / Street-King-07 / Starlight Black
3. tezgm99 / tezgm99 / Amaranth Pearl purple
4. watermelonpunch / wat3rm370n / Tomato Red
5. TyrrellRacing / GTP_Tyrrell / dark blue
6. John Wells / johnwells69 / tan
7. cobrius / cobrius / yellow
8. jackargent / jackargent / dark pink & blue

Race #3: 2 laps @ Nürburgring Nordschleife

1. Phouchg / xNikodemusx / yellow
2. TyrrellRacing / GTP_Tyrrell / dark blue
3. AudiMan2011 / Street-King-07 / Starlight Black
4. watermelonpunch / wat3rm370n / Tomato Red
5. tezgm99 / tezgm99 / Amaranth Pearl purple
6. John Wells / johnwells69 / tan
7. cobrius / cobrius / yellow

Bonus Race: 3 laps @ Terra Toscana (Toscana tarmac)

1. AudiMan2011 / Street-King-07 / Starlight Black
2. TyrrellRacing / GTP_Tyrrell / dark blue
3. Phouchg / xNikodemusx / yellow
4. watermelonpunch / wat3rm370n / Tomato Red
5. John Wells / johnwells69 / tan

Only had time to watch the 1st replay...

Probably 1st time I've ever qualified on pole position.

more..

 

[watermelon punch]

Thanks everybody for racing!
Very exciting event!

And for anyone interested, I'm next hoping to plan this:

Check it out in the club forum:
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/group.php?do=discuss&group=&discussionid=4451

Bit faster ;o) but very vintage, and quite stylish, plus a pretty fun drive. 👍

 

[Phouchg]

Woooo! 1st in the comeback of VCRC!! That Audiman gave me a really really tough fight though. Tezgm99 probably should be in 4th though

Talking about Tez he (?) was really in the fight at high speed ring. Watching the replay one of the most interesting moments was when melon touched him in to a biig slide and i had to go by and in some way caught him so he didn't spin around. or maybe I just made it harder i don't know but on the replay it looked like i was helpful at least. ^^

 

[AudiMan2011]

2nd place overall in my first VCRC attempt is really impressive for me. I fought my hardest in all the races especially at High Speed Ring.

 

[Phouchg]

That definitely was the tightest finish, i won by 3 hundreds if i remember correctly. knew you would take me in the corner but took that wide line to get good speed out of the corner and it really worked.

 

[watermelon punch]

doh! Corrected.
I always manage to do a copy/paste error or mess it up somehow when I rush to get results posted. Sorry about that.

At any rate, the Lemons race was very close for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd.
That was something new for me. Qualifying in first (astonishing), and finishing in 3rd less than 1 second behind the winner.
I took a picture of the screen with my cell phone - but the picture is kind of blurry in that area.
I think the finishes were:
2nd: + .33
3rd: + .54

 

[tezgm99]

Woooo! 1st in the comeback of VCRC!! That Audiman gave me a really really tough fight though. Tezgm99 probably should be in 4th though

Talking about Tez he (?) was really in the fight at high speed ring. Watching the replay one of the most interesting moments was when melon touched him in to a biig slide and i had to go by and in some way caught him so he didn't spin around. or maybe I just made it harder i don't know but on the replay it looked like i was helpful at least. ^^

Yeah, I was right with you guys but slid wide in the final turn and couldn't get off the wall. By the time I did, I had lost the draft

And that save....I have no idea how I did it. I saved the replay but am too scared to watch it

 

[Johnnypenso]

Looks like I missed a another great VCRC event Congrats Niko 👍👍.

What I want to know is how you get your pictures so crisp and clear and bright. This car looks like a premium in these pics:idea:

 

[watermelon punch]

Looks like I missed a another great VCRC event Congrats Niko 👍👍.

What I want to know is how you get your pictures so crisp and clear and bright. This car looks like a premium in these pics:idea:

ha ha
I'm always waiting for someone to ask me how I manage to get good pics of standard vintage cars.
It's not always easy. But I'm so motivated to try because they're just so cool!!! ha ha
And I wind up taking the photomodes at different light levels, shutter speeds, panning, and focal length, and scrapping a great deal even after they make it transferred to my computer.

I would say for difficult ones that look kind of crappy - focal length is an excellent tool to disguise the flaws.
The 4 photos you picked out were completely undoctored (like no photoshop minipulation other than resizing them for the web).
But all 4 of those were taken at a pretty high zooming in number in the focal length setting.

But in fact this Skyline 62 I think is one of the better standard cars. There are definitely definitely some that are much better than others. I'd consider the Skyline 62 to be at the mid range toward the better side.

A good comparison is to check out the Honda Today. That's a good example, off the top of my head, of a really crappy standard. You don't even need to take it out on the track - just take it into GT Auto, and prepare to recoil in horror.

Another difficult one is the Galant 70 - definitely toward the worse end. And what's more it's not an attractive car overall. But I really enjoy driving it so I want to organize a race with it bad. So I worked hard to get some attractive photos of it.

https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/group.php?do=discuss&group=&discussionid=4450

All the photos in the Galant 70 collage were taken at high focal length setting. Not perfect, but best I could do with a crappy standard.

In "walk around" mode, I back up as far as I can from the car.
Go into camera, zoom out as far as I can with the zoom tool.
Then go into the settings, and zoom in as much as possible on the focal length.

Works wonders.

But I have a suspicion even that couldn't help the Honda Today.

Not that anyone besides me is interested in driving the Honda Today.