Week 82: Grand Valley!

[Kent]

The Car:
Any of these S-Class Arcade Cars:
Calsonic Skyline
Loctite Skyline
Castrol Supra
Denso Supra
Arta NSX
Castrol Mugen NSX
Astra Touring Car
Vertigo Race Car

The Track: Grand Valley (forward)

The Race: Arcade Mode: Free Run: Best Single Lap

The Rules:
1. You must have 2 tires on the track at all times.
2. The rumble strips are considered part of the track.
3. No wall riding or touching.
4. No cutting the grass or short cutting.
5. No hybrids
6. No cheating of any kind.
7. Save Your Submitted Lap Replay

Time Discussion: All "T" Times.

The deadline: All Times Due before 00.00hrs Central Standard Time (New Orleans, Louisiana, America), Tuesday the 21st. (Same as 06.00hrs London. Tuesday the 21st.)
The World
My Time Zone

Send all final times via PM to Me. (GoKents)
Remember to include your division.

btw, hope you guys and girls don't mind the race coming up early.

 

[Ev0]

I can't ask for a better combo! Kents, you pwn!

*edit* Just ran 10 laps, and I clocked a T2 of 52.999 and a T3 of 1'11.0xx

 

[HareTurtle]

I can't ask for a better combo! Kents, you pwn!

Kent may be many things, but he ain't a "pwn"!!

Looks like a fun combo. 👍 Hope I have a little more time this week.

 

[RacyBacy]

I wonder what car will turn out to be the fastest. I'll give it a go today and see what comes up best.

 

[oxygenuk]

id like to see more weeklys like this, arcade cars! and a choice of cars to choose from a very good weekly kents hope to see more like it, i should be competing in this one!

 

[Famine]

I'm back in!

Sorry - I just HATE Swiss Alps. I would never drive it voluntarily.

 

[Kent]

Just thought I would pop in and let everyone know what's up.

First off,
School is cancelled for me today (community college in new orleans and slidell... Louisiana & hurricane Ivan seem to wanna fight it out ).

So results might be up with in a few hours.

Also,
The fastest car for this track.

In my opinion it's the vertigo.
Although the astra and the denso are also good choices.

On that same note though, the NSXs are going to be fast, and the skylines handle fairly well.

So good luck everyone.
Catch you a little later today of course.

And famine, glad to have you back. 👍
Hareturtle,
Thanks for sticking up for me.

And Ev0,
Im not the king, but I am surely not a pawn!
Watch out too cause you might have to learn that the hard way.
(mr. uberwootage!)

Good luck guys, I will be back soon with my times, but at the moment I want to let all the div 1 runners start posting just so I don't scare any one off.

Till then,
-

 

[Pink_the_Floyd]

The Car:
Any of these S-Class Arcade Cars:
Calsonic Skyline
Loctite Skyline
Castrol Supra
Denso Supra
Arta NSX
Castrol Mugen NSX
Astra Touring Car
Vertigo Race Car

The Track: Grand Valley (forward)

The Race: Arcade Mode: Free Run: Best Single Lap

The Rules:
1. You must have 2 tires on the track at all times.
2. The rumble strips are considered part of the track.
3. No wall riding or touching.
4. No cutting the grass or short cutting.
5. No hybrids
6. No cheating of any kind.
7. Save Your Submitted Lap Replay

Time Discussion: All "T" Times.

The deadline: All Times Due before 00.00hrs Central Standard Time (New Orleans, Louisiana, America), Tuesday the 21st. (Same as 06.00hrs London. Tuesday the 21st.)
The World
My Time Zone

Send all final times via PM to Me. (GoKents)
Remember to include your division.

btw, hope you guys and girls don't mind the race coming up early.

I knew you'd pick out that combo 👍

 

[Luxy]

Also, The fastest car for this track.

In my opinion it's the vertigo.
Although the astra and the denso are also good choices.

On that same note though, the NSXs are going to be fast, and the skylines handle fairly well.
-

Well, I can tell you it's not gonna be the astra I was really hoping that it'd be competitive. Oh well ... It's easily a couple of seconds slower than the denso. I haven't tried the NSX, Skyline or Vertigo yet. After a few laps in the denso, T2 51.9, T3 1'09.high (don't quote me on that, I wasn't watching T3 very closely).

 

[Eagle]

I probably won't get to run for a day or two yet, sounds fun though. I wouldn't have picked the Vertigo, I would have thought one of the Skylines or Supras would take the crown, but we'll see what magic GoKents has in store once we get far enough long in T times.

 

[Sough]

gotta be the vertigo

 

[unified]

Well.. I'm DEFINITELY in this one. Haven't been able to play much lately.. Someone pushed my PS2 off the stand and it landed on a stone/tile floor.. So needless to say, my machine isn't really functional. But I just may have to steal my brother's and get in on this. Lots of good cars to choose from this week... See you all on the results page

 

[Gt3Emperor]

Yeah, ditto Famine....about the slidin' around in the dirt...

I love Grand Valley.....but it doesn't like me. I'm fairly mediocre there, but I'll try to see what I can do with one of these sweet cars. 👍

Due to my 'huge sponsorship' package.....I've got one of each of these babies in my 'arcade garage' right now.....I merely have to decide which one I feel like driving right now! Hmmm....let's strap on the helmet and take the Castrol Supra out to set a baseline time.

Well, a few laps in the Supra with a lot of improvements to be made.....so far

T-1 = 18.8's
T-2 = 51.7's
T-3 = 1:09.4

I hope I can improve generally as I test some of these other cars....Let's see what the Vertigo will run? 💡

 

[Kent]

Don't forget it's Arcade Cars only GT3Emp.

And on that note...
Welcome back gt3emperor!

Glad to see you found your way over here, hope you enjoy the race.

For now I'm gonna have to leave but I hope to get a few astra laps in just for the fun of it.

Till I get back with some times,
Later.

 

[Gt3Emperor]

Glad to be drivin' 'Kents' 👍 Yeah....Arcade hotrods.

By the way, your 'fortune cookie' says' "....beware of any weather systems starting with the letter 'I' " .....hope you can outrun it. Let us know how things go with the 'storm'....you may get stuck with a mandatory evacuation judging by how things look now.

 

[Famine]

GT3Emperor's back!

*holds a party*

 

[Tedehur]

I knew you'd pick out that combo 👍

Thanks to 1) Mr. P ; 2) me ; everybody was expecting this combo.
I'll give a try to all these cars later tonight.

 

[Smallhorses]

Nooooooooooo!
A great combo and I'm 550 miles from my PS2!
Back on Thursday night, then flying to Boston on Sunday.... 2 days to post a semi-competitive time. Hmmm.

 

[made in holland]

Think I'll take my good old Vertigo out of his shelter and run a couple of laps around GV.

After all, Arcade is fun!!!

 

[tuff240]

T Times leaderboard is up: http://www.tuff240.com/week82.htm

Sorry I missed last week, just had too much going on.

I also won't be able to update past about 5pm California time on Saturday as I'm leaving for the rest of the weekend.

 

[Gt3Emperor]

I drove a handful of laps with the Vertigo....it's interesting how close it is to the Supra's.....but, it's faster. It will take a different driving style then I'm using to get the most out of it. So, I'll save it for another day.....I'll go back to the Supra's and see if I can improve with in them first.

Denso Supra:

T-1 = 19.009
T-2 = 51.740
T-3 =1:09.473

I know I'm leaving at least .400 on the table because I've run a 18.6 T-1....

 

[usernamed]

Great combo Kent 👍

Did a couple laps in the Vertigo , then jumped in the castrol and then did some laps in the Arta NSX. The Vertigo was really good all around. The gear ration seemed to fit the track, and so did the brakes. The Castrol had a longer gears and couldn't accelarate fast enough, so I ditched it. I then took out the Arta NSX, and it was the most fun I had in a while 👍

It fits the track well, but it isn't as fast...Still deciding which one to take, but for the time being I'm in the Vertigo. I managed to get a T2 of 51.9xx. I'll update later.

 

[Sough]

First of all, its great to see you gt3emperor!

I wont be racing but here's some times to shoot for.

nsx-Edmar has a blazing tt7 at 1:42.552, available here http://www.davidanderson.org.uk/tt.htm

supras-In an instant race a while back I nailed a lap with the castrol toms at 1:42.514, available here in sharkport form http://gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=35611&page=3&pp=20

vertigo-i remember getting a 1:41.9 in free run but I didn't save the replay.

good luck all.

 

[Gt3Emperor]

Is Villeneuve back in F-1? Do tell....

Hey Sough! Yeah, I remember how fast you are at G.V. (and everywhere else)

I won't be challenging any of those times....that's for sure, but I'll just see if I can improve on my previous best.

Are you waiting for GT4 or are you in school?

 

[usernamed]

Is Villeneuve back in F-1? Do tell....

Kind of. Check out the f1 forum.

Decided to go with the NSX. Less competition

 

[rollazn]

One awesome combo Kent!! You can bet your ass that Im going to participate and I am to try my hardest.

What is awesome is that the due date is on my birthday too! Wouldn't it be awesome if I won on my birthday ? Haha.

Anyways good luck to all.

 

[Ev0]

lol Kents, I mean this type of pwn

You'd be holding the gun in this case

Ran some more laps, and it saddens me to say that my favourite car in the game, the Calsonic Skyline just isn't fast enough . Tried some laps in the Vertigo and the Denso, and almost instantly got into 1'10 T3s. I'll probably still end up running some laps in the Calsonic though, just to see how it stacks up by the end of the week.

 

[Goomba]

T3 of 1'09.2something with the Vertigo. It's not nearly as stable as the Denso, but its faster.

 

[Sphinx]

Did this earlier and about to have another go for an hour before bed:

T1: 0'18.390
T2: 0'50.868
T3: 1'08.576

Edit: Still loads to come off this one

 

[Mr P]

Best T2 so far is 50.340 ..... in save it's .1 slower.