WSC VII - DrifterJoe, Snowcrash, Ford Champions!Finished 

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I'll take 60's Fuji with the banking, old Le Mans, Monza with no chicanes and the oval (oval had 2 chicanes in it in later years), and the Nurburgring Gesamtschleife (Nord and Sudschleife combined) with the unchanged pre 70's corners. It also apparenly had jumps/large bumps down the long straight, which were flattened.
 
Yeratel84
My only real problem is with my rear after a very long race (usually WSC Le Mans)... but I blame it mostly on the chair I have to use in order to be low enough to be comfortable with both wheel and pedal's position...
FordMKIVJ5
18inch CRT and wooden, straight backed dining chair for the win! :dopey:
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I use one of those kitchen table chairs and even double the amount of seat cushions aren't of help after 90 minutes of being seated for race driving. :ouch:
 
...................... Thinking of an electrical appliance here. And 3 hours? Took me best part of 10 to get everything sorted for this.

Tables come around friday.
 
Yeratel84
Furi, you do know that with GT6 allowing you to check gaps between each cars in replay you should've used this to create separate tables for each class...
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Not really. Anyone with functioning eyes should be able to figure it out. There's only so many hours in a day.
 
Furinkazen
Not really. Anyone with functioning eyes should be able to figure it out. There's only so many hours in a day.
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I don't think you understood what I was trying to say... I mentioned this because with top 3 in GT-O finishing in the same lap it would've been nice to know the gap between us last time we crossed the line...

EDIT: I would've figured it out by myself if I could see Snow, but he disappeared in my replay on lap 14...
 
This was, for sure, the weirdest win I ever managed to gain. And when I say "managed", it's more like it fell into my lap.

It started so well, with getting a nice lap for pole with 1:58.619, and I also succeeded in getting away in the lead and already had put a little space between me and second place, when on lap 4 a GT-P came by, undoubtedly catching up after some early mayhem, overtook me into turn 1 and I lost concentration so much that I ran wide into the wall. Apparently, I wasn't used to WSC-racing anymore. After stopping for repairs I was hoping to make a long stint to catch up, when I got overtaken into turn 1 by a GT-P and again lost it, spinning to the inside and getting damage to my front. Got the car going again, damage wasn't too bad, when, immediately after, Randy (Camikaze ; sorry, wrong Mustang) rams be in the back braking into Horseshoe. That is to say, I was braking, he apparently wasn't. I then limped around to the pits for some more practice time for my mechanics.

I had no clue how far I was down by then, I only knew I was 5th in class. Somewhere around that time, Yera must have vanished for me as well, so I was behind Chris, Daiba & Lout, especially after 1 or 2 other offs (mostly in turn 1 - I remember 2 GT-P's going by and getting nudged by one of them one time) that I fortunately didn't get damage from. Then the rain came and I pitted to change for wets at about 30%+, and out of habit, just clicked "ok" without changing the tyre type. So, not only had I made an unneeded pitstop, I had to get around the track with cold SS-tyres at almost 50% wetness. When I finally came in, I discovered I was one of the fools that hadn't bought heavy wets. I was contemplating giving up right then and there, just as Fox did, when someone said on the mic to Fox to just keep going and maybe get some points, and since this applied just as well to me, I left the pits again and suddenly the track began to dry up again. So I soldiered on after 2 pitstops I could have done without.

One time shortly after, I went off slightly in turn 1 again, and Daiba actually lapped me, so I guess I was at least 1.5 laps down on Yera then, because there was noone in sight ahead. I managed to lap myself back from Daiba a lap later and continued on for a while without any major things happening, my immediate opponents apparently elsewhere on the track.

Lout then disconnected, which brought me up to 3rd (actually 4th with invisible Yera), and then suddenly I passed both Daiba and Chris while they were in the pits, which came as a complete surprise. I thought I could make it to the end on tyres & fuel, so I thought I was in a good position. A couple of laps later though, I encountered Furi in form of a roadblock in the banking of the braking zone for turn 1. I don't exactly remember the specifics (must have been the impact causing amnesia), but I know I was starting to concentrate on my brake marker and saw him very late and tried to brake and go for the inside but rammed his back with still very high speed. My car was heavily damaged and I limped around the whole lap to the pits, Chris overtaking me in the process. Daiba had dropped back before that.

When I came out of the pits (must have been about 15 laps from the end), my plan was just to finish where I was, because Chris would surely be too far ahead and wouldn't have to stop anymore, but then, about 4 laps from the end, it was Chris going slow on the inside of the banking and suddenly I was in the GT-O lead! That is to say, I'm not sure how or where I got ahead of Yera.

So, very lucky win for me, feel like I have to apologise to Yera, who I thought had disconnected early on and I only somehow had missed the message popping up. Especially tough, because the combination of us two not seeing each other was the worst one in the field in terms of influence on strategy for you, so you got sort of robbed by PD. I guess, if there's anything to learn from this, it's to never give up on a race - you can never be sure what's going to happen.

First thing I did after the race was buy heavy wets.
 
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snowgt
This was, for sure, the weirdest win I ever managed to gain. And when I say "managed", it's more like it fell into my lap.

It started so well, with getting a nice lap for pole with 1:58.619, and I also succeeded in getting away in the lead and already had put a little space between me and second place, when on lap 4 a GT-P came by, undoubtedly catching up after some early mayhem, overtook me into turn 1 and I lost concentration so much that I ran wide into the wall. Apparently, I wasn't used to WSC-racing anymore. After stopping for repairs I was hoping to make a long stint to catch up, when I got overtaken into turn 1 by a GT-P and again lost it, spinning to the inside and getting damage to my front. Got the car going again, damage wasn't too bad, when, immediately after, Camikaze rams be in the back braking into Horseshoe. That is to say, I was braking, he apparently wasn't. I then limped around to the pits for some more practice time for my mechanics.

I had no clue how far I was down by then, I only knew I was 5th in class. Somewhere around that time, Yera must have vanished for me as well, so I was behind Chris, Daiba & Lout, especially after 1 or 2 other offs (mostly in turn 1 - I remember 2 GT-P's going by and getting nudged by one of them one time) that I fortunately didn't get damage from. Then the rain came and I pitted to change for wets at about 30%+, and out of habit, just clicked "ok" without changing the tyre type. So, not only had I made an unneeded pitstop, I had to get around the track with cold SS-tyres at almost 50% wetness. When I finally came in, I discovered I was one of the fools that hadn't bought heavy wets. I was contemplating giving up right then and there, just as Fox did, when someone said on the mic to Fox to just keep going and maybe get some points, and since this applied just as well to me, I left the pits again and suddenly the track began to dry up again. So I soldiered on after 2 pitstops I could have done without.

One time shortly after, I went off slightly in turn 1 again, and Daiba actually lapped me, so I guess I was at least 1.5 laps down on Yera then, because there was noone in sight ahead. I managed to lap myself back from Daiba a lap later and continued on for a while without any major things happening, my immediate opponents apparently elsewhere on the track.

Lout then disconnected, which brought me up to 3rd (actually 4th with invisible Yera), and then suddenly I passed both Daiba and Chris while they were in the pits, which came as a complete surprise. I thought I could make it to the end on tyres & fuel, so I thought I was in a good position. A couple of laps later though, I encountered Furi in form of a roadblock in the banking of the braking zone for turn 1. I don't exactly remember the specifics (must have been the impact causing amnesia), but I know I was starting to concentrate on my brake marker and saw him very late and tried to brake and go for the inside but rammed his back with still very high speed. My car was heavily damaged and I limped around the whole lap to the pits, Chris overtaking me in the process. Daiba had dropped back before that.

When I came out of the pits (must have been about 15 laps from the end), my plan was just to finish where I was, because Chris would surely be too far ahead and wouldn't have to stop anymore, but then, about 4 laps from the end, it was Chris going slow on the inside of the banking and suddenly I was in the GT-O lead! That is to say, I'm not sure how or where I got ahead of Yera.

So, very lucky win for me, feel like I have to apologise to Yera, who I thought had disconnected early on and I only somehow had missed the message popping up. Especially tough, because the combination of us two not seeing each other was the worst one in the field in terms of influence on strategy for you, so you got sort of robbed by PD. I guess, if there's anything to learn from this, it's to never give up on a race - you can never be sure what's going to happen.

First thing I did after the race was buy heavy wets.
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I was the one who said going. Last night proved anything can happen in endurance racing. Also My incident with you - game switched me to random AI control and I cannoballed into the wall coming off the banking for turn 1 and was crippled. Yesterday wasn't my night.

And first thing I did was buy wets. I also lost a whopping 24hp.
 
@snowgt At lap 67 (when you run damaged), yeratel went to pit to repair damaged. Yeratel spin on exit of pit and you past him (begin of lap 68, race time 2h 24'30). You win about 15 seconds.
 
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I watched basically the whole race while it was happening, and I still have no idea how you pulled off that win snow. Every time I watched you you had heavy damage, I thought you were done for. And Chris was 2 seconds off the pace for the whole race but still had a chance to win at the end. I was watching you chris when you had that huge shunt at turn 1 where you crashed into the barrier. And Yera I could not believe you did not make a pit stop when you had heavy damage. I was watching the split times (which you couldn't see obviously) and you were losing time drastically.
GT was certainly Open :D

Protos were a bit boring by comparison. Joe was lapping 3 seconds faster than anyone else at one point and just walked away with the win. Fox was the most fun to watch as he had a good battle with jammy early on and then with panoz later in the race.

So frustrating not to take part. Looking forward to Silverstone...
 
+1 to that, go to either Madrid or Rome - nice a tight city racing in the right style of an exhibition race (that this would be)

Thoughts? :P
 
Well I'm gonna pull out of this series sadly, I value my sleep more. Tired of this now, PD, its so little we ask for. Have fun with the rest of this đź‘Ť
 

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