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View media item 2534The new combo Practice Time Trial events are now live.​

The Leader Boards can be found here.

All previous TT Leader Boards can be viewed by selecting the appropriate tab at the bottom.

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DesertPenguin09
I came around on the Chaser. It as just a matter of learning how to drive with the weight and find the limit in the tires. It should be good in a race, especially us D5 guys! :cheers:
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That's how you have to approach every single car. I always start conservative, finding some general braking points, then try to push hard on 2 laps to feel what the car wants to do under hard braking, trailbraking, at the apex, and under load on exit. Then I think analyze what happened in those 2 laps during a slow down lap, to find out where the car performs well. I used to go hard right away, but when you overshoot corners, your setup for the next corner is ruined, so you can't find a braking for it, or the right apex for that car.

You also have to throw away the braking points for the previous car that was at that track, unless it's a car from the same class. Only then can those braking points serve as a starter. Every car has a different challenge. Braking points are different, but so are acceleration points, and lines through corners. The results will decide who has been able to adjust the quickest. Thus you have SNAIL racing!
 
Dragonwhisky
Can you be more specific?
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bowler put a quick list of cars and tracks at the bottom of the FAQ. It's a simple quick look to remind me of the cars I need to buy. He put it there last week and gave 5 shells for the first person to find it (I wasn't eligible!)

Went looking at it and it's not updated :(

Edit: sorry in the FUD
 
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Hey everyone. I could use your help. The picture I took and posted here recently made it to the next round, but I'm seriously in the hole at the moment. Please take 10 seconds to click this link and like my picture. Even better if you share the link with some others.

Picture Contest Photo

Thanks.
 
CoachMK21
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Hey everyone. I could use your help. The picture I took and posted here recently made it to the next round, but I'm seriously in the hole at the moment. Please take 10 seconds to click this link and like my picture. Even better if you share the link with some others.

Picture Contest Photo

Thanks.
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wasn't there another site that you were in the contest with I thought I already voted. Will hack the wifes FB too and vote plus post it from her FB she has more friends then I. (start jokes now!)
 
Die_Birdy_Die
wasn't there another site that you were in the contest with I thought I already voted. Will hack the wifes FB too and vote plus post it from her FB she has more friends then I. (start jokes now!)
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It's the same photo. I made it through round 1. This is round 2. Thanks!
 
Die_Birdy_Die
bowler put a quick list of cars and tracks at the bottom of the FAQ. It's a simple quick look to remind me of the cars I need to buy. He put it there last week and gave 5 shells for the first person to find it (I wasn't eligible!)

Went looking at it and it's not updated :(

Edit: sorry in the FUD
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That would be because it's now here.

I would like to recommend all Snails put this link (https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/board/snail-racing-league.384/) in their favorites/bookmarks/home page(s) for quick reference of all things operational with SNAIL. We are still working out the kinks however so, bear with us as we do.
 
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SNAIL Consolidated Stats
has been updated with the data from the July 2015 season.​

Thanks to all the Scorekeepers and Data Specialists!​


SNAIL Stat of the Month: All-Time Points​

As of the end of last season, July 2015, here are the top 10 drivers in all-time points:
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I bring up this stat (see the rest of the rankings here) because we have two drivers very close to the 10,000 points mark. Wow! After last Sunday, for the rest of the month @cmbeal317 just needs to average 48.2 points per night and @TRL_Importlife needs to average almost 76 points per night to reach 10,000. Very impressive run guys!
 
Falango
Every car has a different challenge. Braking points are different, but so are acceleration points, and lines through corners.
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Makes me think of my step-son when he was trying out Drive Club...I walked in and saw him in a line of cars...mix of Lotus Elise and some big heavy Aston Martin...all driving the same line with the same braking points. I just walked away...nothing to see there.
 
CoachMK21
PLEASE READ ME. ​


Hey everyone. I could use your help. The picture I took and posted here recently made it to the next round, but I'm seriously in the hole at the moment. Please take 10 seconds to click this link and like my picture. Even better if you share the link with some others.

Picture Contest Photo

Thanks.
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done did it! can't do it again Won't let me.
 
MikeGrove
@Oshawa-Joe

@Lessen

Never Give up! Lol
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Thanks, but I've had nothing but technical problems on Sundays since about March or so. I love the community and close competition that can be had, but this game just isn't as fun as it used to be. Even if I had time to practice like I used to I find it hard to get motivated to play a sim that is far inferior from a gameplay standpoint. Bring on GT7, but it better be REALLY good...
 
Falango
That's how you have to approach every single car. I always start conservative, finding some general braking points, then try to push hard on 2 laps to feel what the car wants to do under hard braking, trailbraking, at the apex, and under load on exit. Then I think analyze what happened in those 2 laps during a slow down lap, to find out where the car performs well. I used to go hard right away, but when you overshoot corners, your setup for the next corner is ruined, so you can't find a braking for it, or the right apex for that car.

You also have to throw away the braking points for the previous car that was at that track, unless it's a car from the same class. Only then can those braking points serve as a starter. Every car has a different challenge. Braking points are different, but so are acceleration points, and lines through corners. The results will decide who ha been able to adjust the quickest. Thus you have SNAIL racing!
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@DesertPenguin09

I was like Falango once upon a time. I would over drive the car and try to tone it down. That led too two bad habits, always racing in a frantic state, and ha ing a tendency to continue over driving the car on race day. Now that I am returning I've found that taking it slow (this is the hard part, so counter intuitive as to what you think you should do) with comfort tires on let's me get to better feel the car on the track, and learn where the trouble spots are. I increase my speed until I find the edge, run laps there, for a few, then put race day tires on and start all over. This has had the effect of learning where the cars limits are, how it handles on those limits, and also keeping my state of mind calmer.
 
Rallywagon
@DesertPenguin09

I was like Falango once upon a time. I would over drive the car and try to tone it down. That led too two bad habits, always racing in a frantic state, and ha ing a tendency to continue over driving the car on race day. Now that I am returning I've found that taking it slow (this is the hard part, so counter intuitive as to what you think you should do) with comfort tires on let's me get to better feel the car on the track, and learn where the trouble spots are. I increase my speed until I find the edge, run laps there, for a few, then put race day tires on and start all over. This has had the effect of learning where the cars limits are, how it handles on those limits, and also keeping my state of mind calmer.
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A long, long, time ago, @TEX36 @Skills and I would work on combos together, and it was quite helpful to start by running a compound harder than Sunday Night specified for early practice sessions. In some cars, this wasn't a huge deal, but others really made you focus on your braking, and smooth inputs. Once you threw the expected compound back on the tire, you were ready for when the tire started to show wear, and more able to know where to start your moves.

Practice is like a corner - (go) slow in(to the start of a practice session), (to become) fast out(side of practice)

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I have finished my review of the 5 incidents this week.
 
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Hey! Watch this video. It's an inside look at how the unique Math Rock band Battles records. The music is from their new album due out this fall. Their music like no other. Check it out!

 
DesertPenguin09
Hey! Watch this video. It's an inside look at how the unique Math Rock band Battles records. The music is from their new album due out this fall. Their music like no other. Check it out!

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Interesting Penguin but I think you need to post that on a music thread not a racing thread.
As for car-toons I'm on hiatus until my head fills up with more meaningless humour!!!
 

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