100 Laps of Complex String!

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Attempt Date: October 1st, 2003
Attempt Time: 9:00am Mountain Standard Time
Car of Choice: Mazda RX7 RZ
Car Horsepower: 595hp
Morale Support: Tofu4G63, who will also be attempting this.

Wish us luck!
 
Start Time: 1:30pm
Finish Time: 12:45pm
Breaks: Dinner and socializing
Total Driving Time: 7hrs and 20mins, roughly
Car: Mazda RX-7 Type RZ
Horsepower Before: 597hp (no oil change)
Horsepower After: 599hp (no oil change)
Mileage Before: 40mi
Mileage After: 759mi
Best Lap: 4'08.756
Worst Lap: 4'33.026
Replay Saved: Lap 9
Oil Light: Lap 21
Cones Knocked Down: 32
Brake Markers Knocked Down: 0
Beverages Consumed: Three 12oz Pepsi, one 12oz Wild Cherry Pepsi, one 16oz Monster energy drink, one medium Starbucks chocolate thing.
Morale Support: Chris (Tofu4G63 and our friend Drew)
Comments: I woke up late, so it was clear that we wouldn't start at our expected time. Then, I learned that my Hyundai is now being totalled 👍. So we had to go to the body shop, rip out the stereo, and then eat lunch, and them got started. To tell the truth, its not the bad. I was entertained for all those laps. The only suck thing was not having any back support. Hard to say if I want to try another insane endurance like this again.
Proof:
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Start time: 1:30PM
Finish time: 1:00AM
Drive Time: Roughly 7hrs and 30mins
Vehicle: Mitsubishi Lancer EVO VII GSR in Palma Red with some spiffy rims yipee
HP Before: 576HP with oil change
HP After: 582HP with oil change
Mileage Before: .6miles..... had to see what she could do in the 1/4
Mileage After: 719.6
Best Lap: 4'19.926
Worst Lap: 4'56.962.... yeah you see the controller died... totally went dead..... I think its time for a new one
Replay Save: Lap 27
Oil Change Light: Lap 27
Cones Knocked Down: 38
Brake Markers Knocked Down: 3
Caffeine Count: Bout the same as VG30DETT (Mike) seeing how as we did it at the exact same time
Proof:
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Maybe we're taking this a bit too far... but... we did this afterwards, to celebrate. (Do not look at the insane camber on the RX7)

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Well done both of you! You're now one of a very, very small amount of people in the world who have completed this huge race!. :D

I like all thoese celebratory pictures you took too. :cool:

Who's next? ;)
 
Finally....... jeez man what took so long......

Throw your riches upon us... hail us as saviors.

Oh yeah lol thanx

You like the nice smokey burnouts eh....... thats what GT4 needs..... gigantic bunout clouds...... and rubber left to the tarmac.
 
lol i dont think this one will ever die my friend........ it started quite a long time ago...... lol ........... and seeing how as im electronically tied to my house..... i think i just might be an ass and do 500 laps .......... :eek: am i mentally retarded?
 
Tofu: I dont believe you did that with the ghost car on, wouldve bugged the **** out of me for a 100 laps, nice job setting fastest lap on ya last
 
Whoever takes up this challenge, is a True Gran Turismo Driver/Fan/Crazy Nutcase in my opinion.
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How True...

Ill have to do this this winter vacation and you guys will have to just trust me that i did it. Ill just have to make sure that my bro-in-law has strep throat that day so i have the time to do it.
 
I got an idea...

"WE"(as in you guys) should take the fully modded Escud to the complex string...just buy it add the stage 4 turbo and go(no mesin with anything like suspension, gears, wings.
 
Alright, i just ran this 100 laps (and boy are my legs tired)

Car: Nissan 390 Road Car
Horsepower: 544
start time: 5:26 am
finish time: 1.37 pm
total time: 6 hours, 58 minutes, 4.198 seconds
fastest lap: 4:05.031 on lap 98
slowest lap: 4:21.675 on lap 1
mileage before: 55.7
mileage after: 764.4
replay saved: lap 9
oil light: lap 27
cones down: 13
markers down: 0

I would run 3 laps in a row and then pause to write down the times and have a drink. After lap 50 I stopped for about half an hour for something to eat. For the first half I averaged about 4:13. The second half saw an average of 4:09. I tried to take a picture of the screen but my girlfriend drained the battery on my camera. I have the fastest lap (#98) saved so I'll get a pic and post it later.
 
Well welcome to the club Speedy. Defineately tiring but worth it I think.

LOL and yes Bollocks it was a slight challenge to have the ghost on the whole time, but damn was I happy that I finally did break 4'20 ...... and on the last lap...... that made the whole thing that much better.
 
I put my EVO's AWD system to use dammit......... lets see I think I knocked down lets see....... tons of those brake marker's on the side of the road. LOL so no not totally necesary to stay on the road but in the end much quicker.
 
Originally posted by Bollocks#999
Time start : 9.00 am
Time Finish 7.00 pm
Total Time 6hr:55.52.642
Fastest Lap 4:06.845 on lap 83
Slowest Lap 4:18.743 on lap 36 (hyge off going through the fist slalom section, went around twice)
Horsepower Before: 598, After 558, Oil Change 586
Mileage Approx 610-620 before, 1752.8km after
Distance Covered 1104.8 km
oil light came on lap 27 at the circle thingys at 297.8 km
knocked over 14 cones no brake markers and had 2 spins
did this in 20 lap blocks stopping every 3 laps to write down lap times
also had no kind of seat so my back is quite sore :(
Settings
Front/Rear
Springs: 15.5/13.5
Ride Height 77/77
Damper Bound 10/10
Damper Rebound 10/8
Camber 2.5/1.5
Toe 0/0
Stabilisers 6/5
Brakes 17/13
Gearing
Lsd 5/10/5
1st 3.004
2nd 2.151
3rd 1.629
4th 1.288
5th 1.064
6th .917
Final 3.225
Auto 21
Asm & Tcs off

Parts Listing
Full custom susp, Sports brakes, Brake controller, Semi race muffler, Chip, Stage 2 NA tune, Port polished, Balanced, Full custom gearbox, Triple plate clutch, Race flywheel, Full custom Lsd, Carbon driveshaft, T8 tyres (Super soft F/R), stage 3 lightweight
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just a reminder here for ya's guys on what i did
 
You can use a car you've already driven. I had 1000km's on my Z when i did it. (my Z is set up mainly for drifting too...)
 
Just finished!

Car: Ruf RGT
Total time: 7 hours, 10 minutes, 29.3 seconds
Average lap: 4.18.293
Fastest lap: 4.09.331
Slowest lap: 4.32.405
Starting mileage: 234 with 591hp
Ending mileage: 946 with 552hp (with oil change, up to 579hp)

Complex string has always been my favorite track, so I've been looking forward to getting the time to do this. Lap times started out very inconsistent, then I stopped crashing and in the last 30 laps the times didn't vary by more than 5 seconds or so.

Am I really only the 7th person to do this? I'm a little surprised there aren't more people doing this race, its not all that bad. Like VG30DETT said, its entertaining.

Michael K
 
For those interested, here are the statistics of all the racers who have posted complete times here so far:

1)Famine: 6hrs,26min,24sec. Fast lap:3.48.8, Slow lap:3.59.3
2)Bollocks#999: 6hrs,55min,52sec. Fast lap:4.06.8, Slow lap:4.18.7
3)SpeedySamurai: 6hrs,58min,4sec. Fast lap:4.05, Slow lap:4.21
4)DodgetheViper: 7hrs,24sec. Fast lap:4.04, Slow lap:4:20
5)Michael K: 7hrs,10min,29sec. Fast lap:4.09 Slow lap:4.32
6)VG30DETT: 7hrs,20min. Fast lap:4.08, Slow lap:4.33
7)Mustang Man: 7hrs,28min. Fast lap:4:19, Slow lap:4.40
8)Tofu4G63: 7hrs,30min. Fast lap:4.19, Slow lap:4.56

Cars used:
Famine - GT-One Road Car
Bollocks#999 - Speed 6
Speedy Samurai - R390 Road Car
Dodge the Viper - RGT
Michael K - RGT
VG30DETT - RX-7 RZ
Mustang Man - 300zx
Tofu4G63 - Evo 7
 
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