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24H Le Mans Lan Party ESAC 2013
Introduction:
Well, were should I start guys? How about a good old fashion Hi?!
The reason Im creating this threat is to share the experience me and a friend of mine will be having for the next 3 days. We will be participating in a Lan Party. It´s a 3 day event located at my school gymnasium and will be having 300-500 Players from all around the country. Most of them will be playing computer games (Like League of Legends, Counter Strike, Trackmania, etc.). We stay there from Friday to Sunday all day and all night! Those who stay awake the two nights, well, look pretty much like zombies at the end of the event! So what can Gran Turismo relate to this?
Well, we decided to take on the 24H of Le Mans in Gran Turismo 5! A challenge many players have completed but not us! What better place to do it right? When the idea started coming together, we went to work! We started the trainings in the begging of the year, trying every car capable of whining this race. From Premium to Standards we spent money, after money, after money, trying to find what car fitted our driving style better. I must point out that we are far from being the best drivers of this game. I can tell right away we will be having a hard race on our hands! We are not the best but that makes the race even more interesting! Back to the car choice, we bought the 1992 Peugeot 905 and fall in love with it right away. The engine noise, the stability, the power everything pointed out to an approval and so it was! We will take it with no tuning what so ever (not mechanically or aerodynamically)!
Last year event photo, this should give you an idead about the place.
Me and my friend will be playing with some differences. I will take no driving aids (no ABS, no TC, or any other aids). He will have TC at 1 and ABS at 1. We managed to get an average of 3:31:000 around La Sarthe!
The Material we will be using is a very big SD TV (Yes I know, very old school), our PS3 (of course), and GT5 (of course x2). We sadly didn´t managed to get a headset for the Ps3 so we will have difficulties with the sound (300+ People = Very Loud Place).
One of the many training and testing sessions we had...
So I just wanted to introduce this event to you guys I will be updating through the next days with thoughts, race reports, news, photos, everything! I didn´t post this on the Race Report Section because it is way more than that. It is a big experience that goes way beyond a race report. I want everyone to enjoy reading this topic the way we will enjoy writing it!
The Event:
Sorry I was so late to make a full review about the event. I had to get some rest and collect all the files needed to make a good report. To start of let me introduce myself and my mate.
Me on the left and my mate Bruno on the right.
DAY 22
4PM-6PM: I arrived with some of my friends to get our stuff into the Lan Party, it was about 4PM. We were a total of 9 guys divided by 2 teams (Team Vá & Team GT), me and my friend Bruno belonged to the GT Team (of course). The weather was threatening to rain, whoever the there was a lot (a really mean a lot), people waiting to do check in. At 6PM our stuff was all connected and working including our TV and Ps3.
Our cockpit!
7PM: Has my friend arrived we trained for about 5Laps. Originally we didn`t wanted to tune the car, but we decided it was best to raise the top speed to 400km/h. Has we were ready to move the Race finally started! We decided to change sit In our second PIT STOP.
THE GRID:
THE START:
THE START:
7PM-5AM: We raced for a total of 8H on the first night (if I`m not mistaken), we paused the game to go get some dinner and resumed the raced for a few more hours. We were fighting to get past the Audi R8 with decent time. Many guys passed by us asking what we were doing. When we said we were doing a 24H Race many called us crazy. We accepted that has a complement! We decided to get some sleep before getting through the second night so we suspended the race and went home!
3:30 HOURS IN THE RACE
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DAY 23 & 24
2PM (DAY 23) -7AM (DAY 24): I arrived after a small sleep and went straight to the race. I did a lot of hours alone since my friend decided to sleep a little bit more >.< We were doing well ahead of our biggest rival (the Audi R8).
My Friends helping me concentrate.
Has the day continued, we were getting tired but we were very happy with the support given from the people at the Lan Party. It was days full of emotion.
19 HOURS IN THE RACE:
At around 7AM we were doing the last lap in 1º place, 1Lap ahead of the Audi. We all partied so hard when we crossed the Line. It was some amazing Stuff.
THE ENDING:
It was an amazing event, I wished I could post a better report and review but I`m kinda short on time. If you guys have any questions please ask! I Hope you guys like this review! Cheers!
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