Belisario93's GT Stories - C3 Vette Chapter 2 up!

[Belisario93]

Welcome to my thread for my GT Stories. Most of my stories will be pretty small, so I decided I would do a thread for all of them. Enjoy, and please provide feedback!

Table of Contents:
C3 Corvette Story

Chapter 1
Chapter 2​

 

[Belisario93]

C3 Vette Chapter 1
It was January 5th, 2008. I was playing a racing sim on my PS3 and my mom was on the phone. When she got off she walked to my room, crying. I had a feeling that she had bad news, so I paused the game and she told me that my grandpa had died from a heart attack. I began to feel very doleful. She also had some good news. In my grandpa's will, he gave me his most prized possesion: a white 1969 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray. He used to give me rides in that car on the mountain road towards Estes Park. I couldn't believe he gave it to me, an 18 year old Senior in High School. I cryed, both out of happiness and sorrow. I went to bed and slept.

The next morning I woke up at about 8 and at about 10 I went to pick up the car. It was the first time I ever drove it, and it felt great. Soon an idea came to my head: what if I raced it? I knew a lot of tuning shops in the Loveland area, and I knew a little bit about racing in the simulator I drove in. And I'm sure my grandpa would love to see me get off the game and actually do something. I presented the idea to my mom, and she approved after about the 50th time I asked. I searched online for a small race series I could enter, and found something called the family cup. Basically, all I had to do was post on their forums asking for a race and once eenough people reply saying they will enter, we set up a date and time. I posted for a race at a track called Mid-Field, found in the mountains near Estes Park. We were going to race on March 30. When I went to school the next day I looked for some people that would be interested in being part of my pit crew. I also called my dad (who was divorced with my mom) to see if he wanted to be my crew chief. By the end of February I had a pit crew and was ready to race. All I had to do was wait until race day...

 

[Parnelli Bone]

Heh heh..you sure got over that death pretty quick.

 

[Smallhorses]

Tantalising beginning.... let's see where this story goes!

👍

 

[Ev0 4 drifter]

Interesting start, would like to see where this goes

 

[VTiRoj]

Heh heh..you sure got over that death pretty quick.

Considering the chapter went from January to February faster than the Delorean ever could, I'd assume most people would've gotten over the death within a month too.

Interesting first chapter. Short, but it was sweet and to the point. :tup:

 

[Belisario93]

Thanks for the feedback! the second chapter will have the first race. It's almost ready and I'll have it done by tomorrow.

 

[Paulie]

Alright, a muscle car! I'll be following this one.

 

[Skygrasper550]

that's a nice B&W pic, 👍👍 asking your mother over 50 times?! Now THAT'S what I call "nagging".., a great start, love to read more!

 

[Belisario93]

C3 Vette Chapter 2
I sped through the cliffs made by the Big Thompson River, unable to wait to see what my car could do. When I got to the track I met my competitors and looked at their cars. All of them looked really nice: a dark red Fairlady Z, a dark blue NSX (I had never seen an NSX before that day), a silver Impreza, a blue Impreza, and finally a red RX-7. Then there was my car: and old and dirty american muscle car. Based on what I knew about the other cars, I would probably be outperformed in the corners, but the faster sections were mine. I prepared my car in the small ways I could, and then I was called onto the track over the intercom. I strapped into the car and drove to my spot on the grid. The yellow lights turned on, I flipped down my helmet visor, and the green light flashed.

I got off to a slow start because I was light on the throttle (I didn't want to spin the tires), but by the first corner I was back with the pack. When I got to the chicane I passed the RX-7 and on the next turn I passed the NSX and blue Impreza. I passed the Z cautiously on the hairpin near the end of the track and, believe it or not, took first place on the last chicane! Even I couldn't believe I had first place by the end of the lap! The second lap was pretty uneventful, with me playing the role of leader for the whole time (though I was really nervous about making a mistake). I took my first win! I was so happy, I might as well have been in heaven. I was also very pumped up. In fact, I was so pumped up I had one of my crew members drive me home because I didn't want a speeding ticket!

The following day I looked at the results online. They looked like this:

I didn't know I had such a big lead! Later that day I got a phone call from the SCCA Muscle Car Competition race organizers, who said that I was invited to be part of that series since one of their scouts saw my amazing win. I said I would show up, and once I was off the phone I yelled, jumped, and danced for joy. All I had to do then was buy some plane tickets to go to New York and wait for about 3 weeks.

 

[Paulie]

Excellent, the first race. Way to show those imports, it's about time. (Was the car stock?)

Edit: Woops, almost forgot, nice going, keep it up!

 

[Belisario93]

Excellent, the first race. Way to show those imports, it's about time. (Was the car stock?)

Edit: Woops, almost forgot, nice going, keep it up!

yes, the car was stock. I'm going to keep it stock until the races I enter it in are too hard for it, then I'll tune it just enough that I'll be able to win. There's one race that I plan on entering that I'll most likely need to fully tune it, but that won't be for a while.

thanks for the feedback, it definitely helps. I don't necessarily like my writing but I'm glad other people do!

 

[VTiRoj]

Is it because I've just woken up or does the Corvette still look black and white even in the colour pictures?

Its a ghost! Ahhhhhhhh!

A bit of a one sided race but that is a very large V8 against cars that dont even surpass 300 horses. And it just shows technology cant make up for a lack of power.

 

[Belisario93]

Is it because I've just woken up or does the Corvette still look black and white even in the colour pictures?

Its a ghost! Ahhhhhhhh!

A bit of a one sided race but that is a very large V8 against cars that dont even surpass 300 horses. And it just shows technology cant make up for a lack of power.

yeah. but think of it this way: if you had a very good import and some new person in racing has a muscle car, and you've been racing for many years, wouldn't you go against the new guy? Don't worry, there will be tougher races in the future.

 

[VTiRoj]

yeah. but think of it this way: if you had a very good import and some new person in racing has a muscle car, and you've been racing for many years, wouldn't you go against the new guy? Don't worry, there will be tougher races in the future.

On a track that had more corners, yes. On Midfield, I'd probably run to the HKS Turbo store beforehand.

 

[Watchman]

Nice story up to here Belisario93 👍 It's short, yes, but I like it as it is: simple, but interesting ..

Go on this way, buddy

Best wishes,

S-Line Audi Fan

 

[Belisario93]

I almost forgot you guys over here at GTP thank god I didn't take off my e-mail subscription to this topic

I'll add some more content soon, just give me a little bit