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<bouncehopspin!!!!!> Oi vey.....ron! @05XR8 
. After trying what seemed to be a bazillion cars in time trial qualifying, I decided to try the Veyron for S&G. I figured I'd end up on the grass at T1 with the big lumbering drag car disguised as a race car. Bit of a shocker to find I had an easier time getting it around the chicane than most of the other cars 
. Try as I might I was getting 2:09s with most of the other cars, maybe the odd high 2:08. My previous qualy for this weekly was a low 2:08, which got me P2 for my very first race for the week, but that dropped to round P6-P9 through the week. Managed to break into the 2:07s with the Veyron. P2/18 <happy dance>. The predominant car was the GTR. Pre-race screen comes up and we are down to 15 starters with me being a very lonely Aussie on a grid of all Japanese. No English for pre-race comments. Then I see my starting position... P1!!! WTF?? I felt like I suddenly had a target on my back 
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I got bumped exiting the T1/T2 chicane, and lead the race from there. At one stage I had an 8s lead. I guess P2 made some mistakes. I'm surprised he wasn't eaten up by the pack. I'd see a big lead and keep expecting someone else to come flying up the track, but it didn't happen. I pitted on lap 5, grabbed fuel and tyres, saw me dropped to P6, but when I got back onto the track I was P1 again!
Last two laps I saw my Lead drop from 8s to 6s. I'd picked up a 0.6s penalty for going a bit wider than I wanted, I think it was T4, so no clean race bonus
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SR back up to 99 from 96, DR up 1.2K!!!! Another day above DR 1
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. After trying what seemed to be a bazillion cars in time trial qualifying, I decided to try the Veyron for S&G. I figured I'd end up on the grass at T1 with the big lumbering drag car disguised as a race car. Bit of a shocker to find I had an easier time getting it around the chicane than most of the other cars . Try as I might I was getting 2:09s with most of the other cars, maybe the odd high 2:08. My previous qualy for this weekly was a low 2:08, which got me P2 for my very first race for the week, but that dropped to round P6-P9 through the week. Managed to break into the 2:07s with the Veyron. P2/18 <happy dance>. The predominant car was the GTR. Pre-race screen comes up and we are down to 15 starters with me being a very lonely Aussie on a grid of all Japanese. No English for pre-race comments. Then I see my starting position... P1!!! WTF?? I felt like I suddenly had a target on my back . I got bumped exiting the T1/T2 chicane, and lead the race from there. At one stage I had an 8s lead. I guess P2 made some mistakes. I'm surprised he wasn't eaten up by the pack. I'd see a big lead and keep expecting someone else to come flying up the track, but it didn't happen. I pitted on lap 5, grabbed fuel and tyres, saw me dropped to P6, but when I got back onto the track I was P1 again!
Last two laps I saw my Lead drop from 8s to 6s. I'd picked up a 0.6s penalty for going a bit wider than I wanted, I think it was T4, so no clean race bonus
. SR back up to 99 from 96, DR up 1.2K!!!! Another day above DR 1
.Won't catch me racing next week then 🤬🤬
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Good stuff.<bouncehopspin!!!!!> Oi vey.....ron! @05XR8
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I got bumped exiting the T1/T2 chicane, and lead the race from there. At one stage I had an 8s lead. I guess P2 made some mistakes. I'm surprised he wasn't eaten up by the pack. I'd see a big lead and keep expecting someone else to come flying up the track, but it didn't happen. I pitted on lap 5, grabbed fuel and tyres, saw me dropped to P6, but when I got back onto the track I was P1 again!
Last two laps I saw my Lead drop from 8s to 6s. I'd picked up a 0.6s penalty for going a bit wider than I wanted, I think it was T4, so no clean race bonus
SR back up to 99 from 96, DR up 1.2K!!!! Another day above DR 1
I did try an "OyVey"ron in a BMB Infield race. That rear view camera is a trip. Just don't tell the others...
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- silz616
I'm sorry but if you're DR:A you shouldn't be driving like a 3 year old. The driving standards are shocking mid pack DR:A.
****ing idiots lol.
PD, please put these cretins in the rank they should be, for my sanity. I'll leave more racing till later when the children have gone to sleep.
Good to see you @_ApexPredator
@Arcflyer looked to be the victim of one such ****ing clown. Unlucky mate.
****ing idiots lol.
PD, please put these cretins in the rank they should be, for my sanity. I'll leave more racing till later when the children have gone to sleep.
Good to see you @_ApexPredator
@Arcflyer looked to be the victim of one such ****ing clown. Unlucky mate.
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Those of you passionatas advocating for heavy damage in-game as a staple for clean racing, i hope you tuned in to Tidgney's FIA stream tonight and witnessed the unfolded carnage.
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- PD_ApexPredator
I'm going to watch it shortly, sounds like I should buy some popcorn first...
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- ARC_rono_thomas
That was just poor from people. But damage should still remain imo. To be fair the track doesn’t really suit the class of cars with their different strengths. TBH it was bedlam at lemans for the final T24, albeit not everyone.
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- Ireland
What am I missing with the 86? Some cars, especially FF Megane, Scirocco & TT I can 1 stop but lap okayish, coming out of pits in the mix with no stoppers. I can no stop the Megane Trophy & Cayman at half decent pace. Lots of posts here are suggesting the 86 works and I see them in race. It feels super stable and never misses a step but it just feels super slow even if not fuel saving.
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- stpatty
Just had a solid threeway at Blue Moon which lasted about half the race before someone else who didn't know what he was doing popped up.
Lap 8: I get a 3 second penalty because he's on the outside in the first corner and he inevitably hits the wall.
Lap 9: I serve my penalty on the straight, new guy takes out one of the others after the first corner
Lap 10: I win by .200 after the one other guy left can't serve a penalty in time.
Easy
Lap 8: I get a 3 second penalty because he's on the outside in the first corner and he inevitably hits the wall.
Lap 9: I serve my penalty on the straight, new guy takes out one of the others after the first corner
Lap 10: I win by .200 after the one other guy left can't serve a penalty in time.
Easy
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Been building SR in Race A at RBR, hard to get off track penalties and slow steady racing. Just won one too which was satisfying as the car in front always went wide over the last 2 turns, and I used 3rd then 2nd after braking for those and got a much cleaner exit and caught them on the straight.
Unfortunately I got so hacked off with this guy who persistently dive bombed me that I ended up taking him out. I lost the race, sr and Dr - not proud of it but he deserved it 🤬🤬🤬
Last day of sports mode for me tomorrow fir the next two weeks until the races get better so hopefully make some points back
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- silz616
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- razaqafazran1103
Improved my qualifying time for Race C in the Cayman.
08:00 room, qualified 5th, finished 3rd without stopping. Top 4 at the start were Mégane Trophies, including what seems to be a lesbian girl who is lagging a lot. Thankfully, said driver made a mistake into T5 and I never saw her again. There is an early tussle for the lead that ended when I joined in. Then, I ended up making a mistake out of T5 on Lap 5, allowing fatmax_mole to get into 3rd, and then a lap later, the blue Mégane that started in 2nd made the same mistake out of T5, causing a battle between the Taiwanese and the Aussie, to which the battle ended on the Final Lap as Moley served his penalty out of the tricky double apex corner. Winner is, well you guessed it, another Mégane in a no stop strategy. In that race, there's also @Rangeraus in the NSX.
08:00 room, qualified 5th, finished 3rd without stopping. Top 4 at the start were Mégane Trophies, including what seems to be a lesbian girl who is lagging a lot. Thankfully, said driver made a mistake into T5 and I never saw her again. There is an early tussle for the lead that ended when I joined in. Then, I ended up making a mistake out of T5 on Lap 5, allowing fatmax_mole to get into 3rd, and then a lap later, the blue Mégane that started in 2nd made the same mistake out of T5, causing a battle between the Taiwanese and the Aussie, to which the battle ended on the Final Lap as Moley served his penalty out of the tricky double apex corner. Winner is, well you guessed it, another Mégane in a no stop strategy. In that race, there's also @Rangeraus in the NSX.
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- SvennoJ
- SvenZ
Saturday night, not a good time to drive. It was going pretty well, couple victories, slowly climbing back up to SR.B (still racing on BMB) then **** hit the fan again. B/B drivers like to bump. Back in SR.C a real dirty driver kept ramming me and somehow I got the penalties for it... PD you win again tonight, that's 6-0 now, one day left. Current SR 15, DR 32K, one more red rating and it's all gone again. Spider-man time!
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- Australia
Was watching a replay of the Watkins Glen round of the Continental Tires series.
Tried the Scirocket. Nice turn in and off throttle tuck in. Fuel economy is average. It's definitely the lightness of the thing that makes the tyres last.
Pretty much a TCR car in Gr. 4.
For the Bathurst race, I think the Scirocco tops out at 272km/h down Conrod. Meanwhile, the Mustang tops out about 267km/h. Should be an interesting one.
Tried the Scirocket. Nice turn in and off throttle tuck in. Fuel economy is average. It's definitely the lightness of the thing that makes the tyres last.
Pretty much a TCR car in Gr. 4.
For the Bathurst race, I think the Scirocco tops out at 272km/h down Conrod. Meanwhile, the Mustang tops out about 267km/h. Should be an interesting one.
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I know this is just one race but really? European lobbies are the cleanest?
Looks much the same to me.
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- Alpha_Cipher1
We should get an American livestream for comparisonI know this is just one race but really? European lobbies are the cleanest?
Looks much the same to me.
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The sheer gap in speed from an SR:A lobby to an SR:S lobby for race C is crazy.
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- razaqafazran1103
Mégane Trophy time!
16:30 Room, qualified 5th, finished 4th without stopping. I ended up regretted not to give up the position to an NSX that was killed during Lap 1...as proven by a guy who called me a punter... Then, there is @Lion-Face in an 86 starting on pole, and he led the race until the final lap on the banked hairpin as he was passed by miraclenovember in one of the Mégane Trophies, to which prevented a GTP victory... I'm still wondering myself if I am a good driver, a sloppy driver, or a bit of a monster?
16:30 Room, qualified 5th, finished 4th without stopping. I ended up regretted not to give up the position to an NSX that was killed during Lap 1...as proven by a guy who called me a punter... Then, there is @Lion-Face in an 86 starting on pole, and he led the race until the final lap on the banked hairpin as he was passed by miraclenovember in one of the Mégane Trophies, to which prevented a GTP victory... I'm still wondering myself if I am a good driver, a sloppy driver, or a bit of a monster?
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