F.F.S Touring Car Championship sign ups/Next Race@Special Stage Route 5

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Guys I am really sorry but I cant host the races I am having a major Internet connection problem, i dont know what is wrong but any one who is not in the UK could not join my room and it took about 20 goes to get it just to sign into PSN.

I hope some one else can host the races in my place.
I'll host, but keep on trying connecting!


I'll try to add everybody to my list now.

Join my lounge

So new start at 21:30 GMT London (GMT+1hour)
 
Crap!:ouch: Too late notice for me to join. Wanna make this a non-points one?
 
This race was incredible!!!!
The final was unbelivable with mcglone1994!!!!
Just 0,4 second distance!!!!
 
I started for pretty slow. I really didn't have that thing for track at the beginning. I kept going on to about lap 20 i decided to pit. That's when i started catching up to addictions and sasukeskapa. Finally caught up and sasukeskapa dropped back and he must of done a pit stop. Then it was a battle between me and addictions , but i decided to keep going on and wait for him to pit. Don't no what lap he pitted but soon as i saw it i pushed and raced round so i could pit and get out before he came around. I started back on the pit straight and as i exited he only just came past. It was seriously close. I pressed on and passed and kept going on. Lap 40 i saw sasukeskapa and i had to make a push for it and surprisingly i caught up, on lap 44 and it was an intense battle for 5th. The last corner on lap 45 going on to the straight played into my hands. Dammm it was seriously close! I was soo far off the chair that i would of fallen off if it went on any longer.


Well done to everyone.
And amazing battle with sasukeskapa. Well done to him for doing 1 pit stop.
 
I made my pit in the 25th lap :)
And in the last turn you managed to use your better tires and the plus power in your engine :)
I was faster in the turns but with my tires after 20 laps I couldn't lose you in the corners so that was the bigest battle in my online era :)
I'm really thankful for this event.
Thank you guys to let me participate.

And congratulations for everyone :)
 
Almost the best race of my life despite the problems.👍:cheers: It was very enjoyable. Just miscalculated myself at the end of the race. :irked: Paradroid was very fast again and Mo as always. Thank you guys, great race well done!👍

I changed the tires 3 times, but don't know why.
 
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Great race!! im happy with my efforts in the race, my pratice time was not so good... My battle it was with GTP_adddictions, since lap 3 until 15, we drive always very close, sometimes changing the position but always trying not to make serious mistakes. lap 15 i was in front and decided to pit, the same with GTP_adddictions...Good, we were very close... after... i dont now what appends to GTP_adddictions, never see him again...Hehehehe! and i race to the end comfortably. i thing 3 pitstops was the better decision...i start and finish in 4th. Great race!!! next saturday its impossible for me, good luck to all...👍
 
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Guys I am really sorry but I cant host the races I am having a major Internet connection problem, i dont know what is wrong but any one who is not in the UK could not join my room and it took about 20 goes to get it just to sign into PSN.

I hope some one else can host the races in my place.
Sounds bad. But will you race next week Speedy?
 
Great race guys. I wish to not to had the problems in the beginning, but we'll have some solution for cases like that.

Congrat to everybody once more and sorry for the delayed start.

I'll make some pics of the race and will post the result-picture too soon.

Jay, what happened with you mate??
 
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Guys I dont know what happened last night I really dont.
Mo your a life saver for taking over hosting duties this race was really a race I knew could not be missed as it was such a good race format.
When I see all these happy posts about drivers races it makes me happy I put so much time and effort into creating the championships but of course I have to thank mo, shark, and addictions for there help too.

As for my Internet I still dont know what the hell is wrong, I spent all week including all day yesterday getting my G25 and my Racing Rig tweaked and fine tuned for this race, everything from fully stripping my G25 and cleaning it out and re greasing the components to fully rebuilding my Rig so everything was perfect.
Then I sat down like a kid in a sweet shop ready to launch the race and boom non stop trouble.
I still dont know what is wrong it took me 5 mins to load up GTP and another 5 to get to this page, I dont even know if its going to work when I click send to post this post my connection is really that slow.

1st off all day yesterday my Internet had been really slow on my laptop, But I put this down to there being updates ready to install in the back ground.
Then when I went to switch on the PS3 to start the race my PSN took a very long time to log in, Then once it finally signed me into PSN it then took even longer to load in GT5, so long that I had to reset twice because I thought it had froze up on me.

Then once I finally got onto GT5 all the menu's took ages to load up and the loading the lobby was no different.
So once I got the lobby up and running I saw people started to join, But I saw that any one who was not in the UK could not join my lobby.
Mo and Shark and about 3 others were getting kicked from the lobby as soon as they entered.

So I decided to reset the PS3 and at the same time reset the router, This made things a lot worse after this I could not even get an Internet connection to my router, it just kept syncing and not receiving any signal.
So I then got on the phone to virgin media, They then informed me that there was no problem in my area code and it had to be a fault with just my line, so she then checked my account which came back ok, The bill was payed and there no reason for my Internet troubles which left my right back were I was before........LOST.

So after some time I finally got a signal to my router and I can just load the Internet on my laptop but everything is slow as hell no YouTube videos will play at all pages take like 5 mins to load, And the connection gets overloaded to easy and crashes.

I will give my PS3 another go today but last night even though I got my connection back on my laptop I still cant get a connection on the PS3, It picks my IP and Nat type in the connection test but as soon as it tests the upload/download speeds it comes up failed.
I was hoping to wake up today and it would be back to normal but its not, So I will spend today getting to the bottom of this.

Glad you enjoyed your race and I hope to be back in action for next week could some one PM me the race results so I can put them onto the championship table and get the table posted in the tread.
Thanks.
 
We had a power cut Mo. By the time It came back on It was way to late.
I had fun and some nice little battles.
The FTO eats tyres though.
Sorry about the contact Guys.
 
I hope next time there will be much less connection problems.

As we saw last time, we need a solution for cases if there is some problem with the Host.
The best thing is if we have 1 or 2 backup host(s), who can manage the race from the beginnings till the end of the event. I've spoken with thefast1 about this, and I can be a backup host.

Please put me (GTP_AndrewG) on your PSN friendlist too to be sure you guys can join my lounge if i have to host a race.

Thanks.

And here is a COUNTDOWN CLOCK LINK TO THE NEXT RACE to be sure everybody can come to the next race on time.
 
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Is it too late for me to sign up? I'd like to race a Subaru Super Touring Car :)

PSN is: MindlessRiff
 
Is it too late for me to sign up? I'd like to race a Subaru Super Touring Car :)

PSN is: MindlessRiff
Welcome mate, It is never too late to join :sly:
 
We had a power cut Mo. By the time It came back on It was way to late.
I had fun and some nice little battles.
The FTO eats tyres though.
Sorry about the contact Guys.

Sorry to hear you got cut off mate, what place were you when you got cut ?.


Is it too late for me to sign up? I'd like to race a Subaru Super Touring Car :)

PSN is: MindlessRiff

Never too late mate welcome aboard I will add you to the list.
Please make sure you understand the league rules found on the 1st post of the thread.
Thanks.

I will post the championship leader board as soon as I have Jays position.

Mo could you send me another link to the clock please mate as the links are not working for some reason.
Thanks
 
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I've sent the link mate, there were some problems with that website.

Here's a few pictures of the race

picture.php


I hope Jay remembers in wich lap did he got DC, if not someone should watch the hall replay and wait untill we can see when the DC happened. Jay, I hope you remember mate :)
 
I've sent the link mate, there were some problems with that website.

Here's a few pictures of the race

picture.php


I hope Jay remembers in wich lap did he got DC, if not someone should watch the hall replay and wait untill we can see when the DC happened. Jay, I hope you remember mate :)


Thanks Mo.

The 1st post in the thread has been updated.:)
 
Sorry that I pulled out at the last minute. I didn't realize the race was going to increase to 60 laps and I had prior obligations that evening and I would not have been able to complete the whole race. Hope it didn't cause any problems.

1.5-2 hour races are a little long for me so I'm not sure if I'll participate in any races in the future if they're going to be that long. I'll stay tuned though.


Brandon
 
Sorry that I pulled out at the last minute. I didn't realize the race was going to increase to 60 laps and I had prior obligations that evening and I would not have been able to complete the whole race. Hope it didn't cause any problems.

1.5-2 hour races are a little long for me so I'm not sure if I'll participate in any races in the future if they're going to be that long. I'll stay tuned though.


Brandon

Sad to hear that Brandon. I've sent you a pm before we started the race that we'll run only 45 laps and not 60, but maybe it was too late than. :guilty:

I'm really waiting for the next run, also if I know those FTO-s are fast as hell, but maybe I'll be able to drive carefully and save my tires and get a bit adventage for the last laps :sly:

Anybody has already made some practice on the SSR5 track with his car?
 
I might be able to do 45 laps. I usually have things going on Saturday evenings but you guys usually start early enough that I can probably squeeze a race in first. I'll try to check out the next one.
 
I might be able to do 45 laps. I usually have things going on Saturday evenings but you guys usually start early enough that I can probably squeeze a race in first. I'll try to check out the next one.
Sounds great Brandon! It would be great to see you on the track too 👍 (btw, the next race will be 50 laps due to this track is a bit shorter than the last one)
 
Guys, i can't participate in the next event (this time seriously).
And: please correct a typo in the first post (paradroid987, not paradriod967).
 
No problem guys I hope to see you at the next race.
And I will fix the typos tomorrow.
 
Race canceled for today guys due to the PSN problems going on.
 
Canceled or delayed to next week?

Just delayed mate, I will put the hole schedule forward by 1 week.
Come on Sony get this fixed.:scared:
 
Just delayed mate, I will put the hole schedule forward by 1 week.
Come on Sony get this fixed.:scared:
I'll go back to PC sim games till this will be fixed, not a tragedy. I wonder if anyone got the Race07 or GTR evolution for PC. We could race online with that.
 
I'll go back to PC sim games till this will be fixed, not a tragedy. I wonder if anyone got the Race07 or GTR evolution for PC. We could race online with that.

I wish.

As for me I'm doing this weeks WRS and yesterday I put a Lotus on pole in the rain in F1 2010 yesterday. Now to get swallowed up by the field.:lol:
 
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