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Yeah that’s what I meant! PS+ this month right, I’ll definitely jump on that new shiny John Deere after this haha.
Never tried before so who knows I might discover my true calling.
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Had it downloading during my qually. I'm thinking I would probably have been faster in a John Deere!

Nations, Sardegna Road B II

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No Video, simply not worth it!:rolleyes: Started P18 in the (Door 5) Stratos. Should have cleaned all that heavy rallying mud off my Alitalia livery! Was last by Turn 2 as I had oversteer. One car dropped out and I finally passed the Copen which had passed me at the start. Lapped by the first 3 cars and finished P18 for a pathetic 21 pts and no clan race as I'd turned in on the barrier on Lap 1.:rolleyes: And this was a B/S race.:D Also lost 1200 DR pts into the bargain.:(

At least the car looked good.
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My only on-track overtake!
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I suppose I should go again, if only to try to reclaim DR, but it will be in the Mazda as it dominated this race,with a Strtos being the only interloper in the top 10, in 10th.
 
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After practice in the Stratos, Dino and Mazda TC, I had to make a choice. The Stratos was the first to go...I just didn't have the skill to tame it. Dino was fun and fast, but could still bite your head off if you weren't careful in balancing its MR adjustability mid-corner. I could only make the last slot for the night, so I chickened out and went for the safe predictability of FR chassis balance and went with the Mazda.

In practice, managed to get my best lap down to a hair over 1:52, but could only manage 1:53 in qualifying, putting me 10th on the grid in a B/S room in Asia. There was full grid, with a decent mix of all three top car picks, plus a sprinkling of ND Miatas and GRMN 86s. I'm not a raw pace kinda driver, more of a pick-em-off-slowly and get whatever scraps I can get kinda guy. So I kept it together and everything was going to plan. By lap 5, I made it up to 4th, overtaking another Mazda TC on the 3rd gear uphill stretch. But as we were approaching the left sweeper, I misjudged how much room we had between us as I tried to move right to the right side for a better angle. My rear clipped his front, but he didn't let off the gas and plowed me into the wall without a care. Urgh...I shoulda given him some room.

Down in 11th, I had some good battles with 2 other Mazda TCs and an 86 all the way to the finish. I made it up to 9th just before the last corner, but 10th decided to divebomb and use me for brakes in a desperate bid to overtake. I rolled my eyes and just took what I could, which would've been 10th. But on the way to the finish, a Dino in 4th decided to crash into the pit entry divider, gifting a bunch of us one more position as we sailed past his wreck, mere metres from the finish line. I took 9th, about 200 DR and 53 points for my trouble. I should've been an easy 4th at least...but my impatience got the better of me...sigh...

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Sardagena, what a lovely place to be. Weather is always good and the more often I drive on this track, the more I like it.

Made a few days ago a shootout between some cars and I went with the most conservative one, good 'ol reliable Mazda MX-5 (or Miata in freedom language) TC.

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Two races for me today, still B/S lobbies.

Race 1 was interesting but forgetable. Good lord, sometimes I ask my self where some guys left their mind. Qualifying was a desaster, Got 4 (!) divebombs and a few more over aggressive guys in my two laps, so I was happy to be 12th. Didn't find real pace so I was stuck and after a few laps I was part of a Spain-German-Belgium fight between two Mazdas and the Belgian Stratos. It wasn't nice or fair, it was bloody. I have now idea how we were able to keep our cars on the road, as we pushed each other multiple times all over Sardagena. A race I'm not proud of, finished 11th behind the Spanish MX-5.

Race 2 was awesome. Qualifying was meh at the beginning but then I got some draft from a British gentleman in his Dino which put me in 4th place. Immediately after the start I saw my friend in his Ferrari again as he passed me on the long straight. After the downhill corners we were at 2nd and 3rd and then it was pretty magic. The draft of the Dino saved me from a pretty fast Dutch in his Roadster and we were building a gap of 6 seconds behind me. While the advantage in the corners were mine, the little Ferrari was unbeatable on the straight. We teamed up, I was providing some draft at the exit and he pulled me along as our train had built up speed. Which worked amazingly well, till 10th lap when we started to race against each other. Like real gentleman, only smallest touches, enough place for everyone to survive.
In the end he was 0,6 seconds faster then me as I was forced to defend 3rd place from the Dutch guy who immediately closed the gap as we started to fight each other. I finished 3rd and I couldn't be more happy about this result. :D

Curious about tomorrows race, have not yet driven a single lap with my M4 at Laguna Seca. Hope I found some time to practice a bit...
 
I keep having my PSN password reset for no reason. Have changed it 3 times in the last hour. Keep getting kicked out. Missed the last slot trying to sort it. 🤬
 
What's a decent qualifying time for a ~B/S lobby in the Nations race?! Is a 1:54 going to stick me at the rear of the pack? I can't imagine how much time I'd need to get to a presumptive K' Speed target (70) (about 1:50.1 given the aliens cheating the Lancia and Dino around the track at 1:46's... HOW?!).

May just saddle up in the Miata and ease it through traffic to gain SOME result, and check the box for this race...

EDIT/Update: qualified 7th, avoided nonsense at the start, made it up to 5th, got punted to 12th on about lap 3, rendering my “avoid the trouble and stay clean” strategy moot, climbed back past a couple of dirty drivers to 7th again. 99 points in a B/S lobby for an honest races work, done. Head to Laguna to practice.
 
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What's a decent qualifying time for a ~B/S lobby in the Nations race?! Is a 1:54 going to stick me at the rear of the pack? I can't imagine how much time I'd need to get to a presumptive K' Speed target (70) (about 1:50.1 given the aliens cheating the Lancia and Dino around the track at 1:46's... HOW?!).

May just saddle up in the Miata and ease it through traffic to gain SOME result, and check the box for this race...
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You can use your K speed score to figure it out, K’Speed requires you to get with X.XX% of the top time to raise your K Score, so just do the math to figure out what that same percent off the top Nations time is and you have your benchmark. :)
 
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You can use your K speed score to figure it out, K’Speed requires you to get with X.XX% to raise your K Score, so just do the math to figure out what that same percent off the top Nations time is and you have your benchmark. :)
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That's where I got the 1:50... 1:46.xxx x 1.03 ~ 1.035 = 1:50... seems unreachable after 10 laps of orientation... sometimes that's how it seems, other times, I'm surprised when I get into a lobby and am qualified better than expected.

The road cars / street tires typically have a lot more 'spread' to the field, but then again, it's often easier for me to qualify closer to top times in those races (Minis at Daily A a couple of weeks ago, for example.) So am currently scratching my head about how realistic that inferred target time is.

Will have to just see how it unfolds at 5:00!
 
Great race in Sardegna!

I decided to use the Dino, since the stratos on ds4 is a nightmare, and the mazda a bit too slow on the straights.

Qualified 4th, i had the potential for 2nd but i did "cut" last turn on my fastest lap because of traffic... It didn't matter in the end.

The 3 drivers in front of me were using the mazda, i caught them pretty quickly... Except one, a french.
We basically fought for the entire race, had a lot of fun, clean battle.
In the end i had to give up because my rear left was dead, a bit disappointed since the win was right there, but hey, first fia podium.
 

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Won the Nation's race from Pole. Fastest lap and clean. Wasn't really a race. Used the META Fezza and crossed the line nearly 20 seconds ahead of five MX-5s.

No mistakes, but I set one fastest lap on my second lap and again on my eleventh lap. I surely thought everyone would use the Ferrari.
 
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Won the Nation's race from Pole. Fastest lap and clean. Wasn't really a race. Used the META Fezza and crossed the line nearly 20 seconds ahead of five MX-5s.

No mistakes, but I set one fastest lap on my second lap and again on my eleventh lap. I surely thought everyone would use the Ferrari.
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See, now you got my hopes all up; which means I'm going to bin it a few times and finish P12 after destroying a classic piece of automotive history.
 
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See, now you got my hopes all up; which means I'm going to bin it a few times and finish P12 after destroying a classic piece of automotive history.
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The qualifying was an eye opener. Two laps to set a time. One Fezza was sporadic ahead of me, while an MX-5 wanted to make use of its downforce. I let them both go, but I stayed smooth and gained enough momentum to overtake both exiting the final turn. Set pole by one second.

I can only offer to stay smooth and not panic with a charging MX-5.
 
I had a much better time after switching to the MX-5. I kept it clean in qualifying and put it 10th on the grid with a 1:51.0xx, just over a second off pole. Also, some guy showed up with a ND MX-5 and ended up last, 6s off pole and 3s off a 19th-placed Stratos.

I took advantage of some early chaos to ride as high as 8th, but eventually dropped back, capped off with a poor exit screwing me over in a 3-way drag race to the finish which dumped me down to 11th.
 
I had quite a nice race second time round (and boosted my DR up to the never-before-seen reaches of 34k), with three other Roadster TCs (GR33N-_-8, Hazards_On_GT, wolfverine355) and a Stratos (LucaPap96_CT). The Stratos ate wall on lap 4, and the four of us in the Roadsters were just swapping positions like crazy. We went through the final turn as a four once and came out in a different order with no obvious contact.

Wolfverine fell away a bit, Hazards got away from me as I scrapped with Green - who disappeared later on, I think he ran up the inside of the uphill left leaving S2 and span - and then the Stratos gained about four seconds over two laps, but once in front of me he couldn't get away. I got fully alongside him twice coming out of the sharp left at the start of S2, but he just pulled away. Then he slid on the first right-hander in S3 on the very last lap, and gifted the position back, for fourth and 133pt.
 
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