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GTP WTAC Week 59 : Galant Explorations (1970-1989)
*** For week 59, we explore two models of the Mitsubishi brand - the Galant. The first car was sold in Japan as the Mitsubishi Colt, but this particular car we'll be using is the first one to be given the name 'Galant'. It was purposely influenced by American muscle cars and expected to be Mitsubishi's entry for Grand Prix racing. When GP racing stopped for the OPEC oil embargo of 1973, the Galant GTO was put into action as a rally racer. It was actually quite successful on the dirt & snow in the 1970s. The GTO name only appeared on this model... until the Mitsubishi GTO (sold as the Mitsubishi 3000GT outside of Japan) was released in 1990. We'll do a proper examination of the 90's 3000GT/GTO's in the future. The second Galant (the VR-4) was based on the sixth-generation Galant and featured a new two-liter engine and 4WD transmission (both of these would be put into the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution a few years later and would stay in that iconic car for 15 years). The Galant VR-4 would be Mitsubishi's WRC car from 1988 until 1992 (when the Lancer Evo took over), so this was also a successful rally racer too. The Galant is still being made to this day - that's over 40 years of continuous production! ***
1. Track : Opera Paris (reverse)
2. Cars : Mitsubishi Galant GTO MR '70 & Mitsubishi Galant 2.0 DOHC Turbo VR-4 '89
IMPORTANT ! This is a combined times challenge: you'll need to run both cars; rankings will be made based on your combined times.
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3. Cars specifics:
- Transmission: either
- Tires: S2 / S2
- TCS : at your disposal
- ASM : off
- Active Steering : off
- Driving Physics : Professional
All in-game quick-tune options are at your disposal (Press Triangle when selecting your car to add the car to your favorites and tinker with any available settings).
Hybrid cars, the use of CFW tuning or any other way of cheating (such as the Action Replay for PSP) is forbidden...
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4. Duration of the challenges : this challenge will start Monday July 4th 4:00 pm GMT+2 and will end Monday July 11th 3:59 pm GMT+2 (one week !)
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5. Time submission :
You'll have to post your Ghost Replay Data + Photo before Monday July 11th 3:59 pm GMT+2. If you miss the deadline, your laptimes won't be in the website.
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6. Rules :
You'll have to follow the Host and Compete in a GT Planet Time Attack Challenge (GTPTAC) You'll have to follow the Host and Compete in a GT Planet Time Attack Challenge (GTPTAC) ! Just to remind you :
Clean or Dirty lap :
- Colliding with or using walls, fences, cones or other obstacle is forbidden. All times submitted must be 100% wall free.
- NO SPARKS! (this does not include 'bottoming' the car out on the tarmac or rumble strips; but does include walls/barriers)
- 'City course rules' apply... you can use the whole track; just don't hit the walls!
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7. LeaderBoards
The leaderboards will be on the website
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8. Current session points leaders:
Place - Competitor - Points
1st #l-l Dan360######.l23
2nd #-l pvr77########19
3rd #l-l Detroitbb#####)17
4th #l-l MVR08#######l14#
5th #l-l vaughan#####$l11#
6th #l-l red ice######l$$8
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kinda reminds me of ninja scroll back in the 90s.
... I have to say red ice you were right : it is so nice cool comfy here that it feels weird to write a message on the GT5 forum !!!
