JGTC S1 Round 4 Race + Results

Whew i dont know where I finished but I defiantly had an interesting race. I decided to toy around with tire strategy a bit. And near the last four laps I had a choice either pit with 2 laps to go and put on some gumball tires and blast going flat out, or simply stay out and try my best to manage with glowing red tires for 2 laps. I had a desision to make, do I play it safe and pit or do I risk a really good race up to that point and go for broke? If I messed up with the red tires I would be kicking myself for throwing away a good run. If I pit and and put on the gumball tire what would happen if I get caught up in traffic or push it too hard going for fast lap and get a 10 second penalty plus the time in the pits? .....

Well hotshot, What do you do? What DO you do?
 
Bah, frustrating race. It was impossible to beat the Nissan GT-R Concept LM Race Car, and I would have to drive a perfect race to even have any shot at beating the Viper race car. So, I finished 3rd overall, 25 seconds behind the leader. But, I was fighting the walls and fatigue throughout the race (I ran two races back to back), and I think I could have refined my pit strategy, but I'm not sure if it would have saved any time at all. Time submitted.
 
DId my race, in the first and only one try i could have. There´s a visit at home so she will sleep in the pc room, so i had just one chance as its midnight now, and she´s gonna sleep right now. I played so just a try, and got a very good race, 8 or 7 seconds to shave overall, few mistakes, and 1 penalty. I got a 3rd or 2nd place, don´t remember, but the race was good. I hope to be in podium at least. :)
 
After numerous ditched attempts I finally got a complete race in. Finished 2nd, 1'02 behind the Nissan R35 LM with 1 penalty on the straight before T2!! Time will be submitted soon after I write down my stats.

I had no tire stretegy at all, improvising while the AI seemed to be able to go on forever in their RH. Ugh, is it me or does R246 has the longest pit lane ever!? Just seeing your car cruise down the pits at 50mph forever while getting overtaken by cars trailing 2 miles behind is the worst feeling...well not really :yuck:
 
DRIVEN -USA-
Just missed the podium??? SOORRYY How close was it?

No, the fact that I always use the same tire set as you but I have to pit once more all the time. So basically if I wasn't destroying my tires like I do my final time would be like 30 secs less easy. :mad: :mad:
 
Actually my time i submitted was the first time i used that stratagy. Just came to me near the end of the run or might of been like you. Can only get so much out of the tires on that track. Left sides always wore out first.
 
kennythebomb
So I can't submit a time now? Come on man, I just got home, unexpected events.

About 2-3 people asked me in the previous rounds, and this round it was you and andge08 and I have refused each and every time to be fair to everyone. Won't change either.
 
Results are up, congrats to everyone and big welcome to the new drivers. Finally I get my podium finish, was about time. :) Thumbs up Zeratul for taking the win, and DRIVEN also for the 2nd position. 👍

Great finish in GT500 for the new NSX driver Sagaris. 👍 Thumbs up also samurai for almost getting on the podium, you've worked pretty hard since the start and one day or another you'll get it. 👍 villain we'll have to improve that 9th position in round 5 man :p
 
Congrats to the podium finishers!

Im pretty darn dissapointed in my posistion to be honest. The S2000 just eats through tires way too quick. and honestly thats just the nature of the car. So its pretty darn sad when you can qualify well but you know that in the race you dont have a chance simply because this car works the fronts so hard.
 
TeamLosiRacer
Congrats to the podium finishers!

Im pretty darn dissapointed in my posistion to be honest. The S2000 just eats through tires way too quick. and honestly thats just the nature of the car. So its pretty darn sad when you can qualify well but you know that in the race you dont have a chance simply because this car works the fronts so hard.

How many laps you can pull on RM up front? Teledriel pulled 7 laps just like me.

I raced on RM pitting at 7-14-21-28 so I'm eating alot also, basically one more pitshop then I should normally :guilty:
 
/nod TLR .. I couldn't do more than 7 at times on mediums, and the time I tried hards, 10 was most I could get out of them. And the FTO on my grid (Seems to always be there an dwould think HoT is behind the wheel the way he runs) seemed to always pull out 13ish laps ?!?!?!?!?!
 
Teledriel
/nod TLR .. I couldn't do more than 7 at times on mediums, and the time I tried hards, 10 was most I could get out of them. And the FTO on my grid (Seems to always be there an dwould think HoT is behind the wheel the way he runs) seemed to always pull out 13ish laps ?!?!?!?!?!

I pull 7 on RM and 10 on RH also.
 
RMs seem to be about 6 laps max for me on. But realisticly more like five and the rh were only like 8 laps for me. Im actually doing tire tests with the winners car to see If im just blowing smoke about this or if im correct in my assumptions
 
Congrats to the winners :)

Ive got a question for Hotboi, Evo and/or Mulsanne. Your best laps are in the 1'33.1-1'33.5 range. Exactly what tires did you get those on? It would be a little slow for Mediums but very fast for Hards. The best I could push on the Hards was 1'34s and I usually got 1'35s.

Im telling you, If I didnt have that penalty, I maybe could have challenged for that win. Oh well.
 
Hot, good win ;) Congratulations.

Teledriel, nice result :)

Zeratul ... great win mna, great win. I like this track and I love the AI competition, but clealry if I was slower than the Mugen and you weren't I simply wasn't fast enough. In the end I went with two stops on HARD tires, because unless I ran 3 seconds faster on mediums, I figured that two extra stops would actually lose me time. Not sure if it was the right strategy or not, but I think for my slow ass it was. Wish I could get faster here really, but all in good time.

Soyfu
haha, I win ;)

Hehehhehehehehh.
 
TeamLosiRacer
RMs seem to be about 6 laps max for me on. But realisticly more like five and the rh were only like 8 laps for me. Im actually doing tire tests with the winners car to see If im just blowing smoke about this or if im correct in my assumptions

I could get 10 out of RH easily and pushed it to 11 and 12 without too much difficulty. If you were getting only 8, you're screwed.
 
Heh, got EATs by 18 seconds. Had a "28" also. Exactly the amount of time i beat my prev. race by (on hard fronts and 2 stops) hard tires up front lasted me 11 laps, while mediums lasted me 8 laps. Could get 1 more lap but the times would of been out of whack.

Congrats to the other Podium finishers. :cheers:

Um just realized something, WEIGHT another +2 :yuck: :sick: :eek: 🤬 and we are going to tsakuba, hope the weather cooperates, heard they have monsoons this time of year.
 
SagarisGTB
Congrats to the winners :)

Ive got a question for Hotboi, Evo and/or Mulsanne. Your best laps are in the 1'33.1-1'33.5 range. Exactly what tires did you get those on? It would be a little slow for Mediums but very fast for Hards. The best I could push on the Hards was 1'34s and I usually got 1'35s.

Im telling you, If I didnt have that penalty, I maybe could have challenged for that win. Oh well.
I ran that lap on mediums, and yes, it was very slow. I ran a 1'33.407 in my first race also on mediums. The difference is that the quicker lap was run with a nearly full tank of gas, while the fastlap that counted was run on an almost empty tank of gas.
 
Just ran a quick session with the winning Rx7 with RM on the fronts. 7 laps is what i got out of them. I am fairly puzzled by all of this now.

On the last section of my race i ran 10 laps on my RH but by the middle of the 8th lap of the tire tun the fronts were cherry red and by lap 9 and 10 it was pushing like a dump truck on ice.
 
eatsviper4lunch
Thumbs up also samurai for almost getting on the podium, you've worked pretty hard since the start and one day or another you'll get it. 👍 :p

Thank you, sir! I was hoping for a good result. I had no penalties which really helped. Came away with some points. Congrats to everyone! There are 2 NSX in the top 4. oooooh.
 
Teledriel
/boggle ~ Pulled out a 8th .. Hey MR ~ I GOT POINTS !! 👍

Gratz to all .

W00t! We got "double 8th's" Teledriel! :cheers: :O

Here's my improvised tire stretegy on RMs: 5/11/17/22/28 I should really try using hards for the next race. (OMG RH's on wet course!) :lol:
 
Oh and btw the RX7 doesent rev as high as the S2000 so they clearly have an advantage!!! :sly:

I may have been simply pushing the car too hard which could have caused the shorter tire life. My apologies to viper for constantly bringing up these issues but I just want to be able to go out and run my race knowing that I have just a good oh a chance at taking a win as anyone else. Clearly this weeks qualy has proved that the car is good but a tire wear is an issue pefhaps not for the car itself but for me. oh well atleast its a solid points finish, and I still had fun so Im happy.
 
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