Lemons 100 Miles: Season 1 news, schedule, and discussion.

[The Bman]

100 miles is 100 miles whether you do it in 10 laps or 50 laps. I'd vote to keep La Sarthe if I could. In all honesty it'd likely be a shorter race time-wise because its such a high speed track.

I would let you, but let's be honest. Would you think it would make much sense if we would be racing LeMons at Le Mans? I only chose Nurburgring Nordschliefe since it's for the All-Star Race.

 

[Sephy]

Sorry about missing the NASCAR race and also I will try my best to make the race tomorrow. My PS3 just got the YLOD.

 

[BrettTheThreat]

Alright, I'll be honest. I think that the long straightaways and low-powered cars, combined with the technical sections of the track, will make for some really interesting racing with all the drafting that's possible. Plus the race would be about half as long as the Autumn Ring race. ~6 minutes a lap for 12 laps = 1h12mins. If I did the math right...

Anywho, I'm not asking that you change your mind back, I'd just like to have the option to vote for it.


And thats all I have the say about that. </gump>

 

[Mic_Col]

Alright, I'll be honest. I think that the long straightaways and low-powered cars, combined with the technical sections of the track, will make for some really interesting racing with all the drafting that's possible.

I agree.

We're doing a LeMons series, gotta do LeMans track.

Are we supposed to vote on a new poll??

 

[The Bman]

I agree.

We're doing a LeMons series, gotta do LeMans track.

Are we supposed to vote on a new poll??

Well, you can't add a new poll after one is added, so you will just have to leave your vote on a post. Ok, I will let people vote for the track in an updated poll, so if la Sarthe is chosen then we may race there. Sound good?

 

[BrettTheThreat]

Sounds good to me! You all know my vote!

 

[FlandreScarlet]

Lets do Le Sarthe, for all the reason BrettTheThreat pointed out

 

[Mic_Col]

Put down my vote for La Sarthe.

Having given the issue some thought. You might be right, it could result in a strung out field, a dud race for most. So feel free to have a "I told you so" stored up for me.

But I've still voted for La Sarthe, mainly as I've set aside a fast Lemon car for La Sarthe since day one.

 

[The Bman]

Guys, I have some running around to do tonight, so if anybody wants to host the race tonight then they can. I'm sorry, just that I have to do this. Very important, and I don't want to let myself down IRL.

If anybody will host tonight I will be very appreciated, thanks.

 

[BrettTheThreat]

I don't mind hosting, I'll get my lounge set up. Come one come all, my PSN is Terbo2000.

 

[Sephy]

Roger that. I'll see you guys at around 7:30.

 

[ChaddingtonB]

I don't mind hosting, I'll get my lounge set up. Come one come all, my PSN is Terbo2000.

Thanks see you there

 

[The Bman]

Thanks Brett 👍. If anybody can post a few screenshots of the race i'll be happy. Alright, i'll be back at about 10:00 PM.

 

[Mic_Col]

So I guess we send PSN Friend req through to Terbo2000.

Is that the best way to do this??

 

[Sephy]

Well ChaddingtonB is already on my list so I am just going to follow him there lol.

 

[BrettTheThreat]

Yeah just add me as a friend, its the simplest way I know.

 

[FlandreScarlet]

I missed it again didn't I?

 

[BrettTheThreat]

The third race is over and once again WiiFreak shows us all how its done.

1st - WiiFreak (70 pts)
2nd - Sephy71 (60 pts)
3rd - spitfire143 (etc.)
4th - ChaddingtonB
5th - Mick_C_1080
6th - Terbo2000
7th - GTP-Hank

Total race time was 1:09:56.386 over a distance of 101.62 miles or 163.548 km. Average speed of the race winner was 87.753 mp/h or 140.404 km/h.

I'll have pictures up shortly!


Unofficial Standings (ie. I'm not guaranteeing this is correct. I'm quite tired.)
1st - WiiFreak - 200 points
2nd - ChaddingtonB - 150 - points
3rd - Sephy71 - 130 points (+1)
4th - Mick_C_1080 - 100 points (-1)
5th - Terbo2000 - 70 points (+1)
6th - Stormtrooper2178 - 50 points (-1)
6th - spitfire143 - 50 points (+4)
8th - GTP_Hank - 30 points
9th - Parise83 - 10 points
10th - Rovered78 - 0
10th - timber-rattler - 0

 

[Sephy]

Great race guys and thanks Terbo for hosting it for us this week! Congrats on another victory WiiFreak! You will have to teach me your secret lol.

 

[The Bman]

Cool. Does anybody have some screenshots of the race? Or a video on YouTube?

On another note, I will check WiiFreak's cars out soon. I am doing this since the All-Star race is next week, featuring the top 6 drivers in the standings, and since it gives bonus points I want to do this, just so it can be fair.

 

[BrettTheThreat]

I saved the replay and I'll do up some pictures tonight. Is there a way to save the replay as a video?

 

[The Bman]

I saved the replay and I'll do up some pictures tonight. Is there a way to save the replay as a video?

I don't think so. You could possibly use a camera and record the replay, but that's the hard way.

 

[WiiFreak]

Cool. Does anybody have some screenshots of the race? Or a video on YouTube?

On another note, I will check WiiFreak's cars out soon. I am doing this since the All-Star race is next week, featuring the top 6 drivers in the standings, and since it gives bonus points I want to do this, just so it can be fair.

Just so you know, I have a text file with all of the parts I put on my Lemons cars saved on my computer. I use it to record the total cost of each car so I don't accidentally break the budget. I can send you some of it in a PM while you check my cars so you can see how much I spent on each car

Here is an example of one of them, this one being the MX-5 I ran in today's race.

MX-5 Miata S-Special I (NA,J) '95

143HP/6800rpm
1000kg - FR

12,271 (purchase price)
12,521 (+250) Sports Air Filter
13,521 (+1000) ECU tuning
14,021 (+500) Catalytic Converter: Sports
14,271 (+250) Oil Change
14,771 (+500) Rear Wing Type C

 

[BrettTheThreat]

Link to Photo Album. There are a few more photos and you can d/l them full size if you're interested.

***WARNING!!! EXCESSIVELY LONG POST FOLLOWS!!!***


Lined up at the starting line.

Row 1 - WiiFreak (Near) and ChaddingtonB (Far)

Row 2 - Terbo2000 (Near) and GTP_Hank (Far)

Row 3 - Sephy71 (Near) and spitfire143 (Far)

Row 4 - Mick_C_1080

Heading for T1. A Connection issue cause GTP_Hank to start after the rest of us had already taken off.

Sephy71 and spitfire143 in T1

ChaddingtonB rocking the Hachi-Roku

WiiFreak heading for the Dunlop Bridge

Terbo2000 driving a car with a face only a mother could love

GTP_Hank making a charge

ChaddingtonB and spitfire143 battling it out

Single-file under the bridge

A certain someone managed to take out most of the green pylons on the first lap. Not naming any names...

A battle on the back stretch between Terbo2000 and Sephy71, with spitfire keeping an eye on things

Sephy leading the charge

spitfire getting dirty

Now ChaddingtonB wants a piece

 

[The Bman]

Nice photos Brett 👍.

Also, regarding WiiFreak, I am glad you told me about the upgrades. I think the reason you are doing good is due to your car choice and tuning. Most of us actually forget about the cheaper upgrades, as you pointed out, such as the air filter.

I hope everybody is enjoying the series and I am looking forward to the All-Star race next week. The scoring system for the All-Star race will be 5 points, so 1st place gets 30, 2nd gets 25 and so on. Also, this allows other racers to focus on practice for race 4 and gives them a break from racing for a week.

EDIT: Was Sephy driving a chrome Silvia?

 

[Mic_Col]

I saved the replay and I'll do up some pictures tonight. Is there a way to save the replay as a video?

There's no short way of getting replay footage onto a computer.

There was speculation that GT5 would have a feature that would allow you to save replays as a video file which could be transferred via USB. But that never happened.

You need something like a TV-Video capture card. Plug your PS3 into your computer and capture the signal.

My opinion is: you don't really need to have a 1080P capable card, if your goal is to put the footage up on Youtube then 720P would be fine - editing will be easier too. The PS3 can output various settings.

 

[HondaFanatic]

ah, lol, thanks for showing my attempt at rally on the course, that really sucked bad it was fun guys. really started to figure out the track and car around the last 5 laps when i was hitting 5:55's and a last lap of 5:54. good clean race people. sans my over shooting the first chicane

 

[Sephy]

Great pics!

EDIT: Was Sephy driving a chrome Silvia?

Yes sir!

 

[Hank.]

Cool. Does anybody have some screenshots of the race? Or a video on YouTube?

On another note, I will check WiiFreak's cars out soon. I am doing this since the All-Star race is next week, featuring the top 6 drivers in the standings, and since it gives bonus points I want to do this, just so it can be fair.

It has been up there since the begining, but I guess it never really hit me, so why is the All-Star race in the middle? By excluding all but the top 6, which admittedly I believe is just me, doesn't it just make those below 6 falling farther behind? It's not as if I have a chance at winning at all so in that respect it doesn't matter.

 

[Sephy]

Everyone's points seem to be updated fine in post #2 except for spitfire143. He is showing 0 points but it should be 50.