Hey guys, only found the forum a few days ago but I think that it is brilliant. Anyway a bit about me i'm a 32 year old finance director that owns a 23% stake in a British Formula Renault team, so obviously my main hobby is watching them win!! My lovely wife, bless her bought me GT4 for xmas, and I can't put it down, I have had such a busy year and have never got around to buying it. Something of a disgrace as I am gran turismo mad. I found GT1 quite difficult, but then flew through GT2 getting around 90-95% and got bored after I won the 787B at 75% in GT3.
Then came GT4 and since xmas I can't put it down, even though I am struggling with some of the hard rallies keeping the back end from sliding around on my 205 T16 Evo 1, circa 460bhp. My B-Spec Bob is doing quite well and has around 8000 skill level, and my completion so far is 68.6%.
Anyway that is quite a bit about me, but finally I want to talk about the cars, firstly what do people think is the best Le Mans car? R8, EXP8, Minolta, V12 LMR? I am really considering doing the DTM race a few times in my CLK or Abt-TT to buy an R8, but will it be that much better at the professional races? Also, I did notice something about this bored, you may call it petty but coming from a racing background I did pick up on it, you refer to Le Mans/Sportscars as LMP's? Why is this, an LMP is a LE MANS PROTOTYPE, in the old scheme of things, cars like the Audi R8C (not the R8R which would of made a nice addition to the game), BMW V12 LMR are LMP's. The Minolta, C9, EXP8 e.g anything that is a fixed head car isn't an LMP, it is either a GT1; Toyota GT1, R390, EXP8, 787B, 905 etc. Or a GT2 Oreca Viper, C5R etc.
I am also thinking of getting a steering wheel, I have the old race seat from a GT2 Chamberlain Viper in my garage and was thinking of making a mock racing seat/wheel combo, any ideas on the best one? So much to talk about, the vast choice of cars is what got me, I am still trying to work out which is my favourite in the game, at the minute it's a choice between the GT40 race car, because it is the best car I have ever driven, the V12 LMR because I was at Le Mans the year it won, and the noise it makes!! The 3400S because it is beautiful to drift in the game and because my wife has one. I drive a CLS merc (plz PD put it in the next game, along with the audi r8r, bmw m1, duesenberg ssj and sauber c11). And the Shelby Gt350 mustang because i have a half restored Gt500 in the garage as my pet project. Finally I should draw my post to a close, the final thing I want to ask of the forum is, I have the GT40 racecar and I was racing in the american championship last night and one of the competitor cars was a Gt40 LM car. I want this car, how do I get it???? Ohh, and how do I get a Tommy Kiara ZZII? it was my 2nd favourite car in GT3...
Kindest Regards
Sauber C11
Renault Sport Uk Forever - See you all at Brands Hatch!!
Then came GT4 and since xmas I can't put it down, even though I am struggling with some of the hard rallies keeping the back end from sliding around on my 205 T16 Evo 1, circa 460bhp. My B-Spec Bob is doing quite well and has around 8000 skill level, and my completion so far is 68.6%.
Anyway that is quite a bit about me, but finally I want to talk about the cars, firstly what do people think is the best Le Mans car? R8, EXP8, Minolta, V12 LMR? I am really considering doing the DTM race a few times in my CLK or Abt-TT to buy an R8, but will it be that much better at the professional races? Also, I did notice something about this bored, you may call it petty but coming from a racing background I did pick up on it, you refer to Le Mans/Sportscars as LMP's? Why is this, an LMP is a LE MANS PROTOTYPE, in the old scheme of things, cars like the Audi R8C (not the R8R which would of made a nice addition to the game), BMW V12 LMR are LMP's. The Minolta, C9, EXP8 e.g anything that is a fixed head car isn't an LMP, it is either a GT1; Toyota GT1, R390, EXP8, 787B, 905 etc. Or a GT2 Oreca Viper, C5R etc.
I am also thinking of getting a steering wheel, I have the old race seat from a GT2 Chamberlain Viper in my garage and was thinking of making a mock racing seat/wheel combo, any ideas on the best one? So much to talk about, the vast choice of cars is what got me, I am still trying to work out which is my favourite in the game, at the minute it's a choice between the GT40 race car, because it is the best car I have ever driven, the V12 LMR because I was at Le Mans the year it won, and the noise it makes!! The 3400S because it is beautiful to drift in the game and because my wife has one. I drive a CLS merc (plz PD put it in the next game, along with the audi r8r, bmw m1, duesenberg ssj and sauber c11). And the Shelby Gt350 mustang because i have a half restored Gt500 in the garage as my pet project. Finally I should draw my post to a close, the final thing I want to ask of the forum is, I have the GT40 racecar and I was racing in the american championship last night and one of the competitor cars was a Gt40 LM car. I want this car, how do I get it???? Ohh, and how do I get a Tommy Kiara ZZII? it was my 2nd favourite car in GT3...
Kindest Regards
Sauber C11
Renault Sport Uk Forever - See you all at Brands Hatch!!
The Tommykaira ZZII you can just buy as X-Othermic said.
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