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Question - How many forum readers have done the ring 24 hour without using b-spec? Please respond. 
If you intended to complete this race a-spec and didn't, why?
Car choice: I chose to drive the Playstation Pescarolo C60 Judd race car because its fast and a challenge if you want to push the vehicle to its limit. I didn't spend too much time setting the car up either.
Suspension: default
LSD: 6:58:7
Gears: final - 4812, Auto - 21
Brakes: fr 14, Rear 11
Stage 4 Turbo
BHP 1126, Weight 900kg
ASM & TCS on
Tyres: Race - rear superhard, front hard.
Driving Force Pro wheel used.
I could have chosen a vehicle (or setup) that handled better and pitted less and had a much easier race, but I didn't want to get too bored through the process.
Realtime managment:
24 hours plus pause time during pit stops, plus need to eat sleep etc.
I ran this over three days. Finished work sunday at 4:00pm. Started race at 8PM sunday night. Four hours race completed at 1am monday morning. Sleep untill 6am, race through monday with breaks for breakfast, (watched pokemon), lunch and 1 hour nap, dinner (watched DR Who), and finished at 1am tuesday morning with 15 hour 38 minutes racing complete. Slept and rose at 5:30 am. Drove with similar breakfast and lunch breaks untill 24 hours (and a few seconds) were complete at 5:15 tuesday night. In real time my playstation ran 45.25 hours, paused at the pitstop for all breaks. There was no noticeable problem with running the ps2 for that long. 👍
The race:
For the first eight hours or so I had the same tactic, how fast could I go? With a
pit every three laps the best lap time was 6'12.343. eight hours of high level concentration, even with a break to sleep is very tiring. I decided to pace myself a little and went about setting a constant lap time around 6'30 seconds.
the more relaxed pace bore results in the terms of lap time on lap 90, 9 hours and fifty four minutes into the race when i got a lap of 6'10.565.
Halfway! at 12 hours race time, 24 hours realtime 109 laps complete. i would have had nearly an extra lap but lost concentration when i battled the fto lm at the end of a lap and forgot to pit. I ran out of gas about a third of the way around the track and had to do the rest at 80km per hour. This one lap took about 10.5 minutes and I had my lead reduced by a Lap.
At 13:10', end of lap 119 My best lap went to 6'09.645. I would drive a while at normal pace, lapping about 6'25.xxx and throw in a few faster attempts now and again. the next lap record was about hour 17 race time and this was the best lap (#171) 6'08.555
Complete: 217 Laps in 24hr and a few seconds. I lapped at nine laps per hour plus one extra lap. The closest of the opposition, BMW m series race car completed 192 laps, 25 less than me.
I won my Green/Yellow gt formula car all by my self!!! No human or B-spec help.
If you wish to do this there are a few things I would advise.
You need three days realtime. Pick an interesting drive, one where you can both challenge yourself, and win easily enough.
I didn't worry about the amount of A-Spec points I got (1 point).
the maths worked like this BMW did exactly eight laps per hour at an average rate of 7'30.xxx. You need to be able to EASILY produce an AVERAGE lap time that includes both ends of the pitstops that will beat that. In other words don't do the race if you cant better this rate of laps.
Don't worry about your playstation, unless it is already faulty.
Choose music you like from the jukebox, music can really help with inspiration an rhythm in a race.
Why did I do this A-Spec? - My ten year old son can complete this easily without driving, (B-Spec), drivers should be able to do better than this!
The experience is tiring and I slept for a couple of extra hours the next few days to recuperate. This exercise should give a good indication to the stresses, both physical and mental, that occur with such a lengthy undertaking. Completion gives you a very real buzz!!!
Happy racing, please feel free to ask any questions, I can only log on occaisionally but will try to respond to any serious query!
If you intended to complete this race a-spec and didn't, why?
Car choice: I chose to drive the Playstation Pescarolo C60 Judd race car because its fast and a challenge if you want to push the vehicle to its limit. I didn't spend too much time setting the car up either.
Suspension: default
LSD: 6:58:7
Gears: final - 4812, Auto - 21
Brakes: fr 14, Rear 11
Stage 4 Turbo
BHP 1126, Weight 900kg
ASM & TCS on
Tyres: Race - rear superhard, front hard.
Driving Force Pro wheel used.
I could have chosen a vehicle (or setup) that handled better and pitted less and had a much easier race, but I didn't want to get too bored through the process.
Realtime managment:
24 hours plus pause time during pit stops, plus need to eat sleep etc.
I ran this over three days. Finished work sunday at 4:00pm. Started race at 8PM sunday night. Four hours race completed at 1am monday morning. Sleep untill 6am, race through monday with breaks for breakfast, (watched pokemon), lunch and 1 hour nap, dinner (watched DR Who), and finished at 1am tuesday morning with 15 hour 38 minutes racing complete. Slept and rose at 5:30 am. Drove with similar breakfast and lunch breaks untill 24 hours (and a few seconds) were complete at 5:15 tuesday night. In real time my playstation ran 45.25 hours, paused at the pitstop for all breaks. There was no noticeable problem with running the ps2 for that long. 👍
The race:
For the first eight hours or so I had the same tactic, how fast could I go? With a
pit every three laps the best lap time was 6'12.343. eight hours of high level concentration, even with a break to sleep is very tiring. I decided to pace myself a little and went about setting a constant lap time around 6'30 seconds.
the more relaxed pace bore results in the terms of lap time on lap 90, 9 hours and fifty four minutes into the race when i got a lap of 6'10.565.
Halfway! at 12 hours race time, 24 hours realtime 109 laps complete. i would have had nearly an extra lap but lost concentration when i battled the fto lm at the end of a lap and forgot to pit. I ran out of gas about a third of the way around the track and had to do the rest at 80km per hour. This one lap took about 10.5 minutes and I had my lead reduced by a Lap.
At 13:10', end of lap 119 My best lap went to 6'09.645. I would drive a while at normal pace, lapping about 6'25.xxx and throw in a few faster attempts now and again. the next lap record was about hour 17 race time and this was the best lap (#171) 6'08.555
Complete: 217 Laps in 24hr and a few seconds. I lapped at nine laps per hour plus one extra lap. The closest of the opposition, BMW m series race car completed 192 laps, 25 less than me.
I won my Green/Yellow gt formula car all by my self!!! No human or B-spec help.
If you wish to do this there are a few things I would advise.
You need three days realtime. Pick an interesting drive, one where you can both challenge yourself, and win easily enough.
I didn't worry about the amount of A-Spec points I got (1 point).
the maths worked like this BMW did exactly eight laps per hour at an average rate of 7'30.xxx. You need to be able to EASILY produce an AVERAGE lap time that includes both ends of the pitstops that will beat that. In other words don't do the race if you cant better this rate of laps.
Don't worry about your playstation, unless it is already faulty.
Choose music you like from the jukebox, music can really help with inspiration an rhythm in a race.
Why did I do this A-Spec? - My ten year old son can complete this easily without driving, (B-Spec), drivers should be able to do better than this!
The experience is tiring and I slept for a couple of extra hours the next few days to recuperate. This exercise should give a good indication to the stresses, both physical and mental, that occur with such a lengthy undertaking. Completion gives you a very real buzz!!!
Happy racing, please feel free to ask any questions, I can only log on occaisionally but will try to respond to any serious query!
