Chris you got a week to race big 👍
That's the point. I am much more nervous lining up with someone with a killer tree than a killer tune. That's why I have different leaderboards for different regions. coco wanted to race chris, he knew he was at a disadvantage going on a different leaderboard. We actually had 2 sets of runs. One with US ghost and one with AUS ghost, results were what you would expect. Had an eliminator round and coco somehow got the tree.
'Jumping' has been one of the most used excuses since GT5. What people don't understand is that jumping is EXTREMELY hard to make it look like a tree. Combine that with the 3/5 runs that I require and combine it with the fact that I hold the ghost and it is next to impossible. And 'tapping' is quite obvious.
Around these parts, the genuine competition all have killer trees and tunes.And when people are on the ball, legitimate reaction times are similar.
Sure, it's a given that if your napping at the line, your toast....but you simply can't tell if your opposition has a good tune if you've chopped him by a length come the first shadow.
I'm not saying its impossible for someone from another continent to tree outside his region, but the reality is, it's extremely rare to happen legit assuming both parties connections are up to scratch and the lobby is in a reasonable state
As for holding the ghost is concerned, that's something we've always done during our friendly comps down under. Coco is well versed at that, and we've seen it guessed on just like a shorter ghost.
You blokes were hoodwinked, end of story. Lol.
Personally, and I'm sure I'm not the only one here. I'd rather 10 close-even launches with my opposition to see how my tune really stacks up head to head, than 200 runs of treeing/being treed. It's the only way to truly gauge your car.
And if you really rate yourself and/or your car, it's how you should want to win.
Until such time that we are given a proper tree system, with a red light to punish those that push the boundaries of their launch too far, then all when have it a very shady grey area.
Other side notes / points of interest.
1. I had a very brief stint testing the ins and outs of tapping in GT5 ( purely for testing purposes of course, lol ).... assuming much of that has carried over to GT6.
Yes, the conventional style tapping used for best ETs at ssrx was fairly easily detected at Indy. But there are ways to pull it off undetected in both FR and 4wd.
2. Strikes me as odd to have boards for various regions, yet allow people to race outside their juristriction. I've not read the OP for regs regarding this, but common sense would suggested that it was originally set up in this manner, so this didn't happen.
Now your in a situation where you need two biased ghosts.
That's far from ideal...
Unless someone else guess launches his backside off, then that spot will probably be owned by Coco permanently, unless another Australasian dragger takes it off him.
End of novel.
