SCCA Speed World Touring Challenge Round 6 ** with results on pg. 3**

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Thanks YLG :O
 
Golf Power !!!

Race completed, PM was sent to YLG.

Line up:

Suzuki GSX-R/4 ‘01
Nissan SILVIA 240RS (S100) ‘83
Honda NSX ‘97
Nissan SKYLINE GT-R M.N.P. II ‘99
Jensen Interceptor MkIII ‘74
VW Golf V GTI ’05

few incidents with AI and track bounds, nothing too major. Maybe 1 cut to my advantage (was still my slowest lap).
Lapped 3 cars 1 of them just at the finish-line.

Best / worst splits:
T1: 0’27.440 (#1) / 0’28.197 (#10)
T2: 0’59.436 (#6) / 1’01.495 (#9)

Golf Power !!!
 
BTW regarding that short cut:
DeuceOfClub
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I was using it before YLG declare it illegal. After that my PB was slower by 0.4sec’.
 
I think this may be a no-show for me this week. I haven't ran my race yet and I'm not even at my house to run the race. Hopefully I can get home before midnight, do my race, and submit my time. I guess we'll see.
 
Well, I blew it :ouch: I looped it just like Juan-Pablo on the last corner of my third lap. The good news is that I kept it out of the pits this time, and finished the race. The bad news is that the spin cost me about 12 seconds :ouch:

Other than that, the race we great. One of my best so far. I had no AI contact at all! Not even them hitting me :D I managed to get them 2 or 3 at a time down the main straight, and only had to make a couple of passes on the rest of the course. My laps were a bit slower than I'd have liked, but after the spin, I decided caution was the better part of valor, and started using the break a bit for the last turn. In all of my practice laps (150 miles worth) I only had a spin like that once, and wasn't finding it too difficult to make the last corner with only a lift. By braking, I was losing about 0.500 a lap :yuck: The car was just too inconsistent to risk it. The Mazda likes flat tracks with low speed corners, but bumps and fast sweepers just don't agree with it.

Only two incidents, other than the spin to report. On lap 2, I cut the left before T2, getting all 4 wheels onto the bricks, which I didn't realize until after the race. On lap 7, I mis-judged the turn in, and cut across the concrete before the 1st tunnel. As soon as I realized I was going to cut it, I let off, but I still ended up with my best T1 (26.9), which lead to my best lap, but only by 0.010, as I got flustered by the cut.

The field I got was:
1. Subaru Legacy Wagon 2.0 GT '98
2. Subaru Impreza Coupe 22-B STI-Ver. '98
3. Honda NSX Type S Zero '97
4. Nissan Skyline GT-R '99
5. Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VII RS '98
6. Mazda Mazda 6 5-Door '03

Best Practice Lap: 26.7 / 58.1
Best Race Lap: 27.1 / 58.5 (lap 7, with the cut, was faster overall, but had a slower T2)
 
Team Mazda 6

Race Completed, Time Submitted

The Line up:

Nissan Skyline GT-R Vspec '95
Nissan Skyline GT-R N1 '95
Toyota Supra RZ '97
Shelby Series 1 Super Charged '03
RUF BTR '86
Mazda 6 5-door '03

NO major incidents to report, minor AI contact, no off track excursions or cuts over the concrete.

Passed the RUF BTR without going into the concrete area


Made easy work of the Shelby and Supra


Moving thru lap traffic slowed me down on lap 9


Best practice lap: T1: 27.052 T2: 58.501
Best race lap: T1: 27.379 T2: 59.196

Team Mazda 6
 
VirtualTime Racing TSX is back in the garage and the times are submitted.

I was running pretty well (for me) in practice; unfortunately I had an interruption and didn't get to run the actual race until a couple hours later, so I was a little off my practice pace. My best race laps were up about 0.3xx" from my best practice lap. Nonetheless I was pretty consistent and ran a pretty clean race.

Starting field:
Nissan 300ZX Z32
Honda NSX-S
Holden Monaro CV8
Mistubishi Evo VII GSR
Shelby S1

I fell in behind the Shelby and spent the warmup lap dogging him. Near the exit to the 4th tunnel, we caught up to the Evo, forming a tight little bunch. I strategized a little and hung back going into the last turn, so I was able to get a good run and pass the Shelby and Evo just after the s/f line and get decent velocity down the front straight.

I pulled on the Monaro all the way uphill, diving inside at the righthand Turn 5 and passing cleanly going into the first tunnel. The 300ZX and NSX had hared off and so I was on my own through the Bus Stop and the long uphill to the second pair of tunnels.

I caught the leading cars on the shorter straight before the last turn. The NSX slowed suddenly at midturn, forcing me to spike the brakes; I still nudged him, but the only other option was a big off to the outside. This killed my momentum at the exit but didn't unsettle him all that much, though this was my slowest lap other than the out lap. Instead of passing at corner exit, I made a slingshot pass going over the second crest and knocked off both the NSX and the 300 ZX. I tucked back in, braking a little late for fear of getting rear ended at Turn 1.

After that it was clear track for a while. I tried to get up to practice speed but pushed a little hard, with a minor cut on the last turn of lap 4, which actually cost me a few tenths. Rather than risk a big off, I didn't push so hard and went for smooth consistent laps. Laptimes fell a few tenths each for laps 5, 6, and 7 (fastest race lap).

On the back half of lap 8 I caught up to the trailing bunch of backmarkers. This lap, the timing was right and I didn't have to hold back; I got a clean run through the last turn and instead of tracking out at exit, I swung back inside for the pass. The Monaro did too, so I pulled it in even farther and we went 3 wide past the pit entrance and I put the Monaro, Evo, and 300ZX a lap down by the s/f line. Traffic didn't really slow me down, and I caught up to and passed the Shelby cleanly in about the same spot on the next lap, 9.

After a decent run through the first turn, I made a clean pass on the NSX between Turns 2 and 3, putting the whole field a lap down. After that it was a matter of finishing out lap 10 without making any mistakes.

This is (I think) my first experience with the new Deep Forest, and I have to say I'm liking it, though I miss the twilit lighting of the GT3 version. The Bus Stop section seems to have been repaved with grippier asphalt, though I did have a problem with the front end unloading and giving me some wheelspin at crests all the way around the track. In practice I raised the ride height a little and softened the front spring rates a little, which reduced this tendency, but still resulted in overall slightly slower laps. So I went back to my original settings and just lived with it.
 
Time submitted... I forgot to turn off TCS (had it on for the round with tire wear), which slowed me down about 0.750 per lap.

Best flying lap: 0'26.866 / 0'57.864 / 1'xx.xxx
Best lap in race: 0'27.166 / 0'58.4xx / and about one full second off that flying lap.

I was fairly consistent, made ZERO AI contact :) ... cut across the conrete to teh first tunnel twice, (both were 3-wheels off) slide too wide on the final turn twice (got major 4-wheels off on one of them, which slowed me down a good 0.300 or so), and had two very light taps, one in the final tunnel on entry, and I forget the other, but I remember thinking the tunnel was my second 'contact'.

All in all wasn't too bad a race for me, would have preferred having TCS off though... meh, I'll remember that for next week :)
 
Well, whaddaya know. I thought ASM and TCS were forbidden, but I just checked the rules and they are not. I probably would have run at TCS=1 for the Cleveland race if I had known that.
 
I'm hoping I snuck in before the buzzer.

Line-up
01 Lexus SC430 (5)
00 Subaru Legacy B4 Blitzen (6)
91 Nissan Skyline R32 GT-R N1 (2)
03 Nissan 350Z Z33 (3)
02 Nissan Skyline R34 GT-R V-Spec II Nür (4)
03 Ford Focus ST170 (1)


Race was 100% contact free but with infractions.

Lap 1: Ran wide on final corner, all 4 wheels off.
Lap 3: Repeated lap 1
Lap 10: Braked late coming out of the tunnel at T2 causing slide ending up with 3 wheels off.

Fastest lap:
T1 0:27.453 Lap 10
T2 0:59.188 Lap 10
T3 Lap 7
 
A bit of a strange one this Deep Forrest, i spent ages fine tuning my settings, not finding a great balance but thinking i was at least getting somewhere, only to then try the track again with the settings i'd used at Hong Kong and beating by previous time by .75 after two laps! - probably says more about my tuning abilities than it does about the difficulties of setting your car up for Deep Forrest. :)

After all that the race went smoothly, no problems with any of the AI cars this time, they were quite a mixed bunch:

Lexus GS300 Vortex
Nissan 350Z Roadster
Chevy Silverado SST Concept
Dodge Charger Super Bee
Lotus Esprit V8'02
Acura RSX type-S

No contact with any of them, no hold-ups by any of them, got a little tow behind the Silverado down the start/finish straight - only to run-out of gears just before the 'crest' before the drop down to the first corner. To be honest they didn't really feature in my race at all for better or for worse - just the way i like it.

Can't say that i felt that i'd got the track nailed, i could'nt get the final corner right, i was always exiting with space to spare to the rumble strip. The corner at the very bottom of the circuit before the run back up the hill under the two bridges i found i couldn't get the gearing right to hit the powerband at the right time, i was getting through the corner at what i felt was a good pace but the engine was just bogging down on the exit up the hill.
Still, i had a very clean race so hopefully that will make up for a lack of outright pace.
 
Results? :nervous: :lol:
 
RESULTS:

1st: quattro_bro
Mazda Protege
13'44.374

2nd: Yourlocalgod
Mazda Protege
13'47.003

3rd: bobman
BMW 330
13:49.400

4th: The Missing Link
Dodge Neon SRT-4
13'57.043

5th: Duke
Acura TSX
13':57.176

6th: bhawk776
Mazda 6
Total Time: 13'57.938

7th: Luxy
Mazda 6
13:58.919

8th: bleurabbit7
Ford Focus
14:00.704

9th: M31
BMW 330
14:00.970

10th: TheCracker
Acura RSX-S
14:03.050

11th: DeuceOfClub
VW GTi
Total Time: 14’05.614

12th: h0ss
VW GTi
Total 14:56.337


great race this week guys...thanks as always for participating....looks like the proteges cleaned up this week, congrats to quattro bro for an amazing run...hell i thought i was doing pretty good, but no way could i have touched that time..especially since you only get one shot...you nailed it man...congrats. congrats also to bobman, nice solid finish again

note also, i will be adding m31's points from last week in with this week, since the time was all confused... im just gonna give him the points that he would have gotten, but will leave everyone that would be bumped down a spot behind him with the same points, so that they are not penalized for the confusion.
 
wow... beat duke to the finish line by a car length!

That's some tight racing... I'm also happy knowing I did just about as good as I could have done. I know I could have went a good 8 seconds faster had I not had a spinout... but then I would have been door-to-door with bobman, and I'm not sure if I would have ended up beating him... hmmm.... come to think of it, I am more disappointed with the results... I lost about 7.5 seconds on a spinout, and another 5.5-7.5 seconds because I forgot I had TCS on from the Hong Kong race... so that would have put me in the podium race... d'oh!
 
Thanks, guys! My first top 5!

I'm mightily impressed by the sub-13':50" crowd. I drove a fairly consistent race, which is the key to these 10-lappers. But even if I had driven all 10 laps at my best practice pace, I'd have been rubbing doorhandles with bobman - 5 seconds behind quattro_bro!

Amazing run, q_b! And good backup by Team Protege driver YLG.

How many miles do you guys have on your practive cars?
:nervous:
 
Holy fast run, Batman ... err, QB :D

Nice racing guys. Looks like the Protege was the class of the field this week. Like Link, I'm really wishing I hadn't looped it :ouch:

Congrats on the top 5, Duke! ... I've got about 900 miles on my practice car :p

Here were my laps:

1'23.511
1'23.419
1'32.059 :ouch:
1'23.986 :ouch:
1'22.724
1'22.341
1'22.331
1'22.441
1'23.186
1'22.921

Best practice lap: 1'21.906
 
Restrictor plates! Restrictor plates!
 
Congrats Duke!

Now bolt some weight on that VTR buggy! :lol:



I've got around 6,300 miles on the practice car... What, is that a lot? :confused:

Actually, it's more like 750. :D



Thanks, but Luxy, without your spin, you were there.
[inner monologue]Thank god for that spin![/inner monologue] :lol:
 
quattro_bro
Thanks, but Luxy, without your spin, you were there.
[inner monologue]Thank god for that spin![/inner monologue] :lol:
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Ahh, I think you still had me, but you'd have been sweatin' :p ;)
 
Yea, I was running consistent 1'21.800 in practice, 1'21.350 was flying lap; and then with TCS on I couldnt break 1'22.400, and on my AI passing lap I was 3 seconds slow (I accepted this one) but then I spun out on Lap 7 (not on mainstraight, but at the fast right before the tunnel where the strange bump is) and that cost me about 7.5 seconds....

Either way, consistency is always the key for 5 laps and longer, and congrats to the podium guys, i'm head-hunting an infineon. There's snipers all over them hills :trouble::trouble::trouble:
 
Yowza, I never broke into the 21s. My consistent practice laps were in the 1':23.low" range; my hot lap was 1':22.871". How about a review of the TSX's setup too? Acura is starting to feel pretty lonely back here...

Here were my race laps:

1':25.175" - dang slow AI! Passed Shelby and Evo VII on front straight, Monaro at first tunnel
1':24.227" - minor bump with NSX at last turn exit killed my momentum
1':23.133" - first clear lap
1':23.761" - minor cut at last turn; lifted
1':23.700" - slight bobble at Bus Stop; no off, but out of shape
1':23.546"
1':23.130"
1':23.822" - lap Monaro, 300ZX, Evo VII at last turn exit; minor holdup
1':23.233" - lap Shelby, no real holdup
1':23.449" - lap NSX at Turn 2, no real holdup
 
wow, congrats quattro_bro and yourlocal. those are hot times. i actually though i had this one again and it was going to come down to if i got the penalie.

1.) 1:24.716
2.) 1:23.273
3.) 1:22.081
4.) 1:22.221
5.) 1:22.171
6.) 1:21.762 best lap ever!!
7.) 1:24.761 damn traffic!!
8.) 1:23.354
9.) 1:22.667
10.) 1:22.394

total time: 13:49.400
total miles on race car: 110.0
total miles on practace car: 705.7 even after the oil change im losing power to weight ratio. even though i still have 277hp. so you dont just lose hp by single diggiots, you losing it in thenths too.
 
1:24.203
1:23.647
1:24.381
1:24.049
1:24.153
1:24.622
1:24.640
1:24.069
1:23.595
1:24.471

Overall time: 14:03.050 (if my maths is right)

:sly: I think i need to put a call into the FIA to see if they can take a look at the RSX's spec - theres no way it's ever going to pull a 1:21.081! - not with 241bhp under the hood :sly:
 
yourlocalgod
RESULTS:

4th: The Missing Link
Dodge Neon SRT-4
13'57.043

5th: Duke
Acura TSX
13':57.176

6th: bhawk776
Mazda 6
Total Time: 13'57.938

7th: Luxy
Mazda 6
13:58.919

8th: bleurabbit7
Ford Focus
14:00.704

9th: M31
BMW 330
14:00.970
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Wow, that was a close race, I lost 5 places with less than 3 seconds !!! ….. and that is a nice circuit, I have always enjoyed the rhythm and the flow offered by it, ….. still I am not sure if I like it better this whey or the reverse version ….. in any case, it was a very nice race.

Congratulation to the Mazda drivers.
 
@Cracker

Your RSX should have 259 HP. I've stolen some keys to practice cars this week, while everyone is on the lookout for my snipers.... :)... and the RSX should have 259 HP unless I haven't followed the mods correctly....

So far the results are VERY interesting, and I have only had a chance to put one car other than mine around the track. . . it is a clear-cut situation on the cars not being quite as equal as we intially thought... I'll post more in the rewards thread as I discover it. (Am now leaving for the evening... but will return to car testing tomorrow)
 
Congrats to all the podium guys and a big :bowdown: for q_b.


yourlocalgod
11th: DeuceOfClub
VW GTi
Total Time: 14’05.614
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👎 👎 👎

Wow, didn’t see that coming, it’s a track that I love and my race was very consistent and close to my practice PB.
Only good thing is I’m gonna be lighter next week. :sick:

  1. 1'23.985 👍
  2. 1'25.100 👎
  3. 1'24.264
  4. 1'24.128
  5. 1'24.414
  6. 1'23.862 👍 👍 👍
  7. 1'24.027
  8. 1'24.357
  9. 1'26.738 👎 👎 👎
  10. 1'24.739

Total Time: 14’05.614
 
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