The Rolex Sports Car Series, Season 3! Finished! Thanks Everyone!

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Good race today. I'm ready for next week. I'm glad to see Mel back racing with us.
 
Good race today. I'm ready for next week. I'm glad to see Mel back racing with us.

Mel was a familiar name! It was nice to race with him again. Hopefully he will come again!

It's going to take a lot to top the Indy race this season!
 
Mel was a familiar name! It was nice to race with him again. Hopefully he will come again!

It's going to take a lot to top the Indy race this season!

Any time table as to when the points will be updated?
 
Any time table as to when the points will be updated?

I'm on Christmas break, so I may do it tomorrow. It'll be done before Christmas.
 
I'm on Christmas break, so I may do it tomorrow. It'll be done before Christmas.

Sweet. The DP championship is getting really good again this year.
 
Sweet. The DP championship is getting really good again this year.

Sure is! If I hadn't raced with -30 HP I may have been able to get some more points!
 
I'm a idiot, didn't check my HP before the race.

You can't fix stupid!

My momma always told me that stupid is as stupid does :lol:
 
My momma always told me that stupid is as stupid does :lol:

Hey, what can I say!

Anyways, guys, we may be putting together a no abs race this week to try it out. We'll be giving no abs tips over at the season 4 discussion thread (interest checks) so be sure to check it out!
 
The Camaro may need -5 HP, like really...

Damn Polar give me some credit! LOL! One win and you want to shut me down already? I have tuned all my cars on NurbNord and Grand Valley. If you can dial your cars in on both those tracks, you can drive any other track in the game with relative ease. I have ran 1000's of laps on both tracks for 2 years now.

Remember, the Chevy has all the power in the middle. She loves to corner. This track was a great example of it finally being competitive with the 10 extra HP. Damu, GH would still get away on me on the straight. I could catch them in the corners. TB was right on my tail for several laps too. Even Storm rocketed past me on the straight with his rotary power! The Chevy's top end still suffers a bit, thats why I needed to keep up the drafts, and fly around the corners, or I may have fallen back.

Also, that was one of my race of a lifetimes. I did not bounce, hit or drive into walls, guardrails or into the beach once. Traded a bit of paint, but it was very close racing.

I made sure my gears from 2-5 were close, 6th was a bit shorter than I normally have it. By the end of the straight, I was almost topping out. I knew I had to make the gears short this race, but maintaining the draft was key.

During the pit under caution, not sure how I went in 3rd and came out 1st. Pit Crew was pretty fast I guess.

All it took was the extra 10HP to be in the game. I'll run some laps on Tokyo, and see what times I can get and compare it to others in the coming days.

Great battles guys, really an fantastic race. Even avoiding a few DP cars was fun.

Happy Holidays! :)
 
Instead of quoting that large post, ill put this sentence:

The countdown to Christmas is: 3 days!

Now to answer-

The win was awesome, and you've been up there the whole season, just haven't been able to seal the deal yet. I saw damu beach it in turn one and knew you'd done it! I drove next to you across the line ;)

And when I wrote that I thought you and sail were two different people xD I could've sworn I've driven past a Grazbro... So I thought that he wanted the extra HP and that sail was fast to begin with and just won the race with ease.

Now I know you're the same people and it makes sense. Since it is Christmas break I may do some testing for season 4 and ill let ya know how the Camaro is :)

Happy holidays!
 
And when I wrote that I thought you and sail were two different people xD I could've sworn I've driven past a Grazbro!

LOL, I wish I could change grazbro to sailworksman. Didn't know that it worked like that when you signed up. Maybe next time for GT6!
 
LOL, I wish I could change grazbro to sailworksman. Didn't know that it worked like that when you signed up. Maybe next time for GT6!

Lhl screws me up a lot too. Same with bigtex and Monster.

On the app it needs to show your psn name, it would make things easier!
 
Anybody has tips about tire wear? Front tires were ok but my rear tires were gone halfway through both stints.
 
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Anybody has tips about tire wear? Front tires were ok but my rear tires were gone halfway through both stints.

Less rear brake bias helps. Less rear camber/more front camber helps.

Also be sure to not slide the rear tires (in laymans terms) --> Don't drift coming out of the corners.
 
To clarify the caution at grand valley-


Mel hit the wall at the entrance to the bridge, and got stuck. I then hit him. To make sure a larger wreck didn't happen, I called caution.

He really was in a dangerous spot. If a leader hit him, I think some tempers would "flare" to say the least.
 
I'm really having no luck with the Audi... It's getting quite tedious now.
 
I'm really having no luck with the Audi... It's getting quite tedious now.

Ask storm for his tune. He had the Audi going really quick after the race!
 
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I'm really having no luck with the Audi... It's getting quite tedious now.

I'll send u my tune that I used in the pre-season tonight. Tire wear is perfect. Try the trans as is but you can change it for whatever track. C ya.
 
I'm really having no luck with the Audi... It's getting quite tedious now.

I had it last season. It was definitely a dark horse, but it felt great (exception is SSR5, because my front tires were destroyed) in most tracks and had decent pace. If I was back then what I am now, then I would have won more races than I had. As I've said, be consistent, but don't overdrive your car. Keep it on the draft, and wait for their car to slide around and then use AWD to get a better launch. If I could make videos of every overtake I made using that technique then I would, but I can't.

About GVS - Shame I threw away a victory from starting 2 seconds behind the field, but let's call it engine failure. Expect me to go all out in these next few races to make up for that lost points deficit.
 
polarbear345
To clarify the caution at grand valley-

Mel hit the wall at the entrance to the bridge, and got stuck. I then hit him. To make sure a larger wreck didn't happen, I called caution.

He really was in a dangerous spot. If a leader hit him, I think some tempers would "flare" to say the least.

I wasn't too happy with the caution when it was called, but after I watched the replay, I see that it was a definite "Charlie Foxtrot" waiting to happen. I agree with the caution now.
 
I wasn't too happy with the caution when it was called, but after I watched the replay, I see that it was a definite "Charlie Foxtrot" waiting to happen. I agree with the caution now.

I just knew a massive wreck was going to happen if I didn't call it. Thankfully it worked out!
 
I had such an off night on Saturday. I hadn't practiced at all, and kept changing my tune from what it was, which didn't help. I was finding that there was more understeer and I couldn't figure out why, and I laughed my sides off when I realised that I hadn't actually serviced the Mazda beforehand, when it needed one. Lost 17 bhp in that race, no wonder I was off pace so much towards the end.
 
I'll take all the help I can get regarding the Audi!
 
Do you still have the tune I gave you regarding the Audi?
 
Merry Christmas everyone!!!


I hope everyone is having fun (and got what they asked for!)

Here's my little list of what I got xD

iPad (soooo much cooler when it's your own!)
NASCAR 2012- pretty awesome so far!
Little big planet karting- haven't played it yet, but little big planet is awesome so it should be a blast!
100 dollars from grandparents (awh!)
iTunes card (of course! Apps don't buy themselves!)
A new oakland zoo shirt (the Pitt basketball student section's official shirt :))
iPad case!

Everyone should say what they got (or gave for our older drivers!)

Merry Christmas again!
 
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