Three Hundred Miles Per Hour

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Hi there bennyrrr, that speed is indeed legitimate - photo taken with a webcam? That's what I used to do ;)

Nice to see you put the Club in your signature too (even before you're officially in :sly: ), but how about giving us some linkage while you're at it? If you want to quote this part of my post and place it in your signature, anyone clicking the text will be taken to the first page of the Club thread :)

Member of the 300mph Club

In fact, I think that's the first time I've seen a Pescarolo be used as a first car - nice work. 👍 As GT4_Rule says, why not try getting some more out of it! :dopey:
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DE
 
i have a real problem, i messed up my c9's settings!

has ayone got c9 settings?
 
CCX, I know you wanted to post your speeds, but please just edit them into your other post. the thread will eventually get bumped anyhow.

I wish there was a button that you could click on that says "merge post's" to free up some room here
 
Sorry CCX, there's absolutely no way I can verify from those pictures. 3 and 1 are recognisable, just, and that's it.
What Opendriver says about double-posting is true, we are already far and away the largest Gran Turismo thread here - we don't need doublers bumping up the numbers ;)

Really, MS? I'd have to look that one up, you've got so many speeds I'll admit I can't remember! Anyway, I actually managed to enter that speed on the Leaderbaord as a 2003 car - we're not quite perfect :p - and when I wrote that I still thought it was 2003, which I should probably have specified. Has anyone used the 2003 Pescarolo as their first car?
I fixed that error on the Leaderboard, by the way.

DE
 
By the way you sure you can't put this on the list, even as unverified? I just can't seem to find a working camera in the neighbourhood, at least not people who'd want to lend it to me :/
 
viperpilot
and why your latest MStorm??
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You're not supposed to find my secret messages that easily! 👍
My record with the car was taken from me. When someone takes one of my records, you don't expect me to not go and improve my speeds, heh. :crazy:

Dark Elite
Really, MS? I'd have to look that one up, you've got so many speeds I'll admit I can't remember!
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The Toyota 88C-V was my first car on the leaderboard (though I had a few 300mph cars before I found this thread), but I think the Pescarolo '04 was the first I took a record with. It's certainly the only one I've not provided a video for, and I took up video-ing all my runs quite shortly after arriving here.
 
MS
The Toyota 88C-V was my first car on the leaderboard (though I had a few 300mph cars before I found this thread), but I think the Pescarolo '04 was the first I took a record with. It's certainly the only one I've not provided a video for, and I took up video-ing all my runs quite shortly after arriving here.
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Ah, in that case... I meant first ever car used to break 300mph, not to break a record. So, this may well have been the first ;)

bennyrrr
Cool, Thanks! Ill try and figure out the link thing.
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All you need to do to get the code from my post is click the 'Quote' button in the bottom-right corner of my post, and find the code - it starts with and ends in [/URL ]. Copy this to the clipboard, then open your control panel to edit your signature. Simply paste the code in there :)

ChromeBallz
By the way you sure you can't put this on the list, even as unverified?
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Yes. Sorry, but rules are rules. :indiff:

DE
 
Thank you ChromeBallz for sorting out honda s2000.

Hmmm, I'm not seeing your picture Fat Boy Drifter... *fires open Quoter* *copies link*

Gotcha. Nice work, and welcome to the Club! Think you can get the TSO20 any higher than that? ;)

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originally posted by viperpilot
well done Fat Boy Drifter and very nice pic btw!! don't you think you can get the GT-One higher??

viper
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originally posted by Dark Elite
Gotcha. Nice work, and welcome to the Club! Think you can get the TSO20 any higher than that?
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Yeah, I think I can get it a little higher. I'll post again if I do. I know I probably won't get close to that 371.9 done by 2078TM
 
I was bored and decided to give this a try. Don't know what it stacks up just havent found time to read the leaderboard yet. I think I can get more out of them so I'll be back I guess. :confused:
Toyota GT One 307.453 mph
Lotus Epirit 350 315.801 mph
 
I also have a new project car. it is quite possible that there is one more 6-cyl roadcar that can get to 300mph.:sly: i've already achieved 294mph.:D
 
Toyota GT-One Race Car (TS020) '99
349.71 mph

I'm pretty sure I can get between 350 and 360mph. I can provide a video replay if I do get that much but, how would I get the camera to stay on the front wheels the whole time to prove I didn't cheat?
 
Fat Boy Drifter
I can provide a video replay if I do get that much but, how would I get the camera to stay on the front wheels the whole time to prove I didn't cheat?
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I just use the standard 3rd person camera angle (although I double tap square so the the speed/time etc. show). As long as your on the right hand side of the track down the second straight, then the camera gets a great side-on shot right at the point where the car is most likely to wheelie (if your on the left the camera passes above the car). This view of the car usually makes it pretty easy to tell if it's doing a wheelie or not. If the car does a wheelie earlier than this, then it's very obvious from all angles.

The reason this camera angle is critical is because often when people do a wheelie, it's very obvious to see (ie: the front is pointing to the sky), but if the aerobalance of the car is only just on the wrong side of legal, then it will perform a 'low wheelie', where the front wheels are only millimeters from the track. It's not always easy to tell when this has happened during a run, and it doesn't make as large an impact on the speed as a full wheelie will. It just so happens that it almost always occurs over the few seconds as the car passes this camera (which is not long before the end of the run, right at peak speed where the car is most susceptible to a wheelie). If the car does a wheelie before this point, it's going to be more obvious.

If theres any doubt, then you can use the replay theater to record a verification replay, hitting select at the suspicious moments, using photo mode to zoom in on the front wheels.

As for your suggestion of keeping the camera fixed on the front wheels during the run, all the built in static cameras (the ones in front and behind the car) are all to high up and don't always make it clear when the car does a wheelie. I've seen a trick used on some of the drift videos to get additional static cameras by ejecting the disc at a certain time, but as with the in built ones, I don't think the angles you get are useful enough for checking.

In short, just stick with the standard 3rd person camera angles, and stick to the right hand side of the track on the second straight. Hope that makes everything clear. 👍
 
originally posted by MasterStorm
I just use the standard 3rd person camera angle (although I double tap square so the the speed/time etc. show). As long as your on the right hand side of the track down the second straight, then the camera gets a great side-on shot right at the point where the car is most likely to wheelie (if your on the left the camera passes above the car). This view of the car usually makes it pretty easy to tell if it's doing a wheelie or not. If the car does a wheelie earlier than this, then it's very obvious from all angles.

The reason this camera angle is critical is because often when people do a wheelie, it's very obvious to see (ie: the front is pointing to the sky), but if the aerobalance of the car is only just on the wrong side of legal, then it will perform a 'low wheelie', where the front wheels are only millimeters from the track. It's not always easy to tell when this has happened during a run, and it doesn't make as large an impact on the speed as a full wheelie will. It just so happens that it almost always occurs over the few seconds as the car passes this camera (which is not long before the end of the run, right at peak speed where the car is most susceptible to a wheelie). If the car does a wheelie before this point, it's going to be more obvious.

If theres any doubt, then you can use the replay theater to record a verification replay, hitting select at the suspicious moments, using photo mode to zoom in on the front wheels.

As for your suggestion of keeping the camera fixed on the front wheels during the run, all the built in static cameras (the ones in front and behind the car) are all to high up and don't always make it clear when the car does a wheelie. I've seen a trick used on some of the drift videos to get additional static cameras by ejecting the disc at a certain time, but as with the in built ones, I don't think the angles you get are useful enough for checking.

In short, just stick with the standard 3rd person camera angles, and stick to the right hand side of the track on the second straight. Hope that makes everything clear.
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Thanks for all the help.👍
 
Another excellent explanation from MS about the recording of replays for verification.

Fat Boy Drifter, whichever ImageShack tag you're using really doesn't work well for me, I keep having to go into the Quoter to get the URL out of it...
*tries repeatedly*
In fact, this one won't load at all :indiff: I believe ImageShack is quite badly broken, at the moment at least.

DE
 

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