Torc 12.4: Deep Forest

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If I had a team mate I was letting down! ...... I'd feel real bad and very shady :embarrassed:

But I dont have a team mate! ... I just have 4 kids off school all week and 2 of them have chickenpox and mum's at work most of the day ..... I'm being tested sanity wise and losing by the look of things :banghead:

I cant race seriously with the situation as it is! I hope this explains my early departure better 👍

Laters all :cheers:
 
Originally posted by Mr P
If I had a team mate I was letting down! ...... I'd feel real bad and very shady :embarrassed:

But I dont have a team mate! ... I just have 4 kids off school all week and 2 of them have chickenpox and mum's at work most of the day ..... I'm being tested sanity wise and losing by the look of things :banghead:

I cant race seriously with the situation as it is! I hope this explains my early departure better 👍

Laters all :cheers:
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Sux to hear that Ron. I hope your kids get better soon, and that you keep SANE! :D
 
Hi, I'm sorry, i am going to have to drop out aswell. I just havent had any time at all this week to do it. I was meant to have a holiday today and tommorow but things changed.

Very sorry to my partner T13R.
 
Time and Replay submitted. I tried like crazy last night and tonight to beat my best but could only get to within 3 tenths.

T2's: 54.772 | 48.780

Good luck all!
 
Time submitted, Replay sent, and Race 5 vote sent.

Good Luck guys, cya's at the GV :cheers:
 
Also had no motivation to pick the GT3 disc in stead of the GT4P disc :odd: Except for this morning. I got out of bed an hour earlier :irked: and managed a clean race.

I can do a lot better, but with a lot of drivers dropping out, my chances are getting bigger :D

T2's: 53.3 & 47.1

Good luck on the last one :cheers:
 
Time submitted, replay sent. I'd have done better, but I just plain suck.

T2s were :52.915 and :46.771... yay.

Hope everyone had fun!:banghead:
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Race Finished.
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Sorry for the late post, things a bit out of control this end :(

@ Mr P (GTP) sorry to hear that mate, was looking forward to seeing what times you could have done.

@ Tomski (GTP) Not good mate, hope to see you return for the very lucky Torc 13!!

@ zer0h (GTP) well you make 3, so no one else can go ;) hope to see you running again mate.

@ gronk62 (GTP) welcome to the GTX uncle Phil ;)

@ YM (Racing Line) long time no see, not since Torc 8, good to see ya still in there mate!

Race #5 votes received from:
banjobear
Barbol
Bollocks#999
Cerbera
chimeleon
Comrade
DES LIM
eggmann
GT3mich
JaFa
Max E.
Olk
T13R
Terrible Tigers
Tommy
Tosk
Wastegate

Race #4 times received & replays from:
Alavilla
banjobear
Barbol
bodyrollin
Cerbera
Comrade
DES LIM
easyed
GT3mich
GTSR
Hugh Jeers
JaFa
Lotus350
Olk
Prancing Horse
Slowpoke
T13R
Terrible Tigers
Tony Randall
VB
Wastegate
XtremeD63

Race #4 times received from:
Bollocks#999
chimeleon
DODO
Hugo Boss
Max E.
Pedro
SandStorm
YM
Womble
Venom77

A big SORRY to NoQuarter, I did not even manage a race this week, too much stuff happening in my R/L to spend any time in front of the TV ATM. :(

Unofficial results will follow soon.
 
Unofficial Results.

Code: 
Slowpoke        2:17.760
XtremeD63       2:17.768
T13R            2:18.017
easyed          2:18.306
YM              2:18.639
Wastegate       2:18.790
Hugo Boss       2:18.952
Prancing Horse  2:18.964
Max E.          2:19.025
VB              2:19.351
Lotus350        2:19.359
Alavilla        2:19.560
Comrade         2:19.675
DES LIM         2:19.746
Bollocks#999    2:20.165
GT3mich         2:20.264
chimeleon       2:20.294
Hugh Jeers      2:20.309
venom77         2:20.328
Womble          2:20.546
Tony Randall    2:20.851
DODO            2:20.880
SandStorm       2:20.968
bodyrollin      2:21.056
GTSR            2:21.350
Pedro           2:21.604
Barbol          2:22.029
banjobear       2:22.970
Terrible Tigers 2:23.122
Cerbera         2:25.010
JaFa            2:26.410
Olk             2:29.783
 
15th? better than I expected, grats to my teammate, inside the top 10 👍
Couldve run in the 19's, just couldnt put it together

👍 to Slowpoke, Xtremed63 and T13R, great job there guys


Tosk: Will get my replay over to PH tomorrow mate


Ron and Kelly: Sorry to hear that mate:( , hope the kids get well soon guys:)
 
great jobs by the old feller, my glorious teammate, and t13r. my time was nothing short of miraculous considering the fact that my skills are virtually gone. looks like slow and easy are going to win the overall as i can't possibly beat either of them or anybody else in the top 8 from week to week. it's ok though, i had my time (true it was because there was'nt that many racers who were good) but i had my time anyway. good luck to all in the final round and i hope i don't drag the boat down too badly for the final round. atleast a pretty cool winner takes all type situation has arisen. slowpoke and ed, no need to thank me for keeping you guys in it, what are old friends for? ;)

P
 
P.S. i'm outta the comp. we can't beat slowpoke and easy ed anyway. there's no point in wasting my time if i'm going to finish in 10th and we lose. might as well cut my losses and bow out now. take it sleazy.
 
Max, old buddy!!! Don't be doing that :confused: By my calculations, you're now in 5th place overall - still 4 points ahead of me in 6th!!! And Slow and Easy Racing is now 2 points behind you Whiskeybent and Hellbound guys!!! What a heck of a final session it could be man.

I can't tell ya Max, how many times you've motivated me the push my limits. Surely the MLG GT3 champion has one more good race in him :D Sure would be better for your team and yourself to go out giving it your best ..... and who knows what'll happen :odd: btw - love your sig - what fond memories :)

What a session this one was - Pokey picking up a very narrow victory and with some great help from him, I managed to climb from 11th place to 6th, to close within striking distance of the top dogs - that's you and ExtremeD63, Max........

Big congrats to Pokey, XtremeD63, and T13R for the very fast and close times at the top :)

Mr P - sorry to hear about the difficulties at home with the little ones. Been there myself - with 2 of the little rugrats at home with chickenpox - neighbors wanted to borrow them to expose their kids :lol: but I know how hard it makes doing anything :(
 
ok, i'll finish the comp. i was cranky this morning i guess. thanks for the kind words ed. much appreciated. let's finish.
 
👍 👍 👍

Cranky in the morning??? You?? No way!! :P :lol:

Oh Jeeez, and it's a single hot lap with who knows what car :crazy:
 
"Empty your mind. Be formless, be shapeless... like water. You put water in a cup and it becomes the cup. Put water in a bottle.. it becomes the bottle. Put it in a teapot.. it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow, or it can crash... Be like water my friend." -- Bruce Lee

The water is deep my friend :)

hey, it was your best finish so far ..... and you beat me :irked:

And sorry about yer partner :( Bummer !!

"He who acts defeats his own purpose;
He who grasps loses.
The sage does not act, and so is not defeated.
He does not grasp and therefor does not lose."

"The five colors blind the eye,
The five tones deafen the ear.
The five flavors dull the taste.
Racing and hunting madden the mind.
Preciuos things lead one astray."

-- Lao Tsu

Or as we old hippies used to say..."Go with the flow man" :)
 
Yea I know this is my best finish of this Torc series, but nothing went as planned yesterday, and I lost the racing time I had previously allocated. I had the pace to easily obtain 2'17.4, and this is ultimately why I'm bitter ( it will fade away soon ). Congrats to Slowpoke and Xtreme on making it to the 2'17s, and filling out the two steps above me 👍
 
Bitter......ya want to hear about bitter??? :P

I too was on the pace to be well into the 2:17s, but then for the last 2 days my lower back has been killing me.......particularly when I'm sitting :lol: After 15 min of driving the pain turned to a tolerable blur unless I tried to move - then it was a knife in the back, blade twisting slowly When I'm finally in the groove, I have to quit to go to my sons last baseball game of the season (they won in the bottom of the last inning coming from behind). After the game and festivities I could finally hit the track again about midnight and spent the next 4 hours to no avail. I know if I had been able to keep going earlier, I would have made the 2:17s. And today I'm paying the piper - can hardly sit to type a decent post :lol:

And I didn't even get a podium spot :banghead: :lol: Funny thing is those late nite sessions never work for me ..... but I keep trying it anyway :D

Anyway, nice to meet ya :) Me thinks you're hangin' around MaxE too much :lol: ;)
 
Hehehe. Yes I know I should not be complaining for I am still very young and don't understand the majority of problems you less younger guys ( and gals ) have. But as I said before, it would fade away quickly, and it did :) And now I even know what to look forward to later on, but not for many years still hopefully!:lol:

It is nice to meet you also :)
 
Geez, who's this NOOB ^^ being all philosophical and stuff?? ;) :lol:

Congrats and thanks to XtremeD63 for letting me squeak by, and another top run from T13R for the podium:cheers: 👍

T13R, TORC is really an acronym for Frustration Management 101 ;) You know you can do it, hell you have even done it, you can see boat loads of time to be taken, and have taken it. But there is always something in the way: did I touch him, or he touch me? Was that tire off track, or not?? Invisible wall, WTH is that?!? All of this is after you find your way to the track! Been there myself, more times than i care to admit (just ask my wife ;)). Don't let it get you down, your time is closer than you think 👍

2:17.4xx?? There's no way I coulda hit that! I think my best start lap was in my submitted race (1:12.039), and I did hit a clean flying lap of 1:05.454, but in teh submitted race was only a 1:05.721. I was nervous over that final 0.2 seconds! Having run 2 Board Challenges on this track certainly helped! :)

Oops, almost forgot. Glad the young 'un is coming back! I never thought him to be a chicken!! :lol: :lol:

Here's my replay, it is NTSC Xport:
 
Hey Pokey - talk about old farts :)

Ahhhhh yes T13R, "less younger guys" - yer such a diplomat :) A lot to look forward to - losing hair on the top and it's growing out the earlobes and nose :lol:
 
@ XtremeD63, I received your EM containing your vote & your question about how many other TORC races have had a close finish. So I looked it up, got about half way through Season 6 and stopped looking, there have been some close runs…
Code: 
Season Race Date         1st Driver    R/Time    2nd Driver     R/Time   Diff
1      5    Jun 18, 2000 marty         3:57.707  RJ Boose       3:57.708 (0:00.001)
3      1    Jan 01, 2001 Billy[R]Kid   2:21.111  GSi2000_4x4    2:21.118 (0:00.007)
3      4    Feb 20, 2001 Mustang-man   2:52.014  bushbandit     2:52.018 (0:00.004)
4      1    May 08, 2001 GTSR          2:04.533  Tosk           2:04.535 (0:00.002)
5      3    Sep 26, 2001 Ghost Racer   4:25.178  DES LIM        4:25.185 (0:00.007)
6      1    Jan 23, 2002 crazyhorse    3:59.230  mr p           3:59.234 (0:00.004)
                         Jimmy         3:59.366  Robert         3:59.370 (0:00.004)
                         maspi         3:59.657  DU NICHT       3:59.657 (0:00.000)
                         Joe Racer     3:59.708  Czimo          3:59.712 (0:00.004)
6      2    Jan 30, 2002 Jimmy         4:32.993  Lancer         4:32.996 (0:00.003)
                         GT501         4:33.454  VP             4:33.460 (0:00.006)
                         16th&G/town   4:39.709  Rypien         4:39.713 (0:00.004)
6      3    Feb 06, 2002 Donald Kipper 3:28.075  SleepingDragon 3:28.082 (0:00.007)
                         RiRwater      3:28.463  Megabyte       3:28.467 (0:00.004)
                         crazyhorse    3:28.531  Jegato         3:28.533 (0:00.002)
                         Muttley       3:33.346  Rotty          3:33.349 (0:00.003)

Race #5 votes received from:
Slowpoke
XtremeD63
Tony Randall
easyed

For those of you who have not voted yet, putting in your votes could change the last race, things are real close…
5
4
4
4
3
1
 
Thanks for diggin' around for all that stuff, Pete. Pretty interesting also, to see some familiar names that go way back to before I even knew these sites and online racing existed!
Most interesting.
Come on people, get those votes in.:)
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Official Results will be done in the next few hours.

Race #5 votes received from:
Lotus350
Recycler
NoQuarter
Alavilla
Zer0h

It is still anyone’s race for #5, the numbers look like this…
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5
4
4
4
2
 
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