32 drivers, 16 eliminated in day one. 3 races each on sport hards. laguna, GP/d then suzuka. one lap Qualy then off you go. a few penalties for some people for bumber car racing!! starts again tomo at 9ish.
No sports hards, all done on racing hards!
FamineI am here, I have results of the day and very many pictures and I'll be trying to provide a blog post at about 5-6pm with both.
Please add that the final 12 for this afternoon are (in GT5 ranked order):
Thomas Gibson - GTP_Rutter
Shane Green - GTP_Shane_UK
Des Foley - GTP_Dessy
Mark Ridout - markyboy92
Istvan Demes - DemesGT
Daniel Glover - Dantastic-_-
Shane Ward - GTP_Ghostdriver
David Williams - My3id_Dave
Martin Hudy - DudySVK
Jack O'Neill - Jackcerracing
Saidur Ali - Saidur
Troy Paul - wheelyclean
There were 3 (seeded) heats this morning - the top two finishers in each progressed to the A-Final (and final 12) and the remaining 12 went to two semi-finals. Top three from each went through to the B-Final (and final 12), cutting the bottom six drivers.
FamineThe 12 finalists are currently doing the same AutoTest (Gymkhana style, carpark-cone course, 370Z semi-race cars with all the aids disabled) we did this morning. They'll have a fitness test in 10 minutes. We've just come back from being killed to death around a very greasy National circuit by Jann in a GT-R road car with very cooked brakes - 16 laps to a quarter tank of gas!
Do you know what the plank test time was for the winner? I can do about 3-4 minutes.
I can confirm the six finalists are:
1st - GTP_Dessy
2nd - GTP_Rutter200
3rd - Dantastic-_-
4th - Jackcerracing
5th - My3id_Dave
6th - DemesGT
Dessy and Rutter were equal on points, but Dessy won on countback (one more second place).