Weekly Race Week 1 - King of the Mountain

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Gonna do some serious racin tonight - Got nothing else planned apart from food cigs beer and an F1 monster on trial mountain !!!!!!! I'll put me T1 and T2 splits up as well - if they are any good ! but not my total lap time or T3 !!!! damn it I keep on forgettin and wanting to post it !!
 
Big James take it away NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
:D I aint home yet !! Jus watch this space wen I get home and take to the track !!!!!!!
 
OK so Ive looked at the settings given and checked the split times for T1 and T2 - Done millions (!!) of laps to realise I was runing on T5's no wonder I was struggling to keep it on the track !!!!! Stoopid !

OK so just ignore that - :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O
I'll just get me coat shall I !! :O :O :O
 
OK Ive done a few more laps and "tamed" the beast a little !!
Ive seen T1 at high 10's and T2 at high 25's but not that good consistently
Ive played around with the gear ratios and discovered something quite useful for the speed of the car and length of the straights
Well I think its useful anyway - and my F1 only has 813 BHP ???
 
how many miles are on it? after about 300 or so the power drops off to 813 hp. Just for kicks I took a shot at rome and romeII today and got some very favorable results. Couldn't really translate it to success at the mountain but my consistency is slowly getting better.

btw james are you using the 94s or 94h?
 
He's probably using the P001 because he's PAL.

Aww crap, we are supposed to talk about sector times only, oh well I have no idea how well I am doing compared to everyone else.

Another stupid thing is that I might be without PS2 over the weekend, because i'm sending it off to be chipped. :mad:

Maybe i'll run the race on Keeno's PS2.
 
Originally posted by BigJamesGTI
OK Ive done a few more laps and "tamed" the beast a little !!
Ive seen T1 at high 10's and T2 at high 25's but not that good consistently
Ive played around with the gear ratios and discovered something quite useful for the speed of the car and length of the straights
Well I think its useful anyway - and my F1 only has 813 BHP ???
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So what's the trick dude? I'd be interested to know.
 
Right, I've brought my best lap time down by about a hundredth of a second. I had an amazing 10 lap run where I was running at my best.

Want to hear something strange? It's a wierd feeling when you're about a second outside your best, but stil a whole second below your previous best. That's happened to me a lot today.
 
am getting 11.0 T1 with the following setup...

springs 17.2 17.5
height 45 45
bound 5 6
rebound 7 7
camber 2.4 1.2
toe 0 -3.0
brakes 18 17
limited slip
ini 20
acc 45
dec 30
gears
auto 24
final 2.630
1=6.800
2=4.648
3=3.436
4=2.707
5=2.257
6=1.967
downforce 0.97 1.50
asm 0
tcs 3


try the set up out and let me kno what u reckon of it. wud b interesting to see how people get on with it etc.
 
Okay, I'll give that a go. Nice to see you getting into the swing of thing, makeveli. :D
 
cheers pal dont forget when doin the ratios set the auto 1st before u do anything else then the final then the individual gears

been tuning for a while but new to online racing lets hope i do well :D
 
At the moment I'm getting mid-11 T1s and mid-26 T2s, so it'll be interesting to see if I can go lower.
 
Yeah I know how to do the ratios, the auto settings has mucked me up a few times. :D
 
Originally posted by Sough
how many miles are on it? after about 300 or so the power drops off to 813 hp. Just for kicks I took a shot at rome and romeII today and got some very favorable results. Couldn't really translate it to success at the mountain but my consistency is slowly getting better.

btw james are you using the 94s or 94h?
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Yeah I am 001 - Im gonna try for another one though cos that shud be at the 829 bhp mark - Ive got about 2000 miles on me 001 !!! LOL I ran grand valley enduro and got the damn spoon s2000 noooooo !
 
Originally posted by SandStorm
So what's the trick dude? I'd be interested to know.
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OK I though about this for a bit - I was gonna keep it to myself but I thought i may as well share it cos thats sort of helpin every1 go quicker -
you know b4 first tunnel and down the straight at the back of the course
I found that wen the car shifted to 5th it lost speed So I shortened the ratio in fourth and got it to just hit the limiter at the end of the straight so I dont use 5th gear at all
Also I found it quicker to stay in 3rd gear for the left hander just before the finishing corners ? rather than dropping to 2nd
Dunno if that helps ne1 but it made me a bit quicker !!!
 
Shud I have kept that to myself or not ??
After all we are in a competition - spose I shud have kept me mouth shut
I dunno though ??
gonna try to reach a landmark time tonight - I havent quite got there yet but I think I shud be able to break the magical barrier (without giving too much away !!)
 
almost broke a "magical" barrier today, my bedroom window with Dualshock2 the barrier buster :lol:
 
ha ha ha, wouldnt be the first...

can have a temper at times 🤬 game!
 
so me and u are quite close on the qualifier - How u gettin on with trial mountain ???
I thought it'd be well annoyin but Im gettin used to it !!!
No pad throwing for me yet !!!

wooo hoooo !!!! :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
:cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool:
100 POSTS ! YEAH !!!
 
yeah not bad, tried a new setup today and it gave me 3/10ths overall best T1 is a 11.3
 
was it all clean ?? Ive had a high 10 (clean) but mostly I crash into the rocks !!! Fishtailing down the straight after the second tunnel is quite funny as well - but not too good for lap times !!!
 
sure was, just got to go faster now ;)
 
looks funny - I'll have a go when I get home, working hard at the moment - (yeah posting on GT3 !!!!)
 
Lets also remember that T1 won't be the most important sector. There is only one turn(although a tough one) that isn't all out. I'm running in the 11's, don't think I've got under yet.

I did a practice race yesterday and realized that we'll be passing the AI on the last lap probably. As if staying fast and clean 5 laps in a row on TM isn't hard enough already.
 
Good point sough - its the WHOLE race time that matters, I cant string more than 2 or 3 good laps together - More practice I think !
 
Originally posted by makaveli2k3
am getting 11.0 T1 with the following setup...

springs 17.2 17.5
height 45 45
bound 5 6
rebound 7 7
camber 2.4 1.2
toe 0 -3.0
brakes 18 17
limited slip
ini 20
acc 45
dec 30
gears
auto 24
final 2.630
1=6.800
2=4.648
3=3.436
4=2.707
5=2.257
6=1.967
downforce 0.97 1.50
asm 0
tcs 3


try the set up out and let me kno what u reckon of it. wud b interesting to see how people get on with it etc.
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Car seemed a bit "light" - didnt seem to pull into the corners - might be the gearing ratios ?? I dunno ?? :confused:
 
Originally posted by BigJamesGTI
OK I though about this for a bit - I was gonna keep it to myself but I thought i may as well share it cos thats sort of helpin every1 go quicker -
you know b4 first tunnel and down the straight at the back of the course
I found that wen the car shifted to 5th it lost speed So I shortened the ratio in fourth and got it to just hit the limiter at the end of the straight so I dont use 5th gear at all
Also I found it quicker to stay in 3rd gear for the left hander just before the finishing corners ? rather than dropping to 2nd
Dunno if that helps ne1 but it made me a bit quicker !!!
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Actually, it's quicker all-round if you tune your car to hit the rev limiter in 6th at the end of the longest straight. :)

Thanks for the tip though, I'll keep it in mind.
 
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