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- Carlisle,Cumbria,England!
- Ballstothewall1
Welcome to the inaugural event of the Weekly-ish Endurance Series.
My first thoughts about which race to do first, was that I should maybe make it a nice easy race.
You know, simple track / race cars / race tyres etc,etc. But, then I realised that if we all wanted to do easy and quick races,
we would all be doing the WRS (Not that there is anything wrong with that at all! ), and this forum wouldnt exist.
So, I scrapped my first few ideas, and came up with this one instead!
A couple of years ago, a journalist called Jeremy Clarkson, who hosts a BBC TV programme called Top Gear took the then new Jaguar S-Type Diesel round the Nurburgring Nordschleife circuit to see what it, and he, could do. He was absolutely delighted, if not ecstatic, to do the full lap in under 10 minutes, 9:59.9s to be exact. He was then handed his oh-so-great pride back to him, in complete tatters, by a lovely young lady called Sabine Schmidt, who is one of the instructors at the circuit. She did the same lap, in the same car, with the same conditions, in under 9 minutes.
Needless to say he was a little gutted, but hid it well.
We will be going as close to this scenario as GT4 will let us, and turning it into an endurance race also.
There are not, so far, enough qualification times in yet to enable me to split us into divisions, so for this race its a balls-out, straight up, shoot-out for the win and podium places.
Location:
Mode : ARCADE
Race type : SINGLE RACE
Location: WORLD CIRCUITS / NURBURGRING NORDSCHLEIFE
Car: BRITISH / JAGUAR / JAGUAR S-Type R 02
Initial Settings
Transmission : Your choice
Aids : NONE
Tyres : SPORTS SOFT
A.I. : +6
Now go into the options screen, and adjust the settings in ARCADE to the following:
Number of Laps : 7
Tyre Wear : STRONG
Driving Aids : NONE
Penalty : SPEED LIMITER
Time Limit : NONE
Exit, and now go into the quick tune-up section, and change the settings to the following:
Power : -20% @ 320 Hp
Weight: -10% @ 1620 Kg
Top Speed : N/A
Driving Aids : NONE
Transmission : Your Choice
Tyre Type : SPORTS
Front Tyres : SPORTS SOFT or SPORTS MEDIUM ONLY
Rear Tyres : SPORTS SOFT or SPORTS MEDIUM ONLY
You will now be set up for the race, there is no qualifying to do, just the race!
DEADLINE :
Midnight GMT Sunday night, November the 4 th
RULES:
You may discuss any splits or individual lap times, just not your final times.
You must use the settings laid out above at all times.
You must try to keep 2 wheels on the track at all times.
An occasional off is to be expected, but use your judgement and morals to decide if you have gained from it or not. If you have gained, or feel that you have taken an advantage from the off, then please bin the race and re-start.
A.I. contact is allowed, but NO penalties are allowed.
All podium times will be verified by the posting of either a replay or a photo of the screen showing your final time AFTER the deadline is past.
Any suspicious times will be investigated by either myself or where appropriate an NTSC user of my choice.
All decisions of the Administrator (me) are final, any cheating of any kind what so ever, will be dealt with in the appropriate manor.
Times should be sent to myself (Tyre King) via PM by the above deadline, as marked by the GTPlanet PM system time stamp.
Replays and screen shots should be posted in this thread after that time has passed.
Time sending format:
Name : your name
Final Time : HH:MM:SS.xxx
Fastest Lap :MM:SS.xxx
Tyres used: SS or SM
Pitting strategy : Tell me when you pitted and what tyres you changed to (if you did)
.. still looking forward to getting into the S Type though .
