WSPC/Group C - Round 1 - Suzuka

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Welcome gentlemen to the first round of the inaugural World Sports-Prototype Championship. The new cars of the Group C category are all prepared and ready to race for victory and the championship. So let's get going!

LOCATION
Track: Suzuka Circuit
Distance: 9 Laps
Race: Professional Races -> GT World Championship

DRIVERS
DRIVEN -USA- - Mazda 787B
Dudley - Mazda 787B
es nes - Peugeot 905
Fogelhund - Toyota 88C-V
Godson - Peugeot 905
icemanshooter
IForceV8 - Mercedes-Benz Sauber C9
jhansen - Jaguar XJR-9
KevinD - Nissan R92CP
MachOne - Toyota 88C-V
NoQuarter - Mercedes-Benz Sauber C9
Rare White Ape
Shifty - Toyota 88C-V
SimRaceDriver - Toyota 88C-V
The359 - Mazda 787B
The Bandit - Mazda 787B

(Drivers in italics need to pick a car immediately.)

RULES
Cars:
* Weight Penalties of 150kgs added to following cars - Toyota 88C-V, Mercedes-Benz Sauber C9, Nissan R89C.
* Weight Penalties of 100kgs added to following cars - Nissan R92CP, Mazda 787B, Jaguar XJR-9.
* Oil Change and Chassis Refresh are infinite and at driver's discretion.
* All cars must add a Chassis Stiffening/Roll Cage.
* No other parts may be added to the cars.
* ASM must be set to 0.
* TCS can optionally be set to 1.
* Settings and tire choices are at driver's discretion.

Races:
* Two wheels on track at all times.
* Minimal contact with AI cars. Do not use them to help you make a turn. Do not ram them either.
* No wall contact.
* Races can be run as many times as necessary.
* Pit strategy is at driver's discretion. A pit stop is not required.
* Cars must start from the 6th grid position in the race. Qualifying is not allowed.

Time Submission:
* All drivers must submit the full time displayed by the game before midnight (12am) EST (4am GMT, 5am BST, 9pm Pacific) on Sunday, July the 17th to be accepted.
* All times must be submitted through Private Message on this forum.
* All drivers must and should save replays of their races. The top 3 drivers in the results will be asked to review their replay and submit their full lap times for the entire race as verification. Each driver will have 1 week after the results are posted to submit their verfication or else be disqualified.
* The fastest lap may be discussed in this race thread, but nothing else.

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Good luck to all drivers, see you at the finish line in one week.

Duplicate discussion thread HERE
 
Sorry The359 - i think i'll have to sit out on this series - great as it sounds, fact is i still have no Group C car in my GT4 garage - the shame of it!
I was hoping to achieve 50% complete this weekend, but was busy and will be all week, so no XJR-9 for me.
 
As NoQuarter has pointed out, although weight penalty is set depending on your car, you are allowed to adjust the weight balance of the cars as you see fit. This falls under the freedom to adjust any of the settings on the car (other then Weight Penalty, TCS, and ASM).
 
First Practice session...Hot Laps in WC/Suzuka/Practice mode & T5s.

45.650 - 1'22.677 - 1'42.158

Still plenty of time out there.
 
Ran some 1:37s with super soft tires and some 1:46s with super hard tires, so I'll be figuring out my tire strategy for this race as well as fine tuning my setup.
 
the pug realy hits its stride right about the limiter, but, driveable execpt for that annouying gear box ... which is probably caused by the le mans spec endurance engine :|
 
Must say that this was a complete waste of 3.5 mil. The rollcage thing completely destroyed the handling of my car (787b). Ran great before this but now is undrivable. The pitwork "z" would own this car especially on this track. This is no fun what so ever now. 👎 👎 :yuck: :ouch: I'm out, see ya's.

The only good thing is it was not the GOOD BLACK ONE.
 
Uh, I'm using the 787B as well and find the car to be perfectly fine with the rollcage.

Did you even bother to mess with the settings of the car before you decided to up and quit? Did you even try for more then 5 minutes?
 
I think most of it is i use a DS2, it handled fine before the rollcage, after i put on the rollcage it got the most GAWDAWFUL PPUUSSSSSSSHH. Can barely run the times i was getting with the Pitwork Z (WRS wk13) and it was very easliy beating that by 3 seconds a lap. I have to let up and or break so much in the turns its pathetic, just to keep it on the track. When i finally do get by the Sauber, it does nothing but ram me in the turns and sends me off the track every time, WTF. Was VERY upset last night, as you can tell.

Note that i worked on the settings alot and it did very little to help. Cut the spring rate in half and raised the diff. much more than i ever have to try to get rid of the push it had. The first time out i thought i had RSH's on.

Will give it another try tonight. Don't worry, not upset w/you, just my drivng.
 
I'm using a DS2 with the 787B and find it completely well mannered after correcting it's snap oversteer under braking very early on.

Is your weight balance possibly set wrong? Or downforce?
 
Friendly Reminder: 24 hours left until times are due.
 
Race over...

RESULTS
1 - IforceV8 - Mercedes-Benz Sauber C9 - 15:39.835
2 - es nes - Peugeot 905 - 15:49.118
3 - DRIVEN -USA- - Mazda 787B - 15:52.989
4 - The359 - Mazda 787B - 15:53.684
5 - jhansen - Jaguar XJR-9 - 16:22.312
6 - Shifty - Toyota 88C-V - 16:37.339
7 - Dudley - Mazda 787B - 16:56.936
8 - The Bandit - Mazda 787B - 17:46.028

(The top three drivers have 1 week to submit the times for all 9 laps of this race to verify their race results. Failure to provide verification will result in disqualification of your race time.)

DNF
Fogelhund
Godson
icemanshooter23
KevinD
MachOne
NoQuarter
Rare White Ape
SimRaceDriver

POINTS STANDINGS
1 - IforceV8 - 10pts
2 - es nes - 6pts
3 - DRIVEN -USA- - 4pts
4 - The359 - 3pts
5 - jhansen - 2pts
6 - Shifty - 1pt
 
Posting a vid file OK?? Or do i need to wright down every lap time i turned??
 
Post the vid for now, I need to get the software to play it (probably tomorrow). If that fails, then you can submit all the lap times.
 
Mine would be a MAX drive. Will post times tomorrow.

1 second apart, close race man.

Race times:

lap time

1 1'51.772
2 1'44.574
3 1'44.657
4 1'45.349
5 1'45.043
6 1'45.417
7 1'44.540 *
8 1'45.580
9 1'46.057
 
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