DIVISION 1 - OLD (Season 3)

For Nurburgring on Sunday, do we know what the settings are going to be for start time and time speed?

I just ran some practice and I think my track settings defaulted to 15:30 and 10, which meant it got dark after about 2 laps and didn't get light again.
Would be good to know in advance what we can expect in terms of light/dark.

Also, is the weather completely random? My practice was dry for 1 lap then it didn't stop raining at all.
Nurburgring + night + rain, for 6 laps; not fun

We can start at (in game time) 1200 hours with a progression of 20

Yeah I've had the cars disappear whenever I've tried to take close up shots too. Not sure if there has been an update maybe.

I did some testing on start time and progression. I started session at 430am and it was light for the qualifying lap. The race starts in the daylight, does a few laps in the dark then light again for the finish. Seems to be good settings for getting a good light qualifying lap, then plenty of time to settle the race order before dark and light again for the battle for a podium.

Well this should be interesting, I'd best throw in a couple of practice laps tonight before the race, I've been hooking in to Forza for a few days now. :lol: I'll probably be off my usual pace.

I need to go and buy a sandbox, find my childhood toys, and put them in there so I can throw them back out again, on lap 2 my interwebs disconnected. Sure I crashed lap 1 (turns out when I tried to drive safe and protect the tyres was when I was crashing and sliding :?), so I bumped it up to a respectable speed that wasn't burning tyres and with 6 laps to go I was 11sec behind, when I disconnected I was 10sec behind so with Beau and Koastr racing in close proximity out front I was certainly in with a chance, and it was sure going to be a fun race, too bad Bigpond are the dodgiest company on Earth.
So I'll take this opportunity to thank everyone for the fun season, I've had TV drop-outs, early race incidents and interwebs drop-outs, but the racing in between all that mayhem has been fun.

What happened lap 4? I'm going to guess one of three scenarios, Beau hit the jets, Beau took less fuel and got out of the pits much faster, or you had an off.
Did I get 2nd place in the championship then? Cool, what do I win? :lol: I've always wanted a pat on the back, you know, someone to tell me I did good. :mrgreen: Too bad next season I might be slower due to trying to play two different games, I may never get to challenge a victory again. At least I can brush up on my reverse parking skills.

Bad luck Paulie. Maybe you'll do better next seasons.
Congrats to Koastr for showing awesome pace in the last two races. You seem to have stepped it up a notch.
I had an awesome race tonight. Its a shame Paulie got dc'd because I'm sick off hearing the excuses. I was hoping to win this race with a full grid (or as full as possible). Hopefully our grids will improve for next season.

PS : Paulie were you planning on a zero stop? otherwise why were you saving tyres on the first stint?

Good race guys, and a good end to the season. Beau is almost in a league of his own up there.
Hope to see you all again next season; whether or not I will be in Div 1 again we will see...

My race:
I dropped right to the back on our slow quali lap fully expecting to be slowest; I didn't have a very good preparation for the race. Cruising around on that slow lap put me in a weird place of mind, coz I found myself on the start of my hot lap not really concentrating on what I was doing. But I did manage to put a lap together without too many incidents, bar that final little complex after the long straight where I was on the grass; qualified 4th with a 10:01.xxx, far and away my PB.

Managed to maintain position for the first half of lap 1, but was getting some real pressure from natman, and when he made a lunge going into the right hander before the long back stretch I missed my braking and was off the track. That let natman and Outta through.
Managed to catch up to natman on the start of the next lap, he was getting a bit out of shape in a few places which gave me an easy pass. By this stage Outta was far in the distance and I knew he would be tough to catch. Never_Enough was close behind but I was able to pull away from him.

Night fell and so did my pace. I should have ran some more night practice. Those high speed sections in the dark are frightening. I also came across an interesting glitch that i've read about but never seen where the track just disappears, there are fences etc. but the ground doesnt exist.
Never got past when I pitted at the end of lap 4 but it didn't seem he pitted and I caught up and made an easy pass I think at the start of lap 6.

I could occassionally see Outta on my map, so catching him was my focus, but its impossible to know whether your making time because of the useless split times GT5 shows. In the end I think our pace was too similar to make any ground up, and my propensity to crash meant I was never going to get on the podium.

All in all I was reasonable happy with my run, a few offs/spins early on made it difficult for me to challenge Outta, but I was cleaner than I expected to be, and my pace was quicker than in any practice I had, though they were rain effected. Fastest lap was a 10:00 dead.

TOO MANY MISTAKES, thats my big problem. I think i've identified some things I can work on to try be more consistent, so I'll be looking to improve next season.
I might have finished 6th in the championship, which puts me in the drop zone to make way for fast guys from other divisions. But with bigger grids planned I hope to still be in Div 1.

Floodsim,
I had the track disappear on me momentarily. It happened at the kink in at the end of the really long back straight.
I hope you have success finding some consistency for next season. I bagged the Tamora for most of the season, however I really enjoyed driving it in the final two rounds. Not sure if it was because of the tracks, or just because I had gotten more comfortable with it. At the end of the day, I think it's mad us all better drivers.

Bad luck Paulie. Maybe you'll do better next seasons.
Congrats to Koastr for showing awesome pace in the last two races. You seem to have stepped it up a notch.
I had an awesome race tonight. Its a shame Paulie got dc'd because I'm sick off hearing the excuses. I was hoping to win this race with a full grid (or as full as possible). Hopefully our grids will improve for next season.

PS : Paulie were you planning on a zero stop? otherwise why were you saving tyres on the first stint?

Koastr I'd appreciate if you did not include me in the fastest laps since I never actually got a flying lap in, I dc'ed lap 2. Curiously what lap was your fastest? I was making good pace on lap 2, had chopped a second or so out of the lead mid way through the lap. Outta was right on me at the time, I hope my off didn't get in the way of you guys, it looked like I was able to gather myself pretty quickly without getting in your way much. I also hope that after I dropped out my car didn't go driverless and get in anyone's way, apparently it happened to me once right at the end of the long straight and my driverless car flew like an arrow straight in to the guy who was about to win.
I too must commend Koastr on his uppings in pace at the end, did you turn on ABS or just start to figure the car out/become a better driver. I know you had some pace at Autumn Ring when you had ABS on.

I was planning on a strategy like Koastr did, 4 lap stint to start and 3 laps to finish, it would have worked out roughly equal either way no matter how you look at it. From my limited practice I judged tyre wear to be an issue on the 4 lap stint, was this not the case?
Hey, when I have excuses they're good ones. :lol: Well, not the crashing ones, that's racing, but technological failures are far too common. So two rounds I had genuine excuses, the rest I got out-raced, the others I did the out-racing, it sure was a damn close battle up the front. Our interwebs have been pretty bad all week, proximity to an interwebs terminal will be a heavy consideration for me when I buy my first house (in 600yrs due to prices). A bit OT, but I heard houses in NZ still go for under $100k for a normal one, which is even less in the AUD$. Maybe we should all buy houses in NZ.

G'day all, Just running a pole over here.
http://gtleagueoz.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=560

So those 9'47s were lap 2? Next season ough to be a cracker, with Nick coming along and Beau fielding some more drivers too.

We understand mate, Would you like me to view the replay and record the lap times? Or would you rather just do it when you do your highlights?