DIVISION 1

Thanks mate!! Hopefully I can put together a solid race in the Enduro!

What happened to you guys at the pit stops though? Before them I had a lead of only 4 seconds or so and afterwards it was like 15!! ?

I reckon the pit was a bit buggy for some people. Which is a shame because it seemed to spread the field out massively after everyone had pitted, and probably ruined the race for a couple of guys without them really knowing what was happening.

Yeah there was something weird with the pits, after my tyres were changed, the camera was just looking at my car for ages and I wasn't leaving the box

Anyway the damage had already been done for me as I spend the first 4 laps sideways, then threw in a spin after chev got passed me.

In testing I noticed that if you entered too fast the AI would play up or you would miss your pit spot. So in the race I made sure to enter the pits slowly to avoid any issue.

Or did the guys at the start still have trouble even entering slowly?

From all the PC racing in the past I've gotten into the habit of testing a pit stop before hand. In the PC world you had to get to the pit speed limiter and not speed etc and know where the line is be able to make up ground on the in or out lap. Making up 2 seconds in the pits is easier than on track!

GT5 doesn't penalize speeding but I have noticed if you go too fast into a pit lane it can penalize you by taking the car back 10m and having you go real slow. The fact the track was run in reverse made it worse as the distance to pit stalls was very small.

The only other time I've experienced glitching in Pit was when following others in. Sometimes the AI would slow you down a lot to wait for another person or hold you longer until they are past etc, which also costs valuable seconds .

Shame people had issues.

its a shame gt5 has issues!

Yea it all went down in the pits for me. I zoomed in at full speed lol, and the car reset at the start of the pit. Then just like Outta and KoaStR, my pitcrew watched the sunset before releasing. Then I came out just behind another car who pulled into the pits, and had to slow down again until he got into his pit. Lap 10 was the magic number for most of our pitting lol.

This has happened at Daytona before. I tested both coming into the pits at full speed and coming in at the pit speed limit, and both times it glitched and held the car there for 7 extra seconds.

It's a shame alright Beau...

One of the reasons I went for a no stop in Div 2 was I got the pit bug in practice. Unfortunatly my tyres were buggered near the end and Flood caught me last lap.

Back luck tek

Anybody done / doing any pracitse for this race? lap times to aim for?
I wonder what the tyre life will be like...

Did a bit of practice with Koastr.

1'04.2xx, Probably a few tenths left.

EDIT.
Managed a 1'04.0xx.
Anybody else?

Guys, as it's fathers day I have a dinner tonight I can't really get out of, so once again koastr will host tonight. I was looking forward to the tight fight for 5th in the championship. Not to be.

Goodluck to all, the title has gone down the the last race, but it will take some work by ansquad and koastr to beat fryz.

I typed this up in word before I saw your post Koastr lol, Cheers bro, was a great read

First off congratulations to those who saw out the entire season! As my first complete GT5 league it was a pleasure racing with you guys and I enjoyed the battles and races along the way.

Qualify: I got a nice 104.270 early but I knew Ansquad was capable of going quicker and Chev and Koastr wernt far behind either. In my last crack on fresh tyres I managed to improve my time a few times until I finally ended up with a 104.1xx which was enough to complete my clean sweep of poles this season! True to my predictions, Ansquad was close behind on a 04.3, Chev 04.5, Koastr 04.6 with Never enough on a 04.8?
Mighty close grid for the last race and with massive slip stream on offer I lined up expecting quite a tough race ahead!

Race: I never quite figured out how best to launch the Mclaren this season and this race was no exception. I got a great reaction time but a poor getaway and I had ansquad right on my tail going into turn 1. I had done some practice on the starts with cold tyres so I was comfortable with my braking markers and I just hoped the guys behind would also take that into consideration. We safely made it through the first few laps incident free. Awesome driving guys and one of the big reasons I love racing in this league. On about lap 3 I ran slightly wide at the exit of turn 1, touching the grass with my left rear and spearing sideways across the track, this allowed Ansquad to get past and killed my attempt at trying to break the draft and get ahead. I recovered well and ended up passing Ansquad down the main straight into the first corner and from then on I was able to stay ahead while he and Koastr started to battle it out for 2nd. This allowed me to get a few seconds lead and crucially break the draft from the pack. From here on I focused on driving quickly and smoothly and opened up a 4 second gap before pitting on lap 18. Had a 10 second lead once pits sorted itself out as Ansquad went a few laps later etc. I drove a strong middle stint which saw my lead slowly increase bit by bit as the fellas behind battled more (positions were changing all over the place!). I pitted for the last time on lap 37 and came out inspired to take the fastest lap points on my low fuel and strong tyres. Drove a 104.0 and a few 104.2s before the tyres lost their edge, by then I had a 23 second lead with about 10 laps to go. Had a few minor brain farts in the closing laps, causing me too brake a touch late here and there and loose half second in the process. I kept it off the wall or grass but it did mean my lead was pretty much stagnat and with 20 seconds gap and only a few laps from winning and taking the title I did my best to just bring it home.

Congrats to Ansquad and Koastr for the podium and Chev for taking the fight to them all race!! In the end you just missed out mate. It was a top performance considering you were Div 2 last season!
Again I thank everyone involved in organizing and running it, Outta and Koastr for hosting and you fellas for showing up!

Not sure if we will have a lot of interest for Div 1 next season but we will see.

I've got my qualy time ready to submit so if it's quick enough to get me into div 1, i'll be keen as, here's hoping!

Yeah hopefully mate, really looking forward to my first season eh, didn't put too much time into the qualy though as I thought if I put too much effort in it would be a false representation of my race pace and I'd get owned in div 1 if I didn't put hours of practice into every single round, if you know what I mean, yeah, confusion!

I can't even remember if I ran the quali lol. Pretty sure I was nominated for div1 by default thanks to Paulie and beau lol.

Seriously though your 458 lap is def d1 pace.