You guys must love Bathurst, there are some great lap times there!!
My first race to come last...despite that I did have an amazing race, despite feeling a bit forlorn at times!
I actually held 5th till about lap 3, but its just so easy to make the tiniest mistakes in a corner that multiply by the end of the next straight. Hope I wasn't holding anyone up!
You guys blitzed my weeks practise FL of 2:12, though 2 of the handful of Q laps were good, yielding me a new PB of 2:11. In race I got a couple of 2:10, including a 2:10.111. My first practise sessions were getting consistant 2:17 on good laps with one 2:14. So you guys must be looking at these times in another world! While I have played Bathurst before, it was V8 supercars and quite a few years ago - and I watch the big race every year, though doesn't quite give you those extra few seconds like playing it does. I only played 20 hours or so of GT5/6, how many GT's have had Bathurst? I only played monstrous hours on GT123. More practise through the week would have got me some better times, but consistancy was still the killer. Having seen the best times you all posted, I thought I would be lapped a lot quicker!
I played through mock 21 laps twice, once needing fuel at 17 laps, once at 18 laps - conserving a little just by upshifting a little early (i assume), didn't even try a different map. Didn't change tyres on the second run, and while a bit hairy I figured I could go without them if it was close - even lapped a few AI by the last couple of laps.
When it came down to the last few laps, I was only really racing for what i thought was 9th/ 10th with
@AroGantz, and I figured it was in the bag, as I been watching for his pit since his 15-16 lap. When he was ahead and didn't pit on 18, I knew he had either pitted early or was using a different map - and started racing to take him, almost got there but kept making little mistakes. After looking back at my lap times, those laps with little mistakes were actually 2-3 seconds faster than my average laps pre race, cheered me up a bit! Was racing hard with blinkers on, and didn't notice
@CAB77 and
@NAACS coming up behind me to lap me once we started down the hill, wanted to move over but didn't know how I could in that section without losing those couple of seconds that might get me up to
@AroGantz, figured I could make easy room for them on conrod. Thinking about the straight too much, I bumped the wall and
@CAB77 hit me, no hard feelings, he would have been expecting me to keep racing speed, I am yet to watch the replay, but I lost more than that little amount of time by my own mistakes so am not worried. After being so nervous about letting the lappers past cleanly, I had to LOL at
@CAB77 when I saw him spinning down the straight after the chase. Naacs ended up lapping me and not quite catching
@AroGantz, though I thought jcprater was still behind me.
Turned out jcprater was midfield, and showing him as last was just a glitch? Meaning I was last and not just 10th
I have had this happen in a couple of sport qualifiers, is this just an artifact of poor internet? I usually have great internet, though
@Matthyus noticed me skipping over the track last race, I have since been vigilantly looking for it, haven't noticed anything else. I wonder if my partner is on facebook watching videos sporadically....
We are eligible for NBN as of yesterday, so slow internet SHOULD be redundant anyway now
We are currently with internode, haven't had any problems with them, missus doesn't like cost of the $94/ month fastest speed NBN plan (and we need more than 100gb per month), who is everyone here with for NBN?? Do you pay $70 or less? We currently pay $69 for 200gb.
Heres to next round...endurance will test all our consistancy, and tyres will throw an interesting condition to test!
BTW, Where is the fuel count indicator? Is this part of the update?
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