TURTLE BEACH Turtle Beach Prize Race "Turn Left" | GT5 March 24th

I wondered what had happened to you Barra...i think i managed to lag punt you as well at one stage?
Know what you mean about being on your own .. oval racing holds no joy at all when you are cutting your own air!

I think you may have - directly from behind. Just boosted me to about 390kmh and damaged one wheel. I managed to make the turn though.

Tried to make the race last night but a damn system update caused a significant delay just when i didn't need one. But you cant blame me for wanting to watch the podium of the f1 till the end! Damn twerp.

Anyway, good luck to all the contenders.

Do I get extra tickets for fastest lap?

I had a similar incident, actually three of them!
Fell a bit behind the leading group after I was pushed against the wall. Then, as I started to catch up by finally getting into someone's draft, and getting sucked into the back of the car ahead, he breaks right and I smashed into the back of a car parked in the middle lane. Engine damaged, tire damaged I jump straight into pits. After I came out, on and off exchanged drafts with a few cars and started saving fuel by staying behind other car's draft. At some point, while on my own, an invisible entity pushes my from behind and launches me at 390 km/h, no harm done and kept going.
Finally, as it started to look good to get in the top 3, AGAIN, smashed into another car parked in the middle lane after Emmo broke right whilst being in his draft.
Ended up fifth behind Emmo and fed up with NASCAR for some time to come. Now let's go karting!

Is that someone being an asshat, or the network really messing with you guys?

That's all good haha

Staying with at least 1 other car at all times is the key to success in oval Nascar on GT5. If you are left by yourself for too long it's game over pretty much. Any kind of variance in strategy will only get you into trouble, and the draft effect is still far too strong for this type of racing to work correctly.

With that said, I had good fun in the race, which was the first proper Nascar race i'd ever participated in. I wanna thank Beannie for bump drafting me back into the lead pack after I ran out of fuel the first time, that was pretty cool. Unfortunately I ran out another 2 times, the last of which was on the last lap lol. Somehow I didn't come last (second last lol), which makes me wonder what the hell happened to Cob.

Yes, with fuel burn set on fast, fuel was the limiting factor, so drafting and saving fuel was the way to go. Found that out after the first pit stop after 17 laps. So I spent the rest of the time drafting behind clevo and s_close while only at 75% throttle. Midron saved me during my final stint, or else I would have been further back. This strategy only usually works with backmarkers though.

My car was slow, didnt do an oil change pre race so I wasnt good to draft with. Doug and I took advantage when stumbles and dani lapped us, just basicly sat behind them 3/4 throttle conserving fuel.. I could see you guys coming so basiclly waited for SnD to lap us then settle in behind.
I was spewing someone else didnt conserve 1st stint when there was a big pack, I went till lap 22 for 1st stop but came out in no mans land 15secs behind. I wasnt catching Joe infront so I slowed down for till doug caught me up, from there we were already 30 secs behind and getting lapped was a formality.

Stumbles and dani were the fastest Div 2 "team" for sure. They were on there own with healthy lead after the 1st stop till they got broken up after the last stop I was spewing someone didnt conserve 1st stint when there was a big pack, I went till lap 22 for 1st stop but came out in no mans land 15secs behind. I wasnt catching Joe infront so I slowed down for till doug caught me up, from there we were already 30 secs behind and getting lapped was a formality.

I guess it is sort of fun when you are racing with drivers you know will behave clean during the race, perhaps we should do it again with a full grid and setting draft to weak.

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draft was on weak?
i pitted every 20-25 laps or so, didnt make a difference, we would all join up at some point, hence why there 5 or 6 within a second at finish. felt terribly underwhelming lol, almost like we couldve done 10 laps and got same result.
i always lifted off going into the left handers and if in a big pack, on the straights as well, not like the people in front could escape lol

I guess i was probably the one having the most fun as most of the time i was bump drafting to catch the main pack and i would consume too much fuel to keep up with the right pit sequence, its why you would of saw me hold back massively once i caught up, i honestly was soo critical on fuel it was a miricle i finished, i was saving fuel as muh as possible up until the back striaght of the last lap and if the race was another lap i would of ran out meters after the line for the start of that last lap.

If fuel wasn't an issue i reckon me and Beannie could of went for the win with how fast we where getting with bump draft, lapping 2 seconds faster the the main pack lol.

Speaking of "red mist" - what happened to Sidfire at Daytona? disconnected in the first few laps