Division 2/3 SEASON 13

Ah Ha! You haven't worked out how to combat that,EXCELLENT! LOL

getting caught up in the carnage on the first two laps made the rest of the race a very frustrating one. I know a little how Clevo feels. Ended up doing a 41 lap time trial. Not that with my lap times I had a chance of coming anywhere but frustrating when the result is taken out of your control. I don't hold anything against you Disturboed as it was taken out of your control as well. I am just an annoyed and frustrated driver.

I believe your car starts ghosting once your tyres starts slipping over a threshold when penalty is set to weak. Maybe we should set penalties to strong once to see how everyone fares. I used to enjoy the long races with Seido.

I'd be up for it,but i think we'd have a lot more incidents "referred to stewards" & DNF's! lol

I think we are all civil enough to race fair. It works well in iRacing and people learn to take it more seriously behind another. In Seido's races, there wasn't any issues. Anyway, just a thought.

I'd like to see how consistent penalties would be in GT6, sort of flaky in GT5 IMO

It's actually Dbn26I've recieved a couple of add req's,I'll check off against the starters list and message any that are missing.

ROME 43 laps
Div 2/3 Season 13 Round 2

GRID:1: Leeboy910 2: Stumbles01 3: Dbn26 4: Overdrive 5: emmo46 6: Ad2mny 7: Bjh1012 8: X-3vilm00n 9: HazeOne68
10: Darkace_123 11: Clevohead 12: perry586 13: disturboed
The start was fairly even for the front six or seven,but down behind there,a fair few people unfortunately had their early race compromised unfortunately by a severely lagging disturboed who initially missed the jump but then was mega accelerated back and forwards at ridiculous speeds,off walls and catch fences,through others causing damage to many at many points throughout the first lap,with him eventually passing through the pits at 580odd km/h.He saw sense and pulled out on lap 2 at the outside of turn 2 exit and was dsc'd not long after.
disturboed is thrown all over while suffering lag problems
At the front leeboy had got a good start to hold position,with Dbn pulling alongside Stumbles,then not wanting to go to the outside of turn 1,early braked & ducked to the inside,almost past leeboy,but had to withdraw or get his nose chopped off at the 2nd apex.Meanwhile Stumbles had run the wide line and slipped back in between Dbn & leeboy who had got the power down first and led on the run through turn 2 down to the turn 3 hairpin. emmo46 had held his grid position,as also did Overdrive,Ad2mny & X-3evilm00n thru turn 1,but exiting,Ad2 got past Evil,with Bj1012 following in 8th,all having been missed by turbo.Clevo then followed,with Hazeone,perry,& Darkace,and turbo jumping all over the place.heading to turn Ad2 jumped inside Overdrive,but had nowhere to go.Down the back straight for the first time & through the chicane nothing changed except for turbo shooting from 13th to 5th,damaging more people along the way.the order shook out as leeboy Stumbles,Dbn,emmo,OD,Ad2,Evil,Bj,Haze,Darkace,Clevo,& perry,who's practice had been in a tuned car,& to compound things when reseting he forgot to change to softs and was struggling.
Over the next few laps things settled a bit with the top 8 staying in contention,but the rest dropped back a bit,although Clevo had caught perry after falling 10 secs behind writing a couple of messages.On lap 4 Ad2mny dsc'd once again after running fifth.
At the front leeboy had held a 3s gap to Stumbles,& Dbn had closed up on him after opening the gap back to emmo,who seemed to be settling into a pace strategy.Behind 5th-8th were still shadowing each other,unable to pass.Dbn got past Stumbles after he bounced of both chicane walls,getting some minor RF damage,but crucially slowing him to 101km/h.By lap 8 leeboy had a 3s lead,which grew to 3.8s by lap 12 over Dbn,Stumbles another 4.8 back,but menacing him to the point of overcooking his rears on lap 13 that he got loose exiting T3 and handed 2nd back,also giving leeboy a 6s lead.emmo was 5s backfrom Dbn,a similar gap to OD,10s to evil,with Bj right behind.Haze was a further 10.5s away,while Clevo had pitted permanently on lap 10.Darkace had pitted on lap11,losing his first lap to the leaders.perry was still circulating for experince in the car and the points on offer if there were anymore PSN issues for people,2 laps down.This was when the strategy dice was rolled by one of the leaders,with Dbn pitting after lap 13,dropping to 7th.emmo and evil were in next lap,then Stumbles and Haze came in the following lap,no.15,on which leeboy unfortunately suffered a dsc as well,after spinning at the chicane.(THANKS FOR YOUR ONGOING SUPPORT PSN)
This left OD +2.6s,leading from Bj,with Dbn right behind in 3rd his undercut successful on Stumbles,giving him +3s,then it was emmo about the same behind,then Haze,evil,darkace,perry & clevo.
5th thru 10th charge to turn3
By lap 16 OD noticed the leaders that had pitted closing fast so at end,pitted,coming out behind emmo with a 5s gap to Bj,Haze & Darkace a half a lap back. things started to spread out a bit now with Dbn at the front +3.6->Stumbles +7->emmo +6.5->OD +6->evil->+6->Bj +29->Haze & Darkace,who were having a good battle,but ultimately slowing each other down,seeing them lapped on lap22.Dbn had started to put the pressure on,eventually bringing the mistake from Stumbles,with him hitting the wall and spinning exiting the chicane,dropping him to 3rd while recovering from damage,when emmo passed him up the hill into turn 7 around the outside on lap 18. He tried hard to get back past on lap 19,but despite some light contact and ghosting,emmo held on,settling down and holding him until lap 25,when Stumbles brushed 1 or 2 walls and lost a few seconds.Meanwhile though that fight had played into Dbn's hands allowing him to open the gap to 13.5s and also to do a longer 2nd stint,running to the end of lap 29.emmo followed suit,leaving Stumbles in the lead from OD. Stumbles pitted at the end of lap 30,suffering his 2nd undercut of the night.OD stayed out in the lead till end of lap 31 when he was caught by Dbn,and so pitted.Then the run to the flag was on..Dbn only had to hold it together for the win coming out 13s up on emmo,but he kept going pulling out to an 18s lead,leaving emmo & Stumbles to fight for the podium,and a good fight it was.
emmo initially had the high ground after the 2nd pitstops,but Stumbles wasn't done with yet,he composed himself for a few laps,saving his tyres sitting static 5s back.On lap 35 he made his move,taking 1.5s out of emmo,followed by 1.4s on lap 36,partially due to a mistake in sector 2.Stumbles pulled into range at the end of lap 37,then it was on! 1st emmo would eek out a tenth in 1 sector,then Stumbles would pull back 3/10ths,then emmo 3/10ths,and so on until the last lap when a big dive by Stumbles at turn 1 payed off with them both ghosting,Stumbles passing through to his outside & 2nd place heading to turn 3. emmo late braked and closed right onto Stumbles,& also got a better exit,pulling alongside heading to the chicane,but not far enough,& so had to pull in behind Stumbles,tailing him through the chicane & around turns 6 & 7.Into turn 8,the entry of the last corner,Stumbles came in a miniscule amount to hot,opening a tiny gap as he drifted out to the rumble strip. emmo didn't need an invitation and dove inside. Stumbles now was struggling for traction as they rounded the exit side by side,and got a slight wiggle on,and the correction turned him towards emmo,and this time there was to be no ghosting. They touched & it was too much for Stumbles,who bounced off & spun after clipping the outside wall,giving emmo 2nd from Dbn.Stumbles got going and held on for 3rd.A little way back at the chicane, evil and OD were nose to tail,evil in 4th after a successful undercut,although OD had come at him hard in the closing stages.Bj had a pretty lonely last stint,the lapped cars being the only ones he saw,but he put the clean air to good use,picking up the fastest lap point for a 1.02.235.Hazeone followed in 7th,from Darkace,perry & clevo sitting stationary in the pits for 33 laps.
After a short post race discussion,emmo & Stumbles,the podium remained the same,with Stumbles not accepting emmo's offer of swapping,citing his loosenes.Great ROOZ sportsmanship guys!

emmo46 & Stumbles01 battle it out on the last lap
Congrat's to Dbn on his first ROOZ series win,emmo on a great steady drive for second,Stumbles for a low practice run to 3rd,leeboy on his pole position,& Bj his fastest lap,beating all the div 2 runners by a tenth or more.
On to Laguna Seca for 2 x 17 lap sprint races where tyre wear will be key.

Dbn26 celebrates his first ROOZ win

Hey guys, keen to join in on the season if possible? Stu suggested I post in here to get it sorted
This would be my first round with you guys racing too!
Thanks
Rob
Online user hr31gts

Hi hr, welcome mate. Good bunch of blokes here. get some practice in around Laguna Seca. Its a tricky one in the GT

just making sure I have what it takes to race with you guys. currently running laps around grand valley in a stock gt race car. Does the league allow for abs?

Sweet thanks man. Car is a handful, and playing without abs has been interesting to say the least. ABS will help heaps

Tried adding Dbn26 to friends list the other night, still waiting for the request to be accepted.