PAGNIAN PRIZE COMP 1: FINAL RACE LIVE RESULTS | CHAMPION KoAStR !

Well I'm speechless, if ever there was a race I really enjoyed watching, this definetely take the cake...

His driving was flawless and this wasnt without an easy ask with a field of great drivers dominating the grid. After 38 laps, KoAStR was crowned champion and I'm sure this is an excellent Saturday night for him. I dont want to down play any other because the rest of the drivers are talented in there own right.

The beginning of the race saw many exchanges between Small_Fryz and KoAStR. They switched position between 1st and 2nd multiple times. Alot of factors made this race such a huge spectacle, not only would drivers need to test there might on the track but alot of preparation was needed, including tuning of the Ferrari 458's modifications. This needed to suit the Tokyo R246 Track with its tricky corners.

A week out from the race, practice was going to give drivers the edge. The answer was, the best driving line, pit strategy and fuel levels which was unfortunate for Jezza who proved that he is a driver to be reckoned with. With 10 laps to go Jezza was clawing his way back and at one stage I though a final lap face off was inevitable. Its unfortunate Jezza ran out of fuel in his pursuit of catching our winner.

Pagnian have graced us with there support and have gauranteed me that they will continually support ROOZ. This is not the last competition where a prize of this gratitude will be donated to us. I would like to thank everyone for competing at the highest level. We are harvesting the best drivers from Australia because at this stage there has been no support in form of an academy provided to us. I know AUS/NZ have the talent to produce someone to compete at the level GT Academy in the US/EUR has produced.

Lets hope in the future, PD/SONY deem Australia a place where we can show case our best. I am absolutely sure it will be someone from GTLOZ/ROOZ.

ROOZ/GTLOZ is growing and in the future, this place will become bigger and better...

Competition Final Standings

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Champion: KoAStR[/h]

[h]2nd: Pagone41
3rd: SnakISM
4th: Small_Fryz
5th: OuttaAngst
6th: Ansquad
7th: Jezza (bad luck son)
8th: Bonus 888
9th: Stumbles
10th: Blueyonder[/h]

Thanks to Pagnian Imports, Hess and his team for putting this competition together



Your friendly Admin,

Justin

KoastR fastest so far in qualifying followed by Small_Fryz and Jezza1

Best Lap 1:36:322

Well done Koaster.

Koaster
Pagone
Snakism
Frys
Outta
Ansquad
Jezza (bad luck son)
Bonus
Stumbles
Blueyonder

Thanks guys. Wow that was an intense race.
Coming into my first practise I was intimidated by Fryz reported pace, and really uncomfortable on the track.
I didn't think I'd be competing for the win but was looking forward to some good battles.

Then coming into practise yesterday and today it just really clicked and I started feeling confident. I nailed a 1:36.345 earlier today I was hoping to repeat it in qualifying (I think I ended up with a PB of ~1.36.29?)

Full credit to everyone racing. It was intense, very clean, and nerve wracking at times but thoroughly enjoyable.
Special thanks to Anon, Bonus, KidCastro and Hess at PAGNIAN for putting this alll together.
Special mention to fryz and jezz who I battled closely with, very good racing!

I've never won much before, and certainly nothing this big. When the race finished I jumped around the room!

Stumbles asked me to post up my race setup. Here we go. Thanks alot for hosting mate, was a nice smooth connection.

AERO: 10/40 (full, front fixed)

TRANS: Top speed 360 | final gear 5.143 (default) | 1st 2.959 | 2nd 2.051 | 3rd 1.558 | 4th 1.241 | 5th 1.016 | 6th 0.857 | 7th 0.784 | Actual max speed 353km/hr

LSD: intial torque 7 | Accel 32 | Braking 5

SUSPENSION:
| Ride 28mm/-17mm | Springs 12.2kgf/mm/9.5kgf/mm
| Damp E 8 / 4 | Damp C | 7 / 5 | ARB 4 / 3
| Camber 1.9/1.7 | Toe -0.05/0.13

Brakes: 5 | 3 (ABS = 1)

First post updated

If anyone has the final race replay, please send it to me ASAP... justinamalek@gmail.com

Awesome night, thank you!

My race strategy was to go fast early on and try and break the slip stream barrier. And I was pleased to pull this off in the first stint, getting a few seconds lead and 1:36.6xx lap which would remain my fastest for the remainder of the race.

At the end of lap 12 I had planned to pit. But there was a group of 3 or 4 not far behind, and not wanting to loose time getting caught up in a group pit, I delayed my first pit stop by one lap which I almost regretted. It seemed this extra lap out on old tyres allowed Jezza to get hard on my tail in the second stint. Jezza let the tap wide open and put heaps of pressure on, really made me work hard for it. I was nervous. This pace was taking a toll on my tyres. I would try and pull a gap through the 2nd sector and he would just eat it all up under slip stream on the straight. I thought, keep pushing, at least the small gap keeps him from getting a pass in on the straight. Full credit to you Jezza, great clean racing, awesome job maintaining that pace and close proximity without any incidents. And a couple of nice attempts to pass.

Diving into pit lane for stop number 2 jezza was still only a fraction of a second behind. I dived in hoping to catch jezza unawares making him stay out for another lap. Also, I opted to split my fuel input across both stops 13litres at each, and it wasn't really increasing my pit stop time. After coming out of the pits with a 5.5 odd second gap to jezza I figured he had just put in more fuel, I didn't see what really happened until watching the replay.... bad luck mate. Could have been a different second stint if not for that.

Into the third stint I wanted to push hard and keep the gap from reaching slip stream range again. I was managing to maintain, with about 8 laps to go the gap was 6 - 6.5s. I was happy to loose a few tenths here and there in order to keep on top of my tyre management, as long as the gap remained larger than the slip stream barrier, which was working out pretty well. Then Jezza dropped off the map... I didn't know what happened until after the race. But honestly I was pleased to finish out the final laps of such a high pressure race with a bit more of a relaxed pace, to just make sure I drove it home safely.

Stepping out of my 458 I gave her a pat on the back, she'd done me proud. I was pleased she hadn't suffered comsetically and body wise was pretty tidy after the race, but underneath I know was a different story, I'd given her a real thrashing to maintain the wild pace required to pull this off against such strong competition. A feat I'm pleased pull off to bring the win home for the GTLOZ crew [you'll be pleased with this Trusty ]

It was great meeting, practising and racing with all the newcomers. Great performance from you guys, I hope you stick around for some more racing

Cheers all for an extremely memorable event.

I was going to email the native PS3 replay to Snake, but it's a bit large at 78MB before zipping.

I'll upload it to the GTLOZ replay server Q-drive if there's some interest.
But I won't bother if no one's gonna bother downloading it and y'all are happy to wait for Anon's highlights. Cheers.

OK so I couldn't get the upload on Q-drive to work. 'no enough space' error at completion of upload... even for small test files?! with that exact spelling, mmm very dubious. The profile shows there's several gig left.

So I uploaded it to my dropbox account. Here's the link. It's about 78MB.
Final Race Native PS3 Replay

Instructions on how to import the replay to your PS3

Enjoy