Hi Guys

Unfortunately, it looks like I will miss most of the races of this series. I was really looking forward to it, as I think the 430 would provide another good, close series.

Enjoy!

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Jay Barthelotte

Not really.... it's a real pain to drive... slides around everywhere.

If you put a foot wrong you'll find yourself +10 seconds behind the guy that was 0.2 seconds in front of you by the time you recover.

Here are the results from tonight... a night that I'd rather forget.

1 turbined 81
2 vincentq4 68
3 stevedp 67
4 S_AND_S 61
5 MerlinRPM 52
6 Mr_4G63T 46
7 trvbck 14

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"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed."-William Gibson
1989 Van Diemen - Formula 2000 Continental

In-race personal bests in finishing order from Last night:

Monza (No Chicanes) - 8 Laps…..That’s….No Chicanes
Steve 1:36.508
Scott H 1:37.880
Paul 1:36.774
Varga 1:37.885
Jason 1:38.146
Scott M 1:41.907
Trevor P 1:50.177

Cote d'Auzr - 8 Laps
Paul 1:36.715
Varga 1:37.171
Steve 1:38.020
Jason 1:39.864
Scott M 1:41.496
Scott H 1:40.895

Daytona Road - 8 Laps
Paul 1:44.089
Varga 1:44.879
Jason 1:47.025
Steve 1:47.234
Scott M 1:50.569
Scott H 1:46.838

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2008 Toyota Prius (Currently 180,000km)
2002 BMW M3 (Currently 197,000km, was 96,300km Jan of 2009)
2006 Toyota Prius (R.I.P 2011, 182,000 km)
1990 Beretta GTZ (R.I.P 2009, 396,000 km)
2000 Grand Cherokee (Sold 2006, 105,000 km)
1990 Laser RS (R.I.P 1989 Halloween day, 2,500 km)

I'm pretty sure I finished 3rd at Daytona.

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2013 BMW 128I - 2 DS

Yea I know I didn't finish 3rd at Daytona..... first night since we started GT5 that I didn't make the podium.

You know if I was a B-Spec driver I'd probably be retired....

EDIT:
I have this as the finishing order for Daytona:

1-turbined
2-vincentq4
3-S_AND_S
4-MerlinRPM
5-stevedp
6-Mr_4G63T

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"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed."-William Gibson
1989 Van Diemen - Formula 2000 Continental

Sorry Scott H,

I recorded as my Replay file listed....I will watch it again to see if I am all there.....??

Upon reivew..I see that I was seeing things.......the list in my replay file is as listed above...

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2008 Toyota Prius (Currently 180,000km)
2002 BMW M3 (Currently 197,000km, was 96,300km Jan of 2009)
2006 Toyota Prius (R.I.P 2011, 182,000 km)
1990 Beretta GTZ (R.I.P 2009, 396,000 km)
2000 Grand Cherokee (Sold 2006, 105,000 km)
1990 Laser RS (R.I.P 1989 Halloween day, 2,500 km)

FYI

The rumor is the group "Anonymous" has been targeting Sony's servers with DoS attacks for the past 48hrs.

http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/04/04/an ... 3-hacking/

The Playstation Network is very unstable at this point and if things do not improve we may need to postpone our race for tomorrow night.

We'll see how things are at 7:30pm tomorrow.

Also as a result of the network issues the B-Spec Grinder we just setup will not work. So no remote B-Spec money until further notice.

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"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed."-William Gibson
1989 Van Diemen - Formula 2000 Continental

My grinder's still going.....

I get the error when trying to login... I guess the solution is don't logout.

http://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=198506

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"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed."-William Gibson
1989 Van Diemen - Formula 2000 Continental

PD just released the 1.09 patch for GT5.
It's 49mb so please give yourself time to download and install it tonight before 8pm.

As of right now it looks like everything is back online and running smooth.

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"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed."-William Gibson
1989 Van Diemen - Formula 2000 Continental

Results after night 2:

1 MerlinRPM 137
2 stevedp 122
3 S_AND_S 121
4 turbined 81
5 AMomcilo 77
6 vincentq4 68
7 Mr_4G63T 46
8 trvbck 14

During the Nürburgring GP/F race last night, Harrod and I both stopped for fresh tires on lap 7. This worked out well for me, but Alek was able to conserve his tires and over took Harrod during the pit stop. Harrod was closing in on him at the end, but it wasn't enough to stop Alek from 2nd place on the podium.

Steve pulled out an early 4-5 second lead in the first few laps of Laguna Seca. Over the next 5-6 laps I was able to reel him in and then capitalize on his small mistake at turn 6 (up hill left hander) to take the lead and the win.

In case people haven't noticed, every evening in this series includes one Italian track. Last night it was Rome, and after a 5-6 lap battle with Steve, he was able to pull away from me for a clean victory.

The competition was great last night but it was our lowest attendance yet. Only 4 competitors.
I'm hoping it's because of a combo of events and not that people are losing interest.

I know that Varga's router blew up.
Paul makes it when he can.
Jay, Trevor G. and McIntyre are away/unavailable.
Ming's busy with SpeedSport (Cya Saturday Ming!)

However Joel, Alex A., John K. and Craig M. seem to have just dropped off the face of the planet.... haven't seen them online in ages. Hope everything is alright and they rejoin us soon.

... and I'm not sure what happened to Taylor either.


Oh btw, the prize car for this series will be a stock '76 Ferrari 512BB

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"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed."-William Gibson
1989 Van Diemen - Formula 2000 Continental

It was pretty fun last night. I am consitantly unconsistant. Push too hard, late braking = run off or spin.

The new setup is really good.

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2013 BMW 128I - 2 DS

Out of town on Sunday, bug out for work at 0-dark-stupid thursday morning meant that the first two nights weren't going to happen. I'm planning on trying the next series though.

The Modem has been replaced and all is well now......I will not miss the next event....

Anyone one on tonight...or saturday night for practicing....for just in case Paul is back??

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2008 Toyota Prius (Currently 180,000km)
2002 BMW M3 (Currently 197,000km, was 96,300km Jan of 2009)
2006 Toyota Prius (R.I.P 2011, 182,000 km)
1990 Beretta GTZ (R.I.P 2009, 396,000 km)
2000 Grand Cherokee (Sold 2006, 105,000 km)
1990 Laser RS (R.I.P 1989 Halloween day, 2,500 km)

I'm at SpeedSport on Saturday (that's the plan at least).

But I'm might be game for something tonight.

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"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed."-William Gibson
1989 Van Diemen - Formula 2000 Continental

Nice prize car! That's worth a few pennies.

I've been away for work, but will definitely be joining in on the next series.

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1997 Talon TSi AWD
2008 EVO X MR

I'd be game for some action tonite. What time are ya's thinking. I've got a little garage work but after that I'd be good. Also what headsets are you guys using? I just have an in ear cheapo and it sucks. I can't make out a thing you guys say when I have it on. When I'm not using it and getting voice through my stereo, it is crystal clear. Are you guys using full headsets with boom mics?

As far as the setup of these cars goes. I've tried applying real world setup techniques to these cars in all the series so far and have yet to find anything that works well. I end up going so extreme in either direction that I screw it up even worse. My latest strategy has been to leave the suspension settings basically bone stock with very minor tweaks. I believe the 430, which is pretty hooked up for me, has only minor camber changes to the front. The rest is default. My hopeful LeMans Series car, which I've been driving the sh!t out of lately is completely default and is a blast to drive.

I just have the 1.0 version of this...

http://www.futureshop.ca/en-CA/product/ ... ec1a2ben02


As for time... probably something around 9pm-ish for me.

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"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed."-William Gibson
1989 Van Diemen - Formula 2000 Continental

I was using the Sony Bluetooth Headset as Jason has. It works great! But I needed a full headset to keep the noise down during late-night racing, so I got a Logitech F540 and love it.

http://www.logitech.com/en-ca/gaming/he ... vices/7362

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1997 Talon TSi AWD
2008 EVO X MR

I just have a mild tweek of the stock setup too, I like it, I like the fact the car slides around a lot.
I don't usually mess too much with my setup, which is to my downfall in cars that need a lot of work, or when Varga is off work and playing for 18 hours a day trying everything!
I also try real world stuff in the game and it never works, I end up lost and slow, so I just leave it alone for the most part.

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Paul

LOL...Paul, When do I have the strength to play 18 hrs a day....The race at Daytona with the 430 was the first time on track chasing you....LOL

I have been back at work (half days...very Gruelling) .....

The bottom line for you Steve...I think you will shave seconds off when you start with the wheel...its just funn watching you twich...I miss Joel twich as well.....

I practiced for 430 overall may be 1.5 hrs before the Races.....

Uh oh...I am feeling something inflate....HELP...JASON...HELP!!!

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2008 Toyota Prius (Currently 180,000km)
2002 BMW M3 (Currently 197,000km, was 96,300km Jan of 2009)
2006 Toyota Prius (R.I.P 2011, 182,000 km)
1990 Beretta GTZ (R.I.P 2009, 396,000 km)
2000 Grand Cherokee (Sold 2006, 105,000 km)
1990 Laser RS (R.I.P 1989 Halloween day, 2,500 km)

Results after Sunday night.

1 MerlinRPM 208
2 stevedp 191
3 S_AND_S 173
4 vincentq4 153
5 turbined 81
6 AMomcilo 77
7 Mr_4G63T 46
8 Viich 37
9 trvbck 14


I took many photos from the first two nights, but I just haven't had a chance to copy them off my PS3 so I can upload them.

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"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed."-William Gibson
1989 Van Diemen - Formula 2000 Continental

I'm pretty sure I ran Toscana and High Speed Ring......

You were the #8 I was missing... updated.

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"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed."-William Gibson
1989 Van Diemen - Formula 2000 Continental

April 10th - 8pm In-race personal bests in finishing order:
Fuji GT - 8 Laps
Steve 1:36.262
Varga 1:35.820
Jason 1:37.242
Scott H 1:37.858

Toscana Countryside - 8 Laps
Varga 2:23.627
Jason 2:29.006
Craig 2:34.189
Steve 2:37.538
Scott H 2:39.363

High Speed Ring - 15 Laps
Varga 1:03.335
Jason 1:03.441
Steve 1:04.251
Scott H 1:05.044
Craig 1:04.185

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2008 Toyota Prius (Currently 180,000km)
2002 BMW M3 (Currently 197,000km, was 96,300km Jan of 2009)
2006 Toyota Prius (R.I.P 2011, 182,000 km)
1990 Beretta GTZ (R.I.P 2009, 396,000 km)
2000 Grand Cherokee (Sold 2006, 105,000 km)
1990 Laser RS (R.I.P 1989 Halloween day, 2,500 km)

The Prancing Pony Championship wrapped up last Thursday with the following results:

1 MerlinRPM 254
2 vincentq4 238
3 S_AND_S 230
4 stevedp 212
5 AMomcilo 150
6 turbined 81
7 Mr_4G63T 46
8 Viich 37
9 trvbck 14

I had a comfortable lead in 1st (and even was dropped during the last race at Monza). However it was a tight battle between Varga, Steve and Harrod.

Thanks to everyone who came out!

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"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed."-William Gibson
1989 Van Diemen - Formula 2000 Continental

Here are some long overdue photos from the series:

Classphoto


McIntyre


Trvbck


Steve


Myself


Paul


Harrod


Alek


Varga


Harrod leads Paul out of the chicane, Varga misses his breaking point in the background


Steve forces McIntyre to go wide


Paul & Varga learn those distance marker signs are made out of SOLID cement, and don't budge


McIntyre drift's his 430 Scuderia


Paul show's he's human after all with a few mistakes on the opening laps



Varga & trvbck play in the sand


Paul & I battle it out over a few laps








Cutting the Chicane (Tisk Tisk!)


Not Cutting the Chicane (Yaa!)


Côte d'Azur (aka Monte Carlo)


In this series we raced our first custom track, in Toscana



Harrod has more than 1 shadow


Steve drifts the final turn


It got dark pretty fast...


Finale

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"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed."-William Gibson
1989 Van Diemen - Formula 2000 Continental