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Post by carts43 on Oct 30, 2011 20:28:46 GMT 6
Use this thread to post any thoughts, reviews or feedback from any of the RCS practices, qualifying sessions, or race days! I want to read about the races from YOUR perspectives!
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Post by carts43 on Oct 31, 2011 14:22:55 GMT 6
The first qualifying session for week one is now complete. A very big thanks to the drivers that competed! The room lobby opened at 3pm as planned, and I was quickly joined by season one returnees Barn_One and Granddriver. We, along with JCub and Layvon spent a good deal of time testing and tuning, trying to get closer and closer to the 2 minute barrier on Suzuka.
Grand was the first to break it in practice, starting at a 1:59, and getting it down to a mid 1:57. LayVon also got under the 2 mark in practice, despite having some issue with the Spoon turn.
I decided to run my laps first, running 3 straight laps at 2:00.XXX before my last lap 1:59.894, runing flat out and smoking my tires on almost every turn, which temporarily earned me a pole position.
Within the next hour, Grand shattered that mark by 2.001 Seconds and took the top spot from me. LayVon, JCub and Specter all put down sub 2 minute laps in their qualifying and we round out the top 5. Ford-Driver and Barn ran right around te 2:01-2:02 mark to round out qualifying. It should be some interesting racing next week!
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Post by Mr LayVon on Nov 1, 2011 2:35:11 GMT 6
dam you grand arg!!! i freaking beat the time last night to in practice, and still had more time in the car, errrr y couldnt i have ran the time in qualifying!!
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Post by jcub on Nov 1, 2011 4:34:03 GMT 6
Hey carts why not mention that i beat your time by the slimmest of margins on my last lap lol. You had to know that was coming....sorry dude.
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Post by darkavengerzr1 on Nov 1, 2011 17:45:05 GMT 6
Dark i have come to the conclusion that you have no heart and your sole purpose in life is to humiliate people. Is that close? lol Not really, you still have a good impression about me. Lol Edit: Ok, i tried... in 3 laps i did 1:58:733 1505 kg 545hp 600pp ;D |
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Post by Mr LayVon on Nov 7, 2011 12:06:51 GMT 6
First race, great race. had a great start. grand was keeping up quite well with me, until a screw up and i let him by. got back on track quickly and kept up with him. my tire wear was a bit more then his so i started dropping back and pitted soon. caught up to him took the lead back and again shortly after screwed up. everything was fine, just going through lap traffic trying to catch back up to grand. last lap grand screwed up and i caught right up to him, pushed my car to hard into the spoon curve and put in into the sand. took home 2nd.
2nd race, absolutely sucked for me, fallowing grand slowing early into corners giving him room and turned to early smacking the inside wall. also then trying to make my way around the rest of the track wrecked more had damage all over. got back to the pits, absolutely pissed off at this point, i start driving beyond what i think the car could do, and the car took it. i was bout 1 min behind grand and had o chance of caching. just was doing my best to get a podium. pitted on lap 5 of 7 with grand, pushing the car again faster then i thought, not catching up a whole lot. last lap on the back stretch, run out of gas was hoping i had enough time in between me and barn, but i didnt....... barn passed me for 3rd picking up his first podium of RCS. Your welcome Barn....
3rd race, it just went all my way. a track im great at. had the pole "giggidy" had a blistering start and just pulled away lap after lap. there was a lil accident involving grand further back in the pack. i was about 17 secs ahead of 2nd place. so i decided it was a good time to pit, grand and team shortly joined me and carts went by to take the lead. i quickly caught him and passed him while he pitted. i held the lead the rest of the time, untill i heard grand say he was going to pit, so i went to. i again had about a 17 sec lead. i went and held that lead the rest of the race to take my first win this season.
Overall good weekend, and clean.
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Post by carts43 on Nov 7, 2011 15:21:52 GMT 6
After some pre-race logistics issues with the formation lap, we finally got week one at Suzuka underway. I started 4th from my prerace qualifying, and the abscence of Specter. I got off to a good start moving up to 3rd after an early mistake by JCub, going wide on lap 2 in turn 7 at the end of the D1 section. Stayed between 3rd and 4th (exchanging with Barn_One) quite a bit over the next few laps, staying about 4-8 seconds off the lead. I could never match the 1:59 from qualifying, but ran pretty consistant 2:00-2:02's. My plan was to pit at laps, 10 and 19, but I drove into the sand on the exit of the spoon corner, Barn passed me for 3rd, and I lost control trying to recover with rear left tire damage. I foolishy thought I had enough time to get back on track and up to speed... I was wrong. The dirt on my tires caused me to slide on the tarmac, and Tman unfortunatley was unable to avoid my car, hitting me in the right front tire, causing damage to both of us, and him to spin 3 times down the straight. I was able to continue as the damage on opposite sides of the car seemed to balance out. TEAMwork, wasted no time and catching and passing me, putting me in 5th. The damage seemed to accelerate my tire wear, causing me to pit by lap 7. I ran most of the rest of the race cleanly, and finished in 5th, only dropping some spots due to an off balanced pit stop, but quickly regaining them.
Nurburgring. I qualified 3rd, and got off to a good start keeping 3rd behind Grand and LayVon. Tman and I got tangled again towards the end of the first lap causing both of us to pit after lap two. Tman and I also got into another incident just before the hill climb and the carrousel on lap 3 causing both of us to pit again. I decided that I'd run the rest of the race on that set of tires, and did everything I could to save them (and fuel). The rest of the race was uneventful, staying in 5th and driving mostly by myself. I did almost catch up to layvon when he ran out of fuel at the end, but the timer cut me off about half a mile from 4th place.
Fuji. I was feeling very confident about fuji, having a good set up and decreasing my front aero to help with tire wear. I qualified 3rd again, and was in 2nd behind layvon after turn one. I stayed in second place, battling with Grand for the first 12 laps. He and TEAMwork got into an incident in the last turn on turn 12, and LayVon (the leader), as wel as Grand and Team decided to pit, giving me the lead for lap 13. I drove it well, and pit at the end of lap 13. LayVon repassed me (as expected), but Grand and TEAM did as well, putting me in 4th coming out of the pits. The only action for me after that, was a multi lap battle with aceredmond (who was a lap down and in 7th). I finished 4th, which (coupled with Barn's 7th place finish at Fuji) was enough to tie me with him in 4th place for the Championship.
Overall, I thought it was a great week with some really excellent endurance driving. A special shout out goes to my girl Raschel who drove the pace car for our formation laps! See you all next week in the RUF 3400S!
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Post by granddriver on Nov 7, 2011 23:05:43 GMT 6
This was a crazy week one that's for sure!! It was very intense. Suzuka was the most intense of the three for me. I had pole position thanks to qualifying the week before. For some reason I'm in second gear which is no good for my setup. We start, Layvon takes off and JCub almost hits me. He manages to get around me and I'm now in 3rd place. On turn 7 JCub hits the sand and i get one position back. Layvon starts pulling away little by little at about the same distance I'm pulling from Carts.On lap 6 I start catching back up due to Layvon's tires, he has twice the wear as me. On the big sweeper he slides out getting rear left tire damage but he gains control real quick. Half way through lap 8 I'm on his bumper (how you doin Layvon), passing him not to much later. Lap 10 with tire damage and 60% tire loss he starts falling behind. He pits at the end of the lap giving Team 2nd place. Team is 15.5 seconds behind. At the end on lap 11 Team and I both pit, I still have a good lead on him. When I come out of the pits Layvon is right there on my bumper but he has tire damage and 5% tire wear compared to my fresh tires. Regardless he soon passes me and slowly starts gaining time. Lap 14 he got his outside tires of the track and got completely side ways. He corrects it fast with only a little tire wear. I catch right up and stay turn for turn through lap 16 when he hits the sand in the same spot he had trouble before. I get my starting position back and my tires are in excellent condition. By lap 19 Team has caught up to Layvon and they aren't too far behind. On turn 7, same place JCub went off, Layvon hits the sand giving Team 2nd place again. He's only a little under 2 seconds behind me. At the end of lap 20 team is on my ass and we both pit with Layvon not too far behind. Now at this point I'm hot as hell, I mean you could boil an egg on my forehead!! I get out of the pits a little faster than Team. Layvon is 7 seconds behind which isn't that far for him. Lap 22 Team loses it before the big straight away. His outside tires hit the sand getting him turned around facing the wrong way at a dead stop. He turns around having to immediately stop letting Layvon go by making it even worse. Layvon is 6.7 seconds behind and our tires are even. on the last lap with an 8 second lead. I hit the sand, right after the turn Layvon had all the trouble. He's now on my bumper with half a lap to go. But with bad tires and trying to push it he hit the sand giving me a smooth sail all the way home. Finished a little over an hour. What a race and we still had two to go!!
Nurburgring!! :)What can I say? This is my track. I can call it my track because I'm undefeated on it in RCS!! Don't mean to come off cocky, it's just I'm proud of it. I know they day will come that I'll lose that tittle but I will proudly carry it till then!! With that said. I had a way better start on this one, 1st gear!! And that's all she wrote. I start pulling away.......... and away............. and I'm GONE!!!! I finish at 1:05.19 with a 35 second lead on Team!!!!!!!
As for Fuji GT, I'll get to it later. I got 2nd and it was every bit as crazy Suzuka. I have to watch the replay still.
Thanks again Carts and every one else making a GREAT racing room. It was a lot of fun!!!!!!
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Post by darkavengerzr1 on Nov 8, 2011 2:21:49 GMT 6
Nurburgring!! :)What can I say? This is my track. I can call it my track because I'm undefeated on it in RCS!! Don't mean to come off cocky, it's just I'm proud of it. I know they day will come that I'll lose that tittle but I will proudly carry it till then!! I smell... a challenge! Me vs you, recommended car, same car for me and same car for you, on Nordschleif, faster driver wins! Lol People now are like:  |
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Post by granddriver on Nov 8, 2011 3:04:31 GMT 6
Nurburgring!! :)What can I say? This is my track. I can call it my track because I'm undefeated on it in RCS!! Don't mean to come off cocky, it's just I'm proud of it. I know they day will come that I'll lose that tittle but I will proudly carry it till then!! I smell... a challenge! Me vs you, recommended car, same car for me and same car for you, on Nordschleif, faster driver wins! Lol People now are like: I'm not saying I'm undefeated on Nurburgring. Just when it comes to RCS. You and Team have beaten me your fair share of the time. But if you want to race, I'll show you a Brazilian wax!! ROFLMFAO!!!! I just couldn't resist. |
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Post by darkavengerzr1 on Nov 8, 2011 7:01:47 GMT 6
I'm not saying I'm undefeated on Nurburgring. Just when it comes to RCS. You and Team have beaten me your fair share of the time. But if you want to race, I'll show you a Brazilian wax!! ROFLMFAO!!!! I just couldn't resist. I did not get your joke. Not sure if because brazilian wax is not news to me, or if it was non-sense. Lol. I realized it was about RCS few minutes ago, while backing to home... but the challenge still up, even if it will be just for the lulz! |
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Post by Mr LayVon on Nov 8, 2011 7:07:13 GMT 6
I'm not saying I'm undefeated on Nurburgring. Just when it comes to RCS. You and Team have beaten me your fair share of the time. But if you want to race, I'll show you a Brazilian wax!! ROFLMFAO!!!! I just couldn't resist. I did not get your joke. Not sure if because brazilian wax is not news to me, or if it was non-sense. Lol. I realized it was about RCS few minutes ago, while backing to home... but the challenge still up, even if it will be just for the lulz! wax was kinda 2 puns in one. wax like hes gonna beat you, and wax like the wax used to remove hair down there. and brazilian is what they call it if you have it waxed and trimmed up down there. you have a brazilian. |
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Post by darkavengerzr1 on Nov 8, 2011 7:19:13 GMT 6
wax was kinda 2 puns in one. wax like hes gonna beat you, and wax like the wax used to remove hair down there. and brazilian is what they call it if you have it waxed and trimmed up down there. you have a brazilian. I know what a brazilian wax is. ¬¬ Stop confusing meeeeeeeehh! |
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Post by jcub on Nov 8, 2011 7:19:55 GMT 6
I love how all of our threads go from talking to that subject to something way off base lol.
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Post by granddriver on Nov 8, 2011 7:25:47 GMT 6
I did not get your joke. Not sure if because brazilian wax is not news to me, or if it was non-sense. Lol. I realized it was about RCS few minutes ago, while backing to home... but the challenge still up, even if it will be just for the lulz! wax was kinda 2 puns in one. wax like hes gonna beat you, and wax like the wax used to remove hair down there. and brazilian is what they call it if you have it waxed and trimmed up down there. you have a brazilian. I totally meant the 1st meaning. I just throw in Brazilian because you are Dark. Kind of like two jokes in one. Hope it didn't come of the wrong way and offend you Dark. I'm totally sorry if it did. |
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