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Post by Mr LayVon on Jan 16, 2012 15:09:59 GMT 6
Race 1: got the pole position, had a great start, did exactly what i wanted to with pits and even had traffic ahead to slow up grand, less then 5 to go traffic bites me in the ass holds me up and lets grand by. i drive my ass off to catch grand, lose by half a second.
Race : fucking sucked, horrible race for me.
Race 3: again horrible race for me........
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Post by granddriver on Jan 16, 2012 21:07:45 GMT 6
Honda Integra DC5 unmodded
Tsukuba I qualified second right behind Layvon. Layvon and I slowly start pulling away, by lap 11 we have a pretty good lead. Lap 15 our tires start to show wear. On lap 19 we both pit, but it throws me out and let's Layvon pit (that's BS!). Thankfully, it lets me pit on lap 20. When I come out of the pits I'm in fifth position but right before turn one Layvon slams right in the barn, I guess because barn had bad tires and Layvon was on the ones (I think that was Layvons fault). Layvon has front spring damage and barn has rear spring damage. That accident puts me back in the 3rd with carts in 1st and jcub in 2nd. Doesn't take me but one lap to get around jcub. Carts still hasn't pitted so he has a decent lead on me, about 9 seconds. On lap 24 carts pits, but it throws his car out of the pit lane right in the cam causing a horrible collision. One of the shittiest things I've seen happen in RCS, 2nd only to Spector! This puts me in the lead. I have a 6.436 lead on Layvon. My tires are just a little bit better than his, but he still has front spring damage. Between lap 25 and lap 34 I stay approximately 6 seconds ahead of Layvon. it's on lap 34 that I start to have a little bit of a problem. I have Cam in front of me and he's lagging a little bit and I'm just terrified to try to pass him. I'm having a slow down to stay away from him, which is letting the whole line behind me catch up. Viper and carts (both a lap down) are catching up very fast. Cam is two laps down and is in last place yet he's going to try to fight me and not let me go by which has me furious at this point. It's left 37 I have cam in front of me and I have Viper right behind me. At this point I know I'm dead I know the race is over. Because of cam Viper and carts get around me with Layvon right behind me. Cam, you can suck an egg! And after all of that he miss breaks into the sand lettings carts and viper continue on with Layvon right behind me. From a six second lead to a half a second lead in lap 38. Lap 39 Layvon Pitts, I pit on lap 40. I come out of the pits to Layvon passing me. Layvon has a 2 1/2 second lead on me on lap 41. On lap 44 we have caught up to yet again Cam. Now he's blocking the road for Layvon. By a miracle I keep it floored around one of the turns and just fly by both of them. It's crazy the same person who costs me the race also won me the race. Layvon puts a really good fight but it's just not enough laps to catch up. I crossed the finish line with a half a second lead. That was one insane race.
So don't feel to bad Layvon you had to deal with cam for one turn, I had to do deal with that for two laps. I don't blame you for being agitated though.
Madrid Reverse I qualified second to Team with Layvon behind me. We are all lined up in ready to start and watching the replay I noticed that team is a good 3 feet back from his starting line. He's almost completely out of his box. Lap one, on the last turn team hits the wall pretty hard I don't know how I didn't end up with damage. Lap three I'm still pretty close to team and carts is right behind me. By lap five the lineup is the same but my tires or wearing wearing twice as fast as team and carts. Team starts to pull away while carts starts to crawl all over my ass, no Homo. Lap seven, team is gone and carts is still right behind me. I'm giving it all I have the keep him from passing me. On lap nine, yet again I see carts just get robbed. Coming down the straightaway carts is in my draft right behind me he decides he is going to go to the right to pass me and as soon does it reveals the pit barrier wall and he slams right into it, causing major damage! Watching the replay from his point of view was heartbreaking. At this point his car wouldn't barely move. By lap 14 I'm 12.025 seconds behind team with Layvon 39.355 seconds behind me. I decide to pit on lap 14 with 35% of my tires left in the front. Team continues on with 60 to 70% of his tires left. When I come out of the pits Layvon is only four seconds behind me but his tires are almost gone. He decides to pit at the end of the lap with only 25% of his tires left. Starting lap 16 team has a 39.409 second lead on me and to make matters worse I miss break on turn one hitting the barrier giving me front left tire damage. My tires are brand-new so I decide to keep going for a few laps. I make it seven laps with my damage before it starts to get to be too much so I pit on lap 22. Layvon gets around due to my pit but his tires are already 15% gone. I'm a good three seconds behind him. Somehow team still hasn't pitted and he only has like 30% of his tires left. Layvon and I battle it out till lap 24 where he barely clips the wall giving him front wheel damage. With a good amount of tire wear and damage he decides to pit at the end of lap 25. It's now left 26 and somehow team is still surviving with only 15% of his tires left. On lap 27 he hits the wall again not getting damage. I'm now one minute behind team. Team goes 35 laps without pitting one time (5% tires left) hitting the wall a few times not getting any damage very good, very lucky run. I finish 40.050 seconds behind team and carts 17 seconds behind me.
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Post by Mr LayVon on Jan 17, 2012 3:23:57 GMT 6
I never had dmg, i just pulled over to let barn go by again. i didnt have to do that, but i did.
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Post by granddriver on Jan 17, 2012 4:00:15 GMT 6
I never had dmg, i just pulled over to let barn go by again. i didnt have to do that, but i did. My bad. That's what the replay said. The replays are not trust worthy. You should have seen one from this morning. Holy cow, I sent a portion of the replay to carts. He also thought it was crazy. We need a fix soon. Team shot 2 miles in an instance putting him on my bumper
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Post by Mr LayVon on Jan 17, 2012 4:48:53 GMT 6
I never had dmg, i just pulled over to let barn go by again. i didnt have to do that, but i did. My bad. That's what the replay said. The replays are not trust worthy. You should have seen one from this morning. Holy cow, I sent a portion of the replay to carts. He also thought it was crazy. We need a fix soon. Team shot 2 miles in an instance putting him on my bumper Yup......
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Post by ed on Jan 30, 2012 8:27:38 GMT 6
amazing racing i think i only recieved damage once and that was on the first course fuji.....getting more patient and staying on the lead lap is awesome....just wish i could figure out how layvon tunes cars so quickly, love the dive in, and great for tire wear just not really my style of driving with all the push understeering exiting the corners thanks for the tips yo....still sticking to my 1.000 gear ratios good solid second place finish standings must be real close among the top 4 or 5 now i mean REAL close..only gonna get better.......lexus RULES....send all my thanks out to my family my crew and what ever tire sponsors my soft compounds lol oh ya, and thank u layvon for ending up in the sand somehow in the first six or seven laps at sazuka appreciate it lol , anyways nice finish up top in points talk to everyone later goodnight.
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Post by Mr LayVon on Jan 30, 2012 9:06:59 GMT 6
Fuji: great race, winning it. Love Fuji just one of my favorite and better tracks.
GP/F: again great race, me winning and another track i quite enjoy alot.
Suzuka: WTF!!!! nothing went right here, car randomly turned left on me under breaking, hit the wall. lose first, 2nd, ford spun in front of me and i had no where to go, ran right into him, 3rd braked to late running into Barn, i drove like a man man angry as hell pushing my car beyond its limits to catch up, finished 3rd that race, but winning overall this weekend.
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Post by bludragon on Jan 30, 2012 9:39:50 GMT 6
have to say, I had fun racing with you all tonight.
First race - i thought i'd play the long game and run racing hard tires to avoid pitting twice. Even though i quickly fell to last place i kept pushing, on lap 31 of 33 my kids called via skype and by the time i was able to answer the call, i had wrecked and had dmg. So i had to pit twice anyhow.
Second race- thought, ok this time i'll run mediums. But switched to softs in the pits on qualifying, so i ended up starting the race on those. I saw a gap between Barn and another driver ( sorry, didn't see the name) which appeared to me i could exploit to gain two positions rather easily coming out the 4th turn. Turned out I didn't have the acceleration over them I thought I'd have and I just crowded the track. I did feel a slight bump, but I had no dmg so I kept racing hard. Sorry if I dmg'd anyone in that exchange, just got a little aggressive I suppose. I stayed on softs this whole race, pitting on laps 10 and 19. On lap 21 I ended up catching Cam77, who appeared to be driving via the pause menu, I caught him as i was exiting a turn and when i went to exit the track I didn't quite make it and rammed him enough to cause dmg to my engine and front left suspension. After the next pit I swapped to racing softs and pushed hard till the end but still was too far behind to finish before the time ran out.
Third race - made sure i had racing mediums on this go round. Was doing well, till around lap 13. My tires were failing me and i had to slow, at this time I had Ford, Carts, and Layvon close behind me. I tried to pull to the left and let them pass, however it looked like Ford went too far and ended up putting the right rear tire in the grass while giving it the beans and he began to spin. This is where Layvon hit him, however Carts hit him first and ended up with no dmg. I feel partially responsible as I was causing a small traffic jam, sorry all. I pitted again around lap 23 and after I came out I had Teamwork behind me trying to put me a lap down. I gave it my all for the next 4 laps on fresh racing softs just to finish this race, which i did with 1 second to spare.
Had fun overall, looking forward to racing with you all again.
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Post by granddriver on Jan 30, 2012 18:02:45 GMT 6
Over all it was fun. Lost my replays from so can't do write ups. Earlier this week I said the GTR's have an advantage because of the extra torque. A certain some one starts arguing, why does every one say that. So then that certain person gets stage three so they have even more torque making even easier for them. So there're you go, torque DOES FUCKING matter. But hey if that what you have to do to win!
It is a fact if it was turned around I would never hear the end of it.
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Post by carts43 on Jan 30, 2012 21:38:33 GMT 6
It is my fault for not being clear on my wishes for the race... not anyone else's. I will do a better job of being more clear in the future. I do believe the new qualifying system will help with this, so everyone will know the regs and wishes. It'll get better fellas, I promise, but put the blame of this one on me.
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Post by carts43 on Jan 31, 2012 1:28:52 GMT 6
Qualifying. I qualified 5th overall, but with RCS_Payne not showing up, it bumped me up to 4th. I knew from spending all freakin week testing and tuning, that I didnt have the fastest car, but it was very stable.
Race 1 Fuji GT 33 Laps. As I stated, I started 4th, on the inside of row 2. My strategy was to turn it into a 2 pit race, going 11 laps on my tires (meds f, softs r). I got a pretty good start, keeping my P4 through the first few turns. I knew I would have an uphill battle against the 2 NSX's (Grand and J) and LayVon's GTR (which shot out of the gate like a bat out of hell). J had an off on the GT section of the course, which put me in 3rd going into the back and forth hill climb on lap 1. From testing, I knew that Grands NSX was a little faster than me, and LayVon with an upgraded engine wouldn't be caught. So I wanted to run a clean race in 3rd and hope for the best. At the close of lap 1, Viper got past me into turn one. Viper was off like a shot. Turns out he had an extra turbo on his car. I battled with Barn and Dry for P4-P6 for the next few laps, watching Dry divebomb turn after turn. I got past barn on lap4, and Dry on 8. By this time, I was 30 seconds down, and knew my car couldn't run with the leaders. I pit on lap 12, and got p4 back by lap 16 after dropping to p6. I pit again on lap 23 dropping to p5. I passed Postosis on lap 26 dring his pit to get p4 back. TEAM caught me by lap 29, and we went back and forth through lap 32. My front (medium) tires won out over his softs, but the battle left us to be passed by post on turn one of lap 33. I would finish 5th 1:19 back. Best lap 1:34.927, 6th fastest.
Nurburgring GP/F 28 laps I qualified 3rd, which was a surprise. What wasn't, was that I was behind LayVon and Grand. This race started out very similar to the first with LayVon taking off at the start. Eventually, I settled in right with grand, and we had ourselves a very technical and fun race battle. I would run 2nd with Grand in 3rd for laps 4 thru 11 when we both pit, 18 seconds behond the lead. Post passed and Viper Caught us in the pit, putting me 3rd, and grand 5th. we caught Post by lap 13, and all three got by him. Viper P2, me p3, and grand p4. Grand passed me on lap 19, and I pit on lap 20, 38 seconds down. I dropped to 5th with my pit, but passed grand when he pit a lap later. Grand repassed me on lap 21, and we ran bumper to nose for the next 4 laps in p3 and p4, until he started to pull away on his softs. With my tires degrading, TEAM caught me and passed me beginning lap 27 to put me in p5. I battled as much as I could, but TEAM prevailed. I finished in p5, 53.376 off the lead. best lap 1:59.670, 6th fastest.
Suzuka 27 Laps I qualified in p7 on the outside of row 4... not a great start, but with my hp dimished, I didnt have high hopes for the race anyway. Ford pulled into the pits right away for dinner, so I moved up a spot by default. I ran into trouble right away in turn one. Postosis got into Bludragon in turn one, and in trying to anticipate his recovery, I went off the track to the wide side, dropping me from 5th to 8th. JCub had an off on the outside of turn 6, giving me 7th. Still on lap 1, I passed Post on an off beneath the tunnel, and Barn on an off in the Spoon curve, putting me back into p5. I followed TEAM and poker for awhile, which looked pretty cool, all 3 of us in different Lexus machines. Poker had an off right before the tunnel on lap 3, putting me in p3, behind LayVon, Bludragon and TEAM. I kept both of them in my sights for the next few laps. TEAM passed blu on lap 5, and I got by when Blu had an off on turn 1 of lap 6, putting me in p3. TEAM pit on lap 8 giving me p2. LayVon would crash early in lap 9 giving engine and front tire/suspension damage. This damaged lap and pit stop, allowed me to close the 27 second gap, pass him, and open up a 10 second gap of my own over TEAM by lap 10. I pit with the lead on lap 11, which TEAM took over while I was getting tires. Blu also passed me, putting me in p3. Blu and Ford got tangled up in the D1 section on lap 12, with myself and LayVon close behind. Ford passed blu, and I followed. Ford put a tire in the dirt on turn 7, spun and I T-Boned his car, shockingly, not getting any damage. Through the smoke, LayVon passed Blu, but ran right into a sideways Ford, spinning him out and giving him major damage again. By the end of the lap, I am 29 seconds behind Ford in p2, and would stay there till the end of the race. I would finish in p2, 34.580 seconds behind. Fastest lap 2:00.876, 4th fastest.
Overall. With Grand and Viper not being able to make the last race, it opened me up to a podium finish. (3rd overall). I noticed that TEAM, Blu and LayVon had fully modded engines and Viper (races 1 and 2) and Cam (race 2) used extra Turbos. All things considered, I was very happy with my races, and how consistantly I ran.
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Post by carts43 on Mar 21, 2012 14:22:47 GMT 6
Week 8 I apologize for my lack of writing for the last 2 RCS events. I have been meaning to, just not getting around to it.
My aim going into this week in the Ferrari, was to survive Nurburgring, and really try to do well on Spa and Sarthe (two of my favorite tracks).
I qualified 10th on the Ring, 7th on Spa, and a tie for 8th on Sarthe... right about where I thought I'd be.
I started the ring on SM tires, hoping I could go 3 laps, pit, and finish the last two on softs. This did not happen. The race started fine, everyone seeming to be extra cautious not to wreck in the first sections. I settled in behind Mikel1871 in 9th, and hoped to stay as close to the pack as I could, until their tires ran out. A 5 car pack formed by the first high speed section, with me smack in the middle. Coming down the hill after the second checkpoint, my left rear tire caught grass in the middle of a switch back, sending me across the track to the right, and into the wall, resulting in rear right tire damage. I nosed into the wall as to not hit Specter or LayVon as they passed and I dropped to p11. I was forced to limp ALL the way back around to the pits.. which was difficult with the damage. I decided to stay on SM tires, as I hoped I could finish the race on them. I figured, if I crashed again, Id switch to SS, and go for broke. I ended the first lap coming out of the pits in 11th, 1:01 behind Viper, but 3 seconds behind Mike in 10th. Viper Lagged out from 5th position just as I started lap 3, and I passed Peru (who pit) giving me 9th. 1:31 behind RingKing, who had not pit yet. Peru, who was on Sports soft tires, quickly caught me, and followed me until I let him pass right after check point 3. TEAM crashed in 3rd place at the same moment, and the field caught and passed him, putting me back in 9th before the carrousel. On the turn before the carrousel, I passed Peru and Mike, who had had some sort of incident (but neither getting damage), jumping me to 7th. Peru quickly caught up again, and again, I let him by. I stayed here, until Barn's tires wore out on lap 5, and I caught him as RingKing passed the finish line. Combo that with Deyhate laggin out with 30 seconds to go, and I get 6th. Truthfully, better than I hoped.
Spa... pretty straight forward plan... pit halfway through on SS tires, and hope for some luck. jumped up to 6th by Eau Rouge but settled in 7th coming up the hill. Stayed there til LayVon's crash at the end of lap 1. Both Specter and LayVon pit, jumping me to 5th. I raced with Team most of the next few laps, him catching me in the draft. I would get wide at the top of the hill on lap 3, and TEAM got by me, only to be passed back one turn later. Team would get and stick the pass by the end of the lap, putting me in 6th, however RingKing pitting, would give me 5th again. Team missed a braking point at the end of the straight on lap 4, pushing me to 4th. This alsp allowed me to open enough gap to where he could not get the draft, and I would slowly pull away. Adrian and Viper would pit coming on to lap 8, temporarily giving me 2nd. At the time of my pit at the end of lap 8, I was 11 seconds back of Bronco and the lead. I exited the pits in 5th, 7 seconds behind Team, who had pit 3 laps earlier. TEAM pit again on lap 12, giving me 4th, 18 seconds behind the leader, Viper. I passed Adrian, who had spun out near the end of the track, giving me 3rd. I spent the rest of the race being hunted by RingKing. The gap between us had started out around 10-13 seconds. By this time it was a 8 and closing. Lap 14 8.4 seconds... Lap 15, 7.1... start of 16, 4.3... my tires were wearing and my heart was POUNDING. I am doing everything to hold on and not make a mistake and let Grand catch up. I did, in fact, hold him off, but barely.. I measly 3.6 seconds. I did finish with a podium, in 3rd, 26 seconds off the lead. Very thrilled with the race, and a great run at the end by Grand. Best lap: 2:28.072 6th fastest.
Sarthe I thought with the straights that I could stretch the SS tires out the whole race... so that was my strategy coming in. With the messed up room, I started in 10th. I was fortunate that Barn missed me when he missed his braking point in the first chicane. I passed Cam for 9th going into the 2nd chicane. Layvon spun going into Indianapolis, giving me 8th. I finished the first lap, in 8th, 7.5 seconds off the lead. End of lap 2, still in 8th, 6.8 seconds off the lead, 4th fastest on track that lap. Using the draft to get to 200 MPH, I caught and passed Bronco by the first chicane. Apparently, TEAM missed a braking point, and slid into adrian. Grand and myself passed him by the first kink in the straight after the mulsanne corner, Bronco was not so lucky and hit adrian, giving him some from suspension damage in both wheels. Running 6th, I let Grand pull me around the track for a bit. We caught and passed TEAM by the Porsche curves, bumping me to 5th. by the end of the lap, I was 7.9 behind the lead, in 5th. 4th fastest lap on track again. Grand and I traded positions with the draft for the next few laps. Viper would pit going into lap 6th, making the battle with grand for 3rd and 4th... 10 seconds off the lead. Grand and I pit going into lap 7, I took 4th by the end of the lap, and held it til right after Arnage in lap 8. Grand passed me. I had a line on him going into the last turn of the Ford chicane, but the rear end of my car spun loose, killing my momentum. I finished 5th, 50 seconds off the lead, .6 behind Grand.
Overall, a 4th place finish is much better than I expected, and I am thrilled with it! I was decidedly less thrilled with all the penalties I had to dole out this week... but I hope that that is all behind us! See you next week in the Camaro.
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