Although there hadn’t been a race so far which enriched my racing with so much chaos and stumbling stones, I had soooooooo muuuuuuch fuuuuuun
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1)[FONT="] [/FONT]Moirana: no racing experience of this track but Monday night’s practice paid off, expecially having Stu join the action and setting a 1:43min as my point of reference with regards to lap times for this track. Qualifying put me in P ????? I think it was 7 (just wanted to check out the replay and take some pix of this eventful racing night and THE DA*N GAME AGAIN ONLY RECORDED ME SITTING IN THE PARKING LOT FOR 21 SECONDS RRRRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrr although I changed the plr settings!!!
:skeleton:) OK
:focus:
I liked this track and especially the idea of having you guys improve my regular lap times by at least one second just by driving in front of me, BUT my engine which usually turned itself on automatically once you sit in the grid, decided to mix up this one with some new refreshing variety ….. it didn’t start…. And off you guys went, leaving me behind,
“aaaaaaall by myyyyyself…. I wanna be …… aaaaalll by myself….. “
I then managed to fumble the ignition and starter buttons and began my 1st hunt for the rest of the field no idea about what to come. Yep, I caught up with the field, gained some ground and placed myself somewhere in the middle of the field, when
AVIRA, my anti virus software became jealous of all the attention I paid to GTL and took me to it’s Windows desktop to show me some “beautiful” advertisement! … just wonderful, but this was not supposed to be the end of my last night’s odyssey, not yet.
:woot2:
By now, Simon passed me again, and I went for my second pursuit. Soon, I passed him again and “clutched” myself off the track. The track or server misinterpreted my off road excursion as a new way of cheating myself into a new track record and gave me my 1st warning. About a lap later, I entered a turn a little too fast, slid off the track and was prompted with my 1st Stop and Go penalty.
THX for telling me via teamspeak what I was expected to do!
The rest of the race is not worth mentioning. My concentration apparently did not race with me and I have no idea how I finished
2)[FONT="] [/FONT]Heartland was a blast
J. During quail, Matt and I kept taking turns with our laptimes, I beat his, he beat mine etc….Then Warren came and beat the both of us
J I was so glad not to have qualified last, but even that wouldn’t ’ve mattered since my engine let me sit in the starting field again.
“aaaaaaall by myyyyyself…. I was again …… aaaaalll by myself….. “
Yet, I had lots of fun once I joined the pack again. Especially my taking turns with Steven… off track we went
:tea: Then, I read “next track” at the top of my screen, but that no longer surprised me
(as much as the stuttering of the game during some corners @ 48 fps)
3)[FONT="] [/FONT]Leibniz was the best track so far ! Qualifying granted me P3 and my excitement was displayed to all of you through my headset BBBBREEEATHE
:bashful:(Simon recommended to me already to setup a push to talk button but the G25 doesn’t have that many buttons so I decided against it). This time, I made sure to be in the starting field ASAP, just in case my engine didn’t fire up, but all went fine. Unfortunately, I was a little too hesitant at the start (not letting off the clutch quickly to sprint forward) and fell back to P5. A spin in front of me put me to P4 and not for the first time, I had a nice duell with matt. What happened next it beyond me! All the sudden I was 3rd, then 2ed. And then we all got kicked to the next track!
Well, we will hopefully redo this event sometimes cause this was a really nice selection of tracks for the GTA Stu!
:thanks:
Why did some of you guys not even show up at some of the races? It read “disqualified” in my info box!!! What happened???
And why did players suddenly go into pit during our Leibniz race? Did this also have to do with the server problems?
It was chaotic, but I had lots of fun regardless
