GT5 Club Event: Suzuki @ Nordschleife

[Richard Coleman]

Pic to follow.

Date: Tuesday 11th March, 8.30PM GMT, 9.30AM NZDST (New Zealand Daylight Savings Time)
Car: Suzuki Cappuccino (EA21) Race Car '95
Track: Nordschleife "Ring"
Laps: 4 (takes about 8 mins a lap)
Tyres: Racing Medium (RM)
PP: 485 (MAX)
Tuning: Allowed

Standard RD rules apply: http://www.racedepartment.com/forum/threads/rules.10978/

I will be hosting the event so you will need to send me a friend request on PSN. My PSN ID is devilracer1987

You don’t need to be a licensed member to take part in the event.

To sign up, post a comment below with your name and PSN.

Entry List
1- Jonathan Seekings
2- Connor Caple
3- Rui F. Martins (Possible)
4- Sakis Politis (Possible)
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EDIT: Edited for the 5th time. Forgetful me forgetting things... Damn!

 

[Rui F. Martins]

i've painted my car, i decided to go try some colours and i ended up painting the car in blue rising blue with white wheels, it looks much better than it was

 

[Richard Coleman]

Mine is Kyanite Blue with black and blue wheels. Down to a mid 7.32 so far.

 

[Rui F. Martins]

how do you paint your wheels in two tones?

i wasn't able to go down from a 8:24, but i havent practced much yet, have you done anything to the downforce? i'm not sure if i should reduce it or not

 

[Jonathan Seekings]

I should add nitrous is not permitted for this event.

haha i added it thinking it counted as tuning. that was a waste of 100k that i didn't have in the first place

 

[Richard Coleman]

Sorry Jonathan. It completely skipped my mind until yesterday. The car is fast enough without it... Just not on the straights. I won the Midnight Series race on Nurburgring in the Cappuccino. Needed 30+ seconds on the final straight to win it. Won by less than a second

 

[Connor Caple]

I've not been able to race all week, even against the AI, and I'm missing it.

I tried driving by doing most of the steering with my left arm, but it just feels weird and the right shoulder still hurts just holding the wheel. I haven't been able to drive my real car either, and that has some great power steering!

If there's any way I can manage the race this week, I'll show up, but it's looking very doubtful.

 

[Richard Coleman]

All good Connor. If you cant make it then no worries. there is always the TT that is running until Saturday as well

Also Abarth 500 V Demio next week for club event

 

[Richard Coleman]

Server will go live in just over 12 hours at 7.30pm GMT. Im not doing any GT tonight as Far Cry 3 has taken over

 

[Richard Coleman]

Sadly at 5.30am local time I have been called into work. Race postponed for 24 hours. So sorry about this guys. Completely out of my control and with money being tight I could not afford to say no to this shift.

 

[Rui F. Martins]

ahah i read this just when i finished mounting my wheel for the race
looks like i will have apractice session

 

[Jonathan Seekings]

can it be 24 and a half hours?

 

[Richard Coleman]

So sorry about this guys.

 

[Richard Coleman]

Server is up.

 

[Richard Coleman]

Jonathan you there mate? We are waiting....

 

[Jonathan Seekings]

sorry about turning up late and thanks for waiting. i got home at half past and then had to do two updates so took a bit longer than expected.
Anyway, with a few last minute changes i was a few seconds quicker in qualifying including a nice 360 at one corner. Got a shocking start in the race and rui was up the inside of me into t1 but i held it round the outside to hold p3. i knew richard was quicker than me, but i also know it is an easy track to make mistakes so i just kept it clean (to an extent) and waited for richard to make a mistake and i slipped through. We kept trading places and it was turning into a fun battle. At the start of lap 2 richard lost it into t3,4,dish, but i couldn't avoid him when he came back onto the track so i waited because it would have been boring on my own. just after i managed to catch up (or richard waited for me) and get past I lose connection. very disappointing as i have never disconnected before and it will be my last race for a while.

I am starting an apprenticeship on sunday and will be living away from home for a year so won't be able to race much. Thanks for the racing guys and see you around in the future.

 

[Rui F. Martins]

this was a nice event, a bit hard for me, but fun. it all started when i made the changes on my car, i tougth i had the car on the pp limit but it turned out i had it 6pp under, so i changed that. after that there was qualy and i found out i didn't had a long enough gearbox thus losing a lot of time. Since i was losing so much time in the straigths i had to try to go faster on the corners which led to a lot of mistakes from my end, i even almost rolled the car at the begining of the first lap, due to that i was at the back during the entire race, altough it was fun to drive this car during the race, we should have more race with this car

thank you for the race, it was very fun, see you in the next race

 

[Richard Coleman]

Had an absolute blast racing these micro cars on that track. Had a wicked battle with Jonathan for a while. Trading places was a lot of fun with him. I slowed down for him at one stage as it was boring on my own and we were having a massive battle on track. It was epic and seriously fun.

Nice win for sakis being some 2 minutes ahead after 4 laps.