At 2:14 race pace you and the others will save me not 1 but 2 or 3 laps coming the race end...
I'm sorry guys, usually I’m not this cynical... Strangely I thought we were to race at the (
non GTR2) 2004 version
Being like this I will win it…
Joking, the fundamental (
cheap) race philosophy is kept intact :wink2:
Happy to participate, to finish and if need be, not to trash someone’s race other than mine
...It made for a pretty boring race and the Astons sure seemed to have a slight edge on that track at least.
The track was Watkins Glen GP.
A personal experience regarding the above quote…
Before all these recent
RD events commitments, I did many public races in my favorite public server running
Nordschleife racetrack.
So for about 2 months I kept taking the
GTP Vette in those races… it took me all that time to do 6:27 with it there and to have a race pace around 6:30. This in a public server is sufficient to fight for the win in most races. But the true fact is that there were about 10 usual public race mates with the
DB9 capable of a race pace 2 or 3 secs per lap quicker than me if all went their way.
After many in race battles with full fields of DB9’s, I decided to try the “enemies” vehicle… exit the game, back in, load an on-line setup pointed by a simrace mate, do a lap, KIA at first hard barking, change a few things in the setup, back out… do 6:26 on my 1st full lap with the car (
my fastest ever race lap in the GTP class on the Nord)… no comments
I tried to do the same with the Viper, “only” managed a 6:34 after many tryouts and the car politely & educationally kept banging me into a wall (
front “biting”) at minimum distraction…
The things are not that so clear cut in favor of the
DB9; in
sprint race (
what 95% of the simraces are), yes… in endurance racing, I will keep that to myself
Also don’t get me wrong… all the cars can be very quick, it’s just a question that with some it is “easier” to do it then with others :wink2:
As an example, I have seen the
C6R (
the Vette) do 6:23 on the
Nordschleife in the hands of a mythical
alien at a regular qualifying session and also “circulate” in the 6:25 range in race pace, no time attack
mambo jambo arcade grip/setup here…
Even in time attack for quite some time the fastest ever lap (
GTP) at the Nord was 6:20 or 6:21 with a
Lister, not a
DB9…
To finish, will just type that we are all here to have
fun…
Although somewhat
monotonous, in club racing, I prefer to have a field of 80%
DB9’s and 80% happy
DB9’ers (
with their screaming engines sounds), than a fully mixed field with 40% of unhappy ex-
DB9'rs… Obviously I will just take something different to annoy them with my different braking points and apexes. :wink2:
How will the add-on cars fair? The Lambo and Ferrari?
I would like to experiment with them, specially the Maserati… but as you know I don’t have much time to practice, and to go a bit in the dark to an above 2hrs event with any of these
Italian cars is a bit too much risky to my taste.
I confess that I’m a bit of a “suspect” in this matter, as I would jump into a
GTSport Porsche much faster than any of them… even in this GTP race
Anyway, all of them” force” you to go for a given race strategy, and for me that restrings my race strategy options that I like to keep as much open as I can in this type of event… :wink2:
Sorry for (another) long post.
