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GutBomb: Jun 15, 2005; Dude?

Road America: 2:01.950

# ? Jul 24, 2013 21:16

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# ? May 28, 2024 14:33

GentlemanofLeisure: Aug 27, 2008

code:

Sedona Club Reverse C425 1979 & older

[AUGR] XPrettyPandaX   1:19.392  Fairlady Z '69
[SAEG] GutBomb303      1:19.635  Porsche 550
[AUGR] whatcubed3      1:19.702  Jaguar XK120
       desarthai       1:21.353  Lotus Eleven
[SAEG] Spamtheman ZA   1:21.543  Alfa Romeo GTA
[PA]   Basticular      1:21.826  BMW 3.0 CSL
[SAEG] rige1seven      1:23.109  Alfa Romeo GTA
[AUGR] Eperitus        1:25.431  911 '73
[AUGR] Gathering Quill 1:28.561  Jaguar E-Type

Road America R2 875 Race Cars

[AUGR] XPrettyPandaX   1:57.333  #91 Viper GTS-R
[PA]   Basticle        1:58.781  #26 Porsche GT1
[AUGR] whatcubed3      1:59.556  #40 Ford GT Mk7
[SAEG] rige1seven      2:00.746  #4 Mercedes C-Class
[SAEG] Spamtheman ZA   2:01.644  #8 Audi TT
[SAEG] GutBomb303      2:01.950  #4 C-Class
       desarthai       2:01.992  #15 MC12
[AUGR] Eperitus        2:04.038  #009 Aston DBR9
[AUGR] Gathering Quill 2:06.234  #18 GT500 NSX

e: updated

GentlemanofLeisure fucked around with this message at 00:52 on Jul 26, 2013

# ? Jul 25, 2013 08:22

Spamtheman: May 30, 2005; Effer of the ineffable

Forgot that I'd updated my Road America time with an allowed car:

# ? Jul 25, 2013 09:49

fralbjabar: Jan 26, 2007; I am a meat popscicle.

And improved on my R2 time a little bit.

# ? Jul 27, 2013 18:17

MalleusDei: Mar 21, 2007

I managed a 1:23.483 on Sedona in my '73 911 (GT: Eperitus #6,854)

Edit:

And a 2:03.471 in the #26 Porsche GT1 on Road America (#33,259) I can definitely go faster, its just a matter of keeping the lap together.

MalleusDei fucked around with this message at 00:07 on Jul 29, 2013

# ? Jul 28, 2013 01:05

Bloody Typical: Oct 27, 2005; Hey, keep the noise down Jerk, this is a residential area.

# ? Jul 28, 2013 18:32

wolrah: May 8, 2006; what?

#10,881 1:24.965 Pantera
#41,796 2:04:406 #43 McLaren

# ? Jul 28, 2013 23:31

GentlemanofLeisure: Aug 27, 2008

Welp it's Sunday night which means two new Goon Rival challenges. I'm away from my main computer so I don't have the graphics for them (will edit into this post later), but they are as follows:

On this challenge I will be scoring dirty and clean laps equally as far as leaderboard position; however, clean laps will get +5 bonus points to your points total.

Final standings for the previous two events are:

code:

Sedona Club Reverse C425 1979 & older

[AUGR] XPrettyPandaX   1:19.392  Fairlady Z '69
[SAEG] GutBomb303      1:19.635  Porsche 550
[AUGR] whatcubed3      1:19.702  Jaguar XK120
       desarthai       1:21.353  Lotus Eleven
[SAEG] Spamtheman ZA   1:21.543  Alfa Romeo GTA
[PA]   Basticular      1:21.826  BMW 3.0 CSL
[SAEG] rige1seven      1:23.109  Alfa Romeo GTA
[AUGR] Eperitus        1:23.483  '73 911
[AUGR] w0lrah          1:24.965  Pantera
[AUGR] Gathering Quill 1:28.561  Jaguar E-Type

Road America R2 875 Race Cars

[AUGR] XPrettyPandaX   1:57.333  #91 Viper GTS-R
[SAEG] TypicalGBS      1:58.519  #4 C-Class
[PA]   Basticle        1:58.781  #26 Porsche GT1
[AUGR] whatcubed3      1:59.556  #40 Ford GT Mk7
[SAEG] rige1seven      2:00.746  #4 Mercedes C-Class
       desarthai       2:01.257  #40 Ford GT Mk7
[SAEG] Spamtheman ZA   2:01.644  #8 Audi TT
[SAEG] GutBomb303      2:01.950  #4 C-Class
[AUGR] Eperitus        2:03.471  #26 Porsche GT1
[AUGR] w0lrah          2:04.406  #43 McLaren
[AUGR] Gathering Quill 2:06.234  #18 GT500 NSX

Current Standings

Finally, submissions will be open for all previous challenges Thursday, Aug 1 through Sunday, Aug 4th @ 10pm Eastern US. If you missed out on a couple challenges that will be the time to post some times!

GentlemanofLeisure fucked around with this message at 03:01 on Jul 30, 2013

# ? Jul 29, 2013 03:53

Basticle: Sep 12, 2011

aww hell yea

# ? Jul 29, 2013 04:16

L_Harrison: May 22, 2007

In other news, Forza Motorsport 4 made an appearance in Dexter tonight, racing on the Alps track.

That's the second season in a row that the game has been shown on that show :v:

# ? Jul 29, 2013 04:24

Puddin: Apr 9, 2004; Leave it to Brak

E holy poo poo what am i doing.

Puddin fucked around with this message at 09:57 on Jul 29, 2013

# ? Jul 29, 2013 09:50

fralbjabar: Jan 26, 2007; I am a meat popscicle.

First times, I have no idea if these are good or embarrassingly bad!

Probably going to work on the Nurburgring time most, I hate R1. Also going to work on not buying the Porsche DLC.

# ? Jul 30, 2013 02:42

GentlemanofLeisure: Aug 27, 2008

fralbjabar posted:

First times, I have no idea if these are good or embarrassingly bad!

Probably going to work on the Nurburgring time most, I hate R1. Also going to work on not buying the Porsche DLC.

That's not a bad time at all for Road Atlanta. I did some work to get my time. Also, I've put three of my R1 cars in the AUGR garage. An Audi R18, Mazda 787B and Acura ARX-02a.

R1 998 Road Atlanta
gt whatcubed3
1:10.831 #66 ARX-02a (#8233)

# ? Jul 30, 2013 03:39

MalleusDei: Mar 21, 2007

R1 Road Atlanta: 1:14.104 - #2 Audi R8 (GT: Eperitus #29,503)

Edit: B class 'ring: 9:40.588 (clean!) - E36 M3 (#9,312)

I drove pretty conservatively to get a clean flying lap, and I'm poo poo at the 'ring anyway. I can find at least at least a second at Road Atlanta, I think. Maybe I'll try a couple other cars just for fun, but the R8 is one of my favorite R1 cars.

MalleusDei fucked around with this message at 07:25 on Jul 30, 2013

# ? Jul 30, 2013 06:43

kaiwero: Aug 22, 2006

For the Ring is it just 1 standing start lap? or can you do a flying lap? Well I'll just put my standing lap time for the Ring now as it works nicely with the car

rige1seven [SAEG] Porsche 911 T - 09:11.666 (Clean)

EDIT:

'Ring - BMW M3 - 08:58.930 (Clean) Flying lap [#3,440]

Road Atlanta - Mazda 787B - 01:10.120 [#5,590]

kaiwero fucked around with this message at 09:04 on Jul 30, 2013

# ? Jul 30, 2013 08:04

Seymour Butts: Jun 26, 2003; I break girls in like baseball gloves

What view do you all use? I've pretty much used hood view since I bought the game over a year ago, but lately I've been going through a crisis after I realized that I'm probably faster in third person. I kind of hate the way the car handles (and sounds) in third person, so I am pretty much just having a conflict inside my head as I change the camera 10 times each race. Add that to the fact that I'm woefully mediocre and you have a recipe for disaster!

# ? Jul 30, 2013 14:59

MalleusDei: Mar 21, 2007

Seymour Butts posted:

What view do you all use? I've pretty much used hood view since I bought the game over a year ago, but lately I've been going through a crisis after I realized that I'm probably faster in third person. I kind of hate the way the car handles (and sounds) in third person, so I am pretty much just having a conflict inside my head as I change the camera 10 times each race. Add that to the fact that I'm woefully mediocre and you have a recipe for disaster!

Cockpit for *MY IMMERSION* for almost every car. There's a car or two where the cockpit view gets weird, and the road surface starts to get blown out (Sebring is particularly bad, for instance. I wish I could remember which cars this happens in.). Then I'll switch to hood.

# ? Jul 30, 2013 18:13

wolrah: May 8, 2006; what?

MalleusDei posted:

Cockpit for *MY IMMERSION* for almost every car. There's a car or two where the cockpit view gets weird, and the road surface starts to get blown out (Sebring is particularly bad, for instance. I wish I could remember which cars this happens in.). Then I'll switch to hood.

The 787B can be unusable from the cockpit on Laguna Seca, but only sometimes. I'm not sure yet why this changes.

All cockpit all the time here. Third person is entirely unusable with a wheel, it's just weird, and hood doesn't allow one to "feel" the size of the vehicle well IMO.

# ? Jul 30, 2013 18:44

GentlemanofLeisure: Aug 27, 2008

When I first got the game I exclusively used cockpit view. During one of the community bounty hunter autocross events, Fuzzie got me using hood camera and I was able to get between the cones quite a bit faster. I then tried it in circuit racing and I was faster there using hood cam as well.

I know it's not as cool as being in a virtual cockpit, and it took some getting used to judging where cars were around me, but I got used to it and I'm faster using hood view. To me, third person is weird because the car seems like its rotating on its axis a bit more than actually turning. Really there is no right way, you've just got to try the different options and find what works for you.

# ? Jul 30, 2013 20:59

Seymour Butts: Jun 26, 2003; I break girls in like baseball gloves

Road Atlanta Full

R1 998 Mazda 787B 1:12.482

# ? Jul 30, 2013 21:05

Basticle: Sep 12, 2011

#11 Panoz LMP-01 1:09.761, on the leaderboards

I find it strange that the higher the class the better I seem to do compared to you guys (Or rather, the lower the class the shittier I become).

Basticle fucked around with this message at 01:18 on Jul 31, 2013

# ? Jul 31, 2013 00:57

Prettypanda: Nov 11, 2008

Road Atlanta

and The 'Ring

# ? Jul 31, 2013 01:26

GentlemanofLeisure: Aug 27, 2008

Basticle posted:

I find it strange that the higher the class the better I seem to do compared to you guys (Or rather, the lower the class the shittier I become).

I've spent way more time driving F-A class and comparatively no time whatsoever driving R2 or higher.

Protip on Nurburgring: When you start your first lap, immediately go backwards to a little bit before the beginning of the straight. That way you can, in essence, have a flying lap on your first lap. Just make sure not to go off when you're turning around or you'll end up dirtying the lap.

E:

Zinjnok posted:

and The 'Ring

One of the drivers below you, HandheldBee9, is a really good tuner and if you guys want something nice to drive, check out his storefront.

GentlemanofLeisure fucked around with this message at 01:35 on Jul 31, 2013

# ? Jul 31, 2013 01:32

Ether Frenzy: Dec 22, 2006; Nap Ghost

GentlemanofLeisure posted:

Finally, submissions will be open for all previous challenges Thursday, Aug 1 through Sunday, Aug 4th @ 10pm Eastern US. If you missed out on a couple challenges that will be the time to post some times!

That's awesome, I have been away for work so wasn't able to play any of the more recent ones but should be able to put down some (crappy) times in the grace period.

# ? Jul 31, 2013 01:44

Basticle: Sep 12, 2011

GentlemanofLeisure posted:

I've spent way more time driving F-A class and comparatively no time whatsoever driving R2 or higher.

Protip on Nurburgring: When you start your first lap, immediately go backwards to a little bit before the beginning of the straight. That way you can, in essence, have a flying lap on your first lap. Just make sure not to go off when you're turning around or you'll end up dirtying the lap.

E:

One of the drivers below you, HandheldBee9, is a really good tuner and if you guys want something nice to drive, check out his storefront.

90% of what I drive is B-R3

# ? Jul 31, 2013 01:59

Spamtheman: May 30, 2005; Effer of the ineffable

Wow, did I battle with both of those:

Nurburgring 9.08.162 dirty

Road Atlanta 1.10.984

# ? Jul 31, 2013 20:47

Ether Frenzy: Dec 22, 2006; Nap Ghost

Basticle posted:

90% of what I drive is B-R3

For what it's worth I strongly believe it's easier to drive R/heavy downforce cars competitively (or at least in a closer range to honestly fast people) than it is to drive F-A cars competitively. The terror discrepancy a real person would feel in real cars of these two types doesn't exist in Forza.

The tiny mistakes you make in regard to corner exit speed/braking zones in slower cars cost you huge seconds, where as minor slips in things that can go 0-100 in 2.7 seconds are much less damaging to your overall time. Momentum is the #1 most important thing in slow cars, whereas understanding and correcting wheel spin is the most important thing in fast cars.

I'm not saying R cars are "easy" to drive, just that the range variation that skill gaps cause is a smaller spread than on slower cars.

# ? Jul 31, 2013 22:01

GutBomb: Jun 15, 2005; Dude?

In R1 I find throttle control and confidence in the brakes are very important. The brakes in an R1 actually work and don't send you off the track when you're marginally late, and feathering the throttle instead of going straight to the floor keeps you from spinning out when accelerating.

It sometimes helps in an R1 car to be in one gear higher than you think you should be when accelerating, to avoid wheel spin.

# ? Aug 1, 2013 01:16

fralbjabar: Jan 26, 2007; I am a meat popscicle.

Also cranking downforce up all the way helps a hell of a lot as well with R1, at least on Atlanta I didn't notice any loss in top speed on the long straight but it made the cars much more planted in the faster corners (the esses especially).

# ? Aug 1, 2013 03:32

GutBomb: Jun 15, 2005; Dude?

Here are my times for the previous events I missed:

F Class Hatchbacks at Bernese Alps Club: 1:37.093 in a Smart

A Class Italian Cars at Camino Extreme: 2:58.985 in an Alfa 33 Stradale

E Class Roadsters at Maple Valley Short: 0:48.438 in a Sprite

S Class British Cars at Infineon NASCAR: 1:18.684 in an Exige '06

R3 Class Hypercars at Mugello Full: 1:53.552 in a Mosler

Edit:

And for this fortnight's events:

R1 at Road Atlanta Full: 1:09.390 in a Merc #63 C 9

GutBomb fucked around with this message at 15:29 on Aug 5, 2013

# ? Aug 1, 2013 19:14

kaiwero: Aug 22, 2006

Catch up times for the events missed

rige1seven [SAEG]

F Class Hatchbacks - VW Rabbit 01:43.958

A Class Italian Cars - Ferrari 250 GTO 02:57.025

D Class Hybrids - Lexus CT200h 01:12.682

and current events updated 'ring time

BMW M3 - 08:57.359 clean [#3,154]

# ? Aug 3, 2013 11:25

Aardmania: Jan 1, 2007; Ruining newspapers since 1993.; Shredded Hen

I have some catching up to do with some of the previous races, but here is my current Nurgburgring time.

Nurburgring - BMW E28 M5 - 9:13.217 clean

# ? Aug 3, 2013 22:29

Pudgygiant: Apr 8, 2004; Garnet and black? More like gold and blue or whatever the fuck colors these are

gently caress all Microsoft's marketing, the only thing so far that's made me want to change my preorder from PS4 to XBONE is that the Ford Transit at S692 will hit 210 on Mulsanne.

# ? Aug 3, 2013 23:05

fralbjabar: Jan 26, 2007; I am a meat popscicle.

New time for the ring:

And a terrible time for the old A600 event:

I tried doing the F100 event too, but apparently I just don't get F class racing. Tried about a dozen cars and probably close to 100 laps or so between all of them and the best I could do was around 1:43 or so.

# ? Aug 3, 2013 23:33

Basticle: Sep 12, 2011

I'll just leave this here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCBfgFA1iYY

# ? Aug 4, 2013 02:06

DEEP STATE PLOT: Aug 13, 2008; Yes...Ha ha ha...YES!

Basticle posted:

I'll just leave this here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCBfgFA1iYY

I'll see that and raise you this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SNs_z4cZpg

Also, here's that problem we had at Nissan last week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvQtE7F9Ll8

# ? Aug 4, 2013 03:12

lordmaf: Jul 23, 2007

Some times

F200 @ Bernese Alps Club 1.36.260

D350 @ Road Atlanta Club 1.08.940 (came out really crappy on the photo)

R3 800 @ Mugello Full 1.49.135

C425 @ Sedona Club R 1.18.837

R2 875 @ Road America 1.58.065

No Photo (2430 on Leaderboard)

Whats the deadline for the most recent 2?

# ? Aug 4, 2013 17:04

Scatterfold: Nov 4, 2008

Catching up on two; one new:

Pissboy Spastic

C425 - 1.23:061 - Charger '69
R2 - 2.03:035 - #25 GT500 GT-R
B500 - 9.18:358 BMW E36 M3 [ugh]

# ? Aug 4, 2013 17:53

GentlemanofLeisure: Aug 27, 2008

lordmaf posted:

Whats the deadline for the most recent 2?

Next Sunday at 10pm eastern US. About a week + 8 hours from now.

# ? Aug 4, 2013 19:06

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# ? May 28, 2024 14:33

Pudgygiant: Apr 8, 2004; Garnet and black? More like gold and blue or whatever the fuck colors these are

[AUGR]besny
C425 Sedona Lotus Elan 1:24.145
R2 Road America #007 DBR9 2:03.518
D350 Road Atlanta Hybrids Nissan Leaf 1:12.752 (already posted this, you didn't update it)

I'm awful at this game

edit
R1 Road Atlanta #66 ARX-02a 1:10.356

Pudgygiant fucked around with this message at 19:54 on Aug 4, 2013

# ? Aug 4, 2013 19:41

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