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[Otavio Silveira]

Done, Dark!!!!!
Last night got a 3:30.60, Raoni is on my mirrors now   

It is right I wasn't fast when I tried Gothnite, but didn't expect being possible go under 10 minutes.
Great times, mate

[Dark]

Awesome, well done mate   Hang on! Thats faster than my current PB there   Great time Otavio  

Gothica in a 67 car is mind bogglingly difficult, short shift city!! Its fine in a 65 car though

Edited by Dark, Feb 09 2009 - 01:30 PM.

[burt]

Hey Dark,

good to see the legend that is 'Darks rank attack' firing on all cylinders in it's new home.
just an update on my 66 monster effort...only 16 to go, it's taking a long time but I'm working on setups for each car as I go along (mainly humanized steve cloyds)...so far so good.
Is it just me or are the 66 benchmark times a bit uneven? I'm struggling with monza and zandvoort but spa for instance was easy even in the mclaren.
anyway I better crack on, I'm lugging the lotus43 round the ring next.

Let's see some more of those staggering times you've been knocking out recently.

burt


GPL... the most fun a gentleman can have with his trousers on.

[S.Beuchert]

burt, on Feb 9 2009, 09:51 PM, said:

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Is it just me or are the 66 benchmark times a bit uneven? I'm struggling with monza and zandvoort but spa for instance was easy even in the mclaren.

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NO it's not you


For the 66 benchmark are mostly used the real pole times from 1966.

some changing are for Brands 67, Nordschleife and Monza are made , dunno the reason






Spa for example was wet and overcast in real life, so the benchmark is a "easy" one

[burt]

aha!

Didn't know that, thanks Swen.   Damn..so I'm not fast at Spa, oh well I should be used to that by now.


Happy lapping
Burt




GPL...The most fun a gentleman can have with his trousers on.

[Otavio Silveira]

I must say I needed to do that time, problem I am very close to the limit, almost impossible to go faster, even with splits for around 3:29.8
I had to use all the time the dust as part of track.

Tonight did some laps at the Ring, just for fun and set 8:17.33 with theLotus, far from my best time, but it was pretty fun.

[Dark]

Just passed another GPL Rank milestone today -65 and -320  

Watkins Glen Int. 1967
  Brabham Training  1:04.518 (-0.525)  
  Cooper Training  1:05.050 (-0.296)  
  Eagle Training  1:04.043 (-0.521)  
  Ferrari Training  1:04.372 (-0.364)  
  Lotus Training  1:03.758 (-0.471)

GPLRank   Normal  -65.366   (-0.471)
GPLRank  Monster  -320.015  (-2.079)

EDIT: First post in this thread now includes Watkins Glen setups in the "Darks Quest for -70 and -350 Setups.zip"

Edited by Dark, Feb 10 2009 - 09:36 AM.

[Larko29]

  Great times Dark, thanks for including the latest versions of your setups.

[Otavio Silveira]

nice times, Dark
great for your new milestones achieved, keep it up

I enjoyed the day to get a few more laps at a few tracks...

New time: Clermont-Ferrand 1965, Honda time 3:34.478 session T
New time: Gothica 1967, Eagle time 12:52.789 session T
New time: Legion , Honda time 6:56.153 session T

[Rudy Dingemans]

Great times there Stewart, for someone who doesn't 'get' the Glen you sure seem to have it down pat  

Regards, Rudy
(GPLRank: -40)

[Dark]

Thanks Guys!

Rudy Dingemans, on Feb 11 2009, 07:06 AM, said:

Great times there Stewart, for someone who doesn't 'get' the Glen you sure seem to have it down pat  

Regards, Rudy
(GPLRank: -40)

Ok i'll admit i was starting to get the hang of the Glen near the end of that hotlapping run

[Dark]

.... and its on to Silverstone, a great track and one i love to lap, but its oh so hard to gain time at the place!

Silverstone Circuit 1967
  BRM Training 1:27.778 (-0.332)  
  Cooper Training 1:27.484 (-0.410)  
  Honda Training 1:27.335 (-0.565)

GPLRank Monster -321.088 (-1.073)

Hey Burt, i see your down to 11 to go now and have got all the cars lapped at The Ring, your on the home stretch now chap  

Theres not been many times submitted for Gothica yet, people must be struggling to complete a lap

[Otavio Silveira]

Dark, on Feb 11 2009, 05:18 PM, said:

Theres not been many times submitted for Gothica yet, people must be struggling to complete a lap

probably... my time was mostly a drive through, I wanted to set only one lap and get a time
Gothica does not seem to be a very popular track too, IMHO

[Otavio Silveira]

I drove a few more tracks this night:

New time: Birmingham Superprix Circuit 1989, Eagle time 1:37.571 session T
New time: El Pinar , Eagle time 1:12.977 session T
New time: Shutoko C1 , Eagle time 3:48.176 session T
New time: Rio , Eagle time 2:10.191 session T

Birmingham is a cool track. Nice flow and was really worthy to try some laps there. It is going to my favourite ones.
El Pinar is a nice track too, but it is not my style. In fact I don't like that much Vallelunga too, by the twisty section layout. Anyway, another good work from Sergio Loro.
Shutoko wasn't a track I could call fun. It was some time ago, when I was still learning the GPL. Today it becames great, looks like Spa with some walls around and a night Need For Speed scenary. The big surprise of night. What sucked, now rocks.
Rio, although a brazilian track, is maybe the weirdest track I already driven in GPL, don't know why. Whoa, it looks a scrambled Rio de Janeiro!!!   and also, the chicanes are strange, specially at the end of beach.

[S.Beuchert]

I remember Rio as a clipping monster, but didin't looked at it for ages.





Atm I try to get under 3:20 at Spa .....

Should stop to plant the car into some hedges or walls , splits says a 3:19 should be possible ....




13.02.2009
Update time: Spa Francorchamps 1967, Lotus time 3:20.461 session T improvement -1.412
New time: Gothica 1967, Ferrari time 23:38.136 session T

GPLRank score = 3.654 (no change)
Monster of GPLRank score = 250.609 (change of -1.412)
Not enough laptimes for a TotalRank




don't look at the Gothica time, that was the round for the screenshots in the release thread

Edited by S.Beuchert, Feb 13 2009 - 03:42 PM.