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Here are the Tiers for Event 20. Good Luck everyone!
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Apparently Okie does, indeed, have the fastest set of wheels in town. Didn’t get a chance to try, but I don’t think it would have made much difference. 2:03.4’s a pretty high bar for such ancient iron.
So, on to this week. 250 GTO, either Shelby, or the Aston Martin. Maybe the 300S. Already have two liveries for the Cobra (replicas of both cars that ran in the '63 Le Mans), so that’s probably out. Will fiddle with the others and see which strikes my fancy. May end up in the Cobra anyways, because it’s probably the single coolest car ever produced and I have a hard time not driving it when it’s an option. Would prefer a slabside 289 over the 427 S/C, but I’ll take what I can get.
Oh, yeah. And the Nurburgring GP is a great track. Should go great at A700, too. Gonna be a fun week.
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Night. Gotta run night. Can’t come within a country mile of that stupid Cayman time I put up on the day track last season.
Waffling between the Aston Martin and the Daytona. The 250 GTO does not impress in stock form (though it’s very pretty), and the 300S was unengaging (though also very pretty). Aston’s a bit of a squirrely beast, the Daytona’s a bit more calm and collected. Best I’ve been able to scrape out in either is around 2:13 (on the daytime track…), but I’m sure with a bit of tinkering I can get it down a bit.
Full disclosure: I may very well end up in a stock tire compound Aston with that absolutely bazonkers 4.5L V8 in it. Tried it out and it was like driving a meth-addled squirrel with model rockets strapped to its feet. Not competitive, but oh-so-fun.
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‘Driving like a banshee plowing through the night… as the darkness rises in me ! ‘ Set to tune of the “Imperial March”. 
4 PBs today… finished strong with 2:14:294 
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Before I even get started, everyone needs to do themselves a favor:
Go into your HUD options, turn all the video gamey screen clutter off (racing line, track limits, lap timer, ghosts; the works), switch over to cockpit or driver view (even if you usually use chase cam), and turn a few laps. T10 did a great job replicating how driving at night looks, and pushing hard in actual-factual pitch black conditions is both terrifying and exhilarating. Highly recommended.
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OK, now onto the nuts ‘n’ bolts section of my post:
Took a while, but I finally got a clean lap in the Daytona. Think I’m going to roll with that, as I’m just not feeling a hectic ride this week. Build’s pretty basic; all the tuneybits, squareish race rubber, and a nice balance of extra power and lightweight bits to bring it up to the PI ceiling. For aesthetics (and historical accuracy) I’d have preferred to keep the car at stock power, but that required adding everything else (including the kitchen sink) and I’m not sold on the full roll cage with this car. Seems to hurt its personality more than it helps its performance. Initial setup was pretty loose, so once I got a replay I could study I made a few adjustments to settle the car down. ARB split is pretty wide (30F/10R) and the differential is a lot stronger than I usually set it (80A/40D). Still some work to be done on the setup, and I for sure need some seat time to improve my own lines.
Setup is uploaded as HLC20 NGP v1.0. Should anyone care to try it, two things to keep in mind: The brakes are phenomenal (even if they’re not optimized quite yet) and the loud pedal hates you and wants you to die. Bomb in on entry, and be vewwy, vewwy careful on exit.
Current best: 2:12.708
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After much hard and fast running… I seem to have found my ‘WALL’… 2:12s
Currently just north languishing around 2:13:1xx… not giving up hardly…
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Spent most of the morning tinkering with various settings (pretty much everything except tire pressure, camber, and gearing) trying to get the car to settle better under heavy throttle. None of my go-to methods were helping much, so I turned to toe. I tend to shy away from anything other than zero toe, but after running a few laps testing the effects of both front and rear I decided the car needed it. Ended up at +0.2 front (helps calm down the razor-sharp turn-in) and -1.0 rear (keeps the car pointed mostly forwards at WOT). There’s still a bit of overzealousness in the car’s handling now, but it’s a lot less binary than it was. Got a good few laps in and was consistently able to match my previous best time, so it seems to have helped. Setup is uploaded as HLC20 NGP v1.3.
Current best: 2:11.409
There’s a 2:10 in me, but I don’t expect to get the time to hit it.
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2:07.1 in Fifty’s 33 Stradale.
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Broke thru wall today with 2:12:485. This just might be my final time because RL insures that I will get no Forza time on Wednesday so going to have to pull out the stops tomorrow.
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After ‘pulling out all the stops’… and realizing my mojo was working well today… on lap 25 I converted…
Official time… Nurburgring GP (nite)… HLR BURNINASPHALT… Alpha Romeo 33S… 2:12:073.
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02:06.672 33Stradale.
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Good to see more than one car at the top of our leaderboard this week. The Shelby Cobra, and Alfa 33 were very evenly matched. The thinly populated ‘night’ variant made it much easier to rank higher, and at the end we filled 6 of the top 10, and half of the top 20 positions.
Rich took the win once again, this time driving a Shelby, with PRKid and Bubba filling the podium driving Alfas. Count Russcular edged out StreetTalon4g63 to win tier 2, whilst UnearthlyDNA ran away with tier 3 by some margin.
Welcome back j0hn lee, and congratulations to all our winners.
Here is a snapshot of the final standings:
Our winners:
Tier 1: THR Rich wins a paint for his 1965 Shelby Cobra 427 S/C.
Tier 2: Count Russcular wins a paint for his 1968 Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale.
Tier 3: UnearthlyDNA wins a paint for his 1968 Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale.
Tuners Prize: fifty inch wins a paint for his 1965 Shelby Cobra 427 S/C that Rich ran to #3 on the overall leaderboard.
To claim your paints, message HLR Moss to arrange it’s sharing whilst you are waiting in the car to download. We don’t want anyone else to grab them. They are each personalised for the winner and hopefully will provide you with a memory of the event.
For our next challenge we are off to Miami to drive some sport GT cars. Good luck!
FM7, Series 3, Event 21
S Class (S800 Max)
Homestead Road Day
Restricted to any car in the Sport GT Division
Event will close at 9:00pm (UK time) on Wednesday, 18th March.
Prize Liveries for Tier winners and for the Tuner whose shared setup is placed highest when driven by another driver.
Everyone welcome.
Simply post your times in this thread. But:
- Set your times in Rivals mode,
- Let us know if you play with a wheel,
- Let us know if you drive Hardcore.
The Leaderboard can be found here: HLC Leaderboard
The Sport GT Cars
2019 Porsche 911 GT3 RS
2019 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 Pace Car
2017 Acura NSX
2017 Acura NSX FE
2017 Aston Martin DB11
2017 Mercedes-AMG GT R
2017 Nissan GT-R
2016 Dodge Viper ACR
2016 Porsche 911 GT3 RS
2015 BMW i8
2015 Chevrolet Corvette Z06
2015 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 FE
2015 Ferrari 488 GTB
2015 McLaren 650S Coupe
2015 McLaren 570S Coupe
2015 Mercedes-AMG GT S
2014 Lamborghini Huracan LP 610-4
2014 Porsche 911 Turbo S
2013 Ferrari 458 Speciale
2013 SRT Viper GTS (Dodge Viper)
2012 Aston Martin V12 Zagato
2012 Aston Martin Vanquish
2012 Nissan GT-R Black Edition
2012 Nissan GT-R Black Edition FE
2012 Porsche 911 GT3 RS 4.0
2011 Lamborghini Gallardo LP 570-4 Superleggera
2011 McLaren 12C
2011 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG
2010 Noble M600
2009 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1
2009 Ferrari 458 Italia
2009 Mercedes-Benz SL 65 AMG Black Series
2008 Dodge Viper SRT10 ACR
2008 Dodge Viper SRT10 ACR FE
2008 Aston Martin DBS
2007 Ferrari 430 Scuderia
There have been quite a few new cars since the last time we ran this division, homologated at VIR. Almost too much choice at 36 cars, but we expect a fair number of them to be competitive.
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Daylight saving time has me all messed up. I was checking in like a hour ago, and thinking I was losing my mind. Last week I thought Tuesday was Wednesday, so it was a distinct possibility.
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Welcome to the “Old Man’s Club”…
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I’ve tried really, really hard to find fault with the '16 Viper (I don’t like Dodge, I don’t like 'MURICA!, I don’t like GT cars, and I don’t like machismo), but just can’t. It’s a great, well-balanced car that does exactly what it’s built to do with no muss and no fuss. Have a roughed-in setup put together for it that should be fairly competitive. I also intend to give the '19 GT3 a shakedown, as it makes me feel a lot less dirty and hypocritical to drive. Not sure I’ll be able to find either the time or the gumption, though; have a lot of stuff to do this weekend and Homestead is the racing equivalent of watered-down apathy. May as well be a NASCAR track for how enjoyable it is.
Oh, wait…
Heh. I didn’t even notice until I saw my car’s clock was an hour off the next morning on the way to work. The change usually trips me up, but apparently being in a constant state of mild sleep deprivation mitigates it somewhat.
Yep. Pretty much.
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So many great cars here and any one of them can be a contender. But I’m partial to the Vanquish… 
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Might be a week to have Best of British, I think there’s 8 between AM, McLaren and Noble, but then I’m a big fan of the Ferrari 430
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Straight from pitch black to a sun drenched track… what do we have in common these 2 weeks! LIMITED VISIBILITY!! 
1:29:673. AM Vanquish… stay tuned…
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