GT5 Championship - season 9 - "As you were gents"

[Darkdice]

Same spec as Season 8 apart from new start time of 8.30pm

Teams below:

-	Team 1	-		-	Team 2	-
-	Norbs	-		-	GW	-
-	Flip	-		-	Dice	-
-	Ian	-		-	Rex	-
-	Billy	-		-	Old G	-
-	Evo	-		-	Drc	-

Team 2 will be BACK in BLACK for next season - I choose gold wheels team!!

1st race will be Sunday 3rd March.

As for coming Sunday - practice for the 1st week if there is a combo up before then or something else.

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Idea for this Sunday - 3 stage rally, Tarmac snow and gravel circa 8 laps on each

Quali then 2 reverse grids

Fastest combined times over the 3 wins

In something like 240z rally car

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Carmo sounds a bargin.

I've used the wheel briefly at a mates, very nice and the pedals are ace
Not used the WSP but old g has one with his g27

If u don't have a wheel bite his hand off but make sure it all works, fanatec have had some reliability issues and their CS wasn't great. Things are looking better at the moment but I'm sure they are concentrating on those who pay for the service.

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Drc I've used your tickets but no luck so far, well until this morning.

5 NASCAR in a row followed by 2 falcons

So happy! Thanks mate

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Every one happy with the Nissan 240z rally car?

Tracks will be confirmed/generated on the night

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I don't have a spare sorry

Do we need to change - something from recommended list - there's that little suzuki

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Combo for Sunday team 1????

As for tomorrow - Ive done a 29.1

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Steve UK said:

Hi ,

I looked at this thread earlier in the week so for the past 2 nights I have tried the DeepForest/Megane/Medium/Hard set up and I have got down to 1:30.7 in the time trial mode with a G27.

I had some fun trying but a bit off the pace..

I could be up for some races but I have no cars as I have not played the game properly.

Steve

Steve that was for the inter champ round, I would say though that online physics are slightly different to offline.

More than happy for you to join us when you can. Don't worry a outs cars we can send you them as long as they aren't over a million in value. Add me on psn same as ph tag and we'll go from there

Cheers

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Bill I can only get 133mph at the top (130 at the bottom) is this right?

Standard weight?

If so I have 147bhp and 720kg

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Good to hear ferry - who did you opt for out of interest?

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Chaps bad news (for me). I've had an off on the bike today and slid into an oncoming car.

I've snapped my thigh bone just above knee. Having an op either later to tonight or tomorrow but looks like Ill be in hospital for a week maybe two and then months of physio

Everything else is just bumps and bruises - gutted especially as I wasn't on it just on way home from sisters and hit gravel and lost the rear.

You guys carry on. Keep score etc ill email whoever the spreadsheet when I'm home.

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The gsxr. Totally fubar'd. Consider I was sliding into the dark space between wheels yeah very lucky. Keep you all posted but I've had so many drugs am quite high right now. This afternoon they gave me morphine and ketermine was tripping really badly and scared the shot out of at one point.

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Here the X-ray of the break

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Thanks chaps. Looks like ill be in hospital for 2 weeks or so but see how the physio goes

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Combo looks a good one. Who works ballast -norbs? God help you

Update from me took 1st proper steps today with aid of Zimmer frame. Hard going and very sore but managed to repeat it this afternoon - knackered now. But it's a start of a long process.

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60!miles per race

Ballast I used the following depending on power to weight

1st 11 - 14.5%
2nd 8 - 10.5%
3rd 6 - 9%
4th 4 - 6%

Something like that from memory

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Thanks Rex. Yeah very lucky, if I hit the car head on it would have been curtains. Hope so mate depends on how my recover goes.

Best news though champs - I'm leaving hospital today. Can't wait to get home.

I will say this. Given how close this was and seeing my daughters face over past few days, that's it for me and bikes. I've def used my 9 lives and its time to stop

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Cheeky bh flip!

Mrs is happy if I want to carry on riding but as I said daughters face plus weighing it all up I have used up all lives.

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Thanks all.
Doubt ill make Sunday even as a ref - still in loads on pain.

Do you want to see the full extent the damage to me and bike. Mrs took some pics at the scene and of me now I'm home.

Ill warn you it's not pretty though

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The bike


The fixed leg


Good leg



Some of the others won't upload from phone but my chest, right shoulder and arm all look like the good leg all the way to the toes. The plaster on fixed leg hides ten staples where they screwed the rod at the bottom. the top of the leg has around 30 staples too! My sis has my boots, I've not seen them but there's a 6 inch slash in the right - how I've not broken more stuff is beyond me!

Very lucky I guess.

Edited by Darkdice on Friday 8th March 23:06