PGR4 Time Trial Championship

[big dub]

1:32.19

Bed time now, will try to better it in the morning

[big dub]

Sorry, one last one. Changed car. RUF RT12 - 1:29.79

[scooby wrx sti]

just done 1:21.84

first jump second corner combo is a complete pain in the

Edited by scooby wrx sti on Monday 19th November 01:49

[baz7175]

Sounds like we've a week of fun ahead of us

I'm off to Belgium with work (hopefully only a 1 day job) so fingers crossed I get my teeth into it sooner rather than later

[big dub]

scooby wrx sti said:

just done 1:21.84 must try harder!

first jump second corner combo is a complete pain in the

Edited by scooby wrx sti on Monday 19th November 01:49

what car were you using?

Edited by big dub on Monday 19th November 09:50

[mat1227]

big dub said:

49.44

2 hours 32 min too late though

fine effort though one to watch in the next round I reckon

edited to add - that definitely rampart run? I've just seen the map in the bottom left, specifically the first corner after the finish...

Edited by mat1227 on Monday 19th November 10:03

[matc]

mat1227 said:

big dub said:

49.44

2 hours 32 min too late though

fine effort though one to watch in the next round I reckon

I don't recognise that corner, are you sure it's the same track??

[big dub]

It was Le Haute-Ville, didn't realise you could change tracks at first

Only done a 59 sec on the Rampart Run.

Edited by big dub on Monday 19th November 10:28

[baz7175]

big dub said:

It was Le Haute-Ville, didn't realise you could change tracks at first

Only done a 59 sec on the Rampart Run.

Phew, you had us all thinking there was a shark coming in after round 1 there

[big dub]

Is a steering wheel a good thing to get for these games or do most people prefer the joypad?

[mat1227]

Wheel's better for Forza I reckon. PGR might punish it a bit too much

Anyway I've broken my ankle so selling my MS one, shout if anyone's interested. PH special deal for you boss

Down to 1:22.73 now

Anyone got any consistent techniques for that bitch of a second corner? You can take it flat in the MC12 but the RUF is all over the place. My clumsy technique has now evolved into leaving in on the limiter in 4th in the RUF prior to the jump, this seems to stabilise the car at just below the optimium speed for the next corner. Break on landing and you're in the barriers. Rather than being something that gives the best time, it's more of a way of consistently giving myself a fair crack at the rest of the lap

The rest of the course is quite straightforward. Devilish choice Nessie

Mat

Edited by mat1227 on Monday 19th November 11:52 cos he can't get his head round the difference between a quote and an edit

Edited by mat1227 on Monday 19th November 12:08

[Tyrant]

Whooo! Hopefully I'll get a chance to put in a good time this week too.

baz7175 said:

I don't have everyone on my list yet, but what I do have ended up like this....

Rank	Gamertag	Vehicle	Time(mm:ss)
3	nessiemac	R500	00:50.12
6	JayCraufurd	R500	00:50.49
7	drunkastradude	R500	00:50.67
8	BallisticGT3	Exige GT3	00:50.78
13	Sorrento205	Q1	00:51.05
16	Andeh82	Q1	00:51.42
18	scooby wrx sti	Q1	00:51.50
22	BugeyeAndy	R500	00:51.87
24	MudwiG	R500	00:51.90
26	sackbagprodfest	R500	00:52.00
27	Slinky587	Q1	00:52.25
32	Polarbert	R500	00:52.76

There are some invites out there from me to most of the other names, anyone I missed drop me one and I'll add you

Edited by baz7175 on Sunday 18th November 22:12

[big dub]

The MC12 seems to be the most stable over the jump before the second corner in St Petersberg. Struggling to better 1:27 though

Have you lot fitted nitrous and slicks to your cars!?

[baz7175]

We may be better creating a seperate leaderboard thread that can be stickied, and that we don't reply to, otherwise this thread could get very messy very quickly

[Polarbert]

Just done exactly the same time as Mat1227, a 1.22:73, but I scrubbed the barrier at the end of the 1st corner. Interesting to note that I came 30th on the whole leaderboard.

[scooby wrx sti]

in reply to big dub's question, i used the jag xj220

[mat1227]

Polarbert said:

Just done exactly the same time as Mat1227, a 1.22:73, but I scrubbed the barrier at the end of the 1st corner. Interesting to note that I came 30th on the whole leaderboard.

Yep my quickest lap had an absolute shambles of a first hairpin in it, so there's got to be more to come. In the RUF, I reckon slow in fast out first corner, don't screw up the jump/second corner combo, hit every apex then get a good slingshot out of the last 90 deg right and you've got a 1:21 for sure. It's just stringing all the elements together that's tricky.

Might try the Jag..

And nobody get overly complacent after that last right angle right-hander, a couple of times I've been congratulating myself on a fine lap then had a catastrophe on the final jump. The laps not over til it's over

[baz7175]

Just put in 5 laps there now, the best of which is a 1:28...definitely another tough track to string all the corners together in...I can see many hours of frustrated barrier scraping ahead

[caduceus]

I hear ya. I've put in about 9 or 10 laps since I've been in, and have only managed a 127.45. Way off.

How on earth did scooby do a good time in the XJ220?
It handles like a space hopper.

[baz7175]

I'm now down into the 1:23's after another 20mins or so on it, but even at that I can't see where there's much more time to be made up other than getting perfect exit's on the last corners before the straights etc and using that to shave some seconds off...