Project Cars Stoopid Challenges

Project Cars Stoopid Challenges

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born2bslow

1,674 posts

135 months

Monday 26th June 2017
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You don't need to wind him up Mark, xjay does half the laps I do and regularly beats me. If he does as many laps I'm up the creek paddle free...I'm working on the basis of attrition here, don't encourage him please smile

mark7389

Original Poster:

523 posts

88 months

Monday 26th June 2017
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Finding it hard to put it into words have bloody awful I am at that circuit bugatti. Just cannot get round the bloody thing. And if you're wondering why I am doing it all I'm going on my hols so need to set a time.

xjay1337

15,966 posts

119 months

Tuesday 27th June 2017
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Can't get much better with the Clio - just don't have the rhythm.
The BMW is a barrel of laughs and sweat in equal measure.
There is room to improve on that one, but I'm too hot now!

rex

2,055 posts

267 months

Tuesday 27th June 2017
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Really enjoying the Lotus 49. Drifting through the long right at 160 mph is an absolute pleasure. Tricky to nail a full lap though.

born2bslow

1,674 posts

135 months

Tuesday 27th June 2017
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rex said:
Really enjoying the Lotus 49. Drifting through the long right at 160 mph is an absolute pleasure. Tricky to nail a full lap though.
Great combo on Rouen glad you like it smile

born2bslow

1,674 posts

135 months

Wednesday 28th June 2017
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xjay1337 said:
Can't get much better with the Clio - just don't have the rhythm.
The BMW is a barrel of laughs and sweat in equal measure.
There is room to improve on that one, but I'm too hot now!
The Clio is surprisingly tail happy, especially through the chicane...the BMW is a lovely car to drive the more you push the trickier it gets which is good...haven't tried the other combos yet. I'm really looking forward to the Lotus49 at Rouen (I have driven that a long time ago, might even have been before release), I think that will be one of my faves...

born2bslow

1,674 posts

135 months

Thursday 29th June 2017
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Managed to steal Round1 last night by a tenth from Tronneh (Real Time) not a chance with the handicapped times, good turn out this time around though.

Bring on Round2 it looks like I need to find a good chunk of time after my first 5 lap blast...

Get the laps in peeps, or get ready with your excuses smile

Northern_Monkey

373 posts

197 months

Thursday 29th June 2017
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Missed two weeks due to holiday (although I did do the V8 on the last one and then forget to add the time to the website before flying so only got myself to blame) - need to play catch up now and see where I can end up with a round missed...

mark7389

Original Poster:

523 posts

88 months

Thursday 29th June 2017
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OK, so weekly missive time. And we're off for championship no 4.

Gav147 won the handicapped race and Born2BSlow nicked the real-time race from Tronneh with a late Wednesday evening burst.

Combined we completed laps comparable to driving from London to just past Rome. I'm full of these fun facts .......

On to Race 2, which I think is a good combo smile

Enjoy.

Edited by mark7389 on Thursday 29th June 19:56

mark7389

Original Poster:

523 posts

88 months

Thursday 29th June 2017
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New summary screen for you, see it by pressing the home button


born2bslow

1,674 posts

135 months

Friday 30th June 2017
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Tronneh's on a mission smile ... I do like this BMW it drifts beautifully, especially through that fast left, left, sharp right then through the chicane in the middle sector, it just dances through there.

xjay1337

15,966 posts

119 months

Friday 30th June 2017
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Bloody hell Tron.

That's quite the drive.

tapemonkey

14 posts

229 months

Friday 30th June 2017
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My excuse for poor times in the Clio challenge? My wife wouldn't let me take my PC, wheel and pedals on holiday with me! So only had a couple of days to put up a time. Still, back now and see what I can do on the next challenge.

Tronneh

293 posts

216 months

Friday 30th June 2017
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Yeah i like this one, its really tricky to keep the car moving forward and not too much sideways, losing time!

mark7389

Original Poster:

523 posts

88 months

Friday 30th June 2017
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Right then boys,as of tomorrow I'm off on my holidays.

Very nice I hear you say, but I don't really give a monkey's.

Well, it may impact you all. This is running off my little PC tucked under my desk, it should take care of itself, it restarts itself in the middle of the night to clear any rogue stuff, takes a database backup and every Thursday at 00.01 it should send out a winner's tweet and recalculate the handicaps.

However, if anything dramatic happens, a big windows update did mean it needed to be manually turned back on once, or my wi-fi dies, or I get robbed etc then the whole thing may go down. If it does then we'll have to sort it out when I get back and jigger about with the race dates to allow for any missed time.

Mark

xjay1337

15,966 posts

119 months

Friday 30th June 2017
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Enjoy the hollybobs! Where you off??

mark7389

Original Poster:

523 posts

88 months

Friday 30th June 2017
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Two families bobbing about the Greek Islands in what is effectively a floating caravan in 40 degree heat. 3 teenagers without wi-fi. Could be interesting,

born2bslow

1,674 posts

135 months

Monday 3rd July 2017
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While Mark is off trying his best not to drown teenagers, I have to say I'm loving this combo, but even though I don't think I can find any more time the pure fun of drifting this thing through a series of corners is fantastic...

In other news... I ran my first VR session in iRacing last night, just a test in the MX-5 to get everything set up and working properly. While not as visually impressive as PCars, it works really well. In terms of driving/physics I'd have to say the brakes are the biggest difference, with lateral grip a close second. The car stops on a dime in iRacing which is my experience of track focussed cars in real life, in PCars every car just seems to lock up and become unstable as soon as you hit the brakes. Cornering feels more natural in iRacing and you can lean on the tyres more than PC1. I need to compare it to PC2 now though I suppose. I certainly felt there was more lateral grip there when I ran the games back to back recently.

Anyhoo, happy new week gents. Get some times logged we need to keep Tronneh honest up front...

Tronneh

293 posts

216 months

Monday 3rd July 2017
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Please don't tell me your wasting your money on iRacing? more like iMoneyPit!

I'm doing a lot of "proper" racing with these guys at the moment: https://www.facebook.com/groups/EXILEDVIRTUALMOTOR... and https://www.facebook.com/groups/1360320844007983/
Really well run and racing F3, GT3, WTCC and more.

Very different to hotlapping and some very very fast guys there.

born2bslow

1,674 posts

135 months

Tuesday 4th July 2017
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I just wanted to try it out, I previously did a 1 month for £6.99 deal without really using it much, but in the Steam sale I just picked up 12 months for under £23. My problem with other leagues is I have to be available at set times and dates, which just doesn't work for me. With iRacing I can just pick up and race whenever I want. Once I've got past the basic licence then the racing is clean and fair because everyone is obsessed with their safety rating.

I wouldn't pay full price and I'm not buying any more content, but I did want to have a crack to see what all the fuss is about. I'm hoping the PC2 matching system gives me the same flexibility for racing vs time trialling.