Congrats Warrior on another fine title win! I'll be back this week, PS3 issues or not, I'd like to have one last hurrah on GT6.
Yeah, it looked like it was going to the wire for a while. maybe he can come back again next season and spice things up.
I'm out for the final. Being around 4 seconds off the pace in practice after last round is no fun at all.
cumon @bmx_mtb_boy , 1 more mate, its hard being not as quick, but these are some of the fastest guys i have ever raced against. more experience hopefully means we are getting better right? edit: and a wheel is gona help ya too
I can testify that @holdenman05 has improved leaps and bounds since he joined the top division last season. The first season here is always a baptism of fire. It always takes a while to get up to the new level. You never know, your tire preservation advantage may play into your hands next round. Plus, are you going to let Holdenman represent NZ by himself? Being the top Kiwi gives you bragging rights.
If you bail I dunno who I'm going to race because I'm just as stuffed as you are with my current sneaky silent racing by using DS3 instead of wheel. Stock race cars are pretty brutal for a DS3 user, the road car season made the gap waaaaay smaller due to stock settings not including piles of camber/toe inducing understeer. Its not that the first season is a baptism of fire, its that the season had a car not suited to the input method. Its a tad late now with GT6 being almost over, but input method for race/road car seasons makes a huge difference and division selection should probably account for it. Hopefully GTS improves upon this (maybe by making camber not broken) and we don't have guys being competitive then massively uncompetitive season to season because the stock settings are rubbish.
By the way, big congratulations to @lets_party-1611 on his first ever Division 1 victory! Controversial circumstances, I know, but well deserved regardless.
Congratulations to let's_party-1611, but huge commiserations to Crunch. On my experience of protests put in by stewards on my behalf, not me lodging, Crunch has been extremely harshly dealt with. Divebombs and blue flag indiscretions that I experienced were deemed not worthy of any penalty or punishment even with stewards lodging the protest. Going by these standards and judgements, Crunch's jamming of his car to overtake Warrior was merely a racing incident not even worthy of protest. It was not a divebomb. Definitely on previous ROOZ standards not worthy of a protest. Or by Warriors standards of protest, as he defended a blue flag incident. Having said that, now that ROOZ will be taking all indiscretions seriously (surely not for warrior only), I will return to race under the new "clean" standards, because that is how it should always have been. I will do this with full confidence the bar has been set in concrete now, that any divebombs, blue flag incidents, continual ignorance of track boundaries, or even jamming, will result in penalty or punishment, as it should be.
Well done @lets_party-1611 , Congrats on your 1st win. As for the race, I really wish the pole was on the inside. To get to the lead Crunch was able to maximise his braking on the inside line and get that much needed track position. My favourite spot to overtake at Monaco is on the exit of the casino and into Mirabeau and every time I got close, crunch did well to defend that. So with that no longer being an option, I had to get it done under brakes at Turn 1 or the chicane, but once again credit to crunch, who had beautiful exits onto the straights and I couldn't get the overlap for a safe pass. As much pressure as I was putting on Crunch, I was having it put on me from behind by party and Bob. Despite what eventually happened it was a really really fun race. Seriously I did everything I could to get past and I'm just glad we don't have an HR department here because I was all over his arse for 28 laps, so when the gap opened with only two laps to go, I was more surprised than anything. But still credit to Crunch for driving brilliantly up to that point.
Might show up after all. Being 4 seconds off the pace isn't the only thing that would stop me showing up though since my IT studies are starting to wind up. Nearly bought a Driving Force GT but was outbid. Will have to wait until later. Really looking forward to the upcoming JGTC season where I can put my tuning skills to the test.
