Monday, 15 April 2013

Season starts here!

Hi Folks,
Don't forget the season starts this week. Whilst it's a pointless race it is the first organised race night of the season.

Track
Grand Valley Speedway.
You know this track, you know it so well. Laptimes in a TC500 car are around the 2 minute mark, so expect around 10 seconds more in a HRC460 and hopefully around 10 seconds less in an Exotique (587pp) car.
There's nothing too complex about this track, or this race, so get on and practice a bit and we'll be fine.

Cars
With Clubman as well we'll have three classes of cars.
Clubman works by my "randomly" selecting cars from the online garage and all racing that car. Most of the time it's worked, but we've had some ringers for sure.
So this season, expect more often than not the SLS Merc, Aston Martin and 206/Mini as set cars - these seemed to work well. No guarantee though!

The other cars you'll need are the HRC460 and Exotique class cars. I'll not go on about the two specs, it's in the charter linked on the right and in posts below. One point, there are some reasonable HRC460 candidates in the online dealer garage thing - the one that updates regularly. This beauty for example:


It might not look much, but it's the fastest HRC460 car I've got at the moment.

Also, time to fire up a supercar and tune it to 587pp for the Exotique racing. You'd be right in thinking that we've done this race before...



Mind you we've had a few seasons now so not surprising.

Other news
Last Thursday there was only four of us racing, but meh, we had fun. Luke had to head off but that didn't stop the three of us remaining having some top racing, below is a test race at our GT590-4 (note the -4) dedicated track. It's great, but really only suitable for these cars as it's too open for TC500 and too tight for the 650Open cars, crazy. Anyway, enjoy...


That's it folks, hope to see you all on Thursday.

Race on!

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