I don't want a hard limit on the cars/tracks either. We probably are doing the best the way it is now.


slightly off topic.
What cars have people been successful with for the GT challenge event at the end of the Professional Series?

So you vote no limit at all on what car/track can be assigned? What if it's a car that only the rule maker has access to? That's not fair.

Is that the one with the P1 cars?

I vote no limit as well.

If you want to be a retard and pick a car no one has so you "win", you're an asshole. The whole point of this is to have fun, right? If you pick something everyone doesn't have, you should change your pick, but I don't want to force the challenger to pick from the base cars only.

And to beat the GT Championship, I purchased the 4 black painted race cars available on day 664. Ended up using the R92CP. I tried with like 10 other cars before that... I had cars that were fast enough to keep up, but simply didn't handle well enough to compete. That stupid series dropped my win ratio under 90%! :mad:

I vote for whatever everybody else wants. Which is good if everyone agrees! :D

I think I used the R8 w/stage 1 turbo. I only used stage 1 to keep my car from becoming too fast so there could still be competition.

Alright, so regarding whether we should make a rule to limit what cars can be selected, we have:

No Rule
R4ND0M_AX3
Sperry

48 hour warning
Cody

Only base cars
Cody
Bemani?
Jonnny

has no spine
Jonny

blows goats
Jonny

Corrections/additions?

Put me down in the "why is this such a big deal anyway, let's just deal with issues as they come up" column.

I'm going to put you down in the, "I always have to make things difficult by pretending to be a non-conformist" section. :P

No, I don't really care much, that's fine if I'm the only one that thinks we need a rule.

Isn't that we are doing right now? I'd say this is an issue and is being dealt with. I think we should just stick with racing cars everybody has. Oh and your mom has no spine! Ouch.

I know you aint talkin to me that way boy.

She's damn flexible!

Your mom shit when she had you and picked up the wrong piece of excrement and named it Jonny.

Cute. So then we are just using the base 200 w/o memory card? Simplify things much that does.

I'm willing to compromise and do the 48 hour rule.

OK, Lets go with cars and tracks that at least 85% of the participants have access too.

You figure out how we know what that is though. :)

If the challenge was for a car I didn't have then that gives me a "week off" to get some work done on the GT side.

Yah, I'm ok with not being able to participate, so I can progress in GT mode. My real intention of keeping it so everyone can play is so sombody is more likely to dethroan Sperry. :P

I don't think that's possible.

One of you fuckers will eventually beat me. Probably you Alan... I doubt you've ever run a lap and thought "that's it, I can't possibly go faster", right? All you need to do is drive more laps and your times will come down.

The only reason I keep winning is because I don't quit driving until I've got the lowest time, it usually takes me in the 100's of laps. The last two challenges it took me until about 11pm to get it too... one of these days you'll set the bar high enough that I'll run out of time.

Hell, MattR beat me in his automatic wagon once at autocross... anything can happen! :lol:

Scott where did your life go? Haha no no I keed. :lol:

I work, eat, sleep, and play GT4 these days. I've got no social life.

...I'm not joking, I'm pathetic. But when you get home from work at 10pm 6 or 7 days a week, there isn't much time to do anything social. My social life is posting on this board and going to SECCS or SCCA meetings. :(

Yah, choosing a life that revolves around technology and modding your car never seems to impress the chicks either. :|

Yeah, those F1 drivers never get any chicks. :roll:

You're comparing yourself to an F1 Driver. :|

No, you said that people involved in technology and modded cars don't get chicks. F1 drivers are the epitome of people involved in high technology and modded cars.

My point was that my social life isn't lacking due to the computers and cars. It's more due to a lack of time IMO.

Less talky-talky... more drivey-drivey.

You running the track backwards? Your screen shot is looking backward.

It's not an in-car screen shot. Note the menu at the bottom... that's just the view as the camera flys around the track.

BTW: Here's my in-car for challenge 4... you'll note all the room for improvement. Feel free to steal my no-lift line throught the esses. ;)

SECCS TT4_1-01-377

Also, I finally uploaded my lap from TT3:

SECCS_TT3_1-04-672

Scott you need to find at least another .13s.

Nice work Scott.

Ok I would like to say you all suck, after watching this thread for the last month, I had to go buy that damn game, but not only that, I had to go and get a damn steering wheel, but its not only that, my wife said I should go buy a damn gaming chair too. I wont be involved in the challenges, by all rights after that first race, I should turn in my license!

Bahahahahaha *points and laughs*

I have to pass on this one I don't have a car. Until next time.

I guess I'm back in... did not read the 1st update post. I slow any way usually about 1.5 sec off.

Crap. I just found this thread. I'm gonna have to play. I hope I don't embarass myself too badly.

Gary
Sheehan Motor Racing
www.teamSMR.com

:lol: Aren't you notorious for whooping on people in GT4 over on NASIOC? I remember seeing pictures of your living room cockpit.

/me clears his schedule for this evening to get into the 1'00's.

Oh, regarding cars and game completion. I'm not very far myself as I spent a lot of time getting gold for all of the licenses. I don't know if this is possible, but if you choose a car that needs to be won, can you tell us how to win the car and we can go finish that event?

Man, this is going to take time away from building my real racecars...

Gary
Sheehan Motor Racing
www.teamSMR.com

No, I just have a comfortable seat. From looking at your lap at Midpark, this is going to be tough!

And regarding that seat, it's a stock Miata seat that came out of my SpecMiata with a bunch of square steel tubing welded together. Nothing exotic and took about a day to design and build. It's nice that the seat slides forward/backward and reclines so anyone can fit.

Gary
Sheehan Motor Racing
www.teamSMR.com

Pictures?

Welcome Gary!

I just did a Google search for the entire car name, and the race that needs to be beat to attain that car was in the first result.

That's what I plan to do w/ the seats out of my WRX once I get a cage in it. I figure one for the PC and one for the PS2/XBox. :lol: (Plus, I need to teach myself to weld... this seems like as good a project as any!)

Here's a trophy car list... one of many on the 'net.

http://www.granturismo-racing.com/?q...prize-car-list

Okay here's my time for this challenge. 1'01.237

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y83...2/DSC01631.jpg

I'm not going to do more laps since I just got this in the mail, and I got to waste 2 hours watching Petter Solberg crash into a snow bank or however he's going to retire this time in Sweden ;P

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y83...2/DSC01635.jpg

Holy crap Alan... I'm at work right now, so I can't be sure... but I think that is *exactly* the same time as my current fastest lap! :eek:

Well, I'm in the ballpark, but you guys have me beat right now.

Gary
Sheehan Motor Racing
www.teamSMR.com

Wait. Is this in arcade mode or GT mode? I noticed that Scott's car in the video had very different gear ratio's than what I was driving. You can't change gear ratios in Arcade mode, can you?

Gary
Sheehan Motor Racing
www.teamSMR.com

Shit. Just figured it out. I had maxed out top speed and didn't realize it was increasing my final drive ratio. So my gears are way too tall. I thought something was wierd when I was barely getting into 5th gear on the main straight!

I've got one more day...

Gary
Sheehan Motor Racing
www.teamSMR.com

Crap, Gary you ran a 1'01.2 with the gears at max tall? I *am* going to have to run a 1 minute flat lap to win this! :eek: :lol:

:lol:

Alright Alan... I was just a little dyslexic.... it's a 1'01.231 that I had. :lol: