Let's Chase Blooze - Redux

[TheJohnNewton]

  I don't understand Warped?  I'm sure when I go online the only car in F is a Golf.   

I've been working here and there on tuning a Lotus Elan in F but I'm woefully far behind you and Detrick.  I think it's the driver.

[Blooze]

It is the End of the Month with August in the offing... EOM means lots of book keeping stuff to do.  One of the new chores is Updating and resetting the Chasers book.

The Big Mover of the month was Warped.  He knocked better than 400,000 seconds off the Circuits and P2P - there were 5 or 6 guys that were in the 100k area, and yours truely brought up the bottom with just under 300 seconds.  But lemme tell you, them 300 seconds did not come easy.

I've moved out of C for the time being and gotten myself all a tangle in R3 - hotlapping and projects and all sorts of stuff.  Hopefully some of you guys will move up to R3 as well and we can have us a few contests...

I've attached a copy of the fresh for August Chasers.xls for those who are interested.

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[EXOR Warpedo]

I have been doing a bit of R3, no problem doing a bit of concentrating there plus improving my E Class times as in trying to keep up with Detrick. Thinking of R3, I love that new Jag.

[Spiny Anteater]

Still lurking in F Class I'm afraid, but on the bright side I'm almost done there. Just Suzuka and Tsukuba to go. But it looks like I may have my name in blue for F Class circuits I think the other classes are going to prove a bit of a challenge though as my "no drivetrain swaps" rule will have more of an impact from E through to S Classes I suspect.

Although I probably won't advance much from where I am now. I've run all tracks at both those environments already, and in pretty decent cars so these are pretty high-floating fruit for me. Suzuka I may be able to knock a little time off - the randomiser gave me the Fiesta which looks like it may beat the Yaris and Twingo by half a second or so per track. Then I'll see what I get for Tsukuba - hopefully not that X5!

As for R3, at the moment the only likely movement there is on the Ovals as I'm in a stock car championship there. But the next stop after F will be E...

EDIT: F Class is done now. Got a bit of success in chasing Blooze in F Now I'm coming after you in E...

[Blooze]

By almost 6 minutes!!  Geez Spiny...

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Your Text is Blue now, Sir...

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[Spiny Anteater]

Thank you

I think i got lucky with a lot of my car choices as many of them outperformed expectations. However, judging by the Solstice which appeared for the E-Class ovals, I suspect my luck may have just run out. How is a car with a top speed of 134mph going to fare at Benchmark Oval I wonder?

[EXOR Warpedo]

Thank you

I think i got lucky with a lot of my car choices as many of them outperformed expectations. However, judging by the Solstice which appeared for the E-Class ovals, I suspect my luck may have just run out. How is a car with a top speed of 134mph going to fare at Benchmark Oval I wonder?

Just be careful that you don't go to sleep while running it......

[Hellisan]

Wouldn't mind doing this.  Seems most people doing this know how it works from before... I can't find the previous thread.  Are there any rules?  I got the impression I needed to use certain cars or something...

[Blooze]

The previous thread is down in the Archive section...

http://forza-tuning.net/index.php/topic,280.0.html

The rule is there is no rules.  Just run the car you want in the class you want and try to catch up to me.  At one time I was in the top 100 of all eleven classes, and I still am a top 100 in Overall Circuits and Overall P2P.

But that is mostly the result of persistence.  I'm not fast...  I am old, blind in one eye and can't see out of the other.  All ya gotta do is put in the time.

You are already on my friends list, so I will add you to the Chasers list and you'll be registered.  You might want to tell me which class you plan to start out in as well.  That's all there is to it.

Good luck and have fun...

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[barumba]

It is the End of the Month with August in the offing... EOM means lots of book keeping stuff to do.  One of the new chores is Updating and resetting the Chasers book.

The Big Mover of the month was Warped.  He knocked better than 400,000 seconds off the Circuits and P2P - there were 5 or 6 guys that were in the 100k area, and yours truely brought up the bottom with just under 300 seconds.  But lemme tell you, them 300 seconds did not come easy.

I've moved out of C for the time being and gotten myself all a tangle in R3 - hotlapping and projects and all sorts of stuff.  Hopefully some of you guys will move up to R3 as well and we can have us a few contests...

I've attached a copy of the fresh for August Chasers.xls for those who are interested.

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I've put on my Speedo (not a good image), about ready to jump into the R3 pool. Here's a little something for you guys to whet your whistle, before wetting your mettle.
(ps. let it play.)
http://www.gt2europe.com/liveGT2.php

Guess who was in the 5th place Ferrari F430.
Answer here...
http://www.gt2europe.com/results.php

An explanation of the classes...
http://www.americanlemansfans.com/posting.php?mode=quote&f=9&p=35693
there are 4 classes from what I can tell: GT2, GT3, GT4, GTN

GT2 - FIA spec GT2 cars with a "control" tire (Michelin)
GT3 - cars that run in the FIA GT3 championship
GT4 - cars that run in the FIA GT4 championship
GTN - Grand Touring National - cars that are close to GT2 spec in terms of performance, but are not running at FIA spec

The BMW's were running closer to LMS/ACO specification and they chose to run Dunlop tires, so they opted to run the GTN category.

Cheers!

[Hellisan]

Nice!  I will start in F Class, and work my way up.

[Moosejaw]

After reviewing the Blooze Chasers workbook at the beginning of August, I decided two things:

1) I wanted to be in the circuit top 1,000 by the end of the month

2) I wanted to try and knock 200,000 seconds off my overall circuit time

Seven days into the new month I'm sitting at #1,177 after trimming 87,008 seconds off my overall time. As of today, I need another 45,240 seconds to hit #999.

All is going along nicely....

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The "vertical" idea has really made a difference for me, it's made the process of knocking off the lap times a bit more fun. Running lap after lap in F then E class cars was becoming a bit of a drag, so the change of pace has been refreshing. I've been combing this with track-by-track Gaposis. It is quite surprising how easy it is to spot a problem when you know roughly what lap time you should be putting in for a given class. Another big thumbs up to Blooze for developing another top idea.

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Yesterday I built what is now my favourite A class car, the Ford GT. By luck or judgment  , my build coupled with a TonkaToon, has given me a fast car that doesn't give me any handling problems at all. I'm well pleased as this is an RWD car with 550hp on tap 

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I don't know if this has been mentioned before, but I found this out the other day. In a Multiplayer game if you set collision mode to always off on the rules page you will not have to worry about your lap time being decerted by the AI tailgating or driving into you.

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Anyway, time to get back to knocking them seconds off....

[Blooze]

Thanks for the report Moose.  It is good to hear when someone else is getting some use out of some of my ideas.  

If you don't mind, how are you setting up your Gaps?

Good work on your time goal - you are currently the Big Mover for the month.  I remember not needing 7 digits to express my time as a milestone of sorts.

Speaking of the Workbook.  I changed it some more.  Sorry...  For those of you that are running one of your own, the change is a simple one.  I moved the Rank and its O/U columns ahead of the time components.  This was to put the Rank and Time into the same order as they are presented in the Leaderboards.  All you need do is Cut the columns G and H and then insert them at column C, just after the Name column.

I have included the latest and greatest with this post...

Good job Everybody!!

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[Spiny Anteater]

Always amazes me to see all the work that must go into some of your spreadsheets Blooze. I think if I tried something similar I'd end up spending more time on Excel and hardly any on Forza

Anyways, hopefully I can get E Class going well enough soon to get it left of Hot & Not. Although I must admit that MJ seems to be doing a much better job of it than me. Stupid Pontiac Solstice and BMW CSL

[EXOR Warpedo]

The one-lap brigade rolls into A class with the Ferrari F50, when the dust clears and they roll out they leave much room for improvement, but at least all laps are certified. With the limited vision my favorites filter gives me there is only one Chaser and the Chasee ahead of me, but that is still leaves 260 laps to go, no time for a faint heart.