*NEWS FLASH* (Corvette GS vs. Panoz Esperante challenge reborn)

[Hoplee]

NEWS REPORT

Canada, flush with new confidence following the first period of parity between the 'loony' and the US Dollar has apparently decided to flex it's military muscle by bombing regions of central Georgia. Sometime late yesterday evening, a lone plane was picked up on civilian and military radar. The plane refused to answer requests for identification and vanished from the screens a short time after it's appearance. Between 5 and 15 minutes after the unidentified plane disappeared, reports started to surface from a racing circuit outside of Atlanta that they had been 'bombed'. Damage reports were severe. Eyewitnesses report that an entire club of Corvette enthusiasts were wiped from the map.

It is not known at this time why a racing circuit was chosen as the target or whether other attacks will follow. Diplomacy has been hampered by a disagreement over the pronunciation of the letter 'O'. Updates at 11.


I'm going to let someone else explain what happened to the other post, but post your times in this thread if you still wish to continue with this.

-Hekalite

Reminder...

Cars: Corvette GS or Panoz Esperante
Track: Road Atlanta
Restrictions: B700

go

Driver	Car	Time
landstuhltaylor	Corvette GS	87.378
landstuhltaylor	Panoz Esperante	87.694
Spiny Anteater	Corvette GS	87.733
Spiny Anteater	Panoz Esperante	87.889
bimmerlovere39	Corvette GS	88.189
Big Mooing Cow	Corvette GS	88.470
Fit4aking	Corvette GS	89.094
Fit4aking	Panoz Esperante	89.206
Blooze	Corvette GS	89.942
deadbeatdad	Corvette GS	90.111
Hekalite	Corvette GS	90.372
Silent Flower	Panoz Esperante	91.065

[Blooze]

Now, that's pretty damned funny...

Good one...

$

[deadbeatdad]

Wow...  at first, I thought I was losin' it, 'cause I coulda sworn there used ta be a Corvette Gs/Panoz Esperante challenge goin' on.   

It was the first challenge I actually had time to sit down and give it a go.  I was even gettin ready to post my crappy time this morning (Corvette GS - 90.439, really bad I know).

Guess I missed somethin'.......    ....bummer....

[Moosejaw]

What the hell is going on?

[Hekalite]

Wow...  at first, I thought I was losin' it, 'cause I coulda sworn there used ta be a Corvette Gs/Panoz Esperante challenge goin' on.   

It was the first challenge I actually had time to sit down and give it a go.  I was even gettin ready to post my crappy time this morning (Corvette GS - 90.439, really bad I know).

Guess I missed somethin'.......    ....bummer....

Don't feel bad about that time.  I'm only just ahead of you with a 90.372 in the GS and my Panoz time was a little slower.


Edit: A few pages fell out of my clipboard when I scurried off the track due to that bombing.  If anyone sees them or cares to repost their times.  I'll take care of it.

[DirtDriver]

For those of you here during the bombing...

1. Please know that I deleted that topic for personal reasons and that I did not read any of your responses. I received a PM from one of you and promptly took the topic off the board. I don't know what was here after my last post.

2. Please know that we can now return to regularly schedule programming. Hek has the scoreboard up. For those of you so inclined, let's move on.

DD

[Hekalite]

Awe man, I guess that means I have to try to improve my GS time after all.  I thought I had dodged a bullet there for a while.  Maybe I'll try land's tune.  As for that Panoz?  Yeah, that thing is a brick, no thanks.

[Fit4aking]

To everyone's suprise in the SS camp we were awaken last night by the sound of closing doors and the loud clacking of piston slap from Detroit iron.  Well at 3:30 in the morning nothing makes sense so I just dismissed it.  Johnny's military history has him up at the butt crack of dawn and that means everyone's up since were in this stupid hauler. 

Noone was in the parking lot, noone.  'You mean I drove all the way down here for nothin'.  There were cars on the track yesterday, I have proof.  Well I think Spanky still has it on his phone.  Now what was I thinking buying this Grand Sport Vette.


 

Track officials said to leave it on the trailer till they get the word from OldSchool Speedshop.

To be continued over at Spanky's Speedshop...........

[Fit4aking]

Ran a few laps in a 360hp build.  Not much room for platforming and it is a very big compromise with tires.  After a couple of laps I was keeping up with my ghost Camaro but losing on the back straight.  Lots of work to do on the track as I know if you guys are running seconds faster the problem isn't the car.

Corvette GS
89.094

More time to run on Friday night.

[landstuhltaylor]

When is the paint thread going up? I have to do a Bilstein logo and then I think the paint will be done.

[deadbeatdad]

So I downgraded tires to pick up a little horsepower last night and knocked a bit off my time.

Corvette GS - 90.111

..... and still workin' on it.   

[Blooze]

This is the paint thread.  Post them in here.  When the bewitching hour is called on the times (currently at 5:00 pm CST (from here on out referred to as "quittin' time") Monday, 10/22/2007.  At that time, any [img] blocks that I find in this thread will be copied to a voting thread.

So, if you have a paint, best be getting it in here...

$

[Spiny Anteater]

Got a slight problem with the paint side of things - for some reason the Xbox has decided that I'm not allowed to make any more changes to the design of the Corvette. So, I'm trying the Esperante to go with it. So far, it seems the cars are pretty even - I've found a 1:27.889 in this, but on the stock tyres it still feels loose. And, I'm trying to work up a 1980's appearance paint job. But I don't have the patience for an accurate paint job so just expect something along the lines of the theme rather than a replica...

The tune is sitting here -> http://www.muscle-inc.net/index.php/topic,220.0.html

[landstuhltaylor]

Here is my entry for the livery contest. I had to leave a few things out for various reasons, but I did my best.

[bimmerlovere39]

My car: