Fuji Speedway GT3

My first memory's of this mod where not very fond but I decided why not give it a shot, and glad I did.

I figured I would be dead last with zero practice and a guess of a setup after swapping out the Audi minutes before qually but to my surprise I grabbed 12th.

Race start was very fun with a five or six of us within very close quarters, managed to make it past the first few turns clean and grab a couple spots. Pushed hard and moved up to 8th at highest then my tires overheated and my pace fell of greatly and I fell in to a very fun battle with Luis Lynce. I held him off for a bit then finally let him past as I just couldn't hold him off, his car was far superior in the twisty bits. Tried like mad to catch him but he just faded off in the distance.

All in all a very fun time learning this mod and racing you gent's.

Grats to Tristan, Conor, and Luis on the pod's

Nice race indeed.

On qualy I was 0.5s slower than my practice time but that was worth a 4th spot. Not that going faster would have made that lot of a difference.

Race I put a bit too much wheelspin at the start, managed to passe Juan Miguel but returned Mark the favour he gave me at Laguna Seca ;)

Mark had a great first lap and opened more than 1s, too bad he eventually spun. For the next few laps Carlos Ortis was pressuring me greatly, I just tried to keep my cool and not abuse my rubber as I know my limits with this mod. Carlos even managed to grab 3rd once but locked a bit and I managed to cross and get the place back - close stuff!

Unfortunately he eventually spun, too. Then Juan Miguel, who was in 4th, appeared to have spun as well :P

So from lap 5 or so the race became bureaucratic, just a matter of administering tyres and the gap to 4th place since I had no chance catching the front two anyway. I drove slowly but steadily, a mistake-free race which is a blessing! And still had like 60% of rubber left in the end.

See y'all in Silverstone. And please don't forget to download the skins ;)

So i should probably explain my race :-)

I have recently upgraded to eyefinity, i say upgrade it's not going very well :-)

I am having massive stuttering issues, nothing is running at a great strain my computer is fine something's just not right. Well this doesn't happen all the time most of the time it's as smooth as you like, however it decided right at the start of the first corner on L1, stuutered a bit but managed to carry on, then it went nuts and was the worst it has ever been. I had messed around with the settings trying to get it ready for the race and had no time to test it really, I nearly hit a few people and decided as my race was already ruined (undriveable) I should just get out the way before i ruin someone elses day too. I would just like to note i don't actually drive like that :-)

So sorry if i nearly hit you, i was quite quick here though, usually the front runners just bolt off the start but i had a great start and went straight up to 3rd. I'm sure they would have disapeared shortly after but i managed to keep with them whilst my computer was running ok(ish). Then i just couldn't see i was gutted!

Just put on a fresh install of windows etc. already i can tell the difference with fresh drivers. See you at Silverstone.

Also Ditto the skins, please download we spend ages on these :-) and takes two seconds!

Sigh.....

Q: Used my Q-session to tweak the car since this was my first time racing with these cars ,had a strange experimental FOV setting which gave a lot of trouble but i had to try something , because the default view out of the car felt really weird.

R: I was really careful on the opening laps because i couldn't figure out how fast i should go into the corners , amazing how the FOV setting can mess up your perspective.

There were few problems because of that and unfortunately Fernando Martin (i think) had to avoid my early braking by going of the track , my apologies for the early braking there Fernando.

After some laps things started to go a bit better and had a blast fighting for better positions , only to give the hard earn 4th place back right after getting it done... :|. Did a strange spin in the place i didn't have any problems earlier but that's the way it goes , lost 2 positions and dropped back to 6th with 5 minutes to go.

Managed to get back into 5th but that was it , not the best result but it was hard work from start to finish and the middle part of the race was a blast.

Congrats to the podium , sick pace you guys have , i can't understand how you do it :). Thanks for the race and cya around.

Cheers...

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Samuel