Series Discussions

A few photo's of the Kia.

Looks great sam

With paints like we have seen the photo competition is going to have some right beauties in it

I agree, some of the paints looks great. Only wish I could take credit for mine!

Loving the paint Sam, nice job!

I think it's going to be difficult to choose between the paints in the paint competition!

Just so there is no confusion there is no paint competition for the Grand AM only a picture competition.

Guys is it alright if I can get the times people have been running on road america and hockinheimring, I need to see if I'm going to be competative or not, thanks.

All times are pretty much the same Hockenheim is a 1:08.5 or around that.

Road America 2:21. anything will do

Here are my best:

Hockenhiem: 1:08.4
Road America 2:19.9

Don't worry too much about the times, just keep practicing and you'll get there! Don't forget anything can happen in a race.

Every time I make new spreadsheet for driver standings Lanky get's most points (gamertags sorted by alphabet) and is leading overall standings. Do you think I jinx it for you, mate? :/ I could use my voodoo power on Smurf or Andy... for small fee

Ok guys I'm a bit of a party pooper (always the way with. My luck ) my live Ran out and I tried updating via credit card and it wont let me update so I'm going to make another account so I can race It will something with auzzy in it that's all I can do for the meen time

Will have live by Saturday actually but I will only be able to test that night and sunday morning

GitchiManidoo wrote:

Every time I make new spreadsheet for driver standings Lanky get's most points (gamertags sorted by alphabet) and is leading overall standings. Do you think I jinx it for you, mate? :/ I could use my voodoo power on Smurf or Andy... for small fee

Haha, I think you jinx it for sam more than me, he seems to be on the receiving end of it all!


Is anyone else struggling to get a clean time around Hockenheim?

yeah, on that first straight even when well within the track its dirtying my time, and i cant quite figure out, what time are you running round it roughly??

I've found that if you try to hard and try to force quick times its easy to dirty your lap. The best thing is to back off a bit earlier.

If your still having problems why not have a look at one of the fast guys laps on the leader boards.

i play alot of time attack so im fairly good at getting consistant good times, however i just cant figure out why the laps dirty. looking on the replay its perfect, not going over any lines or anything

When you're lapping look for the hazard triangle flashing to try and find where you're dirtying your time

if you are dirtying on Hockenheim then I probably know were it's either at turn 1 cutting the corner too much or running to wide or the turn before the "hairpin" were it's also easy to cut it too much or run a little to wide. other then that I would bet it's running too much on the curb in turn 4.

nope, the only time the triangle appears and / or flashes is crossing the start line. never anywhere else. checked replays and everything.

A replay wont show you when or if a lap is dirty..

The only way to tell is on the track. all i would say is if you cant figure out where you're getting it dirty, run a more central line and stay away from the edges.

If your unable to get a clean time for qualifying on sunday you will have to start from the back of the grid, and from a look at peoples times on the LB a Clean lap time is going to be really important as everyone is running roughly the same times. a clean or dirty lap could mean the difference between 1st and 16th on the grid.

If you need any help i am happy to give you some pointers when i am online and if you cant find me grab anyone else.

yeah, im hoping maybe that it just glitched and went funny. going to have a blast now, still need to get my set up right, to much oversteer going in, to much understeer going out. really looking to forwards to sunday now

The thing is if you dirty your lap in the last sector then you will dirty your next lap aswell that's why it's dirty at start/finish and at hockenheim the last sector is quite large.

yeah, i figured that out last night.

Managed to get a 1.09 clean lap. No idea how im gonna shave another second of though.

Watch the ghost reply of either Dalton or Smurf...follow their cars around the track and learn their lines, it will help you shave off a bit more time.

I'll be on tonight and will open a lobby for Grand Am practice if anyone is interested in joining please feel free to just jump in if you see me online. I'll be on at about 3pm UK time and will be on for a few hours.