jordie1892

That's the definition of coming down to the wire, should be a tense last race! 
 
Just a note - Think Tom, Macca and myself are jumbled a bit!

Really enjoyed the league race last night. Ultimately think a lack of concentration was my undoing, not only in the fuel miscalculation, but with getting wheels on dirt a couple of times. Was just shy of catching @Mikepjbell  who made the same fuel error at the end!😂

With one race left to go it's all to play for at the top.
 
 
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Save the best to nearly last, right? 😄 Yeah, I expected this week to be tight in the FG Super League race but felt confident because i knew i was quick and could pull off a good show on this track. I stuck to my strategy of Mediums 12 laps, Softs for 8 laps with a little fuel save early on meds to try and save refuelling stop time. A solid quick and incident free race from me (finally) means I ended up in a much needed 3rd place. Thankful that I have some consistency traits somewhere in my body 😄
 
Thought @JBR-Kiwi  blew us apart with the right car and strategy. Thought @jordie1892  was great in the league race only to be unlucky and mess up his fuel calculations. Nice to see another 10 FGers start the league race.

Regardless of the morality side of it, having a guy like that associated with your brand could be really bad for business. Makes perfect sense to me!

Tuesdays and Thursdays are both fine with me.

Let's sort a minute to chat and maybe I'll ram some info into a document for the rules etc? 

This all looks great to me, the value of a finish in regards to number of drivers is something else I hadn't considered!

This all looks great to me, the value of a finish in regards to number of drivers is something else I hadn't considered!

This all looks great to me, the value of a finish in regards to number of drivers is something else I hadn't considered!

Ubisoft have announced a new F2P The Division game 

Playtest registrations go through here https://register.ubisoft.com/division-experience/en-US
 
Here's everything contained within the franchise past, present and future

Hey guys I'd like to get involved with this sounds like yous have great fun on tuesday nights. Bit of a noob at the game though! 

Two races to go, here are the latest standings. Tight at the top between @Greboth and @JBR-Kiwi
 
Final standings will be from the best 9 results out of 12 which means @JBR-Kiwi  will be looking at to win the final races with Greebs holding advantage there and can forget that 4th place finish ever happened 🙂
 

Position Driver Race 1 Race 2 Race 3 Race 4 Race 5 Race 6 Race 7 Race 8 Race 9 Race 10 Total Pts 1 Greboth 25 25 20 25 20 25 25 25 15 20 225 2 JBR-Kiwi 20 20 25 20 25 20 20 20 25 25 220 3 Mikepjbell 12 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 20 10 147 4 phil_oi 15 12 12 12 n/c 12 12 n/a 11 12 98 5 Crispy 7 8 8 11 11 10 9 11 9 11 95 6 GazzaGarratt 9 11 10 8 12 DNF 4 10 12 9 85 7 slamminbones 8 10 7 10 10 9 5 8 7 7 81 8 JTLurch 11 n/a 11 n/a n/a n/a 10 9 n/a 15 56 9 TEENWOLF25 10 n/a 9 DNF n/a n/a 8 12 DNF n/a 39 10 MadTitan n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a DNF 6 n/a 8 8 22 11 Lord Baguette n/a 9 DNF 9 n/a n/a DNF n/a n/a n/a 18 12 Jordie n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 7 n/a 10 n/a 17 13 Diddums n/a n/a n/a n/a 9 n/a n/a n/a 6 n/a 15 14 Misneach DNF n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 0

I'm looking the team/livery/manufacturer idea.  How about the total points are an average of the race points ( race point total / 2)

Just an idea I thought may be worth getting opinions on for the next season of GT races. Alongside the usual drivers championship, could we pair drivers together for a team competition, with both drivers scores combined? Figured this could help achieve a few things:
 
Closer competition within the overall standings (assuming more experienced drivers are paired with newer guys for fair teams) More experienced drivers could focus on helping their teammate, almost as mentors. This could be really useful with race strategy becoming increasingly important. More incentives for a consistent turnout (at least I myself would make sure to find time to practice and race with a teammate depending on me)  
Thoughts?

Jordie if you want to do the math at the end of this season, or close to it, and I'll happily document the structure based on what has been agreed? We can then combine and put a new thread together to launch it, once we've got sign off? 

I'm all for having this as a manufacturers championship, think it's a fantastic idea. 
 
In terms of organising teams, I think using the table as a base is a better method than a lottery, as two faster drivers together and two slower drivers together defeats the purpose a little. I know I myself will commit to the full season, if there's any others who have missed a significant number we could use the average race results from where they (I) have participated to get a good idea of ability levels.
 
I'm happy to do the math here and propose teams, unless one of the more experienced guys with a bit more knowledge on this than me ( @Mikepjbell ?) is happy to do so?

Let me tell you a story. 
 
In World Of Warcraft classic, you need world buffs to be competitive and push progression. What's a world buff you ask? Well, it's a buff that's obtained out in the world. There are a few of them and they generally last one to two hours, and if you die, you lose them all. These buffs are immensely powerful, to the point that without them, you're not progressing until your whole raid's gear is very high level. Acquiring them is a monumental pain in the ass as you need to be in certain places at certain times, and often cost quite a bit of gold. It can take hours, or even a full day to get them all, depending on how dedicated you are.
 
Anyway.
 
So I'm in AQ40 (a 40 man raid) and we're facing the final boss. It's progression night. This is literally the only guy left in the whole raid and although I'm filling in a spot for someone who couldn't make it, these guys spent weeks getting to this point. Everyone's buffed. People have spent hundreds of gold, and countless hours getting their buffs and shit ready for this fight. 
 
Now the boss is a big eyeball in a square room. At the front of the room, the wall has a gap in it, this is where you enter to start the fight. Now as soon as the boss sees you, he fires off a laser beam which will kill almost anything one-shot. Even the toughest tanks struggle. It then, within a matter of seconds, wipes out the rest of the raid. 
 
So we're all standing to the side of the gap so the boss can't see us (LOS as we call it, or Line of Sight), discussing tactics and whatnot.
 
I bump my keyboard. My character moves 2ft to the right.
 
ZAP.
 
Entire raid killed. All world buffs gone, people have repair bills, and we have to spend the next 45 mins getting our shit together. The boss does not die that night.
 
I took Deadums to a whole new level I did. 
 
 
And yes, this is a true story. 

I'm all for having this as a manufacturers championship, think it's a fantastic idea. 
 
In terms of organising teams, I think using the table as a base is a better method than a lottery, as two faster drivers together and two slower drivers together defeats the purpose a little. I know I myself will commit to the full season, if there's any others who have missed a significant number we could use the average race results from where they (I) have participated to get a good idea of ability levels.
 
I'm happy to do the math here and propose teams, unless one of the more experienced guys with a bit more knowledge on this than me ( @Mikepjbell ?) is happy to do so?

Oh God what have I done? I'd assume the manufacturer would be free choice not that everyone has to pick different ones 😅

I'd seed it so that the weaker pairings get first dibs on manufacturer 🤗

I like the idea of an endurance race (or races) though I'm not sure how it would work in practicality due to, as Crispy pointed out, GT not offering driver swaps that some other racing games offer.
 
As for Jordie's idea of teaming up, I think it's a good idea and one I'd be down to do.  I think we should do it like touring cars set up, all the regulars get teamed up but any of the more sporadic attendees can enter as "independents" - it kinda rules them out of the constructors championship but means they can still rank up the drivers to see how they do.  As for deciding team, maybe something like based on the final table of this championship so 1st teams with 8th, 2nd with 7th, 3rd with 6th and 4th with 5th.  I'm not sure that's the best way to do it but manually picking the team like this should be better balanced than a random names from a hat.
 
Saying about a constructors championship, I did like your original ideas suggestion @phil bottle of doing it like the manufacturers cup where we pick a manufacturer and have to use them for all races.  It limits the car choices a little but if we're mostly sticking to Gr3 and Gr4 there's still quite a choice.  Though maybe we'd still have to have free choice for Gr2 being there's only a handful of cars in that class.  Maybe something to consider for the Autumn championship?

Yeah let's do this, have a constructors as well as drivers championship! I'm happy to help organise if necessary as it sounds great, we could do our own team cars etc. 
Might also get more people interested as tactics might come in to play?