My Diaries

A Lurid Tale of Obsession, Depravity, Wits and Attempted Wit

Mon Apr 12, 1999

Better results at GV300

Well, I practised a bit last week, and on the weekend won GV300 in Cerbera LM in 1-38.03.8 (N.B. Nick, me, and I think others, did not realize that "8 means 8/10ths of a second, not .008 seconds with leading zero problems ). I'm not sure what went wrong on my first try. I think there was a "rabbit" car (ie starting "too fast" and perhaps taking too many pit stops) the first time, which did not seem to be there the second time. A GTO or RX7 or something, I think.

I lapped all the other cars at least once.

Results:

I won Cr300,000, and a black/blue Castrol Supra GT.

I did Thirty Laps of Hell I, and won by cheating with the Concept Car. 54:19.364; I lapped first three, and lapped last two twice, I believe. My wife likes the "froggy green" Silvia. (Apart from that, I seem to have won a lot of yellow cars recently; strange the apparent cycles).

q1st 1:54.187 (-2.293) pp Cr20,000

fl 20 1:44.063, pits 11, 21 (a big advantage) 1st Cr150,000

So I went back and won GV300 with the special Impreza, taking 1-40:24.9, which still won by 102.849, i.e. more than a lap (just). I learned this time that if you wait long enough, all the cars *do* seem to report home eventually:

so I might have lapped the Lantis four times? It sure did seem like a lot, but all three of the last six cars were white with splashy colours, making them difficult to tell apart. This time I was fairly certain no-one ever passed me in the pits; something worth keeping track of. The 2nd and 3rd place cars tried to stay unlapped. That was sort of fun. Especially since my lap times generally drop throughout the race. Fastest lap was lap 2

Pits in both GV300 races were 11,24,36,48 (11 by mistake both times!!!).

Don't ask me about SSR11 All-night II, raced with a Cerbera, though.

That gets you Cr 10,000.

fl lap 20 1:56.223 pits 9,16,23--won't quite manage 10 and 20