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Sun Jun 13, 1999

Various Thoughts About the Tuned Series, and High-Speed Ring ii

I won Abnormal with a tuned Normal prize Supra RZ, and Normal with a Cerbera. Actually won at Deep Forest. (But came 2nd at Autumn Ring-Mini).

Some people have trouble with High Speed Ring ii, and this gives them a bad start to the Tuned Car Contest, and they abandon.

Well, you can practise that in the MegaSpeed Cup; concentrate on getting good lap times, not (just) winning. (And use a tuned car, not a racing model...)

The key to that course is knowing what speed to enter various corners at.

The first one is the trickiest, especially on laps 2 to 5. You must slow down early, but not too early, just enough to be able to cleanly drive through it with a minimum of sliding. (and a minimum of speed loss).

The next most important one is the one leading onto the very high speed section. With an overpowered car you can gain a lot of speed from the previous short straight, and can lose a lot of time, or lose control completely as you enter that corner. Learn to slow down and drive around it smoothly to get maximum acceleration into the next section. In the high-speed section you need to feather a bit on many cars, to keep off the wall, and need to watch for when you should and shouldn't be in top gear.

That leaves the esses after the straight after the first corner. Slowing to a correct speed for the first one can help a lot, but you can actually drive those two corners mostly by the seat-of-your-pants, just being careful to get a nice smooth exit from the second one. (Remember your B-6 and B-7 tests, and also B-8 and IA-1).

Try to ignore the AI cars as much as possible; they seem to try and sucker you into braking too early or (usually) too late, and really don't drive perfectly. So, sometimes they might get ahead temporarily, but rely on your cleaner line to eventually get and stay ahead.

Every car I have won with in that series has won at the High Speed Ring. I don't know if the other cars will accommodate a loss there, or not.

I've never swept the series. The 2nd place car usually gets 27 points points, although on Sunday an AI Supra RZ got 30 points to my Supra's 33. (1st,4th,1st,4th.1st). I think.

The Viper RT/10 won with 42 of possible 45 points, and with less a couple of times.

The Cerbera won with only 30 points.

The Japanese monsters generally won with 38 (sweep, but 5th at Autumn Ring). GTO'95MR,GTOtwinturbo,and R32GT-R'89. But I think they might have sometimes got like 34, because they are a bit tricky at Grand Valley as well as the Autumn Ring.