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Friday September 10, 1999

Corvette Coupe Lumbers to Victory in the Grand Valley 300

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Friday September 10, 1999

Corvette Coupe Lumbers to Victory in the Grand Valley 300

Well, continuing down my garage, I came across the two Corvettes. Time-trials races suggested that the either of them would have a close for victory in the Grand Valley 300, but probably win. It looked like the GS model would be faster than the Coupe, so I entered the Coupe first, because then I would still have incentive to enter the GS if I lost.

The warm-up GT-I Cup was not a walk-over. There was a very strong field, with a GTO twinturbo, NSX-R, Castrol Supra, '91GT-R, and an Impreza. But luckily they exchanged points, so the Corvette managed to win 36 to 29,28,27,15,15.

   real day 4257
  +=================================================================+
  |                  |   qualifying   |       race ("finals")       |
  |                  |----------------|-----------------------------|
  |                  |pos|   time     |pos|   time     |fastest lap |
  |=================================================================|
  |High Speed Ring   | 6 |  0:55.926  | 4 |  2:36.511  |  0:49.145  |
  |------------------+---+------------+---+------------+------------|
  |Trial Mountain    | 4 |  1:21.582  | 2 |  3:58.493  |  1:16.615  |
  |------------------+---+------------+---+------------+------------|
  |Grand Valley      | 6 |  1:44.993  | 1 |  4:56.060  |  1:36.713  |
  |------------------+---+------------+---+------------+------------|
  |Special Stage R5  | 1 |  1:16.754  | 2 |  3:44.652  |  1:12.724  |
  |------------------+---+------------+---+------------+------------|
  |Deep Forest       | 6 |  1:13.168  | 4 |  3:28.426  |  1:07.320  |
  |------------------+---+------------+---+------------+------------|
  |Special Stage R11 | 1 |  1:52.759  | 1 |  5:25.167  |  1:45.373  |
  +=================================================================+
  GTO twinturbo       9 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 9 + 6   =  27            4264
  NSX-R LM GT2        6 + 2 + 2 + 3 + 1 + 1   =  15
  Castrol Supra GT    4 + 3 + 4 + 9 + 6 + 2   =  28
  R32GT-R'91          2 + 9 + 6 + 4 + 4 + 4   =  29
  Impreza Rally Ed    1 + 4 + 3 + 2 + 2 + 3   =  15
  
   "real game" day 4255
   Friday September 10, 1999
   [R]Corvette '96 Coupe
   Grand Valley 300km Endurance Race

      q1st 1:44.155not     Cr20,000
  
  

Results:

      1st  [R]Corvette '96 Coupe  1-40:02.6<--
     2nd  [R]GTO twinturbo        +136.428   (1-42:19.0)
     3rd  [R]Castrol Supra GT     +138.265   (1-42:20.9)
     4th  [R]Primera '90 2.0Te    +236.465   (1-43:59.1)
     5th  [R]Lantis TypeR         +497.187   (1-48:19.8)
     6th  [R]Accord Sedan         +536.069   (1-48:58.7)
  
      lap 1   1:45.120
     pits   12,25,37,49 
     fl  (28)  1:35.822
     slowest  non-pit   (52)  1:45.544
               next     (56)  1:43.686
     fastest pit laps   (12in)  1:53.376
                        (38out) 1:44.276
     slowest pit laps   (25in)  1:54.821
                        (13out) 1:45.106
  

I actually managed to get the lead by the end of lap 1.

The first car I lapped was on lap 12, but, of course, that did not stick.

Pitting at lap 25 instead of 24 was a mistake; I simply forgot to pull in at the end of lap 24. But I kept the shifted schedule until the end of the race.

I lapped the field by about lap 44, and had a minor disaster on lap 52.

I had trouble, a severe mishap even, when trying to lap the EXIV on lap 42.

I won Cr300,000, and a black Castrol Supra GT. I forgot to note whether the Supra had blue trim or green.

Once again I actually recorded all lap times, as follows:

Lucky you! 8-)

  
 1   1:45.120      1:45.120
 2   1:36.997      3:22.117
 3   1:37.625      4:59.742
 4   1:37.745      6:37.487
 5   1:37.519      8:15.006
 6   1:36.690      9:51.696
 7   1:38.401     11:30.097
 8   1:37.297     13:07.394
 9   1:37.840     14:45.234
10   1:37.700     16:22.934
11   1:39.338     18:02.272
12   1:53.376     19:55.648
13   1:45.106     21:40.754
14   1:36.704     23:17.458
15   1:36.765     24:54.223
16   1:37.364     26:31.587
17   1:37.007     28:08.594
18   1:37.767     29:46.361
19   1:38.075     31:24.436
20   1:39.457     33:03.893
21   1:39.660     34:43.553
22   1:41.121     36:24.674
23   1:39.810     38:04.484
24   1:40.010     39:44.494
25   1:54.821     41:39.315
26   1:44.403     43:23.718
27   1:37.152     45:00.870
28   1:35.822     46:36.692
29   1:36.436     48:13.128
30   1:36.425     49:49.553
31   1:36.483     51:26.036
32   1:37.524     53:03.560
33   1:37.672     54:41.232
34   1:40.567     56:21.799
35   1:39.729     58:01.528
36   1:40.086     59:41.614
37   1:54.354   1-01:35.968
38   1:44.276   1-03:20.244
39   1:37.339   1-04:57.583
40   1:37.637   1-06:35.220
41   1:37.156   1-08:12.376
42   1:36.939   1-09:49.315
43   1:37.008   1-11:26.323
44   1:38.207   1-13:04.530
45   1:38.503   1-14:43.033
46   1:37.975   1-16:21.008
47   1:38.840   1-17:59.848
48   1:40.081   1-19:39.929
49   1:54.309   1-21:34.238
50   1:44.466   1-23:18.704
51   1:37.110   1-24:55.814
52   1:45.544   1-26:41.358
53   1:37.510   1-28:18.868
54   1:37.747   1-29:56.615
55   1:38.639   1-31:35.254
56   1:43.686   1-33:18.940
57   1:41.114   1-35:00.054
58   1:40.245   1-36:40.299
59   1:42.421   1-38:22.720
60   1:39.866   1-40:02.586


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