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Another car I had previously lost the Grand Valley 300 with was the Eclipse GT. Time trials suggested it would be slightly slower than the Chaser LM, which should result in a very close race. |
Given the dismal results realized by the Chaser LM in the GT-I Cup, I did not bother entering the Eclipse there, but settled for winning the UKvsJP Series, almost dominating it. |
UK vs JP |
| +=======================================================================+ | |
| |Date: Sep 20, 1999 |Day: 4304 |Car: [R]Eclipse GT | | |
| +=======================================================================+ | |
| | | qualifying | race ("finals") | | |
| | |----------------|---------------------------------| | |
| | |pos| time |pos| time |fastest lap |pts| | |
| |=======================================================================| | |
| |Trial Mountain ii | 1 | M:SS.TTT | 1 | M:SS.TTT | M:SS.TTT | 9 | | |
| |--------------------+---+------------+---+------------+----------------| | |
| |Special Stage R5 | 1 | M:SS.TTT | 1 | M:SS.TTT | M:SS.TTT | 9 | | |
| |--------------------+---+------------+---+------------+----------------| | |
| |High Speed Ring | 2 | M:SS.TTT | 1 | M:SS.TTT | M:SS.TTT | 9 | | |
| |--------------------+---+------------+---+------------+----------------| | |
| |Grand Valley East ii| 1 | M:SS.TTT | 1 | M:SS.TTT | M:SS.TTT | 9 | | |
| |--------------------+---+------------+---+------------+----------------| | |
| |Special Stage R11 | 6 | M:SS.TTT | 1 | M:SS.TTT | M:SS.TTT | 9 | | |
| +=======================================================================+ | |
| |Result: |Prize car: |45 | | |
| +=======================================================================+ | |
| Griffith 500 1 + 4 + 6 + 6 + 6 = 23 4310 | |
| NSX TypeSzero 3 + 6 + 4 + 4 + 4 = 21 | |
| 70 Supra Turbo R 6 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 = 18 | |
| Cosmo 20B TypeE 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 = 10 | |
| DB7 Volante 4 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 8 | |
| "real game" day 4328 | |
| Wednesday September 22, 1999 | |
| [R]Eclipse GT | |
| Grand Valley 300km Endurance Race | |
q6th 1:46.149not no prize  | |
Results: |
| 1st [R]Eclipse GT 1-41:19.9<-- | |
| 2nd [R]R32GT-R'91 +58.425 (1-42:18.3) | |
| 3rd [R]Impreza RLY Ed +143.966 (1-43:43.9) | |
| 4th [R]EXIV 200GT +274.349 (1-45:54.2) | |
| 5th [R]Lancer EvolV GSR +288.806 (1-46:08.7) | |
| 6th [R]Accord Sedan +446.964 (1-48:46.9) | |
| lap 1 1:46.768 | |
| pits 12,24,36,48 | |
| fl (15) 1:37.832 | |
| slowest non-pit (21) 1:41.779 | |
| next (16) 1:41.384 | |
| fastest pit laps (48in) 1:54.207 | |
| (13out) 1:46.063 | |
| slowest pit laps (36in) 1:56.012 | |
| (37out) 1:47.088 | |
It took me until lap 7 to get the lead, and I lost it on the first pit stop, but regained it soon after. I lapped some of the back-markers by my second pits stop at lap 24. |
I almost lost the lead after that stop, but not quite. (I lost the lead briefly in a couple of corners as I jostled with the Skyline). |
I lapped the Impreza on lap 48, and it got unlapped, of course, but I lapped it again by lap 55. As you can tell from the times, I never lapped the Skyline. |
As my lap times indicate, I had not disasters, on very minor mishaps
(occasional excursions onto the grass, with little loss of time).
Because of that, I actually beat the Chaser LM time by 2 seconds. |
I won Cr300,000, and a black/blue Castrol Supra GT. |
So, I improved quite a bit over my old Eclipse GT time of 1-46:31.1 (5th place in a strong field). The field this time was reasonably strong, though not very, but my time was good enough to beat the fastest AI time I have seen (1-41:53.xxx -- NSX-R), and, once you learn it, the car is easy to handle and I'm confident I could have done a similar time even with more strong opponents to catch, pass, and re-pass. |
Once again I actually recorded all lap times, as follows: |
Lucky you! |
1 1:46.768 1:46.768 2 1:38.791 3:25.559 3 1:39.078 5:04.637 4 1:38.558 6:43.195 5 1:39.270 8:22.465 6 1:39.362 10:01.827 7 1:39.528 11:41.355 8 1:39.607 13:20.962 9 1:40.115 15:01.077 10 1:40.359 16:41.436 11 1:39.541 18:20.977 12 1:54.489 20:15.466 13 1:46.063 22:01.529 14 1:39.160 23:40.689 15 1:37.832 25:18.521 16 1:41.384 26:59.905 17 1:39.349 28:39.254 18 1:39.475 30:18.729 19 1:40.460 31:59.189 20 1:40.430 33:39.619 21 1:41.779 35:21.398 22 1:40.291 37:01.689 23 1:40.959 38:42.648 24 1:55.651 40:38.299 25 1:46.137 42:24.436 26 1:39.155 44:03.591 27 1:38.172 45:41.763 28 1:38.336 47:20.099 29 1:37.900 48:57.999 30 1:39.673 50:37.672 31 1:40.025 52:17.697 32 1:39.525 53:57.222 33 1:39.251 55:36.473 34 1:40.928 57:17.401 35 1:41.082 58:58.483 36 1:56.012 1-00:54.495 37 1:47.088 1-02:41.583 38 1:39.267 1-04:20.850 39 1:40.658 1-06:01.508 40 1:38.878 1-07:40.386 41 1:38.538 1-09:18.924 42 1:39.341 1-10:58.265 43 1:39.283 1-12:37.548 44 1:40.039 1-14:17.587 45 1:41.105 1-15:58.692 46 1:39.767 1-17:38.459 47 1:40.198 1-19:18.657 48 1:54.207 1-21:12.864 49 1:46.325 1-22:59.189 50 1:40.746 1-24:39.935 51 1:40.202 1-26:20.137 52 1:39.278 1-27:59.415 53 1:40.278 1-29:39.693 54 1:38.216 1-31:17.909 55 1:39.839 1-32:57.748 56 1:39.855 1-34:37.603 57 1:40.447 1-36:18.050 58 1:41.119 1-37:59.169 59 1:40.080 1-39:39.249 60 1:40.709 1-41:19.958 |
Not only that, I saved the setting too. All the parts were maxed, that is, in particular, I used a racing exhaust, not semi-racing (semi-racing sometimes seems to help give better pickup to highly-turbocharged engines). Similarly, I also used a racing flywheel. |
| My Settings Default | |
| Spring Rate 7.2 4.1 7.2 4.1 | |
| Ride Height 100 100 (min, min) 123 123 | |
| Dampers 4 4 4 4 | |
| Camber 0.2 1.0 2.0 1.0 | |
| Stabilizers 3 3 3 3 | |
| Brake Balance 12 9 7 7 | |
| Turbo 6 6 | |
| 1st 3.400 3.090 | |
| 2nd 1.870 1.833 | |
| 3rd 1.258 1.217 | |
| 4th 0.950 0.888 | |
| 5th 0.780 0.741 | |
| ----- ----- | |
| FD 4.000 4.153 | |
| Aero 0.70 0.70 | |
(max, not quite max) |
After this, I did a few time trials of Grand Valley with a raced-maxed MA70 Supra. I include the first and the last to demonstrate how Gran Turismo requires to you to re-acquaint yourself with a particular car after a long time driving another one. |
| 1:47.422 + 1:40.629 = 3:28.051 | |
| 1:42.942 + 1:36.388 = 3:19.330 | |
So, it looks like the good old MA70 Supra might do better than the Chaser LM did in the Grand Valley 300. |
(Note on the date I first entered this entry, September 25, I had not yet entered the GV300 results for the Chaser LM (Sep 18) nor the Celica GT-Four (Sep 16); hopefully I will enter them in entries for those dates fairly soon now). |
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