My Diaries

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

Thursday, December 02, 1999

And now I win the gold medal for B-5

It took me several days, but not quite as many attempts or as dedicated an effort, and I finally broke through to win the gold medal for B-5 (the GTO twinturbo at the same course).

I still found it harder than I thought it would be. I had set 23.690 (23.650 is the target) previously, and soon managed 23.680 after I began trying again, but after that never broke 23.700 until I finally won the gold medal.

When I did the gold medal, I won by the largest margins so far! (Counting only my four "real" gold medals). My time was 23.590 a full .060 under the required 23.650!

The car was a little bit loose during the first part of the turn, and the speed appeared to dip to about 60mph, though that may be only the measured wheel speed; perhaps the car went a bit faster because of sideways drift. Whereas the demo drops down only to 3rd gear, I dropped all the way to 2nd.

Then I tried B-6 (only it and B-8 remain in my B tests). B-6 is the Mitsubishi FTO GP version R at the High Speed Ring esses, and I did set a new silver time (ie. personal best) twice, but am still about .125 over the gold goal of 26.350.