My Diaries

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

Sunday December 05, 1999

prize Supra RZ wins SSR11 All-Night II in hastings game

Well, I was fairly sure in my hastings game that the Supra RZ could win the All-Night II race. It had already won the Mega-Speed Event, and, cleanly, though not comfortably, won the Tuned Car Series.

One thing I had done at the end of the Tuned Car Series was switch from Turbo Spec 4 to Turbo Spec 3. This made handling a lot more natural, and improve the speed of recoveries after accidents, but did reduce top speed.

This prize Supra did a reliable job of winning the All-nightII.

Results:

Wow, that was very slow. I did not even lap the field. Nonetheless, I did feel in control of the race the entire time, although I did lose control of the car too many times to count.

I basically led from start to finish. When I exited my first pit stop, I had to jostle to keep the lead, losing it momentarily, but continued on to set fastest lap on the next lap.

The rest of the three stops were uneventful.

I won Cr150,000, and the silver Nismo GT-R LM.

Once again, for your analytical enjoyment, I here present all 30 lap times...

I'm not sure it's worth recounting my settings, but here they are anyway. I used Turbo Spec 3 instead of Turbo Spec 4.

My Settings

This car is adequate for winning both the Tuned Series, and this All-night II race. Fitted with Turbo Spec 4, it is almost outstanding in the Mega-Speed Event, however.

Once again I decided to start with the Chaser LM in the UKvsJP Series (it usually seems easier than the USvsJP Series). This time I won my favourite car, the Cerbera LM! I nearly swept the series, qualifying second at the High Speed Ring, and also second at Special Stage R11.

The Chaser LM does need patience, care, practise, and a little tuning in order to be able to win that series. I used its setting from the Grand Valley 300, but used stabilizers of 3/3 instead of 4/4.

The Cerbera LM handily swept the USvsUK Series--I thought I might win the RX7 Aspec LM and consider entering that in the USvsJP, but instead I won the Concept Car.

I wanted to reacquaint myself with the Cerbera LM, and so I entered it in the GT-I Cup, and swept the series completely, against an NSX-R LM GT2, a GT-R LM, and also a Lancer Evo IV GSR. Those three cars traded positions, and so I won very handily 54 to 29.

I will probably enter the Cerbera LM in the All-Night I and the Grand Valley 300, to see how well I can do with it now, and then take the Japanese Prize Car I feel happiest about and enter the USvsJP. If I win the FTO LM in that series, I will enter it in the 4WD Series. If not, I will need to purchase one more car. (The real problem is I did not win a Skyline in the Tuned Series...)