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Subject: Season 6 Race 12 Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca 50 Laps. Tue Feb 07, 2012 12:10 pm
February 12th 5PM PST- Monterey, California USA
Welcome back racers! Hope everyone had a great Superbowl weekend and enjoyed the game. Congratulations to Eli Manning and the New York Giants! Now it's time to hit the track and we head to the wine country of Monterey California.
Laguna Seca, there are many racetracks in the world...But only one Corkscrew!. A world known and world renown daunting corner that features a 450ft dropping downhill S that comes after a long winding uphill straight. For over 55 years Sports Car Racing and Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca have gone hand in hand. Laguna Seca will undoubtedly present and interesting challenge to the cars and racers of this series. The tracks interesting layout will lead to some close racing...but with close racing who can hold it together and who will take each other out of the running. The racing is sure to be fierce on the beautiful wine country and rolling hills of this legendary track.
Example Time: 1:28.914 - '10 Rossion Q1 (741PI)
Previous Season Winners: Season 1- Did not race. Season 2 - Gdub369 - #04 Dodge Viper SRT10 ACR Season 3 - KIR BIMM3R -#13 Porsche 911 GT3 RS Season 4 - Did not race. Season 5 - Gdub369 - #4 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 Season 6 - Could be you!
Qualifying is now OPEN!
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Subject: Re: Season 6 Race 12 Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca 50 Laps. Wed Feb 08, 2012 9:25 am
Kamikaze1414 wrote:
Can someone post a video of how to get the "golden" 1:28:xx time? I have absolutely no idea how you guys can drive so fast...
if 1:28 is golden then my time must be double platinum, lol. I Can run consistently minus a couple hundredths. Still not fast enough to past bimmer who consitently runs faster than me. Guess my only hope this race is to hope he makes a mistake I can capitalize on.....
Subject: Re: Season 6 Race 12 Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca 50 Laps. Wed Feb 08, 2012 9:31 am
1:25.1xx-1:26.4xx is my prediction for A room.
I am running below the example time pretty consistant and I am only getting faster with every tweak of my tune and practice lap on this track....lot of cambered corners.
Kamikaze if you need help tuning or with lines let me know.
I m in late times under the example time... I got to tune those brakes....
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Subject: Re: Season 6 Race 12 Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca 50 Laps. Wed Feb 08, 2012 10:58 am
Yes...yes... I did edit the times posted by individual racers. It is preferred that specific times not be given or discussed openly on the forum until qual results are up. Trash talking is encouraged, just specifics are not. When SOME people see the "faster" times some are capable of it discourages them. So I try to limit that. even when people know something it's not as bad until it's seen and that makes it worse. (if that makes sence)
Thanks guys and welcome back!
Raceboy77
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Subject: Re: Season 6 Race 12 Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca 50 Laps. Wed Feb 08, 2012 5:39 pm
Sambinksey wrote:
1:25.1xx-1:26.4xx is my prediction for A room.
I am running below the example time pretty consistant and I am only getting faster with every tweak of my tune and practice lap on this track....lot of cambered corners.
Kamikaze if you need help tuning or with lines let me know.
a 1:25.1? that's crazy lol i hope that a 1:26.4 won't be the bottom of A room :p if so i'm toast.
Kamikaze1414
Posts : 221 Points : 4940 Join date : 2012-01-08
Subject: Re: Season 6 Race 12 Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca 50 Laps. Wed Feb 08, 2012 8:07 pm
Sambinksey wrote:
1:25.1xx-1:26.4xx is my prediction for A room.
I am running below the example time pretty consistant and I am only getting faster with every tweak of my tune and practice lap on this track....lot of cambered corners.
Kamikaze if you need help tuning or with lines let me know.
Thanks for the offer and I may even take you up on that. The issue is, I don't think its the setup that is giving me problems, I think its my line and how I'm taking certain parts of the track (like the Corkscrew).
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Subject: Re: Season 6 Race 12 Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca 50 Laps. Wed Feb 08, 2012 8:13 pm
Kamikaze1414 wrote:
Sambinksey wrote:
1:25.1xx-1:26.4xx is my prediction for A room.
I am running below the example time pretty consistant and I am only getting faster with every tweak of my tune and practice lap on this track....lot of cambered corners.
Kamikaze if you need help tuning or with lines let me know.
Thanks for the offer and I may even take you up on that. The issue is, I don't think its the setup that is giving me problems, I think its my line and how I'm taking certain parts of the track (like the Corkscrew).
i can get 1:28 steady, i have the same problem though. the final turn onto the straight i always mess up. i can tell it drains like 2 - 3 seconds from my time. the lines on this track are hard to keep consistent
Subject: Re: Season 6 Race 12 Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca 50 Laps. Wed Feb 08, 2012 10:45 pm
I received a great piece of advice from a veteran of this series....go to the leaderboard and download the ghost of a driver that is running the times YOU want to run and race against their ghost using their lines and braking points. Once you get that down find a faster ghost and race that. It has helped me. Hope that helps out.
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Subject: Re: Season 6 Race 12 Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca 50 Laps. Thu Feb 09, 2012 11:34 am
Not sure if you want to save your ghost but if your wanting to race A ghost....go to the leaderboards and then go to R3 and the track we are on. Then either find a racer from this series or someone else that is running a time that you want to achieve and race their ghost. Not all have ghost but you will be able to find one that will match the time you want to run. I have done it when I can't get a particular corner right "corkscrew".
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Subject: Season 6 Race 12 Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca 50 Laps. 
Tue Feb 07, 2012 12:10 pm
i'm not going to be on till the 13th after today. thanks.
