TORA Silverstone 12H - 'Drivers of the Day'

Did a driver amongst your team or any other team exceed your expectations?
Did somebody step in last minute and deliver the goods for you?
Did somebody manage to drive a damaged car in order to get miles in for their team that made a difference?
Did another team impress you?
Somebody in your lobby do something that earned your praise?

Here is the thread to celebrate those achievements!


There is not any particular prize or award, Just a thread where stand-out performances can be recognised and applauded amongst us all as fellow racers.

Did a driver amongst your team or any other team exceed your expectations? VVV Trooper did an outstanding job! Even though he got bum steered by the lobby for lagging out in the grid setting, he did a sterling job to scythe through the pack, in a tune he didn't like much without much practice!

Did somebody step in last minute and deliver the goods for you? Trooper and Aero, both gave us 2 good hours each.

Did somebody manage to drive a damaged car in order to get miles in for their team that made a difference? Think when Shafter got shafted by whoever it was, he showed great spirit to come back in his stint.

Did another team impress you? Yamagura's Civic. Unreal pace in the last stint and what a showdown at the end. It was fantastic.

Somebody in your lobby do something that earned your praise? I was 100% spectator for this race so my praise goes to everyone in that stint 5 GT battle, that was the most epic Forza driving I've ever seen.

love these threads, ends a great race in a great way

Did a driver amongst your team or any other team exceed your expectations?
CRA eSEA One did absolutely, he unfortunately lagged out in stint one but stuck to it and finished his last stint off in stint 4 really well

Did somebody step in last minute and deliver the goods for you?
Tamasca in stint 5, i'm not 100% sure on the situation but he took down the results in stint 5 for Grizzle which is great to see

Did somebody manage to drive a damaged car in order to get miles in for their team that made a difference?
unfortunately i'm not aware of anyone who had damage because no one in our lobby got any major damage that i'm aware of (kudos to lobby D)

Did another team impress you?
every team impresses me, the way they go about these races, how composed they all seem during the most stressful times and just the sportsmanship displayed by all is just great

Somebody in your lobby do something that earned your praise?
That would definitely be Hunty, we battled for ages in the fifth stint, for at least an hour of the stint, and then for the first 40 minutes of the last stint, was great racing, so close and the way he applied himself to the task was great

also, huge thanks to all staff, CT, Marshals and everyone else who helped out running this race, it takes a lot of work to test and run these races, thank you to all of you

the winning TCC team deserves it. David vs goliath in my opinion

Somebody in your lobby do something that earned your praise?

The fine folks in D Lobby who collected mileage for every stint that my team failed to finish... and that was a lot as I was the only one that did actually finish a single stint.

Big thanks to Tamaska for getting me the results of stint 4 and 5 in D lobby. I had some issues that took me away from my xbox mid race in stint 5 so it was a huge help.

A big shout out to Chris Rainone (rainonef1) who did an impeccable job in his first TORA endurance race!

Also a shout out to Texaspotatolord and aTastyNip who were virtually unstoppable throughout the day.

And last but not least, Oscar Mangan (LMR Zakspeed) shocking us all with his time in qualifying! On top of that, in stint 1 he out ran the entire B lobby feild from C lobby! An amazing performance!!!

Yep Trooper gets my vote lagging out on grid lap after grid set ment started back of grid battled 2 3rd amazing effort, with server control no need set grid!

SelectiveRogue wrote:...with server control no need set grid!

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Did a driver amongst your team or any other team exceed your expectations?
1. XPR Moontower, driving 3 stints for the XPR Pennzoil team. He did a great job, we were very close to the podium. Which I though was impossible.
2. II Alex P II, he was a monster in the Viper. I have no idea how he did those laptimes. Great job!
 
Did somebody step in last minute and deliver the goods for you?
IRT Bubba, thanks a lot.
 
Did somebody manage to drive a damaged car in order to get miles in for their team that made a difference?
1. XPR Roadrunner, he got damage early on in Stint 4. Still continued the race in a great way. Well done!
2. Myself (  ), I got front damage early on in Stint 1 when LMR Deftone MX and I collided. Damage wasn't major, but I couldn't keep up with the Corvette group because of it.
 
Did another team impress you?
CQR Prodrive GT, they were soooo quick. So unfortunate that CQR MAGiC lagged out in Stint 4 with 3 laps to go. They would have won otherwise. Great job CQR!!
 
Somebody in your lobby do something that earned your praise?
1. MVG taylor018, he was not on pace with the rest of the TCC drivers in Lobby A, but he did a great job getting out of the way for the other cars, especially the GTE drivers. Thanks Taylor!
2. CQR HABURi, for holding up rainonef1 so I could pass him!

I'd have to make 2 nominations.

Driver 1: HLR Warrior -
Warrior has not yet raced with us before I believe, and was definitely his first ever TORA Endurance race he told us. Warrior led the pack for the TCC straight through to the end in the 4th Stint, he knew how to handle himself when the GT pack came hurtling towards him and gave plenty of room on the overtake so we were all 100% confident that we could pass him cleanly without any problems.

He was very polite and extremely funny, a real joy to be in a lobby with, as the banter never went sour, and I left that race with a smile on my face.

Driver #2: Like with Deftone I would have to vote our very own LMR Zakspeed, he has spent hours upon hours everyday practising towards this, he has very little Xbox time when it comes down to his personal life, but everytime I pop on I immediately see him "Private Race - Silverstone GP" or "Tuning - Silverstone GP", I even message to ask what he's up to just to check, and always the same answer: I am practising for TEC... well in his words would be "trying to get this F****** Vette to do a 49 I know I probably Can", and you know what? He did.... he surprised EVERYONE at LMR in qualifying, and we are all extremely proud of him, for all the hard work he's put in for this, and for always having a positive attitude throughout.

But in all honesty, everyone who participated in the B lobby stints I was in, thank you, can honestly say was my best ever evening of racing, the banter was brilliant and the racing itself was clean and clear, I sympathise greatly for those few who got caught out by the incidents i.e Lag spike and the crash in the final stint, but no one got angry, most carried on and I respect that.

Thank you guys.  

Did a driver amongst your team or any other team exceed your expectations? MysticViibrosis drove a fantastic race! His pace was ultra consistant and to be able to cope with all that pressure in the final stint to bring home a win was amazing! Great Job

Did somebody step in last minute and deliver the goods for you? We had planned to run just 3 drivers right up until Thursday when one of us had to pull out!!

Did somebody manage to drive a damaged car in order to get miles in for their team that made a difference? In both stints 1 and 3 I took damage to the rear but managed to get home with a decent mileage!

Did another team impress you? The speed TG Haydo had in the M&M Lexus was astonishing!! He was untouchable!

Somebody in your lobby do something that earned your praise? Velox Marty and Scarhand! I was racing with Scarhand in Stint 3 nose to tail for around 1hr 15mins and had a similar experience with Velox Marty in Stint 5! Both times it was very clean competitive racing, a joy to be apart of!!

Another fantastic event from TORA made all the sweeter as this was Yamagura's first anniversary on the site after our debut in the Britcar last yr!!

Congrats too all who ran and to The Sweeny for a hard fought victory in GT

Velox Canadian wrote:the winning TCC team deserves it. David vs goliath in my opinion

Thanks mate!! It certainly felt that way!! Thought we had good pace but felt the CQR guys would have us overall!!

Did a driver amongst your team or any other team exceed your expectations? F4H Music Man pulled through a triple stint when he wasn't overly prepared for it. He made me proud to be part of the Red Shaguar team and it was them first 3 stints that he did that pulled me through Stint 4 cleanly and it got me through Stint 6 with 100% Aero damage on front and sides.
Did somebody step in last minute and deliver the goods for you? We had it all planned out
Did somebody manage to drive a damaged car in order to get miles in for their team that made a difference? I would like to say F4H Chrisupra was great carrying on for another 30-45 minutes with a destroyed car due to a lag spike but unfortunately in Stint 6 there was a coming together with 4 cars (Including myself) and F4H Hamilton could not carry on.
I also managed to put down 203 miles in Stint 6 with a wrecked cars as I knew the Red Shaguar was the only F4H GT car that was left with any hope of a chance of a good finish
Did another team impress you? The teams in Lobby A impressed everyone I think. The racing was absolutely immense and it was an absolute thrill to watch.
Somebody in your lobby do something that earned your praise? The TCC cars deserve alot of priase during Stint 4 when we had an F4H Train for over an hour (Less than 300 ft seperating 3 of our cars) and not once did they hamper us in anyway, they stuck to their line and made it easy for us to pass them.
Would also like to mention the GT cars in Stint 6 in B lobby for the first 20-30 minutes. The racing was fantastic and between 4 cars there was less than 500 feet between us all the way. MXR Claim was great and so patient while all 4 of us battled it out. It was unfortunate that a small issue caused 3 of us to get massive aero damage with MXR Claim getting sandwiched between two F4H cars lol.

All in all this was an very enjoyable race. unfortunately it wasn't F4H's day this time around with all 5 of our teams picking up some kind of hindrance.

One final mention is Jake, what a commentator. You made Lobby A feel oh so special while watching it. An absolutely fantastic job guys. The commentary was special, the racing was special, all in all I think this must be thee best endurance race I've participated in. Thank you so much for putting on such a great show!

Until next time.

Did a driver amongst your team or any other team exceed your expectations?

MVG taylor018, most the guys including myself had never run anything like this before but after racing in Season 8 TCC all the Forza Universe guys wanted to have a crack at this, our goal- get from start to finish without impeding anyone else, taylor did well as the guy never raced anywhere other than at FU and a couple of months ago would have taken out the whole field through racing inexperience, job well done.



Did somebody manage to drive a damaged car in order to get miles in for their team that made a difference?     Shafter 316 still pushing to the end in a damaged car in his stint, always 100% from him,  




Did another team impress you?

Haydo in the Lexus was so impressive with his speed, extremely talented individual in his building of the car and the driving of it.



Somebody in your lobby do something that earned your praise?

CQR Daniel, I was a bit nervy about running in this event keeping my fingers crossed that I would not take out the GT cars, Daniel gave me so much room when making his passes that I knew I could relax when I saw him in my rear view mirror, thanks.

LMR WARSPITE wrote:I'd have to make 2 nominations.

Driver 1: HLR Warrior -
Warrior has not yet raced with us before I believe, and was definitely his first ever TORA Endurance race he told us. Warrior led the pack for the TCC straight through to the end in the 4th Stint, he knew how to handle himself when the GT pack came hurtling towards him and gave plenty of room on the overtake so we were all 100% confident that we could pass him cleanly without any problems.

He was very polite and extremely funny, a real joy to be in a lobby with, as the banter never went sour, and I left that race with a smile on my face.

But in all honesty, everyone who participated in the B lobby stints I was in, thank you, can honestly say was my best ever evening of racing, the banter was brilliant and the racing itself was clean and clear, I sympathise greatly for those few who got caught out by the incidents i.e Lag spike and the crash in the final stint, but no one got angry, most carried on and I respect that.

Thank you guys.  

+1

Did a driver amongst your team or any other team exceed your expectations?
Matthnt of Nein Shiza Autosport  ran two fantastic stints, also Moesavy carried NSA Elite on his back all day.

Did somebody step in last minute and deliver the goods for you?
SaintedPlacebo4 filled in at the last minute for his 3rd stint of the day for NSA Int.

Somebody in your lobby do something that earned your praise?
ShrinkingSteven hosted "C" Lobby flawlessly for stint 5, fantastic job mate.

Did a driver amongst your team or any other team exceed your expectations?
Mango aka atastynip, actually showed up and didn't screw his team

+1
Add on ...zakspeed outran blobby even with me rearending him .....sorry again bud
Mangonipps CONGRATS better practice for the ring
NSA is coming for you all HAHAHA haha cough cough cough weeese cough ......
But for real thanks for letting our small band of misfits degenerates and yahoos compete with the best in the world......see you all in "hell" \m/

TCC HR Allied Force Team,

First to all, I will like to say thank you to all of you for the great job done! I'm glad to be part of your team during the 12 hrs of Silverstone and looking forward to the 24 hrs of Nurburgring. However, from the seventeen position that we qualified in TCC, we finished eleven close to the ten position by .83 km less than them. Great job guys! Thank you again!

Respectfully,

Did a driver amongst your team or any other team exceed your expectations?We both drove as best we could, no more could be done.

Did somebody step in last minute and deliver the goods for you?We had a minor hiccup with our third driver unable to race but picked up the slack to get the TCC win.

Did somebody manage to drive a damaged car in order to get miles in for their team that made a difference?I think we both had small amounts of aero damage early on, thankfully the car still felt good.

Did another team impress you?CQR Ikea and VTCC both showed great pace throughout the race. Also the GTE teams in Lobby A drove very well through traffic.

Somebody in your lobby do something that earned your praise?
Shafter 316 made Stint 4 very hard for me to pull away. Would have been great to see his team do better.

Somebody in your lobby do something that earned your praise?
TCC cars were a pleasure to pass. First time I've ever driven with them, so pretty happy with how it went.

Has to be said too, Daniel was flawless for every stint I saw him in.

Did a driver amongst your team or any other team exceed your expectations?
Never raced with or against HLR Warrior or XMT SCH1WO before, so i commend these guys for putting in the effort to get the MKR team ready for the 12hr race.
Did somebody step in last minute and deliver the goods for you?
I want to commend Patrick (XMT SCH1WO) for stepping up to stream lobby B for the stints he wasn't racing in! really glad he did, as the MKR Civic actually got some screen time.
Did somebody manage to drive a damaged car in order to get miles in for their team that made a difference?
In the final stint, a group of GTE's were nose to tail and i think they had an incident at Brooklands, which they got damaged quite severly. the majority of the guys stuck in there to log the miles for their respective teams.

Did a driver amongst your team or any other team exceed your expectations?
Ianmr really surprised me with his pace, in the space of thursday night till his stint yesterday he made up 2 seconds on his lap times and was mixing it up with everyone in A lobby. The other teams in TCC I would say the Yamagura team really exceeded my expectations, they kept up a good solid pace all race and deserved their spot on top of the podium.

Did somebody step in last minute and deliver the goods for you?
Doing this race was a last minute decision so we all stepped in and got the job done.

Did somebody manage to drive a damaged car in order to get miles in for their team that made a difference?
I know Shafter done good after getting wiped out to be able to still keep close to Haburi, that was impressive. Deftone took some damage in a stint & managed to still put in a good amount of mileage.

Did another team impress you?
CQR team as always impressed. Daniel was a man on fire in the Lambo and everyone in the iKia was really getting the laps down. The YMGR team obviously as the way they took the victory was phenomenal. The GTE battle in stint 5, all of them impressed me, It was a great watch both on the stream and on the track at the same time!

Somebody in your lobby do something that earned your praise?
Not quite in my lobby, but the comms team & streamers were phenomenal. Jake made everything sound so exciting you can really see how he makes a living out of it! The majority of A lobby gets my praise just for the way everyone went about their business. Was a pleasure to be apart of!  

Did a driver amongst your team exceed your expectations?
Did somebody step in last minute and deliver the goods for you?

Yes, I would say that would have to be DTechPR. He stepped in our TCC car originally for a stint or two, then when I had to jump ship last minute to cover stints in our GTE entry, he ended up having to pull off a triple stint. As this was (as far as I know) his first TEC effort, I was very impressed with his performance.

I would like to give my praise to the GT drivers in lobby D. You were very considerate when lapping and most times calling out when you were approaching us mobile chicanes in the TCC tin cans. Thanks!