TCR Vintage Trans Am Lap Times

I'm ready for my first race which will be Mapal Valley 1:41.482s a little left in it but I must say I have wrecked it so many times jabber is going to hate the repair bills coming the teams way

1:36's at Leguna Seca, during race conditions I'll probably pick up .750 or so depending on who I'm following.

I have some pace to pick up @ MV. I know when I hit my marks my times will improve... but first I gotta find my marks.  

Is a 34.6 good at Laguna? I suck in muscle cars. lol

The Bulin Wall5 wrote:Is a 34.6 good at Laguna? I suck in muscle cars. lol

Way too fast.

What about a 1:40.230 on Maple?

The Bulin Wall5 wrote:What about a 1:40.230 on Maple?

You'll be at the back with that sort of time. Did you run wide and finish the lap in the pits or something?   

I flipped it on my first lap...

These cars + maple valley = bad bad bad combination.......
Its not like the last time i raced at this track with the radicals, theres a bit of a diffrence in weight transfer and the weight overall lol
01,40,743 pb right now....

^ These cars at Maple Valley are a bit of a handful, I'll give you that. But the build is very similar to the build we used for Spec Mustang last summer, and the MV round was epic. We had four different leaders in the last lap, and were three wide at the line.

Its much like V8 Supercars at Bathurst, it rewards risk taking and severely punishes mistakes.

LMR Agera wrote:These cars + maple valley = bad bad bad combination.......
Its not like the last time i raced at this track with the radicals, theres a bit of a diffrence in weight transfer and the weight overall lol

Yes it's going to be tricky with all the elevation changes and huge kerbs, i can see a fair few accidents happening.

What i don't like is the fact it's reverse, this track is just horrid the wrong way round, no track should be raced in reverse in my opinion. I can see the jump being an issue too with these cars...

The issue with this track in the "forward" direction is flips at the top of the hill and the last turn.

It's actually a very good track if they had just knocked down the curbs a little and moved the wall in the last turn inward a meter or so.

But due to those annoyances, it sees limited use, which in my opinion is a crying shame, as otherwise it is a great circuit with all the different radius turns and elevation changes.

I like MV Reverse. Like Laguna Seca, it's very fun to drive.

With some help I'm running 1:41.100s on avg but I'm happy with that as the car feels stable.

S2M Ranger wrote:the car feels stable.

I think that will play a big part in the race to be honest.

Run some high 1:40s with the Cuda which is promising as I thought it would be struggling here given it's relatively skinny tyres.

Had quite a few rolls at the top of the hill too which should make the race interesting.  

Fingers crossed not managed to roll it yet

I have done everything but roll it.  

Hitting 1:42.2s, which means I will probably qualify a 1:43, roll it, and then hit 1:41s in the race.  

I have worked my way into the 1:41's now, but to be honest, i stopped caring about lap times after around ten laps, im smiling like a teenager thats just discovered magic beans!!

As has Ben said already its not the times that matter it's keeping it on 4 wheels lol

Infineon NASCAR - 1:21.250s to start things off

Infineon NASCAR: 1:19.930

BG Beanz wrote:

LMR Agera wrote:These cars + maple valley = bad bad bad combination.......
Its not like the last time i raced at this track with the radicals, theres a bit of a diffrence in weight transfer and the weight overall lol

Yes it's going to be tricky with all the elevation changes and huge kerbs, i can see a fair few accidents happening.

What i don't like is the fact it's reverse, this track is just horrid the wrong way round, no track should be raced in reverse in my opinion. I can see the jump being an issue too with these cars...

I hope you guys had fun races and may have even reconsidered those statements some after last night. It seemed to me that most everyone, in the A Lobby at least, had fun trying to tame MV Reverse with these beasts.

A few rollovers in the Sprint race, I'll give you that, but not much wrecking in the feature that I heard anyway.

I will be the first to say I tend to stay away from rwd as I suck driving them but after last night I'm loving this championship ok I have had massive help from XPR Venom and my team mate Jabberwockies to get tunes that work for me but I'm able to race the ford boss and not wobble it round the track just trying to stay on the black stuff. I myself just wish the season was a little longer as before I know it its all over

Cheers mike for a great championship !! Great cars and great clean racers ( well bar my team mate nearly taking me out in the sprint race )

If there is anyone left after the XB1 launch, there is a follow up series in the works.