TORA NATCC - General Discussion

Nice to have yet another American join us Flying Mikey J!

For laughs I ran a few (5, i think) laps around Maple Valley Short, best was a 44.4XX

Looked in on the other TCC thread and Magictap ran a 42.5.

I haven't gone out to "Maple Syrup Short-stack" yet, but I'm thinking the grip of the Focus will provide good results. Not a big fan of the short circuit though. I'd much rather prefer the full-stack of Maple Syrup than the Short-stack.

yes, I am thinking about pancakes when I talk about the Maple Valley raceway

Buckeye, did you get that thing I sent ya?

I was putting down 0:43.4xx's in the Chevrolet Racing Team Apex NATCC Cobalt.

I played around with the build on the Cobalt. There really is not much room for change after adding all of the mandatory parts. I will try to send out alternative builds and tunes to see how they perform in different hands.

Duke of Bruno wrote:Buckeye, did you get that thing I sent ya?

I was putting down 0:43.4xx's in the Chevrolet Racing Team Apex NATCC Cobalt.

I played around with the build on the Cobalt. There really is not much room for change after adding all of the mandatory parts. I will try to send out alternative builds and tunes to see how they perform in different hands.

Duke, I haven't looked yet, but I'll check my messages tonight when I hope on the xbox.

So Far, with 6 days before round 5 @ Maple (Syrup) Valley:

IN:
(1)Rollin InAn STi
(2)Duke of Bruno
(3)BuckeyeBullet
(4)Stonewall458
(5)DeweyTee
(6)AMR Garage
(7)Irrational Dzyn
(8)Flyin Mikey J

MAYBE:
Kilroy8
FranchittiFan




lets see more entrants

What time in the Uk will the race be?

9pm EDT is 2am BST

I'm IN.

Scheduled work around it, so at this point, I am running both TCC and NATCC.

Ill be a maybe, ma 2nd baby is here soon and i wont be able to race much after so ill go crazy and get to as many races as i can before hand!

It's race day, and here is where we stand on entries for rounds 9 & 10 of the TORA NATCC:

CONFIRMED IN:
(1)Rollin InAn STi
(2)Duke of Bruno
(3)BuckeyeBullet
(4)Stonewall458
(5)DeweyTee
(6)AMR Garage
(7)Irrational Dzyn
(8)Dark Minun
(9)Flyin Mikey J
(10)...
(11)...
(12)...
(13)...
(14)...
(15)...
(16)...

MAYBE:
Kilroy8
FranchittiFan

Rollin InAn STi wrote:9pm EDT is 2am BST

#three-inthe-mor-ning-isa-goodtimefor-TORA#

Ill drive my Seat Cupra 03 TCC if i turn up

Had fun last night at Maple Grove until somewhere around the middle of the race I hit the rumble strip and rolled it over. I was slow before the rollover, it didn't get any better afterwards!. Next week I'll be leaving to go to Alaska for a month, so I won't be racing for awhile. I enjoyed the series and will do it again next year.

It's t-minus 1 day to race day, and here is where we stand on entries for rounds 11 & 12 of the TORA NATCC @ Road Atlanta:

CONFIRMED IN:
(1)Rollin InAn STi
(2)Duke of Bruno
(3)BuckeyeBullet
(4)Stonewall458
(5)Flyin Mikey J
(6)Dark Minun
(7)AudiSport Louis

MAYBE:
Kilroy8
AMR Garage

For anyone who is curious to watch the previous rounds of the NATCC, since Turn10 upped the space on the Storefront for VIP members, i re-uploaded all of my replays, in sequential order. all titles have 'NATCC' in the file name and in the 'description' to help find them.

I'll admit I was a bit disappointed in no Catalunya round, as I was excited to try the Integra that I had built and tuned especially for Cat... but in the bigger picture I am a bit worried about the future of the NATCC. It seems that there has been a steady drop-off in FM4 as a whole lately, and if 5 people is not enough for a race, then there may not be many races in teh upcoming weeks.

For example, yesterday at 3:30 PM Pacific, which is late evening in Europe and early eve in the Eastern US, I went to hit a B Class public race lobby, and there were but three of us. B Lobby used to be rather populated, but now there are three?

It seems as every incarnation of Forza has some great improvements, the life of each has gotten shorter. FM2 had busy lobbies up until the day FM3 came out. FM3 was strong for well over a year. But FM4 has been out for only seven months, and already is losing racers in droves...

Hope all my worry is for naught.

I blame the lack of track DLC, to keep people interested. The only adds I can name off the top of my head to fm4 were Infineon and Indy (and we lost Bugatti Circuit)

You forgot Bernese Alps... which I wish T10 had forgotten to add, but that is another story.

I'm not sure about track DLC, as in the past DLC tracks were seldom used by anyone, but lack of new tracks to replace those that were cut could be an issue. I'd have loved to do some TCC/NATCC on NY Full, a couple of Sidewinders, and Bugatti is much more suited to the quick pulblic lobby races as well as TCC/NATCC races than either of the other LeMans tracks are.

The Bugatti Circuit is a great track. Turn10's excuse was the new lighting model, but I'm going to call BS, as a lot of public lobbies had corner cutters @ the schicane on the back section of the track.

Its simple really. More tracks = More racing. Hope FM5 is better with track selection(s)

No thread for Iberian, Conner??

I don't always have to be the one to create the thread.

...but when you do....

T-minus 1 day to race day, and here is where we stand on entries for rounds 15 & 16 of the TORA NATCC @ Iberian Full:

CONFIRMED:
(1)Rollin InAn STi
(2)DeweyTee
(3)BuckeyeBullet
(4)Kilroy8

MAYBE:
Duke of Bruno
AMR Garage
Flyin Mikey J

Sorry guys. I will not be able to attend the next few races. Hopefully I can get back to Touringcarday festivities soon.

OK, I'm IN and more than likely for the last time in NATCC.