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[Turbo-Tuna]

Thoughts? Here's a thought, why are you insistent on making things more difficult than they need to be? It's time trialing not moving terrorist suspects from Guantanamo Bay. You run a time and post it. If someone is dishonest about their time, big whoopty do. That's on them. Time trialing isn't for bragging rights, it's for measuring improvement of one's self on the track. So if a driver lies about a time, they are only lying to themselves.

You must not remember some of the banter that takes place after times are updated.   :

As long as results are reported and compiled, there will be 'bragging rights'. I didn't take the TTs seriously, and I'm happy to see my friends get good results, but I really enjoyed trash talking with people I have very similar results to. UCan, Rodeo, and I had some similar results, and it was fun to see who would come out on top at various tracks. We had some fun with it.

[RickS95]

I've made no secret that my goal is to stop being terrible at the game and time trials give me a means to that end.  The smack talk back and forth between some of you is just the icing on the cake.  Spec and I never talked trash, but if he beat one of my times in Prologue, you can bet my phone was lighting up so he could tell me I needed to get back to work. 

[ChromeTuna]

We just need a Bench Racing thread stickied somewhere, so it's easy to find and post in. The OP could updated just like clacksman did on the deathstar. Nice and simple, you run what you want, when you want. Post the results. 

[CharlieTuna]

We just need a Bench Racing thread stickied somewhere, so it's easy to find and post in. The OP could updated just like clacksman did on the deathstar. Nice and simple, you run what you want, when you want. Post the results. 

:agree

[DesertSniper72]

We just need a Bench Racing thread stickied somewhere, so it's easy to find and post in. The OP could updated just like clacksman did on the deathstar. Nice and simple, you run what you want, when you want. Post the results. 

this^

[Turbo-Tuna]

Back to the topic of track selection, Ucan and company...2 spots remain along with the question of Indy or Daytona ovals.
I would suggest one more street course (Rome is my preference), another new original course (some version of Cape Ring would be good), and concerning ovals, Indy would be my pick, where the corners actually resemble corners.  There's my 2 cents.

[GoesTuna11]

La Sarthe needs to be on there.  I need to learn that one.  How about a rally track such as one of the Eiger tracks.

[UCanTuna]

I'm glad to see this thread back on track. While it never got actually Tunafied there was a lot of good thinking and stuff about Time Trialing. My original purpose was to gauge interest in maintaining a bench thread. Two different animals.

Time Trials, to me, are more organized. More focused, if you will. Specific conditions are set down for everyone. Specific car. Specific track(s). Specific tires. etc. It's competitive only in the sense that everyone tries to go as fast as they can and gets to brag for a day or two that they were two tenths faster at DRC than some other guy. Then Spec posts his time and our jaws drop.

A bench thread is more free form. You run whatever you want on one of the suggested tracks and post your time. For the data to be useful I'm thinking we should agree on a tire choice or two, and recommended PP. Otherwise, I'll be posting up my time in my Spyker Laviolette at 432PP and it won't mean shit to anybody. In Prologue, clacksman's bench thread actually provided useful information. You saw what the fast guys were running, and you saw what the slower times were. And you saw what middle-of-the-roaders like me were turning in. It was such a closed world that you knew right away something was wrong with your car if you were way off pace.

GT5 might be too vast to gain that same information. I don't want to limit car choices, but I think we should build in some sort of controls using PP. Maybe 4 categories at 400, 500, 600 and 700PP. Maybe I'm overthinking it. Maybe we'll just start one and see how it develops.

Oh. And we run on the honor system here. Always have. Always will. If you're so inclined save a replay, but I'll never ask to see it.

[Wiz]

As I re-read this thread it kinda seems like we're talking about two different things here.  Starting a Bench thread and Time Trialing.

I like both ideas and I'd like to see both get started.

Bench Thread - Basically what Chrome said... run what you want, where you want, when you want, post your time and car, maybe PP & tires.

Time Trial - Someone posts a track, a car, a setup and everyone posts their times.

Doesn't really need to be any more difficult than that.  


Edit: tree'd by ucan.

[TopEnd]

Maybe run all cars stock or close to,no upgraded turbos or other power parts?

[UCanTuna]

Maybe run all cars stock or close to,no upgraded turbos or other power parts?

I would prefer that but boys will be boys and love to play with their toys.

[Rated-M3]

On-topic; I'll be starting a weekly event next month that focuses on Comfies and Softies.  No offense to anyone but the Racing tires in this games feel like training wheels.  Racing hard are fun but anything else feels like train tracks. 

Going from soft to racing tires does make a big difference, allowing one to push their braking point later and later while getting use to the car.

[RickS95]

Has anything been decided on any of the items mentioned in this thread?  I've got a busy weekend planned of doing as little as possible.  I cut the grass last night so I may or may not do that again.  I'll be watching The Masters til I can't stand seeing green and then I'll probably watch a little porn.

I'm sure I'll be racing Saturday night, but other than that, I can't think of anything I need to do.  I'd like to get started running some shitty car on some track I hate and see how poorly I compare to some of you.

Obviously, that's if we go the time trial route.  If we do the bench thread thing, I just need to know the wrules. 

[LooneyTuna]

I cut the grass last night

But I still have snow on half my lawn. 

[RickS95]

I cut the grass last night

But I still have snow on half my lawn. 

I live in Indiana.  In the past it's been 72 degrees in the middle of a winter storm warning because it was supposed to drop 50 degrees and snow the following day.  I've had the heat and the air conditioner on in my house in the same day.  A couple weeks ago the mercury stopped just shy of 80 and we had a dusting of snow the following morning. 

Just because I’ve cut the grass a few times doesn’t mean I won’t be shoveling snow over the weekend.  I’ve worn shorts at Christmas and my warmest winter jacket for Easter. 

I enjoy cutting the grass.  I make sure to cut a different line each time.  One time it’s a vertical path, the next time a diagonal and the time after that horizontal.  In Indiana, it’s not so much about the temperature outside, but more about whether it’s wet or dry out.  Yesterday was dry, so I put some diagonal paths in the yard.