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Post by XRF Formula1 on Jul 2, 2019 15:17:43 GMT
ROUND 4 BELGIAN GRANDPRIX @ Spa Francorchamps Historic 16 Laps
5:30pm EST/10:30pm UK Time
In-game date: June 7th, 1970
Weather Forecast: (WINDY OVERCAST) 4 SLOTS & SYNC TO RACE Overcast/Heavy Clouds/Overcast/Heavy Clouds
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CONFIRMED 1. Peter / Hammerpgh / Lotus #3 2. Greg / Hurt MaGurt / Brabham #19
3. Tyler / Sgt Formula 1 / Brabham #15 4. Matt / Boothy116 / Ferrari #31 5. Karl / niblips2 / Lotus #2
UNCOMFIRMED 5. Josh / Mr Blonde V / BRM # 8
6. Colton / Z7COLTONZ7 / BRM # 9. 8. Brandon / BCKracer71 / Tyrrell #6 9. Dan / dakinca91 / Tyrrell #7
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Post by hurtmagurt on Jul 2, 2019 16:02:17 GMT
Greg / Hurt MaGurt / Brabham #19
I'm most likely IN however we have our softball playoffs that week. I'm 99% sure its not Wednesday, but I'll let you know as soon as I hear the official date.
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Post by hurtmagurt on Jul 3, 2019 20:28:20 GMT
Ahh poo, I'm going to be OUT for this one. My playoffs are at 6pm EST on the 10th.
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Jul 3, 2019 20:51:49 GMT
Ahh poo, I'm going to be OUT for this one. My playoffs are at 6pm EST on the 10th. Damn. What time do they finish Greg?
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Post by hurtmagurt on Jul 5, 2019 15:10:10 GMT
Ahh poo, I'm going to be OUT for this one. My playoffs are at 6pm EST on the 10th. Damn. What time do they finish Greg? Its a knockout format so if we keep winning I could be down there for 5 hours
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Jul 5, 2019 15:41:57 GMT
Ah.. that will be a little too late for me to hang on for lol
Maybe there's scope for a different day next week? How is everyone fixed?
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Post by XRF Formula1 on Jul 6, 2019 4:32:57 GMT
I can move around but if at all possible we should try and keep it on Wednesday. Remember, everyone's worst race of the first six, and worst race of the last seven events will be dropped from everyone's final score.
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Jul 6, 2019 7:04:02 GMT
Yeah I agree that it's best to keep to one day but with so few of us even one driver missing is something we can't really afford.
Right now there's just three of us. The SMS guys really need to sign up here so we know exactly where we are on numbers.
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Jul 7, 2019 5:16:38 GMT
Following on from our chat last night Thursday would be the best alternative night for me. I could do Tuesday if that's the only day that works but due to my holiday and work it was going to be my first practice day for Spa so would mean I would then go into the race not having had any track time at all.
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Jul 8, 2019 18:11:20 GMT
What's the update on this one guys? Need to know so I don't arrange anything else on whatever night is decided on.
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Post by hurtmagurt on Jul 8, 2019 19:15:18 GMT
As I said, Any night except Wed. Or just run it without me...I'll probably just crash out in the first few laps anywayz
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Jul 8, 2019 19:53:03 GMT
As I said, Any night except Wed. Or just run it without me...I'll probably just crash out in the first few laps anywayz You never know Greg, this could be the one for you 😉
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Post by XRF Formula1 on Jul 8, 2019 22:02:46 GMT
As I said, Any night except Wed. Or just run it without me...I'll probably just crash out in the first few laps anywayz You never know Greg, this could be the one for you 😉 Let me remind us that you won here last time Greg in the 25. I think you could do it again. Low downforce and breaking early is our friend for this track. I'll send out an Xbox message to see if the others can make it on Thursday
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2019 11:01:17 GMT
Im free wednesday/thursday (provided work don't call me in cos they have a lot recently)
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Post by XRF Formula1 on Jul 9, 2019 17:56:37 GMT
Let's shoot for Thursday and get the main part of the group together at least.
I can't get a hold of the others currently as something is wrong with the Xbox group messaging (go figure) and has been that way for over 24hours now.
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Post by niblips on Jul 9, 2019 22:23:45 GMT
Thursday is not ok for me. I have a movie date with my wife. \we purchased the tickets already.
I haven't checked this thread in a while...was just going to get on for some practice now as I haven't turned a lap here yet.
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Post by XRF Formula1 on Jul 10, 2019 0:28:30 GMT
I wish the GSR guys would check the forums and respond so we know which day can get the most of us.
What about Friday?
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Jul 10, 2019 6:43:55 GMT
Yeah me too Tyler, it's making knowing the likely numbers for races very difficult...
I would only be a maybe for Friday. It's my daughter's birthday.
Anybody had any time on track here yet? I did the first ten laps of a race last night. First few I could not stay clean and had to pit twice to repair damage before finally getting a run of Laps together. Not sure what time is decent around here in this car but started off around 1:57 and gradually bought that down to a fastest of 1:50 before pushing too hard on the early uphill section and ending up in the fencing losing a wheel. I think maybe somewhere around the mid 1:45's would be achievable but it's having the confidence to push for the whole lap that would be needed for that and then there's always that risk of losing it. There's one section after the long back straight where I find the back-end gets really light if I go full throttle at one of the fast turns (the one between LaCarriere and Blanchimont) and several times it got away from me there and I ended up in the fence so i'm taking that a little carefully which costs a bit of time.
Alway's good fun here though.
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Post by niblips on Jul 10, 2019 12:52:20 GMT
I wish the GSR guys would check the forums and respond so we know which day can get the most of us. What about Friday? Sorry. I'm not sure Friday is going to be any better.
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Post by XRF Formula1 on Jul 10, 2019 18:20:56 GMT
My times are around the 3:44 mark from my testing last week.
I say we stick with the original plan which is tmrw or postpone until next Wednesday.
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