Camel

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What's this about?

Think of it as turboduck's own Rivals, but with some proper rivalry in the community.

The Rules:

• You must use the car (or a car that meets the restrictions) and track chosen by the previous winner.
  
• Tuning/Setups are allowed this week.
  
• Dirty laps do not count, stay off the lawn kids.
  
• Laps do not have to be from a standing start (flying laps count).
  
• If you already have a faster lap recorded outside of the competition, this does not count, you must record another and take a picture for proof. Banana for scale.
  
• If you win, don't forget to chose a car/track for the next week before Monday!
  
• Make sure to do your times in RIVALS (or free play), they will not be recorded in test drive.
  
• The time attack ends Saturday at 23:59 GMT and the winner has 24 hours to choose, then it defaults to the person in second if no choice is made.
  

[headline]Week 17 Apr 3 - 9th [/headline]

Car: 1960's American Muscle tuned To A:666

Track: Sonoma GP

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[TD]Driver[/TD]

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[TD]​Time

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[TD]Camel[/TD]

[TD]Shelby Cobra 427[/TD]

[TD]1:40.961[/TD]

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[TD]ViralBunny[/TD]

[TD]Chevrolet Impala[/TD]

[TD]1.46.793[/TD]

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[TD]PTdumptruck[/TD]

[TD]Chevrolet Camaro[/TD]

[TD]1:52.317[/TD]

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[TD]Ozzmcom[/TD]

[TD]Chevrolet Corvette[/TD]

[TD]1:46.448 (!)[/TD]

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I will be recording the replay from this one as the lap was a decent one :nods:. This car was sooooo easy to drive quickly after tuning it properly. :)

Gonna have a think about the next one and post it up in a few hours.

:welcome:

But I'm not sure who this /name change guy you said hello to is though. :hmmm:

And let it be told, that name change requests can have varying results. :evil:

Welcome to the forum!

Please don't anger the duck, ruffle the squirrels or flambé the goat. Especially mind the Goats, they don't like being turned into foodstuffs. :nods:

:welcome:

46.960 in the Merc 300 722 thingy

SpaceX have finally been able to successfully land their Falcon-9 rocket on a sea platform! After a couple of failed attempts and near successes like when one of the landing legs fell of meaning it fell over they managed to do it.

The landing is from 35:30 onwards in the video but the rest of it is pretty cool to watch too. :nods:

Wow, top marks for effort. And also top marks for final results. So I guess, top marks!

Soooo many pictures. Please do keep them coming.

It's a great feeling of accomplishment when you nail an entire stage with no aids on. Think I've only done it twice though... :lol:

If you're going sideways you're doing it wrong. :p

This came out today for consoles? :eek: I swear I had it pre-ordered. :hmmm:

Oh well, I suppose I'll just have to enjoy it on my PC instead. Cracking game.

The idiotic powers that be have finally conceded defeat to all of the teams and the majority of the fans and have decided that the smart thing to do is to revert qualifying back to the way it used to be. You know, the times when it worked? And not like in the previous 2 races where nothing was happening for most of the hour.

But this leads to the next question, what are they going to mess up next?

So glad they've finally added an appear offline feature! Will finally be able to watch a Bluray without first having to scramble around the back of the TV stand to unplug the network cable. Friend notifications could be handy too. :)

Only about 10 years behind Microsoft! :lol:

No need to thank me. :cool:

Good to be back though and it still feels rather snappy and fast which is great. And to be fair, the status page did say we'd be offline for anything ranging from 1000 to 9999 years so...

Probably not as it'll be a big draw for Amazon Prime.

Dare say it'll be easy to get your hands on once it has aired as was the case with TG, TG USA and FG.

Vettels problem did suck but at least Kimi kept Mercedes on their toes somewhat even if he wasn't able to challenge Rosberg.

Not really sure you can call it a racing incident, he came from a long way back and crashed into the side of a car on the first corner on the first lap. At least leave it a few laps before you try stuff like that so you can be sure your tyres and brakes are up to temperature.

Was a cracking race for Mr Gross Jeans in the Haas. They improved on their great result from Australia and this time weren't helped out by a red flag. Just shows what a new team can do when they tie up with one of the front runners and imo it's quite refreshing to see. Manor are also improving now that they have a decent engine behind them and there's been some good midfield racing. :nods:

48.252 in the Ford F-100

But I don't even have a B game. :(

[sPOIL]Ahh that's it F1, give Bottas a penalty for taking Hamilton out just after Hamilton has overtaken him after being stuck behind for a couple of laps.:rolleyes: [/sPOIL]

[sPOIL]Thanks Bottas. You've ruined the chance of that by taking Hamilton out in the first corner so Rosberg will win gain and I'm guessing it will be without a single fight. Boring.[/sPOIL]

Well, what a terrible start to the Bahrain GP. The engine in Vettels Ferrari decided that it no longer wanted to be an engine.

Can Hamilton and Rosberg put on a good enough show without Vettel sticking his nose in to spice things up?

Oooh nice. This is similar to what I was going to do last week before I chose a wet Nurburgring which was a mistake.

Already had a look at all of the pre 1960s cars so think I know which one I will try first for this. :nods:

There's apparently a bit of a power struggle going in on Formula 1 at the moment, and has been for a few years now. On the one hand you have Bernie Ecclestone, the power crazed senile(?) old man and the FIA with Jean Todt. And then on the other hand you have the teams pushing for what they believe will be best for Formula 1 and the GPDA which most drivers are a part of.

Bernie choosing to stick with Pirelli, a tyre manufacturer who have had a shakey few years in Formula 1 and it doesn't really look to improve much over the next few years with their new deal. Which seemed to be purely based on money.

The current qualifying fiasco. The majority of fans are not happy with it because the track is empty for half of qualifying now and drivers just watch and wait to get knocked out. The teams agreed to go back to the 2015 qualifying format after the farce of Australia but Jean Todt didn't give them the option so they're stuck with the new format that just doesn't work. Just so that the teams/drivers can't guide the path that F1 goes down.

Viewing figures are dropping, there's not as much of a following from younger fans as they would like so what's the best way to resolve this? Of course, it's to sign deals that send live F1 races to pay TV which puts them out of reach for a large amount of people. A lot of people feel that F1 is simply not worth paying upto £500 a year for. And why not ban the use of social media in the paddock.

There are many more hairbrained ideas that Bernie and the FIA have pushed through or tried to push through regardless of what the teams/fans and drivers say. Double points for the last race. New engines just years after the big push for the current hybrids. Rule changes that then get changed before the season starts. The list goes on. It's all about the money and short-term gain.

Is Formula 1 on course to self destruct at the hands of Bernie and Todt or will the teams and fans win in the end?

Are you going to choose the next theme now or wait a week? :p

Actually got chance to watch a few hours of racing today! Usually miss the BTCC. :(

Got to admit, Brands isn't one of my favourite tracks though but there should be plenty of action to keep me happy.

Don't think anyone is on it at the moment and there's only 15 mins to go.

I did manage a 9:34 in the Formula E but it was a dirty lap because I didn't run wide in turn 2... If you go near the white line on the outside of the corner it's a dirty lap for some reason. Rest of the lap was fine I think. >.<

Decided that the puddles in this game are a bit stupid. Clip the water with an unloaded inside wheel and you lose all of the grip from all of the tyres pretty much instantly. As in they all go above 100% grip and turn red in the telemetry. :confused:

I hope next weeks track/car isn't as crap as this one. Thought this one would be good but I was a bit wrong.