Weekly Hot Lap Competition

Week 8
2015.01.17 start
2015.01.24 end

http://t.lvp-ts.com/whlc/results.php?id=8

Sc_Antisdorp, de_Sert

* Results for Sc_Antisdorp-n, AntiSlider-Hunter:
 1. [x] Mike Nike             23.228   (1000 pts)
 2. [+] Tinjovic              23.330    (932 pts)
 3. [PahaJori] Ender          23.487    (837 pts)
 4. Jurgen-NL                 23.651    (749 pts)
 5. Kyna_Musti                23.654    (747 pts)
 6. Sig                       23.687    (731 pts)
 7. [+] Badeend               23.694    (727 pts)
 8. [iR] kapa112              23.843    (658 pts)
 9. pozdro600                 23.891    (637 pts)
10. Jormeli                   23.923    (623 pts)
11. ROMREI                    23.935    (618 pts)
12. [x] Whiplash              23.952    (611 pts)
..
24. TD Juquinha               25.018    (304 pts)

ROMREI 11th place!! In Top50% of drivers!! Better than Whiplash!! tsc.tsc.
Ok ok, fun by side - quite tight results between place 4 and 7 there.
Just Ender being able to get a really nice lap next to Mike and Tijny.
Tijny, being able to drive at least a 23.2xy while being in a tight fight with Mike, lowering the 23.3x bar step by step, was in absence when Mike came out with quite a lucky tight lap, which turned out to be faster than expected (although laprec seemed to be coming at least).
The Lap: <link coming>

* Results for Sc_Antisdorp-n, TSB-F2:
 1. [x] Mike Nike             22.542   (1000 pts)
 2. Sig                       22.602    (958 pts)
 3. [+] Tinjovic              22.663    (917 pts)
 4. Jurgen-NL                 22.816    (824 pts)
 5. GOl V8                    22.847    (806 pts)
..
31. Baba                      25.885    (109 pts)

TSB-F2, being a bit of a "home car" for brasilians who played it in the terra servers so much over the years, has been driven by the most different players.
And that even the car was so "soapy" compared to the AntiSlider-Hunter.
Anyway, with Gol on place 5 and Sig on place 2, the portuguese speaking players have showed their skill with TSB-F2 quite well.
Instead of showing the server laprec, i go ahead and link my local warmup lap of the "sick minded to go for" 22.466 (i did in lap 42 or so):
The Lap: <link coming>

* Results for Sc_Antisdorp-n, Forth-GT:
 1. [x] Mike Nike             24.480   (1000 pts)
 2. Sig                       24.577    (938 pts)
 3. [+] Tinjovic              24.606    (921 pts)
 4. GOl V8                    24.672    (882 pts)
..
28. popiol                    38.701      (0 pts)

How the hell you drive this car? That's what probably a lot of players were thinking.
While Gol and Sig knew how to drive Pu-GT, it felt like they might adapt well and they did.
But probably not due to that reason, since i knew how to drive the GT as well and i sucked with Forth-GT, trying it local the first time.
But at some point i had an idea, which included 3 tricks (1 simple...and 1 advanced which i did for the first time...and 1 quite tricky) to improve.
That way, i basicly needed 1 stint to come 0.1ish close to the rec and 2-3 stints to brake the rec (24.655 at that point).
Instead of trying to go for 6 of 6 golds, i actually prefered to drive Forth-GT in the end of the challenge, partly to improve, but mainly because it actually made fun.
In Antisdorp it even felt like i knew in corner 4 if i would crash or not, everytime - even it was just a matter of 1 or few pixels.
Anyway, nice 2nd silver for Sig here!
The Lap: <link coming>

* Results for de_Sert, TSB-F2:
 1. [x] Mike Nike             24.297   (1000 pts)
 2. [+] Tinjovic              24.307    (993 pts)
 3. Sig                       24.312    (990 pts)
 4. Jurgen-NL                 24.498    (876 pts)
 5. GOl V8                    24.679    (779 pts)
..
35. Qpa                       34.159      (4 pts)

Jurgen, at least beating Gol, with his 1-hand-driving-technique, reaching a quite solid 24.4x - which was already hard enough to drive with 2 hands for me!
Sig, starting out with laps, crushing mine as well as Tijnys, showed he is able to produce a lot of strong laptimes.
24.312, leading for a while, ending up with just bronze is probably the most "golden" bronze, next to the Spinner fight from few weeks ago, with this TSB-F2 fight probably being more tough for all 3 drivers.
The Lap: <link coming>

* Results for de_Sert, AntiSlider-Hunter:
 1. [+] Tinjovic              24.912   (1000 pts)
 2. [x] Mike Nike             25.025    (930 pts)
 3. [PahaJori] Ender          25.221    (820 pts)
 4. Sig                       25.356    (753 pts)
 5. Kyna_Musti                25.399    (733 pts)
 6. Jurgen-NL                 25.431    (718 pts)
 7. [+] Badeend               25.438    (715 pts)
 8. pozdro600                 25.622    (637 pts)
 9. [x] Whiplash              25.633    (633 pts)
10. [iR] kapa112              25.678    (615 pts)
11. [iR] iBlazeČ              25.706    (605 pts)
12. ROMREI                    25.711    (603 pts)
..
24. Qpa                       27.026    (271 pts)

Another Top50% for REIROM! And another nice bronze for Ender! :)
Tijny, being able to drive a pretty strong stint, including two 24.9x and a 25.010, won this gold medal well deserved.
Mike, with 3 instead of 2 brakes in his lap, being quite happy with the laptime, skipped the try to drive the likely more faster line.
Also, not that i could have beat the record here (i think i would have failed in >90% of the cases), i liked the idea of not getting all 6 gold medals, when having invested so much more time in the end compared to Tijny, once again.
But mainly because of Tijny not wanting all gold medals in 1 challenge before this one (probably meaning all challenges before this one).
24.912: <link coming>
25.025: <link coming>

* Results for de_Sert, Forth-GT:
 1. [x] Mike Nike             25.873   (1000 pts)
 2. [+] Tinjovic              25.892    (988 pts)
 3. Sig                       26.083    (878 pts)
 4. [iR] iBlazeČ              26.307    (766 pts)
 5. Gol_v8                    26.322    (759 pts)
 7. [x] Whiplash              26.421    (715 pts)
 8. Chukie                    26.450    (702 pts)
 9. Kyna_Musti                26.493    (684 pts)
..
27. Nils                    2:10.985      (0 pts)

Top3 pwning the rest of the field, including Sig with a solid bronze medal.
In this track, i think a 25.7xy was reachable for me. Unfortunately getting a clean strong lap wasn't that easy.
Beating 25.892 felt at some point the minimum goal for me, but in the end i was only mediocre satisfied with my laptime.
Nice to see iBlaze at 4th place - i actually kinda expected him to be in top5 here next to Gol and Sig.
But, even more than 2% off the rec, i like seeing Whip on place 7 too though :D
The Lap: <link coming>

Overall Results:
 1. [x] Mike Nike           (988 pts)
 2. [+] Tinjovic            (958 pts)
 3. Sig                     (875 pts)
 4. Jurgen-NL               (712 pts)
 5. [iR] iBlazeČ            (688 pts)
 6. [iR] kapa112            (587 pts)
 7. pozdro600               (538 pts)
 8. GOl V8                  (537 pts)
 9. ROMREI                  (531 pts)
10. power79                 (510 pts)
11. [+] Badeend             (508 pts)
12. Gol_v8                  (496 pts)
13. [PahaJori] Ender        (480 pts)
14. Kyna_Musti              (474 pts)
15. Jormeli                 (442 pts)
16. stummihouse             (440 pts)
17. TD Juquinha             (437 pts)
18. [x] Whiplash            (434 pts)
19. siLciR                  (386 pts)
20. [+] xzeal               (364 pts)
..
49. Nils                      (0 pts)

ROMREI in TOP 10!! And finally Mike winning at overall rankings for once, leading with a decent amount of points, 1 day before the end of the challenge.
Tijny still improved with at least 2 cars, including one "sig" lap, but it would have taken too much effort/time trying to beat the other laptimes in the end ...or something similar were his words.
Sig on a very solid 3rd, Jurgen in a close fight with iBlaze for 4th :)...
This week, team +, x AND iR were producing quite some points - nice you joined the fight, kapa! :)