Volvo Community Gran Turismo 4 Challenge.

[Brewster]

will have to do a mad dash to get a time in this week, just waiting for the missus to finish watching desperate housewifes, should just move the PS2 but its better on a big screen!

I also considered buying a T5, but as I do about 30k miles a year thought best not, probably would have bankrupted me as I have quite a heavy right foot!

[timway]

I normally manage to squeeze 30-31mpg out of mine so its not tooo bad, trouble is it needs mega expensive optimax. I'd be interested to try a D5 for a few days to see what consumption I could get out of it. Mines going into the dealers for a couple of days next week so be interesting to see what courtesy car I get - at least it won't be the 1.2 corsa I got when my Vectra was being serviced!

Nice time Seany

[Brewster]

1'20.147!, after thirty laps, I was very annoyed, got 1'21.261, thought that will do, but it seems there is a fault with GT4 and the large early PS2's where it crashes regularly, only seems to happen on certain tracks and certain cars, so exited and going to take a picture when it crashes arrrgggghhhhh, PS2 almost went through the window!

Restarted 10 laps later got the above time, thought right I will take a picture of the screen showing best time in the top right hand corner, in case it crashes and low and behold it did! I will put the picture up tomorrow morning, cant do it from my mobile to my PC at home

[Brewster]

Lads, picture attached,

Best I can get is 1'24"508...

[Brewster]

Right this week's track is Tokyo R246 is an Aston Martin Vanquish 04, usual rules apply, best of luck

[seany]

Wahey, welcome to the races Joe.
Did you do the quick tune (max power, min wt, no driving aids, best choice o tyres??)

A vanquish now eh??
Bit softly sprubg for a city track ..... ah well, here goes ....

[Brewster]

well with the world cup coming up I thought best of British.... wait a minute is an Aston British any more!!!

I did the tune thing, and tried with driving aids and without, happy to say I got a better time with no driving aids than with, damn ASM restricting the throttle if you even LOOK at the steering...

Actually got it down to 1:23 in the end, but was still behind so didn't bother posting.

Right, 1'51"623 is the best I can get this morning. All that power, and only SS tyres, get any corner wrong and it's swapped ends before you know what's going on...