n7thGear vs Team Indy Accolade Tab 14 Laguna Seca Endurance

Jul 3, 2015 0:02:48 GMT -6 wp48™ said:

I've had a dream run,30.44 km or 18.16 mi

From the sublime to the ridiculous. I think I'll stop now, everything else from hereon in is going to be a disappointment. 19.79 for "Indy & the Vandalisms"

Jul 4, 2015 21:47:35 GMT -6 vinny said:

Without the 2 top scores, the average is about 12 miles out of all the scores. Hats off to you guys for achieving a 40% better run than average. Any way you can make this an educational experience and post a video of one of these runs or share some of the magic?

Good morning Vinny,

Well at least it is here in Manchester UK. I don't know how to do videos on iphone5, so if you have any tips/apps for that bit I'd be most grateful. As for tips, this is what I did for mine:

Settings: Tilt A, low brakes, low steering, TC on, sensitivity 8. Manual braking needed turn 2, turn 3 and turn 5. I have a few buddies who want me to switch TC off and assure me I'll be faster/go further. Well, until they beat me, I'll stick to my "baby" settings, because that way all I have to do is focus on my lines.

Coming out of the corkscrew hug the right side of the track and then take aim for inside of the next turn letting the car wash wide out to the right as you go through that one. Too many TTs do I see ghosts coming out of corkscrew hugging the left side of the track & I go blaring ahead. Enduro is about running TT lines as much as possible to get the distance. Apologies if I'm teaching you to suck eggs here, but hey, just in case.

6 seconds wait, then balls out, ignore the clock even if you waste 10 seconds by overtaking n_amount of cars clustered, because holding back will only increase the distance to the next bot further down the track thus losing you time. My previous best up till the 19 miler had been 15.47 based on this strategy, but it had been scrappy with some offs and manual braking to avoid collisions, but for the 19 miler everything just clicked, overtook at the right time & on the right side. When you do LOADS of runs in the same car on the same track you can memorise how the bots behave and that way have the perfect run.

Those who think it was luck, no it is not luck, it's OCD and Aspberger's syndrome rolled into one in my case and I will keep going night and day until I get that one perfect run, so each day for the challenge & before it, I was doing about 20-30 runs.

Hopefully the next challenge will be something else than endure.

All the best.

Marc