COMPLETED (All) Cross-Console Endurance Championship

His race sucked. Curbs completely wrecked me. Good job on everyone on the PS3, I hope we'll race together soon!

))) does anyone have the team results yet?

My race was pretty terrible.. I managed to get 2nd place for a short time but I hit something invisible or a bush, i don't know but it slowed me down just a little bit. Then the inevitable lag of Adking launched me into a cliff, this is the THIRD race in a row that his lag has screwed me up... I can't stand it. Anyways I was furious after that and went really aggressive to catch up, I think I was 9th now.. But in being aggressive I missed the first corner checkpoint twice and I accidentally hit a curb and flipped the car over and lost about 20 seconds, and I was in 12th. I basically quit at that point and sent katenhond a message saying what happened, and now I was in 13th, behind katenhond. On the 7th lap or so katenhond waited for me to keep up, I managed to go back to being a minute behind 12th because my car was so damaged and on every corner it scraped the road and put me on 2 wheels.. Then we battled it out and joined the pack, and I got ahead but at the last second I let katenhond take 12th because he deserved it IMO.


After racing in this event, I would like to say how it should be improved and what all endurance championships should learn from this.

1.) Never use the Voltic. Or... Pick good cars in general. The Sultan was good, I heard the Surge was terrible but I was not in that race, the Gauntlet was alright but the track did not suit it well. The F620 is obviously a bad car too, and on top of that the race was wet... Obviously the Voltic is the shittiest car ever, and it is sad that it looks so good because of that, but we did vote for it but that is just because it was the only cheap option. If the Bullet was in the pole, (i dont remember if it was) I bet a lot of people would have voted for that instead of the Voltic if the Voltic was not an option.. Cars we pick should be challenging because they offer something unique about them compared to most cars, not because they do not fit their track or are basically broken like the Voltic.

2.) We need to pick better tracks. This problem isn't as bad but for example, the Sultan was a nice choice but the R* version of Hit the Apex was bad because of obviously that checkpoint on the hairpin that fucked me and others up, but also it is such a long track that it is hard to remember every corner. Also I think on long tracks we should use faster cars, like maybe the 9F or something for Hit the Apex, and the Vacca maybe for North Loop, considering the Bullet is slow. The Rockford Circuit with the Gauntlets was not really a good track either IMO because of all the bumps on some apexes and stuff like that, and then you have the Gauntlet that, as we saw in the race, does not deal with the bumps well at all. So, taking high speed corners with bumps on the apex in a car that can not handle bumps and does not have a spoiler is just dumb.

3.) Team communication. What I mean by this is the teams should make an effort to talk to each other, and practice together to get good lap times down. In the PS3 Endurance single race with the Jesters and Buffalos, I talked with Katenhond a lot and we practiced a ton, and because of that I learned really good lines, I taught Katenhond the mid drive speed boost to help us in the start, and I ended up getting 2nd place. Here, at least on Vinewood Tours, not a single message was sent in our group chat after we found our color combos. I believe other teams were like this too. Also, I don't even think I had a partner in any of the races besides the first one, and if I did, they probably did not use the right colors or I did not know who it was because I don't know who is in my team on PS3.. If we make an effort to practice together, our team stands a much better chance at not winning (Well it does help us win but I am not talking about winning right now because that is not what this is about.), but just doing well and enjoying ourselves.

i was first for a long time (in a long time aswell haha) but then i jumped wide in that bitch of a corner.., and lost a couple of places. well, after that, i lost my focus completely and pindadoper hit me and argghh it was hell from that point onwards but i'm glad i had fearedstraw69 and katenhond2010 on the mic with me, otherwise i would've just rage quitted a long time ago

so true, when did i hit you ?

That's where I lost second as well. I think you were there. It was a giant pack of us, about 4-5 cars going around a single bend and I hit the bush and it slowed me down so I might have caused the crash because of the reactions people made, but I usually don't rejoin the track in a dumb way so I'm not sure. Sorry if I did. =/

You're saying exactly what I want to say. Eventhough I won't say my team communication was rubbish, I understand your frustration. I'm glad you were my teamate back at the Buffalo / Jester endurance.. I'll practise with you for the van multi class endurance.. Teammate or not.. Still I think we should give a big thank you to Jontie, he chose what most of us voted. And if it turned out not to be good at the end, that's just unlucky. The big difference was the small amount of time everyone had to practise, there was just one saterday and sunday were people could play together. And that's just not enough for serious practise.

But still cheers to everyone for all the good races, I'm glad I joined this community.