Car: Lotus Elise 111s '03 (check my setups for settings)

11/10/05 Gave it a whirl,........ 212 hp will not cut it in this race. Changed to Racing Muffler and Stage 2 N/A Tune to get to 246 hp. Gonna go retune to soften the settings and give it a go again. Keep reseting the race until you get the line up with the ASL Garaiya. It's the car to beat here!!!

11/12/05 I'm back, retuned and ready to go,............ all I did was soften the damping a bit and voula! Ran the 'Ring at 7' 38.042 on S3 / S3 tires, Auto set trans at 11 and with a ton more control at the top end.

11/13/05 Update again,.......... Detuned to 234 hp to make it more fair,by loosing the engine chip and going down to a sport muffler. 246 hp made it too easy. Now the ASL Garaiya is much faster in the straights but with carful driving I can catch him in the corners. Good racing that way!!!

11/18/05 Had to drop the HP again. I'm down to 220 hp and going to try it again. The ASL Garaiya is still the class of the of the other cars,..... but if it tries to stretch it's first pitstop to after 7 laps it falls way off the pace, and you have him beat by 3:50.xxx after the next lap. So, in the interest of a good race that I won't doze behind the wheel on, I'm detuning again and starting over. Remember back on 11/10 I started at 212 hp and didn't think that enough,.......... We'll see?

11/22/05 Ok, I finally got this thing done,........ and it was the best race I've ever done in any of the GT Series games,..period, dot!!!

After 3 hours of swapping the lead with the ASL Garaiya in between pitstops, my car was beginning to fade. I found that I was down from 220 hp to 205 hp by the end of the race and my straightaway speeds were down from 150 mph to 135 mph and I was loosing ground to the lead car fast,........... After nearly four hours.... I'm gonna loose this thing.

I've been pitting every three laps on S3/S3 tires and holding my own. At 24 laps I switch to S2/S2 tires and stretch a pit cycle to six laps to match the ASL, but the tires go away at 29 laps and I have to pit at 17 seconds back. After the pit and back to S3/S3 tires, I'm 43 seconds in the rear and pretty much conceeding the race at this point. I get going again only to figure that if I push very hard I can try to push the race an extra lap by getting to the start/finish line before the 4:00.00 mark and maybe catch him comming out of the pits on fresh tires and make up the rest,............ maybe,.... I keep pushing.

The ASL passes the S/F line at 3:59:45.XXX and forces the 31st lap,......... and get this..... he didn't pit after six laps for the first time in the race,....... He pushes the seventh lap on worn tires and falls way off the pace. I catch him at "Miss Hit Miss" and take the lead with half a lap to go. I won by about 30 seconds,........ Great Race!!!!

Here are the Numbers:
Total time: 4:07'41.508
Total laps: 31
Total miles: 399.59
Fastest lap: 7'44.767
Pit every: 3 laps, S3/S3 tires
Horse Power: 220, '03 Lotus Elise 111s

ukproracer, Happy to hear your liking my setups and info on lap times and races. You'll find a lot more info posted in under "'Knowledge Base" in the left margin under Navigation, (third down). Again, happy to have helped out, Brian

Happy to hear you enjoyed the setup,.......... as well as the close racing. I have a hard time looping tracks for hours while being so far ahead. Perfect the way you did it,.......... catching up slowly on technique and pit strategy with a lower Hp car.......... Well done, Brian