My Diaries

A Lurid Tale of Obsession, Depravity, Wits and Attempted Wit

Sat Apr 17, 1999

I Finally Get a Complete Set of Gold Cups

I think perhaps Jody suggested to me that I try a tuned GTO twinturbo in the Japanese International series as practice. Well, that seemed to do the trick.

I finessed myself a red '95 GTO twinturbo MR. By that I mean I went back to a day 17 B license card, winning the Sunday Cup with a stock '93 Civic 3dr Si, and then buying the available red '95 GTO MR, and saving the game temporarily so I could Memory Card Trade it to my "real" game. Red cars are best.

First of all I took that red tuned '95 GTO MR to UKvsJP, won a Cerbera, but still green, 2nd time won a black del Sol.

Then with the same car, I did a near sweep of USvsJP with same won by lots (45 to 2nd place 22), and finally won a Viper GTS-R with green, as opposed to blue, stripes. Another near sweep of USvsJP, 45 to 27, won a green FTO LM

The I entered the race I had been pracising for:

SSR11 All-Night ii GTO'95 MR

q1st 1:55.342rec

I then tried the USvsJP again, and came third at Trial Mountain (tired, I guess), but won 40 to 28, and this time I won a black FTO LM!!! Yet another new prize car!!!

So then I got brave and tried the Hard-Tuned Car Speed Contest, hoping to get at least silver this time.

1st 38 to 26 points.

In the Hard-Tuned (aka Abnormal Car) Contest, I swept everything but the Autumn Ring ii, ie. poles and wins. Hey, at the Autumn Ring that @!*@*! two-wheeling Civic nearly beat me!!!! I had to outdrag it on the finishing straight. The two points meant that, due to other cars exchanging points, I could not lose the series, since I was leading 29 to 20. (It's difficult in these series to not earn at least one point in a race) But, nonetheless I won the SSR11ii and won the series cleanly 38 to 26. Most races I did with turbo spec 4, and semi-racing muffler. It occurred to me halfway through Autumn Ring that I should have used less turbo there, but later time trials did not back that up. Sure, I was able to put in a good time with spec 2(3?), but when I put spec 4 back I was able to beat it. So perhaps a good practice technique is to gradually build up to maximum power.

I won the Toyota Trueno ; white, even

I then swept the JPvsUK series, but won another black del Sol

So now I've got all my gold race trophies. I don't suppose I'll ever get my gold license tests, though. I *did* think tuned car series might be beyond me, but, well...