GT4 Endurance Race Blog

Hello, the day has finally come for our 24 hour endurance race, we're going to be posting updates regularly so keep an eye on this for our thoughts of what's happening today!

11:40: Well, just getting everything set up at the moment, getting ready to record the podcast with no plan whatsoever! Here are some pictures I took as we were getting ready.

11:50:Waiting for the crew to arrive, listening to dramatic MGS music get us in the mood, will probably hear it later.

14:39:Podcast done, slight problem however. None of us can remember the password or username for our podcast hoster...whoops....

15:00: Would start now, but still got to delay it, aiming to film some intro shots soon. Found an alternative way for the podcast to be posted, will be here soon! Hell, I may go into stressed mode soon.

15:22: We're getting there, podcast on its way, should be starting around 4ish, going to be a long long time. Filmed some introduction scenes and we're almost ready to go.

15:22: Here's the podcast, with the second segment. (podcast has now been moved to a seperate post)

16:38 We are around 30 minutes into the race, Josh is driving. We had some serious Tyre problems in the first few laps and by the time we had fixed it we were in 6th place and a whole 6 minutes behind first place. Still, we have enough time to catch up...

16:55 We are now in 5th place and approaching the one hour mark. The new tyres seem to be working fine and we are establishing a pitting routine.

17:01 Wahey, we just hit the one hour mark. Only 23 hours left to go then...

17:20 More good news, after a number of fast laps Josh has got into 4th place and we are now on the tail of the 3rd place car. Currently we are managing to pit every 3rd lap which is not ideal because most of the AI can last longer than us.

17:41 Josh took 3rd place but then crashed almost immediately afterwards allowing him to be overtaken and put back into 4th place. Eventually he pulled back into 3rd position and then overtook the car in front thinking he would be in 2nd place but it turned out he had only lapped the car in last place.

18:30:Josh is here, and phew that was fairly tough, but not as boring as I thought it would be, now we eating our food and supporting Matt!

19:44: Matt has beat my lap time of 7mins by 10 seconds. He's going OK, not far off first comparatively.

20:06: Just been playing around with the camera, recording little updates of whats been going on, got quite a lot of footage at the moment, should be able salvage, oo I don't know, about 5 mins of good footage from it. And he's nearly about to overtake.

20:12: Someone looks determined, don't they!

20:42: Matt has repeated my mistake by forgetting to pit, he struggles round a lap and gets overtaken in the process...silly boy. Well, in his last action before I take over, lets see if he can pull us back in front.

20:44: Time for me to get ready to go.

20:53 Matt is here again and I'm very tired after my rather dramatic 2:30 hour stint in the car. You'll be glad to hear that I did manage to pull us back into first place so all that's left for Josh to do is keep the lead.

22:53 Well we over a quarter of the way through the race, we are firmly in first place and so far have completed 55 laps of the track. Right now, the end seems a very long way away

23:40: Yes it does seem a very long way away now. It's Josh again, and its nice to have a bit of a break, but I have to do that 4 more times at least...phew.

00:33: Boy it's late here, we've now all switched over to 'GT Time' as our late night pizza and coolant (soft drinks) need to be sorted out, Matt is still going, although is zoned out completely.

09:39: Hello again, good morning and all that. Matt is racing at the moment, got the hard part out the way, the night shift was very difficult. At the moment we are 17 hours and 38 minutes in, and are in the lead. And this morning I was greeted with a copyright notice from EA themselves, lovely.

10:15: Apart from Matt's occasional moaning that I seem to be rigging the time to make him go longer, we're getting through it. My next session should be my last and Matt will be crossing the finish line. Hopefully. In the mean time, sleep depravation causes incredible stress at my broken Internet connection, its being a pain.

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This post basically stopped then for various reasons and we will be posting more in-depth looks at the event soon. But we are really tired at the moment, so all the media etc will be sorted out either on Thursday or Friday.