GTAO Race Club
A dedicated forum for the Race Club events organized by @doubleg213.
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GTA V Race Club News and Updates Thread 1 2
by doubleg213- 28 replies
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Greetings, this is the spot to discuss Race Club events. The first rule of Race Club is that you do not talk about Race Club. The second rule of Race Club is, actually you should probably ignore rule 1 or no one will join. Like the Time Trials for various reasons, I ended up not running these during 2018 (my total event count was 3 or 4 including VANS events down from 50 or so per year previously). Race Club events will dovetail with the Time Trials to hopefully give added value should you need to buy a car for the Time Trials, hopefully, you should end up in profit. This will mostly be one-off events, however, I do have intentions for some ongoin…
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GTA V RACE CLUB RACING RULES
by doubleg213- 0 replies
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I shall expand on this with images later but the basic expected standards are as follows. RACING RULES First corner! We do not need a mass pileup every time. 16+ into 1 doesn't go, respect those around you and try to realise you can't win in turn 1 but you can ruin both yours and others race. No pit manoeuvres. If the car in front of you is sideways and you cannot drive around it tapping them is to be avoided, it's up to you to find a way around. Using the car in front of you as a brake is unacceptable. No weaving on straights to stay ahead, racing etiquette is that you are allowed one manoeuvre. If there is a massive pileup and…
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The God of Hellfire - 19th October 2019 1 2
by doubleg213- 27 replies
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One of the Casino cars that I was absolutely delighted to see would come in as an option as I love the real car. MEETUP We Will Meet Up in Los Santos at the car park of Los Santos Customs. Anyone arriving late will still be able to join, but will obviously need to wait until a gap in the races to be invited. RACES/TRACKS The races will be a mixture of Stunt and Regular races either based on real world American racing circuits or in that essence. We will also take in some oval/stock car type races on both full size and road ovals. One of these will include catchup and slipstream. Racing will be contact and we'll operate the rotati…
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Vapid Dominator VS Sprunk Buffalo - 5th October 2019
by doubleg213- 14 replies
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MEETUP We Will Meet Up in Los Santos at the car park of Los Santos Customs. Anyone arriving late will still be able to join, but will obviously need to wait until a gap in the races to be invited. RACES/TRACKS The races will be a mixture of Stunt and Regular races either based on real world American racing circuits or in that essence. We will also take in some oval/stock car type races on both full size and road ovals. One of these will include catchup and slipstream. Racing will be contact and we'll operate the rotating grid format so everyone gets at least one run from the front of the grid, so if you start at the back please try and remem…
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Brioso Racing Cup - Saturday 21st September 2019
by doubleg213- 12 replies
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MEETUP We Will Meet Up at the car park of Al Dente's restaurant in Vespucci so we can take in some fine Italian dining before racing commences. The lobby will be open from 8PM with the intention of starting racing at 8:15 PM. Anyone arriving late will still be able to join, but will obviously need to wait until a gap in the races to be invited. RACES The races will take a sprint format, with the intention being that each race should only be around 4 minuntes. Racing will be contact and we'll operate the rotating grid format so everyone gets at least one run from the front of the grid, so if you start at the back please try and remember that we h…
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Sentinel Touren Wagen Cup - Sat 7th September 2019
by doubleg213- 11 replies
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MEETUP We Will Meet Up at the car park of our event sponsors p*sswasser in the less than glamorous industrial area of Cypress Flats. The lobby will be open from 8PM with the intention of starting racing at 8:15 PM. Anyone arriving late will still be able to join, but will obviously need to wait until a gap in the races to be invited. RACES The races will take a sprint format, with the intention being that each race should only be around 4 minuntes. Racing will be contact and we'll operate the rotating grid format so everyone gets at least one run from the front of the grid, so if you start at the back please try and remember that we have racing r…
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Karin Kuruma Cup - CANCELLED
by doubleg213- 16 replies
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Friday 23rd August 8PM UK This could be a bit chaotic but hey we're going to give it a go anyway. Event format will be a mixture of regular racing where we will just race as normal, a structured rally cross event (actually running heats, then finals etc.) and a mini rally. The usual racing rules will apply, see the pinned thread in this section for clarity if you are unsure. The car used must be the regular Karin Kuruma, not the armoured version.
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Anny Elegy Super Series - Friday 9th August 2019
by doubleg213- 19 replies
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Running on the 9th August 2019 taking place at various venues around Los Santos and even a small trip to Australia via Asia we shall be having a racing night featuring the Elegy. Both the RH8 and Retro are eligible so whatever you prefer is fine to use. We will meet up at the Oriental Theater on Vinewood Boulevard. Meetup from 8PM UK with racing starting at around 8:15. Usual racing rules will be applied and we'll be doing the usual rotating grid so everyone gets a shot at starting from the front.
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Friday 26th April 2019 - 8PM UK / 7PM UTC This will be a tester even for an idea I have and have had for a very long time for an ongoing championship. We shall be using the rather lovely Benefactor Schafter V12 and using a variety of tracks either replicating or inspired by old school DTM type tracks. The aim is to have a test run and see how well the cars perform in a tight grid with several drivers. The lobby will be up at around 7:50 to get people in and we'll launch the playlist around 8:15 once everyone is in. Initially, we shall meet up at the Benefactor dealership in Vinewood. And here is some classic DTM for you in the meantime…
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Coupe des Felons Friday 17th May 2019
by doubleg213- 7 replies
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Date and Time: Friday 17th May 2000 (BST) / 1900 (UTC) The Racing Rules will be applied for all races with the exception of a possible Demo Derby type race and there will be a couple of less serious races which may have an inevitable contact element. But still try and respect those around you. My patented rotating grid will be in operation so that everyone gets a chance to start at the front. Any questions or queries feel free to ask.
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PS4 Auto Testing - Friday 12th April 2019
by doubleg213- 19 replies
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Date & Time : Friday 12th April 2019 - 2000 (BST) / 1900 (UTC) Limited to 16 places maximum, although if we had 16 players I will drop out to just do some recording and photographs etc. The night will comprise of 4 tests, one demo so everyone understands the format and then 3 timed which will be competitive. Each test will run as follows: One "sighting lap" so everyone knows the layout and route they are taking (at the end of this DO NOT CROSS THE FINISH LINE). One fast lap which should comprise your fastest lap of the race and will be your time for the test. One final lap, which is just a free for all until everyone fi…
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The Dukes of Blaine County - Friday 29th March 2019
by doubleg213- 18 replies
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Date and Time: Friday 29th March 1900 (GMT) / 1900 (UTC) The Racing Rules will be applied for all races with the exception of some Demo Derby type action and there will be a couple of less serious races which may have an inevitable contact element. But still try and respect those around you. My patented rotating grid will be in operation so that everyone gets a chance to start at the front. Any questions or queries feel free to ask.
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Rate the Last Film you Watched 2: Electric Boogaloo
Saltburn (2023) dir Emerald Fennell Barry Keoghan stars as student Oliver who becomes friends with the very wealthy Felix (Jacob Elordi) and gets invited to spend the summer holiday at his family's country estate, Saltburn. To me, Keoghan is most famous for his role in The Killing of a Sacred Deer, and that makes plot similarities stand out a bit more as Oliver works his way into Felix's family, in an increasingly creepy way. It's a bit nauseating at times, I assume intentionally. Two scenes in particular came close to being un-watchable for me as I have quite low tolerance for anything gross to do with various bodily fluids. Not one to watch while you are eating! I didn't see exactly where the plot was going but how it ended was not a surprise. However the actual last 10 – 15 mins seemed quite rushed, as if the writer wanted to include more but someone decided the film could not be any longer. The acting is very good, particularly Keoghan plus Rosamund Pike and Richard E Grant as Felix's parents. 8 / 10 -
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Rate the Last Film you Watched 2: Electric Boogaloo
What I Watched This Week #114 (March 4 – 10) La Pointe-Courte dir. Agnes Varda/1955/1h20m The debut film from one of my favourite filmmakers, Agnes Varda, is also the starting point for one of the most influential cinematic movements in history, the French new wave, often wrongly credited to Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless in 1960. It is a film of two halves. One a portrait of the titular fishing village where we take in the various local characters and their everyday problems ranging from government interference in their fishing operations due to pollution to the illness of a young child. The second half looks closer still at the troubled marriage between two unnamed people (Philippe Noiret, Silvia Monfort). La Pointe-Courte is his hometown and she is visiting from Paris to see whether their relationship can still work, paralleling the troubled community itself. A blend of fiction and almost documentary like observation this non judgemental look at the lives of the working class prefigures later documentary works of Varda's like The Gleaners and I made forty five years later. But that documentary style doesn't stop the film from being beautifully shot with some very striking compositions, especially when, during a conversation between the two, the two faces of the leads are blended together in a very impressionistic way that reminded me of a shot from Ingmar Bergman's Persona. There are times when the film feels a bit ponderous and it does lack a lot of the playfulness of Varda's best films but that is made up for by the sheer number of cats prominently featured. 8/10 Two George Melies shorts: The Man with the Rubber Head 1901/3m The Diabolic Tenant 1909/7m These two films from the man who put the magic in the movies showcase his talents but at two different points in his career and really highlights the progress he made in just a few years. The Man with the Rubber Head is a simple gag film with Melies playing a man who inflates a head (also Melies) to gigantic proportions before an explosive punchline. In The Diabolic Tenant Melies plays a devilish trickster who rents out a room, furnishing it all from one trunk like an evil Mary Poppins. His furniture comes to life and he is banished so has to pack up in a hurry before scarpering. Both these films make charming use of the camera trickery that he discovered by accident in 1896 which allowed him to make things disappear in a puff of smoke right before our eyes. We see him advance these techniques in these films with him playing with perspective and masking off parts of the film allowing him to pull off tricks that he could never do on the stage. That's what makes watching these films still so enchanting over one hundred years later, the wonder that Melies has at the possibilities of this new toy called film and the ways he could use it to make people gasp at things they've never seen before. The Man with the Rubber Head – 7/10 The Diabolic Tenant – 8/10 Murder Ahoy dir. George p*llock/1964/1h33m The last of the four Miss Marple films starring Margaret Rutherford sees the elderly amateur sleuth and professional busybody investigating an old warship, the HMS Battledore – which is now being used to rehabilitate wayward youths, after one of the trustees of the ship suddenly dies after a visit. This is the first film in the series not based on a story by Agatha Christie, but the writers did an excellent job in crafting a classic whodunnit in her style. There are a hatful of creditable suspects, a couple of extra murders once the investigation has started and a satisfying reveal which culminates in a swordfight between the murderer and Marple, who still has some moves. My favourite thing about this film is the interplay between Marple and the highly strung captain of the ship Captain Rhumstone (Lionel Jeffries), who can't get her off the ship quick enough, so naturally Marple delights in extending her stay for as long as she can. Rutherford is, as always, delightful in the lead role. Cunning and playful in equal measures with a startlingly expressive face she is just a joy to spend time with, so it was a little sad when the credits ran and our time together was over. 8/10 Poor Things dir. Yorgos Lanthimos/2023/2h22m The latest film from the director of The Favourite and The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Poor Things stars Emma Stone - who recently won the best actress Oscar for this role - as Bella Baxter, a woman with the mind of an infant who is an experiment of the Frankenstein-esque Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe), who she refers to as God. Wanting to leave the small, safe world that he has made for her, wanting to grow as a person and to learn new things and to travel and experience the world she decides to run off with the slimy lawyer Duncan Wedderburn (Mark Ruffalo), leaving behind Godwin's sweet assistant Max McCandles (Ramy Youssef). This is a coming of age story taking cues from Frankenstein, Pinocchio and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and shining it through the grotesque, absurd and sexually liberated lens of Yorgos Lanthimos. Stone fully deserves her Oscar. Bella is such a unique, fully realised character who grows throughout the film more than any other character I've ever seen. Starting as a literal baby we follow her through all of the stages of development and she embodies them so fully that it's totally disarming. The score also follows this development. It starts as discordant and atonal, like a child bashing tunelessly on a piano, but as Bella develops and grows the melodies grow more complex until, by the end, it is a fully developed and complex orchestral score. The direction is also unique and distinctly Lanthimos's own with the best use of the fish-eye lens since late nineties skate videos. The production design is just as unique, presenting us with a beautifully artificial world that feels like the perfect playground for Bella. The rest of the performances are excellent, with Ruffalo being just as good as Stone. His Wedderburn is like an evil David Niven, and it's so fun to see him break down more and more as he realises that Bella is a woman that he can't possess until he's just a shell of a man pulling out his hair screaming in the Parisian snow. This film is a lavish feast for the senses in every respect and one that will stay with you long after the final shot. 10/10 Lime's Film of the Week! The Holdovers dir. Alexander Payne/2023/2h13m Winter 1970 in a prestigious private school, Paul Giamatti plays ancient history teacher Paul Hunham who has been chosen to stay at the school over the winter break to babysit the small handful of students who have nowhere to go. Pretty much universally disliked by both students and faculty, Hunham slowly starts to form a bond with smart but troubled teenager Angus (Dominic Sessa) and the school's cook Mary (Da'Vine Joy Randolph, winner of this year's best supporting actress Oscar) who is grieving the death of her teenage son who was killed in Vietnam, with the trio eventually forming their own found family. Giamatti really shines in a rare leading role, really taking the opportunity to flex his acting chops and carry a film. I always love seeing actors mostly known for supporting roles excel in the lead like Harry Dean Stanton in Paris, Texas and Giamatti is just as good here. It's a testament to both his ability and the script that you want to spend as much time as you do with such a curmudgeon. But this isn't just a one note character, with more and more layers slowly revealed which leads up to a pretty heroic ending where he does more for this one kid than any teacher before. Randolph is brilliant as Mary, showing a different side to the world than you would normally see in such an elite setting and is really the heart of the film. Sessa is decent in his debut role, but I just didn't really like his character, which may be the point with him being like a young version of Hunham, but teenagers like that are just annoying as f*ck. This is a coming of age film, but it's the coming of age of a grown *ss man and a reminder that it's never too late. 8.5/10 The Iron Claw dir. Sean Durkin/2023/2h12m The Iron Claw tells the true story of the legendary Von Erich wrestling family who were huge in the 80's, the four brothers ruled over with an iron claw by patriarch Fritz Von Erich (Holt McCallany). Told from the perspective of Kevin Von Erich (Zac Efron) we experience the highs and mostly lows that this family went through. I had a little knowledge of this story before watching this film but I was not prepared for how sad it is, and the amazing thing is that the actual real story is even sadder. Kevin spends a lot of the film scared that he will pass on the Von Erich curse to his wife Pam (Lily James) and young children and when you see what happened to his brothers you might start to think that he's not just being superstitious. Like The Wrestler this is a film that has a love for the sport but portrays it as it really is. The scenes showing in ring action are really well done and the direction makes it feel like a TV broadcast from the period giving it a real feeling of authenticity. Efron and Jeremy Allen White and Harris Dickinson who play Kerry and David Von Erich all look like the real deal and could probably wrestle a decent match in real life. Also like The Wrestler, you don't need to know anything about wrestling to enjoy this film. If anything, I think you may get more out of it if you don't know anything because it really is quite unbelievable. The performances are all of the highest quality. I'm a big fan of Dickinson's from Triangle of Sadness and Scrapper and he continues a run of excellent and varied performances here, even pulling off a pitch perfect Texas accent, but the real standout is Efron who has left High School Musical long behind him, giving a performance here that had me in tears at the last scene. 9/10 The Champion dir. Charlie Chaplin/1915/31m An ambitiously long early short film from Chaplin sees his little tr*mp and his adorable bulldog companion becoming a boxing champion thanks to some luck and a horseshoe hidden in his glove. He is trained to fight the world champion, threatened to throw the fight and falls in love with the trainers daughter, played by Chaplin mainstay Edna Purviance, all within half an hour. It makes Raging Bull look dull and boring in comparison. Some fantastically slapstick fights are the highlights of this film with Chaplin coming out on top despite his clumsy awkwardness. What's great about Chaplin is how he hardly uses any intertitles, relying on performance to tell the story for the most part. He knows to keep it simple and relatable, and in his immortal character of the downtrodden everyman he is able to insert himself into any situation and we will cheer for him. When he becomes world champion we become world champion and life becomes a little better, even if just for a moment. This isn't a masterpiece like a lot of his other, later films, but here he is already a genius honing his craft to the finest edge. 7/10- 1
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Earthling (2010) dir Clay Liford A low-budget sci-fi set at the current time, based on a good idea but just not that well executed. It begins with the crew of space station encountering a mysterious object, followed a strange “atmospheric event” over the US. The main character, Judith (Rebecca Spence) crashes her car during this event and in the aftermath starts to notice skin from here scalp coming away and strange growths appearing. She is contacted by others who are experiencing the same things, and they come to realise they are aliens, stranded on Earth, having taken over human bodies and then forgot about their true origins. The acting is just about OK from the main characters but not so from some of the support. I think it is the script that really lets this down though. Some of the lines feel a bit banal, and many aspects of the story remain unexplained. Other than that it is reasonably well made and has a nice soundtrack (no idea who by, various artists judging by the credits). One thing I found very weird though was the colour and lighting. In some scenes everything is very pale, almost black and white (see start of trailer) and sometimes it seemed one character would be shown like this whilst another in the same scene was in normal colour – the reasons why or even if that was intentional remain a mystery to me. 5 / 10- 2
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