Tonight I finished the Formula GT Championship with a gold medal. Two tracks were giving me a lot of trouble. Laguna Seca and Cote d'Azur. For now I just bailed on both of them since I had enough points for the win. The F686/M proved to be more than enough car to get me through these tracks, here are tonight's times. All of the following races were gold except for two.
Seattle Circuit: 54:21:703
Grand Valley Speedway: 42:52:660
Super Speedway: 24:17:323
Rome Circuit: 32:46:259
Test Course: 44:14:713
Laguna Seca Raceway: quit
Apricot Hill Raceway: 29:59:321
Tokyo Route 246: 34:10:550
Cote d'Azur: quitI went to see Mary Timony from Helium at Bottom of the Hill last night. Overall I'd have to say the show didn't come off that great in the live setting. The songs are obviosly very interesting but the sound and persormance didn't do it for me.
If you want to get an idea of what they sound like you can check out this MP3 of 'Blood Tree' from Matador.
Funny cartoon about corporate culture or filing systems, you decide.
Tonight I started the Formula GT Championship, it's one of the last two Professional Mode series races I have left to finish. The car I'm using is the F686/M. I finished the first race, Mid-Field Raceway in first place. The 30 lap race took me 30:29:722 to complete.
Mid-Field is a really fast track with most laps taking around 57 seconds to complete. As usual a good racing line requires just the right amount of early braking to allow for a smooth acceleration out of the corners.
I did a few warmup laps on Seattle Circuit after I finished Mid-Field Raceway. I'm really gonna need some help on this track. My racing line is not consistent at all.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has a great new Flash game on their site today. It's called The Carabella Game and it is a 'choose your own adventure' game that teaches you about the traps and pitfalls of copyright, privacy, and electronic monitoring.
I donated some of my time to help them with the navigation scheme and they were great to work with. I highly recommend seeking out causes that you believe in and finding some small way that you can help. Thanks to Mark and everyone else for all the work that went in to making this possible.
