Bonus Race 6 - Indy Road Course - Corvette

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I'm interested to hear what time people are doing and in what Vettes with which mods for this one. I estimate that the leader man is doing 1:38's from the get go.
 
ZR1 '09. No race mod, Comfort hard tyres, everything else. Drifting all the way!
 
Found it quite challenging with the stock ZR1 on racing hards. Don't remember what times I was running but I did beat the Camaro by only about a second.
 
ZR1 '09. No race mod, Comfort hard tyres, everything else. Drifting all the way!

So did you drift or did you win? If the latter, I'd be most interested to see a vid. A stock ZR1 on Comfort Hard tyres would take some driving to it those lap times.
 
So did you drift or did you win? If the latter, I'd be most interested to see a vid. A stock ZR1 on Comfort Hard tyres would take some driving to it those lap times.

I think it wasn't stock:

"ZR1 '09. No race mod, Comfort hard tyres, everything else. Drifting all the way!"
 
I wanted to see if it would accept the ZR1 RM...it did, so I shredded it....:)
 
used the grand sport max tuned engine and stuff
was quite interesting but not hard at the end 15 sec margin
the car had about 480kw so quite eual to the other competitors
 
I think it wasn't stock:

"ZR1 '09. No race mod, Comfort hard tyres, everything else. Drifting all the way!"

I think that would make it even harder. That much power on comfort hards? The Elise was bad enough.
 
Has anyone tried with a RM vette? I just noticed these events to pop up after finishing an endurance race so now im gonna get going on these. I see a lot of you are using the ZR1, I know for an easy beat the ZR1 RM will come in handy. But personally, I'm looking at using a C3 '64 vette. Anyone had any experience with this vehicle yet? Or am I just too underpowered for this race with that vehicle?
 
I'm interested to hear what time people are doing and in what Vettes with which mods for this one. I estimate that the leader man is doing 1:38's from the get go.

Bought the ZR1 '09 for this and was only able to run 1:45 with the stock setup. At that speed all I could do was place 6th.

I then upgraded two small upgrades: racing softs and stage 1 weight reduction. That simple change allowed me to run laps in the mid 1:33s to low 1:34s which of course allowed me to win easily by a 6 second margin. I probably should have done one upgrade at a time to keep it more challenging.
 
Tried this with a bone stock ZR1 that I've had for a while. Wasn't even close to catching up to the leader. The car is a handful to drive with those sport hards. The AI is definitely running on much better tires as even the trucks are cornering as fast as my ZR1. I'm convinced this and the Scud one are not winnable with a completely stock car. Will just wait for the immaculate challenge thread to update before I waste more credits on tuning.
 
It was late and I wanted to go to bed so I tore through this one with a ZR-1 RM. IIRC, I lapped all the trucks by lap 3, and won handily.
 
Bought the ZR1 '09 for this and was only able to run 1:45 with the stock setup. At that speed all I could do was place 6th.

I then upgraded two small upgrades: racing softs and stage 1 weight reduction. That simple change allowed me to run laps in the mid 1:33s to low 1:34s which of course allowed me to win easily by a 6 second margin. I probably should have done one upgrade at a time to keep it more challenging.

Yeah, the huge jump in tires was more than enough for the win. Try to just move up one set of tires while buying the base sub <$1000 parts.
 
Bought the ZR1 '09 for this and was only able to run 1:45 with the stock setup. At that speed all I could do was place 6th.

Yeah, I used my stock Z06 with sport medium tires (and oil change) and was getting similar lap times. I finished 5th or 6th. I have a RM ZR1 but where's the challenge in that? I think I'll buy another ZR1, throw some sport softs on it and have at it.

Though I too want to see what the Immaculate challenge is.
 
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I used the ZR06 RM no challenge there. Thought about switching to one of the older vettes. Curious if anyone has tried that?
 
I bought ZR1 '09 and fully modded it although I chose to use Racing Hard tires for some odd reason. Even though the it was quite drift happy, after tuning it a little. Averaged 1'34 during the challenge. The first time I was 10 seconds away with the DS3 then plugged my G27 in and made a huge difference.
 
I've never bought a ZR-1, so I used my Corvette Stingray '69. It was already fully modified after I used it to win some B-Spec races. Even with the modifications I only won by 4 seconds, but it was just great throwing it into the corners 👍
 
i used my zr1 rm with the settings i use to grind the indy 500 race .. won by about 30 seconds :\
 
I was trying with 1990 ZR-1 all mods and hard racing tyres but could not get him even with several attempts and TC on, closest I got to him he was at the end of the straight as I was about to cross the line. Gave up and grabbed my indy grinder.
 
Has anyone tried with a C1 origonal vette?

Either the Art Morrison one or the UCD one?

I would bet they would do well after some mods with their low weight and decent balance.
 
I bought the ZR1 and got my oil change, added aero kit and soft racing tires. I spun out once in corner 3, but still won by just over 7 seconds.
 
I've never bought a ZR-1, so I used my Corvette Stingray '69. It was already fully modified after I used it to win some B-Spec races. Even with the modifications I only won by 4 seconds, but it was just great throwing it into the corners 👍

Yep. 👍 This is the challange I made for myself. Even with every upgrade it took me a few tries to find just the right transmission setup to win passing the leader on the final lap. I love the difficult handling on the 69 and it made for a great great race.
 
Can the Corvette C5-R be used? If so, that beast will make things really easy. :D
 
Stock C6 Z06:

  • Sport Soft tires
  • Chassis Stiffening
  • Racing Air Filter
  • Sport Cat
  • Sport Headers
  • Racing Suspension

First time I lost by 6.5 seconds. Second time, lost by 1.5 seconds. Third time was the charm, however I barely got past the leader right before the finish line. My main gripe about this race is the fact that the AI cars were timed just right, so I would catch them going into a corner. Lost a bunch of time trying to get around them.

I bought the ZR1 and got my oil change, added aero kit and soft racing tires. I spun out once in corner 3, but still won by just over 7 seconds.

Doesn't matter if the car is stock, Racing softs are the easy road...
 
I just used my ZR1 RM. I always use the beast cars first, then I play around with underpowered cars on the seasonals. It's kinda funny that I do that on this game, when I refuse to use cheats on any other game until I win them. ::SHRUGS::

Anyways, has anyone else been hit by a truck trying not to skid out of control? I was trying to pass a truck at the beginning of the race, he lost traction in front of me, so I took the inside. Upon righting himself, he proceeded to get back on his line. Only problem was that I was already there and he pushed me all the way off the track! GREAT FUN!!!:)
 
I'm convinced this and the Scud one are not winnable with a completely stock car.

Just won the Scuderia event completely stock. No room for a lot of errors, but doable.
 
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