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- Vancouver, BC
I grew up watching a lot of Best Motoring and Initial D. Naturally, I like the idea of driving underpowered cars (relatively speaking) fast on a narrow, windy road. Taking a break from Sport Mode, I decided to create my own lobby to see if I can get some fun, clean racing done. So I set the conditions to <400 horsepower, sports soft only with tuning allowed, 1 lap of the Nordschleife, and sat back to see what would happen when people start joining.
Magic. Magic is what happens.
At first there was only one or two participants in my little experiment. So we raced each other in JDM sports cars with decent results. And then, the lobby grew. All of a sudden, I got 5 people in a race. I got in my Initial D-inspired RX-7 with just 350 horsepower (anything beyond that and the car gets hairy), and started the race.
Turn 1
What resulted was probably one of the most fun racing I have ever experienced in any driving games ever. The racing was clean, people were careful around the corners (driving anything other than 4WD could be quite difficult at the ring if you are running sports soft), and no one has an absurd amount of power that they would pull away in the long straights. People were also surprisingly respectful, and gave each other room. Even when there were times when contact was involved (it happens), people slowed down to allow the person in front to recover.
The difference between first position and last (aka me for most of the race) was 7 seconds at most. This was for the entire lap.
This guy in the S-FR led for 2/3 of the race. He did suffer in the straights though.
Once it got to the twisty section, all of us were literally neck-and-neck, plenty of positions changed corner to corner. The race is still very clean -- no dive bombers, no punting. All overtaking attempts were done carefully to avoid wiping out. At this rate, I got so excited I started yelling at the TV, amazed at how much fun this was.
I even got up to 4th!
Unfortunately, my RX7 did struggle in the straight too, since I wasn't running with a lot of power, and opted to leave the transmission untouched. It was massive fun in the corners though. I even started pushing a guy who showed up in a Gr. 4 Genesis. Alas, I ran onto the grass a couple of times and lost time that way, which meant that the GT-R in the back caught up.
By the time we rolled up to the final section of the lap, this is what it looked like:
At the end of the long straight, I was barely able to keep up with the pack. Despite that, I made it up at the last couple of corners, and even stole 4th from the GT-R who ran wide in the last corner.
In the end, the S-FR held on for the win. The difference between him and the last person to cross the finish line was a mere 5 seconds.
I ended the race with a huge grin, despite the fact that I didn't even make podium. It was a great laugh and it greatly satisfied my touge racing urge. Makes me wish that they do this a little more with Sport Mode instead of running with Gr.3 and Gr.4 cars all the time.
Try this out, folks. You won't be disappointed.
Additional note: 2 races, and the daily workout is done. I can't think of a more fun way to do the daily workout than this.
Magic. Magic is what happens.
At first there was only one or two participants in my little experiment. So we raced each other in JDM sports cars with decent results. And then, the lobby grew. All of a sudden, I got 5 people in a race. I got in my Initial D-inspired RX-7 with just 350 horsepower (anything beyond that and the car gets hairy), and started the race.
Turn 1
What resulted was probably one of the most fun racing I have ever experienced in any driving games ever. The racing was clean, people were careful around the corners (driving anything other than 4WD could be quite difficult at the ring if you are running sports soft), and no one has an absurd amount of power that they would pull away in the long straights. People were also surprisingly respectful, and gave each other room. Even when there were times when contact was involved (it happens), people slowed down to allow the person in front to recover.
The difference between first position and last (aka me for most of the race) was 7 seconds at most. This was for the entire lap.
This guy in the S-FR led for 2/3 of the race. He did suffer in the straights though.
Once it got to the twisty section, all of us were literally neck-and-neck, plenty of positions changed corner to corner. The race is still very clean -- no dive bombers, no punting. All overtaking attempts were done carefully to avoid wiping out. At this rate, I got so excited I started yelling at the TV, amazed at how much fun this was.
I even got up to 4th!
Unfortunately, my RX7 did struggle in the straight too, since I wasn't running with a lot of power, and opted to leave the transmission untouched. It was massive fun in the corners though. I even started pushing a guy who showed up in a Gr. 4 Genesis. Alas, I ran onto the grass a couple of times and lost time that way, which meant that the GT-R in the back caught up.
By the time we rolled up to the final section of the lap, this is what it looked like:
At the end of the long straight, I was barely able to keep up with the pack. Despite that, I made it up at the last couple of corners, and even stole 4th from the GT-R who ran wide in the last corner.
In the end, the S-FR held on for the win. The difference between him and the last person to cross the finish line was a mere 5 seconds.
I ended the race with a huge grin, despite the fact that I didn't even make podium. It was a great laugh and it greatly satisfied my touge racing urge. Makes me wish that they do this a little more with Sport Mode instead of running with Gr.3 and Gr.4 cars all the time.
Try this out, folks. You won't be disappointed.
Additional note: 2 races, and the daily workout is done. I can't think of a more fun way to do the daily workout than this.
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