I have posted this already in the photo mode forum, as I connected a short race summary with photographs during S.Masuda racing his heart out in a Ferrari F40.
Here is the short version:
"I have now experienced for the first time a purely thrilling, entertaining race in B-Spec mode.
The usual races are just what most people here call "grinding" - a necessary practice, to level one's drivers and earn money in the process.
I felt highly bored and limited at the same time, having to use the very few controls, one has in B-Spec in it's current state.
I wish for improvement for the future, namely more control, a more team director/ race engineer feel to it with all it's plays and duties (a great opportunity, to finally implement an extensive chassis data recording and displaying telemetry data live and recorded).
So back to the race then - my driver S. Masuda has been leveled up to Level 16 in the course of this weekend. It was the first time, I really paid attention to B-Spec mode and had mostly feelings of impatience and disappointment connected to the many chances, left unused by Masuda San.
I consistently had to provide him the finest, highly tuned racing machines, he demanded, to clear the many races on his way to refining his driving skills to the point, where his big coming out as a fine and highly intelligent racing driver has been dated.
It had been in Le Mans, on the Circuit de la Sarthe, where he fought the greatest battle of his career in racing what turned out, to be an epic showdown between three drivers in three of the greatest super cars in history.
Masuda San had to compete a field full of fast drivers with his fiercest competitors racing an McLaren F1 and a Pagani Zonda down the unforgiving Mulsanne Straight at speeds far higher than 300 km/h.
Masuda had not to fear, standing his grounds with an unequal machine.
As a real race spec machine is not available as of yet in the great world of Gran Turismo, he was given a highly tuned Ferrari F40, to find his match.
The machine, given to him has been extensively raced on the very circuit and it's setup refined during endless sessions, day and night.
a few from the set:
I do photograph motor sports and make prints. When GT5 arrived, I was overwhelmed by it's new photo mode.
There are some kinks, to iron out, but so far everything just fits - from "operating the camera gear" to small things like fully intact EXIF data with exposure information - very well done PD!
Please visit the flickr set, to read up the story of the whole race.
Thanks for looking."
My driver really surprised me with this excellent and most exciting race, that he actually managed to keep my attention to the race.
The Ferrari F40 seems to suit him well. I continue, to let him have this machine, although he always fits and AT and tires, I really do not like on this car.
) Level 35