A-spec Beginners Level Non-Racing Car Challenge: Twin Ring Motegi East Course

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A-spec Beginners Level Non-Racing Car Challenge: Twin Ring Motegi East Course

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[photonrider]

The Midget would be too strong for this race.

Have to think of something else.

 

[Polsixe]

Very slow race on a long dull track. Excruciating.

 

[DisabledRacer]

In the voice of Darrell Waltrip: Boogity boogity boogity, let's go racing boys.... We have a 12 car battle for the win!

 

[Thomas2012]

Very boring race, I'll be sure to challenge myself later. So far I've done it in the Mk1 Golf

 

[photonrider]

In the voice of Darrell Waltrip: Boogity boogity boogity, let's go racing boys.... We have a 12 car battle for the win!

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How did you manage that?

Took a Bluebird in - had fun, then a Cosmo for some daredevil excitement after that.
Here's a slice of my action:

Coming in for the kill - last lap, P1 and P2 ahead of me. I'm looking at the gap.

I go for it; the Cosmo is up to anything.

I grab the gap, but P2 closes in on me:

Meanwhile P1 starts to brake to slow me down and P2 tries to accordian me, so I jump out of the gap.

Which set me up perfectly for a second overtake around the same corner:

I told them to follow the leader

And then I took off like a wild man in the Cosmo.

What a car. Nice chance to take it out.Running ABS 1, TCs 1, no Nos, all off. 400 PP and a hard suspension, a fun drive around the curves of this track and she never runs out of breath on the straight.

Lots more cars in this range to have fun with. Or with which to have fun.

 

[breyzipp]

400 pp & SH?

 

[Saber186]

hardest part of this race is finding a car that low pp n slow lol

 

[cjr3559]

400 pp & SH?

Never understand the irritation with the max tire choices PD allows. Use something less grippy.

 

[breyzipp]

Never understand the irritation with the max tire choices PD allows. Use something less grippy.

Yeah only doing this event in bare bone stock cars so most of them - if not all - come in CS.

 

[cjr3559]

Yeah only doing this event in bare bone stock cars so most of them - if not all - come in CS.

Then try them with CS tires.

 

[breyzipp]

Then try them with CS tires.

Not try... do! Still very easy to win in CS cars just below the 400 pp. But if AI cars had CS as well maybe this would even be possible to win in a stock ~300 pp car.

 

[ALB123]

I don't mind the lower PP events like this one. I just wish they were a little more competitive. Although, this particular event is "Beginners" level, so perhaps I shouldn't complain about the lack of competitiveness. Maybe I should be advocating for 400PP Expert Level races where the AI actually provide a challenge.

I had a Renault Sport Clio R.S. '11 show up at the top of my list of eligible cars (sorted by PP), so I used it. When I finish with the other races I will definitely be back to re-run this race with a less powerful car on CS or CM tires.

 

[NCRthree]

Then try them with CS tires.

Better yet Comfort Hards.

 

[dddsprayshop]

Fiat panda I.E. at 400pp just like i used at suzuka, fun car.

 

[redsuns23]

I'm wondering now what's the slowest car I'll be able to do it with. Gonna do some checking in the evening

 

[breyzipp]

Instead of sorting my premium bare bone stock cars on pp, I sorted them on year instead since I love classic cars the most. The first car on the list which I thought was able to win the event was the BMW 507 '57 which comes at 362 pp and has CS tires. Pretty fun ride and quite challenging with the grid I had but the engine sound of the car is very dull.

When you look at the hood and bumper, before you accuse me of slamming into any cars let me assure you that is not the case! Those Japanese bugs in spring season, man they are huge... HUGE!

 

[UltimateLurker]

'11 Elise, stock gearbox, Exeter tune with a lot of power adders taken off, easy win.

 

[Racin-Rev]

Good race to practice FF corner technique for brake early and power out to minimize understeer. It can also be good practice for trail brake to control the corner. Powering out of the corner seems to produce better times for my driving style.

 

[yikadaemu]

Better yet Comfort Hards.

And for more excitement, run the Stratos on the CH tires! Just couldn't quite catch that lead Mercedes on CH shoes; although, my Stratos did keep it exciting.

 

[SVPSkins]

won with my Mini 1.3i slow but fun race

 

[Xposed2Play]

And let's not forget to mention a Jaguar XKE. Pretty easy win with totally stock set up, downtuned a bit with power limiter to make it legal.

 

[photonrider]

What is this word 'fun' I keep hearing about here? You guys having fun? What! Get serious! This is the problem with beginners. Just having too much fun.


On that note - I didn't have the Cosmo on CHs but if I did that it would be a closer race. I find that I can limit most cars in this class one way or another to max out my skills in keeping up with them - and as we've found out many a time, the AI pace us. If we look at the screenshots provided so far, it ssems like the AI can reach different speeds - some times the same AI Bob being considerably faster or slower according to the player's pace.

I have to say that I can easily get addicted to the 'Beginners' as they call it Level, but insofar as it happens that being classed 'Beginners' it has lower PP events.
That doesn't mean the lower PP events are easier - just at a slower pace - and a lot of strategic overtaking, judicious runs at a corner, using momentum to the full, and so on; in high PP races, the pace is so fast that these situations are fewer and happen quicker to really impact our judgement on the fly.

Overall I think all three events seem like a lot of fun if one knows just how to use the cars in one's garage.
If I have the time, yes, all the ancient Hot Rods are coming out - the 2CV, the Bug, the 360 . . .

Oooops. There I go having fun, too.

 

[breyzipp]

@photonrider yes I agree, I have only done the beginner and intermediate events so far, but because the latter was so fun I didn't even make it to expert yet.

What is also interesting that almost all cars in someone's garage can be used for either one of these 3 events, whether you upgrade or downgrade a car to fit in the pp range. Only pure tuning cars fall out of the boat (and probably also a handful of high pp normal cars and low pp racing cars). So it will surely keep people busy for the next 2 weeks.

 

[helseth]

Stock Nissan Silvia K's Dia Selection CM + non aided = Easy victory.

 

[steve nfs]

Just lower the PP that used on the reverse Madrid from this 2002 Turbo '73 and still using the comfort soft... edit: tune for this track (Non aids/Abs Off)

 

[MTM79]

Opened up with a Volvo 240 GLT Estate.. STOCK. Managed impressive 10th place, 30 seconds behind leader and an overall time of 6:49.

Applied some parts and raced the same race again, 1st place, 2 seconds ahead 2nd place driver and overall time of 5:36.

 

[Delphion]

The 400 PP and SH limits are perfectly fine. I'm using cars in the 350 PP range and either I barely win or lose, depending on my mistakes. The only real problem is the track. I don't like Motegi, but that's not even the point. It's a good course for cars with about 450-500 PP. Cars with less than 400 PP are perfect for city courses, like London a couple of weeks ago. It's nice to be able to use these cars, but a different track would be way more fun.

 

[2cam16]

That was fun with my 338pp Herbie. Won it by about half a lap.

 

[kjb]

Won using a stock Hommell. I think I'll try the AutoZam next