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- Mansonite
I'm coming up to the end of an epic PP limited race at Monza in my 430 Scuderia. I've been held up by heaps of slow traffic for the last half a lap and pull into the final straight with my eyes set on the round brake lights of the first placed car... the mighty Nissan GT-R.
It was now or never so I punched the 'noisy pedal' aggressively early through the corner; either I was going to end up drifting around the bend and have no chance of victory... or have the best possible exit speed in hopes of chasing him down the very short straight to the finish line. Luckily it seemed as if the gods themselves were pushing down on the sports-softs I was running with and he, who I noticed pitted one less time than I was not so lucky.
Just at the end of the turn a small spark of smoke lifted from the GT-R's rears and could see him give it a bit of opposite lock to keep it on the black-top... He scrubbed off plenty of speed and I was in with a chance!
I pulled in behind him hoping that the fact I was running with low downforce I wouldnt have to draft him all the way to the finish line where he could just slam on the brakes and win by us both being penalised and ghosting over the line. But it seemed that I was just too far behind, all hope was lost!
Still I kept going, if my G25 racing wheel was made of cheaper materials I believe I would have forced my foot through the accelerator pedal into the floor! JUST KEEP GOING!!!!
I pulled out from behind the GT-R at the absolute last moment, hitting 265kmph side by side with my opponent... BAM... THE RACE IS FINISHED... BUT BUT BUT... WHO WON? I literally could not tell from the race!
I waited what felt like an infinite amount of time for the screen to load the results...
and...
and...
I WON!
The race was so close that the game itself gave us both identical times on the leaderboard, but with me on top!
And just to show you how close a race has to be to give you that kind of result, here is the final moments of the race.
I would consider my victory by about 1-2 inches!
Now if you enjoyed my little story, post pics of your closest finishes!
It was now or never so I punched the 'noisy pedal' aggressively early through the corner; either I was going to end up drifting around the bend and have no chance of victory... or have the best possible exit speed in hopes of chasing him down the very short straight to the finish line. Luckily it seemed as if the gods themselves were pushing down on the sports-softs I was running with and he, who I noticed pitted one less time than I was not so lucky.
Just at the end of the turn a small spark of smoke lifted from the GT-R's rears and could see him give it a bit of opposite lock to keep it on the black-top... He scrubbed off plenty of speed and I was in with a chance!
I pulled in behind him hoping that the fact I was running with low downforce I wouldnt have to draft him all the way to the finish line where he could just slam on the brakes and win by us both being penalised and ghosting over the line. But it seemed that I was just too far behind, all hope was lost!
Still I kept going, if my G25 racing wheel was made of cheaper materials I believe I would have forced my foot through the accelerator pedal into the floor! JUST KEEP GOING!!!!
I pulled out from behind the GT-R at the absolute last moment, hitting 265kmph side by side with my opponent... BAM... THE RACE IS FINISHED... BUT BUT BUT... WHO WON? I literally could not tell from the race!
I waited what felt like an infinite amount of time for the screen to load the results...
and...
and...
I WON!
The race was so close that the game itself gave us both identical times on the leaderboard, but with me on top!
And just to show you how close a race has to be to give you that kind of result, here is the final moments of the race.
I would consider my victory by about 1-2 inches!
Now if you enjoyed my little story, post pics of your closest finishes!
