Another day another Ferrari. It's fun making up 14 positions per race, however everything gets old after a while. So when I reached DR.A I ran a qualifying lap in between races. Barely made it before matching and got awarded with 12th as a starting position... (I started 10th without qualifying earlier in the day) The competition had arrived at the same time.
Thus gone was my luxury of a relaxed T1. Starting 12th, hold on to your seat, take the corner on muscle memory while watching radar, mirror and ghosts in front all at the same time. Then again at the bridge under pass. Without ghosting the race would be pretty much over after the first few turns.
After qualifying my finish position also went down to 8th. That had more to do with racing in prime time, what a difference with that A/S to D/B room in the afternoon. All SR.S, nothing below DR.B
That was the 9pm EST (6pm PST) race.
And it's clear what you should be driving if you want to win at max SR
Making up 4 positions is definitely not as exciting as 14. Although it's actually more than 4 as during prime time I get passed in the pit again by the short shift crew. I guess I should try the Pug, however since I drive AT and already need to drive in FM2 for 3 half laps in the Ferrari I might not get very far with it. From my tests on Panorama the Peugeot used 1.12x more fuel than the Ferrari. Need to draft a lot I guess.
Perhaps it's time for Bathurst instead. I already messed up by pitting in lap 4 by mistake and had to finish a race in fuel map 4 and 5. Perhaps no racing at all tomorrow, big storm is coming!
For about 6 months I played GT Sport off line and enjoyed it. Eventually I took a leap and paid for a PS+ account simply to play this game online. I love the buzz, the adrenaline rush I when the lights go out and the tremble in the hand when you're on the last corner with someone up your tail and trying to keep it steady. It's a totally different experience. But the penalty system is absolutely head wrecking. My SR was destroyed a couple of weeks back so I worked my ass off and got it back to 99. In the space of a couple of Daliy A races, not dirty but a few errors on all fronts it drops back to 71. Let's remember, the majority of us we are part time gamers here, not full time pros. A lot like me dip in for a few minutes after work and after family are gone to bed. We intend to race clean, can put in a decent lap and make an honest effort to allow others their fun but if you want to replay the race and hold it to the same scrutiny as an F1 pundit on a Sunday afternoon then yes, we're abject failures. Most bumps I give and receive I'd put down to simple and forgivable, even if at times silly, errors. Anyway my SR drops back to 71 for what was essentially 4 to 5 errors over 2 to 3 races where nothing went off track other than the few wing mirrors that were knocked off. So, I go back and race 100% safe. No bumps, no rubs, no offs. Start 5th and finish 5th. DR and SR stay exactly the same. So, the head wreckingnessidity of it is...you can lose a huge amount of SR for a few minor bumps, even if they shouldn't happen they are still minor, but if you race 100% clean you do not advance a single point.
A better showing the second time for sure though. Even though on turn 1 I was forced to ride the wall and picked up a 20 SECOND PENALTY! I could at least see the competition ahead of me the whole race until I ran out of fuel on the final straight
. The grid was made up of my peeps, mostly DR/D with a some Cs. 
. the gap was 0.2s through The Chase and I was expecting to get passed exiting Murray's. The Veyron is a behemoth. I changed my greeting to "Long wide load coming through" for the race 
. The only way I could manage was to brake earlier than I'd have liked and change the brake bias to -5. 
! Another day above DR 1 
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