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Classic Muscle Car Seasonal
Ran this a couple of times as thought I would finish off my muscle car collection with the following results.

Race 1
Only one rabbit - Buick Special
Caught this beginning of lap 3, grief that thing takes off left me for dead down the straights.

Race 2
Two rabbits or so I thought - Cobra & the Buick Special
Well will you look at that I am slowly gaining on the Buick down the straight till I run out of steam.
The Cobra doesn't seem to be accelerating as fast as the Buick did in race 1 either though its still romping away.

Go figure
 
.............Oi, doesn't that Buick have, like, 600+ horses? Yeah go figure.
Hey, did ya change the transmission? I mean, most muscle cars in GT run out of steam by the time they are anywhere near 110-120 mph/190-200 kph....
Most of the time the rabbits I chase are Ford GT40 and two Cobras so you've actually lucked out there....
 
Rubberbanding at work again, I think. Noticed the lap times for those two cars vary pretty wildly depending on whether you are in front or behind them and whether they are leading or not.
 
I managed to pass the Cobra at the end of the 1st lap carefully pushing my GT350 round the track, and left it along the straight, only for it to be stuck to my back bumper for the remaining two laps :irked: Gotta admit things are getting worse and worse with rubberbanding, even when I'm using cars right on the upper PP limit
 
It was not rubber banding the 2nd race the Buick was just way slower all through the race.
Maybe the best car only gets a better AI pilot & the rest are really bad.
My car was stock straight out the dealers topped out at just under 120mph slightly before the end of the straight.
Till then ridiculously in race 2 I was gaining very slowly on the Buick in a heavier car with 2/3rds of the horsepower.
First race it took off & opened up a gap of about half the length of the straight like you might expect.

Truth is they may as well scrap single player, modelling the cars is pointless when there performance is so far off.
I just never noticed such a huge discrepancy with the identical car before.
 
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