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Just wondering if you have a favorite series. One that you rerun all the time and the reason= length of series/races, tracks used, cars available to use, tire use, competition, prize car/money etc.. Since GT1 I have used series as a way to test various cars (and still get credits). My favorite in GT4 is the Dreamcar Championship. You can use any car and and it has a good mixture of street races and road races and the races are'nt so long you have to pit.
 
I really enjoyed the Formula GT series, although that wouldn't be one you would want to run over and over...

Other than that the Opel Speedster series is a lot of fun.
 
i liked all Japan GT, 10 races and not too long. Plus racing against all the Japanese GT500 racecars, it's just fun to watch it.
 
I love the Formula GT race also, its just what i can just let time pass fast. You also get a Mercedes-Benz Group C car, and a cool 4,500,000 credits.
 
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Other than that the Opel Speedster series is a lot of fun.
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Fun but a b!tch. IMO, the Speedster handles like poo. It took some getting used to but I eventually won.

I personally liked the 206 cup. I wish we had those cool little Peugeot's state side. :bowdown: YAY 106 Rallye' :cheers:
 
The Formula GT races. Long enough to let B-Spec bob have a few stints and then show him how its done when you swap out.
 
My favorite would have been the Formula GT if it wasn't so freaking long, but some series in professional hall with all the JGTC cars is my favorite. I forget what it was called, but that was fun.
 
I enjoyed the Italian Cup very much, in a stock Alfa Romeo 147 GTA.

The Crossfire Cup is a weak cup overall, but the Speedway race is a great slipstream challenge, if your Crossfire is stock.

Supercar Festival was fun because it caused me to learn to drive a car, rather than try to have the car learn me. (stock Ford GT '05)

1000 miles was fun in a '62 Lotus Elan, both watching and driving. Not because of the competition, but because that car is a joy. I wish every series had a "1000 miles" option, as an alternative to the pre prescribed lengths.
 
I like the Elise Trophy, even though it was hard (for me, because I don't like modding cars). The Elise Sport 190 is so damn cool!
 
I've only done the Japanese Championship (not the JGTC) and Tuning Car Cup, But I'm looking forward to the World Championship, German Touring Cars and JGTC.
 
The JGTC one is pretty enjoyable.

But another one I like is the 1,000 miles. Not that I'd do it again any time soon.
 
Well the problem is that I don't have much time - YOU try doing a full race series when you regularly do 11 1/2 hour shifts of physical work. You then also have to juggle sleep (huh?), have something resembling a social life and try to work out the paperowrk for university next year.

Now, do you think you can do the 1000 Miles! Championship again?
 
Supercar Festival. Unleash the beasts.

That and the French Championship - I love my Alpines. slidy slidy rear engine action and the A310 still eats up Clios and Hommells. woooo.
 
AAAAARGGGGHHHHHH!!!

I just tried the JGTC today, but wasted 1,350,000 credits on a bad car! I bought the Arta NSX (#8) before going over to the Japanese Events. While I like this car, in stock it's a bit out of it's league agaisnt the other cars at 102 points, and buying a Stage 3 Turbo doubles its power (which will make things too easy). OK, so I've wona 200-pointer agsint the Sauber Mercedes before, but that experience taught me one thing: in the higher echelons of racing, you need a decent car if you want to keep up with the big boys. during qualifying at Tokyo R246, I found that I could beat the bad guys' times by over a second if I had a decent run and a touch of insanity by taknig all the corners a gear higher than recommended, particularly through the back section. In the race, however, I kept losing it after the Turn 2/3 complex (the left-right dogleg before the big 180-degree corner), and spinning. I quickly turned my PS2 off after that (it was mostly an experiement to gauge the competiton anyway).

So now I'm doing all the cash-cow races to try and build my balance up once more before I buy a new JGTC car (I want all off them. Yes, that's right, all of them). I've currently got my eye on the #6 Esso Ultraflow Supra - a bit more powerful than the NSX, but not overly so.

I also had a look at the German Touring Cars - once again to gauge the competition - in my 1992 Mercedes Touring Car (from Schwazwald Liga B - absolutely crazy in the RUF Yellow Bird). Apart from a few minor mistakes on Opera Paris (got off-line at the sharp turn at the "Northern" end of the track, then ran wide on the left that connects the straights and nearly collected the outer wall), I found I could keep up with the bigger kids, only to find it was a 131-point race. Did a lap or two and found I could run with the Calibra and Audi cars in 4th and 5th, but then Opera is a track that suits smaller cars so the bad guys didn't have time to stretch their legs, and if they did, I could quickly reel them back in through the tighter sections). Also, explain to me why there's an Alfa Romeo in a field of German cars ...

Once I find the right cars (that Supra for the JGTCs and I haven't decided what for the German races) for each chamionship, I'll do a write-up or two ... been waiting ages for an excuse to do one ...
 
The 1000 miles! series, because you can enter a lot of cars that I find interesting, you can with patience get a competitive field, and the events are long enough to make for engaging driving rather than being a sprint for the line :)
I second the Alpine series, I had lots of fun on that one, and I would like to add the Triumph Spitfire events which I did in a standard spit, no oil change. Those races were good fun though I found that once I stopped goofing around and drove the car smoothly, the competition level was a little bit too easy.

But the 1000miles! series is my fave. Did all the races individually in a brace of Alfas, an Elan, and a Nissan (which got clubbed to death by the Cobra) and then did the championship, against the Cobra, in a suitably modified 'Vette Stingray 350.

Great fun!
 
If I need money I always like to play the DTM-chamionship cause u can win it with a 450k car and u will win a car wich is woth 750k
 
I would say the British GT series is my favourite without a doubt. In it I can get to drive a large number of the cars that I like against similar vehicles. The lack of need for ultra high HP means that the driving is more involving, relying on smoothness rather than fast reflexes. Plus, I get to win a Jaguar E-Type :D!

So far I think I've run it in every TVR (except the Speed 12) a number of times and am now looking at the Lotus and Jaguar stables :).
 
My favourite was 'Supercar Festival' - I did it months ago. I used a stock Saleen S7 and had good fun beating cars twice its price! I just re-ran this series again thirty minutes ago in that same car for fun although I won much more easily this time!

I still use that same car in stock form to win almost any race that calls for 'Normal or Sports tires'. It's got about 4,000kms . 👍
 
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Plus, I get to win a Jaguar E-Type :D!
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Can't wait to win that car.

I liked the Club M races in the BMW events. Looking forward to my next enduro, but won't get to play that until Saturday. :grumpy:
 
My favorite series changes like the wind. Right now I'm obsessed with the 4 hours at Nurburgring. Finding a winnable 200 point, or as high as possible, has became quite a task without resorting to N-tires
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. So, I've been chipping away, 86 last week with a SVT Cobra, 121 this weekend with a Elise 111r, several10 to 20 lapstints with various cars to see if it could compete. And now currently running the Elise 111r again against a different field for a hopeful 165 points.
 

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