Man, I'm no good at noticing people from here being in the same lobby as me.
Congrats on the double win.
. I also got bitten by the Chicane of Death later. I was looking at at least a podium finish before I took myself out. Running 8th and far from any meaningful points on the last lap, I threw the car at some walls in frustration and finished 16th.. In spite of running wide at both Turn 1 and 130R, I held on to 3rd for 210 points, which is my 2nd best score. The effect of the buff the Gr. 4 Corvette got at the first BoP update is very obvious; at the first Manufacturers Championship round at Suzuka, I had to drive the wheels off of the car just to get 9th for 144 points. Of course this meant I was done with Manufacturer's for the evening. Also, yes I chose to use the Corvette. In my practice sessions, none of the commonly used cars were appreciably faster than the Corvette, so I decided to stick with it.
Well, this evening was rather eventful in Nations. Pretty straightforward in Manufacturers.
Nations Slot 1: Got placed into 2nd or 1st split with @Winnie847 and some other drivers I didn't have a hope of keeping up with. Unsurprisingly I qualified 14th, so I went with a 2H/6M/6M/6M strategy and finished 9th. Points weren't enough to count, so I had to go again.
Manufacturers Slot 1: Once again was with @Winnie847, and also this time @Razgriz2118 joined us. I qualified 7th and finished 5th after taking advantage of some mistakes and a disconnect, and in spite of running wide between Turns 1 and 2 twice. I got 195 points, which was enough to count towards my final score, but it barely improved my score so I decided to go again.
Nations Slot 2: I was hoping that the Top 16 race would take all of the faster drivers I ran into in the 1st slot, and it appears that it worked. I qualified 2nd, and led the first 3 laps...until I spun myself when I ran wide on the final corner.
Manufacturers Slot 2: Ran into @Winnie847 yet again, as well at @Granadier. This time I qualified 4th and finished 3rd. I ran as high as 2nd after @Winnie847 got a stupid 0.5s in the very first turn of the race and one of the other front-runners spun in the same spot a little bit later. Eventually I let @Winnie847 by going into Turn 1 after he had a look inside, and I knew I wouldn't be able to keep him behind. The 3 of us at the front had built a nice gap back to 4th place, and I didn't want to risk fighting and having them catch up, plus I was hoping @Winnie847 could run down the leader, they'd get into a battle, and I'd be able to pass at least one of them.
Nations Slot 3: Once again got put into Top Split with @Winnie847, and this time @SpecMiata-JSW also joined us. I was determined to get points after stupidly ruining my own race last time (as well as last weekend's Nation's race, where I put the car on pole and jumped the start...). I qualified 8th and opted for a 2-stop race when previously I'd been doing 3 stops. I finished 7th for 193 points, which was short of my 200 point goal, but still improved my points total by 18. Unfortunately the game gave @SpecMiata-JSW a stupid penalty after I lightly tapped them in the rear on the run to the 2nd hairpin. Nothing happened to either of us, but the game decided they deserved a 2s penalty. Thankfully they didn't lose anymore spots due to the 2s penalty other than to me. There was also this incident during the race:
Earlier this tried to run me off the track on the exit of the 1st hairpin after the Chicane of Death, then at the incident in the video they had just served a penalty and nudged me off the track as I overtook them. I was worried the game would give me a penalty after they spun off track due to contact with me, but I got away with it!
I actually think the simplest problem was that they allowed bump drafting. Any of those cars against each other in a two car race and it could have gone either way, get a bunch of 458s bump drafting and they push and pull each other away, which people figured out pretty quickly and so the races became trains with there being no benefit to pulling out of the train. No bump drafting/contact (or at least limited) would have made all cars competitive in a race of twenty.
Your post, inspired me to have one more crack for the night.... before I get booted out the ten.Assuming this next Manufacturers race is a straight 18 minute sprint? Will be my last of the season so will do my best to enter it! Hoping the Lexus will be decent based on @05XR8 hot lap!!
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It's an oval race though, so bump drafting is totally on the cards as a legit tactic, just like in real life and they absolutely did the right thing allowing it by disabling penalties.
Even if they did not allow any form of car-to-car contact, just by drafting and slingshotting past one another the 458 would still be OP because it won't lose speed as quickly as the other cars out of the slip. On my second race I used the MP4-12C and I was in a drafting train (getting pulled AND pushed) and I was still losing ground. Eventually the 458 pushing me realized the futility, passed me and joined the front pack. I was left for dead immediately. It's no contest.
Again, I don't really mind the idea of a car being META in its class, because it's nigh impossible to balance the wide variety of cars in the game with all the permutations. But if PD are letting free choice of several cars, then I expect them to do their homework properly. Otherwise why give the choice? Just make it one make and we'd be none the wiser
It's an oval race though, so bump drafting is totally on the cards as a legit tactic, just like in real life and they absolutely did the right thing allowing it by disabling penalties.
Even if they did not allow any form of car-to-car contact, just by drafting and slingshotting past one another the 458 would still be OP because it won't lose speed as quickly as the other cars out of the slip. On my second race I used the MP4-12C and I was in a drafting train (getting pulled AND pushed) and I was still losing ground. Eventually the 458 pushing me realized the futility, passed me and joined the front pack. I was left for dead immediately. It's no contest.
Again, I don't really mind the idea of a car being META in its class, because it's nigh impossible to balance the wide variety of cars in the game with all the permutations. But if PD are letting free choice of several cars, then I expect them to do their homework properly. Otherwise why give the choice? Just make it one make and we'd be none the wiser
