I'm taking my time with the campaign mode, and I attempted mission 4.8 with the 15 lap of Alsace, GR.4 endurance race. I chose the Lancer from my garage and started on race soft tyres. This seemed like a mistake as they tailed off quite quickly. I noticed that it was in automatic shift after a few corners, which left me to adjust fuel maps. Jumping between 2 and 4 as appropriate, I saw that I was pegged for about 9 laps of fuel, but the tyres were shot by lap 8.
I dragged it out to lap 9 before I pit in, put on the same tyres and went with the full fuel load. I was 3rd before, 6th after. Knowing I had 6 laps left, I kept it in map 1. Last lap, tyres almost gone, second place pit again for a splash and dash, but I'd almost left myself with less fuel than race distance. What was a 9 second lead dwindled and dwindled, I've had to put it into map 6 at this point to stand a hope of finishing at all. I messed up a corner and now second was a scant 0.400 behind. I had conserved fuel just enough to put it into Map 1 for the last corner and grabbed the win. 0.200 of a second ahead with only 0.2 litres of fuel left.
For someone used to just lapping and taking photos, what an absolute thrill ride an enduro is. More please, GT Sport.
