On a side note, I'll have a hard time to improve my SR. Very little fairplay in these lobbies.
These last few weeks have been brutal. I’d suggest doing race C from the back a few times. You can smash in the chicken of death and still get a CRB as long as you don’t touch other cars. Dragon Trail is a nice wide track where you can give people plenty of room.
Ya, Scirocco is decent there, the G70 is very strong too, I've switched to that now.
That G70 loves Brands Hatch for some reason. Back when the 4WD cars were dominant it was a meta car at that track.
IN OTHER NEWS:
After some advice from
@KosmoKazi and watching a few YT streamers I was finally able to find the line on the chicken of death! A dropped a second off my quali time and tried a few races. More in that in a minute.
For those of you who are still groping in the dark for a line: turn in just before the 50m board and get your left tires on the red paint, straddling the wide curb, and then let off the throttle as you coast to the right hand turn. Right tires as close to the right wall as you can and accelerate as soon as you can to pull away from the left wall. The rest is gravy.
I’m an actual race, what I’ve discovered is that if you follow what I just wrote, the extra fuel weight will carry you into the left wall no matter what you do! So in a race lift off at the 100m board, tap (just tap) your brakes at 50m to settle the car. In the Porsche this has the added benefit of making the car rotate left into the turn! Coast through the left turn and stomp on the gas as soon as you’re at the right corner. The weight transfer settles the car down and will prevent you from smacking into the left wall. You’ll lose a little speed this way, but if you do it well you’ll only lose maybe 10-15 mph, but the hard acceleration out of the chicane seems to make up for it. I hope this all makes sense, but it was a revelation to me.
As for the racing, I ran four or five races last night. I started P2 in all but the one where I started pole! I have to say that this race gives pole a HUGE advantage because you can just pull away while everyone battles through the chicken of death. Anyway, I finished P4 in my first race (yay!) and then started pole in the next race. It would have been an easy win but I goofed up on the cold soft tires after the pit and spun out. I finished P5 on that one. I was so bummed out as wins have eluded me for months now.
The next race saw the first five or six cars pile up in the chicane, and I got 6.5 seconds of penalties as a result! I have no clue how it all added up, but I think I hit a few walls and a couple cars. The ghosting was bizarre for all of us. Anyway, though dead last I drove in and managed to work my way back to P7.
Feeling like I was right on the edge of something good, and finally racing in a lobby with people who seemed more serious about racing clean, I ran one last race, starting P2 again. We all took it easy through the first attack chicken and survived, so the rest of the race was clean. After several laps P1 died in the chicken and I took the lead. I was able to drive away for my first win probably of 2023!!!!
Thank you everyone for your support and suggestions. I’ve been very vocal about my disappointment, and all I can say is that finding a clean lobby just seems like the luck of the draw. When you find one, grind away like undid. I stayed up way too late just so I could get more races in with people I trusted. It was like a whole different game! I also think Monday racing is just dangerous because people still haven’t figured the track out yet.
Ok, sorry for the wall of text but I needed to offer some good news for once!
