Did a couple of 10 lappers at Motegi road course....and could not win!! I had the RX-8 at -1% power, figuring that that should roughly equate to the NSX I had last time.
The opponent line-up for my RX-8 at +10 AI is very challenging indeed, much more challenging than for an actual JGTC GT500 car. For the NSX, the only opponent car worth worrying about is the Oreca Viper. For the RX-8 you get the McLaren F1, Pagani Zonda, Ford GT, 350Z LM concept and....the GT-R LM concept, which is a killer.
I know Motegi is a track the AI can do very well at, particularly if they have a horsepower advantage, but it was quite depressing.
I'm a little bit concerned about tyre wear with this car, it seems to chew the fronts out reasonably quickly. And it was slower than the NSX I ran last season by 1-2 seconds per lap. Then I had a quick run around Tsukuba Wet (a track I enjoyed in the NSX) and it was woeful. Rotary power band = light switch, not very handy in the wet.
