What absolute bull****, sorry about the porfanity but this was ridiculous.
As a matter of fact I raged so much I decided to sign up to this forum just to tell what happened.
I tried making this race a bit of a challenge for me; instead of adding 200bhp to my car I decided to just give my Miata '00 an oil change, racing air filter, sports catalyctic converter and sports hards. I ended up with 171 bhp and 1070kg.
So anyway I started the race and all was going well, until my first pit stop an hour into the race. I noticed that nobody else pitted, I just assumed theyd pit maybe in the next few laps and kept driving. 20 minutes later still nobody else had pitted but I wasnt worried as I had reclaimed my lead and didnt think much else of this.
Then after another 10 minutes (this is about 1 hour and 30 mins into the race now) I noticed my hard-earned 20 second lead was starting to decrease. Looked at the leaderboard and saw some driver who was somewhere around 5th or 6th earlier (his name was E.Delannoy) was now in second place and catching up at an alarming rate. Within another 20 minutes he was right in my rearview mirror. Now I dont know how he all of a sudden got faster but it cant have been a new set of tires as I had been eagerly watching the map for other drivers to pit which nobody had yet done.
I reached the 2 hour point of the race and pitted again, 5 laps later Delannoy also pitted along with everyone else. When the dust had settled I was around 15 seconds in the lead. 2 hours and 30 minutes into the race my lead was around 30 seconds but I noticed Delannoy was catching up again even quicker this time. By around 2 hours and 55 minutes into the race he had overtaken me as my tires were knackered again so I pitted at the 3 hour point (also he was already 15 seconds ahead right before I entered the pits). When I left the pits I was 45 seconds behind with the final hour left to catch up. Catching up was going pretty well until there was half an hour left; I managed to cut his lead to 20 seconds but it started going back up. When I finished he was 40 seconds in front. Everyone else was a lap or two behind.
So what I want to know, how is it possible that the other drivers only needed to pit once but their tyres performance pretty much matched mine. And how is it possible for a car that was clearly slower than mine to become faster LITERALLY IN THE MIDDLE OF A RACE.
This has really annoyed me. I didnt race for 4 hours to get beaten by a car that can magically increase its power in the middle of a race. I didn't make my car stupidly powerful and this is what I get. 👎
As a matter of fact I raged so much I decided to sign up to this forum just to tell what happened.
I tried making this race a bit of a challenge for me; instead of adding 200bhp to my car I decided to just give my Miata '00 an oil change, racing air filter, sports catalyctic converter and sports hards. I ended up with 171 bhp and 1070kg.
So anyway I started the race and all was going well, until my first pit stop an hour into the race. I noticed that nobody else pitted, I just assumed theyd pit maybe in the next few laps and kept driving. 20 minutes later still nobody else had pitted but I wasnt worried as I had reclaimed my lead and didnt think much else of this.
Then after another 10 minutes (this is about 1 hour and 30 mins into the race now) I noticed my hard-earned 20 second lead was starting to decrease. Looked at the leaderboard and saw some driver who was somewhere around 5th or 6th earlier (his name was E.Delannoy) was now in second place and catching up at an alarming rate. Within another 20 minutes he was right in my rearview mirror. Now I dont know how he all of a sudden got faster but it cant have been a new set of tires as I had been eagerly watching the map for other drivers to pit which nobody had yet done.
I reached the 2 hour point of the race and pitted again, 5 laps later Delannoy also pitted along with everyone else. When the dust had settled I was around 15 seconds in the lead. 2 hours and 30 minutes into the race my lead was around 30 seconds but I noticed Delannoy was catching up again even quicker this time. By around 2 hours and 55 minutes into the race he had overtaken me as my tires were knackered again so I pitted at the 3 hour point (also he was already 15 seconds ahead right before I entered the pits). When I left the pits I was 45 seconds behind with the final hour left to catch up. Catching up was going pretty well until there was half an hour left; I managed to cut his lead to 20 seconds but it started going back up. When I finished he was 40 seconds in front. Everyone else was a lap or two behind.
So what I want to know, how is it possible that the other drivers only needed to pit once but their tyres performance pretty much matched mine. And how is it possible for a car that was clearly slower than mine to become faster LITERALLY IN THE MIDDLE OF A RACE.
This has really annoyed me. I didnt race for 4 hours to get beaten by a car that can magically increase its power in the middle of a race. I didn't make my car stupidly powerful and this is what I get. 👎
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