La Sarthe and Spa ,weather report and other " stuff "

i pitted at the end of lap 2 incase the weather opened up and it did from lap 3 to 5 had to stick to inters the rest of the race at lemans
 
I've had a lot of fun with the BoP/stock Gr4 events, so I started thinking about other categories to toss into the WTC 700 grind. After a bit of testing here are some ideas for GrB, Gr3, and Gr2 in the same spirit of winnable but not boringly easy.
1. GrB rally cars, racing hard tires, max down force, stock turbo and the one thing to buy, custom RACING transmission for taller gearing. All I did for tuning was lower the ride height and set 6th gear at 305 kph. The stock GrB's destroy this race on all levels so I came up with a hybrid BoP system based on PP with different values for MT and AT.
a. Easy mode; 600 PP for manual and 603 PP for automatic. Needs power restrictor to get down to 600.
b. Normal mode; 610 PP for MT and 615 PP for AT.
c. Hard mode; 625 PP for MT and 635 PP for AT.
2. Gr3, racing hard tires, all stock with aero at 400 and 600. Experiment with the aero, I just used stock for testing. I found more PP variation with the Group 3's so their detuning is simply power based.
a. Easy mode; Computer at 70, restrictor at 75. I didn't do a lot of testing on EASY, might need adjusting.
b. Normal mode; Computer @ 70, restrictor @ 85.
c. Hard mode; Computer @ 70 for MT, @ 75 for AT, no restrictor.
3. Group 2 only '19 and newer for now.
a. Hard mode; Just get under 700 by any means necessary! Normal and easy mode are just too easy...

Pick a flavor and have fun!
 
Checked another 20 million car off the list, the Mercedes W 196 R '55. I took the 70 year old F1 for a spin around le Man box stock. First lap I'm dicing with the back markers, figuring out fuel and brakes. Brakes are great and looking like 7 laps on FM1. Second lap sitting in the draft hoping for a dry race no stop, not to be. A fast moving storm shows up near the end of lap 2, doesn't look like a monsoon but I gambled on inters and no fuel. Start of lap three the rain hasn't begun but it's coming, I glance down to check the lap 2 fast lap time and see the Viper post a 4:15! I forgot to change off Hard mode, oh well let's see what happens. I got lucky with the weather and was able to nurse the inters 5 laps for the win. Great little car, but next time the 604.92 PP will be on Easy mode.
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I was searching my garage for more low horsepower candidates, which means searching by weight, and found one I had previously overlooked. The seventh lightest car in my garage weighing in at 1213 lbs, the Red Bull junior. I think the high downforce made me pass over it before but decided to give it a try. What an amazing and versatile little car! It has awesome brakes, ridiculous fuel and tire economy and handles like it's on rails. The versatile part is that anywhere close to 700pp it will destroy any WTC 700 event on any difficulty and at full power, a whopping 246 Hp, can easily win all the WTC 800's up to normal. But I was looking for a low horsepower contender and found one.
Le mans; Standard no stop on inters strategy, easy win @ 119hp, as low as it can go and with worn oil. FM1 could go 9 laps.
Spa; First try at a low Hp run at Spa, no stop FM1, mostly dry race on RH, winner @ 168 Hp.
Sardegna; One try @ 199Hp no stop win on RM.
The low Hp stuff obviously done on easy, a great car for anyone looking to try out goofy low horsepower attempts.
 

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