MX5 Endurance race

[Polyphony001]

With T2s this was a breeze, you just have to realise tat the fast guy is on T7s. Before you know that, it seems impossible, but after he pits (after 2 laps) it suddenly becomes very, very easy. I nearly fell asleep doing this race... at 4pm!

i did it in the PAL "1.8i", the fastest car, using T2s. Never pitted. Ever. Tyres got a bit worn out, but still good enough to race with!

 

[demon of speed]

However, I keep winning the purple F688/S every time...three races, three wins, three of the same F1 cars! So all of you who discount the Miata race, you have a good chance of winning an F1 car, or at least, winning 400,000 credits with a car you can buy on the first day.

Man can you give me one of those. I can't seem to get one at all.

 

[Hikari]

Use T2 (Very Hard) tyres and you'll win certainly.
Nothing to worry, the low-power MX-5 is easy to control.

I pitted only twice in the whole 40laps race.

P.S.: My GT3 is NTSC/J.

 

[kensei]

Just won this enduro with a stock MX-5 (Slowest of the three choices, though I did oil change it before I entered) 0miles at the start with super-slick tires, no pit stops....in 69'15.023 (best lap in the mid 1'42 range). Won by a few laps. Qualified for it in 2nd, .187 off pole

The "LS" is actually the fastest of the three. He had me on the first 3 laps by 1-1.3secs but then he pitted ever 3 laps. I choose not to pit for the enitre race but had it won 15 laps in pretty much, even if i choose to pit the 2-3 times I would have needed to.

So this one is absolutely no sweat.

 

[Smallhorses]

This, as Phattboy and Neon_Duke have so eloquently pointed out, is one of the best enduros in the game, particularly for refining your racing lines and maintaining momentum skills round a nice technical racetrack.

I've posted several results for this race, in the GT3 Write Ups section under Running Cheap in The Roadster Enduro, using different car & tyre combinations which will give everything from a whitewash 👎 to an absolutely down-to-the-wire finish. 👍

Best and most fun for a close finish yet is to run the 130HP VA or VB Limited edition '93 Miata you can win for this race, with no oil change and normal tyres.
Pit every 4 laps. Beat the '00 Miata LS by just 0.089s last time I ran this!

 

[Tigra]

I do this race several times a week now, trying to win all the different mx-5 color-combinations there is. Done it nine times now, and still missing a sparkle green Mx-5 RS. The last time I did it, I used the 130hp version with an oil change and T2 tyres. I pitted once and lapped every car once. Tomorrow I'll have another go in one of the 118hp versions, probably a J/Limited Yellow one, that I've just won!

This race makes excellent practise for racing; it actually makes you a better gt3-player all-round! If you can't beat the LS (or 1.8i as it's called here in europe) TRY, TRY and TRY again! You'll get better, that's a promise!

 

[Polyphony001]

Use T2 (Very Hard) tyres and you'll win certainly.
Nothing to worry, the low-power MX-5 is easy to control.

I pitted only twice in the whole 40laps race.

P.S.: My GT3 is NTSC/J.

I didn't pit at all... Didn't need to!!!!

 

[Hikari]

I didn't pit at all... Didn't need to!!!!

So... CPU won't be able to beat you... >_<

 

[Polyphony001]

So... CPU won't be able to beat you... >_<

precisely!

 

[dori-san]

anybody that says this race is hard needs more practice driving...

The RS can take the win with NO extra money spent on it, easily.

Okay, so... Saturday around mid day I sit down to give it a go. I change my oil and buy the cheapest racing tires available (for the Miata RS). After one lap, I qualified in second place and then went to race. I take the 40 laps in roughly 1:13:xx.xxx. I lapped everyone but the guy in second, I was probably 15 seconds from lapping him though. I was rewarded the 100,000 cr. of course and a yellow Miata. Dissatisfied with the Miata I chose not to save the game with the intent of doing it again (and again and again and again if necessary) until I got the F1 car. So Sunday mid day I go at it again (confident that the win is easy because I was totally out driving all the AI), I chose not to buy tires, change my oil, or qualify. I just hopped in my Miata and went straight to race. Starting at the back of the grid, I was all the way in second by the end of the first lap. Winning is cake because the best out of all 5 AI cars will pit every 3 laps. I was taking smooth lines and going longer, so I would pit every 4 laps. Simple math says that I will continue to pull away from him. I did so and finished with about a time of 1:12:xx.xxx and that is when I was awarded the F688/s.

 

[Entroper]

I did this last week in the LS on normal tires. I could make it about halfway through the 8th lap with my front-right turning red, so I ended up pitting every 8 laps. Around lap 20 or so, my DFP malfunctioned and I lost about 30-40 seconds plugging it back in and waiting for it to reset. Still won by a huge margin, lapped 3 cars and was a few car lengths behind lapping the 3rd place car at the finish. With slicks on the LS, this race should be an absolute breeze.

 

[Ps2racer]

Um... Ok I see theres lots of ways to win the race. The first time I ran it I rn it with Famines 💡 but it just didn't work ou with t2 + t4s because if I hadnt slapped the t4s on back I wouldnt have had 2 pit and probably would have pulled a victory. Ill work on the attitude with the Little japenese thing and stop being tempted to go and kick my little Japenese truck thnx 4 the advice

 

[Polyphony001]

Yeah, no two ways about it, this race is easy...

 

[Smallhorses]

Er yeah since I started playing GT3 again a few weeks back I've got much better but I still can't crack the Mazda emdurance race. Any ideas?

Yeah, no two ways about it, this race is easy...

What a difference a few months, some patience and some practice can make, huh?

There are ways to win this race by miles, and have no fun at all = boring race. 👎

But there's plenty of ways to make this one of the closest and most exciting enduros of them all, even if a stock Miata isn't the fastest thing you ever driven, thanks to only small performance differences in the various Miatas = much more fun & exciting race! 👍

Its not necessarily high speed that makes a good race, but the closeness of the racing. Less HP doesn't have to be less fun!

 

[Polyphony001]

A few months of practice? Thppppppppt. It didn't take me that long to work this one out. PArtly because i didnt even try it until i had a few months experiecne, not because it was difficult, but because i never got round to it.

I'm all for your ideas about closer racing, but i couldn't bear the thought of not winning a race first time around, especially one that long, after i have almost forgotten about that race, i'll dig it up again and have a close-pack race. To make your idea really successful, though, you'd need bigger packs, let's say at least 12. Then it actually would be fun. 👍 But i guess thats a dream 👎