my near loss...

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Phew it was close, a stupid mistake nearly lost a very easy race :dunce: im ok now :scared: . Basically, I had just got an Audi Pikes Peak, tuned to 768bhp on soft sport tyres I just wanted to drive so chose a 2 lap family cup race on Twin Ring Motegi West. Easy peasy, and the racers were not much of a challenge either. The field being -
Mitsubishi HSR
Corvette Z06
RUF RGT
TVR Cerbera speed 6
TVR Tamora
As well as buying everything for my car I had bought a spoiler for it and gave it a rake for a killer stance :crazy:
So anyway, race starts normal the cars pull away and I'm up behind the Tamora by the first corner and duck in the inside:

The other cars are still in the same places as started, I overtake the Cerbera before the next corner who messes up in the chicane. The Vette and the RGT are fighting for second on the last corner the RGT pushes the Vette out wide while I sneak round the outside and take 2nd. The HSR has passed the start line and I'm gaining quickly:

I'm up behind by the first corner and hang back just to check out those crazy moving bits, I know I have pretty much got this race sorted anyhow :sly:

The other racers are still in the same positions as started, the HSR runs onto the grass at the chicane and I take first and swing round the last corner, a little too fast and go off track :ouch:

While recovering, the HSR, Vette and RGT pass by and I cut in just before the cerbera. The handy 768bhp gets me back up to speed and I fly up to 2nd again the HSR a fair bit ahead but I'm stomping up the field fast and we're soon side by side I'm just a little bit faster and the finish is in sight:

Still neck and neck :scared:


Just.....nosing ahead.... :nervous: and over the line, 0.088 difference :scared:

so there we have it, quite tense for an easy race, and a very good car too.
 
Cool. I've had those kind of races, checking out a car for the first time or working on a setup, but never that close. I lost a close one in GT3 the other night. Had a distracting thought coming down the straightaway before the hairpin at SSR11 and forgot where I was at on the track. I hit the wall and somehow got turned around, then while turning back around got rammed by another car (never saw it coming). While we were trying to get untangled, the third place car flashed by both of us and we never saw him again. He cruised to an easy win while I had to scrap for 2nd. Don't get me wrong, I don't like to lose, but that race for 2nd was pretty intense and it's moments like that make the game so much fun. I love racing.
 
Nice racing report (complete with pictures and everything) from quite a tense race!! Thanks, I loved reading it and could almost feel the tension :)
 
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