Seasonal Preview // Series 5 Spring

[geistwriter]

British Automotive Week 4 Playlist:

 

[geistwriter]

Trial is S1 Hypercars, first race is Ito Sprint. it took me a while to figure it out, because I was specifically looking for guardrails on the left:

Which don't actually exist in any race:

As stated in the previous thread, here's the cars that can't be down-classed on rallies (with front aero):

I would not attempt to use these cars on drags, etc. I would actually not use semislicks for S1 sprints in this game either, but that's maybe just me.

 

[geistwriter]

Photo location, map spoiler below:

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[geistwriter]

Treasure hunt, map spoiler below:

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[BurmaEK]

Great work Geist.

 

[Jezza14]

S1 not S2 and the very bland Satta Sprint as first race. Not as interested in the Trial as I thought I’d be but hopefully the second race will be better. Not that I particularly like the track but this would also be a good time to use Colossus as the 3rd course.

 

[geistwriter]

S1 not S2 and the very bland Satta Sprint as first race. Not as interested in the Trial as I thought I’d be but hopefully the second race will be better. Not that I particularly like the track but this would also be a good time to use Colossus as the 3rd course.

I misspoke, it's Ito

 

[geistwriter]

Great work Geist.

honestly I was hoping to be playing Control Resonant this weekend, but it's a buggy mess at the moment, so back to the forza grind

 

[ConstinOddity]

@Jezza14 Rivals notified me to go Ito Sprint... Beat your Zonda C with the LaFerrari but feels loose and not great to drive, could do with more grip and maybe better with some adjustments. Then I tried the P1, slower accelerationa and lower top speed, but very agile and fast through turns, beat my LaFerrari time. Didn't feel like it needed any fine tuning so shared it for anyone to try and feedback.

 

[geistwriter]

@Jezza14 Rivals notified me to go Ito Sprint... Beat your Zonda C with the LaFerrari but feels loose and not great to drive, could do with more grip and maybe better with some adjustments. Then I tried the P1, slower accelerationa and lower top speed, but very agile and fast through turns, beat my LaFerrari time. Didn't feel like it needed any fine tuning so shared it for anyone to try and feedback.

Ito is a good race, there's enough turns to go with better tires here, but knowing this game the second race will be full of loooooong straights.

 

[ConstinOddity]

The P1 actually has enough grip to make even tighter turns thru susp tuning so I made an adjustment.

Ito is a good race, there's enough turns to go with better tires here, but knowing this game the second race will be full of loooooong straights.

After super circuits, maybe we're having all sprints this week. I wish I have time to test more setups but P1 is good on rallies, the LaFerrari I might want to throw in the roll cage and see if that makes it better or maybe I'm getting the susp settings wrong.

 

[Jezza14]

The title suggests that it’s all sprints (the AI hasn’t been overly cryptic in its choice of event names recently).

LaFerrari should be pretty decent for S1. Expect the Lamborghinis (Centenario and Aventador) and the W1 to be strongest though.

 

[geistwriter]

The title suggests that it’s all sprints (the AI hasn’t been overly cryptic in its choice of event names recently).

LaFerrari should be pretty decent for S1. Expect the Lamborghinis (Centenario and Aventador) and the W1 to be strongest though.

TGM mentioned centenario to me yesterday, and I believe his Goliath pb is on slicks. it has a great diffuser and is very pi efficient

 

[Jezza14]

Goliath is too long for me in this game, so I’m not sure what works best there. Rallies are almost always the best choice in S1 for sprints though.

My Zonda was a quick RWD tune, so not expecting that to be particularly competitive. I’ll switch it to AWD but it doesn’t have much PI to play with at 800 and I haven’t seen it at the top end of leaderboards much, so I doubt it will challenge any of the top cars.

 

[ConstinOddity]

Clocked this on my 2nd run, I feel I can still be faster on the P1 and maybe reach this time too just haven't done any more runs on it.
Centenario: 168 480 833

Edit: Ran the P1 again, I slid out on the last turn and lost time, maybe might have broken into 29s but I still managed to beat my Centenario

Edit2: Woke up today and thought I'll try to put my P1 under 30s but fate would not let me. Also woke up to @Jezza beating my time with a LaFerrari. Anyway I missed by 0.009s...

Edit 3: Properly ran the Centenario again, it broke into 29s pretty easily.

My Final list:
Tier 1
Centenario (Fast acceleration, excellent cornering, best choice)
P1 (Dependant on fast cornering and high exit speed, harder to translate to actual fast times in a race, acceleration is king in sprints)
Tier 2
W1 (Best grip easy to drive, does not accelerate as fast as stats say...)
Gemera (Balanced cornering and speed)
SF90 Stradale (Like Gemera, nothing bad to say)
LaFerrari (Does not turn well is it's greatest flaw)

 

[geistwriter]

I noticed in the past few weeks that certain cars that were terrible in FH5 are passable now. specifically the lambo murci, amg one, speed tail and jesko. the sf90 is still one of the most disappointing cars in the game though, it's definitely the worst option here.

I also can't quite figure out how all these lambos are so vastly different in terms of PI on identical builds. temerario is possibly the best option in terms of power/weight.

also noteworthy is the increased grip on certain stock-rear aero, like the flaps on the speedtail and the t50. this is first time I've ever made a speedtail competitive, and I have the gma up to S2 on rallies and stock rear aero with zero handling issues.

idk if they buffed these cars or nerfed the whole game, but I've been leaning toward nerf.