This is a thread series for the seasonal time trials that focuses on completing the challenges (i.e. beating the gold target times) with stock versions of the cars. This means that instead of maximizing your PP with upgrades and focusing on getting the fastest laps on the in-game leaderboard, you are attempting to complete the challenges with the bare minimum amount of 'car' and money-spent as is possible.
With the new more open ended format means that part of the challenge will be finding a stock car that has the lowest PP or lowest price depending on your view. It is also difficult to predict which types of tires a car will come with before purchasing.
Warning: Some of these challenges are getting to be extreme and should be approached with caution!
In order to participate your car must be stock.
1) A stock car is essentially any car as it is when purchased from the dealership or won as a prize: it will have had no modifications, added parts, or adjustments done that affect how the car performs.
2) No oil changes are permitted: if you have had an oil change you must wait until the effects of the HP boost have been removed by driving over 300 km.
3) You must use the original tire type that came with the car, unless dirt or snow tires are required.
4) No changes to any “Car Settings” are permitted: they must ALL be left at their default values. [Note: cars that come with Fully Customizable Suspension that were purchased or won prior to patch 1.11 must have the suspension settings restored to default in order to be updated with the new stock suspension settings.]
5) No SRF or ASM is permitted: other “Driver Assists” are permitted.
Basically, the ONLY changes you may make to a car include: painting the car and changing a car’s racing number. Any other changes means your car is not stock.
Stock A-Spec Seasonals #53:
Beginner Level Non-Race Car Challenge: High Speed Ring - 450 PP - SH
Intermediate Level Racing Car Challenge: Deep Forest Raceway - 500 PP - RH
Expert Level Non-Race Car Challenge: Nurburgring Nordschleife - 550 PP - SM - Last time it was SS
Started the 450PP at High Speed Ring with the Toyota 2000GT '67, but was 3s slower than @Hastatus - btw. thanks for the Thread again! Then lowered PP a tiny bit, had a mediocre race, but here is it anyway:
450PP at High Speed Ring:
367PP - 1:27.551 - 6:15.933 - Lexus IS 200 '98 - CS - FR -157hp - 1310kg - LEGACY B4 2.0GT spec.B '03 - 6:16.101
500PP at Deep Forest:
464PP - 1:20.388 - 7:08.127 - Lexus IS 200 GT-1 '04 - RH - FR - 277hp - 1010kg - DELTA S4 Rally Car '85 - 7:08.597
Everytime got passed by S4 i can't got it back, need to keep it behind.
550PP at Nurburgring:
541PP - 7:19.038 - 8:13.288 - Lexus LFA '10 - SH - FR - 552hp - 1480kg - Ford GT '05 - 8:13.744
The LFA is unstable react to bumps and jumps, got a lot retries just by the Flugplatz jump
At the last straight i was over 2 second behind the Ford under the bridge, so the braking was a bit all or nothing and surprised the suicide braking got me close enough for passing.
OK, was able to drive a bit quicker with the 361PP Mazda, so here are the details:
450PP at High Speed Ring:
361PP - 1:27.510 - 6:17.369 - Mazda Eunos Roadster SR-Limited (NA) '97 - CS - FR - 130hp - 1000kg - Mazda RX-7 Type RS-R (FD) '97 - 6:17.568
(Wheel, MT, TC0, ABS1)
7:21 in a loss to the RSC Rally Car was my fastest time.
Under 7:18 is definetely fast enough to win, great time with this car.
I'll might try again without ABS to see the difference
Good luck mate!
Edit: Improved my best winning time to 7:22.563 with ABS0
ABS 0 or 1 doesn't make a difference in my opinion, as i only brake twice anyhow
Time is mostly a result of where to pass the roadblocks.
Having a group of four cars to overtake at once wasn't helping much.
Forgot to check my best lap time, but was somewhere in the 1:22s.
Won't try again!
I tried five times and got very near the same times. The difference with different lineups is when you get the draft. Resulting in a fairly large time difference. Almost 4 seconds.
500PP at Deep Forest:
450PP - ??? - 7:23.147 - BMW 320i TC '03 - RH - FR - 257hp - 1140kg - DELTA S4 Rally Car '85 - 7:23.449
Picked the car at random and it goes ok. Also tried the Honda CR-Z Touring Car @442PP and had a couple of close seconds. To be honest I find cars this slow on racing tyres a bit dull.
450PP at High Speed Ring:
371PP - ??? - 6:17.432 - MGF '97 - CS - MR -142hp - 1070kg - NSX 'Type S 99 - 6:18.133
Now this was much more fun. The little MG is a joy to drive here. Lots of lovely lift-off oversteer. You hardly have to turn the wheel.
Still no joy at the ring. I spent quite a bit of time trying in the Ruf CTR but I think I was being rather optimistic. It was fun though. The rubber-banding is driving me mad. Got a very close second in the FT-1 with a 7:28 then next race, against the same mediocre line-up, came third by 3s, by going 10s faster.
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