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It's been a long time but I ran an Amuse R1 with N1 tires against one of the strongest lineups. The car was bone stock, may have added a little weight to get the 200. I ran the first full lap on the N1 tires then ducked into the pits and changed to N3 and ran the race on those. I can't remember how many laps between pits after the intital tire change but it was quite a few at least 6 maybe 8 or 9 maybe more. I was pretty far behind after running that first lap with the N1s but by the time the field had pitted I was up front and pulled away after that.
All in all it was a bit challenging especially that first lap on cold N1s but in the end I had almost 1/2 lap lead over the Grand Sport Corvette which was in second place.
All in all it was a bit challenging especially that first lap on cold N1s but in the end I had almost 1/2 lap lead over the Grand Sport Corvette which was in second place.
I was right on its bumper at the time, so I would have been in position for a last-lap pass (!) if it had had two such stints.
So I was stuck behind the Audi until it pitted at the end of lap four, and then behind the Mercedes until I made my second pit stop at the end of lap nine. Altogether, I estimate that I lost between one and one-and-a-half minutes as a result of this dillydallying, a pretty staggering total. 
And since a pit stop at this track costs a little less than 25 seconds, a car that needs to pit every three laps has to run a fastest-lap pace around 8'26-8'27, while one with two-lap stints (like most FFs in my hands) must be capable of 8'23-8'24. Obviously, this is a very low bar, and it suggests that many more cars beyond the ones I listed in the Endurance Events thread are capable. I may try to find something that would beat the WPR record, once I'm done with the Accord (which is harder than I anticipated because the S1s are completely fried before the second lap is even finished 
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, meaning that every lap was either an inlap or an outlap. Considering that my best inlap was an 8'35.1 with dark orange tires costing me a second or two in the latter portion of the lap, my "equivalent fastest-lap pace" was likely in the neighborhood of 8'13.5.
, and the Clio was bearing down imposingly on me on lap 27, forcing me to let it go by for the lead, especially after I got sideways in the Karussell. At this point, my gap to the now third-place Skyline looked to be about twenty seconds, a distinctly uncomfortable margin when I still needed to make another pit stop and the Skyline didn't. I only regained the lead for the final time just before T8 on lap 28, with the Clio parked sideways in the grass. I emerged from my final pit stop at the end of that lap less than two seconds ahead of the Skyline 
, although I would definitely appreciate reasonably good driving physics for a change. 
But obviously, it's still possible to make up challenges for yourself in GT4, as I've been doing.
) a lot more than I expected once I got a "feel" for it. It's as slow as molasses on the straights for three reasons: it weighs as much as a house, it's not remotely aerodynamically efficient, and it has an awful gearbox (I spent the entire race in second and third gear 
