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I, like others before me, am attempting to go as far as possible without buying or modding a car. This makes a fair amount of races quite challenging. So far the most challenging series has been the Lightweight cup in the begginer hall.
The reason is that I only have the Autobianchi (from Sunday cup). I could try and get another light car but it seems to me that I would have to either gold the nat b (Honda s500) or sit down and really do some thinking.
Since I don't like to think too much I decided to go ahead and try my luck with the Autobianchi. Easier said than done! The only race that I could win was the second one. The other two (specially the first one) seemed like a pie in the sky sort of thing. Although I could finish a very close second in the third one, the best I could do in the first one was finish 1.5 seconds behind.
I forgot about this series for a few days and went on to win all the american hall races, get silver in Nat B, silver in Nat A, silver in IntB and do a few more missions (11-13). After finishing the american hall I decided to revisit this series because most of the races were in the 20-35 pt range and I had just been doing 60-140 pts races. It couldn't be that hard could it?
I battled those little lightweight bastards long and hard and made absolutely no progress for a good 2 hours. Buggers! My spirit almost broken I decided to concentrate on the last race and after a few tries it was conquered. Somehow though, there was no feeling of satisfaction... it was that dam first race I really wanted to beat.
I tried every strategy I could think off including cutting through the grass. Nothing worked, specially cutting through the grass! The car does not like slowing down too much as the 2nd gear is long and dull. You if you downshift into second you better hope it is in the high rpm range or the race is over.
I was starting to get desperate and thinking of golding the NatB license... and then I had some inspiration. I remembered that a few of the Nurburing tests require you to aim the car at the strips before can even see the turn coming. It is easier in this race because you are going very slowly in comparison.
After trying this strategy a few times I was able to get to 1st place at the beggining of lap 4. But by then the front tyres were so worn out that I lost the race by having to slow down in the last couple of corners and downshifting to 2nd in the mid range of rmps.
Perseverance paid off and I finally got to be leading out of the last turn, only I had no front tires and the car drifted into the wall ARRRGGH !! , I finished 3rd....
I counted to one thousand and walked away from the playstation until the urge to stick my foot through the TV passsed........
I decided not to give up and a few more tries yielded thriumph. I was so excited/proud I captured to quicktime (anyone can host the 6.4 mb file for me?). The race itself is pretty boring... a bunch of slow cars chasing each other so i won't describe it in detail. I will only say i won by 1.2 seconds and I am soooooo happy it is done.
So there you have it: The stock Autobianchi CAN beat the lightweight cup if you are willing to put in the effort. All is good with the world!
Now... anyone know how to beat the spyder and roadster series with a 54 corvette thax maxes out at 100mph??
UPDATE: I uploaded the video to the youshare website http://s4.youshareit.com/files/f8b7872dbc074a3d991fb4b03de44915.html
UPDATE: I went back to re-do the second race (the 'easy' one) and had forgotten to mention that the only way to win the race is not to get the Suzuki capuchino in the lineup. Strangely enough if you get the capuchino the race is 31 pts but if you don't the race is 32 pts... go figure. I put this one on quicktime too. Will post the link here when it is uploaded
The reason is that I only have the Autobianchi (from Sunday cup). I could try and get another light car but it seems to me that I would have to either gold the nat b (Honda s500) or sit down and really do some thinking.
Since I don't like to think too much I decided to go ahead and try my luck with the Autobianchi. Easier said than done! The only race that I could win was the second one. The other two (specially the first one) seemed like a pie in the sky sort of thing. Although I could finish a very close second in the third one, the best I could do in the first one was finish 1.5 seconds behind.
I forgot about this series for a few days and went on to win all the american hall races, get silver in Nat B, silver in Nat A, silver in IntB and do a few more missions (11-13). After finishing the american hall I decided to revisit this series because most of the races were in the 20-35 pt range and I had just been doing 60-140 pts races. It couldn't be that hard could it?
I battled those little lightweight bastards long and hard and made absolutely no progress for a good 2 hours. Buggers! My spirit almost broken I decided to concentrate on the last race and after a few tries it was conquered. Somehow though, there was no feeling of satisfaction... it was that dam first race I really wanted to beat.
I tried every strategy I could think off including cutting through the grass. Nothing worked, specially cutting through the grass! The car does not like slowing down too much as the 2nd gear is long and dull. You if you downshift into second you better hope it is in the high rpm range or the race is over.
I was starting to get desperate and thinking of golding the NatB license... and then I had some inspiration. I remembered that a few of the Nurburing tests require you to aim the car at the strips before can even see the turn coming. It is easier in this race because you are going very slowly in comparison.
After trying this strategy a few times I was able to get to 1st place at the beggining of lap 4. But by then the front tyres were so worn out that I lost the race by having to slow down in the last couple of corners and downshifting to 2nd in the mid range of rmps.
Perseverance paid off and I finally got to be leading out of the last turn, only I had no front tires and the car drifted into the wall ARRRGGH !! , I finished 3rd....
I counted to one thousand and walked away from the playstation until the urge to stick my foot through the TV passsed........
I decided not to give up and a few more tries yielded thriumph. I was so excited/proud I captured to quicktime (anyone can host the 6.4 mb file for me?). The race itself is pretty boring... a bunch of slow cars chasing each other so i won't describe it in detail. I will only say i won by 1.2 seconds and I am soooooo happy it is done.
So there you have it: The stock Autobianchi CAN beat the lightweight cup if you are willing to put in the effort. All is good with the world!
Now... anyone know how to beat the spyder and roadster series with a 54 corvette thax maxes out at 100mph??
UPDATE: I uploaded the video to the youshare website http://s4.youshareit.com/files/f8b7872dbc074a3d991fb4b03de44915.html
UPDATE: I went back to re-do the second race (the 'easy' one) and had forgotten to mention that the only way to win the race is not to get the Suzuki capuchino in the lineup. Strangely enough if you get the capuchino the race is 31 pts but if you don't the race is 32 pts... go figure. I put this one on quicktime too. Will post the link here when it is uploaded