Weekly Challenge Discussion Thread
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This is my first post in this Weekly Races thread so here's the cars that I run:
Mitsubishi Lancer IIIV GSR
BMW Z4 '01
Chevy Corvette C6
Madza 787B
(unfortunately I failed to achieve ONE CRB on all five events. All races on hard difficulty except the last two.)
First Event is the American event using the Corvette that have been very reliable for the past couple weeks. A very underrated track on the Blue Moon Speedway makes my driving a bit rusty, nonetheless easy win.
Next event is the AWD Japanese event and I choose the Evo IIIV. I driven this Kyoto Driving Park many times that makes it another cruising win.( This car is one of my favorite dream cars to drive)
Next event is a one-make battle of the Z4's racing thru the Tokyo E-way. I chose the red z4 and this time I didn't make too much upgrading my car just to make it competitive. Throughout the race I was battling through the pack up to the dark grey z4 just to past him before the final lap to get another podium win.
The last two events for this weekly races involved the Mazda 787B with fuel and tyre wear comes to play.
The next event, the Neo-Classic Competition, is one I had the most problems with due to how the 787b drives. The strategy for this race is to run on FM6 at the start to end, RH tires,the issue is the lack of cornering-not to go off track or spinning out- on a very technical Fuji Speedway, and barely keeping up once I in 10th place.
So I decided to lower the difficulty to easy and fine tuned to make it drivable seen below:
-increased the rear anti-roll for oversteer
-adjusted the differential to reduced understeer
-adjusted the front downforce
-added max weight for pp restrictions
Once again I run it back again as it went from intense coming from behind to cruising past the competition in 4/10 laps for the another podium win.
One thing to note on that race is the chance of rain is completely random. In one race it's raining earlier, in another it's raining late. The weather is always the same; at the start midday with clear, partly cloudy skies thru a overcast clouded evening, luckily it didn't rain on the event that I won.
Last event, WTC800, using the same car before with the strategies (same tune as well). the only change is to start at fm6, thru halfway to the race, move to fm3.
One thing I forgot to do was to change the difficulty back, once I was up front by lap 4 and with a sizable margin I pitted near lap 8 for new set of tires and full tank set it to FM1 to finished the race with another win.
That Dragon Trail Seaside Reverse wasn't something i've expected because I haven't driven the variant enough but adjusted to it.
Rewards:
-6-star parts reward (don't know what engine part, didn't care)
-3-star driving marathon for couple thousand credits
- a 150,000 credits
-6-star car reward prize is no other than the 2002 Enzo Ferrari
So far a 'decent' weekly event, the neo-classic event was stressful while everything else is a breeze. Hopefully a better rewards for next week.
BMW Z4 '01
Madza 787B
(unfortunately I failed to achieve ONE CRB on all five events. All races on hard difficulty except the last two.)
The last two events for this weekly races involved the Mazda 787B with fuel and tyre wear comes to play.
So I decided to lower the difficulty to easy and fine tuned to make it drivable seen below:
-adjusted the differential to reduced understeer
-adjusted the front downforce
-added max weight for pp restrictions
Once again I run it back again as it went from intense coming from behind to cruising past the competition in 4/10 laps for the another podium win.
One thing to note on that race is the chance of rain is completely random. In one race it's raining earlier, in another it's raining late. The weather is always the same; at the start midday with clear, partly cloudy skies thru a overcast clouded evening, luckily it didn't rain on the event that I won.
Last event, WTC800, using the same car before with the strategies (same tune as well). the only change is to start at fm6, thru halfway to the race, move to fm3.
One thing I forgot to do was to change the difficulty back, once I was up front by lap 4 and with a sizable margin I pitted near lap 8 for new set of tires and full tank set it to FM1 to finished the race with another win.
That Dragon Trail Seaside Reverse wasn't something i've expected because I haven't driven the variant enough but adjusted to it.
Rewards:
-6-star parts reward (don't know what engine part, didn't care)
-3-star driving marathon for couple thousand credits
- a 150,000 credits
-6-star car reward prize is no other than the 2002 Enzo Ferrari
So far a 'decent' weekly event, the neo-classic event was stressful while everything else is a breeze. Hopefully a better rewards for next week.
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- mrbabyboyd
So I finished the WC last night. I started with the GTOne at Fuji
I ended up doing it twice as I got some on lap 8 and decided that I didn't want to turn at the chicane and tried to jump the barriers there which did not work. So that was an L. Re-did the race and it was much better didn't get any hard rain but I needed to change tires on lap 8. I had about a 21 second lead on Grady in the Jag which I lost in the pits. I ended up 5 seconds behind him so I got a little excited in that I would have to really race going into the last lap but he pitted on lap 10 to give me the win. Really disappointed by that.
Next I went to Blue Moon and I tried out one if my SHelby Cobras for the easy win. I haven't driven it in a looooong while. Very enjoyable
Next I used the a swap Mazda 3 at the Japan race. I haven't used that in while either
Finally I had 2 Z4s that I didn't want to mess with so I bought one a modified it to 700pp to also be used at LeMans. I grabbed a nice livery that I was able to change the color and I must say this is a great car.
I got a Jaguar SV VGT. I normally sell most EVs but I actually like how this one looks.
I ended up doing it twice as I got some on lap 8 and decided that I didn't want to turn at the chicane and tried to jump the barriers there which did not work. So that was an L. Re-did the race and it was much better didn't get any hard rain but I needed to change tires on lap 8. I had about a 21 second lead on Grady in the Jag which I lost in the pits. I ended up 5 seconds behind him so I got a little excited in that I would have to really race going into the last lap but he pitted on lap 10 to give me the win. Really disappointed by that.
Next I went to Blue Moon and I tried out one if my SHelby Cobras for the easy win. I haven't driven it in a looooong while. Very enjoyable
Next I used the a swap Mazda 3 at the Japan race. I haven't used that in while either
Finally I had 2 Z4s that I didn't want to mess with so I bought one a modified it to 700pp to also be used at LeMans. I grabbed a nice livery that I was able to change the color and I must say this is a great car.
I got a Jaguar SV VGT. I normally sell most EVs but I actually like how this one looks.
- 133
- Surrey, UK
- Akers75
American FR Challenge 550: The Mach 1 is an easy drive on speedways. Almost Stock, just SS Tyres and longer gearbox needed.
Japanese 4WD Challenge 600: I’d never used the 400R before. Drives very nice, will use again. Stock, with SS tyres.
BMW Z4 One-Make: never sure of the AI cars’ PP in the one makes, I opted for a light ‘Sports’ tune and SS tyres, easy win.
Neo Classic Competition: The 787B is my go to for this type of thing. Hit the front on Lap 6, just as the rain started. Pitted for Inters at the end of the lap, expecting those behind to do the same. They didn’t. Then the rain stopped within a lap. I had to nurse the tyres to the end. Left Rear was toast.
World Touring Car 800: A cake walk in the de-tuned GT500. Power levels were similar to the GT3’s but the extra downforce made them easy to drive around.
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You want an easy time?
Take the Chapparal 2J, RH tires and drop the power to get it down to 799. At Sardines I normally lap the field. Here I lapped everyone other than 2nd . . . and that was with my cat on my lap!
All in glorious VR w/ GT Race Engineer to Boot! (tells me about my fuel; the 2J has no working fuel gauge)
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It decided to rain heavy at Fuji half way around the last lap which cost me my clean race bonus on the very last corner 
Daily reward 5 star got me a 350k Megane Trophy 11 GR4 - duplicate sold for 111k
6 star ticket got me a Ferrari VGT which was new to my collection
Daily reward 5 star got me a 350k Megane Trophy 11 GR4 - duplicate sold for 111k
6 star ticket got me a Ferrari VGT which was new to my collection
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This is the discussion thread for an article on GTPlanet:
Gran Turismo 7 Weekly Challenges: Ioniq Bond
The dawn of Friday around the world sees a new set of Gran Turismo 7 Weekly Challenges arriving, when your local clock reaches midnight, with five new events to race for bonus rewards across the week...
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- New York City
- challah_rajni
Technically, I still have about an hour before the new weeklies appear on my end, but yeah, here's a last minute write up for last week's races 
RACE 4 – NEO CLASSIC 800 at FUJI GP
I always do the most painful race first. PD thinks otherwise of the difficulty / frustration factor. PD is wrong.
How do I REALLY feel about this race?
I aimed to beat the AI with their own strategy: a full power 1-stop run. I needed that fastest lap too (I definitely don’t have a problem...)
OBSERVATIONS and NOTES
ROUND 1 – Jaaaag Aural Group C Glory
I drove the Jaguar XJ-R9 first 1) because Group C, and 2) because it’s the best sounding V12 in GT7 besides Lamborghini’s V12 opera singers.
As @smoothbore12 pointed out, the AI opponents clocked fastest laps in the 1:33s. The AI Jaguar XJ-R9 was the quickest of my bunch, but lost all its momentum in the final 3 laps.
Rain coupled with the AI’s… peculiar… pit strategy handed me multiple victories. Since I have no patience in the wet, my Group C cars’ corner exits looked like Group B corner entries. But rain victories were not enough
I slammed the Retry button and ran the race a couple more times, subconsciously seeking out dry conditions, looking for that definitive beatdown.
I had to pull myself away and start the other races before I burned up all my driving time raging -- instead of singing -- in the rain.
However,
RACE 5 – WTC800 at DRAGON TRAIL SEASIDE REVERSE
The Chicken of Death distracts you from the real killer: CURBS.
ROUND 1 – Nismo Alpine R3110 – half of a V12 – double the power – no weight
How I expected the race to go:
How the race actually went:
My swapped Alpine suffered from big turbo thirst and a tiny road car fuel tank. I responded with the usual one-stop strategy on Fuel Map 6 and so much short shifting that the engine sleep walked through the race. Despite the engine’s bored protest, the Nismo Alpine reached an alarming 180mph / 290kph entering Turn 1.
My driving was a mix of Sega Rally and Sonic Spinball. The AI were equal parts slow and passive aggressive - it took half the race to catch the leaders. The biggest challenge was getting around the back marker blockers who clogged up the Chicken of Death… Yes, that sentence was real. No, I will not un-write it.
Just as I learned to respect [fear] the curbs and find my rhythm, most of the AI drivers dived into the pits on lap 4. I cheered them on for attempting a cheeky undercut. The front runners then promptly disappointed me with their second pit stop on lap 8.
ROUND 2 – Fiiiiiiine, I’ll drive a Gr.3 Car
The game classifies the McLaren F1 GTR as Group 3, so it counts
I thought I was being clever for picking this, but the McLaren still had Group 3 [twitchy] handling, so I still had to behave with the throttle. It sounded nice though.
I expected the McLaren F1 to be much faster and easier to drive here than the Nismo Alpine R3110. It was faster, at least.
Perhaps I could have gone faster if I stayed on the ground more...
ROUND 3 – Veneno is Best Squishy Not-Prototype
I hopped into my favorite Hyper Road Car that's Totally Not a Prototype for V12 powered power slides.
Driving this was akin to hugging Shadow the Hedgehog: Prickly and edgy; doing it wrong brings… dire consequences; but when you understand him, he’s a sweet goth teddy bear.
All that I learned from the previous rounds - 1-stop strategy, Fuel Map 6, short shifting, calm steering inputs, releasing the brakes carefully - came together into a wonderful drive. The Veneno took to the curbs with confidence.
Edgy looks. V12 roar. Cuddly handling. Yay!
ROUND 4 – Skyline R33-92CP – Please Remember that I Exist
Stage 5 Weight Reduction + 900hp + AWD + Group C Fuel Economy
The forgotten GT-R and my favorite. The Group C engine swap’s crazy fuel economy / capacity meant that I could run a 1-stop strategy flat out in Fuel Map 1 and still have fuel to spare. And because of the AWD, I could get extra, extra stompy with the throttle.
The R33-92CP also proved extra stompy in the results:
I didn’t have time this week to run a fully built R33 with its standard engine, but I’m tempted to do so, because that one revs to 10,000 RPM
RACE 2 – AMERICAN FR CHALLENGE 550 at BLUE MOON BAY SPEEDWAY
Road cars, yay! 550pp yay! American cars, cool! FR drivetrains only, boooooooo!
That's no problem, because my tuning strategy for FRs is to load ballast into the trunk until we reach MR weight bias!
This race annoyed me the last time it appeared in the weeklies because it’s too short for how far back you start. I preferred Sport Softs, but the straightaways made a compelling argument for Sports Mediums (Sports Hards do not exist to me outside of time trials and the Tokyo 600pp grind).
The Shelby Mustang GT350 helped me find several victories. Good grip, but a bit stiff. Still, it looked mean and sounded great. I must rethink my settings to give this car the driving feel that it deserves.
Taking the high line and carrying all that speed through the final turn is always exhilarating.
I also tried the Ford Mustang Group 3 Road Car tuned to maximum crazy with the Maverick engine swap. I was morbidly curious to see what 1400hp, Racing Soft tires and full (not much...) downforce would do.
Besides, how many of you remember that this car is in the game [I did not]?
RACE 1 – JAPANESE 4WD CHALLENGE 600 at KYOTO YAMAGIWA
Driver with more money than sense -- and even less taste – brings the V10 Van.
When I am overwhelmed with car choices, I pick the sillier option: 600pp LFA V10 Toyota Alphard. All grip, all acceleration and actually decent braking (shocking for one of my tunes), but no top speed. The physics updates made the V10 Van feel even better in the low speed corners than I remember.
RESULTS: Me giggling through the immense lateral g-forces, because 1) I was having far too much fun and 2) said g-forces were cutting off blood flow to my brain.
Weeeee
SPECIAL EVENT – BMW Z4 ONE-MAKE at TOKYO SOUTH CLOCKWISE
Me: [Needing to remember how to read and remember the names of GT7’s Tokyo expressways] This version of Tokyo is super underrated and has amazing high speed flow, but why didn’t PD pick the other layout from the kei-car race, with the goofy chicane at the end? That layout is really good too, and it’s even more under-used. That would have been even more interesting!
PD: ...
I had a widebodied, Sport Softs, 550pp Tsukuba grip build ready to go… Well, that’s what my tuning sheet told me. I later found that only tuning was aero and tires. 537pp!
What likely happened: I sat down to tune. Suddenly, a butterfly caught my eye! And I chased it. For 10 hours. Only to return to GT7 and immediately start a maximum crazy Lamborghini build…
The AI were running mild street tunes with Comfort Softs, - some aero, transmission upgrades, weight reductions and exhaust mods, so they accelerated a bit better, cornered slightly flatter and had higher top speeds. Even at 537pp and with a bunch of body roll, my car was too much for this race. The AI were also very slow at the goofy chicane. They were braking very early, even for Comfort Soft tires.
I want to build a maximum crazy turbo Z4 now. Fun car, interesting race.
Side Note on Butterflies: I started playing Infinity Nikki recently. That game has a bug catching mechanic. And it is as grindy as it is pretty. So, it was very likely that I really did chase butterflies for 10 hours.
Send help (and more butterflies)
RACE 4 – NEO CLASSIC 800 at FUJI GP - FINALE
ROUND 2 – Sauber C9 – the Sane Before the Silly
I started with a high downforce / low weight tune that had dominated at Willow Springs. The AI front runners shrugged and served me my butt on a plate. My feather weight, grippy C9 was 2 seconds slower than the Jaaaag too
.
Equal amounts brooding, ballast and the Medium Death Star Turbo later... The AI 787b chuckled and out-accelerated me exiting the final corner up to 140mph / 225kph. No matter! My C9 grasped 200mph / 320kph, my desired victory in the dry and a faster fastest lap than the Jaaaag. Go green machine!
ROUND 3 – Turbo Hamster: Destroyer of Worlds
I spent so much time and energy squeezing extra speed out of the Group C cars… After reading about @Obelisk ’ Suzuki Escudo runs, I let my Turbo Hamster step off its hamster wheel and out of its cage. This rally rodent scampered up to the grid, looked at my previous runs and gleefully ran 2-3 seconds a lap quicker than my C9 and XJ-R9; in spite of turbo lag and Group B oversteer on braking. It was in a class by itself cornering
1-stop strategy, Racing Medium tires, Fuel Map 3, short shifting at half the rev bar. 190mph / 305kph down the main straightaway.
I’m late to the party on this, but...
Fear the Turbo Hamster.
Embrace the Turbo Hamster,
For the Turbo Hamster is Meta.
RACE 4 – NEO CLASSIC 800 at FUJI GP
I always do the most painful race first. PD thinks otherwise of the difficulty / frustration factor. PD is wrong.
How do I REALLY feel about this race?
- I have made tunes specifically for this race.
- This is how I name them…
I aimed to beat the AI with their own strategy: a full power 1-stop run. I needed that fastest lap too (I definitely don’t have a problem...)
OBSERVATIONS and NOTES
- Fuji showed me – brutally – when I sacrificed too much top speed for aero / mechanical grip
- The Jaguar is freakishly quick among the Group Cs. Its incredible engine gives power all the time and everywhere.
- The AI Jaguar driver is even more of a gorilla on the throttle than I am
- In dry conditions, the AI refuse to change tires. The gorilla throttle stomping Jaguar driver loses 4 seconds a lap at the end because of this
ROUND 1 – Jaaaag Aural Group C Glory
I drove the Jaguar XJ-R9 first 1) because Group C, and 2) because it’s the best sounding V12 in GT7 besides Lamborghini’s V12 opera singers.
As @smoothbore12 pointed out, the AI opponents clocked fastest laps in the 1:33s. The AI Jaguar XJ-R9 was the quickest of my bunch, but lost all its momentum in the final 3 laps.
Rain coupled with the AI’s… peculiar… pit strategy handed me multiple victories. Since I have no patience in the wet, my Group C cars’ corner exits looked like Group B corner entries. But rain victories were not enough
I slammed the Retry button and ran the race a couple more times, subconsciously seeking out dry conditions, looking for that definitive beatdown.
I had to pull myself away and start the other races before I burned up all my driving time raging -- instead of singing -- in the rain.
However,
RACE 5 – WTC800 at DRAGON TRAIL SEASIDE REVERSE
The Chicken of Death distracts you from the real killer: CURBS.
ROUND 1 – Nismo Alpine R3110 – half of a V12 – double the power – no weight
How I expected the race to go:
How the race actually went:
My swapped Alpine suffered from big turbo thirst and a tiny road car fuel tank. I responded with the usual one-stop strategy on Fuel Map 6 and so much short shifting that the engine sleep walked through the race. Despite the engine’s bored protest, the Nismo Alpine reached an alarming 180mph / 290kph entering Turn 1.
My driving was a mix of Sega Rally and Sonic Spinball. The AI were equal parts slow and passive aggressive - it took half the race to catch the leaders. The biggest challenge was getting around the back marker blockers who clogged up the Chicken of Death… Yes, that sentence was real. No, I will not un-write it.
Just as I learned to respect [fear] the curbs and find my rhythm, most of the AI drivers dived into the pits on lap 4. I cheered them on for attempting a cheeky undercut. The front runners then promptly disappointed me with their second pit stop on lap 8.
ROUND 2 – Fiiiiiiine, I’ll drive a Gr.3 Car
The game classifies the McLaren F1 GTR as Group 3, so it counts
I thought I was being clever for picking this, but the McLaren still had Group 3 [twitchy] handling, so I still had to behave with the throttle. It sounded nice though.
I expected the McLaren F1 to be much faster and easier to drive here than the Nismo Alpine R3110. It was faster, at least.
Perhaps I could have gone faster if I stayed on the ground more...
ROUND 3 – Veneno is Best Squishy Not-Prototype
I hopped into my favorite Hyper Road Car that's Totally Not a Prototype for V12 powered power slides.
Driving this was akin to hugging Shadow the Hedgehog: Prickly and edgy; doing it wrong brings… dire consequences; but when you understand him, he’s a sweet goth teddy bear.
All that I learned from the previous rounds - 1-stop strategy, Fuel Map 6, short shifting, calm steering inputs, releasing the brakes carefully - came together into a wonderful drive. The Veneno took to the curbs with confidence.
Edgy looks. V12 roar. Cuddly handling. Yay!
ROUND 4 – Skyline R33-92CP – Please Remember that I Exist
Stage 5 Weight Reduction + 900hp + AWD + Group C Fuel Economy
The forgotten GT-R and my favorite. The Group C engine swap’s crazy fuel economy / capacity meant that I could run a 1-stop strategy flat out in Fuel Map 1 and still have fuel to spare. And because of the AWD, I could get extra, extra stompy with the throttle.
The R33-92CP also proved extra stompy in the results:
I didn’t have time this week to run a fully built R33 with its standard engine, but I’m tempted to do so, because that one revs to 10,000 RPM
RACE 2 – AMERICAN FR CHALLENGE 550 at BLUE MOON BAY SPEEDWAY
Road cars, yay! 550pp yay! American cars, cool! FR drivetrains only, boooooooo!
That's no problem, because my tuning strategy for FRs is to load ballast into the trunk until we reach MR weight bias!
This race annoyed me the last time it appeared in the weeklies because it’s too short for how far back you start. I preferred Sport Softs, but the straightaways made a compelling argument for Sports Mediums (Sports Hards do not exist to me outside of time trials and the Tokyo 600pp grind).
The Shelby Mustang GT350 helped me find several victories. Good grip, but a bit stiff. Still, it looked mean and sounded great. I must rethink my settings to give this car the driving feel that it deserves.
Taking the high line and carrying all that speed through the final turn is always exhilarating.
I also tried the Ford Mustang Group 3 Road Car tuned to maximum crazy with the Maverick engine swap. I was morbidly curious to see what 1400hp, Racing Soft tires and full (not much...) downforce would do.
Besides, how many of you remember that this car is in the game [I did not]?
RACE 1 – JAPANESE 4WD CHALLENGE 600 at KYOTO YAMAGIWA
Driver with more money than sense -- and even less taste – brings the V10 Van.
When I am overwhelmed with car choices, I pick the sillier option: 600pp LFA V10 Toyota Alphard. All grip, all acceleration and actually decent braking (shocking for one of my tunes), but no top speed. The physics updates made the V10 Van feel even better in the low speed corners than I remember.
RESULTS: Me giggling through the immense lateral g-forces, because 1) I was having far too much fun and 2) said g-forces were cutting off blood flow to my brain.
Weeeee
SPECIAL EVENT – BMW Z4 ONE-MAKE at TOKYO SOUTH CLOCKWISE
Me: [Needing to remember how to read and remember the names of GT7’s Tokyo expressways] This version of Tokyo is super underrated and has amazing high speed flow, but why didn’t PD pick the other layout from the kei-car race, with the goofy chicane at the end? That layout is really good too, and it’s even more under-used. That would have been even more interesting!
PD: ...
I had a widebodied, Sport Softs, 550pp Tsukuba grip build ready to go… Well, that’s what my tuning sheet told me. I later found that only tuning was aero and tires. 537pp!
What likely happened: I sat down to tune. Suddenly, a butterfly caught my eye! And I chased it. For 10 hours. Only to return to GT7 and immediately start a maximum crazy Lamborghini build…
The AI were running mild street tunes with Comfort Softs, - some aero, transmission upgrades, weight reductions and exhaust mods, so they accelerated a bit better, cornered slightly flatter and had higher top speeds. Even at 537pp and with a bunch of body roll, my car was too much for this race. The AI were also very slow at the goofy chicane. They were braking very early, even for Comfort Soft tires.
I want to build a maximum crazy turbo Z4 now. Fun car, interesting race.
Side Note on Butterflies: I started playing Infinity Nikki recently. That game has a bug catching mechanic. And it is as grindy as it is pretty. So, it was very likely that I really did chase butterflies for 10 hours.
Send help (and more butterflies)
RACE 4 – NEO CLASSIC 800 at FUJI GP - FINALE
ROUND 2 – Sauber C9 – the Sane Before the Silly
I started with a high downforce / low weight tune that had dominated at Willow Springs. The AI front runners shrugged and served me my butt on a plate. My feather weight, grippy C9 was 2 seconds slower than the Jaaaag too
.Equal amounts brooding, ballast and the Medium Death Star Turbo later... The AI 787b chuckled and out-accelerated me exiting the final corner up to 140mph / 225kph. No matter! My C9 grasped 200mph / 320kph, my desired victory in the dry and a faster fastest lap than the Jaaaag. Go green machine!
ROUND 3 – Turbo Hamster: Destroyer of Worlds
I spent so much time and energy squeezing extra speed out of the Group C cars… After reading about @Obelisk ’ Suzuki Escudo runs, I let my Turbo Hamster step off its hamster wheel and out of its cage. This rally rodent scampered up to the grid, looked at my previous runs and gleefully ran 2-3 seconds a lap quicker than my C9 and XJ-R9; in spite of turbo lag and Group B oversteer on braking. It was in a class by itself cornering
1-stop strategy, Racing Medium tires, Fuel Map 3, short shifting at half the rev bar. 190mph / 305kph down the main straightaway.
I’m late to the party on this, but...
Fear the Turbo Hamster.
Embrace the Turbo Hamster,
For the Turbo Hamster is Meta.
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- Northants
Didn't really care for this week, several of the races just aren't that interesting but I did have fun at Suzuka. Euro Sunday Cup is at a track I just don't like, worse still is if you try to stick to the 400 PP recommendation. I'd be genuinely interested to know what unmodified road car can win this at 400 PP as with a 440 PP Mini I was only just able to beat the M3. Pickup Truck Race wasn't my thing, pretty simple with the short layout at least. Ioniq One-Make isn't all that great either, mainly because I don't really like the way the car drives, easy to win with a stock car though. WTC 600 is tricky if you try to stay under 600 PP, the RGT is so much faster than the entire rest of the field and can be 10-15 seconds ahead after 5 laps. Just about got there with an LFA, if the RGT had started further back it would've been a lot easier. Gr.1 was the highlight for sure, fun track with those cars and it rained heavily at the end of lap 4 until the end which resulted in a bunch of the AI going off and having to do nearly an entire lap on slicks. That gave me over a minute lead by the end but I had a lot of fun in the '11 R18 in the wet.
This weeks cars:
This weeks cars:
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- Jesse100190
the suzuka gr1 race caused some mayhem on the 3rd lap due to a monsoon you get a yellow flag YOU get a yellow flag everyone gets a yellow flag
- 2,037
- Ludwigsburg
- RocketJoe1-61
Here's my new car selection, large and cubic vehicles mostly - I'm glad with it, looks like fun to me.
Curious how the Unimog will compete at GV - the race at Red Bull Ring was easy but this time the field is quicker ...
- I'm glad with it, looks like fun to me.Curious how the Unimog will compete at GV - the race at Red Bull Ring was easy but this time the field is quicker ...
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