Weekly Challenge Discussion Thread

[LANDO]

Driving my new 20.000.000 McLaren F1 GTR today in Fuji and the wipers don’t work. I want my money back

Spoiler: Content warning

 

[Carpocalypse]

1. Starting off the week, I used my Kangoo Faux Turbo. It's very good in the corners, but lacks in speed, which made getting the Alpine much more difficult, luckily, I can brake later than they could and took advantage of it.
2. Next, I used the SVT Raptor, it was... Meh.
3. Next, I used the Vantage, I copied (mostly) the Vantage GT4 tune by HSGAutomotive, which you can find on youtube, but without limiting the power or adding weight. It was pretty quick, but a bit twitchy
4. Finally, I used the C4 Corvette, a stock one. This one was a handful to handle, but it was a class of it's own.
5. I chose not to do Fuji, endurance racing is already bad enough, not including weather.

 

[symustafa1996]

Pretty unmemorable set of races today, except for the truck race at Willow Springs and the Fuji race. Although I do quite enjoy driving at Blue Moon Bay. I wasn't too into trying to make it too interesting this week, so I decided to just go ahead with some slightly overpowered cars.

Only car this week that I used stock. I won this in one of my daily tickets ages ago and never got around to selling it. It's actually fun to drive. Might just keep this one around since it doesn't sell for much anyways. Its just fast enough to get to first halfway through the second lap.

The only Vantage I had was tuned to bits. I detuned it a bit and put sport hard tyres on it so it's not too overpowered. I hate how this car has 8 gears. Way too many gears!

Both my Tundra and F150 have been engine swapped, so I also detuned it a bit and put it on sport hard tyres. Keeping the suspension stiff still makes it hug the corners really well, another easy win.

Also engine swapped, the E30 M3 handles really well around the Ring. I was first by the start of the straight. I could have gone faster, but I try getting the CRB bonus for every race which means careful navigating around the other cars.

Did not bother making it at all competitive for this one. Yesterday marks the anniversary of his death. My way of acknowledging it, I guess.


Credits makes for boring prizes, but I'm not going to complain. Trying to collect all the cars, can use it towards that.

 

[Bazool]

Nice to see an Historic race in there

 

[LANDO]

Credits makes for boring prizes, but I'm not going to complain. Trying to collect all the cars, can use it towards that.

Same here, 6* car tickets it’s a good alternative to get the freaking invitation cars.

 

[SSfox]

I really enjoyed the rain race. Used my fresh acquired F1500T

 

[puff smokie]

The weekly races of 2 weeks ago.. paid nothing, no tickets or wheel spins Did all 5 won all five
Got the race money , but not the prizes.

 

[jesse100190]

i had a caution from bishop spinning out during the fuji race, also had one from me knocking van der Heyden to 4th spot from the lead.

 

[ROCKET JOE]

The weekly races of 2 weeks ago.. paid nothing, no tickets or wheel spins Did all 5 won all five
Got the race money , but not the prizes.

And you did change the time zone of your PS in advance, correct ? That's what causes the ticket loss.

 

[ROCKET JOE]

Things went as expected - again, all the races have been fairly easy. Guess I've been lucky with my car selection which was competitive right from the start without being too dominant. The R92CP being the exception of course but, you know, Fuji in a monsoon that's double torture and despite some masochistic tendencies I decided to minimize that pain ...
I even could have achieved a full clean sweep if the leading Aston wouldn't have double-braked at a corner apex.
Couldn't escape this, damn !

Race 1 - Brands Hatch
The Giulia is such a nice, stable and reliable little racer, 160 hp were perfect for a close fight against F. Pagandet.

Race 2 - Willow Springs
I could have sworn something happened in the back of my Raptor while overtaking V. Neto for the lead.

Race 3 - Blue Moon Bay
Last time the stock Vantage wasn't quick enough in my hands, this time she gave me a 10 sec winning margin.

Race 4 - Nordschleife
Overtaking the leading L(R)ambos at Hedwigshöhe gave me the necessary gap to defend against their top speed after Döttinger Höhe.

Race 5 - Fuji
FM 1 on IM compound was the recipe for a no-stopper through 7 laps of rain. Had to baby the Nissan home but ... it's done ! Yeah !

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And now I need your help ! A couple days ago I came across this at work :

It's a carbon piano tune tool and it reminds me of something ... don't know ... something game related. Any ideas ?

 

[RACECAR]

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Choices for the races when they go live.

European Sunday Cup 500: Renault Clio 220 RS Trophy. Had to work abit to catch the Alpine, but otherwise smooth.
Pickup Truck Race: Ford F-150 SVT Raptor. Easy
Historic Sports Car Masters: BMW 3.0 CSL. Terrifying yet fun.
World Touring Car 800s: Toyota GR Supra RC. Had to remember my shortshifting technique and it works wonders for the rain.
Aston Martin Vantage One-Make: Whipped out the GT4 build and it was a runaway.

And the prize for the mileage ticket while doing these:

That's two cars I've gotten from tickets matching the manufacterur of that week's Special Event. Its not much, but its odd that I'd have two dollars for the exact same reason.

 

[2cam16]

So-so week,IMO. My most exciting race was Brands. lol
Went with what I've won Fuji with before, 787B. Right at the start it was a downpour so I went out on W. This lasted until lap 6-ish. Weirdly most of the field went in after the 2nd lap and that left me and three other cars ahead. I overtook them before the third lap ended and it was over. Went in for RH at the end of lap 7 and just had to run on the dry lines. Won by 30 seconds.
Fuji International Speedway_ (10) by 2cam16, on Flickr
Norsdchleife I again chose a car I had won this race before. On SS. I took first by the Adenauer Frst and won by 15 seconds.
Nürburgring Nordschleife_ (11) by 2cam16, on Flickr
Willow Springs was easy with my 600hp Ford. lol
Willow Springs International Raceway_ Big Willow_ (2) by 2cam16, on Flickr
Blue Moon was again too easy with this modded AM.
Blue Moon Bay Speedway - Infield A_ (2) by 2cam16, on Flickr
Which brings me to Brands Hatch. My stock Renault on SS took it to 504pp so close enough. I had nothing on them in the long straights but in the turns it was fun. Had to play dirty though with Mikail on the last turn and won it. lol
Brands Hatch Grand Prix Circuit_ (12) by 2cam16, on Flickr

 

[Lunard]

My weekly machines.

 

[GTvsForza]

Bit more challenging set this time with the cars I picked.

• European Sunday Cup - Mangusta (Christian Dior) 🚫
• Pick Up Race - F-150 Raptor 🔰
• Vantage One-Make 🔰
• Historic Sportscars - 308 GTB 🚫
• WTC800 - Mustang Gr. 3 🚫

Just a dupe RCZ from a 3⭐️ daily, but I have finally hit 20 mil! Now all I need to do is wait...

 

[LANDO]

Driving my new 20.000.000 McLaren F1 GTR today in Fuji and the wipers don’t work. I want my money back

Spoiler: Content warning

Ok. I’ve just realized that if you set/map a button for the wipers they don’t turn on automatically 😂.

 

[rheinaoi]

The first thing that came to mind seeing the piano device was the PS Move (yay, piano!!!).

It's a carbon piano tune tool and it reminds me of something ... don't know ... something game related. Any ideas ?

Your Alfa Romeo is gorgeous by the way!

 

[MIE1992]

I did the Vantage one-make, but out of curiosity, I thought I'd try using one that had Sport Soft tires installed and nothing else. Turns out that's more than enough, as I was beginning to lead by the end of the second lap! Now, this may be a controversial choice of factory color, but I had actually bought it in Lime Essence, which is a color that I associate with the '18 Vantage for some reason. (Though both the gloss and matte versions of Aston Martin Racing Green look splendid on the car, too, so maybe I'll eventually buy a spare in that color to modify.)

 

[ROCKET JOE]

The first thing that came to mind seeing the piano device was the PS Move (yay, piano!!!).

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You're the only one who shared his imagination, so thanks for this. Last night it came to me in my dreams and I now know what it was.

It was "THE SHAFT" ! vvv

 

[rheinaoi]

You're the only one who shared his imagination, so thanks for this. Last night it came to me in my dreams and I now know what it was.

It was "THE SHAFT" ! vvv

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GT7 Reward Mechanisms: Even in your dreams, you will get the shaft. Shafted is a state of being.

The items are basically at the same angle too. So. Utterly. Cursed.

 

[Sir Crashalot]

This week I just did 3 races. Won't do Fuji ('cause I don't like it) and won't do the Vantage one 'cause it only allows the '18 and I still don't feel like buying this car.

So, first was the European 500 @ Brands Hatch. I always enjoy to drive non-meta, rather unusual cars in those weekly challenges, and so I was wondering if you could win this on hard mode with a BMW i3. Turns out you absolutely can!

For the Pick Up race at Willows Springs there's unfortunately not much choice and nothing fun to drive so I used my fully build (non-swapped) Tundra just to get it done.

Third race was the Historic Sports Car Master at my favorite track. A perfect opportunity to use one of my favorite fun builds, the swapped and maxed out Abarth 595. And boy, this was one of the most fun races I had in recent times! Even got CRB🙂

 

[rheinaoi]

RACE 5 – WTC800 at FUJI GP
A Tale of Two Tracks and a tribute to my laziness

Laziness 0: I didn’t want to tune the Mazda LM55 VGT for 800pp
Laziness 1: I chose a Group C Engine swapped roadcar so I needn’t think about fuel management

Laziness 2: That car was AWD – no brainpower needed to manage wheelspin
Laziness 3: One-stop strategy because I did not want to tiptoe on roasted Intermediate tires for half the race
Bonus: I forgot about my 800pp Turbo Hamster (AKA, the Escudo). Whoopsie...

The race started wet, gray, slow and miserable; dampening the track along with my spirits. I ran my first stint with Intermediate tires. I took solace in that my Group C powered GT-R R33 was light, grippy, fast and sounded great. Initially I ran Fuel Map 2, only to have a “why am I doing this?” eureka and flipped back to full power.

The last three cars tried their usual backmarker first lap heroics. They overshot their brake points and gave up all their momentum trying to boop me off the racing line at the apex. My eye-rolls were nearly as loud at Portilla’s Viper.

Around lap 4 the rain subsided, and my opponents began to pit. I boxed in at the end of lap 6 for fuel and Racing Medium tires. I spent the 34 seconds remembering the final Super License with the 917 – find the dry line... Most notably, Portilla took Racing Soft tires.

I returned on Racing Mediums to a track that had a very dry racing line, AND a very wet… spinning-out line.

When Portilla was not spinning out on said spinning-out line, he was knocking multiple seconds off his sector times. Meanwhile, I pretended that the dry line was a tarmac rally with the wet spots as walls, and portals to the Shadow Realm.

Despite my desire to not tiptoe, nor fall into the Shadow Realm, I got greedy. And the wet spots grabbed my front wheel. I spun like a dancer [and like Portilla] on the final lap. Portilla stayed out on those Racing Softs for 6 laps!

Dramatic reenactment of my spin-outs and [eventual] return to the track

With my composure regained and dignity lost, I crossed the line 48 seconds in the lead (edit: ahead of Portilla in 2nd place). Without my dance, I would have had a 1 minute margin of victory.



I am morbidly curious about what the Escudo can do 👀

 

[RACECAR]