I am trying more multiplayer these days to mix it up with the new events. I had fun with the group prototypes earlier this week, those are tough but fun to drive. It was not very popular though, usually only 2-4 entries per race.
Today I tried birth of grand prix series and the indycars. Both seemed much more popular. I chose the W154 for birth of grand prix because well yeah and made the mistake of running it with low fuel, it swapped ends on me every time I even got close to the brake pedal. Filling it up made it much more drivable but still really tough, I may have to buy a few more cars and see which works best for me.
The indycars were fun to drive but I found it very tough running in traffic with other real drivers, I put myself in the wall several times trying to avoid crashing with another driver. The center post of the aeroscreen in cockpit view didnt help, I didnt cave and try hood cam view yet.
Back in single player, I did the second to last ginetta junior event, I still find the AI behavior with this one make a little strange. 8 AI, in practice I spent most of the time in 24th spot a second off, while the Ai were all within two tenths of each other and slowly gaining speed by a tenth or so. I was gaining speed slowly too, but then last second I pulled off a miracle lap finding nearly six tenths and putting me in the fastest time. I kept AI 8 for the race and once again I found myself cleanly in first place by the end of lap 1, then P2 chased me anywhere between 0.9 to 3 seconds behind, I had to be clean and consistent but fairly easy win. Then I go do the P1 on bathurst, barely P8 5+ seconds off the fastest time with AI 8, only after 20 minutes of hard work finding speed.
I also did some free play, I am always trying to put together fun camel gt style race setups with the GTP/C and GTX multi class races. These can be fun running the 962 in group 1 and competing for wins or the 74 rsr in group 2 and just trying to survive being traffic. One annoyance is I find have to do a lot of experimenting in test drive mode to come up my fuel strategy for timed races since the fuel and tire estimator seems to break with long timed races, it often shows estimated 9,999,999 laps for timed races then gives up and shows 0 pit stops for tires, so impossible to estimate how much fuel to match for tires. I feel like this would be better with a fuel multiplier option but I'm sure no one needs to be told that.