@Touring Mars, nerfing a soft-shod Gr.3 car enough to grind Sarthe doesn't sound like a great strategy, especially since the Gr.4 AI drivers that run soft tires do change them at least once in a dry race and a fair number of stock Gr.3 cars can now easily grind it with just rain tires waiting behind pit wall because they're under 700 PP. Back before the big Gr.3 PP reduction a few updates ago, I made a BMW M3 GT3 (hopeless at Sardegna even before Fraga's superhuman exploits became part of the AI's bag of tricks) a rather capable Sarthe grind car by taking away some power and adding some weight to get it under 700 PP. If memory serves, it did the standard 3 laps on fuel, could almost do 7 laps in the dry before the clock ran out, and sometimes I didn't even change the hard tires (back then, some of the AI on hard tires did change them in a dry race).
@smoothbore12, I merely suggested that the Valkyrie could be the first expansion of the dreaded invite system, especially since in real life, it is only by invitation from Aston Martin that one can get a Valkyrie. I also noted that the Bugatti Chiron wasn't ensnared in PD's implementation despite its predecessor being a part of it. As for using it as a grind car, if memory serves, the less-powerful Vulcan requires fuel saving beyond simply setting FM 6 to get through 5 laps at the Sardegna grind. Also, I strongly suspect that trying to get the Valkyrie under 700 PP would take away too much performance.
@05XR8, that's why when I was on vacation, I limited Remote Play to recording the UCD and Hagerty's changes. It is such a bandwidth hog that it failed multiple times in marginal LTE environments.
Anyway, back to racing. On the GTP account, I did some poor, yet fast (only 4.13% off the record as I type), laps around Brands Hatch in the rented mule. I should be collecting 1,000,000 Cr. in 2 weeks even though I don't like either the car (too tail-happy and too heavy) or the track (that first turn is a killer). My time around Watkins Glen remained solidly in the silver bracket as well, so I didn't hit that track again.
For the cash and the 4-star Wheel of Despair (for a racing muffler for the AMG safety car), I tried the Vulcan again. It indeed requires additional fuel saving to make 5 laps, it requires a set of tires (as I found out the hard way while trying to work lapped traffic on lap 15), and isn't fast enough to handle a Fraga that is on his game. Instead, I went back to old reliable - the 2008 Honda NSX GT500.
On the Plus account, the 26:55 (and barely sub-1:43 best lap) turned in the 1998 Toyota Supra GT500 wasn't good enough to beat a hopped-up Fraga, who won by 5.3 seconds. The Supra will go almost 6 laps on fuel, and will go 15 laps on tires, but if one gets the wrong Fraga, there's no hope.
The 9th 3-star Wheel of Despair of 17 on this account and 15th of 34 overall this month (guaranteeing a more-than-3-in-10 rate between the two accounts and a more-than-1-in-3 rate for the Plus account), which makes for 55 of 144 on the year for this account, puked out, for the 7th time this month the lowest-possible 5,000 Cr. If I get that one more time this month, or I skip one more day, that 5,000-Cr. booby prize will have been awarded more often than the ticket that is supposed to award it 40% of the time is supposed to appear.