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I (finally) bought the Porsche 917K this morning for 18,000,000 Cr.
I also had a 'quick' and somewhat bizarre race at LM (WTC600, Alpine A220 Race Car '68) which I thought I was going to win easily - but I made a terrible mistake...
I 3-stopped but stayed on slicks and FM1 for the whole race. Due to outlaps, this left me just one shot at the fastest lap, Lap 7. It was never in doubt, but I wanted to get as far under 4 mins as possible, and got a 3:57 to be Portilla's purple lap of 4:15 by a country mile. Except... I crossed the line with 0:01 left and, for the first time ever, triggered Lap 8 at LM. This would have been fine but for the fact that I had 3% fuel left
Even with moving to FM6 and coasting as much as I could, I ran out of fuel between the two chicanes on Hunaudieres and was certain I would now lose the race - however, the AI was over 1 min behind, and as they crossed the line, they saw the chequered flag and all finished the race.
I didn't know that this happened... I thought that once the leader crossed the line, everyone else would do the same number of laps, but obviously not. It was lucky for me, as I would have come last otherwise.
So I managed to win the race despite doing a 7:22 final lap
And the race distance was 66.6 miles ![Sick :ill: :ill:](/wp-content/themes/gtp16/images/smilies/ill.svg?v=3)
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Incidentally, that win gave me just enough credits to buy the Veneno today as well, and that's in spite of having just dropped 18M on the 917K...
I also had a 'quick' and somewhat bizarre race at LM (WTC600, Alpine A220 Race Car '68) which I thought I was going to win easily - but I made a terrible mistake...
I 3-stopped but stayed on slicks and FM1 for the whole race. Due to outlaps, this left me just one shot at the fastest lap, Lap 7. It was never in doubt, but I wanted to get as far under 4 mins as possible, and got a 3:57 to be Portilla's purple lap of 4:15 by a country mile. Except... I crossed the line with 0:01 left and, for the first time ever, triggered Lap 8 at LM. This would have been fine but for the fact that I had 3% fuel left
I didn't know that this happened... I thought that once the leader crossed the line, everyone else would do the same number of laps, but obviously not. It was lucky for me, as I would have come last otherwise.
So I managed to win the race despite doing a 7:22 final lap
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Incidentally, that win gave me just enough credits to buy the Veneno today as well, and that's in spite of having just dropped 18M on the 917K...
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