On the GTP account, I got the 2 new cars that can't be won from the 6-star for completing the new Extra Menu, then picked up said ticket and 1,000,000 Cr. from the expired time trial. While the ticket got me an expensive car, it wasn't the Skoda, but the 2017 Ford GT. I hung onto it for tuning purposes, then bought said Skoda, a Bugatti Veyron Gr.4, Honda NSX Gr.4 and Lexus LC500 (the last 3 for engine purposes), dropping engines into the Bugatti and Lexus.
I then dove into the new races. The Trial Mountain American FR Challenge was an easy 7.7-second win in 7:01 with the 2015 Mustang, especially since the modern machinery started in the back. The Chevelle, which started and finished in 4th, was the first classic, some 11 seconds behind. Judging by the replay, it is a handful on the stock CM tires, and the 3-speed geared for top speed hurts acceleration, but it will hit 155 in whatever state of tune it is in that race.
The Afeela was surprisingly fun to drive around Alsace in the Japanese Clubman Cup, doing the race in a rather brisk 7:04, beating its front-running stablemate by 9.6 seconds and beating the 2002 RX-7 by 11.5 seconds. The car does understeer near its limit, which seems to be rather higher than the Teslas.
It was annoying to have to knock down the performance of the Skoda some, specifically adjust the CPU to 96%, to get it to fit into the VGT Trophy race at Grand Valley. Even so, the acceleration is second to none, which is good as even on the stock RM tires, low-speed corners are the bane of this beast. I knocked off the pole-sitting Skoda by 4.1 seconds in 8:51, and destroyed everything else.
All that netted me a 5-star ticket, which gave the 2nd-lowest-showing/lowest-legal 100,000 Cr., which I used to help pay for a Porsche Living Legend for Saturday's GTWS run and a 2021 Toyota GR86 for Sunday's TGR GT Cup. I finished the GTP portion of the day by taking a rental Skoda around Watkins Glen for a few laps, eventually setting a very-solid silver time of 1:37.4.
On the Plus account, I went straight for the 6-star, which netted an Aston Martin One-77 that I flipped for 660,970 Cr. I then overpowered the new races (or at least overpowered 2 of them, using an ICE VGT for a closer race):
- Trial Mountain in 6:29 with a Chevrolet Corvette C7 ZR1
- Alsace in 6:40 with a Nissan GT-R NISMO
- Grand Valley in 9:03 with a Lexus LF-LC GT VGT
The Wheel of Despair welcomed the Plus account back with a 3-star bearing the low-showing/lowest-possible 5,000 Cr.