Yesterday on the GTP account, I needed to turn on all the electronic aids to gold the Sarthe and Barcelona CEs. The 4-star Wheel of Despair disappointed as usual, offering the low-cash 30,000 Cr. option. I bought one of the two LaFerraris I need for tuning purposes; I also need three Enzos and three Carrera GTs for that, and some used/legendary cars that haven't been in the dealership since the Jubilee for engine purposes.
Today, I fired up the Plus account and started the Human Tragedies at Tsukuba. After finding the Unleashed Driver's setup too tail happy, I adapted Praiano's tune to use racing hards and the extra go-fast bits from the other tune. I found FM5 sufficient to make it to lap 20, while turning laps in the 1:01 range (the rabbits were doing mostly 1:00 even) and taking the lead during lap 16.
I came down for fuel on lap 20, and came out 5th, about 25 seconds back. Things got a bit slick by lap 26, but I stuck to the strategy. The front-runners came down for intermediates on lap 27 and went back to their racing slicks on lap 31, handing the lead back to me. The skies opened up on lap 35, but I stuck it out in front until lap 37, coming down for another full tank of fuel (which turned out to be necessary despite the pace slowing and the race already being 2/3rds over) and heavy wet tires, while the other front-runners came down for intermediates.
Most of the front-runners came down for heavy wet tires on lap 40 or 41 to take themselves out of contention, but Hizal stayed out on intermediates. That, and a disastrous spin in the last corner on lap 42 meant I had to try to finish the race on the wet tires, as Hizal got by. I watched almost helplessly as he got out to a 12-second lead by the time he decided to pit for his medium slicks on lap 50, even as I started to turn up the fuel. I retook the lead as he pitted, then had to hang on as my wet tires gave up the ghost. He pretty much caught me by the middle of lap 54, but the back-marker Rubilar held him up for a crucial 20 seconds. For the last lap, I turned the fuel map all the way up, and still Hizal got to my bumper by the first left-hander. I held my line and barely held him off for the win, while having less than a lap of fuel left.
I pocketed the 1,200,000 Cr. for golding the event on the first try, while the 3-star workout Wheel of Despair gave me the lowest-possible 5,000 Cr.
On the GTP account, I golded the Dragon Tail Seaside CE with just weak ABS, got (yet) a(nother) Ferrari invite on the 5-star workout Wheel of Despair, bought a few Bugs for engine purposes and the last LaFerrari I needed for tuning purposes.
I really have to learn the track properly, and find a good pace around it.
, got some higher level weight reduction and others plus a few 500,000's , 1 star tickets seem pretty rare these days and that's not with the glitch 
