Why didn't someone tell me the Enduros were so long???

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Good lord. Sat down this evening, and decided to take my brand new IA license for a spin by running the Tokyo 246 Enduro race. I figured it would be the best one to start with, since it's easily my favorite course, and the one I consistently turn in the best laps on.

I won the thing driving a Treun... er... Raybrig NSX. Slapped the super-slicks on there and just went for it. But I wasn't expecting it to take 2 and a bloody half hours. I had to take a break at 60 laps just to get the blood moving again. :>

Won by 4 laps over another Raybrig, and won the GT-1 road car, which was the one that I wanted. Didn't really want an F1, since I probably would just have ran one race just to see how broken they are, and then sold it. :P

Anyways... it'll be a few days before I try another one of those races. :>
 
The enduros are nothing compared to some of the series races. Look at F1 and Poly. Just enter one of those races (not the series), run one lap, and do the math. I'm not sure when or if I'll ever have time for those.
 
Yah they are long but the way I look at it when I sit down to play GT3 im always there for atleast 2hours anyway. So why not, atleast every lap is on your favorite track, unlike series races.
 
Heh, my left thumb was stuck in a permanent " :thumbsup: "position for a while after some of those races. I felt like Fonzie.
 
Don't worry, it took me 2 hours and 35 minutes to race that. But it paid off because I won an FO94/h in the process. :D Also, if you run a series like Polyphony or Formula GT, after you run have ran as many races as you liked, save your game. BTW: I'm doing this for the Polyphony Championship. :p
 
The shortest endurance race is the Seattle one with 40 laps at 94 miles long. Thats all. I am very impatient when it comes to long races. I quit my other race at lap 15 because I thought it would take forever. :( Im gonna go try it again with my Gillet Vertigo for Seattle. Seattle II is way better than Seattle in my opinion.
 
I am really dreading the 2-hour races at Rome and Trial Mountain. Especially Trial Mountain, where you've got to use an unmodified car. Just finished SSR11 today and had Seattle, Super Speedway, and Apricot Hill done before then. I guess I'll just keep plugging away :D
 
if you do the formula 1 series strait it takes about 9-10 hours with breaks in between. Its like doing 10 endurence races in one series cause there all like 40 laps.
 
the enduros have become my favorite form of driving GT3 :) (well, that and stomping around the complex string) I love finding a groove for a track and having to have some pit strategy, although the tires seem to wear ungodly fast at times. The trial mountain is great, I got me an NSX type zero, and I believe threw sport tires on it. It was a blast!
 
See. the thing about the series is that you can save after each race. So, it comes down to blocks of 10-40 laps at a time, which is certainly tolerable.

Question about the "stock" enduros: what's the limitation? You can only change tires, or you can change anything except engine stuff? And the non-miata series, what "stock" are you limited to?
 
Originally posted by Magc8Ball
See. the thing about the series is that you can save after each race. So, it comes down to blocks of 10-40 laps at a time, which is certainly tolerable.

Question about the "stock" enduros: what's the limitation? You can only change tires, or you can change anything except engine stuff? And the non-miata series, what "stock" are you limited to?
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On the stock races, all you can change is tires.
 

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