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- RedSuinit
This series was ridiculously fun. 3 races and each one took ~ 1.5 hours. I don't suggest taking on this series unless you have two of your B-Spec drives at level 20. I barely won with them at level 20.
Suzuka Circuit - Rain - 30 laps:
So when I was preparing to take on this series, I was looking through my garage, deciding on which car to use, when I finally settled on Castrol Tom's Supra. Racing tires: Rain. No upgrades of any kind.
Next I chose my two strongest drivers, one was a level 20, the other was a level 21. Both of them have their personality scales all the way in the cool (all the way to the left, in the blue).
The race begins. Off the rolling start (I guess they did a rolling start because of the rain??) I was in 7th place, and I instructed my driver to slow down the pace during the first turn and the esses in order to avoid any unnecessary mistakes due to the cold tires in the rain. After 2 laps, my driver had fallen back to 10th place, which I had planned for. I continued to slow his pace, and calm him down.
Once I had calmed him down fully, I instucted him to pick up the pace after coming out of the esses during lap 4, after instructing him to do so ONCE I instructed him to keep the current pace he had going. It wasn't long after that when he caught up to the car in the 9th position, after a direction to overtake in 240R, my driver broke late moving to the inside corner of the spoon turn, taking 9th position. After several similar confrontations, I had managed to move my driver up to 5th place by lap 12, when my first driver was starting to run out of strength and his mental strength was going fast. I leave my first driver out for lap 13, and by the beginning of lap 14 when I had instructed him to pit, he had fallen back to 6th.
I switched to my star driver, and told him straight out of the gate to push it. For the next two laps I instructed my driver to up the pace constantly. By the end of lap 16 he had reached 7th place with 3 or 4 AI having made pit stops. On lap 17 3 or 4 more AI made pit stops, placing my driver in 4th. By the end of lap 18 my driver was in the lead with the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd position cars having all made pit stops. At the beginning of lap 20 my lead was about 6 seconds. Most of which was gained during the laps of pacing up my driver with no one around him, making far superior lap times in comparison to anyone else. This was mainly because all of the AI were battling it out for positions.
I kept my driver at a comfortable pace for the next few laps, until my lead had been wittled away to 2 seconds or so at the start of lap 25. However, I had a problem. With 5 laps to go, my current drivers strength level was at 25%, and I could see the bar slowly draining. I knew he wasn't going to make it the next 5 laps without running out of strength. I did my best to get him to hold a steady pace, and watched as his lead was wittled away by the fresher drivers on the course (my driver had been on track at least 3 laps longer than ALL drivers, and up to as many as 6 more than the freshest drivers.
By lap 28 I had an NSX and GT-R eating away at my drivers bumper. I had to keep him focused at all times. Instructing him to push it through all of the corners, while instructing him to slow his pace on the straights (I found this to be a useful tactic, you can calm him down while he is on a straight and is just flat out on the throttle anyways, you lose no time at all, but you gain the advantage of reducing your drivers stress). My driver managed to stay in the lead until the straight heading into the start/finish line at the end of lap 28 when the NSX overtook my driver, however with proper coaching through the esses, I managed to keep my driver on his tail until they reached 240R. Coming out of 240 I directed him to overtake, and managed to get him past the NSX coming into spoon corner. The NSX had gone wide, giving the perfect opportunity, however the GT-R was RIGHT behind me.
Racing down the straigh coming out of spoon corner I look down and my driver is OUT OF STRENGTH with a full lap to go. I knew I was going to lose now. All three of the drivers worked their way through the chicane coming into the straight towards start/finish, and the GT-R and NSX were side by side, trying to use the draft from my driver to get in front of each other, about 100 yards before turn 1, a car passes my driver on each side, and the GT-R and NSX start running 2 wide.
I knew that I only had one chance to take the lead back, so with a completely calm driver, that had no strength left, and mental strength waining I instructed him to pace up, constantly refreshing pace up, praying that my driver could handle the push until Spoon corner. With each and every turn my driver stayed right on the heels of the battling GT-R and NSX, and even though he lost a little bit of space in the turn coming into 240R, he made up for it in the entrance to spoon. Exiting spoon eating away at the bumper of both cars, my driver pushed that Supra to it's limit, overtaking the side by side GT-R and NSX all the way on the left hand side. All three drivers take the turn at the end of the straight at the same time, but since my driver was on the inside he barely manages to get ahead coming into the chicane. All three cars exit the chicane one right after another, coming into the home stretch. I have my fingers crossed as I press the pace up command one last time, and then set down the controller to pray. GT-R starts to pass left NSX starts to pass right, sweat running down my brow as I start to yell "COME ON!". All three cars pass the finish line, the word FINISH appears on the screen, I am holding my breath because I couldn't tell who won.
The final times appear F.Roush Nissan GT-R, +0.001, 3rd place, H.Gunther Honda NSX +0.001, 2nd place, H.Frankfruhter Castrol Tom's Supra, 1st place. I screamed I was so happy. That had to be one of the most intense races I have ever watched. I was overjoyed. An hour and a half of pure race watching (and coaching) joy soared through my veins. Especially after an EPIC finish like that.
I can't express my dissapointement when the replay was too large to save......
Suzuka Circuit - Rain - 30 laps:
So when I was preparing to take on this series, I was looking through my garage, deciding on which car to use, when I finally settled on Castrol Tom's Supra. Racing tires: Rain. No upgrades of any kind.
Next I chose my two strongest drivers, one was a level 20, the other was a level 21. Both of them have their personality scales all the way in the cool (all the way to the left, in the blue).
The race begins. Off the rolling start (I guess they did a rolling start because of the rain??) I was in 7th place, and I instructed my driver to slow down the pace during the first turn and the esses in order to avoid any unnecessary mistakes due to the cold tires in the rain. After 2 laps, my driver had fallen back to 10th place, which I had planned for. I continued to slow his pace, and calm him down.
Once I had calmed him down fully, I instucted him to pick up the pace after coming out of the esses during lap 4, after instructing him to do so ONCE I instructed him to keep the current pace he had going. It wasn't long after that when he caught up to the car in the 9th position, after a direction to overtake in 240R, my driver broke late moving to the inside corner of the spoon turn, taking 9th position. After several similar confrontations, I had managed to move my driver up to 5th place by lap 12, when my first driver was starting to run out of strength and his mental strength was going fast. I leave my first driver out for lap 13, and by the beginning of lap 14 when I had instructed him to pit, he had fallen back to 6th.
I switched to my star driver, and told him straight out of the gate to push it. For the next two laps I instructed my driver to up the pace constantly. By the end of lap 16 he had reached 7th place with 3 or 4 AI having made pit stops. On lap 17 3 or 4 more AI made pit stops, placing my driver in 4th. By the end of lap 18 my driver was in the lead with the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd position cars having all made pit stops. At the beginning of lap 20 my lead was about 6 seconds. Most of which was gained during the laps of pacing up my driver with no one around him, making far superior lap times in comparison to anyone else. This was mainly because all of the AI were battling it out for positions.
I kept my driver at a comfortable pace for the next few laps, until my lead had been wittled away to 2 seconds or so at the start of lap 25. However, I had a problem. With 5 laps to go, my current drivers strength level was at 25%, and I could see the bar slowly draining. I knew he wasn't going to make it the next 5 laps without running out of strength. I did my best to get him to hold a steady pace, and watched as his lead was wittled away by the fresher drivers on the course (my driver had been on track at least 3 laps longer than ALL drivers, and up to as many as 6 more than the freshest drivers.
By lap 28 I had an NSX and GT-R eating away at my drivers bumper. I had to keep him focused at all times. Instructing him to push it through all of the corners, while instructing him to slow his pace on the straights (I found this to be a useful tactic, you can calm him down while he is on a straight and is just flat out on the throttle anyways, you lose no time at all, but you gain the advantage of reducing your drivers stress). My driver managed to stay in the lead until the straight heading into the start/finish line at the end of lap 28 when the NSX overtook my driver, however with proper coaching through the esses, I managed to keep my driver on his tail until they reached 240R. Coming out of 240 I directed him to overtake, and managed to get him past the NSX coming into spoon corner. The NSX had gone wide, giving the perfect opportunity, however the GT-R was RIGHT behind me.
Racing down the straigh coming out of spoon corner I look down and my driver is OUT OF STRENGTH with a full lap to go. I knew I was going to lose now. All three of the drivers worked their way through the chicane coming into the straight towards start/finish, and the GT-R and NSX were side by side, trying to use the draft from my driver to get in front of each other, about 100 yards before turn 1, a car passes my driver on each side, and the GT-R and NSX start running 2 wide.
I knew that I only had one chance to take the lead back, so with a completely calm driver, that had no strength left, and mental strength waining I instructed him to pace up, constantly refreshing pace up, praying that my driver could handle the push until Spoon corner. With each and every turn my driver stayed right on the heels of the battling GT-R and NSX, and even though he lost a little bit of space in the turn coming into 240R, he made up for it in the entrance to spoon. Exiting spoon eating away at the bumper of both cars, my driver pushed that Supra to it's limit, overtaking the side by side GT-R and NSX all the way on the left hand side. All three drivers take the turn at the end of the straight at the same time, but since my driver was on the inside he barely manages to get ahead coming into the chicane. All three cars exit the chicane one right after another, coming into the home stretch. I have my fingers crossed as I press the pace up command one last time, and then set down the controller to pray. GT-R starts to pass left NSX starts to pass right, sweat running down my brow as I start to yell "COME ON!". All three cars pass the finish line, the word FINISH appears on the screen, I am holding my breath because I couldn't tell who won.
The final times appear F.Roush Nissan GT-R, +0.001, 3rd place, H.Gunther Honda NSX +0.001, 2nd place, H.Frankfruhter Castrol Tom's Supra, 1st place. I screamed I was so happy. That had to be one of the most intense races I have ever watched. I was overjoyed. An hour and a half of pure race watching (and coaching) joy soared through my veins. Especially after an EPIC finish like that.
I can't express my dissapointement when the replay was too large to save......
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That's amazing! Was your level 9 your first or second driver?
