Since I forgot to buy a membership voucher card, my PS Plus membership has expired. So to kill the time while I get a new one, I have been building cars for the WTC 700 grind which I've been doing for the past two days.
In an attempt to run something more realistic, and fun (looking at you, RedBull Jr users), I present the latest beast:
VR38-swapped Lancia Delta. Restricted to 571 HP and 528 ft-lb of torque using the factory turbo. Fully weight reduced at ~2430lbs (forgot the exact number). Racing Hard tires.
Running it on full Lean (Fuel Map 6), 25% fuel consumption per lap, netting an average of 3.4 laps per tank, 22% if it rains. On average, it takes 6 laps to complete the race, maybe just under if it rains. On my tuning runs I had torrential downpour on about 80% of them.
Quickest lap time: 4:10, slowest (heavy wet tires): 4:25.
Still working on the setup, specifically the transmission, it tends to bog down around 190, 192 mph. My very first attempt at tuning it, I managed 201 mph without a tow on the Mulsanne straight before the first chicane, and 190 by the second chicane. However, after tweaking the transmission, I can't seem to get the car to pull as it used to. I forgot to save the first transmission tuning, because the rest of the tune was abysmal; it understeered heavily.
Also, to skirt under the 700 PP limit, I had to run factory brakes which makes it, dare I say, almost true to 80s motorsport braking performance 😂
Overall it's a blast, easy to drive, balanced in the corners, and planted under braking.
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