The Porsche is objectively the best car for this combo. While the 787 blows them away on Mulsanne, the Porsche is better almost everywhere else. Including fuel saving.
The only times I’ve had any trouble outrunning a 787 has been when they drive dirty and swerve block in the Porsche curves. If they just hold defensive lines you can easily blow by on the outside.
The 787b could no stop this race. We might be in different classes, too. I hold a C/A ranking ATM, so my opponents aren't super fast or pros, but they will provide some challenge.
Driving dirty isn't in my vocabulary unless you're the Gallo AI in the Tokyo 600.
Incidentally, I realised I didn't own the 919, was sure I had bought it but either way.
On GTS I did actually buy it to compete in one of the GTWS events I think, for £2.50.
If I wanted to do the same on GT7, and if the same price I possibly would have, but it's going to be £24...
Love to know how that was justified internally. IT makes sure there's 0 chance I'd spend money in game, despite buying 6 or 7 on GTS because the prices seemed negligible to me.
Get it. It's a great car, possibly better than the 787b overall. I ran it at Sardegna for the WTC 800 quite a few times.
Btw, the 919 does charge with throttle wide open. You can literally watch the battery recharging on Mulsanne. I’m not sure why you think it doesn’t.
I might have my wires crossed, but now that you mention it, I do recall seeing it flip from charging to discharging on longer straights. It's been a while since I drove it. The 918's I was racing against, though, could not maintain speed more than a few seconds.
Yes, it looks strange that doesn't it - I'm more used to seeing hybrids discharge on full throttle, and recharge when lifting or braking!
It's due to the secondary turbines in the exhaust. One set is the turbo, the other drives a pair of small generators, plus you have regenerative braking. I looked it up out of sheer curiosity one day.
Something weird happened in the last race I was in, daily A with the Corvette C8. One guy, who in his own words, “lagged into the pits”, won the race ahead of us leaders who came in 2nd, 3rd, 4th around 16 seconds behind. On the replay, his second lap is 18.008 seconds and then he’s in the pit for the remainder of the race, going from 10th to 1st in the blink of an eye. Some reset glitch or something of the sort.
He said he was going to try it in time trial and left before I could tell him not to. Let’s see how long this race ends up going this week...
I've seen similar crap in the grind races. If the AI is close in a timed race and you stop at the line to wait it out or you pit, they'll fart into the pits as well. At that point the fact you crossed the line first and drove the furthest makes no difference. Just yesterday that happened at the Le Mans WTC 700. My Ferrari was running on fumes and battery power with the AI 19 seconds behind coming into the final chicanes. All of us pulled into the pits. As soon as my car stopped the time ran out. The word "FINISH" showed up just as two cars drove by on screen. The ranking showed me drop from first to third as the screen faded out. When the results appeared, I was
seventh.
When time was up, I had crossed the line ahead of everyone else
and driven the furthest. How one can lose that way is beyond me.
(@GOTMAXPOWER too, of course 
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