Have to say and I have no idea if it's controversial or not, but I find Bugatti's to be among the ugliest cars ever made and it pains me to drive on around Le Mans but this livery from @Papa_Lazarou does it make it somewhat bearable.
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The cockpit view, I don't know if it's real or not, is extremely useful though
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I mean you're not wrong. It is the ugliest jelly bean I've ever seen. Goes like a bat out of hell though.
Gotta say now that people have chillaxed a bit and learned how to draft Le Mans is a lot more fun.
Had a race today, started 3rd behind two Lambos. Damp circuit (just over the first bar, not the bottom bar) so i knew I had to be ginger going into Mulsanne Corner.
I was not ginger enough on throttle though. Definitely was leading coming out of the corner because everyone ahead went off and most behind did too. But hit the gas and spun. 1st to 11th in literally seconds.
Ok, recovery drive time nbd I can do this. Get a partner or two and run up through the field....
OH WAIT NO!
Nobody, and I mean nobody, around me was capable of bump drafting or hanging with me on the straight coming out of Tetre Rouge. Ok. doing this the hard way I guess.
I clawed my way from 11th, 15 seconds off the lead, to 6th by the start of Lap 5 by pure pace alone, setting fastest lap on Lap 4. FINALLY hooked up with the 5th place car exiting the Ford Chicane. Ok, all I have to do is hang with them till Mulsanne nbd... PENALTY FOR ME
Ok, fine, whatever, lets just go wicked fast. Start drafting with a lovely gent in a black and red Viper and we're chasing down the Lambo ahead of us in 2nd. Catch him half way down Mulsanne, we blast into 2nd and 3rd respectively.
I go for the heavy braking dive into Mulsanne Corner. Don't get the job done but he gives space and I keep it tight. He gets a slightly better run out of Mulsanne than I do but we're both ahead of the Lambo. Ok, draft into Indy and try it there.
Get the job done into Indy but he draws along side into Arnage. I have a .5 second penalty to serve, he's carrying a .5 penalty that will be applied post race.
He passes me while I serve, so does the Lambo. I follow nose to tail through the Porsche Curves and exiting them at Maison Blanche the Lambo in front is slow, the Viper is wide, and there is, to my estimation, a Viper Sized Gap between the two of them so POOF I slide into it. Unfortunately I run wide. Screw it in for a penny in for a pound. Hammer down, pass the Lambo. I have a 1 second penalty now that will be applied post race. IDC b/c I'm in 2nd now on track. 4th has a full second to be applied post race too b/c they went wide. Only the Lambo to beat and if I can get a 1.01 second gap by the line I'll finish in 2nd.
Ford Chicane = Flawless
Final little right left flick = Flawless.
Gap at the line:................ .899
I finish 3rd, best recovery drive I've ever had anywhere, and we finished less than 9 seconds behind the leader. I'm convinced if I had a drafting partner before Lap 4 we'd have been competing for the win.
God I love this circuit. Please PD give me 24 hours here!
