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- GTP_FreakinWolfy
I found a race with literally everything in the game I hate. Suzuka, wet weather, and touring cars. So, needless to say it was to be an interesting ordeal...
Anyways, I got a hold of the MOTUL AUTOTECH GT-R, and hopped into the race figuring that if I just took it easy I could keep up with the AI guys, but it became apparent by turn three, while I was sliding into the grass, that I had already messed up... I forgot to put the rain tires on!
By the time I got it back on track, I was down from my starting point in seventh to tenth, and throughout the remainder of that lap I lost eleventh and twelfth. At this point I was thinking "Hell with this..." and considering ending the race, but my competitive spirit took over, and I found myself back out there now some fifty seconds behind the leader on lap two.
I took off trying to find a groove, and push it as much as possible to catch anyone at all. By the end of lap three I was 53 seconds behind, and was beginning to feel comfortable on the track and in that car. Lap 5. Ran a 2:21 and was starting to feel hopeful for my chances, now 38 seconds behind. Lap 6. I caught my first straggler, and passed him fairly easily through the little zig-zag between the front and back straights, 30 seconds down. I spent most of lap 7 trying to get around the AI cars, and when I crossed the line at the beginning of lap 8 I was in 8th place and 26 seconds off the lead. At this point I was figuring if I could run these next three laps clean and not get held up much by the remaining traffic I might actually pull this off!
So, through the first set of esses, running in mostly high second gear, I caught the 7th place guy, and outbraked him into the sharp right hander before the crossover. The timer said 24 seconds off. Through the hairpin, and speeding as fast as I dared around the long sweeper, I could see the roostertails from the next three getting onto the back straight ahead of me. I picked up a little draft and was right on their heels through the chicane and out on the front straight. I accelerated past the first, but had to slow up to try and get a clean run past the others. 20 seconds.
Now it was crunch time. I somewhat roughly shoved my way by in turn one, and was now up to fourth place. The lead three in all this time had separated themselves a decent bit, and it was gonna be hard going with just two laps left. I pushed the car as far as I thought it had any chance of going, barely keeping it under control as I semi-drifted it around the track. Finally at the end of the back straight away, I could see third place entering the chicane. I crossed the line with my best lap of the race, a 2:19.5, and was now roughly ten seconds off heading into the final lap.
At this point, I was just throwing the car around the corners trying to duplicate my last laps performance and break 20 again, cause I knew that was the only hope I had for catching up. I knocked third out by turn 3, and going under the bridge the timer said 6 seconds off. I caught sight of the first two cars roostertails as I was rounding the sweeper onto the back straight. I floored it, and caught a little draft getting me with in pouncing range for the double chicane.
Here it was, make it or break it time, I had to throw the car in there and just hope for the best. I bumped second place car, and hit the gas hard around the sharp left in hopes of powering around my final adversary, but, it was just a little too hard. I lost the rear end, and wound up rolling backwards into the wall. Good lord I was pissed. I went ahead and crossed the line, 5 seconds back, third place.
So, it just goes to show, no matter how over-prepped the car is, I can still find a way to lose =p. And I still hate that track...
Anyways, I got a hold of the MOTUL AUTOTECH GT-R, and hopped into the race figuring that if I just took it easy I could keep up with the AI guys, but it became apparent by turn three, while I was sliding into the grass, that I had already messed up... I forgot to put the rain tires on!
By the time I got it back on track, I was down from my starting point in seventh to tenth, and throughout the remainder of that lap I lost eleventh and twelfth. At this point I was thinking "Hell with this..." and considering ending the race, but my competitive spirit took over, and I found myself back out there now some fifty seconds behind the leader on lap two.
I took off trying to find a groove, and push it as much as possible to catch anyone at all. By the end of lap three I was 53 seconds behind, and was beginning to feel comfortable on the track and in that car. Lap 5. Ran a 2:21 and was starting to feel hopeful for my chances, now 38 seconds behind. Lap 6. I caught my first straggler, and passed him fairly easily through the little zig-zag between the front and back straights, 30 seconds down. I spent most of lap 7 trying to get around the AI cars, and when I crossed the line at the beginning of lap 8 I was in 8th place and 26 seconds off the lead. At this point I was figuring if I could run these next three laps clean and not get held up much by the remaining traffic I might actually pull this off!
So, through the first set of esses, running in mostly high second gear, I caught the 7th place guy, and outbraked him into the sharp right hander before the crossover. The timer said 24 seconds off. Through the hairpin, and speeding as fast as I dared around the long sweeper, I could see the roostertails from the next three getting onto the back straight ahead of me. I picked up a little draft and was right on their heels through the chicane and out on the front straight. I accelerated past the first, but had to slow up to try and get a clean run past the others. 20 seconds.
Now it was crunch time. I somewhat roughly shoved my way by in turn one, and was now up to fourth place. The lead three in all this time had separated themselves a decent bit, and it was gonna be hard going with just two laps left. I pushed the car as far as I thought it had any chance of going, barely keeping it under control as I semi-drifted it around the track. Finally at the end of the back straight away, I could see third place entering the chicane. I crossed the line with my best lap of the race, a 2:19.5, and was now roughly ten seconds off heading into the final lap.
At this point, I was just throwing the car around the corners trying to duplicate my last laps performance and break 20 again, cause I knew that was the only hope I had for catching up. I knocked third out by turn 3, and going under the bridge the timer said 6 seconds off. I caught sight of the first two cars roostertails as I was rounding the sweeper onto the back straight. I floored it, and caught a little draft getting me with in pouncing range for the double chicane.
Here it was, make it or break it time, I had to throw the car in there and just hope for the best. I bumped second place car, and hit the gas hard around the sharp left in hopes of powering around my final adversary, but, it was just a little too hard. I lost the rear end, and wound up rolling backwards into the wall. Good lord I was pissed. I went ahead and crossed the line, 5 seconds back, third place.
So, it just goes to show, no matter how over-prepped the car is, I can still find a way to lose =p. And I still hate that track...
