Talking about light cars, here's a funny one...
The engine swapped Honda Beat
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After using the oldest car so far before(the E-Type), this is definitly the car with the lowest PP for that race I have ever used...
Even with RS tires the PP stays well under 600(!).
I knew, that it can do 300km/h, so I was thinking it must be a complete mess to drive with that low PP, but nothing could have been further from the truth, that little car was a perfect ride..incredibly fast in the straights, still controllable and predictable under hardest breaking conditions and fast enough in the high speed turns of Sarthe...a pleasure and big fun to drive!(Although it must to be a rather scary thing to do in real life: going 315km/h in such a little car...)
Fuel: 3 lappers are no problem, but need a little bit of fuel management. I did a first lap with FM5, than went for a fast second lap with FM3(and that lap was fast, 4.10,something, with RMs and FM3), and then agin FM5 for the third lap(even with FM5 it does the 300km/h), the rest of the race I did 2lappers on FM1
Tires:did the 3lapper with RMs(easy)and the 2lappers with RSs(just as easy...)
Weather:first 4 laps were dry and I was hoping for dry laps in the finish, so I can see what time is possible with RS tires and FM1, since it already did a 4.10 with Rms and FM3...
But it started to rain in lap 5...wet road by the end of lap 5(just above the first mark in the rain meter, so about 35-40% full), and although it stopped raining in lap 6 the road stayed wet and barely went below the first marker in lap7 wich left just a very narrow dry racing line in lap7, which made attacking the corners for a really fast lap impossible(I stayed on RSs because i wanted that fast final lap, but IMs would have been an alternative...)
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Great car, but somehow I think, that low PP must be some kind of bug if that car is able to destroy GR4 cars in a race like that...and I am wondering, if this car can do an 8 lapper under perfect conditions with someone more skilled than I am...