La Sarthe and Spa ,weather report and other " stuff "

A group 4 Corvette followed me into the pits changed his tyres and brimmed his tanks yet still left the pits before me.
He doesn't change tyres unless the rain is in the top of the wet meter...is why he got out before you
 
He must have put inters on at the least, the rain would have dumped him on the first bends .
I am not sure but a few updates ago PD made the AI smarter drivers in rain. I have not seen the stupid AI drivers just go full speed and aquaplane off track, they got smarter and really slow down below 100mph in the heavy wet conditions.
 
I had two races against Sophy at Le Mans. In the first, I had a spin on the first lap and dropped to 20th. Boost was stupid and I was third before the end of the second lap. I uploaded the replay on the game so anyone interested can watch on on their PS4/5
 
I'm sensing a new challenge....Both races but box STOCK, just sport tires for Tokyo and racing tires for Le Sarthe. Detuning with power restrictor only, no ballast, everything else totally stock. The C8 Corvette might be a candidate? Time to revisit the car dealers.
I revisited this challenge over the last couple of weeks, both races on normal difficulty only using SH for Tokyo and RH at Le Man. Turns out I had a lot of zero mile cars in my garage to choose from! Too many cars to list that can win this. I just searched the garage by zero mileage and picked anything at 600pp +/- 40pp. Tokyo was the more difficult of the two mainly because of the AI at Tokyo having the much higher top speed than the Gr 4 cars at Le Man, 300kph plus. The main challenge at Le Man with all stock road cars is fuel management, I always try to manage a 2 stop race so squeezing 3 laps was a challenge with a few cars. Much like the stock Gr 4 challenge, I was surprised at how well most cars handled totally STOCK. Some example cars; most if not all, Ferrari, AMG, Mclaren, Ford GT, Corvette, etc. Special mention for best value, the Corvette base C7 at 51k. Le Man winners all based on extrapolated dry race.
 
I was thinking back to the long list of la Sarthe WTC 700 challenges and came up with a new one for anyone interested.
WTC 700 STOCK ROAD CAR sub 4 minute, IN RACE lap. That's it.
Definitions:
STOCK, since most of the cars capable of going sub 4 are fairly expensive and have probably been modified, STOCK shall be defined as; Normal settings for suspension, diff, and transmission, HP no more than stock. Detune open, tires open.
ROAD CAR, no race car, no VGT, no swaps.
IN RACE lap, any lap in race with the variation that the race does NOT have to be completed. I'm a little burnt on the full 30 minute race and don't need the credits so I've tried a couple cars with a two lap strategy. First lap FM6 get a feel for the car, second lap FM1 and set that qually lap! It's only a 9 minute time commitment then on to the next one.
 
Still dialing in some quirky handling but the Lancer Evo VI with engine swap is a bit of a lemans beast. 8 laps, ~3:59's, and only 1 stop while on fuel save 3. Happy progress with that.

Should really be doing 57-58’s each lap, but my current setup is a bit understeery, and I keep just pushing into the track limits here and there.

It's well behaved in the wet as well, weight bias is still a bit at the front so shoving the power to 50/50 if the rain starts hugely helps traction and stability.
 
Anything with a Gr.B engine in it,is an easy win.
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Something that I have noticed in the my last few races at LeMans is that one of the cars spins out coming off the turn leading into the Mulsanne straight. A couple of times I crashed into the car but when I was doing it yesterday I was able to avoid the car because I was expecting it :)
 
kjb
Something that I have noticed in the my last few races at LeMans is that one of the cars spins out coming off the turn leading into the Mulsanne straight. A couple of times I crashed into the car but when I was doing it yesterday I was able to avoid the car because I was expecting it :)
Happens almost every race since launch unfortunately
 
kjb
Something that I have noticed in the my last few races at LeMans is that one of the cars spins out coming off the turn leading into the Mulsanne straight. A couple of times I crashed into the car but when I was doing it yesterday I was able to avoid the car because I was expecting it :)
It's either the Lambo or the Honda NSX...
 
Took the W196R to this event I put the medium TB and RM tires got 4 laps on FM2 so its possible it can do the full race without pitting.

The car is super fun to drive stale under braking but you have to start braking early.

The car is stale under cornering but you need to be careful or the back will snap out.

Overall 8/10 good car for this event.
 
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