PARAGON GT
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. . . throw in the towel in a race?
Do you stick it out and finish an embarrassing 30+ seconds behind the lead car after being clipped in one of the final turns and spun into a wall, the Sahara (sand pit on any track), head long into the end of a track barricade or building?
Or are you the type of driver that as you come out of the final turn between 2 and 5 seconds behind and cancel the race out of sheer frustration.
I was contemplating this tonight in the mist of getting my wheels beat off me buy a Lotus 111R during the Clubman cup. I was running my low mileage GTS-R slightly built in an attempt for upping my A-spec points. As I hit the mid point of the final lap, I passed a check point and was informed (to my dismay) that I was 9.5 seconds behind the Lotus still battling the second place car with absolutely NO CHANCE of finishing anything better than second place and more than likely at least 12 seconds behind the lead car. I actually asked my self if it was still worth it at that point in time. I was not going to receive any points for the race, and I have more than enough credits at this point in time. So why continue?
I did decide to finish the race and did end up finishing in second place 12.8 seconds behind the lead car. I wasn't happy with the race, but my rationale is that I didn't quit because things weren't going my way. I took my lumps just as well as I had given them out countless times before.
As fate would have it, I was presented the same question again in the next event. I was in the same car, on the next track with a different grid. The race began and we barreled through the track. Around the mid point I was battling for 4th place running hot into a corner. I locked up the brakes, cut the wheel and stabbed the gas again. I broke the back wheels loose and began to tame a now drifting car in an effort to maintain my recently acquired position. But that was not to be. The now 5th place car tapped my back bumper, which forcefully spun the car completely around and into the grass just beyond the turn. As the car completed its spin I saw the at then 6th place car fly by my Skyline as it sat practically parked in the grass. I paused the game and rocked the controller to exit race, and let it set there. I thought through what my odds were of winning the race based on where I was and what cars I was up against. I didn't think that it looked good, but figured what the heck, I'd give it a try. I didn't give up in the last race, why should I now?
So I unpaused the race and began my attempt at regaining victory. This time I managed to pull into 1st in the final turn. I pulled 1st place in a race that I was about to exit because of a slight case of misfortune. I thought that the out come was rather funny.
So what kind of racer are you? Do you fold when times get tough?
Or do you battle it out to the bitter end no matter what the outcome?
Do you stick it out and finish an embarrassing 30+ seconds behind the lead car after being clipped in one of the final turns and spun into a wall, the Sahara (sand pit on any track), head long into the end of a track barricade or building?
Or are you the type of driver that as you come out of the final turn between 2 and 5 seconds behind and cancel the race out of sheer frustration.
I was contemplating this tonight in the mist of getting my wheels beat off me buy a Lotus 111R during the Clubman cup. I was running my low mileage GTS-R slightly built in an attempt for upping my A-spec points. As I hit the mid point of the final lap, I passed a check point and was informed (to my dismay) that I was 9.5 seconds behind the Lotus still battling the second place car with absolutely NO CHANCE of finishing anything better than second place and more than likely at least 12 seconds behind the lead car. I actually asked my self if it was still worth it at that point in time. I was not going to receive any points for the race, and I have more than enough credits at this point in time. So why continue?
I did decide to finish the race and did end up finishing in second place 12.8 seconds behind the lead car. I wasn't happy with the race, but my rationale is that I didn't quit because things weren't going my way. I took my lumps just as well as I had given them out countless times before.
As fate would have it, I was presented the same question again in the next event. I was in the same car, on the next track with a different grid. The race began and we barreled through the track. Around the mid point I was battling for 4th place running hot into a corner. I locked up the brakes, cut the wheel and stabbed the gas again. I broke the back wheels loose and began to tame a now drifting car in an effort to maintain my recently acquired position. But that was not to be. The now 5th place car tapped my back bumper, which forcefully spun the car completely around and into the grass just beyond the turn. As the car completed its spin I saw the at then 6th place car fly by my Skyline as it sat practically parked in the grass. I paused the game and rocked the controller to exit race, and let it set there. I thought through what my odds were of winning the race based on where I was and what cars I was up against. I didn't think that it looked good, but figured what the heck, I'd give it a try. I didn't give up in the last race, why should I now?
So I unpaused the race and began my attempt at regaining victory. This time I managed to pull into 1st in the final turn. I pulled 1st place in a race that I was about to exit because of a slight case of misfortune. I thought that the out come was rather funny.
So what kind of racer are you? Do you fold when times get tough?
Or do you battle it out to the bitter end no matter what the outcome?
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. I'll gladly run the race again (unless of course it's an Endurance race.. I'll stick that out just to say I did).
Now I can just enjoy learning a certain car's capabilities.
