More record-breaking El Capitan action!
Endurance races: El Capitan
Car: DMC DeLorean S2 '04 (S2 tires, no oil change) / RR / 197HP / 1288kg / 6.5 kg/HP / 200 A-spec points
vs. in finishing order:
DMC DeLorean S2 '04, total time 2:14'24.060, best lap 1'58.206. Pits every 11 laps (should have done every 9-10, though).
TVR Cerbera Speed 6 '97, +~20 seconds. Pits every 11-12 laps.
Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport (C4) '96, on lead lap. Pits every 13-14 laps.
BMW M5 '05, on lead lap. Pits every 13-14 laps.
Ford Mustang SVT Cobra R '00, +1 lap. Pits every 12 laps.
SL 65 AMG, +1 lap. Pits every 11-12 laps.
Frustratingly, I spent an hour digging for a good lineup, and I still didn't get a near-ideal one.
This was the best I could come up with, and it's only on par with the one I drew in the RX-8. Anyway, this car, I suppose because it's a bit more race-tuned in stock form and has more torque than the RX-8, is definitely quicker, as you can see by my fastest lap. However, the startlingly moderate tire wear of the Mazda is definitely not equaled by even this RR, and the tires really fall off at the end of the 11 laps. In retrospect, I lost so much time making stupid mistakes on uncooperative fiery orange tires every 11th lap that it would have been better to pit once more, every 9-10 laps. And while the car does indeed have the pace, I couldn't manage the same consistency the easy-to-drive RX-8 afforded me and ended up with only a marginally quicker average flying lap time, and a slower total race time due to the tire wear problems. In spite of its speed, it was the same story once again of gaining four seconds per lap on cold tires and having that margin chewed away on warm ones.
If anyone somehow finds a lineup I described on the last page as being "ideal," then this is by no means the car with the worst WPR that can win. The problem is getting one of those lineups. I know from Smallhorses' descriptions that the probability of getting five out of seven or eight cars you want when there are fifteen or more cars to pick from is very low, but I swear that PD's lineups were not random. I actually found a frustrating number of lineups with four of the slowest cars and then an Elise or Esprit messing it all up, and the frequency with which, for example, the Shelby started fifth, was rather unnatural...
Edit: Oops again, I meant S2 tires, not S1s. Also, I was messing around a bit with cars for Sarthe II 24 hour, and discovered that there are several LMPs that can be offered, and almost certainly win, 200 points stock on S1 tires. No, that's not another typo; I do mean Sports Hard tires. The Pescarolo Judd, for example, handles amazingly well on those tires, and the only ways I can tell the tires aren't race grade are in significant understeer under braking and wheelspin in 3rd gear. Otherwise, especially since you can get 200 points with full downforce, it's nearly as good as it is on racing super-hards. The only question mark, which I didn't test, is whether the S1s will last as long as the R1s. If they don't make it to lap 8, it will be a tough mountain to climb to win the race. And I tried out another car, too, the Gillet Vertigo, which can also be offered 200 stock points on R1s if you vastly lower its already pathetic downforce. That one, however, can't win, at least not without extensive tuning, as its handling is atrocious (it feels "drunken") and its impressive wheelspin eats the rear tires much too fast, even with TCS 1.
Edit 2: Another interesting find, this time for Sarthe I, but unfortunately lineup-dependent yet again.
If you find a starting grid with 5 of the following 8 cars (out of 14 AI possible): Bentley Speed 8, Audi R8, Pescarolo Judd, Pescarolo Courage, BMW V12 LMR, Toyota GT-ONE, Nissan R390 GT1, Panoz Esperante; then the Pagani Zonda LM on R3 tires would be a great candidate for a stock 200 point victory. The Group C cars are all too fast for it, and the GTS class cars drag down the points too much, but any combination of those middling cars would net it a win, I think, assuming yet again the tires last long enough (6 laps would be great). PAL users would be especially good candidates to try this out, with the well-known Sarthe AI glitch affecting primarily them. I also tried the Nissan GT-R LM Concept, but its terrific handling couldn't make up for surprising, pronounced sluggishness on the straights.
Edit 3: Scratch that, the Zonda's R3s lasted four laps
, and no way can I win the race losing that much time to pit stops. It was too slow on R2s to bother trying the race itself on those harder tires. It does appear that the Panoz Esperante can win, however, on R1s, provided no Group Cs, no other Panoz, and no GTS class cars appear in the lineup...
Edit 4: Just in case anyone is seeing these edits, forget about the R390 GT1 Road Car on S1s at Nurburgring 24 hours. There is a far better car to use, that would have many more 200 point lineups available: the Opera Performance S2000, on S1s, with added downforce (stock is 0/0, and goes up to 30/30). I only wish it were a bit less popular in this thread already, although it's certainly not ordinarily competing against race cars! It actually looks like a cakewalk if you find a lineup with all three of the "slow" touring cars (Alfa, Calibra, 190E) and two JGTC cars. You would never know those tires weren't R-grade, especially by the performance.
Edit 5: I just tried a 45-minute test of the S2000 in Nurburgring 24 hours, and not only is it winnable, it's a cakewalk. Against NTSC lineup 1, with the Falken, Calibra, 190E, MR-S, and Silvia, the car is offered 200 points on S1s even with full 30/30 downforce, and can go about 3 seconds faster on a fast lap than the Falken on one of its fast laps. Not only that, but the Falken's tires really go off on its fifth lap and it loses a pile of time. The S2000 can match its five laps, too, assuming you can handle a "fun" inlap with an orange left rear. I honestly thought this would be a closer race, especially with the relatively quick Falken in the lineup, but this car is just too good to struggle in this race! In fact, this would be a terrific opportunity to forget about the opponents (since they're all slow) and just focus on driving as clean a race as possible, Smallhorses-style.
Edit 6: Another candidate for 200-pointing the Nurburgring 24 hours is a stock BMW 320i Touring Car, which has wonderful handling but is heavier and less powerful than the S2000 and so turns in lap times about 3 seconds slower. I think the Falken is beatable, but it would be pretty tough, and a lineup with only two slow touring cars and three JGTCs would still get it 200 points.
Edit 7: I just realized I never redid the Dream Car Championship in something besides a GSX-R/4. I did all but Test Course in the M3 GTR, but that's too popular to bother posting. This, however, is the first time this bulky pig has appeared in this thread, and yes, it's on sports tires...
Extreme Hall: Dream Car Championship race 6 - Test Course
Car: Lister Storm V12 Race Car '99 (S1/S3 tires, minimum downforce) / FR / 594 HP / 1438 kg / 2.4 kg/HP / 200 A-spec points
vs. a lineup with 4 LM cars and an FTO, with no Ford GT LMs nor Zonda present.
, S2000, Silvia, MR-S, or RX-7. It would be hard to find and it would not be a cakewalk of a race, but it certainly seems doable.
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, so this will have to do. I passed it when, in the hairpin after the sweeping right-left in the uphill section, it bizarrely drove straight into the outside wall, stopped, reversed, and went on, despite me never getting near it. 
Its tendency to fly into the barrier at the first corner meant I never had to block it. 👍
Funny, though, I would have thought that TVR would be a fun car to use since it seems to handle pretty well, but this track's bumps may not suit it.
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, but at least I don't have any points unnecessarily resting with the "cheater" cars, now that I've done all the feasible races with normal ones. 
While the HP numbers were the same on the Settings and Sell screens, apparently a brand-new DB7 won't offer 200 points...
Seriously, for the 24 hour endurances (the only ones I'm interested in, as I've completed the rest), I think that nearly exhausts the fresh ideas for this thread.
