Wow, nice race you had there. Sub 26 would be really impressive without any wall riding. I tried doing this race again tonight as part of my daily grind, but with the new tune Im having the hardest time keeping myself from going balls to the wall with the car. I keep running into the AI or they run in to me. Clean Race bonus keeps getting taken away, so I restart, and restart, and restart, and restart. It got so frustrating that I just gave up and ran Lemans and am now grinding Sardegna with the classic Gr.1 cars. Holy cow are they quick.
I may need to take a break from this race for a week as I must be getting too burnt out on it and am making too many mistakes. Plus I need to find a new car to do it in.
@engrmariano has given plenty of examples for me to choose from, so I'm grateful for that.
It is done. 26 minute barrier in the Celica Rally Car broken. No wall riding. Clean race bonus. This is a marginally slower run, where I was stuck dead in the low 2:05.xxx lap range, until that one inexplicable magic 2:03.793.
I rehearsed lap 1 for nearly an hour:
finish lap 1, restart, finish lap 1, restart... to get an idea of how to deal with the A.I. and where to be, and where it's not worth risking a pass.
As you mentioned,
the burnout is real. The Sport Mode Time Trials have always done a number on me, and I had to step away for a couple weeks recently. Here, I know when I've crossed the exhaustion threshold when a succession of runs that feel good, clean and fast, result in the total race times and laps steadily getting slower.
Total Time: 25:56.469
Fastest Lap: 2:03.793
I needed a couple days away and some time to not look at the Celica.
I present to you all, the Lamborghini Countach LP400 '74, A.K.A., Captain No-Torque.
Nearly 500hp, under 2000lbs, but only 295 lbft of torque.
It's hilarious in a straight line: around 200mph down the big straight with the right gearing. But the handling is goofy. The front will turn in with slightly too much enthusiasm, yet the rear will carry the car off the racing line. Not spinning or even oversteering... just a lot of pushing. Figuring out how much speed to carry through corners was... challenging.
Mind you, this behavior is less inherent to the car and more what happens under a maxed, imitation-Priano, high rake, 0 front downforce, max rear downforce setup. I need to tweak the natural frequency, dampers and anti-roll bars to make my tune drive more consistently. This does not help my imposter syndrome about my tuning abilities
at all.
This Countach is among the angriest cars I've driven. And I'm all for it.
Lamborghini Countach LP400 '74
Best Time: 26:27.468
Fastest Lap: 2:06.4224