I'm finally done with school for the summer and now have some actual guilt free time to play some GT7! Was able to knock out this weeks races yesterday.
First up was the American 550 at Laguna and it was a pretty basic race. Used my RTR Mustang rep and it was OP for this one, but the this 2 lapper isn't really worth running more than once.
Next up was the Truck race at Daytona... and it's another nothing burger. Recently built a Tundra for fun and used it here. Truck looks awesome, but the race is a snooze fest.
After that was the Race of Turbo Sports at St. Croix (you know, the awesome track that a bunch of people hate for whatever reason). I did this one first in a 600PP swapped Integra and it just didn't have the straight line speed to catch up with the FL5 Civic that seems to have like... 700hp.
After that I went with my Gears and Gasoline EVO rep at 620PP and took the lead in the second lap. It was too easy, but still a fun race. This thing is a little twitchy on the brakes but the car is just a beast. G&G lost their Advance Auto Parts sponsor for this season so this car is irrelevant now, but it took a long time to make and it looks great, so it's gonna stick around until a new livery is made for the IRL car.
For the race at Nurburgring GP I went with the glorious Alfa GTAM and had a good time. This this is probably one of the best handling cars in the game, and it punches well above its PP. First place was waaay up there, but the Alfa reeled him in with little effort, and looked spectacular doing it.
Finally the was the All Japan Championship. I've been reading the comments about it (good and bad) and was expecting some shenanigans but there really wasn't anything unusual in this one for me. I only did it once with no practice in the new GT300 NSX straight out of the box on RH tires. I've never driven it so I started off pretty slow with my lap times getting quicker as the race went on. Second place came easy, but the first place McLaren long-tail was
13 seconds ahead at the end. I'm gonna give it another run today and see if the NSX can win it. I know some others have won with this car, but it might take a stickier tire compound to pull it off.
No video until I win it, but I did put a bunch of time into making the NSX an example of what a JUN Auto version might look like if there ever was one. This thing also drives
amazingly. It hooks up really well, shifts fast, sounds great and is prone to just a little bit of understeer that can be tamed on the brakes. Will be using it a lot in the future.
Also just realized its a GT500 car, and not GT300, so the side graphics are gonna get an update before I race again here in a bit.