I'm a bit late in reporting back on my Weekly Challenge attempts (all done last week in two hits (Friday/Saturday) but here goes...
Japanese 4WD Challenge at Trial Mountain - Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IV GSR '96
I started this one with a stock Evo IV and proceeded to give it a mild tune to bring it up near 550PP (including removing the rear wing!) and gave it a livery based on
this Sprite livery by Davide Virdis - I'll post a pic later. I found this an absolute gem to drive, with perfectly balanced handling on SS tyres. Easily swept through for a CRB win with a few seconds of margin over 2nd place.
Historic Sports Car Masters at Goodwood - Nissan Fairlady Z 300ZX '89 / Porsche 959
I felt like giving this week a Davide Virdis vibe, so I adorned my 300ZX with an adaptation of
this Rainbow livery - again, pic to come later. However, it turned out my engine-swapped 300ZX with wide body and max weight saving, even with computer tuned down to 70% and power limiter at 70% was far too high PP rating, so I switched over to a recently completed widebody Porsche 959 with
this Fujifilm livery by 811 Design. It was messy at the chicane on lap 2 and I smacked into the Maserati that bounced off the left wall in front of me as I was lining up for a pass towards the start/finish line, so I missed the CRB, but I easily won by 3s.
European Clubman Cup 600 at Sardegna - Porsche 911 Carrera RS (901) '73
Another Davide Virdis livery, this time a
green Benetton Tyrell style. With another mild tune, this was a pretty simple race, comfortably sneaking past on the final lap to take the win. PP was around 560, so I still had to work pretty hard at keeping my momentum and keeping things clean, but it was a really fun race.
Phase 1 complete : 100k ticket, 200k ticket, and 4-star workout ticket.
Volvo V40 One-Make at Lago Maggiore - Volvo V40
To get this one done and dusted quickly, I opted for my widebody, moderately tuned matte black V40. Needless to say, this was a cakewalk, and I won by well over 15s. In the lead on lap 2 and happily collected the CRB. Nice pay-out for a short race!
WTC 800 at Tokyo - Audi R8 LMS Evolution '19
This one took a couple of attempts / restarts. First time I hopped into the race and the heavens opened at the end of lap 2 - rain radar was almost completely dark blue - and I had no wet weather tyres at all! So I bailed out, went to the race shop and bought some IM tyres. On the restart, I wanted to pre-empt the on-coming rain, so I started on the IM tyres. At the end of lap one the rears were over 50% worn!!! So I bailed out of that, and restarted with RH tyres fitted again. This time there was zero rain. FM6 and 50% shift the whole way through the race and I managed a win by 15s or so. No CRB because I'm awful on city circuits (always clip a wall somewhere!) and the AI were terrible at taking the chicane in the middle of the circuit.
Phase 2 complete : 6-star roulette paid out 1 million and 5-star daily workout paid out 500k!
This was a decent credits haul for me, over 2 million credits from five fairly straightforward races! Happy days.
*Will get pics of those aforementioned liveries when I'm on next.