Haven't played quite as much this week with no weeklies to do, but I did make some time to do the newly added European Clubman Cup 600 at Suzuka.
This is another one of those sus races where the AI seem to have one or two insanely fast cars in the pack. This time it was that tuned Alfa GTAM which has to have 700hp or so. I tried this one few times, once with a 580PP Porsche 959, again with a tuned AMG C63 and then again in a stock GTAM on SM tires... all of them would be fine passing second place, but the AI Alfa would always be a huge distance ahead of everyone. The GTAM I drove was stock on SM, right at 595ish PP and the AI Alfa just rockets away on anything resembling straight tarmac. The recommended PP for this one is, of course, 600PP... but I want to know what the number is for that Alfa, because it's got to be much higher than that. This and the other Clubman Cup races seem to include cars that are fighting way above their class.
That all made me say screw it, grab the AMG GT Black Series and take no prisoners. I don't really like going with an OP car for any races (and the AMG is at 652PP here, so it's not crazily over-classed), and typically choose low PP cars for the challenge, but I was kinda fed up with this one. I don't think I've driven the AMG since the beginning when it was used for one of the Nurburgring license tests and it's a shame, because it's a big ol' teddy bear that effortlessly eats up real estate. It feels like the GT3 version with everything turned down to a 7. I thought it would be an oversteer monger, but it's very stable and although it seems understeery you can just keep turning in and it will keep on giving you more and more grip. I'll be using it much more in the future.
Looking forward to having our weeklies back!