Thank you very much for sharing your run, found it without any problems now.
It's been interesting watching your lines and though there weren't huge differences between us, I adapted my driving a bit as you had obviously found some quicker ways. 👍
I did 185 km today
but I still haven't won a single race with the stock car. My times have improved though and I'm really ok with that. My best race was P4, 2 sec behind the winner, with ...
split 1 lap 1 - 1.13.xxx, lap 1 - 3.28.xxx, split 1 lap 2 - 1.10.xxx, lap 2 - 3.23.xxx
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I remember people saying it's just another useless slow car. I gladly admit I had lots of fun with it the past week.
my pleasure! glad you were able to find it.
you did a mighty job at 6:51.xxx!
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but I can't believe for the life of me that this time still wasn't enough to win it, ouch! it hurts for me just to read that! I'm sorry mate, you truly deserved a better fate.
Usually 6:51 should be enough for the win everytime, but I've had races where I wasn't able to fight for the lead or defend well enough for them to pass where the bots finished between 6:49 and 6:52 as well, just like you experienced.
If you look closely at my replay, even in the 1st lap I've had to coast in the first esses so I could avoid the other car at the apex(this time) so I could gather a bit more momentum for the uphill where I've had to defend already to keep as many cars as possible behind me. That I was able to flee them and try to make sure there were as few cars as possible in my way later in the race. After that, I've found out that faster lap times definitely help of course, but race craft probably more of a factor for the other ones. Sometimes it's better to keep an outside line and miss the apex to be able to keep momentum as much as possible and avoid meeting them at the said apex. On lap 2 you can see that I've had to use an agressive inside line to edge them out on exit a few times, which helps to kill their momentum for the long straights where obviously they look like they're on steroids compared to us. On the last lap near the end, instead of keeping the far right of the track when almost side to side with the beige car...I kept going in diagonal towards the outside the left this time 1-to try to prevent him passing in the straight and 2-protect against/delay the other car from turning in at the apex for as long as possible at the end of that straight...eventually he still passed by but I slowed him down by forcing him the long way and defending instead of just letting him go by. Once he passed, I had to adjust my braking point to slow down earlier in order to point and shoot early towards the inside and criss cross with him so I could carry more momentum to pass and claim the whole space on exit to help for that last straight where they obviously had a clear speed advantage and then it's try to defend for your life as best as possible 😂
I've watched my replay and that last defence was not as clean as I would have liked and I would never ever defend like that in real life, but it was enough to do the job given the circumstances.
No doubt that if I hadn't done all of that to defend and kill their momentum(like they do to us anyways) and to be honest I was fortunate enough on a few occasions because even then it wasn't enough to always keep them behind for the majority of the runs I did too. The computer would finish in 6:49-6:52 if it wasn't for that and most of the time I end up in exactly the same boat as you and many others here 2nd, 3rd or 4th when the stars would not all be aligned for me ☺️
''It's been interesting watching your lines''
Re:with faster cars I would never take such lines, but with such a slow car 2 things that help lap time are keeping momentum as much as possible as everybody here knows already and the other one not going the long way on the normal racing line for no reason(just lengthening the distance covered at slow pace) when you don't have to if it doesn't result in more momentum for what's to follow. Cut short as much ground as possible if it doesn't compromise the exit speed.
Congrats for your perseverence on this one mate and much respect for your driving skills. You are equally deserving. I just had better luck with this one I guess.
Agreed, I really enjoyed it as well!
Looking forward to the next ones!
Cheers!