I had high hopes for a cool week with fun races but it didn't quite turn out that way. I'm a bit disappointed. What can I say ... You can't always ... ? Mick Jagger knows best !
Yamagiwa
What a boring race. The car class is too slow to be fun on this track. Nail the pedal or the right analog stick
![Sly :sly: :sly:](/wp-content/themes/gtp16/images/smilies/sly.svg?v=3)
- there's not much more to it. And I had been as optimistic as to start with the RCZ restricted to 400 PP to find out that Lopez in the Clio doesn't care. Needed a second attempt for the win, then using the full stock setup. CRB received !
Wait ! The car doesn't take off here ? It's definitely too slow !
Nürburgring GP
Yamagiwa's been boring, the same goes for this event. Ok, I don't like this GP track, the Sprint layout is even worse ... but hey : The most interesting detail was that the Evo IX seems to be one of the cars affected by one of these new physics bugs as after T1 it suddenly started to jump and get uncontrollable
![Odd :odd: :odd:](/wp-content/themes/gtp16/images/smilies/odd.svg)
( sry if this is old hat for you ) ! CRB received nevertheless !
Nailing the apex first, then losing control out of nowhere ...
Eiger Nordwand
Used three performance stages of the V40. The 440 PP stock car was best of the rest, I never got in reach of a group of five frontrunners. The 460 PP version with SH tires and racing ECU was a winner, it's not been a great race though with too much minor contact
![Ouch :ouch: :ouch:](/wp-content/themes/gtp16/images/smilies/ouch.svg?v=3)
- I didn't like it. Adding a turbo for 495 PP made the car quick enough for optimizing overtakes and finally receiving a CRB !
Flora at Eiger is way sweeter than racing a stock Volvo around the Reverse layout.
Dragon Trail
Best event this week. Not as easy as expected after reading some comments here, because some AI rabbits ( I look at you Sierra Cosworth and RCR Civic ) can get seriously fast and furious when being overtaken. Still ... how can I have a hard time at Yamagiwa in a 400 PP car and win this one just like that ?
![Rolleyes :rolleyes: :rolleyes:](/wp-content/themes/gtp16/images/smilies/rolleyes.svg?v=6)
CRB received of course !
Speaking of flow : Dragon Trail for sure has !
Suzuka
Couldn't get me motivated for this event for whatever reason
![Boggled :boggled: :boggled:](/wp-content/themes/gtp16/images/smilies/boggled.svg?v=3)
- might be the fact I don't like dynamic weather, might be this feel we've been here before a couple times now. So I went minimum effort, did one race with the bone stock Viper suggested by the randomizer and came in third. 5 seconds. Not sure if I could go much faster - this car's a brick in my hands. No CRB received !
If we want someone to have a good time we say MACH'S GUT in Germany. And sometimes we say MAXWELL.
As for the photos - sry everyone - I've been totally uninspired this time ( because the events were ? ) to a point that I thought it's a brilliant idea to show one car for race 1, two cars for race 2, ...
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I. LOVE. THAT. TRACK.
IMO Eiger Nordwand has realistic hill climb energy, while...
Citta di Aria has psychotic 1980s Group B rally energy.
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Wow, that's the way you look at it ? Some kind of meta level thinking ! 👍
To me both tracks got a similar appeal despite differences in speed or flow. It's that maximum challenge the track itself provides, the need to find these tiny bits to be really fast, with little room for error, just a small step from success to disaster. Can't explain much better.
Mt. Panorama is another one in my book.