Weekly Challenge Discussion Thread

[05XR8]

I’m going to guess a Unimog One Make at Barcelona. A member posted there 100 pages of Unimog Stlyes. PD are going to have to acknowledge that.
Imagine a One Make at Fisherman’s Ranch.

 

[TheNormsk]

First drive in the Uni Mog. Omg, I love it! It feels like I’m driving my Winnebago around a racetrack but much faster. Lol.

But how much did I spend to make this thing go quick? 🫨

Edit. Then had a go at GV. Took a totally insane Cobra out for a spin. In more ways than one!

GT7 Weeking Races | Just your typical Cobra driver!


It took several attempts before I got this monster under control and tamed it.

Taking the inside line on the way to the win.

 

[Obelisk]

Difficulty: Hard

Sunday Cup Classic - Hyundai Ioniq 5 N
Little bit overkill, but was the first eligible car i had on hand. 1st, CRB.

American Sunday Cup 600 - Chevrolet Corvette C7 Gr.3 Road Car
Also a little overkill, as this car was on RH. 1st, no CRB.

Race of Turbo Sports Cars - Nissan GT-R Safety Car
Despite being downtuned to ~ 415 HP, the R35 pace car was more than fast enough to catch the leader by lap 3. 1st, no CRB

Special Event (205 one make) - Peugeot 205 GTI
Stock Pug with SH tyres trivialized this race for me. 1st, no CRB.

World Rally Challenge - WRC Impreza
The Impreza had the Medium turbo on, and anti-lag turned off.
Fuel map 6, started on RH. Pit on lap 7, refilled to 6 laps, swapped to RM. Fuel map 1 to finish and lapped the Peugeot Gr.B in the process. 1st, no CRB.

 

[rheinaoi]

RACE 5 – RALLY CHALLENGE GR.B at TRIAL MOUNTAIN
I did my fastest today in the Peugeot 206 T16 with a Death Star turbo; running a flat out, 1-stop strategy in Fuel Map 1 on Racing Medium tires and pitting in half way through the race. The race was over by lap 2.

Also, I wanted to see how others were doing no-stop runs, so I re-ran the race in Fuel Map 6 with heavy short shifting on Racing Hards and ultra conservative driving – no pushing, no sliding. The result surprised me: it was slightly faster than my all-out Racing Medium run!

With a bit more skill, I could lap the entire field on either strategy.

Notably, pit stops dumped me and everyone else into the Shadow Realm. I would emerge 30 seconds later with the crew finally able to touch my car. I noticed the AI Audi seemed to have his pit speed limiter stuck on for extra 10 seconds after leaving the pit too. The time penalty for pit stops was so extreme that no-stop runs became worthwhile, despite me running 3-4 seconds slower each lap.

Usually the AI kicks our collective butts in Group B. Not sure what happened here.

Also noteable, I found getting clean race bonuses to be much, MUCH easier in this race.

OTHER VICTORIES

• RCZ (Death Star Turbo) – 1 stop run – Racing Hards
• Subaru Imprezza Rally Car (Medium Death Star Turbo) – 1 stop run – Racing Hards
• Toyota 86 (stock NA power – Wait... It's naturally aspirated!!!??) - 1 stop run – Racing Hards

SPECIAL EVENT – PEUGEOT 205 ONE-MAKE at ALSACE
Yay! We get to put the little magic hot hatch through its paces. I brought my machine right from the used car lot to the track and took 1st place with a Clean Race Bonus.

ROUND 2
I came back with full mods. I just wanted to see if I could run a sub 2 minute lap… Yay!

If you want to see the tune (and be horrified...), just ask.

RACE 3 – RACE OF TURBO SPORTS CARS at INTERLAGOS
Fun, fun fun!!! I tried the new engine swapped 22B. Only 650ish hp in my test build, but 800lb-ft / 1084nm of torque, very light, and a ways below 700pp. It felt slow because of the understeer, but the lap times don’t lie:

The swapped 22B punched way, way above its PP rating and left my 700pp swapped Mazda Atenza and RUF RGT in the dust. No matter, I enjoyed them all. My Huayra also joined the party. It kept asking me why the PP system was being mean to it. All I could do was give it encouraging head-pats.

ROUND 2
Shakedown run in the Mazda Demio. Another first place finish. A lot of potential with this one too. It handles 500hp through the front wheels better than some cars do through their rear wheels

Oh, and lastly, the other rally swapped Imprezza is just casually faster than even the 22B

RACE 2 – AMERICAN SUNDAY CUP 600 at GRAND VALLEY REVERSE
My 550pp Tsukuba grip builds wanted to play

- Ford GT ‘06 on Sports Mediums

- Delorean on Sports Softs (regular engine!!! + turbo)

- Superbird on Sports Softs (yay!!! physics updates mostly fixed the death-steer during high speed cornering behavior)

FINAL BOSS - Plymouth XNR - Racing Hards 580pp Historic Masters Build – High speed corners were no longer instant oversteer death, BUT, the constant rumble in the controller made it feel as if maybe the rear tires were scrubbing the wheel arches the whole race... Despite the truck ride height and basically not having wheel arches...

I don’t mind Grand Valley, and I find this layout more intuitive, oddly. I think I enjoy this layout because all the annoying corners from the regular layout become opening radius corners here. The big, slow, off-camber hairpin in the middle of the circuit is kinda dumb though.

Rubilar in the classic Dodge Challenger always drives like a hero and places high despite the Comfort Soft tires and the 4-speed gearbox handicap.

How many 550pp Tsukuba Grip builds do I have exactly? YES.


RACE 1 – SUNDAY CUP at RED BULL RING SHORT TRACK

I had no idea this track existed before the new event appeared Of course I went in with the Unimog boasting several Unimog’s worth of upgrades. First place came easily.

I also came in with a fully modded Fiat 500 F (480-500pp on Racing Softs)

And the Fiat 500 Lounge: The other slow Not-Abarth one. This race showed me that I needed to re-tune and relearn how to drive my Fiat 500 F so it can fight off the overpowered M3 in the other new Sunday Cup race at Grand Valley.

The lesson here?

Never. Ever. Underestimate how much credits and tuning time I am willing to spend to make the slowest cars... less slow

 

[skydragon49]

@rheinaoi your posts are such good reading! Please don't stop them!

Did you make any adjustments in the Peugeot Gr.B? I was always interested in this car and I guess this could be an op tarmac race machine but the rally configuration of it never let me enjoy the car. If you did, could you share it?

And also.... Now I feel like beefing up a Fiat 500. 😅 I love the Abarth 595 and the modern 500 (Mrs. used to drive one).

Thanks in advance.

 

[rheinaoi]

@rheinaoi your posts are such good reading! Please don't stop them!

Did you make any adjustments in the Peugeot Gr.B? I was always interested in this car and I guess this could be an op tarmac race machine but the rally configuration of it never let me enjoy the car. If you did, could you share it?

And also.... Now I feel like beefing up a Fiat 500. 😅 I love the Abarth 595 and the modern 500 (Mrs. used to drive one).

Thanks in advance.

Awwww, thanks!

I tuned the Peugeot 205 T16, but I'm not sure how much difference my tuning made. The Group B cars all want to rotate a lot under trail braking and when the throttle is released. The short wheelbase, narrow-ish width and high height also make this car a handful.

I had to drive the 205 with the throttle pedal - always having some throttle during turns, releasing throttle to get more rotation, applying more throttle to straighten up the car / stabilize for corner exit.

I added in understeer for safety, but I didn't want to sacrifice too much rotation. I will try some ballast in the front and see how the 205 handles Interlagos later.

Testing this setup, I found an extra ~10 seconds, but so did the AI. The leaders really did not want to be lapped

As for the fully tuned Fiat 500 F:

The 500 F is much more resistant to rollovers than the Abarth 595, but the updates introduced more understeer on full throttle (because it lifts up the front wheels a lot more now )

Much love for Fiat 500s here, I smile whenever I see them, even the ones that have been repurposed to sell gelato...