On the GTP account, I re-verified the PP of all the cars I own, as well as noted the new engine/new body costs for the Hagerty's cars. I then bought the 3 2016 GT500 cars, and hit up Luca for my tickets (I already owned the 3 cars for the Abarth collection). The parts ticket gave me the S camshaft for the Megane safety car, while the engine ticket gave me another GT test car engine.
I then bought 4 RX-8s, shoved 787B engines in them, and widened 2. I also grabbed 4 Z34 Fairladys in the vain hope I'll get engines for them, the "new" Porsche, and very stupidly, the Dior Mangusta. I guess I won't be shopping Hagerty's for a while.
I went to Catalunya for the 4 new races. I could have cheated and used the very-glitched BMW M4 Safety Car (it's under 500 PP, while the base M4 is around 564 PP) in the European Sunday Cup 500, but instead I shook the dust off a 1989 BMW M3 Sport Evolution I had lying around. It was good enough for a 1.6-second win in 3:12, and 37,500 Cr. with the clean race bonus, or somewhere between 600,000 Cr. and 700,000 Cr. per hour in grinding.
I then grabbed the tuned-to-650-PP 911 GT3 (997) for the Porsche Cup. It wasn't enough; I finished 1.2 seconds behind Carrazza and his 997 in 9:44. I did manage 72,900 Cr. for a 2nd and clean race. I needed the similarly-tuned Taycan for the win, in 9:39, by 2.7 seconds over Carrazza, and 81,000 Cr. (no clean race). Gee, another difficult way to almost get 700,000 Cr. per hour; what a surprise.
After that, I fitted some dirt tires to a near-600-PP tuned Mitsubishi GTO, took it to the semi-dirt WTC 600, and had an easy, if dirty win of 3.9 seconds in 5:13. It wasn't clean enough to get the bonus, and 45,000 Cr. Even if it can be done cleanly, it's not even 750,000 Cr. per hour.
I repeated the dirty deed with the Peugeot 205 in the World Rally Challenge, getting a win of 4.6 seconds in 6:38 and 65,000 Cr. If one gets lucky and manages the CRB, maybe 800,000 Cr. per hour is possible.
The result...er...insulting 4-star Wheel of Despair gave the fully-expected lowest-possible 10,000 Cr.
Over on the Plus account, I got the Dior Mangusta and the civilian Cayman, then hit up Luca for the tickets as I already owned all 6 car. That netted me a Stoke Up S for the DeLorean and the new Camaro ZL1 1LE engine.
I didn't play around in the European Sunday Cup 500; since the Ferrari FXX K was legal, I clubbed 7 baby seals in 2:31. With menu loading times, that won't get me 800,000 Cr. per hour.
Since I had it and there no restrictions against using a race car or racing tires, I used the Clubsport Cayman for the Porsche Cup. Even with Carrazza playing hero and getting the 2 fastest laps in the race on laps 4 and 5, I beat him by 9.9 seconds in 9:23..with a clean race bonus. Still short of 750,000 Cr. an hour.
After buying dirt tires for the GT-R NISMO, I played in the dirt in the WTC 600. I almost had a clean win in 5:07.
I completed the last time I'll do any of the current events with the World Rally Challenge and the Ford Focus Gr.B in 6:37. Needless to say, I'm completely unimpressed with the new events, especially the two on the autocross circuit.
At least the 3-star workout roulette gave me something of minimal value - a 2017 Alpine A110. If only we could sell cars.
Went too Tokyo Expressway and was amazed too see the buildings looking nice and complete, not the drab concrete grey the majority are on ps4 version. loving the better sound too.
