I finally broke my 3-race winless streak on the Plus account. I took the Bugatti Veyron Gr.4 to Sarthe with the intention of seeing how it would do, but the weather had other plans. In dry conditions, the Bugatti doesn't seem to have the pace, and it doesn't have the economy to do 4 laps, though it seemed planted. It was anything but dry.
The very-heavy rain started during lap 2, causing everybody to come down for rain tires. Portilla was smart enough to take full-wet tires, which I also took, so he had a massive lead that grew to over 30 seconds while I dealt with the other AI, which mostly took intermediates, on lap 3. I eventually closed to within 10 seconds as the rain finally ended on lap 5, and Portilla and I both came down for fuel and a fresh set of tires. He took wets again, and I took intermediates. The track dried faster than I anticipated, while I closed to within hailing distance by the Corvette Curves on lap 6. I didn't have the lead, and unlike Portilla, I didn't have soft tires waiting in the pits, so while he came down for a third time, I stayed out on rapidly-decaying intermediates. I made those last for a 26-second win.
The 4-star marathon roulette was too kind - it gave me the 2nd-highest-showing/lowest-legal 500,000 Cr. As the cheapest car I don't own on this account (the Corvette concept) is a fair bit away in the Hagerty's rotation, I have 11,000,000 Cr. in the bank, and I don't expect the cars coming on Thursday to cost more than 5,000,000 Cr., I snapped up the Aston Martin DB3S as that is the next-cheapest car I didn't already own. That brings the needed car count down to 14, at a current cost of 149,750,000 Cr.
On the GTP account, the first thing I did was snap up the Mercedes Benz W194, the last 20,000,000-Cr. car I didn't already own on that account. That leaves 127 cars to buy (130 once the update hits later this week), the 1997 BMW McLaren F1 and a bunch of Brand Central cars (the cheapest being the Jaguar F-type R), which will set me back 103,403,900 Cr. (give or take the F1's price once it becomes available again, and the prices of the 3 new ones).
To help replenish the credits, I took the older (and real) Peugeot rally car to Sarthe. The tune needs an update to cure low-to-mid speed corner oversteer and improve mileage, but it still was fast enough to take a 3-stop win (I stupidly took intermediates on lap 2).
The 4-star ticket was its usual Wheel of Despair, giving a racing crankshaft for the 2020 AMG Black.
Will probably sell it as there's already one sleeping in my garage.
