Yesterday N24 was on in Manufacturer's. Since that's my absolute favorite track, I wanted to make the best out of it, run all 4 races (why only 4!!!). It was a bit of a struggle.
First of all, I'm high DR A pace on N24, reached A+ there before. However Monza had killed my DR to below half through DR B. Thus I got locked into GT2. Racing from the back it is. My test time in a custom race with the same settings got me down to 8:16, the best quali lap all night in GT2 was 8:17.8. I was in the wrong league, but whatever.
I run the qualifier for the first race but pit at the end of the 2nd lap so my time doesn't count (would have been pole but that would just be a boring race). First weird issue, everyone was done qualifying yet the timer still went on for another 4 minutes waiting for dead air...
So the actual race finally starts at 8:28, next one is starting at 9:00, so I have only 29 minutes to race.
That's how far I got 2/3rd lap left to catch the rabbit, rabbit got away. Quit to enter the next race.
Second race I didn't enter the track for qualifying, just stayed in the lobby while walking the dog etc. The timer still insisted on counting down to zero after everyone was finished. Was it waiting for me to set a time? No Idea.
This time I only had 28 minutes to race:
Easier race, no surprise with the races overlapping. Those most interested already entered the first time slot. (My DR wouldn't have gone down yet since race one was still going during matchmaking for race 2)
On to race 3. This time I figured I'll set a slow quali time and maybe the timer won't waste 5 minutes at the end. I start straigth away, get out in 4th, pass the 4 cars and make quite a lead before crawling down the straight end of lap 2 to sandbag my time.
PD has quite a mean streak, big rain appearing at the end of qualifying. The last people on track had a lot of trouble completing the lap, spinning out, also slow down the straight. And still the timer insisted to count down the last 2 minutes with everyone finished.
In the first 2 races there was a little rain, exact same small band passing over at the same time, not dropping enough rain to need different tires. So I concentrated on the radar instead while racing, good battle in lap 2, then started to build a lead in lap 3.
Then this hit and kept building
It didn't take long before I had to slow down to 80 and could barely make corners at 20 kph. People in the back had the benefit of already having rain before the got by the pit end lap 2 so they pitted and got tires.
The rain lasted the entire lap and by the time the track became a bit more drive-able again I was in 7th
Time to quit, 28 minutes are up. It would have been fun to see if I could pass them again while staying on the dry line while the other cars continue on intermediates, but the lure of another race won out.
Last one, didn't bother to qualify (nice break time) and turned out to be the easiest race. I dropped to SR A from quitting races which I didn't expect to happen. I should have gained plenty SR from all the other clean laps to compensate for the SR drop from quitting. Maybe the SR ups don't count anymore when you quit, or the quit negative SR has been increased. Odd.
Last race only had 12 people (out of max 16, what happened to 20 and 24 players in championships) I got in first in lap 2 and drove a steady race the rest of the way.
The rain was back to its first mode, a small band. With PD dynamic means, A or B, all or nothing...
The victory screen, 103.6km, 33:37 race time, 76 points and 137.5K in GT2 and back to SR S
And a sports suspension for the daily ticket (race ended after midnight)
More of N24 please, and more dynamic as well. Not this A or B stuff. Plus we really need a way to have weather radar and car radar on at the same time. Car radar should be permanent and separate, fading in more in the middle when cars are close. Or at least some other warning rain is coming and please slow the supersonic cloud speed down
Not the most complicated livery ever but I'm really happy with how it turned out.
