I came back to the game after some crazy months (family, job...). I returned to my usual 6am to 7am racing before daughters wake up. This past 2-3 weeks I...
... Start the PS4, update system. Start GT7, update game.
Receive some rewards, namely the Mercedes AMG from the AMG TT/contest and also some money because I bronzed it (I didn't even remember).
Then I picked up the game at Menu 32 I think. It was the last Porsche race at the Nordschleife. I got a bit mad because it's not easy to overtake 15 cars at max speed in that track so I decided to dial down the difficulty level from hard to normal (I play with all aids turned off) and try to push a little less and instead try to get CRB in all races. I think it was a good change of pace. I did OK on all subsequent menus sometimes missing CRB for stupid or unknown reasons but whatever. If I got a bit burnt out I would do some CE, license or missions which I try to gold too. This brings me to Menu 39, the last one. It was pretty miserable. I was locked from the rest of the game so I couldn't do some other things to clear my mind and even if all races went well I ended up at the Nordschleife (in 1st position) again after 5 days of beign locked out of the rest of the game and after 2 days racing it I decided to not push anymore, I did a slow clean race ending 10th (0 points) which made me lose the Champ but enough for the trophy and unlocking the Weekly Challenges (and the rest of the game!!!)...
... Then I was able to have fun again.
I purchased a Copen '02, put a silly Japanese McDonalds livery on it and had a blast on the Kei Cars Menu. Then I went straight to the last Menu because I wanted to have fun on a Jimny. Got the Sierra one and won all the races on the menu 100% stock. All of these were clean races.
After that I did some purchases for the Extra Menus: A lot of Toyotas: GT and GR86, Crown, Prius, Alphard... Some Nissans too. I asked the people in the game about them, read all the descriptions. I love this game is so nerdy and I hope they keep this trademark for future iterations.
Then finally I went to the Weekly challenge and I copy/paste from that thread:
Euro 400: I was not very interested in this one and with only 2 days left I decided to race a stock F430. It was total overkill. 1st place CRB.
Pickup Truck Race: I raced a stock Raptor to 2nd place CRB. I was really fun. I loaded a cool Dakar '25 livery that some japanese gentlemen did, tunned it a bit and raced again to 1st place CRB.
Hyundai Ioniq 5 N One-make: Did anyone race a 100% stock one on this? I did to dead last place. My lap times were about 1:02 and I think I was driving OK? It was rather hilarious. I then loaded a Time Attack livery that some other japanese gentlemen did and did some tunning (I think only race tyres?). Got an easy 1st place CRB with lap times of about 0:53.
Glad to be having fun again in the game!
And to all that people creating all those cool liveries I download and put on my cars without much effort - You are the true heroes of this story. I love you all.