PS3 This weeks seasonals

Got a busy day planned, but will find a little time to fire up the ps3 and give these a go. Sometimes the lower PP seasonals are harder to do than the higher ones.

 

Had a bash through this now,
In the 07 cooper,

Rome is easy, even at 400pp
Eiger is harder, only got into the lead in the last third of last lap
Deep Forrest is easy, and again is doable at 400pp
Cote, is trickier, needed 440pp and only took lead last time leaving tunnel breaking for chicane
Eifel is ok at 450pp, doable at lower pp, but didn't try.

For a challenge have a go in 1.3i 93 cooper, I tried Rome, and even at 450pp, and 5 good laps I could only get to 5th, best lap a high 1.31...

Maybe one day the pp system will be a true reflection of performance.

 

Which mini is the best to use, or how have you modified the ones you race in?

 

I,ll post some times this afternoon as I want some cash for some of this weeks cars

 

I tried 3 of them , Rome , won easily, could only get 2nd on rivet, best lap 1,18.7 Monaco again only second could not get a 1,59 lap.

 

I think I pretty much maxed everything out , with stage 3 turbo, making around 168hp, then added a little ballast to lower pp back to 450, and also used it to make weight distribution 50/50, to remove some understeer.

 

I have it sorted now Mick,

I was running mid range turbo, at 167hp, with 77kg ballast (729kg total), and used my normal gear setup procedure for close ratios, maxing out at end of long straight.

I was determined to find the time your were faster than me by, so I went had a play, and double checked my settings.

Don't know why, but I thought I wonder what happens if I fit a high range Turbo.... and get this while the power went up the pp went DOWN.

So I set car up with high rpm turbo, 170hp @ 97.5%, and 702kg with 50kg ballast, (so remember 3 hp more and 27kg lighter), and lengthed my gears a touch.... that put me in the mid 1,28's straight off, with an easy win, and a best lap of 1,27.4.... so I gained 4 and a bit seconds a lap, which seems crazy to me.

Any ideas of why this may be on a postcard to polyphony digital please.

 

I could understand it if the cars were radically different in other ways, so if you had one with less power, but better suspension, transmission , tyres, etc then that would make sense.

But I can sit in the settings screen of the mini, and swap to mid turbo, and in the car details in top left of screen the power goes down and the pp goes up, and when I swap back to high range turbo, power goes up pp goes down. Everything else stays the same. I am pretty sure this is a bug and not intended behaviour of the pp system.

 

Supercar Nostalgia Event

This expert level race event is for historic super cars built on or before 1979.
Cars may be tuned up to 550PP and tires are limited to Sports/Hard or less.

Tracks
High speed ring,
Daytona road course,
Laguna seca,
Grand valley,
Eifel

Usual prizes for 1st, 2nd, 3rd,

Lv10 ticket prize for all golds.



I'm looking forward to trying this in a bit, sounds like a good car/track combo, apart from the usual Eifel craptacular track thrown in...

 

I'll be trying those new ones later today. Its good to get some of these old bangers out of retirement. I'll post my best lap times up for you guys to laugh at later on

 

I cheated a little, by using a race car. I had been awarded the Ferrari 330 p4 a few weeks ago, and I took it out for a spin. Won all races at 530pp without to many problems.. For anyone struggling I bet the old 2J would provide easy wins.

Think I shall repeat this but with a road car rather than a race car.... not sure what to try though.