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FH5, Series 34, preview

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Move along, nothing much to see here. All right, the 2021 Lamborghini Countach is a welcome addition. I’m hoping that there might be something else that turns out to be a nice surprise. The Citroen BX4TC is apparently a failed Group B rally car, but might be all right on dirt. I can’t imagine the 1986 BMW M6 will be much different from other BMWs of the period (probably right down to the tuning and the perks; #CopyandPaste). I tried the Lotus Esprit in FH4 last night and found to my surprise that I must’ve driven it fairly recently because I didn’t need to retune it. It wasn’t bad to drive, but struggled to get away from the drivatars in the Colossus by a decent margin. I must try the BMW 850CSi again as well, but I didn’t think much of it the last time and doubt whether I’ll like it better this time. The motorway decorations will sync to your music, but that can be switched off. Might work well with the yoof stations or the new station, but perhaps not with Radio Eterna. I wonder whet
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FH5, Series 33, Week 4

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I’ve been in my hot, sexy Portia this afternoon [ You old perv! –ed.] … I mean, hot, sexy Porsche [ You old perv! –ed.] The treasure hunt seemed to be a matter of crashing the Chevrolet Impala into things until the game decided that enough was enough and gave me CR250,000. The weekly in the Corvette E-Ray was easy money. Eventlab (1). Eagle Forest Raceway . My choices of car were the BMW i8 or a stock (?) Lamborghini Gallardo Spider. I chose the latter. If you want to practise changing from 2nd to 3rd gear and back again, this was the race for you. Decent use of decorative elements, but the layout lacked flow. A one-third excellent and a one-third good SWS. Eventlab (2). Emerald GP . My only real choice was the Hyundai i30N or the Clio Williams, and as I used the latter last week, I used the former to complete this event. I thought this was a decent medium-length circuit with good spacing of the technical sections. I started the PR stunts in the Ferrari F40 Competizione. One-shotted
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FH5, Series 33, Week 3

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 The weekly challenge was in the 2018 911 GT2 RS. I used Street Scene for the Rivals challenge for reasons I’ve previously mentioned – I’ve not generally used Street Scene for Rivals. I tried to use one of this week’s Eventlabs for the Eventlab task, but it didn’t register, and I used some circuit created by DJS to deal with this. Eventlab (1). Park Valley Raceway . I drove my BMW M3 GTR again round this nice, flowing circuit and got an SWS that was one-third good. Eventlab (2). GP Mantavo . Went with the Elise 190. This was another good, flowing circuit. The reward was a BMW i8. I’ve actually seen one of these unpopular cars in real life. Eventlab (3). Kruos Circuit . Rubbish. Another track that’s mostly ridiculously tight corners in 2nd gear. Might improve with a good deal of practice, but there’s good technical and bad technical. I started the PR stunts with the 1966 Porsche 906, which did the Riviera Maya speed zone in one go for an SWS which the critics said was “utter rubbish”.
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FH5, Series 33, Week 2

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I had to drive my Zenvo TSR-S fast to win the treasure which was placed in the least accessible location for a hypercar. O Game, th’art such a wit. The weekly in the 2017 Ford GT posed no issues at all. Eventlab (1) was Red Bramble Raceway by YouTuber, HokiHoshi. A decent circuit, but made out of that pretend tarmac that’s just a bit too viscous. As others have noted, it’s all flat. A one-third good SWS. I thought we’d already had a Circuit de Mulegé GP as an Eventlab event. I opted for my (RWD) AM V12 Vantage, but am not sure whether this was a bad choice or the circuit was awful. Probably a bit of both. I seemed to spend about 90% of the race in 2nd, wondering where the next ridiculously tight corner was. Better done in an AWD car after a lot of practice. The reward was a Zenvo TSR-S. My third, I think. It was back in the CC8S for the Lodge Raceway for which I was rewarded with a 2002 Nissan Skyline. Not my favourite version of the car, and I need to see how many of them I have (a
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FH5, Series 33, Week 1

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I thought I was going to have problems with the treasure hunt because I’ve probably done S1-class rivals in every road race on the main map and didn’t fancy trying to get the Lotus 2-Eleven to do the job until I realised that I’ve never done rivals in Street Scene. As practice for the seasonal, I did Ruta Norte in a clean time and got a decent reward. I also got a crap wheel spin as well. I mustn’t have driven my McLaren P1 in ages because the tuning was decidedly antiquated, but I managed to get through all the tasks in this week’s weekly without any bother. I also did the HA along with some other people who actually contributed to it. Eventlab (1) was Italia 458 Race Track . Mostly decent track but completely flat. Not helped by the race being set at night, which meant that the tyre bundles tended to vanish into the gloom, making some of the corners tricky to negotiate. The SWS was rubbish. Eventlab (2). Green River GP . I raced in the Porsche Carrera GT for this one. A decent circu
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FH5, Allstars Car Pack

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Getting a discount so that you don’t have to. I quickly discovered from the forums that someone had made a boo-boo with the pricing, although I thought that an official announcement to that effect suggested that it probably wasn’t entirely an accident. In a bout of contrariness, the car pack was on the xbox app, but this time they sent you to the MS shop to buy it. Once I’d switched my VPN on. Yes, W11 has this whole annoying geographical location thing going on. Anyway, I got the car pack for the reduced price, but by lunchtime, that so-called glitch had been fixed. All the cars have 8/9 for tuning (the exception is brakes; more often it’s the only thing you can tune apart from tyres) and they all have the same car masteries, including the 200% XP perk. I thought I’d race the cars stock down Copper Canyon , tune them, and race them again to see what difference it made if any. The only thing I mostly didn’t alter was the aero tuning (with one exception). I also raced them round the Sta
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FH5, Series 33, preview

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Phew! After the picture of the Pro Stock Camaro was released, I predicted a hybrid road-and-drag racing series, but reality has confounded this. I can see the Allstars Car Pack annoying some people, but don’t blame the FM crowd rejecting it because the cars are in the other game. I can also see some FH5 players being annoyed because it seems that we’re paying for the content of the other game, which I, cynical old bastard that I am, suspect may be true because I imagine the figures for FM remain minuscule. I don’t mind buying the car pack because I’m not likely to buy FM and would like some more proper track toys. Pity the Ginetta G55 GT4 wasn’t included. Or anything a bit more up-to-date (as AR12 Nick pointed out in his video). As for the rest of the series, apart from the Pro Stock Camaro and the HW Trans Am… However, before I complete that sentence, an aside. Once again JakeXVX called it a Trans a.m. Now, I know our lad’s never likely to see this blog, but Jake, if you do turn up he
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