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FH5, Series 55, Week 1

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Treasure hunt. Six stars in SZs in an EV. I went with one of Audis and had it done in two. The treasure was in the stadium maze, but not difficult to find. Ah, yes, that bloody stadium maze again. I now have over 150,000 FPs, but I spent some on a second 300 SL. The weekly. In the Peel Trident. Absolute clown car. “Upgrade the car to B class or higher,” it says when your only choice with the motorbike engine seems to be A class. I eventually managed to complete an SZ to the tune of three stars, but the car has bugger all handling. I preferred the drag race because at least that’s in a straight line. I suppose this will be another series in which we have to drive the Isetta, probably the Reliant Robin, and finally the Peel P50. What a ghastly menagerie. For the PR stunts I used the Mitsubishi Montero. I had to redo the DS because as usual, it was a case of the car going in the right direction by a few tenths of 1°. The SWS was rubbish apart from an Opel Manta, which I sold because I don...
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FH5, Series 54, Week 4, The tune of the week

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Turn on, tune in, drop out. PGG has been posting share codes for tunes for new cars via in-game messages. Not quite sure why they’ve been doing this since while it’s possible to reconstruct how a car was upgraded, it’s not possible to see the precise tuning settings (i.e., as an aid for players wondering about such settings). At least I don’t think it is. This state of affairs has had the Chief Try-Hard (CTH) on the forums fulminating about how there are better tuners, whose work should be promoted etc. By and large I’ve never bothered with other people’s tunes. I do my own, which I’d describe as cosy – a pleasant driving experience so long as you aren’t being a Horizon Open try-hard yourself. However, I thought I’d try the tune being promoted for the AMC Rebel, expecting that I was probably going to say to myself, “I wish I could build and tune like that.” Sometimes I’m wrong. I installed the tune on the new Rebel and took it for a spin round the Horizon Mexico Circuit . I have to con...
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FH5, Series 54, Week 4

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 Last call for the final sitting. The weekly. Some fat, overpowered Dodge with no handling. Do an A-class drag race (ugh). It gets worse because the small print says “stock”. Well, don’t say A-class since this is neither here nor there. In the end I had to buy a new Challenger because even after restoring the car (paints, parts and tuning) to its pristine, virgin glory, the drag race wasn’t being ticked off. I was ticked off because I had to buy a new Challenger and now have four of these bloated messes in my garage. And if one drag race wasn’t pointless enough, I then had to do another in S1 class. Another week of S2-class PR stunts. I PB’ed the DS, but not before I’d hit the wall to the left, hit the wall to the right, and had the tail or nose of the car droop down for no obvious reason. I one-shotted and PB’ed the SZ for a one-third good SWS. I did the usual thing with the TB, heading for the road to the right and curving round so as to be spared all the bouncing over the dunes....
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FH5, Series 54, Week 3

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Another week starting with the weekly, this time in the Vūhl 05RR. Too light, too prone to sliding in road races. I used my S2-class, AWD one to do the DS. I’ve nearly hit 150,000 FPs. Well, I did spend some on that idiotic Father Christmas beard in the Forzathon shop. The Eventlab, It’s a Big Christmas , gets full marks for props, but not for the layout of the circuit with its crossovers. I had to stop at one to let the drivatars past or risk getting broadsided. Another photo of a snowman. What did I get? Amnesia. I can’t recall. [ I can’t recall who she is, either . –ed.] It took me a couple of attempts to do the ST. I knew what to do (i.e., drive across the fields), but went over the crest of a hill the first time, which slowed me down. A one-third very good SWS. I knew the SZ was going to be a particular pain and eventually PB’ed it in my S2-class International Scout (S2 906). Again, I knew what I ought to be doing, but couldn’t quite get it right until I tapped my way through the ...
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FH5, Series 54, Week 2

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Prefatory note This post is a bit delayed for two reasons. I was going to do the Trial after I got home yesterday only to be disconnected multiple times. Fortunately, the connection was sound again this morning. The other delay was that I was nearly on prestige 8, 1,000, thinking that I had another 200 levels to go to prestige 9. Au contraire , I ended up on prestige 9 this afternoon. And now, the main feature The week started with the weekly in the Audi S1. The only trick question was the last event to win a dirt scramble . I suspect that the last time we did this series, I did a trail race and wondered why I hadn’t completed the task. I took a picture of the snowman at my house in Playa Azul. I’m sure there was a reason. Picture of the Queen of Sheba in a bikini? Could’ve been AI since I’m pretty certain they didn’t have cameras in them olden days. I managed to enter an HA in a timely fashion (i.e., not having to wait 12 minutes). I PB’ed the DS after several [ hundred –ed.] botched...
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FH5, Series 54, Week 1

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 Prefatory note. This will be the first repeated series (15) that I haven’t previously recorded here. I had a look back through the entries and found that I started posting tales from FH5 with Series 17, although I may have made notes about Series 15 somewhere else. A notebook? If I remember correctly, we had to gift cars to unlock the Lamborghini Sián in the original series. Thankfully, we’re not having to do that again. I started with the treasure hunt, which didn’t seem to work. Does the car have to be green? I wondered. I repainted it, but that seemed not to have any effect. After several attempts, the hunt was done and I went over to Playa Azul for the treasure. It was only later that I discovered that you had to drive 8km(/5 miles) first. How did anyone determine that since it’s not part of the clue? The weekly was in the Isetta. 89kmh through an ST. I was going about 240kmh, but nothing happened. Oh, a stock Isetta. Fortunately, I have a second one which I was able to downg...
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FH5, Series 53, Week 4

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We start the week with #ForcedEngagement, viz. upgrading some Ford Focus on the Test Track (let’s hope this isn’t an exercise which gets repeated in FH6) to win 300 FPs. I have over 144,000, but it was only 142,000 last week. Gods, I’m on my uppers. Spare some FPs, guv? The weekly in the AR Giulia was straightforward enough, but a drag race? Warum? (he said randomly in German.) Oddly enough I managed to do the drift task, RWD, without making a complete arse of myself in the process. For the first time in this series, the Eventlab tiles were live from the start. SZ 2.11 was that awful, extended version of Cathedral with garish lighting stolen from a disco c. 1978. Some of the checkpoints were poorly placed with respect to the turns beyond them. Well, it could be worse, and was in the form of Ark Seacoast Drift Town . The use of props in this one is excellent, but the circuit leaves much to be desired. As I drive in cockpit view, there are times where I can’t see where the next checkpoi...
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