FH5, Series 22, Week 4

I started as ever with the treasure hunt. Do a Street Scene race (scream!) in a B-class Honda Prelude (scream!!)

The weekly was doing stuff in the 1998 Toyota Supra. Fortunately, there was nothing painful such as go 401kmh, necessitating the biggest engine swap and the least handling.

For the photo, I had to swap to the 1992 Supra. Why didn’t they let us use the same model as the weekly? The stadium in Guanajuato is marked on the map is you squint a bit.

For the drift and speed zones, the 1971 Nissan Skyline GT-R was fine. The speed trap was an incredible annoyance. The GT-R got close before I had a look at the forums to see what the tuners were suggesting. The 1953 Chevrolet Corvette. I should’ve guessed that this is the car you were supposed to use. I used Cashless’ tune on it which might’ve worked first time if the traffic hadn’t strategically positioned itself at the corner before the bridge and the corner after it until I finally got a clear run at the speed trap. This was an immensely frustrating, time-consuming and time-wasting task to do which got me an absolutely rubbish SWS.

I came second in the first two Horizon Tour races, and managed to spectacularly botch the Caldera Scramble by missing two checkpoints in quick succession, although I did manage to wade my way through the drivatars, and if the race had been longer, I could probably have come second again.

I survived in the Eliminator long enough to complete that task. I’d just got a Ford Focus when I got challenged by some player in a Bronco. As I’d got into the top 30, I didn’t bother racing them, but can only guess they were busy crashing into trees as it seemed to take them far too long to win. Still loathe the Eliminator and still hate that it’s on the playlist. It’s presence doesn’t encourage me to do it voluntarily as it is max. stress and min. fun.

After a couple of weeks of the Eventlab tiles working first time, they were broken again. I tried restarting the game and then had to restart my laptop. Seriously? Why should I need to do either of these things? And to make matters worse, the tiles only went properly live after I left my house.

The Alpine Terrace Motorpark would’ve been better in a sports car or something similar. I used the Jeep Trailcat that I’d driven in the Horizon Tour. There were a couple of tricky chicanes that weren’t reflected in the route on the minimap. Overall, a decent circuit in the right sort of car, but the reward was crap. Clothing? Gods!

The Copper Canyon Rally Park was a bit better than its predecessor, I felt, but another rubbish reward (a horn) and an insulting wheel spin.

The Street Scene (scream!!!) theme continued in Built not Bought. The pain dial was turned up a notch to B700. This time I chose the 1953 Corvette, but all the races were a struggle when they oughtn’t to be, The reward was a 1998 Supra, which might’ve been all right if you didn’t already have one for the weekly challenge.

You all ready for this? was another Street Scene (scream!!!!) seasonal with the pain dial another notch higher at C600. I tried the GMC Syclone because I thought it was supposed to be faster than a Ferrari, but it was an understeery barge. C-class cars are shite. Old BMW M3 as a reward. Watch me get sent one as a gift.

Although the Syclone may have been garbage in C-class racing, with max. engine (that still left it with some scope for handling), it nailed the HW PR stunt. I believe the target was 380m, and I think I got 405m. Excellent SWS.

Charged up was a race round the Goliath in S2-class EVs. I built and tuned the Nevera only to find that it wasn’t one of the cars on the list. Switched to the Mission R and only managed to take the lead through the fan section at the very end of the race. I should probably have picked the Rimac Concept 2. The reward was a horn, which you can shove up a place where the sun don’t [sic!] shine. Rubbish wheel spin. Gee thanks, game!

Off to Sierra Nueva where I converted the Syclone to a rally spec and one-shotted the speed zone. What did I get? A rubbish SWS.

The seasonal was called Rally? Let’s Go! I chose the Ford Escort RS Cosworth. Oh, it’s road racing not actual rally racing. After the first race I switched to my 2017 Ford Focus, although wonder whether I ought to have used an A-class Mustang RTR Spec 5. I feel that the addition of aero to the car might’ve been a good idea because the courses were all rather technical and I had problems satisfactorily getting round corners. The reward was a Peugeot 205 Rallye car. Fine. Watch me get sent one of these as a gift as well.

It took no time to get the SL65, which I must try, but, I suspect, will still be a ridiculously overpowered, overweight sports car. I look at it in Horizon 4 and think that there are nicer cars to drive.

I wish that we could wave a fond good riddance to the Do(ugh)nut Media clown boys, but there’s a chance that there’s going to be a third episode of appallingly bad voice acting because we haven’t had all of their vehicles inflicted on us yet.