FH5, Series 40, Week 2

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Easy money.

Because of the current regime (“You will attend prison all day!”), I’ve been doing much of the Festival playlist first thing in the morning and tidying up the rest in the afternoon. I had enough done this morning to get my hands on the Porsche Rallye(/Dakar) after the first few tasks.

I drove round the oval track in under 20 seconds to win treasure, and should’ve stayed there to deal with the collectibles and the daily. Was this some scheme to get players to go racing round the least interesting track in the game?

The weekly in the KTM X-Bow went relatively well apart from the race (Descansar Dorado) in which a cheating drivatar ran off into the distance. Damn your digital wheels, sir!

I already knew that I wanted to use the GTC4 Lusso for the PR stunts. As the car is ridiculously overpowered, it was just the thing for the drift zones both of which I one-shotted and both of which yielded one-third very good and one-third excellent SWSs. I one-shotted the danger sign and got a one-third excellent SWS.

I took a photo. I forget what I got for it. Probably something a bit rubbish.

Eventlab (1). SMR2: The Mayan Discovery. I went with the FE Porsche. This was a terrible circuit. The creator seems to have thought that placing abrupt jumps just near sharp corners would be a jolly jape. Or having weird structures partly sticking up at weird moments was also a good idea. This felt more like an off-road circuit than a dirt one. And it was at night. Series 39 seems to have come calling.

Eventlab (2). Royal Palms International Speedway. The two issues with this were the flatness of the circuit and the use of that old-style tarmac as the surface, which offer sod-all grip. Apart from that, though, I thought Royal Palms had a decent layout. The SWS was one-third good.

For the Trial I opted for the Porsche Macan, switching to off-road race tyres and adding a bit more power to offset the drop in PI. I had tried the 959 Rally Raid in testing, but the car was back to being a dick (which might be attributable to the wet conditions). I was on the back row for Cordillera and came 3rd. I was a bit nice at that sharp left-hander and got punted about by the unsubtle drivatars before more or less regaining all the places I’d lost ahead of the next sharp left-hander. Resounding team win. Same start in Cascada. 3rd again and another resounding team win. I could’ve come 2nd if I’d exploited the player ahead of me because – yes, you know what I’m going to say – they couldn’t take corners for toffee.

I’ve only had a brief go with the Porsche Rallye. It starts out at A800. 1/9 for tuning. Perks worth considering. I suspect that the base PI was deliberate since off-road race tyres will give players the chance to keep the care in A class, but do very little with it. It’ll end up in S1 class whether you like it or not. Annoying fact: it keeps popping up in road races for Porsches and behaving like a 911 GT3 (or whatever sort of 911 it’s based on).

I one-shotted the HW PR stunt in the GTC4 Lusso and was rewarded with a rubbish SWS.

I continued my unblemished record of one-shotting PR stunts this week in Sierra Nueva and got an SWS that was one-third excellent and one-third very good.

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