FH5, Series 50, Week 4

Ten wreckage skills in a GT car. I won treasure (alongside the Street Scene outpost) that I don’t need, being a few hundred FPs short of 125K of them.

The mural for the photo is just south of the start of Cruce de Valle on the wall of the house. I knew it was round there somewhere from the previous occasion.

The weekly in the Lexus RC F was mostly unremarkable. Bad launch in the street scene race in which I didn’t take the lead until the last couple of turns.

PR stunts. The DS was tricky because I ended up with too much speed or angle. Rubbish SWS. The TB was vexatious because I know what to do, but haven’t done it in some time. Another rubbish SWS. I one-shotted the ST for more bloody rubbish.

Eventlab (1). Mulegé Street Circuit. A variation on the usual circuit which – I probably said this last time – needs practice. Rubbish SWS.

Eventlab (2). Aeroplane Graveyard Circuit. Really rally monsters round a cross country circuit. Not well constructed, with the first turn being about 5m from the start-finish line. There was, I thought, a lack of checkpoints because the final turn to the finish allowed for all manner of unethical practices.

For the Horizon Tour, I ended up in A800 super saloons. There were a couple of prestige six players, but they vanished (“Bedtime, Sebastian!” said mum; or disconnected). I was 3rd round Mulegé and 1st in Plaza and Playa Azul for want of any real competition.

I one-shotted the HW PR stunt and got a one-third good and one-third very good SWS, which was probably worth more than all the rest of today’s SWSs combined. Even the wheel spin afterwards was better than the other SWSs.

I tried the RA PR stunt a couple of times and stopped bothering. It’s that especially annoying DZ along which you need to drift the whole time to have a chance of even three-starring it.

I picked the Subaru STi S209 for the Trial (A800 2010s), which turned out to be a good choice. I ended up in a team in which there were only two other players in upgraded cars and they seemed to think that they were racing against each other. I came 2nd in Tulum because I thought the player in 2nd was trying to hold the drivatars up when actually, he only wanted to win. We lost overall, but there was no Forza counting this week. I was 3rd in Bajío and Tapalpa, which we convincingly won, because I decided in the latter two to let the clowns in 1st and 2nd fight with each other. Again, prune-witted children, it’s a team event.

I see German Automotive won. Good. I can’t recall what I thought of this series the first time we experienced it, but I’m sure I hated it less than the Do(ugh)nut Media series.