FH5, Series 56, Week 2

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Treasure hunt. Drift three times in a Jag and then go to the stadium to find the treasure. I now have over 161,000 FPs. I could buy a third Sián roadster, but I have two and drive neither.

The weekly. The Lexus LFA. Complete the Trial to get it if you don’t have at least three already (and now a fourth from doing the Trial). All straightforward.

I one-shotted all the PR stunts this week in the Lynk & Co. Cyan Racing car. Rewards included a one-third excellent SWS, which is a rare thing.

Back to the stadium to take a piccie. Reward: an emote that I probably already have and would never use. I expect such childishness to carry over into FH6.

Eventlab (1) was Sterlings (Sterling’s?) Nuggets Circuit. Good layout and a decent length, but suffering from that usual rubbish road surface. I felt the fence prop was over used when the usual barriers would mostly have been sufficient. I used the Lynk & Co. Cyan Racing car again. One-third good SWS.

Eventlab (2) was Autodromo Int. B. Cecilia. Another decent-length circuit and a good layout. Props a little sparse and have a sort of brutalist style, but all right. And who is Cecilia?

Eventlab (3) JCO Project Refinery – Race 2. Full marks for props, then squandered by night and an annoying layout with a lot of 90° corners.

I one-shotted the HW PR stunt in the well dodged TVR Cerbera. The trick is to start before the circle of track to maintain your speed through that section. Rubbish SWS.

Same car for the RA PR stunt. I tried the road, but aborted the run in favour of a gentle bounce in a straight line across the dunes before flooring it. The strategy worked and I got a one-third good SWS.

I picked the Lexus LC500 for the Trial, but am not sure whether there’s such a thing as a good choice. I was last on the grid for Granjas de Tapalpa and managed a 4th in spite of some collisions, although I’m not sure whether that was because of a player who quit or the drivatars being bolshie. Well, it’s night, and you can’t see a thing in the chaos. I was also last on the grid for Callejera and managed a 5th because there was no way I was catching the drivatar in 4th. Nonetheless, a solid team win on both occasions, although I’m disappointed that I couldn’t at least get a podium.

Last week’s Trial

I repeated last week’s Trial with some other Corvettes, but the races typically went team win for humanity round Mulegé, team loss round Bahía de Plano, and team win round Horizon Mexico. At least one or two drivatars tended to zoom away and were uncatchable. When I did win, the team lost, but in those races, there were a couple of clowns who insisted on sounding their horns at the start of the race and rapidly fell to the back of the field. The curiosity was the 1970 Corvette, which seemed rather sluggish on launch and then rattled through the field afterwards.

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