FH4/5, the trial
No, not that one; not yet. After the 1953 Corvette got mentioned a few times in connection with recent events in FH5, I thought I’d turn my attention to this car. From FH4 I know it’s nothing outstanding, but it is a fairly solid performer. Instead, in FH5, it vexed the tits off me. I tried it in D class, the drivatars mocked my efforts. C class, same again. I skipped to A class, and, er… This morning I went through the same process in FH4. In D-B class races, the Corvette was constantly pestered by the drivatars. The one thing I didn’t alter was the drivetrain, keeping it RWD throughout. In A class (sans aero), the same thing happened again. The drivatars made nuisances of themselves, never being more than a second or so behind me. And then I tried A class (avec aero) and I romped off into the distance. I had to do some fiddling with the car, mostly adjustments to the weight, to get it to A800, but it only worked once I’d added all the herbs and spices. This afternoon, it was back to ...