La Sarthe and Spa ,weather report and other " stuff "

Sir Crashalot
Yeah, but that's ok for me. The car is already pretty OP as it is. I lost it twice, I had to go slower through corners on multiple laps because of the tires and I still won on hard by 56 seconds. So no complaining here😉

BTW: Does anyone here have both, the RX-7 and the RX-8 swapped? If so, which one do you prefer overall?
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I have both. A coin-flip for me.
 
Gone into an FF mode for the Moment
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Engine swapped maxed out Civic, Had a dry race start to finish that needs short shifting on FM6 for 3 laps and full beans for 2 laps between FM4-6
 
Today checking my invitations expiring day , so i get another Bugatti and realise that i never drive one .
So i bought one did weight upgrades ,brakes and few stuff more and put in at la sarthe with some minimum tuning.
Put FM6 from the beginning ( Bugatti are fuel burners anyway ) and choose MT gears since they have tremendous torque and usually are faster on low shifting .

3 laps easy but what a car !!!!!
Its sooooo easy , relax and fast .
And the tyres don't want change!!!!!
Only fuels.
It worth to try it if you have a second copy ( keep one stock ) .

I'll come back with more details.
 
smoothbore12
Today checking my invitations expiring day , so i get another Bugatti and realise that i never drive one .
So i bought one did weight upgrades ,brakes and few stuff more and put in at la sarthe with some minimum tuning.
Put FM6 from the beginning ( Bugatti are fuel burners anyway ) and choose MT gears since they have tremendous torque and usually are faster on low shifting .

3 laps easy but what a car !!!!!
Its sooooo easy , relax and fast .
And the tyres don't want change!!!!!
Only fuels.
It worth to try it if you have a second copy ( keep one stock ) .

I'll come back with more details.
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I had tried the Veyron a few months back and I was surprised at the fuel usage. It was so fast and it a great LeMans car
 
kjb
I had tried the Veyron a few months back and I was surprised at the fuel usage. It was so fast and it a great LeMans car
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I wasn't aware of how good he is .
Thought that will be a " pig " that only runs fast on straight line ,but today i eat my tongue with it .

Ok he need MT gears and short shift , but many others and especially swapped cars need that to.
Has huge torque and runs faster on MT than AT anyway .

It's now in the category of " hidden" gem for me and i already have 4 of them but ill by a couple more to put different liveries and tunes,with and without permanent mods.

Later ill do a couple of races and ill post my report and impressions.
 
smoothbore12
Today checking my invitations expiring day , so i get another Bugatti and realise that i never drive one .
So i bought one did weight upgrades ,brakes and few stuff more and put in at la sarthe with some minimum tuning.
Put FM6 from the beginning ( Bugatti are fuel burners anyway ) and choose MT gears since they have tremendous torque and usually are faster on low shifting .

3 laps easy but what a car !!!!!
Its sooooo easy , relax and fast .
And the tyres don't want change!!!!!
Only fuels.
It worth to try it if you have a second copy ( keep one stock ) .

I'll come back with more details.
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As long as you don't have to look at the car everything's fine😄
 
smoothbore12
I wasn't aware of how good he is .
Thought that will be a " pig " that only runs fast on straight line ,but today i eat my tongue with it .

Ok he need MT gears and short shift , but many others and especially swapped cars need that to.
Has huge torque and runs faster on MT than AT anyway .

It's now in the category of " hidden" gem for me and i already have 4 of them but ill by a couple more to put different liveries and tunes,with and without permanent mods.

Later ill do a couple of races and ill post my report and impressions.
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I guess I will give all my Bugatti a test run....
 
This one is wide car .
Am setting and one normal but still struggling for best settings ( both ).
High rpm turbo , shaft, brakes etc.
Weight till stage 4.

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Did an 8 lap race since little rain occurs at lap 6 and try last lap at FM1 but gather 3.5 seconds penalty 😂 so was worthless.
Approximately at FM1 " right " lap a 3.51-52 must be doable since at free test i went at 3.49 low.

Worth a shot guys, it's the king of torque.
 
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I bought a duplicate Veyron Gr.4 and dumped the Subaru (!) motor in it and did two runs last night before I had to sleep, first was set for power and only got me barely two laps @ FM6. The second was fuel saving at lowest settings on the ECU & power restrictor and it barely gave me a third lap if I wanted to squeeze it out.
Tomorrow I test different Bug....
 
jrbabbitt
I bought a duplicate Veyron Gr.4 and dumped the Subaru (!) motor in it and did two runs last night before I had to sleep, first was set for power and only got me barely two laps @ FM6. The second was fuel saving at lowest settings on the ECU & power restrictor and it barely gave me a third lap if I wanted to squeeze it out.
Tomorrow I test different Bug....
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You will test the Veyron 16.4 13 ?
Or you don't have copies ?

I think the Chiron model , we use it once with the billionaire piting every lap in order to make 8 lap stint.
Perhaps with lower weight and less HP can also make 3 laps at FM6 but need to test it .

Am waiting @AlexWilmot settings to finalise the tune that suits me and might deal later with Chiron.
 
After seeing @smoothbore12 talk about the Veyron I took mine out after buying another one. Which have been unnecessary since I won one last week but sold. 🤣 Anyway I was able to get 3 laps @FM6 with a lot of short shifting. It was pretty fun and it was probably one of my better races in that I didn't get any penalties until the couple of turns on lap 7 when I was really trying to race I was just ready to finish the race. I almost cut the last couple of corners but didn't want to get a 1 minute penalty which might have put my win in jeopardy
 
The weather at Spa 1 hour race was horrendous yesterday. Probably the worst torrential rain that I've ever driven in. From about lap 7 to 14 it was chucking it down virtually non-stop. It then resumed a bit more on about lap 18. Even on wet tyres I had to drastically slow down. Not sure if that's just the 962c's general weakness (bad in the rain) but my God, was it bad...
 

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