My Diaries

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Sunday January 2, 2000

Brief Exciting Enduro Results in Gran Turismo 2

I'm not very good, so here's how I did in the Rome Two Hours.

As you can imagine, it was a lot of tense fun, especially since I spun on lap two and was coming from behind most of the races. Pit stops 10,27,45,62,79 (soft/soft slicks). I spun on lap 79, too meaning I lost the lead on the last stop, too, but the GT-ONE pitted soon after that. And I really didn't realize the Venturi was so close.

You though that was close?

I drove the Monte Carlo Mini in the Seattle 100.

Two pit stops, at 14 and 27 of 40 laps.

Almost makes me believe there is a handicap algorithm in the Enduro races. There didn't seem to be one in GT1. I raced the GV300 49 times, and I both won and lost when the NSX-R LM GT2 managed 1-41:50, and each model of AI car seemed to finish at very close to some time particular to the model.

In the above Seattle race, I was a solid third until the AI cars pitted, after which I alternated first and second depending upon the pit situation, gaining the lead when the Mustang pitted on lap 34.

I missed a gear change on lap 38, costing me two seconds. (I was a gear down from where I thought I was going into the near-hairpin in the centre of the course). That had the Mustang nipping at my heels, and I had to be forceful with it on the last two laps.

I'll try with a metallic raspberry '70 'Cuda next, because my Dad used to own a Valiant. It seems to be able to go just a shade faster than the Mini.

Interesting that one AI non-muscle car seems to usually show up for the race. In the preview I watched, there was a Griffith 500 lapping at about 1:44 (according to my stopwatch), but the Mustang managed faster than that, I'm sure.