So the race itself, I got a blinding start and managed to get up to 14th. After the next straight under braking I was up to 11th. Then just trying to catch palmer in 10th and wait for my Pitstop. Then a safety car came out on lap 6, far too early to take advantage of anything so I stayed out. Was due to pit on lap 18, but a second safety car on lap 14 had me diving into the pits for a set of ultrasofts (changing strategy on the fly). Came out in last place but I knew alot of the field had yet to stop.

My pitstop under the safety car paid dividends and I was up to P5 at one point. Alonso (who had yet to stop was ahead of me). Going into turn 15 he over cooked the corner and went wide. I went for the gap, Fernando being the dick he is tried to block me, sending me onto the gravel, as I rejoined my front left wing touched the back of his car. Yellow colour wing damage on my car map. Damn it. There were nine laps to go, I was due to stop again on lap 24, which would have me rejoin in 15th place. Fuck it I thought, can I get to the end of the race on the same set of ultrasofts?

As the laps ticked by, the front left was going off faster than the other tyres (wing damage wasn't helping). I adjusted the brake bias so the rears would take more of the load under braking. Bottas came out of the pits behind me and sailed straight past me, vettel did the same. I was holding on for dear life, watching the tyre wear on my front left get worse and worse, 70%, 75%, 80%. I couldn't hold massa off so he got passed. I was in 7th, only two laps to go and tyre wear on front left hit 90%. Please, please don't burst I thought to myself. I nursed the car around while holding up 4-5 cars behind me. My engineer kept asking when I was coming in for the stop. I wasn't. I got to the final lap, 94% usage of the front left, some how I held off any challengers and the tyre didn't blow. I crossed the line in 7th with 98% front left in the red.

Amazing. What a gp. What a result.

Awesome, got to Bahrain. My front wing upgrade has failed. However the improvement to the ignition system worked so I have an 4 extra bhp. Woo hoo. Lol.

On the downside, my power unit is yellow across the board. 53% wear. Gonna probably take penalties after this race, unless it blows up during it.

Dinostar77 wrote:

So the race itself, I got a blinding start and managed to get up to 14th. After the next straight under braking I was up to 11th. Then just trying to catch palmer in 10th and wait for my Pitstop. Then a safety car came out on lap 6, far too early to take advantage of anything so I stayed out. Was due to pit on lap 18, but a second safety car on lap 14 had me diving into the pits for a set of ultrasofts (changing strategy on the fly). Came out in last place but I knew alot of the field had yet to stop. My pitstop under the safety car paid dividends and I was up to P5 at one point. Alonso (who had yet to stop was ahead of me). Going into turn 15 he over cooked the corner and went wide. I went for the gap, Fernando being the dick he is tried to block me, sending me onto the gravel, as I rejoined my front left wing touched the back of his car. Yellow colour wing damage on my car map. Damn it. There were nine laps to go, I was due to stop again on lap 24, which would have me rejoin in 15th place. Fuck it I thought, can I get to the end of the race on the same set of ultrasofts? As the laps ticked by, the front left was going off faster than the other tyres (wing damage wasn't helping). I adjusted the brake bias so the rears would take more of the load under braking. Bottas came out of the pits behind me and sailed straight past me, vettel did the same. I was holding on for dear life, watching the tyre wear on my front left get worse and worse, 70%, 75%, 80%. I couldn't hold massa off so he got passed. I was in 7th, only two laps to go and tyre wear on front left hit 90%. Please, please don't burst I thought to myself. I nursed the car around while holding up 4-5 cars behind me. My engineer kept asking when I was coming in for the stop. I wasn't. I got to the final lap, 94% usage of the front left, some how I held off any challengers and the tyre didn't blow. I crossed the line in 7th with 98% front left in the red. Amazing. What a gp. What a result.

Palmer in 10th Usual Codie's attention to detail then?

I'm out.

Probably the only one on this forum who plays it, but God is F1 2017, good at times. Singapore, in the zone, (replay option turned off, so if you crash that's it). Damn I bossed it. Probably first time ever in F1 series of the years I've been playing it where I got through Singapore without an incidents. Margin for error is non existant. Eyes on stalks. Fucking amazing. I'm still awful at Monaco though. Go figure.

Apart from Pikes Peak, funnily enough.

Or try giving it to some one with fresh ideas?

It’s one of the many things that amuses me about this god foresaken forum is that HP is rated higher than the superior Most Wanted

For sure, in comparison hot pursuit was like Road Blaster or Chase HQ. No skill required, 

On second thought I can see why it was popular around here.

Regardless of required skill I preferred Hot Pursuit to Most Wanted for one simple reason, fun. Hot Pursuit was a lot of fun, Most Wanted was not.

An indie remake of supercars 2 or indy 500 (on amiga). The latter was a isometric view like the off road truck racing game on NES.

What's a shame is that Ghost Games did Rivals which was a fairly decent retread of MW. No doubt there's some talent there, typically having the life strangled out of it by EA's directors.

And it's Hot Piss over Most Wanted. Doesn't come down to skill, the bar is the same, fun was the missing factor in MW.

I was both good enough and played plenty of both to make the judgement, single and multiplayer. The lols we had on HP were reduced to facepalms in MW. It was a rushed, undercooked follow up to a sublime slice of arcade racing.

My undercooked what?

Smells fishy.

Bob wrote:

If it wasn’t fun it’s cos you weren’t good enough ... or you didn’t play it enough.

LOL.