Surprise, surprise, Apex is back for a long winded whinge, and to request a change of cars.
I understand there has been a lot of work go into the BOP you have done, this is fine, and a massive effort of hard work I am sure. But I believe car selection should have been done after the BOP you have given. Reasons are transparency, and because you have hit some cars so hard with your formula, you have changed their characteristics, or the reason they were chosen under the GTS BOP. This massive change, can effect the ease of obtaining a tune, as most are done to GTS BOP.
My favorite Gr3 car to drive for pleasure, pace and consistency at Bathurst is the VW Beetle.
I chose the Mclaren F1 BMW 95' for the reason it is the fastest Gr3 car in a straight line, it is a pig to drive, hence nobody else I know likes it, or has chosen it in your event. It requires skill to get up over and down the mountain, on the flat, the reward is its speed. I am way off the top end of the room in racing skill and speed, so I chose a car to do the speed bit for me. I thought the idea of this race was to have 16 cars of different characteristics battling.
The most you have reduced any other cars power is 2%, 1 car, most have gone up. The F1 95' you have reduced by 7%!!!! The weight you have reduced by 10%. Priano's tune is now crap, the diff is out, and so is the suspension. So now I have a slow Pig of a car to drive (1.5sec slower), that has no strong point in the race. F1 at BOP is not a fast TT car at Bathurst or anywhere. Stay with cars on corners in a race, and then it is a weapon on the straights. Have no idea about its tyre wear or fuel thirst, but I suspect they would be shocking.
Had you released your BOP before the car choice, my top 3 would have been 1/FT-1, 2/Viper, 3/Aston DBR.
My new car choice of cars available, not in room, is the Hyundai as it is closest to GTS BOP and I can use Priano's tune for it.
If I can't change I fully understand, but I will withdraw, because I am not driving that slow (high pitched whining) Pig around Bathurst for 2 hours with the speed reward for skill/effort gone.
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