Hard Luck Racing's Hotlap Challenges - Taking a Summer Break - Thanks Everyone For Your Support

Hey… No,No, No… Put me back in tier 2 plz! Not a good week or 2. Battling the flu in my household and my videocard died. I’ll be back but I didn’t get a chance to improve my time. I luv this week’s cars but I am not sure I’ll drop a time. I did some career stuff on Xbox after updating it seeing as the only thing I completed was builder’s cup.

On a diff note… Congrats to all tier winners and RP Chronic!

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Here we are, it’s Friday again. After today’s car division announcement there will only be one secret left :rofl: Which of the 2 long tracks will we choose! You can wait until Monday for that.

In the meantime you may want to carefully choose a couple of the 56 cars available in the Modern Sport GT division :open_mouth: to level up in preparation. We’ll be running them in S class.

Modern Sport GT

2024 Chevrolet Corvette E-Ray
2023 Chevrolet Corvette Z06
2023 Lotus Emira
2022 Ferrari 296 GTB
2021 McLaren 765LT Coupe
2021 McLaren 620R
2021 Porsche 911 GT3
2020 Mercedes-AMG GT Black Series
2020 Lamborghini Huracan STO
2020 Lamborghini Huracan EVO
2020 Nissan GT-R NISMO (R35)
2020 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Coupe Forza Edition
2020 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Coupe
2020 Audi R8 V10 performance
2019 Ferrari 488 Pista
2019 McLaren 720S Spider
2019 Porsche 911 GT3 RS
2019 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1
2019 Porsche 911 Speedster
2019 Porsche 911 Carrera S
2019 Aston Martin Vantage
2018 McLaren 720S Coupe
2018 Porsche 911 GT2 RS
2018 Porsche 911 GT2 RS Forza Edition
2018 Lamborghini Huracan Performante
2018 McLaren 600LT Coupe
2018 Saleen S1
2018 TVR Griffith
2017 Acura NSX
2017 Ford GT
2017 Mercedes-AMG GT R
2017 Nissan GT-R (R35)
2016 Dodge Viper ACR
2016 Audi R8 V10 plus
2016 Porsche 911 GT3 RS
2015 McLaren 650S Coupe
2015 Ferrari 488 GTB
2015 Chevrolet Corvette Z06
2015 Aston Martin Vantage GT12
2014 Ferrari California T
2013 Ferrari 458 Speciale
2013 Audi R8 Coupe V10 plus 5.2 FSI quattro
2013 SRT Viper GTS
2013 Aston Martin V12 Vantage S
2012 Porsche 911 GT2 RS
2011 Lamborghini Sesto Elemento
2011 Lamborghini Gallardo LP 570-4 Superleggera
2011 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG
2010 Lexus LFA
2009 Ferrari 458 Italia
2009 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1
2009 Mercedes-Benz SL 65 AMG Black Series
2008 Dodge Viper SRT10 ACR
2008 Aston Martin DBS
2007 Ferrari 430 Scuderia
2005 Ford Ford GT

List amended to add featured cars not available in the showroom.

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Just did a 15 lap session in the Evora but no credits earned?

Oh no.
Those cars in S-class are way to fast for me.
But I will give it a try anyway…

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A noddy question for the tuners but possibly specifically @JSR_Chronic as I’m looking at their Evora compared to mine.

What handling/drivetrain parts are usually regarded as superfluous upgrades? I’m guessing possibly race transmission and maybe race brakes? I suspect the roll cage is also unnecessary on the Evora? Appreciate that there won’t be any hard and fast rules but any advice welcome as to what to sometimes look to omit in order to add additional power/less weight.

Modern Sport is another category I am well stocked in. Looking forward to this one.

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With that amount of cars in the Division, we should all be able to PICK and USE a DIFFERENT car…

PRKid
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In that case I’m calling dibs on the classically American Acura NSX

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I see there’s now an “RP” Supra at 50.4, so that car is clearly a lot better than I thought.

Have got into the 1.50s. Will hopefully get more time over the weekend.

Here’s what I got for my v1 of the lotus

Street oil/cooling
Sport valves

Race brake
Race arb
Race spring
Race weight
Race tires / full width
Heaviest rims / largest rim size
Race trans / race diff / street driveshaft
Forza front bumper + Forza wing

Tune
28.5/28.5

2.20
3.72
3.05
2.58
2.22
1.92
1.69

-1.8/-1.2
0/0
7

38.50/40

585/650
4.7/4.8

2.2/2.8
10.2/11.2

9.8/9.8
+13/-35

117/225

46
170

100/0

As for upgrades it’s usually track specific but I’d say 99% of the time mandatory upgrades are race tires and race trans everything else is track specific

The other week with Watkins glen 65 mustang I had race tire stock width race trans with 4.2L swap and a street cam no cage

Some times you get away with sport brakes and no cage some times you need race brakes and full cage

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Cheers Chronic. I’ll do some more playing around with mine tomorrow. Currently I have full drivetrain and aero upgrades but with one ballast and no power upgrades. Suspect I can lose some weight/gain some power without losing much in the handling department.

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1.52.743- 370-cronic v2
Not moved up but an improvement none the less
When does the weekly challenge end today?

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Put a little time in with the 23 M2. Set a brisk 1:53.2 in my shared tune. I feel theres some potential but not anywhere near a under 1:50. But im going to keep tweeking and see what I can get out of it by the end. Not exactly a huge BMW fan but…i really like the style of the car.

As for what i see for next week…i get that the goal is to be the fastest but lets not all jump into the car with the current fastest time. Lets get some diversity in the cars lol some may actually go unnoticed and could be faster than what you expected. Or you could go on with pride knowing you slung a dog of a car around for a great time. Possibly the fastest one on the board. After all…we have little time to enjoy the “CarPG” aspect of the game…sigh…i liked it kinda.

Anyway have fun and put some wicked times down!

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Every Monday night 7pm eastern / midnight uk time

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Looking at next week, I have quite a few cars levelled up but might do a few more tomorrow/Monday. Any recommendations on the following:

765LT
620R
911 GT3
488 Pista
720S Spider
911 Speedster
Huracan P
600LT
Saleen S1
Z06
458S
458I
05 Ford GT

?

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Gotta love the Lambo’s & Porsche! Yet, this week will be a tough call. A ton of great cars in this Div. They should have split the DIv into 2.

PRKid
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All the vipers are going to be insanely fast this upcoming week but I’m planning on getting the 09 vette as fast as I possibly can before making runs in the vipers

I’d really love to get a bunch of these cars leveled but I’m out of saves and I’m not going to level as many cars until March update comes

Cars I’ll have next week shared

13 viper
08 viper
09 vette
05 ford gt

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I certainly have to agree that those Vipers are INSANE. I also like the Vette’s (especially the '23 Z06).

Decisions, decisions… :face_with_monocle:

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Broke into the 151’s with the evora. 1:51.925 a little different than chronics build. More hp but still plenty of grip. Tune shared if interested. Will probably tweak some more for a V2. Feedback welcome. Thx

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I’ve got the 05 ford gt and the 2023 lotus leveled to start with. Then wait and see if I need something else.

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