Talk:Balance of Power/@comment-26829117-20180315103802/@comment-108.171.129.163-20180315121342

Whow! But then day 8 should be a walk in the park for you.

I was stuck in 6.3 and 7.2 for about 4 hours. It was always quite close but just on the wrong side. 6.3 around 217.4 kph most of the time or being spun off-track by Zoe. And 7.3 was similar I had to re-try a lot (4hours) mainly because either I was over-optimistic and braked too late (off-track) or I was on the brakes a bit too early and lost time. In the end I managed 222.3 and 3:05.341 but it was a hard struggle and finally a proper/lucky run.

On day 8 only hard thing is 8.3 its basically a rerun of 7.2 but you start as 5th of 10 with rolling start. Meaning if you manage to cross the starting line before the countdown hits 3:06 its like 7.2. It took me quite a few tries again. But since you (meaning me) can cancel right at the start when the countdown is below a comfortable time left you get a lot of try and errors done within short amount of time and without repairing quite frequently.

My way to happiness was to pass Zoe already in the last corner onto starting straight and thus cross the starting line with 3:08 left. Only way to do so for me was: use the right side when the green lights go on, brake short behind the box entry's curb, accelerate immediately but briefly into the left turn to overtake the 4th driver before he turns right for the next corner and pushes you off-track. In the exit of this right turn pass the 3rd by accelerating again on the left side without going off-track. And now the killer for me: try to snake through the gap between Zoe (1st car) and the second car between 3rd and 4th turn. For me it worked best to lift the throttle a fraction of a second and aim for the line left curb of 3rd turn and right curb of 4th turn. It failed a lot but when I finally managed I crossed the starting line with 3:07 to 3:09 left (I am not sure once I think I even saw 3:10 which otherwise was just at the exit of the 4th turn (exit onto the starting straight)).

[sorry for the lenghtly explanation and no video but I tried it that often, that I stopped recording and didn't want to try it again]

After I passed the four cars it became the time trial from 7.2.

I used 5333313 (PR 88.3?) with BA low, TC off, SA low, Tilt B sensivity 7. Maybe BA off would be better but I kept missing the best braking point a lot and with those many "no off-track" challenges it worked better that way for me.