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XR2 Boglin Fields wrote: Automotive Mastery 16.1 - Daytona Cup 5x lapper (rolling start) with starting grid of 43 cars.

Although this isn't a really hard / unwinnable event, it gets interesting with the field of 43 cars (with bots cranked up to max). With rolling start, the lead bots are already beyond half the track in the lead. Few pack of bots always crashing ahead of you, coupled with a very narrow margin for error to overtake at the highest speed at the Oval. 5 laps is ideal for the challenge. Short enough that you don't get any time to recover and catch up to the leader, in the event of the slightest mistake. Yet, long enough to catch up with the lead bots by lap 4, provided you manage to somehow drive past the chaos ensuing with any random bot in front being spun wildly at full speed by others!

Unlike the Richmond Oval where lead bots get slowed down by backmarkers within first few laps, at Daytona they (almost always FU C-X75s) get momentarily slowed by the backmarkers only by the penultimate lap.

Driving with the FU McLaren 650S GT3 is a hoot, since it isn't as fast as the Jag C-X75 on the straights, but manages to squeeze past it at full throttle on the long, heavily banked turns at the Daytona Oval.

Needless to say, this race is unwinnable using an unserviced car.

Thanks XR2, it’s a hoot like you said, 43 cars! I finished that series so long ago I had no idea there was such a large grid in a non-NASCAR race. I drove the fully upgraded Huracan 610-4, upgraded sound, the thing’s a rocket-and coming to OMP next week!