Best Forza Moment EVER! (For me at least.)

[Fit4aking]

So this Rivalry Challenge pops up from Turn 10 and asks me to take a spin around Infineon NASCAR in a 50's vintage racer.  I don't have any of them open cockpit, strange-gearbox ratio cars so I borrowed one of the examples already at the track.  Ran an okay lap and put it away.  It was pretty fun.

Last night I get another Rivalry Challenge that good ole Pistol Pig has beaten my time.  I'm all for a challenge so I set off to beat him.  I didn't look at anything but the memo which shows his car choice and his lap time.  Straight to the garage I go to pick my weapon.  I don't own any of these cars but I know Dirty Warbucks stashed a few in the Club Garage so I borrowed a 250 TR that was at the top of C-class and set off to start the race.

PP was flat out FLYING around the track.  Smoke was literally pouring off of the wheels of the back of his car the entire time.  I thought if I could make a nice smooth lap without a ton of wheel spin I could beat him.  Easier said than done. 

It took an hour.  A whole hour.  Two breaks to keep from throwing the controller when a "traffic" car would nudge me and decert a lap, or when I blew a turn and watched his ghost fly past.  Either way it took an entire hour to finally just ever so slightly beat Pistol Pig and his Maserati.

I relaxed in my racing chair and damn near fell over when the leaderboard screen popped up and I saw this:




I was literally jumping up and down in the middle of my living room last night when I went almost to the tippy top of my friends/club leaderboard in a car FROM THE WRONG CLASS!

I'm sure it won't last long as there are plenty more people that will knock that time to shreds but top 1000 in a C-class....what a feeling!

[TopBoost]

Well done, Fit.

[Choccy]

Nice work Fit!

Achieving a fast lap is often(I might hazard "always") attributable to what the driver does with the car he/she has and isn't determined by the stats of the car alone.

When you use a lower rated car to achieve a faster lap than a higher rated one, that's worth kudos in my book.

[GICheeze]

Good Job!!  Seems like ya ought to get a belt buckle or some sort of trophy for a feet like that...

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[Fit4aking]

Thanks guys.  I was going to treat myself to a 250 TR as a reward so I could play around with it some more but that thing would take a sizeable chunk out of my account.  I recently bought the closed cockpit version, 250 GTO and haven't recovered yet.

The trophy will have to be that picture of my C425 surrounded by B500's.

[TopBoost]

Against EXOR guys, no less.

[Open2nd]

That is impressive. How much was the bounty?

[Fit4aking]

150,000 bounty.  Cleared 234,000cr's after all was said and done.  Not too shabby!

I have a feeling that Open will be ahead of me real soon. 

[Open2nd]

Haha I don't know about that.  I don't have anything eligible for it and I've been focusing on building a competitive online stable for the most part.

[Fit4aking]

*whew*  Let me know how your online stable works out.  I still don't have anything that can run with the online regulars.  Too many middle of the road builds and not enough pure acceleration cars.

I have a feeling that my time won't last too long and will vanish back into C-class by the end of the month.  Not to worry, I have photographic proof that I did good for 1 day. LOL.

[chargercrazy]

Very impressive Fit!

[Open2nd]

Right now it is going fairly well but I can tell I'll be in trouble once more of Exodus decides to go for pure accel builds.  Nothing of mine really specializes in that aspect alone and I don't know that I'll ever dedicate my garage to that particular focus.  I like my stable all-rounder builds.

[fndrbndr]

Congrats!

[Fit4aking]

Update - Pistol has rebuilt his Maserati to C425 and squashed my time by nearly a second.  I'll have to suck it up and buy one of these things so I can adjust it for me if I hope to make up that much additional time.  It's not impossible but I keep hearing Cheese and his theory of diminishing returns when chasing tenths.

[GICheeze]

Ah, but there is an addendum to that theory. 

It's called Racing.  The "Diminishing Returns" bit was published with clearing environment fodder from a class in the most expedient fashion in mind.

But Racing its self, is the time, effort and money spent chasing the elusive tenths and hundredths, and thousandths of seconds that separate the results of our efforts from the top of the heap.

Only you can call when you have invested your all - that that, is enough...

How much are you willing to spend for yet another "Best Forza Moment Ever!"?

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